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I don't understand American's new-found fascination with vocational training. Why is it they expect education to now provide people with narrowly focused job training over the more traditional broad education?

Take everything you know about how nonsense the tech hiring/interviewing process is, and just for a second play with the idea the problem is deeper than anyone thought.

What if barely any employers have the faintest idea what they need from the workforce? No real understanding of how to screen for it at all? Limited ability to assess what portions of those needs are most effectively created through self-organization among the workforce at no line-item cost to the employers (school, etc...)?

If we, for a moment, assume that was true, we'd probably expect to find a world that has cargo-culted a definition of what a qualified applicant looks like. A person who is smart in general, and knowledgeable in a domain with a surface-level resemblance to what they would be expected to do at work. Enter the bachelor's degree.

Like any other metric standing in for something the user doesn't know how to (or can't) measure directly, the metric started getting gamed. Once "BS degree" = "employable" was well-known, and a generation run through that system from birth through college, then you have respectable news outlets writing thinkpeices about the value of a BS.

And if the person doing the hiring doesn't really know what they want, the population of people that just want to find a way for everyone to pay their bills doubly don't. So the next step of the dance is absorbing the on-the-job training that employers don't want to pay for, and rarely figure out how to do properly anyway.

What happens after flushing a generation of kids through the new process without really figuring out what we're trying to accomplish in the first place will be _______________________.
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>In my opinion, even if it may harm some natives, due to the poverty alleviating effects of immigration, we should open immigration to anyone who doesn't have a criminal record.

What is the point of government if not to act in the best interests of its citizens? Why are our governments now apparently obligated to act in the best interests of foreign nationals? This has nothing to do with alleviating poverty or humanitarian ideals. It's blatantly obvious that this advocacy for open borders is part of a power grab by the left to ensure that they stay in power for decades to come, at the expense of the people who actually built the society that they want to invite everyone else to live in. What party do they think these people are going to overwhelmingly vote for? I don't understand how people can openly advocate for destroying our society just for political gain.
The use of pattern matching on types in an object oriented languages scares me. It's like a too easily wielded extremely powerful dependency magnet.
I submitted this, because it's an attack vector I hadn't considered before and it's quite a reality check. I was lucky not to have installed this, because the "New Update" dialog sent me to a url that was blocked by Chrome, which caused me to instantly uninstall the software.
Here’s what American universities can learn from Germany
And this right here is why reasonable debate has died in the world today.

Put your country before your party or you're damned to lose both.
> Even advanced economies will be unable to provide middle class lifestyles to everyone if most people are not being productive in some way.

This doesn't really make sense to me.

If we look purely at the economy in terms of its inputs and outputs - in terms of goods and services - we won't suddenly have less goods and services. We'll have the same or more goods and services with lower costs (because robots will be cheaper than people - otherwise we'd just employ people). So you have the same end result (the goods and services) with less operating costs - seems to me like if you don't change anything you'd either 1) see business owners growing their share of wealth while the hordes of unemployed starve - or 2) you'd increase taxes and increase welfare spending and things would net out such that the average person's quality of life could be preserved.

Of course, if you're argument assumes that we're hurtling straight towards option 1, then yeah that makes sense.

But it doesn't mathematically make sense to me that automation _has_ to mean people become destitute.
Especially when it's a bit too easy to flag an article by mistake due to progressive rendering causing a misclick, or just being careless. I know I've done it, noticed, and then gone back to unflag. I wonder how often I've clicked off by a few pixels and didn't notice.
> Is an artist useful?

Are they a respected contributor in their field?

Can they afford to support themselves here?
Hi everyone, author here. I wrote this article to summarize my thoughts on using the Google Cloud vs Amazon.

TL;DR: Although AWS has a lot more cloud products, unless you need the additional options, IMHO the Google Cloud is more intuitive, cheaper and offers better cost structure (e.g. by-the-minute pricing instead of by-the-hour).

So if you’re starting a new project, I would highly recommend that you give the Google Cloud a try.
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might as well just ban all entertainment entirely as it's entirely frivolous
IIRC (long time since I checked) that's illegal, too, a merchant should always accept cash up to the legal limits imposed on cash payments
The way I deal with it is not to put all my eggs in one basket. For instance, don't link your online accounts to one email, have one separate email address just for those. And try to use a different email provider to the company who makes your mobile OS.
And just don't use proprietary OSs where possible, go with Linux or BSD. In fact these days I'd recommend BSD if you really want to avoid too much bad data-gathering practice (even though I still use Linux myself out of habit), just because BSD still has a relatively unsullied rep.
I'm not convinced a gap year is meant to increase your employability, rather to help reset your mind after high school. It helps you find out who you are, what you like and dislike, and helps determine if you really want to get that communications degree or if maybe a finance degree is more what you're looking for.
For those of us - myself included - who run a hosts file list (either using dnsmasq like Pi-hole or directly), here are the sources that Pi-hole use so you can add to your own solution:

https://github.com/pi-hole/pi-hole/blob/master/adlists.defau...

There's a few on there I don't use and will look to implement. There's also a few they seem to have missed (perhaps intentionally?) so below I have included the lists I use in case it's useful for anyone else:

http://someonewhocares.org/hosts/hosts
http://winhelp2002.mvps.org/hosts.txt
http://adaway.org/hosts.txt
http://pgl.yoyo.org/adservers/serverlist.php?hostformat=hosts&showintro=0&mimetype=plaintext&useip=127.0.0.1
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/StevenBlack/hosts/master/data/StevenBlack/hosts
http://www.malwaredomainlist.com/hostslist/hosts.txt
http://www.montanamenagerie.org/hostsfile/hosts.txt
This is incorrect. Evidence suggests Trump wants to make what would now be considered legal immigration illegal (such as the Muslim ban).

Seriously, if you haven't gotten off the Trump train by this point you need to open your eyes.
Well, there's always the cultural one. Personally, I think attributing the cause to culture is sloppy research.
> There's no way around the need for moderator intervention on a site like HN—the clue is in the word 'moderator' itself: left to its own devices the system runs to extremes and it needs a negative feedback loop to dampen it.

Then maybe the system needs to be changed?

> None of this is new information, btw. I've posted about it plenty over the years and am always happy to answer questions.

Is there anything in particular that should make us trust the information you provide? You could be lying for all we know.
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What issues are you seeing, and which device is this on? (I have no problem loading the page, searching the ontology and dataset pages, and playing videos on iPhone 4 and 5s)
Would it really be a much higher percentage than the work done by uninterested stoners now? Lots of people already have jobs they aren't particularly excited about and just fell into. At least this way they'd get a chance to try out a few different things first.
It sounds like the people behind the ad blocker broke Ajax for that website while trying to block the ads - that's the mistake I am referring to.

You mention that native ads are gradually replacing direct ads as if it's a good thing. The good guys in the publishing industry go out of their way to prevents ads affecting content, they don't allow their writers/presenters etc to touch advertising and everything is clearly separate.

In the long term, ad blockers will just push out those people who are driven by ethics and you'll be left with the sleazy publications that are driven by PR. This is coming from someone who has dealt with PR agencies and constantly turned down proposals.
SSL should prevent that. Sadly, SNI leaks the domain name. Hacker News appears in favor of SNI though, because lack of IPv4 address space.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13639112

Oddly, HN is really worried about server privacy. If we shared a single certificate across 20 domains, then people could see all those domains are hosted in the same place.

My point? We are part of the problem.
Then those people can use a local border crossing with a legal visa.
There's no university drawing that line.

Selective schools don't need to, less selective schools don't want to.
> There's simply too much data that isn't public.

Make it public?
Ask HN: Transform a static landing page into a CMS?
Hi,

I'm a web freelancer who plans to build some landing pages for my clients (to promote their products and capture emails).

I'll build the landing page myself with some HTML/CSS/JS. But then I'd like to give my clients some kind of backoffice so they can edit the content of the page itself if needed.

How can I easily "convert" my static landing pages into a really simple CMS for my clients? I'm looking for something lightweight.

Like adding some info in my html tags, then running some scripts, and I automatically get some kind of backoffice to edit the page, with no database needed.

Thanks!
"He asked a colleague to break wind directly onto two Petri dishes" ... "first fully clothed, then with his trousers down."

"Our final conclusion? Don't fart naked near food."

It may not seem significant but someday everyone will consider these findings obvious. That's because of this brave study.
> The fair thing to do would be to accept a random sample of would-be immigrants.

Why? You appear to be making an argument that a sovereign nation has a moral obligation of care for another sovereign nation as a penalty for their success. What is your rational basis for believing that the US should take in immigrants that are unable to contribute to our society?

I'm generally pro-immigration, but this type of argument stinks of an insidious combination of American exceptionalism and white guilt. What makes you think someone who is unable to be productive and needs care is better off immigrating to a wealthy foreign country rather than staying in their home country? In their home country they have shared culture, family, and a social system that allows subsistence living more easily. Someone like this coming to the US would be faced with language barriers, likely homelessness, and an immediate need to rely entirely on the government as they'd have no other support system. I'd argue if they're trying to immigrate to a wealthier nation for other reasons they'd be better served going to Northern Europe, not the US.
>What does the government know about me and why is that important?

This is why no one will care until we're years beyond too late. It won't be until the federal government starts mass-arresting (e.g. hundreds of thousands) people for some thing found through the dragnet. This probably won't be for several years, if not decades, but it will come.
I do think that FB, and most large orgs, have code quality problems. But the article does a pretty bad job at making its case.

> "That’s 429 people working, in some way, on the Facebook iOS app. Rather than take the obvious lesson that there are too many people working on this application, the presentation goes on to blame everything from git to Xcode for those 18,000 classes."

How does the author know that 429 is too many? How does the author know that FB's goals and functionality can be best achieved with fewer people/classes. This just reads like a classic "Why is Google so big, I can do that in a weekend" comment (https://danluu.com/sounds-easy/)

> "Our site works when the engineers go on holiday"

This is pretty much universally true for any dynamic site where engineers are constantly adding new features. Change always comes with risks. Changing code is always more likely to break something in the very-short-term, compared to not changing code. I have a hobby site (shameless plug, http://thecaucus.net) which has been running in auto-pilot for the past year, and almost never breaks, because there are virtually no moving pieces. The fact that the FB site breaks more often when engineers are making changes to it, is just repeating a universal law of software development.

I do think that the organizational structures at most large companies are bloated, inefficient, non-transparent, and produce sub-par code. I had high hopes when I read the article's headline, but the arguments presented simply aren't very persuasive.
> Hey, you know what countries I don't see on that startup founder list? Mexico, ...

Looking at >$1B businesses only, as this story does, presents a rather skewed perspective. Per Fiscal Policy Institute "there are nonetheless more small business owners from Mexico than from any other single country... Immigrants
born in Mexico make up 12 percent of immigrant small business owners, followed by immigrants born in India, Korea, Cuba, China, and Vietnam." http://fiscalpolicy.org/immigrant-small-business-owners-FPI-...
I think you are using semantics to avoid the deeper issue. Call it what you like: there were plenty of documented examples of anti-English speech, intimidation and outright violence towards English people in Scotland during the Scottish referendum, and the SNP certainly didn't seem to try very hard to discourage the more wild eyed elements.

Scotland's economy will be wrecked by leaving the UK as there will no longer be the massive transfers of tax revenue from England to Scotland as at present under the Barnett formula. It seems like plenty of Scots hate everything about from the UK apart from our English pounds, which they are quite happy to keep sticking their hands out for. Good luck without them!
The consumers have spoken: they're OK with trusting computer manufactures, software vendors, telecommunications carriers and governments.

Please be careful with statements like this! With the wrong speaker, they can justify all kinds of evils.

I'd be willing to wager some high 90s percent of people buying electronics don't even consider privacy at the hardware level because they don't even have the proper knowledge to have the mental state to ask those questions in the first place.

That does not mean that consumers are "OK" with it, any more than consumers care about dihydrogen monoxide in their food until they're told about it.
There's growing evidence [1] that even when used by american tech companies H1Bs are largely being used to suppress wages of technical laborers (us). From a purely economic perspective, if you could pay someone on an h1b $80k when it would cost you $120k to hire an american, why would you hire the american? Tech CEOs calling for more H1Bs has very little to do with their politics and morality and much more to do with reducing one of their largest costs (labor).

1: https://gspp.berkeley.edu/assets/uploads/research/pdf/h1b.pd...
So in my mind there are two parts to publicly funded projects. One is whether the spending of funds is worth it and another is whether the people have a choice.

We think that by definition that when private companies have programs, they're not spending public money but I'd argue (somewhat controversial I agree) that any tax break is public money. Also the second part of whether participation is mandatory. I'd say if an ISP has a de facto Monopoly in a market, then we could say participation is mandatory. I hope this part is less controversial.
Sorry, no. Clients can be responsible for themselves. All I care about is providing unambiguous, standardized data to everyone. If they want to corrupt it after that, it's on them, not me.
French data indicate global phenomenon! https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1326950/
What company fitting that description could Mayer have gone to?
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Absolutely not.

Working to enrich the lives of our children is a fundamental drive. You can't eliminate that with a law.
Sorry, I'm just jaded (seems any statement on the internet is met with "source please").

Anyhow, it's not politically popular to state such in today's climate, but it is the largest impediment to development. We could also add war, famine, and a lack of institutions, but those are arguably caused by a lack of development and lower human capital. It's not exactly a politically correct thing to say but, if all the educated people move away from a country, who's left to rule it?

Anyhow, lots of sources list corruption, inequality, human capital flight - my opinion is based on both my education (in economics) as well as my experience.
That's my point. They can't do nothing about being a small country.

Their best option is have their own currency.
Ancient technology is pervasive in established industries. Development and deployment costs (due to risk) are huge in this world. They don't have the staff to fix a glitch due to a docker migration or whatever, and frankly wouldn't see much benefit anyway. So they continue to use what works as long as they can. And if they have to pay $10 each for obsolete media and scrounge part bins for FDD replacements, so be it.

And the CIA's job is as much to spy on this world of established industrial capability as it is to hunt down laser-toting agents in the urban jungle of Beijing.
>Enforcing a higher minimum wage just put people out of jobs...

Maybe increasing the amount taxi drivers are paid would drive up the cost of taxis and thus drive down demand for taxis. This seems reasonable to me. We're defining a minimum amount somebody's time is worth, which means the cost of things that use peoples time go up.

The root "problem" taxi drivers solve still exists - people still need to get around, but taxis aren't the only way to solve that problem. Train and bus services could be expanded or improved.

The other thing to consider is that the extra money the taxi drivers earn will most likely provide other economic opportunities.
I have one suggestion for the authors. Make it clear on the front page exactly what Syncthing does. There's lots of information about Syncthing's qualities but if you don't already know what the software does, it's not obvious.
The referendum was not binding. The decision to leave the EU was taken by MPs.
Employers don't really have that much else to go on. In-house tests are a legal minefield, and there are places you can graduate from high school without learning how to read.
College definitely forces you to learn a breadth of topics in whatever field. There's also a lot to be said for being out of "the rat race" and devoted to learning. It's hard to study 40 hours a week if you're working 40 hours a week. It's even harder to study when rent is due and you're about to be fired from your job (as a 'for instance')
React is such BS. Its sole purpose for existing is to make simple tasks unnecessarily complicated.
But which multi-billion dollar giant would go for an in-experienced CEO?

Running a department of a large company is not the same as being CEO of even a much smaller one.

I figure the only reason she was given a shot was that the Yahoo! board hoped the Google magic had somehow rubbed off on Mayer and that that alone would make the difference. Other than that I don't see what would have gotten her a CEO spot, especially not in a growing company at the multi-billion $ level.

Yahoo! did not have that much to lose at that point in time.
It is not about useful or not useful, it is about the holistic impact. A change to immigration policy will have a lasting impact for decades. As an exaggerated example, if you allowed no one in to the US the travel and tourism industries would be devastated, if you allowed everyone and anyone in to the US you would have reduced costs in some areas like child care, but increased costs in others like taxes to fund social services.
America needs to get over its collective disdain for manual trades.

And yes, that includes the soft, narcissistic, effete, coffee-shop-frequenting, STEM-grad, man-child "gamers" who prognosticate on YC.
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yes - i am skeptical on how generalizable the final model is - given lots of features (numerical and text) are closely linked to same domain.
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If you're going to pirate a movie, you're probably not buying that movie. This is why on the whole piracy doesn't actually affect bottom line that much. Sure some folks would have rented it from their cable provider for $6 or whatever, but on the whole if you're going through the trouble of finding a good torrent and downloading it, you're not in the market to spend money on it.

Just the same, if you have an adblocker installed it's unlikely you're the type of person who is going to be clicking on ads anyway. And PPC ads are much, much more prevalent than impression-based ads. So if someone is blocking your ads, you're not losing anything. You get paid when someone clicks an ad, and if they're going to the trouble of blocking all ads, they're not clicking anything anyway.

You create a system where they won't or can't visit your site, and your traffic decreases, which will have an effect on your ad rates.
I have a so called autoimmune disease. I have gotten dramatically healthier by making dietary and lifestyle changes.

My experience of being diagnosed with an autoimmune disease is that it is a good excuse for doctors to wash their hands of responsibility for getting you well. They blame your defective body and their goal is "symptom management."

Using your cancer example, it would be like not trying to rid your body of cancer and just trying to slow the growth of the tumors instead. People would balk at being told we aren't even going to try to cure you of cancer, we are just going to manage your symptoms until it kills you. But this is the gist of what patients are routinely told if their condition is classified as an autoimmune disorder.

Furthermore, my experience of my condition does not fit with the idea that my body simply attacks itself for no apparent reason. My experience fits much more closely with the idea that my body is the battleground and it takes collateral damage in the fight.

I believe when the body attacks some part of itself, that body part likely carries infection or otherwise has had something go so wrong that treating the entire area as The Enemy makes sense at this time. That state can be reversed. If it is reversible, no, the body has not simply gone insane and started randomly lashing out at itself. Its actions are logical and purposeful.