skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The amount of people I know with degrees who work in retail, or something completely unrelated is staggering. From my observations, I'd guess "underemployment" is the biggest contributor to the late payments.

This is just another example of why I urge any young people I know (high school age) to think long and hard before choosing to go to a 4 year college. When I graduated high school in 99', we were primed to think "college degree == good job". Of course, that is anything but the truth. And, it only serves to put someone in serious debt without any guarantees.

Hands on technical jobs like electrician, plumber, welder, are many times more lucrative than some bullshit business degree. A friend of mine's son is 22 or 23, and making a hell of a living welding. Granted, he's exceptional at it. But, that doesn't change the fact that his 2-year trade school investment was a good one.

Or, teach yourself a skill. Like lots of us on here, I'm a self taught programmer. It took years of doing small projects in the evenings, but I make a living from it now with $0 in student loan debt.
Hey, thanks for the nice reply, and sorry for being a bit peevish.
We changed the baity title to the HTML doc title, per the HN guideline "Please use the original title, unless it is misleading or linkbait."
Mark Zuckerberg: I regret ridiculing fears over Facebook's effect on election
On one hand, this is, as others have noted in this comment page, astonishingly prescient.

On the other hand, Andrew Seybold was right in that it took 15 years for the iPhone to arrive.

There was one "island of stability" with the amazing Palm & Psion devices (which weren't really "connected" devices), and then a discontinuous jump to the iPhone and its descendants.

A sobering thought on the speed of technology uptake.
Is the Red Cross supposed to build houses? I was under the impression they focus on temporary, emergency shelter...Sounds more like something up Habitat for Humanity's alley.
How many software licences do you pay a month ? Because they add up, very, very quickly.
What do the best salespeople know that the rest of us don’t?
Trump-Russia investigation may target Reddit posts, says senator's aide
It looks like your VPN provider does not isolate traffic between clients connected to the same server. That is pretty bad, security vise.
Comments moved to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15347067.
They did not pay the full amount of what I charged them. I sent an invoice, naturally.

I am somewhat uncertain as to how to prevent them from further taking advantage of the community that they were claiming to help as well. I know there will be potential legal ramifications there depending on how I approach it.
One thing I'm not sure of - are these containers new ones so benefit from cheap mass manufacturing - or cheap old ones that are too rusted/bent to be used any more? I'm not sure why containers are more effective than mass produced modular houses.
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That's mostly radio power, right? To compare to the system in the article, we don't need to have our signals reach normal towers. We only need to reach a femtocell, and those can be as low-power as 10mW. For example a quick search found the ADF4602, a 3G transceiver that runs fine at 50mA. And that's transmit/receive power; a good 3G+ receiver can go idle between packets.
Opinionated and changing opinion frequently... First we had webforms, then rest api, then asp.net mvc, then asp.net core mvc and now razor pages to bring back webforms...
Show HN: Computing similar posts for a blog with Sklearn
Yeah, I host my Hugo (another static site generator) site on Firebase, it's so pain free (and actually free), I can't recommend it more.
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I feel like it might actually be somewhat socially related as well. If people see that their friends/coworkers with large student loans are simply deciding not to pay and nothing horrible is happening to them while at the same time they are living more extravagant lifestyles with the student loan money they're not paying, that's an encouragement to not pay yourself as well. Pair this with the last administration taking steps to limit student loan repayment responsibilities (William D. Ford Direct Loan program), and it starts looking like maybe not paying your loans off is a pretty decent option.
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Amusingly it detects that the code for the RPN calculator is in Polish. Maybe it's smarter than it seems.
Sorry, but your theory doesn't work because plenty of other fusion projects are attracting VC. There is something wrong with Lerner specifically, not fusion generally, that's stopping people from putting money in.
I think this current trend where we assign responsibility for our emotions to everyone else is highly toxic and ultimately self-defeating.

You can learn to control your own emotions or you can walk around waiting for everyone else to make sure you're happy and comfortable. Only one of these strategies is going to have any chance of success.
This is a nice bug! And not really a clock issue -- many programs/protocols could have such a bug.
Yeah, IIRC it really stopped ticking (until you write a valid value at which point it would resume).

Note that it doesn't stop reporting the time in this condition it will just give you back all the garbage fields that you wrote before. So an interesting thing happens when the system tries to transform that into a UTC wall clock basis and it usually ends up with a really wild interpretation of the date (decades/centuries off, similar to the problem described in TFA).
or "advertisers don't need publishers, they can pay the top publisher of the day for traffic"

that's the same argument since yahoo was the top publisher. but the world keep spinning, and you can't reach anybody under 35 via Facebook anymore.
What specifically is difficult?

The folks at Anaconda can probably help you. Use the conda package manager.
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But it can run on sites that will be public but are not yet deployed.
I thought about outlook, too, but for the opposite reason: their web client overrides ctrl+r, making the way I force a refresh incongruous with the rest of the web.
Everyone who pivots to video to try to drive Facebook traffic seems to come to regret it.
people are making a living using these machines

I think that cuts to the heart of the matter. They have forgotten who the customers are. Everything is designed for sleekness and entertainment.
Thanks for this! I'm Spanish, live in Germany, and speak English regularly with other non-native speakers: this causes a lot of confusion.

What I've ended up doing:

- Parentheses ()

- Braces {}

- Brackets []

It's good to know that, however economic this might look to me, it's still likely to be misunderstood or at least ambiguous even to native speakers.
Hello. Very well done. A brief note on where all does it aggregate from would also be reassuring.
[Node.js Security] How to Build Secure Node.js Applications?
See this[0] article which does a good tour of numerous issues with time.

[0]http://FalsehoodsAboutTime.com
Privacy over freedom?, both get data, information. both don't sell. Google sell AD, not your personnal data.
The Sun shines on Mars too. Solar energy is a practical source of energy as far out as the asteroid belt. Nuclear energy isn't needed to accomplish anything that Musk wants to accomplish in life.
Yeah and that's compressed :) I'm in the process of getting it down, but there's a few things in there don't help its size. For instance, the latest versions of Electron and Phantom a reasonably big.
I'm no longer active, but one of the main attractions to the hobby was how simple everything was. The idea that with some power and a basic antenna, I could talk to a radio built 50 years ago with no more alignment then choosing the same frequency, was always very intriguing to me.
The Phillips Curve, at least in it's older formulations, was just a description of a certain regularity in the data. So it isn't a "theoretical" link, strictly speaking.
> Let's say the chance of getting a business working, even for a smart guy, is only 10%.

It's much, much lower, according to any reasonable estimation. For all startups, I've seen "less than 1%" on many occasions. That obviously excludes tons of failures that are never reported anywhere -- sometimes that are never even incorporated, despite trying to build/sell a product.

> Does that mean you shouldn't try?

For the vast majority of people, yes! "Try" has costs -- time, money, life, and relationships. To really try will often cost tens of thousands of dollars. Most people can't afford to gamble so much with such a tiny chance of success.
In a nutshell, as a generic reasoning, say that a few years ago the student loan was about US$ 100,000 and once you got the degree you had - on average - a higher pay of around US$ 10,000 per year (net).

You could repay it in 10 years time while living at the same level of your non-graduated friends.

Now say that the student loan averages US$ 150,000 and - still on average - the increase in annual wages is US$ 7,500 (net).

So you can either:

1) live as before BUT repay it in 20 years instead.

2) live at a 7,500 US$/year lower level than your friends and still repay it in 10 years.

3) live at a 7,500 US$/year (or 10,000 or 15,000) higher level and never repay it.

I suspect that besides the lessened "value" of the university degree on the labour market, there is also an increased number of people that choose option #3 over option #2 or #1 (whether out of need or because of other reasons doesn't really matter).
One common fact pattern:
1) small co is going to sell some partially-customized product to big co;
2) small co signs big co's NDA that leaves the definition of "confidential info" and other rights vague/favorable to big co;
3) big co floods small co with low grade confidential info relevant to customization of the product for a trial;
4) then (often through incompetence, some times through malice) big co becomes convinced that small co is misusing confidential info to sell to big co's competitors and sues for breach/trade-secret misappropriation, etc.

Effectively, the NDA gives big co the option to force small co to, at the very least, pay lawyers $50k a month until dead or the suit is resolved in two-plus years because the NDA and facts, at the very least, left a lot of issues to dispute.
The reason is that people have been spending absurd amounts of money on worthless degrees and can’t afford to pay them back.
Something along the lines of "1 year of free upgrades, then upgrade pricing" is a good idea even without considering OS compatibility.

It keeps customers who bought just before a new release happy, and removes anxiety about whether you should wait until next release to buy.
I'm kind of disappointed that it has a camera because in the bedroom as an Alarm Clock replacement is the only place I really see such a tiny display as being of value. The camera is a detractor.

I understand that Amazon wants to push their calling features but they're really of zero interest to me. Video calling is always a disappointing experience regardless of who is implementing it. The voice calling that only calls other Echo devices or POTS using an unknown number is also of little interest.

Personally I send any calls from numbers I don't know to voicemail, and I know many people who do the same. I would much rather have Alexa recognize my voice and use my phone to initiate calls.
But as I noted above, the iPhone does not let you change the default apps by simply installing them. Instead, you have to hack your device.
Having bootstrapped a couple of successful businesses myself, I think this is chockablock with great advice/observations.

I am surprised he seemed happy with his Valve experience but it is insightful of him to see that it taught him some good bootstrap lessons.
This is such a silly meme. Its not "due to government involvement." Its "due to the manner of government involvement."

Loans that are guaranteed by the government, for all students, that can't be discharged by bankruptcy, is an idea clearly put together by lenders.

If we wanted government subsidies for private education, there are plenty of alternatives. Here's one: government guaranteed loans for all students; but repayment of those loans is capped as a percentage of the person's income, and interest rate is capped well beneath that. This would allow the government to subsidize students to go to college, while providing market pressure against universities raising their tuition yearly. It would also allow students who went to expensive institutions to pursue careers that aren't at the top of the financial spectrum, like, say, teaching.
I thought the point of a duress password was to be covert. Plus, someone can still force the real unlock just by holding the phone to your face. I'm still under the impression that you'd need the face to be a username and two passwords.
First look at Shell’s new electric car charging stations
Yes. A jit compiler can compile based on both code and data, and can compile all the dependencies. In contrast an aot compiler must only use the code and links to other pre-compiled binaries.

Further, a jit can compile to specific hardware. An aot must anticipate what hardware is possible. If you aot compile to several possible hardware configs, then you'll bloat the binary.
Not even Trump does that. Imagine replacing all librarians or doctors or lawyers or whatever, down to the lowest levels of state administration. And then do that every 4 years. Insanity! :)
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It's the Windows model. Make the easy stuff super easy, and the hard stuff basically impossible. The assumption is that you'll adjust your business practices to match the software assumptions and definitely not the other way around.

Which is a little unfair to Microsoft, since they do have a fair bit of functionality only slightly hidden on Windows.
That's true, although I'm looking forward to a far easier AG setup without Windows Clustering now.
It's a c++ application running against a set of Oracle databases. These are the systems which replaced the older mainframe ones handling check in etc. Some comms with certain mainframe systems managing inventory for some airlines is possible, but less likely for these airlines running altea.
It's worth considering what your particular customers want. I make Photoshop plugins, and since the CC subscription came in, I've heard of a lot of customers jumping ship to one-off purchase products, like Affinity Photo and Paint Shop Pro. But some other customers are happy with it.

Also, while Creative Cloud is paid monthly, individual plans have a minimum term of 12 months. If you cancel, you have to pay out 50% of the contract term (unless you prepaid for the year, in which case there are no refunds).

http://www.adobe.com/legal/subscription-terms.html
> Yes, but many people have been designsted as "having stopped looking for work", which means the statistic doesn't count them. Additionally, those who are employed perhaps are underemployed, working as an Uber driver or bartender or chipotle or etc.

Yes. In most countries I know of, employment statistics are more about making economy/government look good and hitting targets, and less about giving any real numbers that people can use to understand the big picture.
The share of Americans at least 31 days late on loans from the U.S. Department of Education ticked up to 18.8 percent as of June 30, up from 18.6 percent the same time last year

Is this newsworthy?
I didn't realise that they had survived so long — up into the 1940s!
> I just don't see them to the same degree as you, and that's probably because of that different experience making it impossible for us to understand each other.

Sadly that might be true to a certain extent, but that shouldn't stop us from still trying to understand each other.
Imho we've managed, at least, a little bit of that, have a good one!
> Keeping it simple is what has made the success of competing languages like python.

It's harder than that.

If you come to the Python mailing list, you'll notice that we get heated debates about:

- rejecting awesome features;

- allowing very complex use cases;

- integrating radically different paradigms;

All that while keeping in mind the general look and feel of the language should not change.

Honestly the python-idea mailing list is a land field because of this, and an exhausting place to contribute, but the result is amazing.

It's why we have the type hints the way they are: most people can completely ignore them. You can even provide them using comments, or in separate files. Checking types is done with an external program or your IDE. They are completly non intrusive.

This way Python remains Python, but you can scale up to full type checking when you need to.

This is a damn hard balance to find for a language born in 1995 with millions of users including sysadmin, data scientists, web devs and geographers.
I am aware they are into professional services.

Many accountant-consulting firms began and keep majority of their services are finance/accounting/tax based.

Deloitte in specific has added other "consulting" unit largely in the past 10-15 years, after 150 years of primarily accounting. This is pretty common with other accounting firms too, nothing personal against Deloitte (have known folks who have worked for them).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deloitte
Another Bitcoin Split in October?? Yes Really
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I don’t really understand why archeologists always assume every single statue from the ancient world is religious in nature. Why can’t people just buy a cute dog Knick-nack for their kitchen shelf?
> universal time coordinated which leaps on schedule to ease astronomical differences

"Schedule" is a bit generous there.

Oh and there's TAI for just counting seconds but you're discouraged from using it that way because of some slightly-suspicous reasoning about retrospective calibration.
Does case count as punctuation? 'I helped my uncle Jack off a horse.'
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For values of forever equal to ~5-10 years?

I'm not criticizing the article, which is pretty solid, but covers only the power harvesting topic. I'm just commenting on the title ("Designing a Wireless Device That Lives Forever").

I would very much like to see a serious discussion about making electronics live decades. The primary concern would be internal degradation and environmental damages. How to make batteries that last 100 years? How to make solar panels that last so long? How to deal with the fact that today's electronic components are purposefully not designed to last long? That after many years, your uC will likely just give up and die?
Nice try, Equifax! I see what you did there...
Puerto Rico Evacuees on government transport must sign IOUs, give up passports
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Containers aren't cheaper than a modular (manufactured) home, they are just trendier. That's why you haven't seen containers replacing manufactured homes in trailer parks.

This is kind of like the tiny house movement. It's not actually cheaper than existing options, but it is disassociated with the "white trash" connotation from living in a mobile home. Rich people will pay extra to not look poor.
Privoxy - https://www.privoxy.org/ is a light-weight HTTP and HTTPs proxy that can be used as a network-wide ad blocking service, and is small and efficient enough to run fine on a Pi (it's available packaged with most linux distributions)

For HTTP requests, you can configure lists of URLs (or URL fragments) to block, allowing for full ad blocking. It can also do tricks like allowing URLs but blocking or discarding their cookies so the sites are usable but can't track you via their cookies.

For HTTPs requests, the proxy can't see the URLs so it can't block based on URL, but it falls back to blocking based on hostname, which is good enough for most situations.

Browser plugins like 'Proxy SwitchyOmega' (Firefox/Chrome) make it easy to switch between using the proxy or not if you really need to skip the blocking.

It's also possible to set up privoxy as a transparent proxy, meaning that everything on your network is forced to use it to communicate with the outside world, so it can work with any device, not just those that have proxy configuration options).

I definitely recommend it, it runs fine on my home network. My TV and PS4 work well with it, for instance. (it's a shame that I have to resort to ad-blocking my television in order to stop it spying on me...)
> which means the statistic doesn't count them

They do, they're called "not in labor force" [0]

If you include the unemployed as well as those who want a job but aren't actively looking, it's around 5% which is considered low.

But the point of the article is that the unemployment rate is moving in the opposite direction to the arrears rate. Unless the basis for these figures has changed recently, this would require that an abnormal number of graduates aree becoming less emlpoyed while an abnormal, and larger, number of grads are becoming employed. Seems unlikely.

> ...perhaps are underemployed

Are you sure? I'm not totally familiar with the exact counting mechanism in the US but, in the UK, if someone is in part-time work but is looking for more hours or full-time work, then they count as unemployed, not employed.

[0] https://www.bls.gov/cps/cpsaat35.htm
I thought that quote was:

There are two hard problems in computer science: cache invalidation, naming, and off-by-one errors.
Or we could make public college free, just like we did with high school.
Honestly, as far as that aspect goes, I found the comic helped me understand it better than the article did. While I think I understand the general concept of emotional labor, the example of the gift wrapping left out seemed kind of petty in that an item being out of place in a closet seems fairly easy for even an attentive person to miss and forget about. What I gatherer from the comic, is that it's more about situations in which one partner assumes that they don't need to do anything unless specifically asked.
From the article: "Department of Education ticked up to 18.8 percent as of June 30, up from 18.6 percent the same time last year, new federal data show."

There's your answer - 0.2pp is totally insubstantial, which makes the title borderline clickbait. The economy doesn't uniformly grow or distribute wealth, so a change so small could just be from the distribution of college leavers in a particular year being overindexed towards sectors that aren't growing.

Further to that point, it typically takes years for people to adjust their majors towards sectors of the economy that are particularly productive, so we shouldn't expect to see such a quick change in the numbers.
Extravagant? Is this related to avocados?
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TLDR: The hurricane destroyed 80% of the transmission lines and 90% of the distribution lines.
I don't know man?

Social pressures are more complicated than that, and they come from many different directions. I mean, in the hip-hop world, "I Finished Paying Sally Mae Off!" is one of the top rated songs right now. And listening to that song, it's clear that the rapper had fallen behind on his loans from time to time.

So if that "pay it off" attitude has made it down to the hip-hop world, it must be prevalent in the larger society as well. And that's just one "for instance" when you're talking about social pressures around student loans other than the desire to walk away from them.
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Side effect of the pivot to video: audience shrinkage
Alternatively, if you prefer sanity and readability, use cffi; it's pretty fast, especially on PyPy, and frees users from the CPython C API.