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Interdisciplinary degree in women and gender studies are a minisculle percentage of all degrees out there. So is antropology.

If you want to make the argument that students are mostly picking wrong degrees, make it with one that is actually prevalent. Not the one that is fashionable among rich kids you personally despise.
> Why did Occupy Wall Street subside in a matter of months, for instance, while the American Civil Rights Movement thrived, resulting in the passage of multiple laws?

This is probably the dumbest comparison we'll see out of HBR. It should be pretty clear that unavoidable discrimination and violence generation after generation is going to anger people and foster action way more than losing money.

And if you wanted to find examples in Occupy Wall Street, I'm sure there were people "agitating", "innovating", and "orchestrating". These are so squishy of terms as to be almost pointless.
Hi everyone!

Excited that you found PeerPad so fast. We've released its alfa just a week ago at Mozfest (https://github.com/MozillaFoundation/mozfest-program-2017/is...).

I see that there are some questions about PeerPad's architecture. If you would like to know how it works, I invite you to glance through the Architecture.md at https://github.com/ipfs-shipyard/peerpad/blob/master/docs/AR... If there are things that are not clear to you please open an issue so that we can make it better.

Also, you can expect to see soon a video tutorial of how to build a p2p flipchart using the same underlying kv store that PeerPad uses, y.js + IPFS. If you can't wait you can always take a look at https://github.com/ipfs-shipyard/p2p-flipchart and see how it works :)

We will continue working on PeerPad and add the remaining features necessary to make it usable for meeting notes, publishing and more. You can track the development and also help us built it through the Github Repo https://github.com/ipfs-shipyard/peerpad

Thank you \o/
free means no fees. free roads have no tolls. free concerts do not charge ticket prices. closed markets, toll roads, private venues all charge fees.
It's still possible to make a good living in a skilled trade. Welder, electrician, pipe fitter, etc. Especially if you're entrepreneurial and can start your own business after getting some experience. It requires education and hard work but not college.
Unless the Python is actually interacting with that hardware you should be able to get along much better with Windows' Linux subsystem or a VM still.
I can't tell if you are being sarcastic or serious...
>moral facts

Could you perhaps list a few of these "moral facts"?
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They have no idea what's going on.

I travel a lot and the number of countries where society has gone nuts is unbelievable.

There was a time when people who had experience working a crisis stepped in and worked it. As in things moved forward towards better solutions.
Now they spend their entire day being distracted and reacting to noise generated on social media by people who have no experience doing anything other than making noise.

If Youtube/Twitter/FB et al don't handle and own all these unintended consequences in the same manner they do software bugs we are headed to Chinese style network control very soon.
Extensively discussed earlier this week:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15609402
Yeah I saw that. To me, assuming Spektrum retained no ownership in the final company, it sounds like the people in that "almost" were basically swindled of a bit of resources, basically ending up as angels without their knowledge.
The War on Meetings
If you like this, you will enjoy this: http://www.humansofnewyork.com/ -- many touching stories and great portraits. The author started in NY but has traveled the world, doing the same type of short interviews with people in Iran or Iraq.
Instead of one big GUI app in CLI you often supposed to use combination of smaller tools. When you know which tools you need you can read man pages for them. But it is not easy to discover which tool you need. Especially in Linux where you need install it first.

Other problem: man pages are too long to read because modern CLI tools are cluttered with lots of rarely used options. I wish developers followed Unix way [1], but trend goes in the opposite direction.

[1] http://harmful.cat-v.org/cat-v/unix_prog_design.pdf
A large portion of the laid off workers were from the EU, under EU law.
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Many things have globally fixed prices. A car costs the same. Gas is probably cheaper in a developed country especially in the USA. Food is probably on par or cheaper . A $1000 phone is the same in all countries. The PC someone works with costs the same. Software licenses, (e)books, productivity apps e.g. office365 and G suite cost the same or more. A hosting provider charges the same for servers and bandwidth etc.

local people typically don't aspire to that

Yes they do, of course it is not accessible to most.
There are a few places where this doesn't analogize that way.

Significantly and uniquely, Facebook, Google, etc. are selling forums and mediums for expression. They are common carriers of speech; they are not partnering in creating speech.
The article is saying that they have a good idea what is going on but have no incentive to "clean up" the platform and detect "fake" content.
I've gotten all of the above. The doxing and subtle suggestion that people call me and wait for me outside my office was due to a warez project violating the license of my software to illegally package commercial software and me DMCAing their files on anonymous file hosting services (some of which properly responded). The death threats were due to my calling out a smaller closed source project stealing some of our work but stripping off the GPL text, copyright, source code, and branding. I can't recall offhand what the two rape threats were over but it was likely one of those two. The harassment is just in general and relatively constant.

Fun fact: I even get hate comments/email when I make a post on our site encouraging people to donate their organs on the anniversary of donating a kidney to my dad. Something about my dad buying me off to give him the kidney and me making tons of money from the project and stashing it overseas or something. You know, good times.
How does anyone expect high school graduates to make responsible decisions regarding loans and choice of major when the overwhelming majority of his grads exit highschool financially illiterate, with the nonsensical idea that any college degree is good enough?

How many times have you heard the expression "do what you love, and the money will come?"

The culture in the U.S. is in dire need of a return to merit, as well as drastic changes to our education system; and, no, the answer is not more funding.

Also I believe that government aid should be restricted to degrees with a minimum relative ROI. Education for the sake of culture is no longer useful when you have an increasingly incompetent workforce.
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I believe politics is off topic if it's a mainstream news story - "If they'd cover it on TV news, it's probably off-topic," as the guidelines say, although that's a bit vague. I think the guidelines allow for political articles with intellectual merit and which demonstrate an "interesting new phenomenon" worth discussing to potentially be on topic.
Outsourcing LTS support to (mostly) vendors is a big deal for Linux. When I write Linux code that needs a backport, I'll put a little bit of effort into making it easyish. Maybe I'll answer questions about backporting and try, on a not-very-much-effort basis, to help. This makes it way easier to keep the code clean.
I feel the same way with the exception of traveling as a tourist and you're taking more time to know and absorb your surrounds.

In most other cases the cattle car cows analogy is pretty apt.
That's only obvious if you take it as a given that the more money you have the smarter you are. Besides that, has there been a large change in the portion of the population with Internet access since 2016? And, besides that, the supposed "proof" the Internet has gotten stupider is becoming critical of Google.
A better example would be forcing photographers or event planners to sell to homosexual weddings since in those examples, the vendors are selling their partnership in expression.
I think its a new financial paradigm shift. I hold the good ones eth monero neo and speculate with others like the stock market. If this is a bubble you will lose a bit of money. If its not you will lose a big chance.
Ask HN: What’s your opinion on Airbnb’s Hypernova?
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Personally I find it pretty interesting but could really be benefital for sophisticated frontend apps, thoughts?
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If you want to make a public statement or have an open discussion, you need to be where the public is.
That's a huge amount of RAM for most microcontrollers.
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Agreed. But I don't think this all falls on the current administration. US energy policy has been weak if not non-existent for as long as I can remember. Why shouldn't they believe it? No one (had the stones) to declare it dead; not part of our energy future; etc.

Furthermore, along the same lines, look at domestic oil. That is, fracking. Production has hockey stick'ed in the last 10 - 15 years. We didn't shift to renewables. We stuck with oil.

So again, why shouldn't coal believe the same? Most of the signals support their POV than otherwise.

Note: I agree 100%. Coal is f'ed. As it should be. But from the miners' POV there really isn't a clear message that say "time to give up." Clinton didn't say it. Bush didn't say it. Obama didn't say it.
> The destructive practice is not knowing how to write stable things.

Well, you can do it the Linux way, too: even if it is a bug, as long as fixing it breaks existing userland code, the fix gets reverted and the docs adjusted.

Compare this to anything except plain JS, jQuery and PHP - breakages all the time, everywhere, because no one values backward compatibility any more (python2=>3, for one, or whatever MS is choosing as the current framework to develop Windows applications now). This is the difference that MS took with the win32 layer and what made them successful - until they started ignoring BC in favor of loading new crap on consumers and enterprises alike every patchday.
Well, I am doing a remote job since last two year in a UK based company, almost a year ago I was suddenly sacked due to a company policy change, asking why the response was in short, they wont allow any people from India..

Then as a proof I sent them my country Wikipedia link, letting them understand my small country is not a region of India, and India is our neighbouring country.

Then the company apologises by issuing an annual increment...

This thing still surprises me and also i had to face few worst days of my life -_- due to this fact ...
There is no workable definition of "sensible" here. A number of my friends graduated with journalism degrees in 2007. They couldn't find jobs in journalism. This probably seems obvious to you now, that journalism is not a "sensible" degree, but in 2002-2004 when we were choosing schools and degrees, every major city had two or more competing newspapers with healthy entry level hiring. The world changed. That happens. It is happening to some set of degrees right now, but we don't yet know what they are. Maybe computer science degrees will not be "sensible" in 2021.

My point is just that a solution to this problem that requires teenagers and their parents to accurately predict the future of a complex society is not actually a solution at all.
1. Bad managers are a lot more common than good ones.

2. Good managers set direction and exist to acquire resources for the team and eliminate barriers out of the way of the team when they are headed in that direction. Their role is not to interrupt the team so that they can answer a question from upper management.

3. Most of half of urgent manager requests are due to lack of planning either on their part or on their manager's part. They knew they needed this information a few days ago, but felt "it's OK to interrupt the team when I really need it".

4. Most of the other half are due to their inability to push back.

5. There will be times when the managers do need information urgently. It is then their responsibility to accept the hit in productivity that it incurs.

I've worked with both good and bad managers. The good ones have these qualities.
4.13 (released this September) added the dm-zoned device-mapper target, which presents an SMR drive as if it was a normal block device.

I suppose what it does is similar to what drive-managed SMR drives do internally.
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Lab tech. It's not specialized, so there's no fear of your entire field drying up (like cytology). Every hospital needs them, so you can find work anywhere in the country. The downsides are it doesn't pay well and it requires a two year program followed by state specific licensing exams. Those last two points result in a true labor shortage. Most Hospitals will hire licensed lab techs sight unseen.
Sounds like Twitter has a flawed internal culture. I expect many rats will start paddling away from the ship.
How is this the fault of banks? Isn't the federal government the largest underwriter of loans these days?
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We can end world poverty without destroying the planet
Are you sure about that? Almost all the new installations, at least in the UK, are remote controlled by tech from Telensa or others.
>No, the work of the manager is to do whatever is needed to deliver the result on the task assigned to them

You missed the part where the manager has to evaluate and push back if needed. If their primary role is merely to do what their bosses tell them to, then they are not doing any managing.
The shift to fracking is US energy policy. With geopolitical goals behind it.

Gee, making the Middle East less important to the US and putting the pinch on Russia, who'd want to do that?
Big Tech blew its big moment at the Russia hearings
Local network, same advice others give. Don't need to pick one from 10k ransoms, pick 1 from 5 in extended network.
The fact that they think there is perfection in such a thing should already be the wrong path to go down on
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I worked for Freelancer.com briefly as a software engineer at their HQ in Sydney for about 1 month (that was in the year before their IPO) - I was fresh out of university. The culture within the company was toxic.

They treat developers like crap - Both those who use the platform and those who work at HQ. They fired me after 1 month during my probation because I was too slow to implement a feature because I was spending extra time writing tests. I remember the tech director telling me "That's not the kind of engineering we do here" after I tried to justify why tests were important. Several of these horrible people went on to work for Facebook later.

The CEO of Freelancer.com is a complete jerk. A few years after I had gone, I spoke with engineers who used to work there and there was gossip going round that the CEO had sex with a female employee and she got pregnant. He also hired his friends in top positions; some of which were utterly incompetent. Some of the CEO's favourite employees got drunk during work hours in front of the overworked engineers.

Employee retention was very low.
Ask HN: What to do with data from half a million news articles?
A couple years, I created a service to track edits of online news articles and overlay them onto the article as you read.

It now has over 500,000 article's histories stored, including every edit made to them in the first month after they were posted.

The articles are from the nytimes, cnn, usatoday, foxnews, reuters, aljazeera, the telegraph uk, the guardian uk, el pais and die zeit.

What interesting things would you do with a dataset like this? I would be happy to share the data with people who have a good use for it.

Service is called Transparentmetric.com
How very charitable!

I don't care whether he's Dem or Republican.

The vox piece suffers from the same problem, which is why it probably got flagged. If the vox piece is dishonest in some ways too.

The worst thing you can do is purport to explain someone else's mental state. Or attempt to explain some aspect of their internal psychology. No, respond to actions and events, do not try to read the tea leaves of some else's mind, because you will be tempted either consciously or unconsciously to read exactly what supports your narrative and rejects the opposing narrative
Your observation only holds in the short term. Due to globalization, the avg wage of the "exploited" Chinese workers has grown from 1600 to 67000 CNY in the last 30 years. Even accounting for the higher inflation, the US/West wage gap has shrunk considerably within a generation.

India hasn't seen such growth exactly because they didn't embrace globalization to the same level China did. Indian policies are much more left leaning, market unfriendedly.
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Similar to climate change, we're not doing a very good job surveying the systemic effects of allowing "unvetted" (to borrow a term) groups and individuals which now have outsized on free society.

Foreign countries now have the ability to silently carpet bomb citizenry with subversive messages that eat at our ability to effectively govern.
I can yeah you C in 24 seconds, but how much you learn would be limited to 24 seconds of material
He didn't say anything at all about OP's ability to read the article. "bold assertions" clearly refers to the 3 points he lists and you seem to be deliberately misreading.

OP made some very bold claims about how Google works internally and unless he's a first-hand witness (Google employee), he really needs to provide some data of his own to back his assertions up.
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To be sure, there are plenty of those who criticize incessantly without offering real alternatives where alternatives would be needed, and certainly one can theorize, but what I find worrying about this article is how it seems to be worshiping at the altar of leadership and change (and effectiveness in bringing it about; even the name of the module is "Power and Influence in Society"), without evidencing the slightest concern over moral considerations. Does X need to be changed? If so, to what end and in what ways such that we are behaving morally?
Facebook is between a rock and a hard place. Either they insist the fake ads had no effect on the election and lower the value of all ads, or they admit they're effective and that they enabled the hackers.
8. Consider studying somewhere with relatively miniscule tuition fees. Parts of Europe, for example. There are universities teaching in English and charging a couple of thousand Euros a term, or even less.

I sometimes think about taking a year or two off to do that just for the fun of it.
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Maybe the posters hoping someone will revive it.
Yeah, it's also possible that it was the Swedish armed forces/NATO doing the jamming as part of the exercise. In this case they would probably jam both GPS and GLONASS.

Seems politically quite risky though, what if some ambulance didn't reach their target or something like that? (Although I guess an easy workaround for that could have been tight coordination with the local rescue services - stop the jamming the moment there's an ambulance/fire emergency in the local area.)
> the Black Scholes model that was developed in 1973 assumes a normal distribution, which is not only wrong

It was better than the vacuum it supplanted. Later iterations replaced constant volatility with a multi-dimensional volatility term and the normally-distributed price-movement assumption with other distributions. Though even through the early 2010s, when I last institutionally algorithmically traded options, the normal variants' speed outweighed the edge-case benefits of e.g. an extreme value theorem curve.

The fascination the popular financial press has with traders delusionally deploying normal distributions is not only wrong, it obscures that the fundamental nature of finance is that of trade-offs, not one right solution.
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https://www.fontsquirrel.com/fonts/tex-gyre-pagella

I opened the PDF in Acrobat and looked at the document properties, which has a font tab with the embedded fonts.

As a bonus it's apparently a free font.
The idea that engineers and product designers or whatever are a new overclass seems faintly ridiculous. I don’t have as many meetings as my manager.... because I’m busy writing the software my manager decided I should write.
tl;dr The author visited a university with one of the two copies of a wallpaper sample book. Its danger stems from the arsenic dyes used at the time. The article then relays the history of arsenic dyes and how we came to notice (1847-ish) their effects (akin to lead paint or asbestos).
Wow. I had no idea. That’s great to know. Thanks for relaying that info. Do you have any further resources you recommend with regards to this?
It's hard to tell. Going by that tangent take the angel money is not an advice most can act upon and not something to write home about, unless I missed the part where they deliberately turned down venture capital.

edit: I'm talking about taking free money, not setting up a successful business. That is hard and they succeeded in it.
We use RxJS for data loading and global state management. Started with redux first, but really disliked all the boilerplate code. RxJS enabled us to have a really smart data loading and caching mechanisme that automatically pushes changes to all streams that rely on a particular piece of data whenever that data changes. No need for reducers, selectors, actions, constants or sagas. Just components with one or many RxJS subscriptions, and services to alter that data. It's been working really well for us so far.
Was that the author's thesis? That's not what I got from the article tbh.

"[...] it seems like you're implying [...] that there's some natural limit to wealth that Buffet would have hit in either timeline."

Yes, that's the implication. People give him more money as long as he can produce excess returns. At some point, he can no longer produce excess returns. That point is (theoretically) independent of his starting position - his knowledge/skills/luck allow him to invest, say, $100B successfully, but no more. So the reason he doesn't manage more isn't that he started with less, it's that this is the actual limit of his abilities.

(That's what parent is saying, I'm not 100% sure of this because I'm not 100% of how this plays out in a public company, etc. He's not a typical hedge-fund manager. But parent is probably pretty close to right).
And sometimes a maintainer really needs to get paid. I think it would be wonderful if we could come up with better and more popular ways of "paying what you want / can". Or, even "paying if you are using this commercially".

Or in other words: saying "thank you" in a language called cash.
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So the harder, and more long term rewarding option, is to stay away from platforms.
This was very timely for me and for anyone else learning, here are the first few videos of the series:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aircAruvnKk

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IHZwWFHWa-w

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ilg3gGewQ5U (Original video)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tIeHLnjs5U8
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