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There's no legal requirement for your holiday entitlement to increase each year - it just needs to be at least the minimum number of days.

In my experience, different companies handle it in different ways - one company I was with increased it by five days, but on your fifth anniversary with the company. I've also heard of companies giving one-off extra holidays for long service or other achievements.

If you're employed directly by a large company, your holiday situation is usually pretty good in the UK. If you're employed through an agency or you're a temporary worker, then it's usually pretty dire (compared to the UK norm - probably still quite good compared to the US).
I think he means there are way too many variables for such a claim to be taken seriously.

I suspect the crowd at HN would be one exception... a large crowd of self-employed individuals without degrees.
not really, the koan has been enthusiastically adopted by the hacker community long before ruby came on the scene. i think this is more a continuation of that than any reference to ruby's japanese roots.
That fact that there's a correlation between education and employment doesn't tell us if there's a causation. What's very likely is that the kind of people who will prioritise getting a degree is also the kind of people who can and will adjust and pivot to a new type of employment environment.

If you're trying to decide to go to college, you're already very likely to be employable. Telling a 50 year unemployed old blue collar worker that he should have gone to college is a "let them eat cake" response.
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Well, then paper ballots are not tamper proof.
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With such a following does he not have a responsibility to curate news and resources? I did not see that within his boring stream.
Sounds like you're thinking of patents.
RE: point 2, The Facebook Graph API (which will at some point deprecate the Old REST API) does not operate in this fashion. You receive an OAuth access token and pass it back to FB over HTTPS. Unlike the Old REST API, no MD5ing/secret key signing/etc. is required. And the sequence number passed to the Old REST API is _not_ there to prevent replay attacks - it simply needs to be a number larger than any of the previous messages' sequence numbers (as an attacker, I'd just pass in a very large value; in practice, everyone just passes the UNIX timestamp).
I think that HN actually has a higher average education level than most fora, and that people like you (and me) are the exception, not the rule. And I do have some understanding of statistics, not enough to read a typical stats paper but I know a median from an average (that seems to be the deciding factor ;) ).

The graph to me indicates that there is some correlation between education and unemployment (especially given the fact that the graph is showing a continuous trend) but does nothing to explain that correlation in a way that you could conclude 'if you get a degree your chances of being unemployed are smaller'. That might be true, but is not a valid conclusion.

Another thing that the graph does not tell you (but general statistics does) is that you can't say anything about individuals, only about populations.

But it's an interesting graph nonetheless and I think that it would be good to take it in to account while researching this sort of thing further.

A background in statistics is useful, even if you only get the basics, but I think that even that is not a requirement to understand what the graph says and which caveats you should be aware of.
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Indeed. I found the premise of the article to be wanting for the same reason. I mean, what's the more complex explanation: We don't treat the Pakistani floods on an equal measure with other disasters because we (the international community) dislike Pakistan? Or is it that the Pakistani disaster just hasn't had as much reporting and coverage?

I was in India as of a week ago. Even there, where Pakistan is both mentally and physically closer, the floods were barely getting any coverage at all. The news was dominated by a corruption scandal in the Organizing Committee for the Commonwealth Games. If the floods can't get coverage in India, what makes you think that they'd get anything other a single paragraph buried deep in the newspaper here?
can someone please give me a lead on this?
I don't know but probably even the "dumbness" between a bot and a human could be detected. I don't really know what will be actual dynamics of the interaction.

If your bot starts making the same "dumb" conversations again and again, it will start being detected (because after the chat, a human gets feedback via points whether he was right or wrong).
As pointed out in one of the comments, this doesn't hold for recent college grads. I know a lot of very smart people who graduated in the past 2-3 years and cannot find jobs.
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an editorial site for people at their second startup experience, on the line of the setup? It would actually be interesting I guess :)

Otherwise: a browser based game in which you have to find the second male sheep and mark it with a star?
GraphLab is intended for efficiently parallelizing Processing intensive Machine learning algorithms, this is different from "Bring Computation near data" philosophy of Hadoop/HDFS/Map-Reduce. Generally most of enterprise mapreduce application are primarily IO intensive, in that case it is important to have multiple machines accessing data from multiple disks.

GraphLab would be suitable for machines with multiple processors or the new cloud on chip machines which have ~40+ Cores.

Most of the Machine Learning algorithms tend to be processing intensive, and simple abstractions such as Map-Reduce dont help a lot, thus GraphLab has its own niche to serve.
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> That fact that there's a correlation between education and employment doesn't tell us if there's a causation.

Agreed, but there very well might be, and there probably is, the question I think is not 'if' but 'how much'.

> What's very likely is that the kind of people who will prioritise getting a degree is also the kind of people who can and will adjust and pivot to a new type of employment environment.

Yes, there is a certain flexibility involved there, it's hard to re-train someone whose industry has just been outsourced from under them, all their domain specific knowledge has just turned worthless.

Knowledge workers have it a bit easier in that sense, they still have the problem but they might be able to adapt quicker than 'skill' based workers.

> If you're trying to decide to go to college, you're already very likely to be employable.

Yes, most likely.

> Telling a 50 year unemployed old blue collar worker that he should have gone to college is a "let them eat cake" response.

Telling someone what they should have done in the past is totally dumb, it didn't happen that way so it's completely pointless.

But for the people you outlined above, the ones trying to decide to go to college or not might do well to realize that one day they too will be 50, and if they're in the possession of a college degree then it might be to their advantage.

Notice that's a might, the article does not do much to explain the background of the graph, and I think that it has some truth to it but that is not evident from the presentation.
Ok the typical correlation/causation argument doesn't apply here. There have been MANY studies on degree vs. employment and the results always look like this.

Second, stop using the word pivot when it doesn't apply. Not only is it a stupid buzzword, people aren't even using it correctly!
What kind of fields?

I know plenty of people that graduated, some of them can't find jobs but they're mostly in the 'soft' sciences.
Somehow the title is wrong. Maybe bad escaping of ">" ?

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This is exactly what I miss most on my switch from Ubuntu to Windows7. I find the need to reboot on installation/updates especially annoying.
Is this related to the Nitro JavaScript Web framework?
Economists of education (Mark Blaug is one whose writings on this subject I have read) point out that college students start out as young people who come from higher socioeconomic status families, all over the world. Those young people thus have better social connections to succeed in paid employment and more capital to found businesses and invest and do other things that lead to high income in the next generation than do young people who are unable to afford college. Moreover, college attendance, even though it costs money to the students, is heavily subsidized by general taxation all over the world, and college subsidies operate as a wealth transfer from working non-college-attending young people to studying college-attending young people. It's not clear at all that there is any added value from the educational operations of a college

http://www.paulgraham.com/colleges.html

and that college-educated people can look at a cross-sectional chart like the one jacquesm kindly submitted here and believe that it shows a longitudinal causation relationship is a demonstration of how badly colleges fail at teaching statistics.
As a survivor of the first big .com crash, the current froth around startups seems uncomfortably familiar in some ways. There are a lot of companies making sustainable, growable revenue a priority. There also seems to be a lot of companies that are just throwing any idea they can think of against the social networking wall to see if it sticks.

I expect there to be some significant winnowing out, although perhaps not as destructively as 1999.
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How timely, just as I've decided to write a shared library for Varnish.

Thanks muchly.
I think you hit it on the head at the end of your post. His status as a nerd celebrity essentially ensures that many of the connections he has via these social networks will be tenuous at best. You can't classify the connection you have a to guy who's heard your podcast the same as your good friends and co-workers (or your wife! ;)).

This will sound conceited, but I think most people I'm associated with via Twitter would probably care if I disappeared without a peep for more than 5 days. So I think that while most people don't really care about his tweeting, nearly every other user's connections to their followers/followees will be much tighter.
CoApp may actually use MSI for packaging, but MSI doesn't have dependency management.

The purpose of CoApp is to make open source applications easily installable on Windows. I'm thinking similar to how you can install the GnuWin32 tools but more robust. So maybe a better description would be like Cygwin but more integrated into the Windows ecosystem.
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Thanks. :) I definitely spent some time checking out their project outlines on the site, and some of the demos...
Nothing is tamper proof by itself.

Being tamper proof is a thing that you address in a systemic way, with information, analysis, materials and procedures.

So a paper ballot is not tamper proof but a box that is viewed by many that is opened in the presence of many and counted, and re-counted by many can yield a result that all will likely agree on to a degree that the democratic process can be executed.

You could try to exchange the box, but there would be many witnesses, you could try to put extra ballots in it, but it would be detected and so on. The witnesses make all the difference, they turn a tamper prone piece of paper in to a tamper proof election device.

A computer in stead of that box with paper ballots is open to any number of ways of tampering that would go undetected, both locally and remotely as well as from the outside before the election has even been started.
It doesn't matter how many studies show the same set of facts, correlation still doesn't mean causation
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(Since we're playing the dumb correlation equals causation game I'm going to play too:)

This is a graph of the inequality with which college graduates treat non-graduates.
Going to college allows you to tap in to that network of social connections though, which in turn will increase your chances a bit.

No guarantees there though, on an individual level.

Now, what would be more surprising is to show that an increase in education level would show a decreased chance of being employed. So in that sense this graph should really not surprise anybody.
I've never seen anyone abuse the enter button like he describes. On the other hand, if they did, I'd block them before they finished their second message.
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It seems you really don't object to Philadelphia's "exorbitantly high" taxes at all. What you object to is that these high taxes haven't turned Philadelphia's government into an effective deliverer of all the services that you wish it would provide, which if delivered would result in the city becoming an ideal place. Maybe (since you really don't object to paying "exorbitantly high" taxes) you'd back a proposal to raise taxes to allow achievement of this goal?
Now, what would be more surprising is to show that an increase in education level would show a decreased chance of being employed.

Extend the graph to the PhD level.
Should really be 'IM Etiquette', this has happened to me, and I'm sure many others, in other IM networks as well.

He hits the nail on the head on the rest of the article though.
How are the recent college grads faring relative to the recent non-college grads?
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That's interesting how they made it jive with Django's ORM.
Was I the only one expecting some sort of rant about how the assignment operator, and therefore imperative languages, are 'harmful'? :)
I've found a solution!

Problem:
- The US have a problem getting people to afford studies in the first place
- You can spy on students

Solution:
Sell your privacy to pay for your studies!
Wouldn't it be great if you could sell the details of your private life, which you're doing anyway, to pay for your studies? Get a better future for free!

</rant>
Watch the video in the article. It is truly ridiculous what the person he is chatting with does, and I can completely understand why he would block them.
The other problem I see is that if you're using Comcast for your broadband and decide to drop your TV service, they'll jack up the broadband price.

At least in my area, Comcast is a total ripoff unless you bundle 2-3 of their services and even then it's no bargain. At least there's DSL and WiMax in my town, but I don't think everyone is going to have the same number of choices.
All the arguments over the value of college always seem to ignore one obvious element—some of us go to college because we will learn things we could not or would not otherwise learn. I'm a Computer Science senior right now, and sure, I could have learned all the stuff I learned from buying my own books, but I never would have. Also, the awesome professors, though rare and littered among terrible ones, completely make it worth it.
I'd trade a reboot for Adobe's retarded "we noticed you have [anything] open, please close it to continue this installation" policy.
I've done something else (no access to PhD employment stats, maybe someone else does?), I've changed it in to an 'employment' graph, instead of an unemployment graph:

http://ww.com/employment.png

Same data, same conclusions?
The releationship is about like the one between dpkg and apt-get.
Um sure. The exact numbers weren't really the point. The point was that you can do quick math, just as you did, to get an idea of the potential income from putting ads on your blog before you actually implement them.
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No, he isn't. Copyright used to be 14 years, patents 17.

Patents were designed for a person to publicize their invention rather than using it secretly (see, e.g., forceps). Copyright was designed to give people an incentive to produce creative works, which would eventually be available to the public for free.
'Pivot' is the new 'leverage'. We're just leveraging it in different ways. You should pivot into this new verbal environment.
> The probabilities of a man committing each of two individual rapes are not independent.

Indeed not, and I never said they were. Indeed if a rapist rapes one woman, then he's more likely to do it again than a man who has never raped.

My point was that it's less likely that a man will be accused of two unrelated rapes at the same time, than just be accused of one rape.
> among college graduates, there simply isn’t an economic crisis in the United States

Tell that to the guy who recently graduated with a bachelor's in business and accounting who was waiting our table last night.
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Ah, but again we can reverse it, as a human I could do that on purpose too, and so on. Or am I misunderstanding you and are all the bots to be provided by the site owners? (I figured from your description that you can sign up with a bot or as a human).

The Turing test is a brilliant device because it is so hard to create something that will be able to pass it without actually being intelligent.
I hope this isn't over yet. Can the parents can still file a civil suit even if prosecutors don't want to make a public case over this?

I'm not surprised that the powers that be are uninterested in prosecuting the school district. But I would have guessed they would have felt compelled to do so, or at least make some noise about doing so, for the sake of appearances. It disturbs me that they can so openly dismiss the families who got spied upon as being beneath their regard.
Well if you are 2 people who runs a startup for $1000-5000 per month what's going to happen? In 1999 1 chair of a startup was $1500
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Ah, that must have been when I first ran in to it.
The article's conclusion is absurdly misleasing given the information presented in its source. The US Attorney did not claim that spying on students is legal, nor did he claim that the school staff did not intend to spy on the students, nor did he even claim that no admissible evidence of a crime existed. He claimed the investigators failed to find any such evidence. This is quite possible even if all of the first three conditions are true--it wouldn't exactly be the first time that cops botched protocol and made evidence key to prosecution inadmissible. The statement does not necessarily reflect any opinion as to whether invasive surveillance of students is legal.
Can they exempt themselves from the tax by putting all earnings towards cost and donating any profits to charity (i.e. become a non-profit)?
New rule: you can't do that while I'm drinking hot tea.
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I'm trying to develop a browser based 2D game with top view. I've been trying out javascript game libraries.

I found a jquery plugin called gameQuery but doesn't have adequate docs and the only tutorial is lengthy and doesn't explain much.

There was an old library called gamelib but that's obsolete. jsGameSoup isn't in-development.

I've started writing a tile based javascript game engine already (no canvas or svg). Wondering is there are already some that exist.
> If Adolf and Joseph knew so much, maybe they could have won the war?!

There's a common meme of saying the Nazis had bad judgement (they did get some major decisions wrong) and that as a consequence they were stupid. The second point is largely not true: Hitler, Goebbels, Goering etc were in fact quite intelligent -- they could hardly have taken over a country otherwise.

Just because someone's evil, don't assume they're stupid.
Id agree with that proposal if Philly taxes were lower than or on par with the national average, but the fact is philadelphians already shoulder one of the highest tax burdons in the US.
I think you are trying too hard. The most obvious influence is "The Little Schemer", right down to the peanut butter and jelly references. It is even listed as an inspiration on website.
I have found quite the opposite. Most of his gripes would be easily fixed by matching his usage of the software to his issues/requirements for them, and about half of it either barely sensical whining or a desire to fundamentally change 90% of the human population (which is not going to happen).
Isn't this the opposite of what we've been hearing the last couple years? The trend of companies being cheaper to start and the rise of angel and super-angel funds have left VC's without a place to make large investments? Isn't that the reason for the contraction of the "VC industry" in the first place?
I thought there was something with smiling... too early.
Something like the JenniCam?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jennifer_Ringley
"Virtually every single member of congress, every senator, every Capitol Hill staffer, every White House advisor, every Fed governor, and every major political reporter is a college graduate."

Who cares? Notice that they didn't mention Bill Gates, Mark Zuckerberg, Mary Kay, Richard Branson, Michael Dell, Walt Disney, Henry Ford, Frank Lloyd Wright - who arguably have all contributed more to this country than our established political leaders recently. Clearly this is the washington post - but the myopic view of looking at the political arena, if anything - shows what is wrong with associating college with "smart, capable, and adding value to our country." I'm just saying that many people in the US are not proud of legislators - and saying that they all went to college hardly proves a good point.

Hard work, natural curiosity, caring about your community, a desire to learn and being in the right place at the right time has more to do with being successful and adding value to our society than becoming part of the "College club" that is Washington.
unfortunately none of the indian media are covering this news.
I'm not sure why this is wrong - giving the same incorrect argument several times doesn't make it correct.

I'm guessing I'm missing something - anyone care to correct me?
You are correct, you can either provide or a bot or take part as a human. My argument is that genuine dumbness of chatbots may not be replicable by by humans. The whole logic of game is that the human who is able to emulate a bot wins, so if you are successfully being too dumb and go undetected as a human, you win!

I think I figure your point, and yes the basic assumption is that all bots should be semi-intelligent. The whole game will become uninteresting if every just says "ABC.ABC.". I think we need a caveat or eligibility criteria to take care of that.
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I'm actually confused after reading both the articles. Thought some discussion at HN may give some clarity.
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