skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Perhaps the problem is that people who are destined for a dead-end job are now going to college:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Educational_Attainment_in_...

In 1990 ~20% of the US had bachelors degrees. In 2009 ~25% did.

In the same period, the % of college grads in low wage jobs also went up by about 5% (according to the OP).

Caveats:
1) That second 5% is from the population of grads not the total population, so that second 5% is a lower number.
2) The 5% total attainment measures the full pool, not the delta in the pool as would be appropriate to use in comparison to the recent college grads numbers in the article.

A lot of this "college grads now worse off" seems like partial views of the statistics that ignore the meteoric rise in enrollment over the same period.

One stat I haven't yet seen, that would make a great paper for anyone still in college, is: What percent of these numbers can be explained by higher GI bill usage following the Iraq and Afghanistan wars?
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"Look at me! I'm totally Judge Dredd."
Yes there it is, it is exactly what unstable is. Packages in there are reasonably recent and generally match upstream in functionally. There are occasional compatibility problems between packages but that is something that you cannot avoid if you want to have "relatively recent versions".
The difference in impact between a verbal warning and a warning shot does not change when you get out of a war zone, only the legality does.
Why would anyone pay for a degree, let alone online degree, is still a mystery for me. You don't need a degree if you are really interested in computer science.
It isn't possible in real-time, but surveying grade GPS receivers can approach that level of accuracy with long collection times and post-processing.
No, you're not. The reason is that Facebook doesn't suck, almost everyone uses it, it isn't dying, and it is a great user experience.

What you are describing is what the vast majority of Facebook users feel. However, that's not very interesting, nor does it get read when you put it in a headline.
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Hey I'm interested by some docs too if you find the time !

My address in in my profile.
A large chunk of unexplained high entropy data is a bit of a giveaway.

You can't really hide the fact that you're using encryption, because it doesn't really look like anything else apart from random data & people don't usually go around piping /dev/random into large files for no good reason. Compressed data is high entropy, but can be decompressed to something lower entropy, so you can easily eliminate png filess, zipped files etc.
Tangent, but the 2nd point is intriguing. How does one use cgroups to set up resource limitations? Is there any kind of decent front-end? I've seen the kernel documentation (https://www.kernel.org/doc/Documentation/cgroups/cgroups.txt), but how do I use it? For example, if I wanted to give some shell users limited accounts where they can't use more than 512 RAM and some CPU quota each, I gather cgroups can do this, but I haven't been able to figure out how to set something like that up. (Yes, I know you could handle that use-case by giving each user their own virtual machine and let VMWare or Xen or Virtualbox handle the RAM/CPU quotas, but that's often not what I want.)
Are you building something that other people actually want? Or something that you think they want?

If the former, how do you know that?
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I have built a similar system, and expanding it to more devices (think: devices other than thermostats). However, I use my own custom messaging/web server for communicating with the device from anywhere in the world. Think controlling your (ex: toaster) in NYC from LA without configuring any networks, vpn, ports,...aka Nest-like. Combined with some machine learning and machine "thinking", its pretty powerful.

The Spark Thermostat is great minus the fact that you need their web api for communicating with it. But for a 1-day build, how can anyone disappointed! Great job Spark team.

In regards to my own devices, I am definitely going to have to take a look at Spark now. Cool hardware.
About 13 years. My big tipoff is feeling tired. I'm a night owl and stream on Twitch after a long day of consulting -- I'm NEVER tired before 1 or 2AM.

The most severe problems were the result of a new doctor in their residency changing my long-acting insulin to an intermediate that was also a 30% mix of fast acting, in an attempt to drive my A1C to under 6. This created a serious problem of wanting to give myself insulin for a meal, my blood sugar only being around 90-100 mg/dL, and then being unable to decouple the fast-acting from the intermediate since it was pre-mixed. I hemmed and hawed, but the attending stood by the decision to change to 70/30. I had to change 10 years of regimen instantly, which was fraught with peril.

Two serious episodes later, and a waiting room at a prestigious teaching hospital hearing someone scream, "Your stupid decision has nearly killed me twice", and I'm now back on the long-acting with insulin reactions being rather infrequent (twice a month), and nowhere as severe (catching it around 65-70 mg/dL). My A1C has trended up slightly (6.1-6.2 to 6.3-6.4), but I'd rather that than death by overdose.
Ive been having these issues too -

Here is my experience...

- I am from the UK so we are covered under the EU consumer laws, more info here -> http://www.apple.com/uk/legal/statutory-warranty/
I bought my Macbook Pro 2011 17" with the 6750M GPU in April 2011 from BestBuy UK.

- In 2012 BestBuy shut down operations in the UK

- In January 2014 I started experiencing this defect. System halts with striped lines ect.

- I contacted Apple care to ask if I would be eligible under this program, they told me that since BestBuy had shut down they would honour the extended warranty should it be diagnosed as a manufacturing fault.

- I booked an appointment at the Apple Store (Bristol Cabot Circus) to have the laptop tested. They confirmed a GPU fault and told me that Apple wasn't responsible for upholding the extended warranty. I told them I would get back in contact with Apple care as this contradicted what I had been told before.

- I spoke to a Apple Care Senior Technical Support Advisor at AppleCare again and he told me that the store was wrong and do not deal with these niche cases as often. He enquired about the test that was run on my laptop and told me that they still needed to confirm if this was a general fault or a manufacturing fault. This I have been told can not be done at the Apple Store since it was not bought from there (both I and him found this very unusual).

- I was told I would need to book in a 'Consumer Law Claim' test at a company called Western Computer in Bristol. If this test confirmed a valid consumer law issue I would not be liable to pay the fee for the test of £78.00 and the hardware repair would be carried out for free. However if it indicated a general fault I would have to pay this myself.
Before having this test run I wanted to ask what was involved and how one distinguishes a general fault from a manufacturing fault. I got a vague reply that indicated the test was software based which didn't give me much confidence that this test would throw the "error code" that was required for a consumer law repair.

- As of now I am waiting to see how this plays out, it's hit the tech news now and I am hoping just like in 2008 and 2010 there will be a class action lawsuit that will save me all this hassle. I don't think I will get the test run at this time as I want to save myself the expense.
I'll keep this updated with my progress.
Or make jobs paying Walmart-style salaries pay somewhat more... ? Although I disagree with the conclusions of the article (it doesn't take lots of complexities into account, education level, family issues, disability, etc), the logic behind choosing welfare over a dismally paying, soul-crushing menial job is totally sound.
Blaming the victim, favorite American pastime.
I think "finishing" something means accepting its flaws (which will always be there) ...that makes it psychologically difficult.
But not maliciously.
Local Christian congregations donate copies of the Christian scripture to be given free of charge to those prisoners desirous of them. Islam is, to say the least, not well represented in rural Mississippi, so the prison commissary supplies the scriptural needs of imprisoned Muslims who don't have nearby congregations to look out for them.

(Source: I grew up in Mississippi, an hour's drive east of Parchman Farm. Testaments were given out even in the public schools a couple of times during my childhood; that the same or similar organizations would fail also to provide for Parchman's prisoners seems unlikely in the extreme.)
Thanks, these are all really awesome pointers!

I agree about having a "core" module, I think we're probably doing a similar thing. Our original problem was just that everything was defined directly on the "core" module rather than on a submodule that was then required by core. Our "app" modules, which like you say are mostly just controllers, then just require the core module.
Seems to be a philosophical shift in the working world & academia overall today. Just need to look to last year, where the guy behind the Higgs Boson said the publish or perish atmosphere today would've never lead to a theory. Then there's also the Phd who fell through the cracks to work at a subway before solving the twin primes conjecture. Somethings gotta get fixed.
That seems like a pretty good point. Especially considering I.T. is considered a cost center to most businesses.
Live commentary also here

http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/01/17/live-coverage-...
The President is still speaking so I don't know what he is going to announce, but as an american, I don't like the concept of citizens and non-citizens being treated differently when it comes to their rights. The distinction is difficult to make anyway, but the declaration of independence says "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights..." and does not make a distinction - I don't think we should be able to spy on someone in another country without a warrant any more than we can spy on citizen.
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It is, using RTK (real time kinematic) and 2 different receivers: http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/swiftnav/piksi-the-rtk-g...
I have a 16 year old sister. She was on Facebook and then deleted her profile. She deleted her profile at about the same time she went from being semi-awkward early teenager still shaking off her Russian accent (we adopted her) and became one of (what I am guessing based on her friends and the things she does) the coolest kids in her school.

She is probably doing lots of things that I don't want to know about. That's cool and Facebook gets in the way of doing that.
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Are you concerned that it is a lot easier to trick users into clicking a button to authorize the login?
Welll.....that's not strictly true. If you've got an environment free of multipath, you use differential or WAAS-enabled GPS receivers, you can get pretty good accuracy.

Source: http://www.oc.nps.edu/oc2902w/gps/gpsacc.html

Please note that all of these things depend on many factors and can be considered nearly "heroic" measures when it comes to position accuracy, but the Navy has historically been pretty damn concerned about knowing where their assets are and is somewhat obsessive about error-factors where that's concerned.
The article is short on details, but it sounds to me as if it was (most likely) MS Word Document metadata, rather than the floppy itself, which provided vital clues, though file deletion was another culprit:

http://www.abajournal.com/magazine/article/how_the_cops_caug... (relevant details near end of article).
Idle time spent in poverty is not consuming leisure, the time CONSUMES YOU. Every day that passes leaves you haggard, more lumpy, less inclined to make clear minded decisions that have a positive result in your life.

This myth you speak of needs to die a horrific death in some back alley, but won't as long as those better off than poverty stricken continue look at data-sets of numbers and opine about the people those numbers represent. While ignoring how we are all living creatures heavily impacted by our local environments.

There is a good reason why the working man often has a thousand yard stare and an alcohol problem.
Suggestion for the author. Reformat the code of your translated example. I truly found it impenetrable until I formatted it more like idiomatic d3.js code. With this reformatting, I'll buy that it is less annoying and tedious than the original.

console.log(
Maybe(person)
.bind(function(p) { return p["address"]; })
.bind(function(a) { return a["state"]; })
.maybe("State unknown", function(s) { return s; })
);

And then I realized that d3.js code is monads! (shout it like Charlton Heston in Soylent Green)
Europe (every country I've experienced) is obsessed with hiring based on online profiles (github, linkedin, websites, etc.) I have a feeling that they're going to learn about this the hard way.
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What methods are you using to make sure that an authorization comes from an authorized phone?
The article undercuts its point by stating "Essentially we are looking for developers that supremely value timelines, budgets and meeting scope requirements." Sounds like you want automatons to me not versatility.
Title is misleading - as far as I know centimeter accuracy is only possible with an RTK base station in the area where you're using the GPS, e.g. in a survey. I'm guessing the chipset allows capturing of raw data that can be post-processed.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Real_Time_Kinematic
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These graphs ignore the fact that from 1992 to 2009, the percentage of people over 25 with a college degree rose from ~20% to ~27%: http://www.census.gov/prod/2012pubs/p20-566.pdf (page 3). Meanwhile, the first chart in the article shows from 1990 to 2012, consistently just over 30% of college degree holders had a job that didn't require their degree. That means that in 1990, 0.7 * 0.2 = 14% of the population had a college degree and a job that required one, while in 2009, 0.7 * 0.27 = 19% of the population had a college degree and a job that required one.
A moment's thought, had you paused to engage in same, would've led you to realize that Ukrainian grandmothers today were, in youth, governed by the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, whose regime was never particularly noted for the extent of the freedom of conscience and action it extended to its subjects.
> No local events

While that may have never been an explicit feature, I remember the events interface (circa the 2008 timeframe, if I recall correctly) doing a fairly good job of allowing you to find local events. It was my goto place to discover things to do for a while. Then they changed the behaviour, making them virtually impossible to find unless your friends were invited.
This answer explains how to create a cgroup witht he quota and then assigning the user to it: http://unix.stackexchange.com/a/34335

See also http://manpages.ubuntu.com/manpages/lucid/man5/cgrules.conf....
It's called Wi-fi Indoor Positioning. Last I heard, the state of the art uses triangulation of signal strengths between multiple access points. This gives it 'aisle-level accuracy', or about 5-10m.

It's pseudo-anonymous in that they can get a unique identifier for your device (and thus know how often the device returns to the store) but can't tie it to your real identity without more information.

And given the mediocre accuracy of the technology it would be hard to correlate it with, for example, their point of sale system (e.g. 'device XYZ was near checkout 3 at the same time that John Smith's loyalty card was used there, therefore device XYZ is owned by John Smith').
> Tangent, but the 2nd point is intriguing. How does one use cgroups to set up resource limitations? Is there any kind of decent front-end? I've seen the kernel documentation, but how do I use it?

Use systemd: http://0pointer.de/blog/projects/resources.html

Systemd makes these kernel features finally usable.
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These are also examples of tampering with the radio, just more obvious (to me at least) than modifications to the actual functionality of the device.
I hope not, for my own sake!
The technology is pretty cool but the concept of kickstartering this is fairly odd to me. Why not try and raise equity/debt capital around the concept of computer vision as a middleware/service?
Alright, so it really is just a Scala class with some handy shortcuts. Please do note though that the docs you linked do not think it is a monad, just that it's easy to think of it as one.

Edit: In fact, it kinda smells like how Perl works when you do this:

no warnings 'undefined';
so am i getting it right? nothing is going to change. everything stays the same.

"we'll think about alternatives"

"we have unique capabilities to protect our friends"

"as the nation that developed the internet, the world expects us ...."

"as a nation that has faced totalitarianism the world expects us ... "

"the readiness of certain individuals to expect the worst of our readiness to protect the world(not fully correct quote) can be frustrating"

haha wtf dude. this is more of a justification than a change notification. we'll make sure the data we collect is better accepted by you people
Great link to the talk, thank you. I haven't seen a good TED talk in years, but this was an exception.

That said, I agree with the other comments in this thread that linking the blog post to the Labor Theory of Value doesn't really make sense. I don't see anywhere in the post that defines "work" in a way that excludes activities that generated perceived value.

I think an interesting follow up conversation is to consider what "doing" really means. The Rory Sutherland talk you link makes a compelling case that there is an entire class of activities that generate value for a product/service but that you cannot directly measure in terms of material result (at least not right away) e.g. Frederick the Great spending time convincing people that potatoes are good wouldn't have tangible results until much later when demand rose.
Sham. Nothing is going to change.
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In a peculiar way, an extended lack of proper sleep seems to work toward a cleaner mind. The brain is too tired to contemplate what's come and gone; concerns of the past and future fall by the wayside, clearing the way for the ever-persistent present as the sole point of focus and target of any mental effort.

Thoughtzzz?
see zedpm's comment earlier:

Yep, the Common Questions section of their website[1] says that they'll be releasing an open source version of their Cloud. Awesome.
[1] https://www.spark.io/
That's not on Amazon. Do you mean "Building Embedded Linux Systems"? Or, are you referring to a self-published (or not yet published) book?
From anecdotal observations, experience and optimistic attitude are nearly mutually exclusive.

Some people I know are to the point where they refresh their resumes and start being more alert to opportunities if a competitor company announces a layoff or merger. Paranoia has become a survival trait.

This very week, I had a phone screen where the interviewer said "hit the ground running" and I knew at that moment that it wasn't going anywhere. So I spent some time plying him about other parts of the business, and he passed my candidate info off to someone else in a different business unit. Maybe that guy will be more interested in aptitude than experience.

Unfortunately, I have a pessimistic attitude, so he probably won't call.
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So, I don't get all the pain. There are a lot of 'rules' around monads, but conceptually they are widgets in a workflow.

In imperative programming you say what you want to do and do it at the same time.

With monads, you assemble a chain, just like dropping boxes on a workflow UI. Just like a workflow, you have 'defined' what to do, but not done anything with it yet. When you give it input, the chain performs the transforms you have defined for it, and you can pull out the result.

Again, not a 'technical definition' but this paints a picture in people's heads that they can appreciate and follow it up with details.

For serious learning, I recommend Eric Lipperts blog post on the subject:
http://ericlippert.com/category/monads/
RTK.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Real_Time_Kinematic
or cover a grandmother in shards of glass.
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I have revised how I phrased this post:

I am confused as to the methodology by which IEEE extracted that conclusion from BLS data. On noticing my confusion, I attempted to verify every number in the article. I have just spent an hour with OES data from 2012 and 2011, since I believe the IEEE was looking at the 2012 data released in 2013 rather than the 2013 data which be released later this year.

I remain confused as to how to generate any number that the IEEE has quoted in this article.

I have considered the possibility that the IEEE has accessed to unpublished data from the BLS for 2013. However, if I interpret the numbers they are quoting as from 2013 with the delta from the year previous, I am unable to reproduce the BLS' numbers from 2012.

I am confused by the magnitude of the discrepancy. For example, the IEEE claims that "The number of employed software developers, the largest IT occupation segment, increased by only 1.75%, to 1.1 million, a gain of 19,000." I have difficulty reconciling this with the BLS numbers from 2012, which report that employment in that segment is 1,397,780. The one-year gain in that segment is, according to the BLS, over 100,000 jobs, again assuming that we're looking at 2011 to 2012.

I have taken the liberty of repeating the analysis while intentionally making several easy processing mistakes in interpreting the 2012 data, for example looking at the numbers for only the private sector. I have not yet found any combination of data sources or mistakes which produces the numbers the IEEE is claiming.
Of course not I'm not serious.

But what is not accessible to NSA?

However the fact that WhatsApp and Snapchat's popularity tells me that people are not really educated about their true privacy and how completely broken it is.
How does a complete Haskell program using non-monadic IO look like?

As for "most other Haskell monads", from what i can tell they're just wrappers around the core monads with additional functionality tacked on and i consider it lazy to also call them monads instead of wrappers.