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You have to be careful when interpreting the numbers. Although the adjunct numbers are large, the number that are paid really low wages is considerably less. Adjunct faculty in business, law, etc. are often paid well. You can live pretty well on a full-time, non-tenure track wage if you are an economist. $80K and up is common.

In addition, you have a lot of adjunct faculty teaching for low compensation because they want to teach. Some work full time and want to keep their ties to the academic world. Some don't have a PhD so adjunct work is their only alternative if they want to teach at a research university. Some are taking time off to raise children, and with a well-paid spouse, they are in a position to teach for $4000 a class. Some are grad students trying to make enough to support themselves while writing a dissertation.

As for the others...good question. Many are holding out hope that one day they will get the magical tenure-track offer. It's wishful thinking in many humanities fields, to be honest.
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You mean like what the US, UK and Australia did to Iraq. What punitive action did these countries face for their actions?

Yes, really the whole thing makes perfect sense when viewed from an "Old Order" vs "New Order" perspective.
It's hard to sustain some alternate technology in the face of common knowledge. Rarely does technical advantage outweigh hard-won operational experience.
What's so inherently horrible about an adult experiencing a personality shift? What makes that worse than performing the same procedure on an infant, who's unable to comprehend or consent to the procedure?
Because maybe we aren't as smart as we think we are.

Feel free to apply that statement to either the investors or the HN peanut gallery.
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>> People who had irrational fears of vaccines claimed harms from the Lyme vaccine that probably were not caused by the vaccine.

No, people who actually got the vaccine claimed they got arthritis from it. Weather those claims are true or not remains unverified. Of course the clinical trials showed no such side effects, but I doubt they were even looking for that (if I'm really cynical, do you even trust them not to hide that?). So when mass-marketed, alleged issues showed up and they pulled it. This is not different from other drugs that were pulled - and turned out to have actual problems. The fact that vaccine makers are legally protected and they still pulled it says a lot here.

That said, TFA says the anti-vaxers are ready to attack any new lyme vaccine that may come along, and that's unfortunate.
Sure, go to 32 bits per character. But it cannot be said to be "simple" and will not allow you to make the assumption that 1 integer = 1 glyph.

Namely it won't save you from the following problems:

* Precomposed vs multi-codepoint diacritics (Do you write á with
one 32 bit char or with two? If it's Unicode the answer is both)

* Variation selectors (see also Han unification)

* Bidi, RTL and LTR embedding chars

And possibly others I don't know about. I feel like I am learning of these dragons all the time.

I almost like that utf-16 and more so utf-8 break the "1 character, 1 glyph" rule, because it gets you in the mindset that this is bogus. Because in Unicode it is most decidedly bogus, even if you switch to UCS-4 in a vain attempt to avoid such problems. Unicode just isn't simple any way you slice it, so you might as well shove the complexity in everybody's face and have them confront it early.
I download the bitcoin .exe, and it came clean, with the right signatures, but who knows how they are distributing the stuff. I have a Ubuntu computer. If they're at least a bit smart they will use their download redirects to serve the spyware only to Windows computers or something, so that could be why I got a clean binary. Bitcoin devs investigated, at my request. They removed the sf-editor1 user from the project owners and checked the binaries to see if sigs matched, and they did. But like I said, they could be filtering who they serve the "spyware" to.
The question is will it pop popcorn inside a house? A really large amount of popcorn?
One could attribute Spiegel's "tech bubble" to the very ecosystem Snapchat is a part of. Consider the current cycle of money:

- Venture capital goes into StartupX

- StartupX two biggest costs: Infrastructure, Advertising (to varying degrees)

- Infrastructure money goes to BigCorpY hosting platform

- Advertising money goes to BigCorpY advertising platform

- BigCorpY acquires StartupX

- Money and BigCorpY stock goes into pockets of StartupX stakeholders

In this case, Snapchat spends all its infrastructure dollars on google cloud platform. Even when though Snapchat is not profitable, it still gives millions of dollars per month to Google.

(Snapchat, as far as I know, has not spent much on advertising, but some startups do not have that luxury.)

How fragile is an ecosystem built around ad dollars funded entirely by venture capital? What happens when Facebook misses earnings due to declining ad spend? Do venture capitalists reduce investment due to lowered expectations of highest possible reward?

Is this a house of cards?
"The distance to the horizon in miles from height of an observer is approximately equal to 1.23 times the square root of the height in feet." - http://www.davidsenesac.com/Information/line_of_sight.html
A lot of people get confused because the term state can refer to either a federated state (like in the U.S.) or a sovereign state (hence the term, "head of state" for the leader of a country).

Also, it's even more confusing because the states used to be considered different nations, united. Hence why they used to be called "these united states." Just an FYI.
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> Oversupply is part of it, but there's also the issue of Universities offering fewer and fewer full-time tenure track positions.

I'd argue that the latter is a result of the former. The oversupply, enables universities to confidently eliminate tenure track positions and replace them with tenure track positions. The jobs will be filled despite being less attractive because there are just. so. many. newly minted PhDs all fighting over the same scraps.

The only limiting factor is that you do need to have a few tenured professors to get your name out there by publishing high profile papers. But there is only so much room in the high profile journals, so you really don't need that many of them. A sprinkle of graduates from one of the 2 or 3 top-ranked schools in their field will suffice.

To that end, I think the deeper problem is twofold: First, in order to support their own careers professors need graduate students. Many times as many graduate students as there are open positions that the professor will create by retiring. Second, schools aren't being honest with their students about this fact, and non-top-ranked schools in particular aren't being forthright about admitting, "We probably wouldn't hire one of our own graduates for a full time position, not when we can easily snap up one of the surplus doctors that Yale keeps churning out."
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The Tao Te Ching is available for free [0].

It's the basis for the Eastern philosophy of Taoism. Religious or spiritual or not, I find this collection of verses to encourage different forms of lateral and vertical thinking that I may otherwise miss.

Anyways, might not be for everyone, but I enjoy it.

[0] - http://www.taoism.net/ttc/complete.htm
Plan 9 is still updated incrementally; there just hasn't been a formal new numbered release. Dropping Dragonfly/386 and OS X 10.6 would be more like dropping the 3rd edition of Plan 9 (except we never supported it).
Yeah, we probably will. We seem to be getting enough installs already to justify putting more dev cycles in. :-)
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Just because you cannot comprehend the nature of America's conquest of the world does not mean it is not so. The specific characteristics of something does not determine the nature. What, does world conquest only happen when it comes with characteristics you have been trained to understand like sailing in wooden boats that fly the union jack or the spanish crown and killing many millions upon millions of people around the globe, or does it only come in tanks with red flags that have a black swastika in the center?

You should try peering beyond what you have been told to know. Because as NSA whistle-blowers have stated the expressed goal of the NSA is total global surveillance and population control dominance. It seems like the only and singular example of real global domination that humanity has ever even come close to. Do we really have to wait for a robot army to exterminate the masses of humans that serve no purpose once AI and robotics takes hold before you will start understanding the dire circumstances you are facing at far too late of a point in time?
A lot of the same people (including in the US) who aren't happy with what Russia did in Ukraine at the time it occurred also opposed what the US did in Iraq at the time that occurred.
I'm sure that's the reason. Doom and gloom headlines for any kind of platform or brand identity is perfect as clickbait because it sucks in both the opponents of that thing (due to schadenfreude purposes) and proponents of that thing (who want to see what is being said so they can refute it and be outraged by its wrongness).

"Apple Phones and Android Phones both pretty cool and here to stay for the foreseeable future." just ain't going to get clicked like any of these doom and gloom ones (in either direction) are.
Already exists: http://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/10pdf/09-152.pdf

[EDIT: Actually this may not be correct (in this case) because LymeRix was a voluntary vaccination.]
This guy sounds like an asshole :S

"because it's more fun that way"

That's it? that's the reason to stay independent? fun?
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Yes, if you want to use a new network operator you would need to purchase new hardware for it. That happens all the time everywhere. I don't see the big problem.

All of those links do not point to any corruption. Budget overruns that are usual with large govt. contracts. And other links with hard negotiations with US officials over the already resolved issue with Galileo wanting to use the same frequency. They have already moved on to use another frequency.
Thank you. I'm not actively maintaining it anymore, TBH, but I've been getting bug reports/feature requests lately [meaning actual people still use it] so it might be time to reconsider that stance.
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Or maybe open source it and let us do it for you?
Then I can just say "I think someone can prove that [slander statement]" and I'm safe?
Without seeing any evidence how can you tell if it's slander or not?
it must be frustrating for you to be so much smarter than everyone, yet still be unable to make any decisions.
Yes, that bug is the best place to start. We've future proofed the architecture for Windows, but there is no direct work on it that I'm aware of.
My devil's advocate to the points you called out is that just because advertising exists doesn't mean it works. I haven't seen any numbers from their usage yet, but I do know their young demo is aggressively averse to advertising. That being said, aside from the revenue topic, I think integrating news into short-form bites like this is a solid approach to serving today's younger peeps mass media info.
You're welcome. Glad you like it :-)
They would do fine. The idea that Switzerland is only successful because of banking privacy is a common myth. The entire financial sector including things like pensions, insurance and corporate banking is only somewhere between 6-10% of the Swiss GDP, depending on how you precisely account for the risk premium. The construction industry alone is about 6% of the GDP. Switzerland does a lot of things beyond finance.

Also, though Switzerland has a big financial sector it's not massively larger than other countries. If you use the "output method" then 10% of the Swiss GDP is finance. The next biggest is Ireland with 7%. So that's a 3% difference, yet I don't see anyone claiming that Ireland would be hosed without finance.

If you actually spend any time in Switzerland you'll rapidly figure out why it does well - things are just remarkably well run there, and Swiss people are rather industrious and skilled. Their government stays out of expensive foreign wars and other boondoggles. Unemployment is extremely low. The regions compete on tax rates, which keeps them low, and that in turn attracts wealthy people (who are then taxed on their global wealth, not just assets in Switzerland). It's very democratic.
For a reference point on how far this tech has come:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet_laser_pistol
The thing is, it's not exactly "their" network of mirrors. They mostly rely on third-party mirrors run by universities and other organisations that offer mirroring for free to a bunch of major open source projects and sites.
Iranian scientists at the very least, quite possibly others for which there is less evidence. Whether you agree with what those scientists may of may not be doing, they were assassinated, at the very least with our government's approval.
I was in your exact situation. My day job at the time was very fulfilling. I only took the moonlighting gig for money. I hated it - it was a web design job and I'm a research/algorithms/systems person. I ended up spending way more than my billable hours procrastinating and stressing about the gig. My effective wage was shit. I didn't have free time to do stuff I enjoy.

I was young. I bailed hard and burned bridges. I could have handled it more professionally but I don't regret my choice. Business commitments and networking are not worth your sanity. If the gig is not essential to your career goals, you will never need the client's goodwill. Since you have a day job, you can omit it from your resume and nobody will ever know.

In the end, I probably spent all the extra money on drinks to ease stress and restaurant meals because I didn't have time to cook. Unless you need the moonlighting gig to survive, stick to your day job. Live frugally and try to build skills/experience that will help you earn more money in the future.
Me too! And today, I always keep a pocketful of classics on my phone.
The taxpayer cost of the Vancouver Winter Olympics distributed over the number of taxpayers in the workforce was around $8000/pp.

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Indeed, Snapchat seems to be doing well. Facebook, not so much:

http://www.google.com/trends/explore#q=facebook

Snapchat and Instagram was born on mobile whereas Facebook have been scrambling to adjust their offering to a different form factor than it was created for. With all of the technical debt Facebook seems to be saddled with no wonder they're not doing so good.
I think we will: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9613213
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My younger sister had lyme and was nearly paralyzed before it was discovered. Both of my parents are GPs.

My aunt caught Lyme when visiting us in Europe (note that the European and American versions are different), and had to visit 5 different doctors before she got her treatment. The first two thought she was just overworked. By the third time my uncle (neurosurgeon, living in Europe) suggested she had Lyme. The third and fourth (Canadian) doctors refused to check it. The last one finally was willing to send a blood sample to the lab.

Lyme is very easily missed. It can manifest itself in a way that has nearly no visible symptoms, with only the patient claiming to be in enormous pain.
Why are you comparing today's Siri with Microsoft from 1995? The comparison is between present day Google and Apple.
I think it's that python has become a pretty big lingua franca of the programming world - so it makes sense that a lot of tutorials relate other languages to the one tons of people know already.
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By which you mean a trademark?
The Canada part is misleading. It takes about two years to get PR (similar to green card) in Canada via Express Entry (well, technically 6 months to 1 year from the time you apply to CIC, but because you virtually need a work visa or provincial nomination to acquire enough points for entry, it takes an extra 1-1.5 years). You need to wait 4 years after getting PR to apply for citizenship. It takes about two years to get granted citizenship after that, but they are trying to reduce it to one. So the whole process takes 6-8 years not 2.

With that said, the immigration laws are indeed saner and merit-based.

http://www.cic.gc.ca/english/information/times/perm-ec.asp

http://citizenshipcounts.ca/citizenship-act-changes
lsyncd seems like a really cool project. However in practice I used it to replicate a docroot accross 3 servers and it actually got out of sync pretty often.
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> They were offered three billion dollars that they turned down.

That's called balls.
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> Well the point still stands... in case of an "event" that blows up collateral chains, Deutsche will be in big trouble.

Not for bilateral derivatives that can always be netted, even in bankruptcy, which make up the bulk of the notional outstanding. If you read the ISDA Master Agreement[1], derivatives can always be netted as there is a provision that exempts derivatives from the usual bankruptcy automatic stays to stop literally this exact threat you posited [2]. Even beyond the bilateral case, the multilateral cases are increasingly cleared through central clearinghouses[4]. But even when they aren't, multilateral nets can still be pushed through, in one of two ways: 1) even when Lehman failed, there were some multilateral nets that greatly reduced the exposure, under mutual agreement by all creditors, and 2)The Dodd-Frank Act, since 2009, has also greatly helped this, giving the FDIC and Fed enhanced powers under the Orderly Liquidation Authority[3], which allow them to multilaterally net to reduce contagion risks even if there is no such master agreement that a priori would have let them do so[5].

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISDA_Master_Agreement

[2] A Dialogue on the Costs and Benefits of Automatic Stays for Derivatives and Repurchase Agreements, by Duffie and Skeel, alternatively see [3], or [4]

[3]The New Financial Deal: Understanding the Dodd-Frank Act and Its (Unintended) Consequences by David Skeel.

[4] The Risk Controllers by Peter Norman.

[5] Even pre Dodd-Frank, when there wasn't a law that let this happen, usually the creditors come together and fix things, a la LTCM "bailout"[6], which was funded entirely by the creditors and unwound in an orderly fashion through multilateral netting. Bear Stearns and Lehman Brothers were the only creditors that stiffed everyone else, by refusing to participate, and that was partly why they got fucked in 2009 since the other bankers remembered their unwillingness to help out in 1998, and reciprocated.

[6] I hate that this is called a Bailout. No taxpayer funds were spent. The creditors (i.e. big banks) bailed out one of their own by pooling together money and fixing their shit. The only governmental involvement was that the Fed president called the CEOs of the big banks and said "yo fix your shit before it spreads", and they did. That's not a bailout in the sense of "taxpayers bailed them out". They bailed themselves out.
If only in pointing out to observers like us that no such thing will be happening....
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I'm referring to the fact that it's not responsive and does not scale without zooming.
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Seems ridiculous; my analogy: organization of volume of books; or classification of library; I can use any classification. I can go to Library of Congress; copy they way they organize their books; and implement same in my library. Why can't you do that with Open Source code?
I can't seem to repro that, SyntaxError seems to happen before the code runs the first time. (2.7 Ubuntu)
Hm. The definition is "Oral communication of false statements injurious to a person's reputation." So really, if it injures someone then its slander. Sounds like your initial idea was right - even implying wrongdoing could be slander.
Forms are definitely killer. OP - to save yourself some effort, start collecting the addresses of where you've lived and employer info for the past 5-7 years. This is somewhat of a pain if you lived in dorms at school and move back home every summer and into a new dorm in the fall. You'll also need references to verify each bit of this info ("Did rathalos work at X from dates Y to Z"), and I think a few character references ("Is rathalos of sound moral character?", "Do they use drugs?", etc).

On the plus side, you can duplicate references, so if you had a constant roommate just put them down.

Polygraphs won't apply to what's presumably a basic security clearance. There's a large cost to clearances and they won't get maximum clearance for an intern.

Depending on how long it takes to get your clearance, you may only have an interim clearance during your internship. This is probably for the employer to cover themselves if you encountered any sensitive information. It's highly unlikely you will be working with sensitive information, unless you go back to intern with them in the future.

One benefit of security clearances is that it is transferable, and is good for 2 years after you leave the job (without having to reapply). So you could intern, get a clearance, intern somewhere else next year, and then get a job after graduation that requires a clearance. If you're interested in certain aerospace or defense companies, this is a plus for them.
Go for interesting work, not 'interesting' jobs
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Due to this trend, the de facto crawler behaviour will be to do as Apple do and observe Googlebot's rules as if they were your own [1].

(That is assuming a given crawler follows robots.txt at all!)

[1] https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT204683 (HN discussion was at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9497264 )
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They're distributing LibreOffice now too, presumably without bothering to ask for the permission of the actual developers.
Minor nit. The sendfile system call requires an open file. nginx can just skip reading the file contents into userspace.

Also, BSD has some recent extensions to make sendfile work with ssl [https://people.freebsd.org/~rrs/asiabsd_2015_tls.pdf] (pdf)
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It's technically for Honduras. [1]

[1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.hn
My son was on an island at a retreat, and his neck and head started hurting like crazy. He was instantly diagnosed by his peers, the counselors and the resident nurse. He was ferried/driven 200 miles to a hospital the same day for antibiotics! So it varies to be sure.
Sounds like the dog vaccine works in humans. How is dose adjusted (by weight, by surface area, etc.)? Anyone know the cost of the dog vaccine?