mililani

So, since HN is filled with smart engineers, how should one build a sustainable, fully encrypted email service untouchable by the Feds?

First, I know the medical field quite well, as I'm working in it, and I can emphatically say that nursing is quite saturated now. It has always gone through boom and busts, and currently, it's going through a bust. Just read the All Nurses forums to see all these threads about new grads being unemployed and unable to find jobs for a year or more. It's definitely tough out there and will only get tougher since SO much nursing programs have become accredited in the past decade.

Secondly, being a nurse is a HARD job. It's a blue collar job, and it should be (probably was) on Mike Rowe's Dirty Jobs. It's back breaking labor, stressful, and debilitating. Most of my family work in health care, and so far, my cousin has three herniated discs from lifting obese patients over the years, my wife had several blood tests done from being exposed to Hep C patients, and I've known several nurses who have suffered extreme burn out.

Being a PA is marginally better, I suppose, but you're dealing with the same garbage.

There are some definite pros about becoming a nurse over a doctor for sure. But, if you plan on staying on working the floor, become a doctor if you're smart enough. It's still in nearly every regard better than being a nurse on the floor. However, if you have more ambition, you can try to move up the ladder in management and administration as a nurse.

Finally, there are lots of other oppty's for nursing besides beside nursing. If one gets burnt out on patient care, one could move into case management, school nursing, teaching, etc...

But you'll be looking and working in people's mouths all day. I say, don't do anything you're not passionate about. People end up in these fields for the wrong reasons, i.e., money, and end up becoming miserable people.

Until there is a cause of death from a thorough autopsy, I think it's too early to say whether this is suspicious or not. I can't believe you are being upvoted for saying this.

I would forgo all of these new features if LibreOffice would create more compatible MS Office docs. As it stands, I can no longer use LibreOffice in my current work environment. Everyone complains my MS converted docs do not open correctly, AND VICE VERSA, on their MS Office apps.

I wish that were true. The questions required simple one word or one sentence answers. It was absurd.

I just finished an online neuroanatomy class at SJSU this past week. This just goes to show how dumb the kids have become in California's school systems. I went back to school this past year to change careers into health care. I took a year of pre-reqs at a local community college, and then this class as a pre-req for my program.

It is shockingly absurd how easy and dumbed down they make classes in California's lower echelon schools. They basically hand you everything you need to know on every test on a silver platter: you don't need to read the book; they give you a study guide and EXPLICITLY tell you what will and will not be on the test; they sometimes will outright give you the exam questions, and students STILL screw that up. I took an abnormal psychology class where the instructor gave EVERYONE the exam questions, and students STILL did not show up for the exam or got questions wrong. I was like, HOW THE HELL IS THIS EVEN HAPPENING???!?!

I don't find this system of learning at fault. I find the students at fault. I think they should fail these kids as a costly lesson: study or lose out on $2000 bones. Bunch of nit wits.

What do you mean? For a living?

Nurses in the SF Bay Area make that much out of a 2 yr college that costs less than $3k. Hell, a LOT of people make that in the SF Bay Area without pursuing $60k educations. Not everyone should or want to be a nurse, but when you put things like that into perspective, it makes one wonder if the costs justifies the pursuit.

Yeah, they did; however, the Udacity program doesn't begin to accept new outside students until next year, and I think the program is closer to $8000. Anyways, it's such a steal, and I think the MS in comp sci is more flexible than a niche degree like data science. You could teach comp sci at a 2 year college, for example; whereas, a data science masters will just get you a job in the industry.

I turn 40 in a few months. And time is going by faster as I get older.

It seems to me that they went backwards on the sensor size--which, I think, is probably the most important thing for cameras next to the lens. The Nokia 808 had a 1/1.2" sensor. I was hoping the next iteration of the Nokia would have a 1" sensor.

I find that hard to believe. I grew up in Hawaii, and I have come across lots of dick head cops engaging in some heinous activities. I have several friends from Oahu who would also agree with my statement.

I believe crime is at an all time low because everyone is in prison.

http://dcj.state.co.us/ors/images/Stats%20Images/crime%20rat...

I think this may be in response to the whole San Francisco being the most expensive place to live. In that thread, people are arguing whether it's more expensive to rent or buy.

I've looked at this many times, and I have done A LOT of research. Ultimately, buying may not be more better than renting, and vice versa. It really depends. The NY Times has a very good Buy vs Rent calculator:

http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/business/buy-rent-calcula...

I highly suggest using it to determine whether to buy or not. The biggest problem, though, is there are some assumptions that need to be made that can drastically affect the outcomes. Most importantly: average annual appreciation in rents and home prices. Another is average annual returns on investments and rates of inflation.

The best way to figure these out are to find historical data. I use Redfin to look at houses currently on the market and prices sold 20 to 30 years ago. I also go to the local city hall to look at housing records. For rents, I do a lot more analysis. Anyways, the bottom line is, housing prices should not and usually DO not appreciate faster than inflation. More specifically, median wage growth. And why is this? Because if housing prices increased faster than wage growth, even by 1%, then after 40 years, housing would no longer be affordable. I don't see why people have such a hard time understanding this. I personally like this blog:

http://michaelbluejay.com/house/appreciation.html

He also has a really good buy vs rent calculator with some decent assumptions. You will want to check regional differences, because, obviously, SF and NYC are places that may differ a bit in terms of appreciation and inflation rates. Anyways, I would suggest anyone who is interested in the buy vs rent argument to read that, and then look at their local appreciation rates for housing prices/rent. Assume 2.5% inflation. And then, make a very conservative estimate on the returns of their portfolio (4%). I would then plug and see what the calculators say. I like Michael's calculator more than the NY Time's calc, by the way:

http://michaelbluejay.com/house/rentvsbuy.html

It goes past 30 years.

Also, if you're making an apples to apples comparison, I've found that typically, buying is way better than renting. However, if you're making an apples to oranges comparison, renting a 1/2Br apt. vs buying a 3Br house, it usually always turns out that renting is better than buying. I've done this calculation many times, and invariably, that's what I've learned.

Ugh...my wife is deathly afraid of flying. She is in Canada now and flying back to SFO next week. I hope she doesn't hear about this.

really, is anyone on HN surprised by this???

No, it's DEFINITELY not pop music. It's French house.

Damn, so, can you get a genetic test done for this? I looked up ALDH2 genetic testing, doesn't seem like there's anything.

I definitely wouldn't call Daft Punk the kings of commercial dance music. In fact, far from it. Pop music is what call commercial dance music, and Daft Punk is far from being pop music. They are French house pioneers, though. I know, I've been listening to them since the late 90's, and they've pioneered that genre and paved the way for the likes of Justice, etc...

I think the simplest explanation is the one always ignored. Japan is a tough place to live and raise a family. It's super expensive, the economy has been in a funk for a long time, the work hours are widely known to be brutally long, people don't know anything but work and sleep over there. When one is confronted by this harsh reality, one wonders, what's the point? So they either commit suicide, which Japan ranks amongst the highest in the world, or they just withdraw from society.

And look at Japan's demographic trends. It's like all of the young people just said to hell with it and are not procreating anymore. I don't blame them either. If all I had to look forward to in life is a meaningless existence of an 80 hr work week to support a small family, I would probably not even go there.

Iceland seems like a pretty good place to me. Minus the freezing and harsh winters, and the lack of sun. From all that I hear about it, it seems like a good place to expatriate to. Any thoughts on this?

In San Francisco, SFPD can retire with 30% of their average 3 year salary after just 10 years on the job AND 55 years of age. Usually, this is around 100k for a 10 year veteran of the force. So, if one starts at SFPD at age 45, one can retire with about $33k per year at 55. There is also a COLA adjustment per year. Average life span for a male is around 76 years. The pension benefit ALONE is worth about $700k not including the COLA adjustment.

People wonder why this state and municipalities are SCREWED, and they wonder why several cities have filed bankruptcy or have skirted bankruptcy. This is PART, a BIG PART, of the reason.

This is why this state is in such precarious financial situations. Poorly managed over-time, resulting in excessive salary payouts, which ultimately accrues into pension liabilities.

No, this is ALL public data. It's easily accessible ever since the CA state mandated transparency for all public service employee salaries.

By the way, if anyone wants to know what Terry Tao, math extraordinaire, is making, you can also find that on the CA gov website.

I hope you find this. I was wondering if it's ok to ask you what "easy money" means? Quantitatively, that is. Care to share ball park figures? I can never get accurate or reliable figures with salary sites online.

Good to see at least that. Personally, 11 years is not enough time to see enough things to Black Monday or the tech crash. Hell, it's not enough time to see a REAL bear monster bear market. Also, what else is included in the database? So far, it just seems that prices are the only thing included. I looked through their documentation, and I can't find things like valuations and accounting data.

"Backtest your algorithm, for free, against our 11-year history"

Hahahaha, yeah, I don't think so. If you guys are really interested in this sort of thing, the MOST important thing is to have a comprehensive database free of biases and errors. For example, survivorship bias is a huge deal, and I wouldn't trust any platform that isn't serious enough to have a historical dataset that is longer than 11 years long to be free of these kinds of things.

What about salaries? It took me forever to scale up to over 100k as a programmer. I'm guessing it's not much different with data science.

Any data scientists on HN? I just ask because I wonder if it would be a good career move for me. Spent 10 years as a programmer and systems analyst. Got real tired of that.