jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Having a CS degree isn't necessary but it will still give you more options. There are still jobs which require that "CS or related" piece of paper to get you in the door. Again, it's not necessary though because there is enough work for developers that you probably don't need those other options. Also, some of those jobs will waive that requirement if you have a certain number of years of experience.

The biggest consideration for me in your position would be the requirements to switch majors. I imagine you would be looking at quite a bit more school. Unfortunately, a CS degree requires a lot of classes which build on each other which Journalism doesn't require, so I'm betting you would be looking at another couple of years in school at the least.

Personally, I wouldn't bother, but school wasn't for me. I dropped out to go into web development and I'm rarely asked for a resume and I have never been asked about my educational background. I feel like communication and good writing skills are important for dealing with people, so you should be strong in that area as a Journalism major.

The caveat in this is that freelance web development will eventually get old (stressful, tricky to balance work and life, etc) and I don't consider web development to be software development. If you were to stop now you would likely continue the web development track and perhaps never get out of it. If you were to complete a CS major then you may be presented with opportunities that you would never have thought of as a web developer (job offers on graduation.)
Thanks. If I understand you right, it comes down to that GAE is counting the CPU on a per-request basis while EC2 is charging you per-hour - so if you load is highly variable (as many web startups would be) you get a big bonus because you're not billed for all the time between requests. If your load was heavy and consistent then it would be much more even.
It's probably not the section that most of you will be focusing on, but the "Insurance" section seems to be written by someone who doesn't know the industry. Insurers are absolutely already starting to monitor driving habits[1] and offering discounts for home monitoring devices[2]. Large property/casualty insurance companies are sophisticated competitors that don't hesitate to invest in promising new technologies or techniques many years before they pay dividends. The industry is anything but "stodgy".

The idea of a crowdsourced insurance company is not a good one (to put it mildly). The expected returns of an insurer are highly correlated with the returns of the broader market[3], because a typical large insurance company makes little to no money writing policies and generates most or all of its income from investments[4]. But maybe he's thinking about crowdsourcing the insurance risk itself, not the whole insurance company with its massive portfolio of stocks and bonds (although that's not what he said). In that case, you get an investment that yields X% a year until and unless the underlying insurance contract is triggered, in which case you lose your principal. These securities actually exist[5], but as you might imagine they are not typically purchased by individuals.

I do think the insurance industry can be disrupted. It's harder for a startup to gain traction because economies of scale work differently in insurance than they do in other industries, but a Google or an Amazon could do some real damage if they wanted to invest the resources to do so. There are a lot of interesting problems to solve. But this article totally misses the point.

[1] http://www.progressive.com/auto/snapshot/
[2] https://www.statefarm.com/insurance/home-and-property/homeow...
[3] http://pages.stern.nyu.edu/~adamodar/New_Home_Page/datafile/...
[4] https://static1.st8fm.com/en_US/content_pages/1/pdf/us/2013-...
[5] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catastrophe_bond
Really cool to see this covered, and to see they are working on this.

And wow, what an amazingly short, harshly edited down video for such a potentially complex and interesting topic.

I wish NASA would tailor these things for people who are interested enough to want more detail.
I played Zork not because I wanted to, but because it's the only game I had that would run on my computer. I dreamed with envy of color monitors and Amigas that I saw in magazines. In the end though I learned English from it-- I distinctly remember "forest" being one of the first words I had to go look up.
http://jezebel.com/5902718/creepy-finance-guy-with-spreadshe...

if this guy's only creepy, what does it make the person who tracks punctuation marks, runs linear regressions, and trains learning algorithm using data collected on dates?
If people pursued this philosophy on a large scale, the economy would be far more stable, and its participants more contented.
Totally agree. It's incredibly easy to criticize a central hub for any downtime whatsoever because the impact is so large and visible.

But your criticism is completely baseless if the average downtime on a central hub is less than the average of a self-hosted solution.
To be honest, I have no idea what it does from looking at the homepage. From the other comments here it seems to be similar to uservoice. That wouldn't have been my first guess.
Plenty of people have disregarded the sign (some having no clue it's even there), it's in no way compulsory. It's an attempt at humour, mocking rules and signs in general.

On the other hand, I've seen far more odious use of company ski trips, "team building activities" and the like.
Consider your audience. Specifically: The simpler the API, the larger the set of people that will build on it.

Delicious used simple GETs with a few parameters and you could talk to it with a shell script.

Unfortunately, that was before the days of OAuth, which you really need to support these days. If people build apps that interface to your app, you don't want people typing their passwords in to the other app.
The command line is very efficient for input of commands, far more so than GUIs (though keyboard shortcuts mitigate this). GUIs are far more efficient for output of infomation though, especially verbose info like history, log files, etc. It surprises me that die-hard CLIers often fail to recognise this.
Banks used to fail all of the time with depositors losing assets. This caused a lot of problems, so we enacted some regulation.

Now banks still fail (several weekly, without much notice), but depositors have mandated insurance.

Are you against that?
A few people emailed me, here's the meat of the code: https://gist.github.com/derwiki/9238362
I'm actually not terribly familiar with Firebase's user account stuff, sorry :( I'll look into it and write a follow up post at some point in the near future, though.
you won't have to deal with recruiters if you use Mighty Spring (www.mightyspring.com)
> I'd love to see the entire financial system operate under a meritocracy such as this.

You might think you would, but I suspect you would not.
This is already available. http://www.heartmathstore.com/category/emwave-desktop/emwave...
Aaah good old simulated annealing, i remember using it for my computational modelling based final year project (which lead to a workshop paper [1] ) where brute forcing wasn't really a viable option.

[1] http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/abstractAuthors.jsp?tp=&arnum...
Can we talk about the video?

First time I see it and it's just so awkwardly bad. It feels like something out of a low-effort parody. Never before have I felt that FB is crumbling but how the heck did this pass internally?
Yes, you are right. That was a typo
German is a most excellent language, but please don't post non-English articles to HN.
Seems like the sort of thing you'd use for a drum kit patch (each key is a different kind of drum), but I suppose that wasn't a standard thing when the DX7 came out and wouldn't be for awhile.

This demonstrates the factory patches; the train patch (#31) seems to have several different distinct timbres: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F3rrjQtQe5A
That other company costs about 2x as much though, and they heavily limit what you can do with them. They also charge more money for accessories, they don't support SD cards, some say third party stuff like Tile is just a little bit crappier than it is on Android, etc.

If you're rich, and really care about your privacy, it makes sense, but most people I know use Android.

Not sure where all these iOS users are, it must be regional or class-based or something
huge thanks for your story and the transparency of revenue.
Well, this is a kind of a gray zone. The data hosted on sites like Youtube don't belong to them but to the creators. The site itself doesn't download anything, in a way it simulates what your browsers does.

As a user, that's more complicated. In European Union it's legal. Everywhere else? Hard to say.
Just the one Baidu image would suffice ;) Don't need one for every site they use it on. Also, I know it's not _that_ similar, but the logo still said Docker to me.
Can you give me a proper citation on AOL spending the most money on net neutrality? Best I could find was most money spent on lobbyists but there is more to net neutrality than directly lobbying Congress, yeah? I'd say this report https://www.google.com/get/videoqualityreport/ costs money...
They would probably be not in the same situation again where they end up having junior position.
ah i see. I was wondering if its possible to make a configurable autoupdating podcast channel based on these audio files.
OVH is pretty cheap, promises a 99.95% SLA.
http://www.ovh.ie/dedicated_servers/enterprise/
Do you intend for the text to blink on your site? Because it blinks for me. Latest Safari.

I recorded what it looked like. You can see it here:

https://www.dropbox.com/s/i9jpjzm7035bhg2/blinking.mov?dl=0
You can use the API from http://auderio.com and do whatever you want
Yes they are very separate perspectives.

I’d argue they’re still viewing it from their own perspective, though one where they are attempting to circumvent security measures as an attacker.

I’m not talking about that kind of perspective shift. I’m talking about putting on the hat of a cold blooded killer intent on making as big a statement as possible.
The core difference is that Cats Effect is a fairly extensible effect type, with a full type class hierarchy. It's easy for compatible libraries to use and provide only what they need.

JDG argues against the "tagless final" pattern and brings some valid points, but in practice they aren't a problem if you don't overdo it. So in my case, I don't see the appeal in switching to a less mature ecosystem, at least based on this premise alone.

Before using Cats Effect/http4s/fs2/... I worked a few years using the Akka ecosystem (Play and then Akka http, streams, clustering, event-sourcing, ...) and while the underlying technology is solid, I was not a big fan of the experience overall. To me, the Typelevel ecosystem has mostly figured out what Scala should look like today.

If people find an answer in Zio, that's great, it doesn't have to be zero-sum.
> The black democrat mayor of Philadelphia.

Does it mean that because black and democrat people do it too that its "more justified" because all combinations of people in power find reasons to use force against us residents including disportionately against the black ones, or that because they do it too its not a problem worth paying attention to because state violence perpetuated by non-black people could therefore not be a prejudiced, or something else? if it was a general issue with the state apparatus the race/ethnicity/political affiliation of the perpetrator would not be useful or relevant at all.

I've never really understood which point people thought they were making (assuming you were making one at all, it just looks like the similar points made in other discussion forums. like "look black people are killing each other so why spend any energy on this other issue I don't want you to spend energy on!")
> We've all heard of quantitative easing but there's a handful of programs such as SMCCF that allows the Fed to buy debt directly from large corporations.

I agree that this was questionable. The problem is that elected politicians are becoming increasingly dependent on the Fed to solve mistakes that they caused themselves. It's like a morbidly obese patient giving a surgeon to permission to do more and more invasive surgery. The surgery itself will only ensure that their body will stabilize, but it's up to the patient to actually get healthier.
Beg you pardon, but note page 7, question 2, and I quote:

>The United States, under its Constitution, is a federal, represent-
ative, democratic republic, an indivisible union of 50 sovereign
States. With the exception of town meetings, a form of pure democ-
racy, we have at the local, state, and national levels a government
which is: ‘‘federal’’ because power is shared among these three lev-
els; ‘‘democratic’’ because the people govern themselves and have
the means to control the government; and ‘‘republic’’ because the
people choose elected delegates by free and secret ballot.

Nowhere does it say it is a representative democracy, but it does state there is the occasional town meeting which is purely democratic in nature.

It explicitly states a republic with a democratic character, specifically in the sense whereby the democratic part refers to that character by which the people are the ultimate source of control over the government.

Props for the citations though. I had to check. Also, note that Congressional Resolutions are a glorified instance of "Hey voters, we have an opinion!" and are largely irrelevant to anyone that actually is already a citizen. Many would prefer that Congress spend more time not making resolutions, and more time solving actual problems.

Now your 0th source is interesting, and I see no indication of when that document entered circulation. However, depending on the administration in power, or who has approval authority, it's best to just kind of average things out based on what you're trying to do.

Though note, if this document is part of the process of becoming a citizen, this is taking surprising liberties with more foundational documents, and shown to the right representative in a bad enough mood, that it may ruin a civil servant's day by having to be rewritten. It's a back and forth sort of thing.

In short, try not to take it too seriously, like those of us that obsess over documents do. It just leads to migraines and frustration.
There was a (now deleted) comment that implied this account suspension was justified due to a history of deceptive editing on the part of Project Veritas.

If the standard for getting banned is deceptive editing, then every newspaper, media company, and journalist that has tweeted a video of Trump saying “there were fine people on both sides”, claiming he is referring to neo nazis as “fine people”, without showing the subsequent “and I’m not taking about the neo nazis because they should be totally condemned” should also be banned. That list will also include most Democrat elected officials and some Republicans too.
Thanks, I tried that before posting and it said everything was fine so I wondered if it was a regional issue.
I know Otavio and John through SHDH.

I've known about this application for a long time, Otavio showed me an early prototype of this running on his laptop over a year ago. I'm ecstatic that they finally released it.

(I'm also happy that I was able to get their story on HN before TechCrunch :D)
I was also thinking about this recently. Anyway, there doesn't seem to be an Android version yet...

I admit I was just thinking about reading foreign language books and translating some parts, this app takes it much further.
Just so long as none of you americans try and tell us that Bud is beer, not "beer flavoured substitute"
So cool! Cannot wait for more languages...

Holy smokes, when is the Chinese version going to be available?

Let me know if you need help with a Portuguese version, seriously.

Agree with some of the other comments that their logo and site design could use a boost.

Killer idea, love it.
Any tool that's worth your money will have competitors. Sooner or later.

A vacuum of users who suddenly need a new service to shovel their money at will be quickly filled by the market.
Because "dead end" means "callejon sin salida". That's the correct translation (callejon = road, sin salida = w/out exit).

On the other hand, "muerto fin" has NO meaning in spanish, (and that's what you get when you translate word for word without context).
Please, do NOT sell this to Yahoo.

Or anyone for that matter. Make a business, be king of the world. You deserve it.
Please don't use tinyurl or other URL shorteners. Pleople want to see the actual the link, and the posting software can handle long URLs nicely anyway.
Complaining about Theo is one of those things you do to prove you're tuned into the scene. Other people have read similar complaints, see your comment and think "hey, this guy knows something", and presto! Instant upvotes.

Truth by consensus.
Yes, conventional talent recruiting really is that broken.

This process may not be all bad though. The entrepreneurs get some liquidity and at least a modest success on their belt.

Story A: "Started something cool. Built a product people wanted. Was acquired by Company X. On to something new."

Story BY: "Started something cool. Built a product people wanted. Didn't quite get the traction we hoped. Stuck it out for 3 years. Finally decided we just couldn't build a business out of it and shut it down."

In my mind, Story A is much better for the entrepreneur than Story B. Of course, the trick is knowing when it's time to move on.
He's a very opinionated person. Just a personality type. There are others in the industry, like Linus, Zed, etc. Theo can be very direct, and throw in some spice for flavor.

Personally, I jive with these personality types, and, think Theo is a fantastic fit for OpenBSD.
I wonder why they are disappearing? This type of tracking has existed as delivery receipts in email for a long time but a lot of web-based mail providers break this functionality.

I thought they were onto a winner here for corporate use.
It would be up to Theo to tell the story to full accuracy, but you can see where it starts here: http://www.theos.com/deraadt/coremail.html
To clarify, by "many", I meant "enough to get lots of external visibility". If I meant a majority, I would have said "most". By "many", I meant "enough for me to randomly meet several in everyday life" and "enough for me to dig up newspaper columns with a quick google search".

My main point is that there are sufficiently many for the outside world to perceive the entire movement as mostly crazy. And no matter how much you try to make this a political thing, it isn't. Right wing groups (like the tea party, libertarians, etc) face similar problems.
To answer your question: because most people reuse their passwords across websites.
I don't care if you can log into my HN account. I do care if you use that same password to log into my Gmail account.
You can argue that people shouldn't reuse passwords all you want, that is just reality.
Bec it's 1 million users. :)
> If tech wants the best workers, there are plenty of willing and capable Americans ready to pick up the work.

Are the people currently available really the best?
This is a tangent, but:

"That's particularly useful in places where street numbers are otherwise unavailable or places such as Japan and South Korea where streets are rarely numbered in chronological order but in other ways such as the order in which they were constructed, a system that makes many buildings impossibly hard to find, even for locals."

South Korea finished renumbering streets in 2011 and after two and a half years of trial completely switched to the new system in January 2014.
Why have your freelancing gigs not paid off?

I regularly hire development contractors and the two failure modalities I see most often are:

1. Failure to communicate/organize/deliver on time. This is particularly pronounced amongst younger developers who frequently end up losing focus midway through a project and "go dark." The #1 way to avoid this is to set expectations, meet those expectations, and communicate along the way. Given your educational background, this is probably the biggest hurdle you have to overcome.

2. Inadequate assessment of abilities. Unfortunately many younger developers think they're a lot better than they are so they try to tackle super-challenging projects. If you're young and inexperienced, start with the easy stuff (ie. basic CRUD apps for boring businesses). Probably the best way to improve is to latch on to a popular open source project and find a mentor in that community who can teach you best practices around design patterns, testing, etc.

Finally, I'd suggest that you work a bit on your personal marketing. Don't focus on your age or that you're "hungry." Fake it till you make it. Also, put a clear list of skills (with demonstrative projects linked) right up front. (I'm only 21, but you wouldn't know that from the front page of my website.)
Thanks for the link. Do you know what he means when he says the "World Wide Web Consortium continues to infect the core standards of the web itself to allow remote control over your computer against your wishes?"
I favor much-more-open borders for people who want to immigrate and become citizens. Any kind of guest-worker program, including the H1B system, I'm more skeptical about. It's understandable for capital to work to carve out selected holes in the fence to benefit themselves the most -- changing the laws isn't easy or cheap -- but that's not the change I'm excited to get behind. (I don't know what specific changes are being pushed right now, if any.)
> The worst possible position to be in is early hire in a start-up. You're going to see all of the downsides but only 1% of the upside of being a founder.

Let's expand on this, because that's me and I'm quite happy (but also willing to be convinced otherwise :D).

Financially, you're balancing lower salary with a potential for a large upside later. That upside can be great if you believe in the company and/or the value of the stock options offsets the lower salary, which it probably has the last two times I've done it, and definitely didn't the first 3. That being said, the first three gave me access to the last 2, and allowed me to see why the last 2 would work in a way that the first 3 didn't. Edit: also, comparing to the risk an entrepreneur takes, the salary cut tends to be much higher for an entrepreneur than an early hire (often the entrepreneur takes little to no salary for a long time).

In some ways you miss out on working with specific talent. You work with fewer people, so by definition you have access to fewer viewpoints. That's a very real opportunity loss, for sure. On the other hand, you get to work on a wider variety of things, and working at an early company tends to give you a better work-life balance which can allow you to learn more aggressively outside of work (and allow me to be a happier person in general). You also get far more control over the company's direction, if you care about stuff like that.

In terms of "might as well be a founder" - my CEO puts in way more work, way more hours than I do, is able to attract better talent than I can, is able to attract money in a way I couldn't, is able to administer the business better than I can etc. If I didn't think that was true, I wouldn't be where I am (this is part of the skillset that I can pick up at an early stage company that I couldn't at a later stage company). If I had those skills, yes it would obviously be better for me to found, but I don't so I don't think the way you've laid out the risk is entirely fair.

There are many more trade offs, but it's difficult for me to see why being an early stage employee is worse than a late stage. In either cases a lot is left to the negotiator and in both cases you can get a great deal, depending on what you are looking for.