skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I did really well when I finished my undergraduate program, and my professors kept trying to get me to pursue a Doctorate or PhD. in my field. They were really enthusiastic about it telling me that with my talents I deserve more than a B.A.

None of them could give me a convincing answer as to how I would benefit long-term for continuing my education. None of them could give me an example of a job that I would be unable to get with my current level of education. All of them admitted that it would require 4-6 more years of my life, and that even with the best financial aid / scholarships, I would still be paying $60-100k out-of-pocket for the experience.

So basically, it would have required me to put off getting a full time job to instead drive myself deep into debt all while sacrificing all of my free-time until I was 30.

Instead, I moved to Seattle, found a job in I.T. and I have been climbing the corporate ladder ever since, making more than enough money to live comfortably and save money. I was lucky enough to earn my B.A. without any student debt.

My degree isn't even in an I.T. field. I have a B.A. in Journalism! The thing that has done more to further my resume has been my full-time employment and my technical certifications. I get to expense my certifications to my company...

Furthering my education would have ruined my future. Ending my education has accelerated it. Sadly, I worry that this is going to become true of Undergrad programs in the next decade, and that's not a good thing...
>>Email will no see decent progress thanks to gmail.

I remember how great email was before GMail:

1. Every few days I had delete emails so that I can get new email.

2. Delete sent mail immediately to make space for new emails.

3. More than 50% of emails received are spam.

Yeah right GMail was one that stopped progress of email :)
This is an incredibly irrational comment and it's sad that it is the top comment for any article on HN.
>I've spent the last 4 years working on my PhD and I have learned a lot, I've made real improvements to human knowledge, and I've gotten a job that would have been impossible with a bachelors and 4 years of work experience.

The real problem with oversupply of PhDs is there are fields of study which aren't remunerative outside academia. If you get a PhD in electrical engineering, say, or something medical, you can get a job.

But if you field of study was sociology or literature and you can't find a job in academia (and you probably can't), you're never going to be able to pay of eight or ten year's worth of student loans.
Calling out to FreePascal and Lazarus here - if they provide a DLL, yup!

I was just looking at controlling NGSpice from FreePascal - one of the examples of running a shared instance of NGSpice is done in a Pascal dialect:

http://ngspice.sourceforge.net/shared.html

I like Pascal much better than C++ and think the portable Lazarus GUI toolkit is pretty damn trick. Check it out:
http://www.lazarus-ide.org/
The Koutnik links to this article, which inspired his essay.
http://thecodist.com/article/my-biggest-regret-as-a-programm....

It was very painful to read, because I made exactly the same decision. I was VP/chief developer at a company that withered on the vine after a 10 year roller coaster ride at a software company that I had co-founded. I had two paths: I could have looked for a VP/Director job or I could have continued on as a Developer/Consultant. The money was pretty much the same, so I took the consultant route. The money was pretty much the same and programming was more fun.

All went reasonably well until September 2008. I had just finished a very satisfying consulting gig, but I walked out into a very changed world. The day after was the banking crash. Even earlier a divorce had taken me to the cleaners. But far worse, small interesting companies had no use for older, still up-to-date, still competent developers. I found myself going from Finder to Implementer. Agile development, which had seemed like a boon, turned into a tool to lock everyone into two week death marches controlled by upper management. Technical decisions where made by people who didnt have a clue.

Just as in the linked article, a woman working for me in the 80s took the management route and was a VP in a major SV software company a few years later. Now she is quite well off. Good for her; we are good friends.

Moral? If you are a software developer, dont get old. (I'm still doing it because I like it.)
fuck first prince dies and now this. t
Earnings are reported per share so stock buybacks are actually a pretty common way to make earnings look better. Of course, it doesn't change the total earnings but the number reported by techcrunch would indeed change.
Surely sentience is a philosophical concept, I am sceptical that science can be applied as directly as you suggest.

I agree that human characteristics are sometimes falsely assigned to animals. But that doesn't mean that human characteristics can only ever exist in humans. If a crow exhibits theory of mind, it just suggests that humans are not as unusual as previously thought. It does not mean that we are assigning the full philosophical implications of human sentience to that animal. In fact science could not possibly do that and still be science.
In my case, I guess 90% of searches either include the term "stack overflow" or "Wikipedia", or get augmented by them when an initial search doesn't give desired results. I can't see how such searches might produce adverts that would help answer my questions.

It's very rare that I search for a product and even then, chances are that I add "review" or "sucks" (can work fine in combination with a specific product; negative reviews often tell you more about a product than positive ones, just like a requirements document or a product road map becomes a lot better if one includes things that people might the product to do that it will not do)
Imagine if some eager beaver out there started weaponizing microbes and selling them to the highest bidder. They would rightly be droned to a greasy smear on their lab wall. "Security researchers" who sell vulns to governments are no better.
Today I did browse the internet all day and put my real work for tomorrow...
So depressing this is the top comment. If as you say Jeremy didn't sign an agreement with vesting in it, did he get a share certificate or a written contract to issue shares? I doubt it. So the legal situation is entirely in cruise's favour. Ethically cruise should and did make Jeremy some fair offer. But he is making an opportunistic raid, rolling the dice on a huge potential profit using the GM deal as leverage. Do people here really think that Jeremy is simply claiming a fair outcome for his one month of involvement?
Props. May not be a tool I'm personaly likely to use (my colleagues and I work on a db meant for a very different work load in a perpendicular space), but I'm always in favor of more investment in real tech, even if it's c++ heavy :p

Also enjoyed meeting Eric in NYC a few years ago. Props!
The difference here is GitHub doesn't auto-upload Python files without me knowing. If I open my secrets.py file I know it's not getting uploaded to GitHub because I see it's absent from the staged files.

I don't think Kite prompts you before uploading every time you open a file.
American Anti trust laws are present to protect consumers. European anti trust laws are present to protect competitors.
I have it on an HTC One M8 on T-Mobile. Maybe he has a manufacturer that doesn't like to update (coughSamsungcough) or a lazy carrier. But non-Nexus devices definitely get updates somewhat regularly now. Most manufacturer/carrier combos definitely got their act together compared to a few years ago.
I don't think that's the issue, here
Here’s how we could hide Earth from aliens if we had to
There's data scientist. You don't need a PhD to pursue that. I mean, you probably won't be researching cures for cancer, but you'll still be applying research methodologies. You'll be getting paid more and probably won't have to wait half your lifetime to get a plum position. I abandoned grad school after seeing the rigor mortis that has set into academia and private research companies.
Here in Ontario there are big signs on the highways that say if you're caught driving more than 50 kph (~30 mph) over the speed limit they take your license and your car (!) right there by the side of the road.
No one was compromised, the leak was an accident.

Wikileaks encrypted the data and were going through it with other journalists to redact info such as agent details.

They requested the White House also vet each article before publication as did Greenwald and Poitras for Snowden - the White House never responded in either case.

Some portion of the raw data leaked by accident when a Guardian Journalist inadvertently published the decryption key.

Remember this was all pre-Snowden and traditional Journalists were playing catchup with the necessary security.

Even so no actual harm has ever been shown.

Claims to the contrary have been made as vague press releases, but no actual harm has ever been shown.

source - https://theintercept.com/2016/03/30/edward-snowden-noam-chom...
>It would report the error in foo() when foo() is invoked

That's "dynamic typing".

>Only code paths that actually get executed are dynamically checked. This checks all code paths in the method.

Ok, so it is extended dynamic typing. Why on earth is it being described as having anything to do with static typing?
Hey, that's totally your opinion, and when you pay me, that's what I'll do.

I don't recall saying anything about inline css though. To be specific, I'm saying that I prefer to have the column classes directly applied to the elements as opposed to using sass to include the column css to the semantic CSS classes of the elements.

I dunno what that has to do with applying a style attribute directly inline to an element.

I'll tell you what doe bug me, when I change the number of columns on my project, becasue that is coded directly into the elements, but honestly I've never had to do that very far into any project.
I prefer to leave that sort of stuff behind an `if(false)` block, so that the compiler or linter can reach it and check it (and ultimately optimize it away, so I get the best of both worlds).

Actually, I prefer to just throw it away and worry about figuring it out again later if it becomes an issue again. I don't have the problem of not being able to figure out how to do things again and needing to look back at old code. But if someone I'm working with absolutely insists, then I use the `if(false)` block.
Indeed. Americans need to wake up to the fact that these spooks simply cannot be trusted. The very concept of trust is alien to their culture. Would be nice of we could count on congress to provide adequate oversight.
> Smith had in fact written another book which made it clear that he believed humans were complex moral and emotional beings.

Theory of Moral Sentiments, right?
Why can't they sell products and be
like an Apple, Oracle, Microsoft.

Econ 101 on HN again.

Aside from what Google's doing. You're assuming that the value someone personally derives from using something is the value other people derive from pushing it to them.

I.e. you have ads on Google, some of which cost >$10. To the companies paying for them that makes sense, because they might be selling a product that costs $500-1000, with say 10% conversion.

But a user is never going to be persuaded to pay >$10 simply to click a link.

So yes, there are some things Google does for free that they could be selling, but a) they may not be easy to sell directly b) even if people bought them it wouldn't make up the difference they make from ads, because the value isn't on the consumer side, it's on the advertiser's side.
Fish is not web based. I think he's referring to the browser ui in the OP.
Don’t bring your laptop to the next meeting
The media is part of contemporary society. As are the police who originally tweeted the drone hitting plane angle, the media for reporting on it, and the consumers who love a good fear-ridden headline.

The culture of fear is a widespread human fallibility, not an evil corporate invention.

The fact rationality, and how to perceive the world without tripping over our human biases/fallacies, is not taught with any priority in society is the real issue. That is the root cause of the anti-intellectualism that's so widespread IMO. No-one in the chain approached the topic with any level of skepticism. Just retweeting and reblogging a story without any solid evidence, giving it more and more credibility.
Anti-Monsanto folks in countries like Argentina aren't complaining about Monsanto preventing farmers there from coming up with alternative technology. They want to use Monsanto's technology, except without paying for it.
This is amazing. I really hope you do well and start making better people better while punishing bad people.

I'm just wondering who are the landlords who will use this kind of app.
Did they invest a lot on fibre infrastructure? There are only in a couple of smallish cities and towns and most of their service deployment is based on existing infrastructure, AFAIK. Maybe I have missed something...
legalized theft [0]

[0]: http://www.wsj.com/articles/SB100014240531119034809045765122...
Wow, I'm sorry to hear about your experience. That must have been an exceptionally crummy time in your life. Here's hoping things have been better for you. If you're ever in the bay area, shoot me an email (in my profile) and I'll buy you a burrito just to hear more of the stories you've got (and hopefully, happier ones).
See, although I can understand that impulse, if I'm working with anything that I'm ever going to look at again, inline styling is something that I won't do. If it works for you do, it but I hate messing with it :D
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How road behaviour correlates with trust in government
Google had $75 billion in revenue in 2015 with $16 billion net income. They are a 17 year old company. I think that's a lot better than "decent".
The level of that "demand" is essentially driven by the availability of money - people have an unwavering need to live around concentrations of economic activity, because that is where income is made. People budget for the real estate they can afford in terms of monthly payments. If you doubled interest rates, prices would essentially halve for any land not in "the sticks".

Surely you'd agree that if we doubled the money supply by converting USD to USD' at a rate of 1:2, prices would double. So why not expect similar behavior from an individual sector, especially since it has both a direct connection to money generation and is also recursively self-appraising?
A mixture of men and women biased towards telepathic octopods.
They don't have the upside. They already have the power to do almost anything to a bank. The top ranks of most big banks already spend most of their time worrying about the next inspection.

As far as regulators go, there is not much more fear and respect and obedience they can get.

So why make an example of anyone when day-to-day regulators are the big I ams

A sort of reverse Regulatory capture has been achieved. The regulators are calling the shots, but don't see the need to dig deeper.

The best analogy I can give is if Lord Ventinari from disc world were running 30's Chicago - Al Capone has been tamed, does not rock the boat and only kills his "own kind". Why should cleaning up the city and arresting Capone be a priority - he is under control.

I like discworld novels but I am not sure I want to live innsuchba compromised society
Such code smell. Just delete it and tell whoever complains to check the git history.
look ma no hands :-DDD
I understand the theory behind all that but I'm preferring the results DDG is now giving me. The bangs feature is also really nice.

I actually used DuckDuckGo about a year ago but I went back to Google after a month as the results felt crap, but I gave it a try recently and haven't looked back.

I haven't felt this was since leaving Altavista!
Wow "In 1854, a man sued Tappan’s Mercantile Agency for libel after a credit report claimed that he had left his wife for a prostitute."

If Experian posted that shit, I'd be livid, having to file a correction to say "Mistress" "not prostitute"
I think you can pay to disable ads on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/red
How do they hire foreigners, then?
If you don't agree you're probably ignoring the cost of maintaining social order in some other way.

As for what every voter gets - a pull at a lever with minimal connection to person and no connection to policy.
Kurzweil predicts solar industry dominance in 12 years
second that. I never got so much as a confirmation email when I signed up. Signed up again today--I'd really love to have a tool like this while I attempt to learn programming.
Never actually worked with FPGAs...

How difficult is to set everything up on it, as now it seems it is just the best to stay out of it?!
Yeah people give the new Opera a pretty unfair rap, it's a good browser.
Well, heads of US security apparatuses haven't seemed to be capable of anything beyond immediate contradiction lately
Why, you're right - somehow another $20b a quarter business has eluded them! They're normally just all over the place, I have a few in my couch at home. So weird.

And yeah, all those other 'bets' - losing money. New things are usually immediately hugely profitable, and even thinking about trying something that doesnt make huge bank right out the gate makes 0 sense.

This is in stark contrast to winning companies such as Microsoft, Intel, AT&T, Exxon (and any other oil company), which have all figured out how to get those $80b/year businesses bootstrapped, not to mention who have significantly diversified their revenue from their original business lines!
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This is a beautiful summary. Thank you. I will be stealing this.
They actually do a good job of that as well, it's just that they do it in the form of patents which means that you have to pay to benefit from their work.
So, can't someone hold up a picture of the assumed driver's face, and continue duty?
Anybody who's been anywhere near the Seattle metro area knows what a bloodbath the speed traps are.

Targeted or not, they like to do insanely stupid things like park their cruisers on the shoulder of a bridge, inches from the lane of travel, lights off, at night, trying to "ambush" people.
I have to disagree with the idea that everything should be standardized. What's the point of different distros if everything is just going to be the same? Might as well just tell everyone, "Ok, we're all going to use CentOS."
well i liked it!
> I'd have though that extra context wasn't necessary.

New to the internet?

Unless you lawyer every possible comment against the most uncharitable reading while combining it with the kind of source research that would make a Harvard law professor weep a tear of joy you'll get called on it.
Your comment represents a No True Scotsman fallacy -- the idea that whatever "agile" is, it must be equivalent to the ideals espoused by people who are affiliated with it.

I've written much more about the in principle failure of Agile [0] so I'll leave it to that.

[0] http://suitdummy.blogspot.com/2015/03/agile.html
An argument you could make is that by associating a cost with wiretapping it discourages frivolous usage.
Unless you're trying to start a "professional" firm (Law, Civil Engineering, Accounting, etc.) there are not really any educational requirements. Hell, most well-known entrepreneurs didn't even stick college out long enough to get a Bachelor's.
>"use Valve’s software"

Not really that accurate; sure they access the valve servers, however most all of them use custom software made by reverse engineering the steam client called steamkit [1] and it's forks. Steam doesn't provide any public api's for trading.
[1]https://github.com/SteamRE/SteamKit
The new name has to be dcbash or maybe dcsh but dcbash is more fun.
As I noted, Google makes great products including gmail. My point was that with gmail being free and good enough, there is nobody to compete with gmail. In 2016, nobody will start an email company even though there are lots of advancements that can be made.
In that same plaza is Laser Tag and not to mention that the Sports Page bar has outdoor sand volleyball courts and beer pong tables.
I agree, it varies on the field you're working in. I don't know any medical doctors without an actual doctorate. At least not personally anyway?
I don't think you're catching the basic premise here. Brent is suggesting that when you're writing code targeting iOS or the Mac, the majority of time spent is within the system libraries (in most situations). So the language of the driver code (i.e., your stuff) doesn't have much impact on app performance.
This is a good question to ask. Prospective and current PhD students need to understand the pros and cons, and the incentives driving their recruitment. But in terms of defining the problem, it all depends on your perspective... As a society, we are severely lacking in people doing deep dedicated study in important areas. Understanding biology at a level that allows us to alleviate much of human suffering is still a long way away, for example. So perhaps the question is 'Why do we pauperize people interested in doing serious science and then make them feel bad about it?'
Two thoughts on why people go for doctorates even though they are unlikely to get a job that requires it.

One is that there is a real conflict of interest for their professors. They are supposed to be advising their students in their best interests, but they need to keep a big surplus of graduate students to keep their graduate programs going, and often also as research assistants.

The other is that American elementary and secondary education is designed to funnel people into higher education, and so that is what students learn how do do, rather than getting a job in the real world. Contrast this with Germany, where there is a very solid track for learning useful skilled manual trades (and that is a key reason German manufacturing continues to be very healthy in the face of Asian competition)
You can turn on and off each individual notification. And it also has voice commands built in to control the app. You don't even need the phone's screen on. It can be in your pocket while driving.

And it is relevant to you no matter what lane you are in. If there is a car on the shoulder, someone in the right lane could be not paying attention, and swerve into you to avoid that car. Though you should be always on high alert while driving, having a little extra notification and awareness could save your life.
lol wat. this lady is complaining that women are often promoted out of strictly technical roles too fast. i dont even know what to say. So she wants managers to deny women opportunities they might want in order to satisfy her ideal gender ratios? like grow up girl, and stop complaining about how great it is being a female in a rich liberal country. I can see where her dad gets the idea of a “self-imposed victim complex” from.
Future progress though...may be very different....security and privacy considerations are hardly a good thing for GMail as a revenue source...
When I was traveling in a different Asian country, I would text someone the license plate of any cab I got into before driving off. Too many chances in big anonymous cities for people to get ripped off and for bad people to hide.
> Where I can get funding to research short-range telepathy

DARPA[0].

This kind of research really has been done to death, and much of the groundbreaking research has been declassified by now. For example the CIA mind control research[1].

[0] http://www.darpa.mil/news-events/2015-01-19
[1] http://www.theblackvault.com/documentarchive/cia-mkultra-col...
What evidence is there that the phone was actually hacked? Wouldn't saying "ah never mind we hacked it" be a convenient way out of a precedent-setting court case the FBI was losing?