skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have very little formal education in CS, I've had no problems getting a career going. Especially at smaller companies that have less experience hiring, it's not difficult to get in the door with some networking and proof of your skills. Larger companies with a larger volume of applicants are more likely to use metrics like degrees as a filter, with small companies the right experience can matter much more than a degree.

I was able to find a student startup that I was enthusiastic about and overwork myself until I had enough experience to become interesting to larger companies, ultimately tripling my income in a 3 year period. There are many paths, but they're not always obvious.
You are making very strange false equivalencies the likes of which I haven't heard since those MPAA ads telling me not to download cars...

Are you saying that blocking ads on a website is somehow the same thing as hacking the website and taking material?
Right now, I am in 3 slacks, and have maybe 50 channels open. Slack is currently chewing 2+ GB of RAM. Its not that polished.

I also have irssi open. it has 7 IRC networks, and ~ 120 channels - its taking 144MB of RAM.
Also a strong case for large punitive damages.

Lyft puts out a carrot and then fucks you for profit?

No jury will put up with that (neither will Lyft's settlement team).
Once I push a new ocproxy release, vpnns will percolate into the Debian package: https://packages.debian.org/sid/ocproxy
OP should have said "many app developers". The implications are a bit different because it doesn't mean 'all' or 'the majority'.

Lots of people will stick with Apple hardware or the mac operating system I'm sure, but I do agree that I think a lot of people will cross over once some of these barriers are removed.
There's no details in there about valuation of skills and how that plays into the results.

For other industries where titles are a little more controlled, it may be a fine measuring stick, but people hire in software based on what skills you have and what you've done. Not by title.
Because this was written in 2004 (or earlier; 2004 is the first time archive.org crawled it).
Blockchain Is Solution Looking for Problem, Says Xero's CEO
Germany is building wind turbines with built-in hydroelectric batteries
I remember an article about not using slack for FOSS projects, but it was not from Slack. Would you happen to have a link for your claim? I would be quite interested why they would not want to be used by somebody.

That being said I do believe that Slack is a poor choice of medium for a free project, mainly because of the limited history and no publicly searchable transcripts.
Its an interesting approach but I see trouble convincing a user to give their mint credentials to a site for salary information. Imagine if Glassdoor or LinkedIn asked for this.
I agree that lots of people who talk about blockchain don't understand how it works.

However, there is plenty of cool things to like about a blockchain without POW. A blockchain is just a database which broadcasts signed transactions over a p2p network.

Forging a blockchain requires a validator to sign two conflicting transactions. When that happens, you have undeniable proof of fraud which you can take to a judge.

Compare this to most databases where a sysadmin changes a few values and deletes the logs, no one would be any wiser.
Absolutely. Didn't know he'd said anything on focus, interesting.

Cal Newport's book on 'Deep Work' covers similar ground.
>>120 hours is not doable over a year.

Why do you think so?

Just because some of us can't others can't?

This is a bit like expressing surprise over people running miles everyday. It looks impossible until you actually start doing it.
Pragmatically, run a Linux VM and point $DISPLAY to the host XQuartz.
Six ECommerce Email Tactics Successful Businesses Are Using
Cat and mouse was mentioned, so maybe it's the game?
Flickr tried to patent something that I had invented. After the acquisition the Yahoo lawyers caught this and had to add me to the patents.

The "we are better" thing they claim is just marketing. They are as cutthroat as anybody else.

I have plenty of other stories.

Beware.
I thought it was common knowledge that porn drove innovation in tech. :-) I had a hard time finding info on the web about Richard Morgan, but the NY Times is probably a decent citation.

Mr. Gordon, 62, played a significant role in the birth of electronic commerce.
While Amazon.com and eBay were still fledgling enterprises, the companies
that Mr. Gordon founded in the early 1990s were already laying the groundwork
for electronic transactions conducted with credit cards —
a development that opened the doors to the first generation of e-commerce start-ups.

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/18/technology/18gordo.html

Also, credit card processing was used to verify age:

In 2001 ... these companies ... were imperative for the industry’s existence:
Adult Check, CyberAge, CCBill and Internet Billing Co.

[E]ndorsed for age verification by ... in the Communications
Decency Act 1996, the credit card [was] like a magic wand.
[B]y requiring one, porn industries could immediately side step
anyone accusing them of displaying porn to minors.

http://thenextweb.com/insider/2012/10/07/cybersex-ascii-pinu...
what can apple's lawyers do to kill this project?
Slack writes an Ad to make an open letter to Microsoft about Teams
send them this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=URpFH_7hV1g

(it doesnt actually work yet.)

i've never seen an enterprise product with such a silly tutorial.
FPGA development tools from xilinx or altera are one example.
When Office 365 came out, I mostly compared the price to Google Apps and didn't really think Office 365 brought that much value.

Now, you can have a Google Apps, Slack, Trello, and Evernote alternative for your business under one subscription. Even if you choose the plan for installed Office applications on your computer, the price is still much more attractive than having to get a subscription for every one of the competitors.

Edit: They even have a Zapier and IFTTT competitor:

https://flow.microsoft.com/en-us/
Just use Lotus Sametime for a few hours and you will worship Skype for business for life.
Trump a politician and Trump a businessman are not the same.
Paying someone to not install malware on my machine makes it closer to protection money. Ad blockers do a pretty decent job of preventing ad-network malware, without me having to buy subscriptions to every website I visit.
It's a shame that you can't run a container with MacOS installed and just run the apps natively.

Unlikely to ever happen though. You'd have to run the MacOS kernel and Mach concurrent with the Linux kernel without virtualization (something I am not sure is possible). At that point, you might as well just bite the bullet and run a VM.
I didn't finish my degree until I was 30. I am 39 now, so I spent roughly half my career without a degree and the other half with a degree.

For me, the difference is fairly simple. My education is a credential and it helps me get my foot in the door. My experience helps me actually get shit done.
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Apparently it was only exploited by a single state actor. Now anyone can exploit it. Thousands of small companies with no DPI are screwed up until the patch arrives.

Way to go, Google.
I think it really matters when looking for your first professional job.

Some formal education shows that you have at least the commitment and self-discipline to achieve a goal.

If not, you should be able to show off some professional work that you did (and you are able to demonstrate that YOU did it), which could be a problem if your expertise is something like, say, embedded software, and not frontend web developer.

After a couple of years of demonstrable experience, it should really not matter, although some of the more established/formal companies might still be looking for people with degrees (for reasons unknown to me).
GEMA finally loosens its grip on YouTube in Germany
That's not how the web works. Websites give you their website for free. Your web browser does a GET / and their server responds 200 OK with some content. How you view that content once it is transferred onto your computer is 100% up to you. You can block ads, you can make plugins click-to-play, you can change the styles using Stylish; whatever you want. For your own viewing purposes, it is now yours.
Price controls are a terrible solution except in special and temporally limited circumstances, e.g. total war. Much better to make construction as easy and cheap as possible, i.e. no quantitative limits on it.

> This is also why basic income could never work in practice, as the house prices keep increasing you'd also need to increase the basic income. And where goes the money? Indeed, to the rich property owners..

If that actually happens, then it's pretty simple to fund basic income entirely from property taxes.
The top-level post gave an anecdote that is culturally-assumed to be true, with nothing to back it. Let's suppose the story was instead about vaccinating children. Someone comes in, says "yet another example of how vaccines are harmful; they already give kids autism". You're just going to let that slide, and criticize those that point out the false assumptions?

Where's your citation about it being a myth?

The burden of proof does not lie with...oh, c'mon, you know this. Personally, I've given a fair shot at finding the boolean answer to the question. Best I can find, and the facts are sketchy at best, is the porn industry sucked at payment processing and the early card processing was done by a company that saw the need and filled it. But selling picks and shovels doesn't make you a miner.

Man, posts like this are so prevalent on HN.

Like what? The kind that call out urban legends, or the kind that perpetuate them?
I think everyone understands/expects espionage, it's the public 'weaponization' of the information that makes Russia a particularly bad actor.

If Russia had not released the DNC emails (or had somehow done so surreptitiously) to queer the US election, there would be no story to report on.
I love Arch and I've installed it on plenty of machines, but I've already grasped what little pedagogical value the install procedure contained and now mostly want to have the computer automate that process while I work on other things. Hence I installed Manjaro on my wife's laptop last night.
Maybe now my office will stop with those endless email chains.
So what was the technology?
> positions I would be really interested in

Sounds like a good thing to try out - I suspect I didn't try that out until now because I avoid going out of the way to convince people in person - One more thing to work on! :)
Microsoft Introduces Slack Competitor, Microsoft Teams
Maybe because me clicking some link and getting loaded into a site is in no way a tacit agreement to be exposed to security concerns? I don't owe the creator of a site anything by default.
"Do this or you're fired" will typically get those below you to produce the change you desire. Not sure how you can put that much value on a skill inherit to a hierarchical organization.

If the organization was flat, then I would concede your point that affecting change without any seniority would be difficult and worth extra compensation. A true leader would need to be persuasive, knowledgeable and visionary.

What you describe as "leadership" is people doing their job.
I think the time they spend agonizing over how to slip some humor into their release notes would be better spent making their platform faster or improving their convoluted message search.
Part of this is sites like Facebook intentionally subverting proper click and drag behavior with photos, links, etc. It's incredibly annoying, and we should be shaming sites that do it.
That's certainly true. I wonder if there is a way to increase the number of people who are trustworthy and seen as trustworthy in a given social circle?
In order to estimate shipping, you need the weight and dimensions of a product to ship, an origin, and a destination. They already know the origin, they need the other two from you.
If you put stuff up on the web, you should expect people to view it however they like. That's what the web is for; in the early days commercial content wasn't even allowed there.

I'm happy to pay for things, even digital files. But my browser is mine and it will do what I want with the content you put on the web.
Teams does allow you to respond to a specific message, linking messages together into threads.
So you can have multiple threads into a single channel.
As someone who enjoys engineering in the trenches and getting my hands dirty, I always try to learn how much experience a person has when I interview them. HR and other areas of the business will use degrees and certifications as proxies, but I've found them to be unreliable. I work in an industry where the skills aren't really taught in school, so we have to try to filter for people who are really dynamic learners. Degrees aren't a good proxy for that, so we have to dig deeper.

Lots of people will have "bat boy" syndrome...a baseball team can make it to the World Series, and the bat boy gets to go with them, but doesn't provide any value on the field. These are engineers that were associated with projects, but didn't actually do any of the work. They just happened to be in the room when it was done, but put it on their resume anyway.

That said, if you're relying on experience to open doors, I'd make sure that you can actually show people what you've accomplished. I have 5+ years experience at a very reputable and challenging company, but all the work I've done is proprietary. So people have to take me at my word,and it's difficult to convey how much you're capable of in an hour long interview.

I think education will actually open more doors more easily. Another way to look at it: You're always getting experience(there aren't many gate keepers), but getting a degree can provide you access to lots of opportunities once you have it.
Sorry but no,

https://developer.apple.com/reference/

I can find tons of entries without parity in Qt.

And their current trend to invent a different flavor of JavaScript every few releases, no thanks.
Wow.

Okay so, definitely not applying to work for Slack anytime soon. This is not the kind of attitude I would want to support.
Would pinning mitigate this?
You only give them the destination when you check out. They want to factor shipping into the price transparently from the start. GeoIP data is available from the very moment you load the webpage, your shipping address is not.
Just like there was no conspiracy to frame Iraq as having WMDs or being responsible for 9/11? I mean, all of NATO was on board, they couldn't have possibly been wrong.
I'd be happy enough if I could run the VM.
Flowdock has had threaded conversations forever. I think some of the other competitors do too.

Looks like Microsoft's Teams product also has threads. Because not having threads is insane.
Whoa what?! They were recruiting me pretty hard at one point. Feeling glad that I didn't bite. :/ Sorry to hear that.
pornhub and other sites happily detect my adblocks, but still cannot serve any ads via websockets, because I use a proper /etc/hosts file from http://someonewhocares.org/hosts/zero/
This seems like a game everybody is wanting to get in on these days. That alone is making me wonder: why? and why now?
No, Windows had an Unix subsystem since forever, and WSL helps switchers more than ever actually.
While I was aware of the MS product, I never took it seriously (I mean, it's from the same company that rebranded Lync to Skype for business).

Now that Slack has posted this, I intend to give this a look and a trial (hopefully it does not require an O365 subscription) as it just tells me that Slack is either annoyed or scared of Skype teams (either one being a good enough reason for consumers to check it out)
Bitcoin Isn't Anonymous Enough
Photoshop?

And Scrivener. The OS X variant is a full major version ahead of Windows, and it isn't even supported on Linux.
Microsoft already has the beachhead into the enterprise, with their Office 365 offerings. We're seeing most of our Fortune 500 customers move their email, at least, to Office 365, and almost none of the smaller businesses go through the hassle of managing their own Exchange infrastructure.

Once they are on Office 365 for email and Office, they basically get Skype, Yammer, and all the other things thrown in for free. I'm sure that this will fold into that same pattern, assuming it's, say, 75% as good as Slack.
I think the application can be quite cool, but this video... ugh, it reminds me somehow of the infomercials where people struggle to do the basic tasks.
Ah won't anyone think of the unskilled person who inherited money and wants to continue to live well? Let this guy stay on this land and make the people who worked hard pay!
I failed to mention that the UI Developer role is open to remote, but within USA/Canada only.
As an employer, while recruiting educational qualification helps. Especially fresher level recruiting. In India, we get too many resumes for fresher openings. It's not possible to interview every candidate. Even it is not possible to call every candidate for an aptitude test. What the Indian companies do? They set an arbitrary cutoff. Only people who have secured 60% in their engineering exam can apply.

I am telling this as an entrepreneur who didn't get a graduate degree. I eventually started my own company with some of my other friends. But now when I need to hire I definitely look at educational qualification. It's an easy criterion to make sure that there are "less" chances of getting bad hires. I would love to give everybody a chance to qualify for a job at my company, but hiring has costs associated with it.

But if you are really passionate about programming (or any other technology) and can build something impressive which other people in your age group can not do easily, then you shouldn't find it difficult to find a job without a degree. Generally, this happens via references. I got my first job like that. But I used to earn 1/4th compared to my other friends, who had good academics, in their first jobs.

However, after a few years of experience, qualification doesn't matter much. Your ability to communicate and prove your skills matters much more.

In the end, all your actions have consequences. If you want to leave education for your passion, be prepared to live with that decision for your life. As there will be long-lasting consequences (not necessarily all bad) with the decision.
Which version of the beta? We're using beta 25 currently with babel and source map support.
I'm wondering, doesn't the blockchain expend vast amounts of electrical energy to do artificial work just to keep the system credible? And as the capitalization grows, energy consumption grows with it? Isn't this a problem for scalability? For context, bitcoin is 9 billion dollars, global fiat money is somewhere between 30 and 70 trillion dollars.
If they have a functional inventory system, they know the weight and dimensions of the product, and all that's needed for destination is a box for postal code.
Its easier to simply not go to websites that serve you malware via ads and go to websites without the ads and malware.
Basic Cocoa apps work, as long as they don't crash and burn with GNUstep.
How quickly we forget things.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stuxnet
I'd wager that even with a paid subscription they utilize JS-based tracking that ad-blockers block.
I still don't understand what people are using LinkedIn for.
They aren't tolerated on Android because they are pre-installed on Android and therefore in a position of power. As the Android market-share grows, though, the chances of an anti-trust suit in that arena increase.
> Why “Darling”?

>The name Darling is a combination of “Darwin” and “Linux”. >Darwin is the core operating system OS X and iOS build on.

If that's the case, why not Darlin? But then, I'm southern so that's why it makes more sense to me.
Should I use ECC or RSA for my HTTPS certificate?
Send fake emails online, for free
This is nice - but...I'd rather not read/support paywalls by reading their content.
Leaving aside that some people feel that ads are an imposition: we are not obliged to see ads, nor to execute code delivered by a website.

The web is a public place where the majority of content is free to consume. Those publishers who wish not to provide content for free are free to demand payment for it. They're free to raise revenue by delivering ads too, but we're not obliged to see them.
I don't know anyone, and there are quite a few in this 4 floor building.

Not to mention across all company sites.

EDIT: And if you bother to listen to the Android Developers Backstage podcast, according to the Android team themselves the large majority is on Windows.
To repeat: It is not about paying. I do pay for a number of services that do me right (Steam games, Google Play music, Netflix, others) and would pay for services if i could (Youtube Red). Personally i have no stake in pornhub since i don't use it.

It's still, and entirely separately from payments, a very important issue.

The real context here is:

Controlling what my own mechanical device does with the information it receives from other people's machines.

Even if the internet had no ads and no tracking code and no malware anywhere whatsoever, there would still be a need for the technology to block and change the way in which my computer handles the things sent to it by other computers before showing them to me. I have a myriad blocks and css modifications and even site additions and other things set up that have absolutely nothing to do with ads, and being able to do that reliably is important.
#Yawn

Completely pointless. To think someone got paid to write that shite...
This also describes my experience in the online advertising industry. Come up with an idea that has a chance of increasing traffic or revenue, implement it within a few days, throw it into prod. Then you analyze the bejeezus out of it while tweaking/iterating (usually multiple times per day), but abandon it after a few weeks or months if it turns out to be a dud. Then move on to the next big idea.

It was actually really exhilarating, if you could overlook the fact that the work you're doing offered absolutely zero value to anyone involved except the bosses whose pockets you were lining if you succeeded. I don't work at a large global corp now, but at a small company (can't really call it a startup anymore, though that's how I would have described it a year or two ago), where there is still a relatively quick development cycle, but it's glacial compared to what I did at that last job. We are also trending toward much slower turn around times as we grow, which there was no danger whatsoever of at my ad industry job.

It's unfortunate that these developer-candy-store development cultures largely seem to be limited to get-rich-quick industries which can be unattractive from an ethical standpoint, or new startups which can be unattractive from a job security standpoint.
Strange choice of hero photo to promote a chat-based virtual workspace: a team of people sitting around a table, thus having no need for the product.
Is it possible that this becomes a city supported public transit system?
Ah okay. Yeah, Fedora is really focused on GNOME :/
Don't forget vitamin K2, it's important for regulating calcium. The most common sources are dairy and eggs. There are non-animal sources (natto, sauerkraut), but they're not exactly typical foods for most people.
Artificial intelligence promises to improve our lives
> Lotus Sametime

You're hanging onto that still? We used to build a number of products for Sametime, but IBM appears to have written it off and is hemorrhaging customers jumping ship, to Lync/Skype mostly, or Jabber, to a lesser extent.
What do you mean laggy? In the response time when typing or the time to start a new instance of emacs? If it's the first did you try emacs -q to check that you don't have something strange in you setup. If it's the latter, did you check out emacs --daemon ?