skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Degrees are not useless, but they definitely aren't worth the weight some people place on them either. In your case what is hurting is the lack of experience tied with the lack of a degree. If you had a degree with 2 years you'd have little issues assuming you can get through the interview process. But without a degree and with only a couple years experience it is much harder to get past a lot of the gate keepers.

If you really want to work at a place that "requires" a degree or enough experience to offset it you'll need to find some smaller businesses, or even some of the larger enterprises where they will interview you as a person and not worry so much about the piece of paper you don't have. This will let you get your 5-6 years of experience that will mainly offset the lack of a degree. Also, for your resume you'd likely do better with a functional resume with projects/accomplishments on it, rather than a chronological resume. The functional will let you highlight more details about your open source and hobby work. Chronological will show your relative lack of experience just by the dates shown, and generally makes it harder to show all the relevant stuff you have done since you are trying to summarize a job position instead of talking about different projects/problems you have solved.

Just a personal note and from my own experience. I have over 20 years in the industry and I do not have a CS degree and I do not list my formal education on my resume as it is irrelevant for what I do (generally). When I have applied for positions in the past I'd use their response about a degree as a good filter about the company. Because if they are calling me to talk but then tell me that without a degree that I am not worth chatting with then I just found a company to avoid. I say this because intelligent people want to associate themselves with other intelligent people, and a degree does not make someone intelligent. A degree may help to increase someones intelligence, but it more so just proves you can endure a level of memorization for a few years to pass some exams, not that you are intelligent or even competent to do the job. Personally, I prefer to work and associate with people who are intelligent because they have a thirst, desire and hunger for information and learning, then I do someone who uses a degree or a specific school as a filter to whether another human is intelligent or worthy. This is the reason I do not let my teams use the lack of a degree or where a degree is attained to influence whether we interview someone, the only things we look at are the resume & cover letter and if we like what we see we interview the person.
Yes, this is close to the various scribbles in my head on this topic, which hopefully we can turn into working software one day.
> Hiring someone into a high responsibility role based on education rather than experience and proven ability.

You mean like almost all other jobs out there?
When someone takes silicon and produces a computer chip, it's pretty clear to me that value has been created that didn't exist before. Within my memory, we've gone from Z80s to 4GHz multi-core. How can you look at that and see a fixed sized pie? It's obviously growing.
Not sure why the parent is being downvoted. More detail of what happened would surely be informative. Ideally including the perspective of the arresting officer. Why were they pulled over? Why did he suspect they were in the country illegally? Lots of unanswered questions here.
Like all things in physics on its face its easily acceptable, but when you think about the concept looking at a particle closer up when that particle takes up no space (I think saying infinitely small is wrong) its hard to wrap the mind around.
I do believe that “something needs to be done”, about the various internet dis-info machines [0]. However, while the link shows a bunch of relatable stories, all it offers in response is a “sign up to Mozilla” button. That’s it. A newsletter. A bit disappointing and anti-climactic.

[0]. I have no idea what.

EDIT: I signed up to the newsletter.
I love this comment.
30 years after communism, eastern Europe divided on democracy's impact
Hmm, interesting. Care to explain more?
PS. It's developped on dot net ( Asp.Net MVC) and i would be happy to share the project to other "co-operatives" and work together.

Looking at my mail, the topic seems to be way hotter than expected :)
The Arrogance of the Anthropocene
> but it is not a tough exam

Ideally you don't want a test that's too easy or too tough. You want a test whose results form a normal distribution bell curve.
Just keep in mind the geography. Zürich is roughly as far north as Seattle, while San Francisco is a bit further south than Athens.
I've read repeatedly (but never dug into it) that contrary to intuition, replacing sugar by artificial sweeteners does not lead to weight loss. My own take is that I should consume less sugar, but if I'm going to commit that particular sin, I'll use sugar and not the funny tasting alternatives.

https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2017/07/17/5372621...
That's not my understanding of it. I can't be frisked, house searched, be forced to hand over documents or other items for review without a very compelling reason is my understanding.

A government worker watching me walk from my car to the grocery store, come out and load groceries into the car, let out an expletive and walk back into the grocery store to buy the bread that was forgotten, and then head back to my car isn't something I'm protected against. Not sure the value in it, but there's nothing preventing them from doing so.

Similarly, if someone made a public post on Facebook or some other social media site threatening someone at the city council, facial recognition picks them up at some government building and they linked the facial recognition to name which linked back to their social media and that post showed up, I don't think they'd be in the wrong for then searching them. Constitutionally. Does it feel weird? Sure, but everything there is public and at that point it creates the basis for a reasonable search so searching them for weapons and/or charging them with communicating a threat seems fair now.

Now if we're talking about someone pre-emptively scouring a person's cloud storage and finding something worth investigating, that'd violate it in my book.
Of course, I speak from experience. I had a miserable week of using a phone with a fingerprint scanner on the back. Front-faced scanners allow unlocking the phone while it lies on the back, without lifting it. Rear-faced, not so much.

> Having the scanner on the front of the phone means you need 2 hands to unlock it...

Why is that? I almost never use my 6.4" phone with two hands, and my thumb rests naturally on front-facing scanner. Anyway, YMMV, but rear-faced scanners made me very miserable, so I will stay away from them, and face-unlock-only devices.
I had the same. Tried qwant.com and now I have it once every 50 searches.
I personally haven't contributed to reading applications in a long time, being internet-saturated already. But you wouldn't believe how hard the team has been working on this. Where by "the team" I mean basically the entire company.
> Today the jim crow defenders, the people that say slavery wasn't so bad, some people were even better off. Those are republicans.

> They switched.

A lot of them switched for reasons unrelated to race. "Many white southerners switched to the Republican Party, some for reasons unrelated to race. The majority of white southerners shared conservative positions on taxes, moral values and national security. The Democratic Party had increasingly liberal positions rejected by these voters.[20] In addition, the younger generations, who were politically conservative but wealthier and less attached to the Democratic Party, replaced the older generations who remained loyal to the party.[20] The shift to the Republican Party took place slowly and gradually over almost a century.[20]"

From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Politics_of_the_Southern_Unite...
Mind-reading technology is everyone's next big security nightmare
Well, its all relative ain't it.

Lets just say... Buies Creek, North Carolina. I've been to smaller towns, but I'd say population of 2,942 is small for most people. EDIT: Seems like prices may have gone up in recent years: I'm seeing $800 to $1000 on Rent.com, but there's still a listing or two for $600/month. Or maybe "word of mouth" is still king there.

Buies Creek is still reasonably close to the Raleigh metropolitan area. So this is still "somewhat suburban". I've visited my cousins in Coulee City, WA (Population 562), so I know what "actually rural" looks like too.
War propaganda, i.e., information warfare, is absolutely relevant to HN & it's readers.
Oh yeah, I definitely heard about TAG program before, but it is fairly tricky, as I felt that the first years at GT are the ones that shape you up and give you a very strong head-start in terms of internships and such. I've known quite a few people who went through TAG, and a lot of them struggled at GT pretty majorly after transferring, because they weren't hit with the GT intensity hammer straight to their temple when they started college. While students who went through GT from the very beginning already embraced the hammer hits to the head by that point and even started hitting themselves with it. Definitely not a hard rule though, I've met quite a few TAG transfers who were just as resilient and successful in their college career.

As for ATL, unfortunately no. I moved to Seattle right after graduation for a couple of reasons. Starting with the career opportunities and ending with the desire for a change of scenery. If you want to talk more about it, do not hesitate to reach out - me(at-sign)olegwritescode.fyi
Transfer wise does forex not traditional bank transfers like this
But its not a useful metric if you are not comparing against other food sources on an equal basis.
For smaller group, people updating attendance is really useful. I've cancelled meetings when not enough people could attend, or change venue if more than I initially anticipated acknowledged. This is not easy to do on a simple github.io style static site.
I have been extremely critical of the P2 to P3 drama, but to be totally fair, things haven't been as smooth as we like to remember in C++ land. While the c++11 standard (and successors) are highly compatible with c++98, most compilers at the turn of the millennium had questionable conformance and each compiler upgrade to a more recent and strict version was a lot of pain (I still remember the pain when GCC started enforcing two phase lookup).
Pretty funny that there's no street view for the laneways crossing the border in your second line. The SV driver was like "yeah nope, not going there."
I get that, and veering over to the other side to avoid a badger or something is understandable, but why would you stay on the other side at that point instead of going back to the road you were originally on? There must be some detail not reported to the public that made it make sense.
I'm not sure that follows. The dominant factor in what gets attention here is randomness, and 3 or 4 posts in 10 years is not a significant number. There may also be something else about the articles that make them fall short of widely interesting.
If it wasn't a real story it's a brilliant bit of marketing.

But this may be more commonly known 'hack' in the UK with their banking system than it appears.
There is all kinds of solid research on the detrimental effects of artificial sweeteners.

One area that comes to mind where there is _a lot_ of redundant evidence backing up effects is on the microbiome.

Another is glucose uptake pathways and insulin resistance.

These things aren't myths, prior to this article I'd never heard anyone suggest that possibility. The amount of research, approaching the problem from numerous angles, arriving at a similar conclusion, is hard to deny.

https://neurosciencenews.com/artificial-sweetener-microbiome...

https://academic.oup.com/advances/article/10/suppl_1/S31/530...
Not sure about such laws, though there's lots of "if you see something, say something" PSA posters around.

It's possible the person who recovered it saw it fall, but they didn't explain their actions or even identify themselves.
What other options do we have? Dedicated processes and some sort of (non-WCF) IPC?
It reminds me of the automated collect calls of yore.

"You have a collect call from 'GAME IS OVER PICK ME UP MOM THANKS'. Would you accept the call?"
I don't mind this at all. Ghibli films are magical and memorable, and putting them in with the rest of the dross that passes for streaming kids shows these days does them a disservice.
Oh nice tip, I didn't know that - Now I'll have to see if I can run a VMS VM inside my Windows VM... Turtles all the way down.
In the UK it's generally the same too. People are always cautious and told to look out for unattended baggage for that reason.
Even in poor countries, a wallet with money in it is actually more likely to be returned to its owner than an empty one

https://www.npr.org/2019/06/20/734141432/what-dropping-17-00...
Vacationing is def a part of the American dream, whether its a road trip or air travel
The name probably means something like "weald in (or by) the dale".
Improving Form Controls in Microsoft Edge and Chromium
I wrote a tool, NimbleText which is free and good and lightweight for these one off 1000-line code generation scenarios. See https://nimbletext.com/live or email me for help (support at nimbletext)
> I imagine that the majority of CSE imagery shared on the internet uses something more robust than OnionShare

The majority is shared on normal social media and Bittorrent, although the worst is shared on dark web sites of the same robustness as OnionShare.
There honestly should be zero frustration, a lot of this is ran by people volunteering time.
It makes more sense when you realize the two bins are also labeled “not white” and “white.”

(Which also explains the shock white people experience when circumstances result in them being sorted into the “not white” bin — suddenly they’re experiencing treatment from law enforcement they otherwise would never see.)
> I think every programmer language designer underestimates the importance of good IDE support.

Oh, we're well aware of it. It's just that the language design part consumes all our time.
Coincidentally, I was able to return four peoples' IDs and other cards just this afternoon. Yesterday I was walking in East Oakland and found a pile of credit cards, debit cards, and IDs. Oakland Police Department wouldn't take them so I brought them home and started googling names and addresses.

Of the four IDs I found three belonged to adults; the third was a state ID for a minor related to one of the adults. I was able to find a contact number for all three, via relatives, and had reached them all by afternoon.

I learned that the person who'd dumped the cards had committed a series of car break-ins in San Jose yesterday morning and had fled to Oakland. They stole purses, laptops, and an iPhone. I wish OPD had taken an interest in the theft or at least in returning the stolen property.
They claim that they were stopped for crossing the border.

> Michael turned onto an unmarked road and moments later, multiple police cars and Border Patrol agents appeared and told him: ‘You crossed an international border’, the family claim.

From: https://metro.co.uk/2019/10/15/british-family-jailed-swervin...
I found a wallet recently. I found the guy on linkedin, sent a request, and we coordinated the pickup. Less creative than OP I suppose.
This is a great goal for certain types of people with exceptionally high talent and resilience.
So if diversity makes things so hard why everybody insists on creating diversity in your teams? I understand you might need to face it but why not keep team homogenous to get the best out of them without too much trouble?
Two tons and growing.

However, FB should have filters for those instead of grouping everyone in there.

It makes no sense that the person living in the same town as me with a genuine profile is in the same interface as accounts written in foreign languages with 1 friend and a creation date of two days ago.
Capture real locations with smartphone, turn them into Lego-like virtual worlds
> To date we’ve made around $88,000 in revenue via our recruiting services, $78,000 of which has come in 2019 so far.

Total, not monthly.
Has anybody interest in forking the python project and continuing to maintain 2.7 until forever? And by "maintain" I mean no new features, just bug fixes and performance improvements. Maybe if we find enough volunteers we can pull that off.

There is still much useful and valuable legacy software out there that many people use which is getting abandoned for no other reason than some people (like the authors of calibre) are not very fond of the direction python is going. Others can't upgrade to 3.x because you have standard libraries especially in the academic sector that people literally put their whole phd into and that can not "easly" be upgraded just like that because of high complexity, lack of staff and time.
I have never actually shouted "<activation word>, send all today's photos to my <relation>!" in a crowded restaurant, but as someone who believes in degrees of privacy and does not approve of large organisations having surveillance powers reaching almost everywhere, I would have some sympathy with anyone who did something like that...
Would be humorous considering the NT platform was heavily inspired by VMS.
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=UU2hEImvdeIkYQC30AFCAt... gone

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gOUGXVFA2IQ gone

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=UUkAmJs3oeiKwutQ87ZV9U... gone

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=UUhlfPtuG7T6mnG7-iD-5J... nothing to see here

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=UUjT2SQBfqtPMdX99mf4Zs... what playlist?

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=UU2hEImvdeIkYQC30AFCAt... gone

but this could also be a concerted scheme to get subscribers / views / downloads
Wow, that’s some insane security theater.

How often do the bags turn out to be bombs? never?
Isn't this a success story of a regular bank account though? I would find this super far-fetched as some sort of weird promotion, especially where OP's company is never mentioned and not actually posed as better than a regular bank account (or a regular bank account as bad).

Let's just enjoy nice stories that we come across.
In addition to benefiting from many smart people at the helm, instead of just one, it also benefits from having no real single points of failure. It has a multitude of cooperative leaders, support from many large and even small corporations, and many implementations as well as its formal Standard (which after the long wait for C++0x, has had a number of good, well-adopted updates).
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The point is that almost all algo's that are actually deployed and making 99%+ of these trades are not AI / ML based.

So reference to AlphaGo doesn't make sense here.
If you are a hobbyist, nothing, assuming they keep the hobbyist program (and I assume they will).
Don't worry, we'll work around that law by switching to year-round DST.
Stupid American question - how does someone get your bank account information from your wallet in the UK?
Not OP, but I was so happy when weather was built into google a few years ago.

Weather.com is pure evil when it comes to tracking and clickbait. It's also slow as hell.
try veiwing with page style [css], turned off
> I know millennials with combined household incomes in excess of $200k who can't afford to buy, because huge student loans are required to get that kind of income if mommy and daddy aren't rich in the first place.

Man - I'm nearly at that income just by myself. (Am millennial) I know others my age who make $300k+/yr as single income. They also cannot afford to buy a home. It has nothing to do with debt for me or them (I graduated debt free thanks to the VA). It's purely the price of homes.
As someone who organizes several Meetup groups, I really hate this. I am going to continue to promote on meetup, but move the registration to our wordpress site to get around this.
Sounds good. Do all tech companies have a 7 hour workday?
> All state changes happen via reducer functions

Which are called where?

> and the state updates themselves can be viewed using the Redux DevTools (which can now even give a stack trace for every individual dispatched action).

So now we've added a second tool to fix the problem caused by the first tool.
I don't see the connection as to how a rich kid not being able to create market value as an entrepreneur keeps a poor kid from providing value as an entrepreneur. Is there a fixed number of ideas and the rich kids with poor insight are using them all up leaving none for the less fortunate?
About the only place that would happen in the US (a bag being destroyed for being forgotten) is an airport.

There may be a handful of other places with ‘unattended baggage’ policies, but there is definitely nothing illegal about dropping your bag.
> In addition, the high punitive nature of merely being arrested means that probable cause has replaced due process in our system.

Going beyond that, border patrol has special leeway above and beyond what regular law enforcement can do. They don't need a warrant or even probable cause to search you or your property, and they've been known to intentionally mislead people about their rights and detain them without access to an attorney or a phone call. It's pretty much anything-goes.
> Is there a document anywhere that gives a short description of the language and a reason for looking into it?

Not that I know of. And there now seems little reason for looking into it, except when doing language research.

EDIT: The SICP-like textbook is apparently online. It's not short, but FWIW: "Concepts, Techniques, and Models of Computer Programming" http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.102...

> The official site is most unwelcoming to a casual reader.

Mozart/Oz documentation... sigh. Think: "bad old days"; "just buy the tome textbook"; that textbook being online (discouraging other docs), and then not (so then there's nothing); academic project; majority of users were students taking mandatory CS courses; in European academia; research papers and talk slides as documentation; and now zombie/death. Years ago I ended up generating my own "virtual manual"[1], but the links have rotted since.

[1] http://www.vendian.org/oz/wiki/index.cgi?VirtualManual But the links are rotted. And it's no longer a wiki, just a snapshot of that page.
>what part of getting an MBA filters for "possessing soft skills, being personable, ready to meet with clients or manage people and probably well-connected"?

An MBA is extremely team-driven. Classes are heavily discussion focused rather than having a lecturer simply teach a subject. There are lots of presentations and routine working with others.

I know all degrees have this to an extent but the MBA experience is exceptional in the level of collaboration needed. Because most of the people taking an MBA class have several years of real-world company experience, you end up learning heavily from the cohort as a whole rather than simple the "expert" professor.

I have a CS degree and an MBA and the difference in the amount of interpersonal effort between the two degrees is enormous.