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Ask HN: Should I Go Back To School? How Important Is It?
In my Junior year of college, I dropped out in order to pursue a startup idea. It was innovative and ultimately had a good - not spectacular - exit.

I'm now located in NYC and it's always bothered me that I didn't continue and get my college degree. I've applied to and gotten into some of the "non-traditional" education programs, most notably Columbia's School of General Studies.

I want to know:

a) Is it worth it? I've been out of school for about 4/5 years with significant experience.

b) How is Columbia GS taken? Is it seen as a "joke school" or "joke degree". It's rather expensive, so I'd rather know now what it looks like.

Thanks.
I LOVED Resharper when I was first introduced to it. Incredible piece of software. Jetbrains makes very good stuff, although they need to work on the speed.
Apple reveals iCloud storage pricing details
> math is extremely mature already

Though there's still enough left to be explored, even for a non-genius. But you have to find a virgin area, if you want to stand a good chance of doing something new.
Or, you know, you could donate money to them[1]. Which I'm sure they would find much more useful than people "thanking" them by pestering them to do more work.

[1] I find it really odd, based on the headline, that the article doesn't even mention this possibility.
Reminds me of the Eureka episode where they plan to drop Fargo down a 10,000 pit...
Easiest way to get public radio to do anything is to donate money to get them to do it. If you're serious about this, put your money where your mouth is.
Love it! Thank you for sharing your hard work.
That's why we need everything to become encrypted. Any time a new project, a new startup is created, one of the first feature implemented should be full encryption, end to end.
what study?
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And what did your parents hear, from numerous sources other than you?

The problem is that it is not enough to hear the truth. One must also fail to hear the falsehoods. When those falsehoods are cheap to create, and cheap to distribute, and the people pushing them have more resources, it's pretty difficult to consistently tune them out.
I'm still learning to identify my sources of procrastination, so I'm not sure I've found anything effective yet.

On the other hand, I have done a couple of test/soft-launches this year, and have lost my fear of failing on those. That's more than I had done in the prior 10 years of being a programmer with aspirations, so it's progress.

I still struggle with probably doing too much before testing an idea, but I also struggle with doing too little, so I'm trying to find a balance. Learning, still, really.
Well, I strongly disagree with this. One example from our own applications would be O(m*n) for computing levenshtein distances between arbitrary product sets. Of course many of these are precomputed, but they are still used in a web application. Computing sales relationships would be another example.
Modern economies cannot function without the internet. Too much commerce happens through it. Shutting off the internet is suicide.
That's not a fair analogy.

The alternative to not having your leg amputated in given example is likely eventual spreading of a disease and death.

With consumer goods and services often no one forces you to have to accept their changes.

No one forces you to use touch screen phones: there are plenty of alternatives which do include a keyboard.

Even if you don't like one input box does all approach, you can use previous browsers or browsers which retain the standard model.

If you don't like Netflix's price hikes, you can just use another service or don't subscribe at all. Your life won't decline because of it.
Ask HN: How and where should I host a paid for video training course?
The videos will be recorded with Camtasia.

Should I record in 1280 x 1024 or 1280 x 720?

What format should I encode them in once they've been recorded?

Where can I host the videos?

How can I make the videos watchable online? I just want to be able to stick the videos somewhere and have the pages generated.

Any other advice is great, thanks.
Would appreciate clarification on the downvotes guys. If I'm missing something let me know.
Have a listen to this podcast:
http://mixergy.com/clay-johnson-bluestate-interview/

Politicians everywhere have learned to adopt technology early, it's critical for public relations and community-building. Just like Obama visits Facebook or Google for a Q&A. So that alone, and even the niche who follow every tweet (as opposed to the vast majority who pick it up second or third hand via journalists) is not mainstream.

Mainstream is hundreds of millions of ordinary people sharing photos with each other. That's the game Google and Facebook are playing.
From everything I've been able to read[1], this bill requires ISPs to track IPs that they've assigned to users, but does not require storage of all Internet traffic. This hardly seems like it would "kill Internet privacy for good."

[1] http://www.govtrack.us/congress/billtext.xpd?bill=h112-1981&...
I think most development has moved onto the fork, Pentadactyl:
http://dactyl.sourceforge.net/pentadactyl/
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What happens to the industry when market access and data is openly available at an affordable price and a speed/scale comparable to what professional traders currently have access to? And why hasn't this been done yet? As an outsider to the financial industry, it looks like this information/access is slowly becoming commoditized (IB, Lime, etc.)... is there going to be chaos when any HN reader can begin low latency trading (or mining market data) as easily as they could get started on a service like Twilio?

Why are so many exchanges still private? Why do you have to pay exorbitant amounts of money for an exchange seat or high-quality exchange access? Why do some exchanges have designated market makers? Are these systems actually effective, or is this just nepotism among bankers?

Disclaimer: I have no idea what I'm talking about; I'm legitimately curious about this stuff. Hope I'm not coming across as too brash/angry. :-)
At some point i fear users are going to start tearing off their screens and throwing them bit by bit in the recycle bin.
The Harvard Innovation Lab's Plans for its First Year
Here's the same article, without the ads and other cruft: http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/print/2011/08/the-legisl...
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My PS1 looks like this:

1.9.2@rails31::project(branch)⚡

Shows the ruby version, rvm gemset, working directory and git branch, followed by a thunderbolt prompt. This is how I set it https://gist.github.com/1120566
> "powers-that-be don't want to lose control of the information"

This. What happens when they inevitably do?
It will be good to see what are core reasons for this. Any correlation between recession & increased startup activity for example?
Google Chrome Predicts And Pre-Loads Instant Pages
Google Chrome 13 adds Instant Pages and print preview
Inside North Korea
That's an interesting perspective, and one that probably works out in practice most of the time. Integration with other libs is the place I'm thinking where it doesn't, but it seems simple, and rather trivial in many cases to do the conversion to signed integers before making the library call. Of course, if you're taking advantage of the extra positive values and need a signed int, I think you're shit out of luck.
It is a sound engineering practice to avoid using keywords as names even when the language’s parser will let you get away with it. For consistency, some developers (myself included) will avoid words like `class` and `module` even when embedded in a longer name, such as `user_class`.

I don’t use `klass`, but that’s because I’m a Java Bigco cubicle-dweller fraudulently passing himself off as a Rubyist and Javascripter. I prefer `clazz` in keeping with Sun examples.
Obligatory emacs alternatives:

* http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/itunes.el

* http://www.geocities.jp/tmjb2006/itunes/itunes-mode.html

* http://www.mahalito.net/~harley/elisp/osx-itunes.el

(I don't think any have a GUI as nice as ViTunes)
I sometimes wonder if the FSF believes everything they say, or if they've spent too much time at free trade coffeeshops reading Hegel and figuring the only way they'll move the center is by screaming from the wacko fringe.

(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dialectic#Hegelian_dialectic)
That is a good point to bring up.

I don't think that study and those results apply here verbatim because this is more the Groupon model than the "cheap service" model.

I am, for a VERY limited time, getting a product for free. The perception of value is much higher (because of the time limit) than if I were downloading an always-free product or a really cheap product.

I think the success of Groupon, effectively using the same pattern of attraction, would indicate that people DO perceive a huge value from an extreme sale/giveaway like this for such a short period of time.

I'd also argue that the sheer volume of downloads (100k vs 20 the day before) would also support that claim.

Neither point perfectly scientific and conclusive, but I felt collectively the supported my position.
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Are you going to go into management?
Do you ever want to work in a large company that you did not build, as anything other than a developer or development related discipline like developer, admin or architect?
Do you want to do scientific research?
Do you want to teach at the university level?

If the answer to any of those is yes then you may want to consider a degree. If the answer is no, then you should really consider the value proposition of higher education. Keep in mind that many believe that there is an ongoing bubble in education and that the prices and value of education will continue to decline. The influx of regulations and lending has caused significant inflation in the cost of attaining a degree while at the same time reducing the real world value of that degree.
Faceplanting: an app launch horror story with a twist
From what I understand, Amazon won't feature a trial or "lite" version of your app for the Free App of the Day. It doesn't have the same value-proposition for users.
This doesn't seem like a proper way to thank anyone. It seems like an attempt to drag someone into a debate they really don't belong in. This American Life is a world beating example of great journalism. Is that not enough?

This is a really nasty way to make a point.
How many checkboxes were there, that you actually noticed the delay in a N^2?
Is anyone else tired of the contrived, amped-up metaphors we use to discuss startup life?

Dying in battle != having a failed startup venture

I don't get what we gain by pretending that the joy and opportunities of startup life is somehow analogous to fighting for our very lives.

What's our downside, really? That we're embarrassed when we fail? Or that we forgo a few years of big-company paychecks?

That's materially different than Alexander's army's downside - suffering and then death.
Developers don't chose to be part of the promotion, Amazon hand picks them.
Yeah, but there's no need to leave your money with the exchange once you've changed currencies. The problem with MtGox was that someone was effectively using it as their wallet... probably for convenience, but frankly, it's not that hard to add/remove BTC from your exchange account so as to not take extra risk and leave it available for a hacker or snooper to take.
-- Don't let your schooling interfere with your education. --

Nevertheless, education is vital. For everyone. The more educated you are, the better. I don't know specifically about _that_ degree you're talking about, but as an American (most presumably you are, that is) think about the option to finish your college degree, let's say in Germany (Berlin has an awesome startup scene coming on, too) or in the Netherlands (Amsterdam is rocking big time, too).

I referred to Germany mainly because their education system is public (the fees for some unis are $500/semester, pretty decent, most of them are free -- depends on the state) and their unis are rocking big time.

I don't know what you were studying before you drop-out but as a technical kiddo, pardon my word usage, consider also studying something different now--let's say philosophy or something.

If I were you, I'd try to study. A guy with a college degree is always more "better" (with a very broad sense) than a guy who hasn't a degree. Well, not always -- especially in the IT field, BUT generally speaking, I consider a BSc a vital thing for to posses.

And remember, it's not always what you will be taught in uni -- you mainly get to understand how to think properly and not for example how to program fluently in Python. They teach you how to think.

And thinking is vital.
Hi there....

I cannot speak to question b, but I have some very direct experience with question a that I would like to talk about for a moment.

Like you, I dropped out after my third year of an accounting degree to pursue my own business. It was the late 90s, the world of technology seemed to be one of limitless potential, and I got the entrepreneurship bug. So, I dropped out and followed my dream - this particular company (like yours) did fairly well and I got to exit with my head held high.

After I sold my company, I spent the rest of my twenties working some interesting gigs and honing my skillset. But that unfinished degree kept plaguing me - I constantly wondered how much further I could go if I had a piece of paper behind my name.

So, I went back to University and finished a marketing degree. I didn't learn a whole lot during the degree - business degrees are about as useless as you can get. But, I definitely gained value. Being significantly older than anyone else in my classes meant that my peers were other more mature students with work experience, graduate students and professors. That network is worth way more than the cost of tuition and made going back to school incredibly worth it.

As an aside, that network actually helped me start my next business, which I launched a few days after convocation. That business failed miserably, so either the network wasn't worth all that much, or I was a bonehead...:)
"Secret" in that Amazon tells one story in public, then cuts a different deal in private and tells developers not to discuss it. (Presumably this blog post is some kind of breach, but since they've pulled out of the market it may not matter.)

The fact that the email from Amazon had bold text is irrelevant. If Apple advertised 70% going to developers but then sent you an email saying "hey, we'll put you on our featured app page if you agree to (a) accept 35% and (b) don't tell anyone about it" would that be secret? What if they bolded it?
Samsung: We’ll Sell Galaxy Tab in Australia
Actually I really like the fact that they're JSON files. It makes it very easy to copy/paste preferences between different machines.
Visual Design is not a thing
But one major question remains. Will Turntable.fm be able to qualify as a non-interactive streaming radio service, afforded DMCA protection by the Copyright Act of 1998? If it does, then all it needs are these relatively inexpensive performance rights. If, on the other hand, Turntable.fm is labeled an interactive streaming service like Spotify, then it would need to go about securing the rights from all the record labels, a much more daunting and expensive task.

How the heck will turntable pull this off? IANAL but they are about as interactive as music services get.
This is bad news for everyone. It is also unlikely to achieve its intended goal due to proxies and encrypted networks.

"Those who would give up Essential Liberty to purchase a little Temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety."
--Benjamin Franklin
I should perhaps have left out the subheading the New Yorker gave the piece, because it does Gladwell's argument a disservice. His point was that the kind of networks that social media makes easy do not always translate well to the organisation, discipline and strategy necessary for significant social activism.

Bear in mind that the piece was published before the Arab Spring bubbled up. Media reports exaggerated the roles that Twitter played in earlier demonstrations in Iran and Moldova. Gladwell: "Where activists were once defined by their causes, they are now defined by their tools."

I thought it was appropriate because it chimed with Dave Winer's idea that at some point, physical action has to replace virtual. Gladwell compares social media activism with the carefully planned civil rights protests in the 1960s: sit-ins, marches etc. Any sustained, significant physical action, he says, requires organisation.

I'm not saying Gladwell's argument has not suffered from the events of the Arab Spring. I still think, however, that his piece makes interesting accompanying reading, which is why I linked to it.
Even though most of the times its good to have resources to your disposal, but few other times it does make sense to burn your boat.

From my personal experience - I was running a services company which was very profitable and doing good. I tried building 2 different products in parallel but got no where. As there always was money coming in and I was moving far deep into a comfort zone to motivate me. Finally I decide to shut down services business to focus on latest product. Even though its still early, I have at least been able to get product in front few hundred users.

I think thats why having too long runway (excessive funding) has its own downside.
In the heat of criticizing the financial industry, I forgot to say that I'm enjoying your posts, and I think what you're working on is really cool. :-)
This question was posed by my math teacher to the class during a lean time in class for fun during my engineering days. This was my answer.

x = 0.999999....... (1)

10x = 9.999999....... (2)

Perform (2) minus (1)

9x = 9

x = 1

When I wrote it on the board, I still remember the awe in my friend's faces. And all I was doing was using the standard method to convert a recurring decimal into a fraction. :)
Dalvik is also very similar to the JVM in a number of ways. For instance the instruction set maps almost 1:1 to bytecodes:

OP_MONITOR_ENTER vs monitorenter
OP_INVOKE_STATIC vs invokestatic
OP_THROW vs athrow
OP_CHECK_CAST vs checkcast
OP_ARRAY_LENGTH vs arraylength
OP_NEW_ARRAY vs anewarray
...

If the question is "Dalvik was designed to run code written in what language?" the answer is "Java" without any doubt. This might be important to some legal question, whether Google created it with the specific intention to not pay license fees or something, or whether they broke a license for J2SE (they use Java a lot) that prohibits them from creating incompatible versions of Java.
Is there any reason why this page hasn't been updated since then?
Lots of larger studios actually pay to acquire installs of their app to get an initial placement on the charts and to drive organic growth from there. In that context, 101k new users for free is very valuable.
Unfortunately it seems that sometimes too much information leads to apathy, if we know all the problems of the world our ability to affect change in any single one seems diminished. Maybe it would be better to know less and focus on that instead.
Indeed. Given a choice between a patent-free file I can't listen to, and a patented-up-the-wazoo format I can listen to, I'll pick the latter.

And, in case FSF hasn't been paying attention, WebM isn't looking too unencumbered right now. If Ogg ever becomes economically significant, it will probably end up in the same boat.

As others have said, we need to balance idealism and practicality. E.g. providing real audio feeds (which many NPR shows and the BBC used to) is Just Plain Stupid. But while MP3 may not be perfect it (a) works (b) everywhere and (c) doesn't cost the end-user anything.
Maybe not everyone, but certainly a non-zero number of people. As I read this I started feeling bad for the daily free apps I've picked up from Amazon thinking the developers were getting paid. At least now that I know I can go actually put money in their pockets. Hopefully others feel the same way.
Internet Explorer users have lower IQ says study
Generally it seems like you're expecting the OP to take on your perspective without really taking his perspective seriously. Just saying you have a "core belief" that waiting longer would help doesn't really seem like a fair point.

Why don't server/support costs matter? Why does it have to be that it's more beneficial for these guys to have their software on 100k more devices than not? Why should all business models have to work that way? And why should someone who has a business model expecting to profit from Amazon's advertised 20% be willing to accept waiving that?

OP seems to have a valid complaint against Amazon and a worthwhile warning to others in similar situations, and you're just telling him to suck it up figure out some way around it. Okay, I get what you're saying, but withdrawing from what is by all evidence an unprofitable app market driven partially by a bait-and-switch still seems perfectly reasonable.
You completely missed the point of the post if all you got from it was "Oooh, look at these special effects!"

Nevertheless if it got to the homepage since yesterday AND got close to 200 upvotes, it might mean that at least a subset of the community is interested in the effects used in the TV series. Special effects are "technology" and as such people like you and me might find ourselves interested in such things. As a fan of the A Song of Fire and Ice books, an entrepreneur, and a programmer and technologist, my interest in the application of special effects in the Game of Thrones TV series is significantly higher than the excess of complaint posts about the patent system (I care about the patent system, just not for all the ranting you see these days...) that you see every day on the homepage. I don't complain though, because I know that since those are getting upvoted, it means people ARE interested in that type of posts.
Can someone explain what this is? I'm not sure I get it.
The Atlantic is a publication that makes money through ads, IIRC.
I can guess an answer, but won't hurt asking just in case - any plans for a version that could be used on Windows?