skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If they can tell which pages are public vs private (which I think they can) they could just tell the client that they need a copy of the page when they are done rendering it, have it post the serialized DOM back to the server and then cache and serve that until the next redeploy.
The problem with such studies is that they don't demonstrate causation: does college make you successful or do most successful people just go to college?
I assume it means hashes of some sort.
I liked the idea, having implemented our custom login some months ago. Before that we relied on Facebook Connect and Twitter auth, and it's true that some people prefer to use email.

Feedback: I couldn't find a pricing page nor a call to action button to (pay and) start using your service.

edit: I decided to take an another look and I found the pricing section scrolling to the bottom. Why not a link in the top nav bar?
If you want to hustle, create great internet products and live a creative free, independent life then college and it's massive debt may not be right for you.

But if you want a lower risk, stable life with good long term prospects then college may not be such a bad idea.

One of the things college (actually my masters degree) taught me is that the answer to most important questions is 'it depends'. There is no one size fits all approach to most big decisions in life - that I think is wonderful because it leads to such diversity.
Right, but it seems more accurate to attribute the income discrepancy to the productivity of those people, rather than "oh you went to uni here's extra money". This means we need to decide if "people who are super-productive tend to go to uni at some point" or "uni produces super-productive people".
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The problem is that it's two trials for one action. Your scenario is four actions. Breaking in, theft, kidnapping, shooting.
That reminds me of the only "hack" I recall doing when I was younger. Back then, many BBS systems had 10/1 download/upload ratios enforced. I found that if you aborted an Xmodem download on the last block, you would still get the whole file (the block would finish transferring) but it wouldn't send the acknowledgement back to the BBS. I would just look like a failed download, and wouldn't count against your ratio. I think I filled up some 50 or so floppies that summer (and had the phone bill to match).

Other than that, I was never good at most hacking. I was into writing code, and working with algorithms, but I never got the knack on how to bypass security systems (I also didn't have any other computer savvy friends back then either). But it did help that I had an office job (which involved using my PC talents on the side) from the age of 15 on up. Kept me too busy making money to worry about side projects.
No. You have to escape <, >, &, etc. in <script> tags.
That argument is true for just about any company's benefits. Even without this, startups generally offer much less in the way of life insurance, health insurance, time off, and various miscellaneous benefits. All of these provide a much higher quality of life to the family than their absence, and most of them even operate while the employee is alive. :-)

If a spouse is already supportive enough of the startup choice to forgo all that? I doubt the extra google life insurance will change their mind.

(Incidentally, I also think that the most responsible thing you can do if you have a family and you're founding or joining a startup, is to buy your own high-value life insurance policy immediately.)
The most interesting thing about this is the feedback loop. These kind of stories seem to strike a chord and in turn more people will post about this.

Yet the discussion always goes along the same lines. The problem is that all of these are unavoidably anecdotal in nature and thus something that is basically impossible to discuss.

Sure, it might have worked out for some and might not have worked out for others. The problem is that everyone has their own experience with this, which basically confirms or denies other anecdotal evidence.

These posts pop on HN a lot, yet I find them useless. Sure it worked out (or didn't), but nobody is able to tell how things would have been if the poster had stayed in college (or in other cases, if he had left college).

All these submissions seem to do is get the "anti-college" crowd on here happy, giving them more anecdotal evidence that really, see, all I ever said is right because that dude had a similar experience while at the same time bringing out everyone for whom college did do something to scream at those who disagrees.

Repeat ad infinitum...
I wonder if that has ever affected my grades. I have truly horrendous, mostly irregular handwriting but it is readable to most people. I can, however, write in calligraphic styles but it isn't automatic.

Does handwriting say anything more about a person than that they spent a thousand hours or so in their early schooling repeating symbols on paper?
Haha I totally forgot about the wonder vacation spot; PENISLand!

Goes hand-in-hand with this post:

http://www.businessinsider.com/15-worst-corporate-logo-fails...
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College was actually exactly what this guy needed. He found his passion, discovered what did and did not work for him in terms of learning, and managed to enter the job market at a time where people with his level of experience and expertise could demand salary like what he has now. Offsetting a few years in either direction and he likely would have entered the job market at a very BAD time for people without college degrees.

"I'm in the middle of college but like work a lot better, I'll finish someday" is very different than "I never went to college, and spent the last few years making ends meat. I programed at home, and I'm great. Give me $100k." Pretending those are the same is just intellectually dishonest.

If he thinks college was his biggest mistake and he's doing really well after doing some college (and still trading on college acceptance/progress as part of his contract negotiation), well that's just a poor understanding of cause and effect.
Sorry -- I don't like these kinds of posts. They just incite the same sort of college-vs-no-college debate I've heard a million times. I think there's some kind of "hacker" pride that makes people act as if not attending college is "bucking the system" or circumventing some dumb thing the Man tells you that you have to do in order to succeed. It's not.

One size doesn't fit all. If not going to college works better -- do that. If going to college works better -- do that. I did both, sort of: I went to college but studied literature and philosophy as an undergraduate while working tech jobs to pay the bills. I loved my classes but also self-taught myself the skills I used for work. And I got exposed to a lot of stuff that I never would have learned if I had just worked and not taken those classes. That worked for me.

I'm not sure what we're supposed to get out of some single anecdotal experience that this guy didn't go to college and turned out okay. Except to say: I'm happy that's the case! Self-education rules.

Also: Can we please stop acting like college has to cost $44k/yr. It doesn't. State schools. They rule. They're relatively cheap. If you're unsure about college then, yes, going $200k in debt over something you're not sure you want is dumb. Especially when there are cheaper options.

Thank you. Drive safe.
I was thinking the same thing. Prior to reading the article [from 2004???], I assumed a Matrix-style scenario would be impossible because robots can't become sentient. But I'm not so sure that's true anymore if we're replacing NAND gates with brain cells...
Out of curiosity, what markers do you consider qualify the label "skilled programmer"?
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I was able to get an authenticator from Blizzrd years before my bank made it possible to do the same.

They care about security if only because they lose a lot of money spending time to fix up hacked accounts, and this will be even worse now they have a real-money auction house. In WoW they can just rollback items and if they duplicate some that were sold off by attackers it's no big deal. If they start duplicating real money then they need to pay out on it.
I don't want to be pesimist, but I give it 6 months to a open source alternative to be released.
I agree that it makes perfect sense for Mayer to go on a buying spree. I am very happy that Yahoo is finally getting out of it's rut. It is pretty crazy to see Yahoo disband it's R&D and then spring this far in the other direction.
This PDF has a list of flags from DEFCON 18 (this year was 20): http://www.social-engineer.org/resources/sectf/Social-Engine...

I didn't watch any this year, but I've been led to believe there were more than the 32 listed on that PDF.
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I feel like everything I read nowadays on this topic has had the tone of "don't go to college it's a waste of time" etc etc. While I agree it's definitely not for everybody, I don't agree with it being a waste of time or that nobody should go to school (even if you're not pursue a career a law/medicine/etc).

I have self-taught myself everything I've learned in software engineering, beginning in middle school when I picked up a VB6 book. Then through high school/college with some C++, Delphi, and then eventually moving to the LAMP stack and beyond. Although even before getting into college I knew exactly what I wanted to do (I was bitten by the entrepreneurial bug early in my high school years) and knew college wasn't going to do much in helping me achieve my dreams, I was still excited for those 4 years.

I wanted to have that college experience rather than looking back years later in life and saying "man I wish I got to see what that was like." But more importantly than the experience of college, I wanted to learn things I knew I'd seldom get the chance to later on in life, such as philosophy, art, history, astronomy, finance, theology, etc. While many argue that you can learn those things on your own without having to go to college, and yes I agree anyone can order an eBook or go to your locally library and pick up a bunch of books on those various topics, but it won't be the same as getting taught by a professor who has spent a great part of their life learning, teaching, researching and working in those various fields.

My goals in life have been not only to be a successful entrepreneur and a great engineer, but to also be a knowledgable man overall, one who is well versed in a number of topics. And while college won't give you all of that in 4 years, it'll definitely help you get started on your journey.
different viewpoint on ROI calculations:

The average tuition cost is approximately $16,000 per year. Plus assume another $10,000 in living costs, books, etc. $26,000 in total for a complete cost of $104,000 in a 4 year period. Some people choose to go more expensive by going to a private college and some people choose to go a little cheaper by going public but this is an average. Also, a huge assumption is that its just for a 4 year period. According to the Department of Education, only 54% of undergraduates graduate within 6 years. So for the 46% that don’t graduate, or take 10 years to graduate, this is a horrible investment. But lets assume your children are in the brilliant first half who finish within six years (and hopefully within four). Is it worth it? First, let’s look at it completely from a monetary perspective. Over the course of a lifetime, according to CollegeBoard, a college graduate can be expected to earn $800,000 more than his counterpart that didn’t go to college. $800,000 is a big spread and it could potentially separate the haves from the have-nots. But who has and who doesn’t?
If I took that $104,000 and I chose to invest it in a savings account that had interest income of 5% per year I’d end up with an extra $1.4 million dollars over a 50 year period. A full $600,000 more. That $600,000 is a lot of extra money an 18 year old could look forward to in her retirement. I also think the $800,000 quoted above is too high. Right now most motivated kids who have the interest and resources to go to college think it’s the only way to go if they want a good job. If those same kids decided to not go to college my guess is they would quickly close the gap on that $800,000 spread.
There are other factors as well. I won’t be spending $104,000 per child when my children, ages 10 and 7, decide to go to college. College costs have historically gone up much faster than inflation. Since 1978, cost of living has gone up three-fold. Medical costs, much to the horror of everyone in Congress, has gone up six-fold. And college education has gone up a whopping tenfold. This is beyond the housing bubble, the stock market bubble, any bubble you can think of.
So how can people afford college? Well, how has the US consumer afforded anything? They borrow it, of course. The average student now graduates with a $23,000 debt burden. Up from $13,000 12 years ago. Last year, student borrowings totaled $75 billion, up 25% from the year before. If students go on to graduate degrees such as law degrees they can see their debt burden soar to $200,000 or more. And the easy borrowing convinces colleges that they can raise prices even more.
http://www.jamesaltucher.com/2010/02/dont-send-your-kids-to-....
http://www.jamesaltucher.com/2011/01/10-more-reasons-why-par....
http://www.jamesaltucher.com/2011/01/8-alternatives-to-colle....
SRP is great at many things, but terrible at securing the server-side password database from brute force attacks.

A quick look at http://srp.stanford.edu/design.html and http://srp.stanford.edu/demo/demo.html and you can see that SRP uses simple SHA1 plus a Salt to store the hashed passwords.

With the hashes and salts stolen, please assume your password has been brute forced by the attacker (1 billion hashes per second with SHA1 is not expensive). This is LinkedIn all over again.

If Blizzard customized their SRP algorithm to use a more expensive hash than SHA1, they should come out and say it.

Otherwise, we should assume their statement that using SRP "means that each password would have to be deciphered individually" is nothing more than a salted SHA1. Combined with their reduced entropy password policy, all stored passwords are likely brute forced already.
SRP is great at many things, but terrible at securing the server-side password database from brute force attacks.

A quick look at http://srp.stanford.edu/design.html and http://srp.stanford.edu/demo/demo.html and you can see that SRP uses simple SHA1 plus a Salt to store the hashed passwords.

With the hashes and salts stolen, please assume your password has been brute forced by the attacker (1 billion hashes per second with SHA1 not expensive). This is LinkedIn all over again.

If Blizzard customized their SRP algorithm to use a more expensive hash than SHA1, they should come out and say it.

Otherwise, we should assume their statement that using SRP "means that each password would have to be deciphered individually" is nothing more than a salted SHA1. Combined with their reduced entropy password policy, all stored passwords are likely brute forced already.
$44k a year for tuition is ridiculous and entirely not worth it if your primary goal is to get a job that does not require a college degree.

However, paying a reasonable amount for tuition with the goal of personal enrichment and/or getting a job that requires a college degree is certainly worth it.

As a current college student and part-time developer, I feel like college was a great choice for me-- even though I could've landed a full-time programming job without it. Although the curriculum can be monotonous at times, just having the chance to talk and work with other computer science students on a daily basis has been enlightening.

Yes, you can teach yourself programming-- but college can help (really!).
Déjà vu a little: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4354635
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You misunderstood my entire comment, but I can see why you would think I was angry. I'm disappointed, not angry. Disappointed that in this day and age, companies like Blizzard are making record profits and fall prey to attacks that are sometimes as simple as an SQL injection attack. While I am grateful they have told us about the attack, I'd much prefer the situation went like this: "We've been attacked, our database was compromised but because everything important is encrypted all they have is your email address"
Success is sitting right infront of you.

But if he'd finished college, he'd know that "infront" is two words!

But in all honesty, I also dropped out of college and I agree with the sentiment of this post wholeheartedly.

In fact, I might go a step further and say that the fear and uncertainty that came with not having a degree actually pushed me to hustle harder than I think I would've otherwise.
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> In fact, I might go a step further and say that the fear and uncertainty that came with not having a degree actually pushed me to hustle harder than I think I would've otherwise.

Stress caused by feeling behind is not a strong endorsement in my opinion.
> He's pointing out (correctly) that this is an entirely cosmetic abstraction layer on top of life insurance.

Life insurance is provided by extremely conservative, highly diversified investment companies.

> Notice how you responded much, much more viscerally to this emotional, novel perk ...

Yeah, with nausea that employees are expected to gamble something so important on ... AdSense.
I believe that going to college is worth it if you're being selectively taught by the top 1%. The rest of the 99%? Forget about it-- you can learn more with an internet connection.
It could be worse, you could have started law school circa 2006.

3 years completely wasted, vis-a-vis programming and arguably just about the whole tech universe, $150,000 in tuition. After that you get a degree that serves as an entrance to a profession that is extremely economically depressed, near universally reviled, and the few jobs there are have terrible working conditions and are filled with unhappy people.

Live, learn, and try and pass on some hard won lessons.
Do you ever wonder how many assumptions you're making about those who've not completed college? I don't mean this in an insulting way, but I feel it should be noted that it is quite degrading. Your comment assumes:

1) This writer is not self-aware. They haven't taken stock of the full impact of college.

2) Other writers, who also write similar posts, are also not self-aware. This trend is not that college is in fact bad, but that many people who leave college fail at recognizing the true benefits. This is an epidemic.

3) That most people who don't attend college are unable to write well.

4) On top of the items above, that you feel you know more than this person about their own life.

This all feels to me like hefty cognitive bias to me.
Not getting a CS education was my biggest mistake.

I got most of a Finance degree, then dropped out when I ran out of money and found out people would pay decent money to a relatively inexperienced programmer. I'm happy with the way things have turned out for me career-wise - I think I'm a pretty competent developer and have a decent income and good future prospects - but I feel like there are opportunities that I'm much less likely to be able to take advantage of because I've mostly learned things as I've needed them.

Yes, I can (and am) independently learn everything you would in a CS program, but it is much more difficult, and the piece of paper is sometimes useful, too. Yes, plenty of folks get by without one, but I hope people don't get the idea that because they can teach themselves to throw together a website, they won't learn anything from a CS program - when I was 18, I had this idea that CS degrees taught outdated and relatively useless information, which I now believe to be false.

Even beyond the core CS curriculum, there are a lot of benefits to attending college - I feel like I at least got some of those by completing most of a degree.

It is certainly valid for some people to skip college, and that's fine, I just hope that all of this anti-college sentiment we've seen recently isn't just going to create another generation of people like me who regret thinking they didn't need the formal CS education.
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Perception of how the money is made. Generalizing a bit, but most people feel that Google earned the money honestly while Wall Street got their money dishonestly.
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Wow some of the comments on that page are horrifying, and incredibly hostile.

"Ex Zynga employee is just a spoiled little brat with no common sense."

"wow what a spoiled douche."

"Is this supposed to make us feel bad?"

"You played the startup game and you lost."
I think you have it backwards. The sundress is overly-dressy. The shoes are designed to be looked at and to impress, rather than for comfort.

I think that sort of misrepresentation (not you specifically, the event) is what the author resenting. Read me out.

Brute utility defines romance of 'startup culture'. Humans understanding their world, and interacting with it in a straight-forward way. I'm modifying the code to do this. These effects will alter this part of our business. You're attempting to account for everything. Money has definite purposes. Your time has value measured in the sort of excitement that makes your brain burn like you were lifting weights with it.

Those conditions do not include men spending their money on jeans, and women spending self control on culturally approved foot torture. At that point the focus has moved from interacting with the business to something about social status.

Buzzwords really give things away. I'm only now learning that buzzwords are the most important part of modern established businesses. They're fucking amazing. A buzzword represents an abstract concept.

Abstract concepts come in two flavors. Those that represent something very specific/complex in concise terms, and those which represent something very vague/simple in bombastic terms. In use, they are the guardians of understanding and agreement. Secrecy and manipulation and power with publicly spoken words. A stark contrast to the liberal sharing of knowledge and honest curiosity of the startup dream.
> For example, most people who didn't go to college can't write a blog post like yours.

I'm fairly certain this has more to do with the average type of person that doesn't go to college rather than any causal link between Freshman Composition and good writing skills.
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