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your chances of being able to do exactly the kind of research you want goes up significantly with a PhD, plus you've already had the experience of doing it for 4 years.

I'm not so sure that's a valid generalization.

I'm getting a PhD in computer science, but any corporate R&D department I know of that would hire a fresh graduate would only let you do R in service of their particular D needs, i.e., you have too little autonomy.

I definitely think I can find jobs that I love and that are lucrative (I have some in mind), but I won't be doing research as, say, a tenured professor would define it.
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Remember the Xbox? It was almost exactly an off-the-shelf PC.

Those of you chiding the PS4 for being the same thing seem to forget how well xbox has worked out for microsoft.

The average person playing video games does not care what makes the video games go.
That security is going to be disabled so fast it'll make Sony's head spin. x86 is a well known processor with a ton of corner cases, legacy code, and know attacks that should make this a lot easier than the Cell, where no one really knew how to attack an IBM LPAR.
Per guizzy, I stand corrected! I shouldn't be trying to write formal French.
I referred to this NGM article in another sub-parent comment here, but I think it contains very relevant on-topic animal intelligence language-related insights, so posting a link and a couple of short excerpts from it here:

Under Pepperberg’s patient tutelage, Alex [a parrot] learned how to use his vocal tract to imitate almost one hundred English words, including the sounds for all of these foods, although he calls an apple a “banerry.”

“Apples taste a little bit like bananas to him, and they look a little bit like cherries, so Alex made up that word for them,” Pepperberg said.

[...]

[...] because Alex was able to produce a close approximation of the sounds of some English words, Pepperberg could ask him questions about a bird’s basic understanding of the world. She couldn’t ask him what he was thinking about, but she could ask him about his knowledge of numbers, shapes, and colors. To demonstrate, Pepperberg carried Alex on her arm to a tall wooden perch in the middle of the room. She then retrieved a green key and a small green cup from a basket on a shelf. She held up the two items to Alex’s eye.

“What’s same?” she asked.

Without hesitation, Alex’s beak opened: “Co-lor.”

“What’s different?” Pepperberg asked.

“Shape,” Alex said.

Article: http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/print/2008/03/animal-minds...
Was nothing at all said about when this product will actually be available? Neither the OP nor the five other random PS4 announcement articles seem to have any info on that.
Wow. That's an impressive hack.

I remember when I played Warcraft 2 (also mentioned in TFA) competitively (WC 2 wasn't meant to be played on the Internet, but we'd use Kali to simulate a LAN over the Internet and then we'd use trust-based ranking websites)...

The "build" was to put two barracks (or any other building) just touching each other by a corner and you'd then put three units in a special formation: then any rush would result in the rusher only being able to attack with one unit while you'd have three units hitting the attacker.

Needless to say rushes weren't a big part of the game in WC2 ; )
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I worked with what i refer to as the "Croatian Coalition" at Lockheed Martin. DAMN smart people. One of my best friends is from this group and I am constantly bouncing ideas off him and seeking to find a way to work together again.

I would never underestimate the skills of anyone based on where they were from....

Also, don't overestimate the skills of someone either...
Now that was a good PandoDaily article. Short, succinct, but valuable. I wish we got more of this kind of article on HN!

Personally, I've spent a lot of time thinking about various "important questions" that I've gleaned from sources like: watching videos of pg doing office hours, reading pg essays, reading VC blogs, reading Steve Blank's material, etc. Also my $DAYJOB boss, acoliver, is big on harping on the question "what problem does this solve?" (a pg favorite) and "who can the business owner fire if they acquire your solution"?

And despite all that, I'd never encountered this question before, at least not in this form. It certainly isn't one of "the questions" I try to have an answer to. It will be now.

Of course, it isn't about Sequoia, or any other specific firm... it's a good, solid question that helps you focus on important aspects of your business. Is it a technology thing? Is it a market thing? Is it a public opinion or demographics thing? Something regulatory? Whatever "it" is, you should probably know about it if you have really figured out your market, your technology, etc.

I'm looking forward to digging deep on this vis-a-vis Fogbeam Labs, but here's quick, off the cuff answer for us:

"Because the world is moving towards Open Source software and we believe that most important self-hosted enterprise software is going to be OSS in the future. Additionally, computing power and scalability necessary to do the complex machine learning operations that we need, are now widely available and affordable. And finally, because improving internal knowledge transfer and process efficiency is one of the few remaining areas to gain a sustainable competitive advantage".

(Aside: for anybody who doesn't know what we're working on, it's OSS software that works at the intersection of Knowledge Management, Information Retrieval, Social Networking and BPM. Think "Facebook for the Enterprise" (kinda like Jive or Yammer) but with a much deeper level of integration into business process and workflows.)
"And given that 'not making money' means, essentially, starvation and death"

I can't even begin to imagine where do you live to have that drastic views...
Tiers are highly subjective. I know many will disagree with tiering. But Purdue is at the very least a tier below A. I'm speaking of undergrad.

We at least know it's not A tier (Harvard Princeton Stanford MIT, I think I'm missing a few). Or if you want to get even more resolution, it's not necessarily A- tier either (Berkeley, "lower" Ivies, etc.)
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I don't see a significant difference here. There are about seven elements per year on that list. There are a handful of years during the recession where there are fewer top sellers, but 2011 had just as much as any of the earlier years, and many of the games from 2012 probably are still selling in large quantities today.

This also doesn't account for the rise of free to play gaming on PC. The most popular video game in the history of the world isn't on this list at all.

Also, fatally, digital sales are not factored into these numbers. There's this thing called Steam . . .
Meh, not really impressed. Specs are good but they will not look so good in 3 years time. Nothing really new under the hood. This is indeed a machine of the big administrative company known as Sony. This seems more like the common architecture will favor PC gaming and conversions in the end.
I think you read too much into their post.

I read it as: If MS locks it down, it would be on even footing with the Steam console, in which case his preference is for Steam.
It hasn't shifted that far. Geek culture itself is still considered "uncool", even in silicon valley. When popular culture uses the term "Geek" they really mean "Hipster." It's the aesthetics that are considered cool, not the substance.

The shift you're perceiving is this: people with geeky hobbies and professions are now allowed the opportunity to be cool. That wasn't an option before the dot com boom. Thanks to the mass amounts of wealth and resources geeks have generated, we've been allowed a seat at the table, provided we behave ourselves. IE: no segways, no VR goggles, no LARP.

That distinction is exactly why Google is taking the tactic they are - they want the glass associated more with Apple and less with Segway.
Thanks for the great info posted here!

That said, one small nitpick: I'm fairly sure Facebook does less revenue/user than you do: They have a billion users, and did (order of magnitude) 5 billion last year: That's $5/user/year. Which you do per month.

Still, it's amazing you can provide this unlimited service for that small fee!
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Patience, man. The press event isn't even done yet.
I came here in may or june of 2007. Was led here via watching Justin.TV when that first started; launched my first start up there, yet back then I had zero technical skills. Tough to do a start-up when you don't know how to code, especially back then in my area.

Overall I been an avid(addicted) read since - thanks!
mid thirties here and I did have a blink of excitement when I read the word "PS4", like "oh I forgot there was such thing to wait for, yay".

It lasted 4 beautiful seconds. Not sure whether to blame Sony though...
Personally, I'd talk openly with him about this and a real division of labor.

If he is willing to put in equity and you're willing to put in sweat equity, for instance, a 50% split can be reached. If he's not willing to put in either, drop him.

If you can, offer to buy him out for whatever you think the idea is worth. If not, go your own way.
Did you know that dolphins love to rape each other and some have tried to rape a human?!

Check out this list of interesting facts...

http://www.environmentalgraffiti.com/news-6-badass-facts-you...
irony https://twitter.com/shanley/status/299286770594508801
Its an uneasy thought to have that sentience might not be a binary function that humans have and other species lack. It might be a continuum. Some animals are far more sentient than others. Its followed closely by the even more uncomfortable thought that this might vary greatly inside the species. Finally this eerie train of thought pulls into the last station and you think that if the above is true than its almost certain that some humans are less sentient than others. There be dragons.
As long as you don't do a Ph.D. with the assumption that you will get a permanent academic job, i.e., faculty at a university.

I don't really think it's the salary of a permanent academic job that people complain about, it's the fact that in most fields, the number of such jobs is far surpassed by the number of Ph.D.'s produced. When you realize that "not that much money" means "postdoc kind of not-that-much-money", then the outlook changes.
6 years is 2190 or 2191 with 1 leap year or 2192 with 2 leap years.

As of writing I created my account 2170 days ago. It is by far my most visited site (at least once a day). Sure the content isn't as great as it use to be, but I expect that with the increase in traffic and submissions. It is still head and shoulders above the rest though.

Happy birthday HN!
Carrot is my favorite to-do app. It's weird. It's risky. It's definitely not for everyone. I dig the developer's philosophy for creeping featuritis, explained in this story.
Shamless on topic plug here. Some readers might be more familiar with ruby.

Multi-threaded webscraping with the tor network with ruby -

http://devcomsystems.com.au/2013/01/multi-thread-mechanize-u...
I only know what I know, and I don't know (or have heard any real rumors, for that matter) of anyone else entering the AAA-title console market. Of course secrets exist.
Until the Steam Box is out.
"Employment at graduation" is not a particularly meaningful metric, because STEM PhDs who are not employed at graduation usually just means that they haven't gotten a post-doc. They will take a few months and find a job in the tech industry.
Lucrative and secure are in tension only if the work is also very interesting (or fulfilling/challenging/stimulating, etc.)

If a job is all 3 of interesting, lucrative, and secure, then everyone will try to get that job, and the competition will either drive the salary down, or drive the job security down, or both.

A more general version of this rule is that anything desirable (or "scarce" if you want to use an economic term) in life will soon be pursued by others to the point where it becomes no longer desirable. That's the essence of how markets work.

The trick to wealth is to know (through some combination of vision and luck) what is going to be desirable ahead of time and obtain it before everyone else knows they want it.
Uh. What about superimposed maps on roads for example? What about product information just being there when you look at that in the super market (and whether it's cheaper somewhere on the internet). Or its nutrition information/health hazards etc. ! There are thousands of applications of pervasive wearable devices which 'shows us things'.
It's times like these I wish I had enough karma to downvote. Not you, but this article. Typing for pagerank.
That's an exaggeration for Canada.

As http://www.workpermit.com/canada/points_calculator.htm says, a PhD is +25 points and you need 67 to get in. It helps a lot, but far from a guarantee.
Your guess is wrong, and an easy way for you to dismiss the issues that the blog post brings up.
The Joel from Buffer feature.
It's not just stereotypes, he gives examples of direct observations and interactions. You can attribute it to distaste for environmental controls or anything else, but the fact is that he and many other companies are passing up locating in France. Personally, the difficulty in firing people in the event of making a hiring mistake or having a cashflow issue would discourage me from ever setting up shop there, even though I think I would really enjoy living there otherwise.
Does YC keep any metrics regarding submission and comment quality?
So many words defending his recreation and insisting it was a legitimate sport. It was as if he presumed the reader was judging him and he felt the need to defend himself.

I suspect some spectrum issues are involved but he is still no less of a person.
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List is also kind of misleading in regards that many games do not release individual sales based on systems anymore so they cannot be accurately listed (and are omitted). For example, Deus Ex: Human Revolution sold at least 2 million copies[1] since it came out 2 years ago and a large % were probably PC based on it being a PC franchise.

It's also generally better to buy on steam directly versus physical copies to avoid headaches (usually cheaper as well if you catch steam seasonal sales). I can understand not doing that if you preorder for some special items though. That and to always make sure the game does not come with some sort of other annoying DRM that is not listed[2].

[1] http://www.pcgamer.com/2011/09/09/deus-ex-human-revolution-s...

[2] http://steamdrm.flibitijibibo.com/index.php?page=DRM_Lists/T...
Do they charge websites for traffic referral?
Skipping to the end might give you more perspective.
Because I ended up doing a bit of reading about dolphins earlier this week, I thought I'd share a bit of trivia in this thread: dolphins also have prehensile penises. (Like an elephant's nose) http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=1...

And they're also not-very-nice (Tongue firmly in cheek here. Of course animals do not possess human qualities like "nice" or "asinine") http://deepseanews.com/2013/02/10-reasons-why-dolphins-are-a...

Now that we know they have names and are able to make tools, this has to make them one of the most unique species on the planet aside from man. Wonder what would have happened had they just invented some form of writing?
If the first iPhone was embarrassing to use, would it have hindered or enhanced adoption?

Jonathan Ive will design a nice version, Apple will own the market, and google will aghast "but... we were first...".

Google glasses look cool as an object - it's just that they look bad when worn. For a start, make them symmetrical (even if the "other" projector is fake).
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I'm wondering if this same graph can be applied to non-PhD track students, meaning people coming out of STEM programs with a Bachelors, or are you basically getting nothing by even bothering coming out of STEM without a PhD/Masters?
I don't think it's true that, statistically, I'd be just as likely to experience the red ring of death than to lose a manual, have to run an installer for a game, or have problems getting software started up. With a console, there would've been a 99.9% probability of just handing the kid the game, starting it up, and leave him to play it.
It would be amazing to read the entire history of the bill, from initial drafting through the congressional conference committee and see who was responsible for every change.
This is my fear as well. The user experience of the PS3 could have been so much better if they hadn't let the bean counters tamper with it. For example the home screen selection starts at the Sony store - each time I turn on the PS3 and have to navigate several slots away just to play my game pissed me off and turns me off from buying another Sony product.
> In my experience trying to learn GIT, I was able to conclude that GIT introduces a LOT of terminologies, and concepts, making the path for beginners like me more and more difficult.

So does Subversion, but you have already learned its terminology and concepts and are no longer a beginner.
If the detail is minor, it's not important.
Ask HN: Any companies or startups using AWS Elastic Beanstalk?
Are any companies or startups using AWS Elastic Beanstalk for production apps? How does this compare to Heroku?
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I wonder (seriously) if I learned to create these rings myself, would I earn mad dolphin cred?
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@raganwald: I've used just about the same setup to power my own writing blog (http://slicedupfor.me) and other sites for several months now, but I have it all under one Github account. Am I missing some benefits from a multi-account setup? Thanks.
Huh. I figured much the same way with mind's eye; much like my thoughts, I "visualize" in a very abstract fashion. I don't see the object, I just know it. So there are in fact people, who see it?
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Yes, that's a perfectly valid but far less entertaining interpretation of the comment I replied to.
I don't know why you're saying that, disruption is right around the corner:

http://greenthrottle.com/ - Play mobile games on your TV

http://www.bluestacks.com/ - Play mobile games on your PC

http://www.ouya.tv/ - Android gaming console

http://www.theverge.com/2013/2/6/3958162/valve-steam-box-cak... - Play games sold on Steam directly on your TV
I feel the same way about projects looking into habitation of foreign planets. The science and the engineering behind the endeavor is interesting, but why seriously not start thinking about and practicing sustainability in places like Antarctica?
Good point, I don't think Steam releases sales figures unless a company chooses to do so on their own.
Julian Assange, from leaker to senator?
I'm curious, will there be anything on core.logic in the second edition of "Joy of Clojure"?
That's... odd. Truthfully, I have distinctive knee-jerk reactions in both directions about that.

On one hand, US policies often have global ramifications (although I'm cynical enough to think that nothing a petition here will affect will have enough importance to matter in that respect). Also, it's often useful to get the perspective of people in general, wherever they are in the world, in case there's some sort of general consensus (although it would be a consensus of educated internet accessing elites in many parts of the world...)

On the other hand, it's a site for the US government to solicit information from US citizens. People from other countries registering their opinion doesn't really fit all that well with that goal.
It's really hard to imagine it will be able to play 360 games — not because of some evil scheme by Microsoft, but just because it's impractical. In order to backwards-compatible like that, you need one of two things:

A) Hardware that is extremely similar to the old system, so that you can either run its software natively on the metal or virtualize it without much of a penalty

-- This is how the Wii ran GameCube games

-- In a strange way, this is also how the original PS3 ran PS2 games — it included special hardware just for PS2 compatibility

B) Hardware that is radically more powerful than the old system, so that even though you have to emulate the old hardware, you're doing it fast enough to run the software at full speed

-- This is how the PS2 and PS3 play PS1 games

-- This is also how modern PCs do emulation of old consoles

Neither of these is the case for the 720 as far as I know. The hardware is very different from the 360, and although modern hardware is significantly more powerful than the 360, there still aren't any emulators for it or the PS3.
I don't quite understand. If you already went to the trouble to set up a rouge SSL proxy on a network, can't you just silently inject content into the original response that would then run in the same origin context?

Surely I'm misunderstanding the meaning of SSL proxy. Can someone explain how such a thing works.
Whenever there's a tech-related thing (product, framework, company, or what have you) I need to know more about, one of the first things I do is google "site:news.ycombinator.com <thing>." Almost always fetches a lot of insightful content that I doubt can be found anywhere else as quickly.

Happy birthday HN!
Yeah, when I was in grad school, I and my friends said the same thing. However, when reality sinks in that choosing to work on such interesting stuff means living year-by-year on soft money at a postdoc salary, and that in many fields you have little advantage transitioning to a nonacademic job over someone with a MS, it doesn't seem like such a good deal anymore.

Also, I'm not sure you're calibrated correctly. It's not about sacrificing "latest model cars", more about sacrificing a reasonable chance of retirement.
So they built a PC, and branded it.
I already do that. I have a common_settings.py, a dev_settings.py, and a local_settings.py. That's not really the use case I am speaking of.

First, it still makes you put all application config into a single config file (considering that even if you "inherit" settings from a common file, it's 100% equivalent to having one big settings file).

Second, you cannot change these settings in-app. They are hard-coded.
Power buttons are somewhat special just from a hardware point of view; I don't think they are especially useful for this question.

You can't navigate a menu to reach a power-on function. A competing power button service will never come out to replace the currently popular power button service. Every single Xbox or PS3 owner will use the power button(s) with regularity.
Works well, looks sleek, and only randomly locked up once (To be fair, I had tons of tabs open).

Good job!
He didn't say his asocial lifestyle was healthy.
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Not even that..
"A two-year university degree at the Bachelor's level AND at least 14 years of full-time study = 20 points"

So just doing a bachelor's will give you 80% of the PhD points..