skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Stop with this no college crap.

Here's the facts: if you have no work experience and no college education, you're not even going to get a phone interview with any software company. You're just not. None of the companies I've worked for (from tiny startups to 1000+ person software companies) would look twice at your resume. They wouldn't even get so far as printing it out so they could throw it away.

You are not Mark Zuckerberg. You are not Bill Gates. Don't try to pretend you are. If you're incredibly lucky, you'll get a job as an unpaid intern at a medical device company writing Delphi for their internal systems. You may be able to work your way up from there... but it'll suck.

College was FUN. I learned a lot there. I wouldn't skip it for the world. Hell, for much of my 20's I wished I could go back to college to do it some more.

I went to a private, expensive technical school, and graduated with, yes, $30,000 in debt. If you're as smart as you think you are, you can get grants and scholarships to reduce the cost of college. And then you can pay it off a few hundred dollars a month like everyone else does... and you'll laugh, because a few hundred dollars a month isn't that bad when you're getting paid $70k+

I promise you, you'll learn a lot in college. You'll have fun. Don't listen to all the statistics about not being able to get a job or pay off loans... those are general statistics for all graduates that include all the philosophy and English and history of music majors.

You'll be graduating with SKILLS and KNOWLEDGE that can be directly applied to the JOB that you get because you are QUALIFIED, and because software companies troll job fairs at technical colleges looking for bright stars like you that will work their butts off for half the price of the old neckbeards with kids that want to go home at 5pm.

GO TO COLLEGE. IT'S AWESOME.
Green Lightening - The Newer Hacker's Dictionary
> I do see an improvement in my sleep quality and in the past week have noticed a spike in my swimming endurance.

Did that coincide with another change? Is your diet the only thing you changed? Did that reflect the results you were expecting?
The best I've heard is "At least you will be able to think critically." Was that really left out of the previous 12 years' curriculum?
How Project Managers can learn from Premier League Manager Roberto Martinez
I disagree with your analogy. We do go around telling people they should obtain basic competence in DIY tasks.

The 'makers' movement is pushing forward this importance in lots of places on the web and in the real world.

I think everyone should be able to understand how computers are programmed and the only way to do that is basic coding lessons.
I'm not seeing it in Spain either. Though going to http://google..co.uk does the trick.
Rediscovering the Entrepreneurial Spirit in All of Us
Try this: Right-click a page -> Bookmark this page -> enter.
Two of the main advantages of Firefox for many are its memory usage and its extensibility. Those two advantages would be lost if Firefox added sandboxing. I'm glad that I can choose between sandboxing and better extensions and I would be sad to see that choice disappear.
What i dislike so much about SEO is exactly what you said.
The main thing about the whole business is assuming how google works and then trying to trick it to make as much money as possible ignoring the fact that they are polluting the web and degrading the experience for millions of users.

Ever looked at a SEO forum ? The amount of smattering and assumptions by self-educated "experts" is astonishing. Of course there are guys really worth their salt that can also code, but they are a minority.
Recently, it seems Chrome is saving history online between browsers on different machines. This has freaked me out to the point where I'm moving back to using Firefox.
Maybe the OP should write an 'SEO for Dummies' book that helps people avoid becoming victim to SEO scumbags.
"market prediction" and "prediction market" are two very different things.
Mom and pop shouldn't completely escape blame here.

If their business was that vested in their google ranking they should have learned a little more about it, and kept closer watch, asked more questions.

If someone offered to remodel your shop floor you'd be crazy to just let them do anything.
In today's US economy, those jobs are not taken by the young anymore. They are being taken by people who have been laid-off/downsized, already have skills of some sort and don't need the experience of the low value jobs.
All the information needed for good SEO is publicly available from Google.
...America is not one of them.

When my poorer friends here in rural USA ask me what the hell that "privilege" concept is, I'm going to point them at this comment.
Creative Learning Pays Off for Web Start-Ups
Why are we using the expression SEO since there is only one search engine people are targetting/using ? do businesses really care if they are numero uno on Bing or duckduckgo ? I never understood that.

Let's cut the crap , SEO is Google rank optimization.

It means there is no SEO since the only player that decides how SEO works is google. If tomorrow Google decides using the word "FLOWER" in your header improves your rank on its search engine, what optimisation are we talking about ?this is not optimization , it is following google's rules. It means google is in charge, and they are abusing their dominant position pretty well, and the whole system is a scam anyway.
Agreed, I don't bother with AV software for myself anymore the performance penalty and nagging isn't worth it.

I tend to notice a correlation between people who have problems with malware/spyware/crapware and people who have AV software installed and it's the opposite of what you might expect. Perhaps people who install it get a false sense of security?

AV software tends to be either ineffective in that it doesn't detect a lot of actual malware or it is constantly generating a lot of false positives which people just learn to ignore "Tracking cookie detected! Your life is in danger!".
See this previous discussion on a fair algorithm for bill splitting, Expectorant:
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4259633
> The user benefit of security (which Microsoft did not use) could be used by Apple today as a far more legitimate defense.

Relative merits of two bogus arguments aside... It's pretty easy to argue against. Chrome & Firefox would help security (and this additional consumer choice would probably go well with the pro-market regulators). And they could lift the JIT ban on a per app basis.
Pentadactyl alone did it for me.
SXSW 'net activists: Free 'Super (White Space) Wi-Fi': Now go tell the FCC
Not as bad as some people, but still:

(http://imgur.com/OxrsFTP)
Even if what you suggest made sense it would still not come close to 100x more dangerous. Even if we were REALLY generous and called it 3x more, we're still not even in the same universe.

Plus as I said, the drowning statistics above are a huge over-estimation as they don't give individual breakdowns of the context of the drowning (e.g. pools, boats, bathtub, etc).
Have you had a look at Luminus[1]?

[1]: http://www.luminusweb.net
I'm in the UK and it did this - fresh install of Windows 7 (in a VM)
podcast or text blog interviews?
Unfortunately, in the US, with so many public schools striving to meet benchmark scores on standardized tests that require little critical thinking. . .the answer is yes, that's increasingly left out of the previous 12 years' curriculum.
Life Changing Decisions We Make Without Thinking
And I guess he probably wanted to underline "because" instead.
The immediate difference toggling "Predict network actions to improve page load performance" off for me is STUNNING. Thank you so much.
It might not be useful for you, but I for one find the "addon bar" really great. I've about 10 addons installed and configured most of them to be at the bottom, all in a single place. You can toggle it with "CTRL + /" at anytime, which pleases both parties.
In a modern american diet is it possible to eat grains without your laundry list of "sugar, oils, junk food, HFCS"? It doesn't matter if you "can" eat grains although they're almost never available in a format that meets the other requirements.

Don't try to tell me every american, especially fat ones, cracks open a can of creamed corn kernels every meal for a vegetable. In a modern fat american diet, grains = wonder bread (or equiv) made out of sugar, oil, and HFCS, doritos made out of oil aka junk food. Pizza with the wheat and soy flour crust baked on oil with a super sugary sauce covered in oily meat and dairy cheese. What, if anything, do americans eat made out of grain that isn't a junk food? Bread is junk food. Donuts are junk food. Pretty much everything from the bakery is junk food. Breakfast cereal is junk food. Granola bars are junk food. Oatmeal (my son needs special GF uncontaminated oatmeal..) is just a delivery vehicle for 25% by weight brown sugar, butter, and maple syrup, so thats junk food too. Anything fried, baked, and heavily seasoned and sealed into a shelf stable bag contains wheat and/or soy and is junk food. Is there any junk food out there made without dairy, soy protein extract, or wheat? I have extensively researched this and the answer is basically "no". My son can eat a couple kinds of corn chip and some unflavored potato chips, thats about it for his "typical american diet" junk food. Almost anything "heat and eat" from the freezer section of the store is off limits.

My son has a medically diagnosed allergy to a protein in wheat. So for about a decade, no wheat (ditto soy and dairy ... so we eat what boils down to medically required paleo diet at home since about 2004, although we don't (probably to our detriment) exclude potatoes, rice, and beans). Coincidentally, exclusion of wheat pretty much excludes all junk food. There's not much he can eat in the category of "junk food" other than some plain potato chips, and specialty expensive therefore rare exotic gluten free junk food. I only get to eat "junk food" while at work, its not like I'm gonna dig into a cake in front of a kid who can't eat it without exploding out both ends...

I see it as a happy coincidence. If the FDA mandated all junk food contain blue food coloring, and a diet was proposed that we shouldn't eat stuff made with blue food coloring, it doesn't "really" matter that its not the blue dye making us fat...
"What’s so wrong with calling out lazy storytelling based on dumb stereotypes?" Well, biologically men are physically stronger. So it's just logical that man saves woman in game. (By the way - lowered physical strength standards for women in US that want to become firefighter/police officers says a lot.)

"Your arguments make no sense at all." And you gave no arguments what so ever.
Mother Teresa's Crisis of Faith [2007]
Factors Effecting Precipitation
Agreed. On my 2GB netbook, Chrome was one of the first apps I installed. At the time, it was a lean and lightweight browser. But recently Chrome's memory bloat has gotten so bad, I had to switch to Firefox. One killer is the GPU process often taking 200+MB.

Before giving up, and switching to FF, I tried the --disable-gpu --disable-software-rasterizer switches to disable the GPU process but that prevented videos from playing at full speed.
Some people here mentioned Chrome runs great on their rigs with 16GB of RAM. But for the rest of the world, Google should force their devs to use Chrome on a machine with a mere 2GB.

How is it that sites like anandtech and investing.com run fine on my old iPhone 3GS, yet take up 256+ MB in Chrome, more RAM than the phone has? Somehow the 3 year old phone loads and displays the sites smooth as butter. Apple is doing something right or Google is doing something terribly wrong to webkit.
I had Ghostery, but didn't like it. It seemed to "talk too much".

Noscript can be paranoid (a feature, not a bug) and occasionally stop sites from working even if they are white-listed; I consider having to open a site in another browser sometimes less of a nuisance than having my main browser slowed down by dodgy JS.

Two add-ons anthropomorphized in one comment! I guess that's what happens when you spend so much time in front of a screen ;-)
Yes. Do you really claim, that the latter is now shorter?
If yes—source, please. And if not,then what's your point then?
The users at hackforums are terribly incompetent. These kids all run their command and control center on their local computer. The RAT has one (or several) free dns name(s) embedded and the user keeps updating those with his home ip to receive connections from them.

How hard would it be to launch an investigation into this ip address once you find it out? Would filing John Doe lawsuit allow you to do discovery on those ip addresses? Does 'an ip address is not a person' prevent you from further investigating who the actual person was?
>Two of the main advantages of Firefox for many are its memory usage and its extensibility. Those two advantages would be lost if Firefox added sandboxing. I'm glad that I can choose between sandboxing and better extensions and I would be sad to see that choice disappear.

Totally orthogonal issues.

Not to mention Firefox ate memory like a pig until recently, despite not having sandboxing.

Now it's somewhat better with post 16 stuff, but still it's slow. Chrome is much more responsive and fast.
The Risk of MVP: Thinking Small means Staying Small
> I agree, it doesn't make sense to compare absolute numbers.

It makes complete sense. We take number of children (i.e. population) and we take the number of times something bad occurs to that population, and that gives us our level of risk per each individual (e.g. 1 in 100,000 or similar).

If we follow the logic of your argument then we start getting into stupid territory very quickly indeed. For example, how many bees are there in the US? And how many people die of bee stings? Well given the number of bees Vs. bee sting deaths we can calculate that you have more chance of winning the lottery two times than dying of a bee string, right? ... Well no, that makes no sense at all.

Basically gun advocates are abusing statistics. They're arguing that keeping two guns in your gun safe instead of one makes guns twice as safe! And four guns is twice as safe again! So as they increase guns the guns get safer and safer, isn't that wonderful...
It actually is.

Anything else may help in the short term but it all ends up falling over when the "All Mighty Google" rollout a "Panda/Penguin" update, luckily sites sell you "Penguin Proof SEO!".
I just wanted to explain the authors mental leap, I originally said:
if you do not accept the law of excluded middle than proof by contradiction ceases to be a valid proof method.
The law of excluded middle might not be sufficient, but is necessary for the reductio ad absurdum and proof by contradiction methods. You are right though I jumped too quickly to the "if and only if", the details get quite complicated.
I'm not a businessman, just a programmer, and a consumer, so what I think may be irrelevant, but...

If you have a piece of something that already works for you, to the point that you cannot live without it, then you already have much, much more than most of the startups after a year of funding.

Maybe you should hire someone who will be able to sell this thing, or make such a person a partner, if you are not capable of this yourself. But you should not, definitely, continue to make this thing only for yourself.
And the sellers of THOSE remote desktops don't have a problem.
The pro-religion / anti-religious criticism crowd here seems much more vocal than the opposition as well. Both sides seem to have lost out to the Guns vs Pools debate in any case.
If you're on windows, the difference in font rendering between firefox and chrome is huge.
I'm not saying programmers are always right or rational. I'm saying they care more about truth and logical consistency. Or at least they care more about being the kind of person that cares about truth and logical consistency.

Let's say there was a box containing a piece of paper that has the answer to the question, "Does God exist?" or "Is my view on nutrition or pharmaceuticals correct?". The atheist and the programmer would almost certainly look inside that box even at considerable cost. Many religious people would not. Some people could save a lot of time if they realized that.
It's often public land. State or national forests, which are gigantic portions of the US, are generally hunting areas (though state or national parks are usually no-hunting zones).

Hunting is licensed by the states, and is usually relatively inexpensive for in-state residents. People from other states usually pay considerably more for a license. Big game or rarer animals may require special "tags" which come at larger fees and may be limited and awarded by lottery.

There are private game reserves. Georgia and other southern states have massive hunting preserves that can be a mark of old money, for instance. There are similar ranches in the west. And hunting clubs that anyone can just buy their way into.

And, to be honest, there's a lot of what is technically poaching- hunting on the private land of others without permission. That sort of thing isn't all that well policed, though state fish and game authorities are generally pretty tough on completely unlicensed hunting.
A timeline of cyber-attacks from China
I think it definitely used to be, but these days Firefox crashes so rarely that I don't see it as an issue. I imagine other browsers are similarly stable, and it depends on your personal usage patterns, but I think the majority of users probably neither use dozens of tabs nor experience frequent crashes, so both should be fine for most users, but power users are likely to prefer one or the other.
What has replaced bookmarks/ what is the alternative?
I never switched to Chrome for the silly and simple reason that I prefer a less corporate internet over a more corporate one. On top of that I am not sure that Chrome is or is not spyware but I'd like to err on the side of caution with stuff like this.
GistBox - Personal code organizer for GitHub Gists
Consequences of Filing a False DMCA Takedown Request
Or bored teenagers from some suburban hell-hole with nothing better to do, that haven't developed any sense of morality yet, and think this is just fun.

They could be kicked all day and have their glasses broken (metaphorically speaking) at school.
Aulx, the autocompletion for the Web
My SEO 101 has always been "Build a technically sound website with good content and UX. Then talk about it."

Google will follow, you shouldn't be chasing them. They are in the business of providing the most relevant results, make it easy for them to crawl you and the rest will come over time with trust.
IIRC when Google released Chrome they said (I'm paraphrasing) they were doing it to raise the bar by which web browsers were measured. They needed to do this so that their other products (gmail, google docs) were viable replacements to their desktop competitors. They weren't really interested in developing a browser for its own sake.

If Firefox is now seen as being as good as or even better than Chrome, it looks like Google have succeeded.
I think what the poster and other people say is basically there are cheaper consumption goods which would bring a better ROI. For the cost of one year of college you could travel the world, volunteer overseas, start a company, learn anything you want through self directed study, go to Europe learn a European language and take advantage of their education system. With a working visa I am eligible to attend university in Austria at a price of around 200€/year. It took me less than 6 months to learn enough German to land a job here at a total cost of under 1000€. These are just a few possibilities off the top of my head. However the big problem seems to be that it requires thinking and motivation, it's easier to take the college path since it's the current default.
let me chip in one bit of anecdotal information.

We have a neighbor who burns wood in their fireplace during winter. At times outside in my yard, I am a few homes away, the smell is very acrid. Worse, my dogs are affected. It took me awhile to connect their tail down behavior with my neighbor's wood burning fetish.

Without wind the smell just hangs there. I have to set my system to recirculate to keep it out of my house. I figure it this way, if it smell so bad and causes my nose to wrinkle at the acrid aspects of it it cannot be good for anyone.
Same experience here (well my Firefox experience is ok too but I don't see anything better then Chrome so I'm not switching back).

As a web dev, I have 10+ tabs open all day long and I never see a chrome crash. I'm not even looking at the RAM usage, if everything run smooth there is not reason to...
"all but light" is all too generic. Explain.

The light part means: it doesn't drag a huge framework and code and complexity you don't need with it. It uses less resources than it would if it was doing that.
Thanks. Will send the profile soon.
The BYOT Movement's BIG Socioeconomic Problem
It's a great blog post, but it has been posted numerous times on HN. I don't want to rant or anything, but I think we should start searching before posting. Please correct me, if I am wrong.

cheers
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=763570
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3396910
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5186774
To me SEO is like tax evasion... it's just a way of screwing the system.
How funny that the seo scum are toying with google the tax evasion kings.
I'm not anti SEO because it's unregulated or unstable. I'm anti-SEO because it seeks to subvert the search engine's mission (return the most useful results for the searcher* ) to something more akin to advertising (return the results that the person paying for SEO wants).

It pollutes and subverts the web experience for everyone.

It's not the practices that are the problem, it's the whole idea.

[*]OK so I acknowledge that that's a simplistic/altruistic outlook on what the likes of google and bing do
The video of the apartment (by Kirsten Dirksen from faircompanies.com): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XYV0qATsyts
"The most popular alternatives to Firefox are Google's Chrome and Microsoft's Internet Explorer. I doubt these alternative browsers would exist if they were not useful for Google's and Microsofts main businesses."

The generic argument is empty. Firefox is good for Mozilla's business. Same for Opera.

The business cases for IE and Chrome are significantly different. Distributing IE with Windows benefits users for the same reasons that Ubuntu Linix distros ship with Firefox - they providing a rational and reasonable path from the act of stuffing an install disk into a drive to the point where the user is surfing the internet and possibly completing the installation. IE allows windows to be used right out of the box.

It's hard to make that sort of case for Chrome - but easy for Safari. Chrome was primaily developed to improve Google's data mining and reduce search server loads by collecting keystokes from the address bar.
Build your own universe
There is another reason why Android might win the education market: it is not as closed as the iOS universe. You can build your own OS (AOSP) and you can easily deploy custom applications on it. No need to get a certificate from Apple first.
Chrome lags a lot when dealing with HTML5 and hogs a lot of memory
I am sick of them to. Especially the abuse. Recently the keyword LCHF got so polluted with this shitty website that hijacked all the search and always popped up a banner when visiting them that pumped up my CPU to 100.

The company who made it is on my shitlist. They got loads of "SEO experts".
I have mixed feelings about this never lose one single hour in your life thing. If you have a normal life, get married, have kids, you will have oh so many days and month in your life that you would count as lost, if you are not in denial.

What about the entire life of peasants in developing countries, how does it count?