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Ahh yes, I can see why that would happen. I'll file an internal dev ticket, thanks.
I'm in an extremely similar position to you Miles, and don't worry about college. I just turned 22 and all of my friends are graduating college while I'm making bank because I jumped into the industry early rather than throwing my money at school.

The college route works for many, but I feel like I get along with people better that decide they're more fit to rough it and teach themselves.

You know what's better at making you a social network of industry peers than college? The actual industry.

Get an entry level position and work your way up, while spending your free time to develop your skills.

I'm in WA right now but I'm taking a road trip while working remote this winter. I'll be in the Bay Area for a short period in January and will send you an email for the coffee request if you're not inundated with acquaintances by that time haha.
Several people have mentioned the important of considering multiple POVs before making a decision, but it seems to me the hard question is how to do that? It's truly hard to "put yourself in other's shoes". And I suspect this is one of the main hard things young people have trouble with. How do you learn to do that (I know I have to, I just can't imagine the scenario until someone else told me)?
First take: I see links to 4 mp3s, I guess I was expecting something more unique. Are these generated often?

Take 2: I see now the email signup and the info icon telling me that you offer: "You will get just an email or two per month with news about new soundscapes and new features. One-click unsubscribe." maybe highlight this as it wasn't immediately obvious this was more than a one time curiosity.

minor comment: "Mindscapes lets you relax or focus while exploring dynamic soundscapes" -- maybe avoid using both mind and soundscapes? (stick with one to reinforce the name, i had to go back to the tab as I type this reply)

Im sure you could go technical on the algorithm as well. Helps to show the complexity behind this for further appreciation.

overall very cool design, love the audio & the design as well as graphics. If you're looking to gain email subscribers, make that clearer. After I listen for a bit, what would you like me to do?

Great stuff! What're you planing to do next?
Teach yourself real analysis over the internet. There are people who can, but not nearly as many as can learn it in a decent undergraduate math class. I imagine the same is true for other difficult subjects.
A college professor explained to me in my senior capstone business strategy class why share buybacks are a terrible idea. They signal to investors that you have nothing better to do with the money than buy your own stock.

Instead of investing in R&D, buying assets, streams of income, creating new products, renovating facilities, or even paying your own people, a stock buyback says that all of those things are basically a worse ROI on the business than just handing the money over to shareholders.

In general, I think my professor was right. I think there are good reasons to potentially buy out investors and so on, but usually these programs are done under the guise of making shareholders richer, but I just don't see that as the case.

The best way to enrich shareholders is by simply giving them a dividend, or by running a more profitable business (which will drive up the stock price).

Everything else is basically financial machinations that look good, but are mostly meaningless.
What society "ought" to be, as you say, are rarely the same, and varies over time.

At any point of time we're trying to force society to be something other than it is.

In 1700 we're assimilating natives.
In 1800 we're converting slaves to Christianity.
In 1900 we're banishing jews from countries.
In 2000 we're enacting laws that favour some over others.

None of these attempts at societal change were ever complete.

Today we're sure changes society tried to make in 1700, 1800, 1900 were misguided and harmful.

I wouldn't be surprised if society in a hundred years will have a different again perspective to what we're doing now.
> I think the point is that college exposes you to unlike-minded people. You can find plenty of people who share your interests on IRC or Hacker News. You can also find people who don't share your interests on the Internet, but realistically, you won't.

This ‘like-unlike-minded’ categorization seems dubious to me. It can be said as well that college throws together the like-minded (they all felt the need to go to college); and Hacker News throws together the unlike-minded (because vaguely IT-related interests is all we have in common).

> [College] throws you together with people that you would never hang out with by choice, and so forces you to broaden your perspective.

Plausible, though it remains your speculation (you went to college). I don’t see how college is radically different from working in various workplaces with respect to perspective-broadening.

> But there's something that changes in your brain when you're forced to re-examine your most basic beliefs from the perspective of someone who doesn't share them, and it's a transferrable skill.

Related: http://www.ribbonfarm.com/2014/11/05/dont-surround-yourself-..., a great essay that expounds on this point.
Have you got/had any thoughts about making the Android app available through avenues other than the Play store?

(eg Aptoide or similar, or even just a link to the apk)

I have Fastmail and support for Android apps; but no Play store access...

(And if it was a concious decision not to, any particular reason? :-) )
If you need a headless replacement for dropbox, syncthing might be of interest to you. Plus, it's FLOSS, in case you care.
Stylish is really nice (I use it for a lot of things), but Safari has a builtin Readability-type feature (I forget what it's called) that automatically loads the next pages up until the end of the chapter. Even better, and it works on iOS too.
People are downvoting you, but as someone who only worked on a FIX application in a tiny finance shop, microsecond was barely acceptable. The comment rings false with me as well.
Your Meet me at "noon" placeholder got cut off (reads "no" right now). Had to pull up the trusty inspector to resize the input element to see the full word... Otherwise awesome!
There's a Stylish extension for Safari too.
Ah, but under the ISP's Terms of Service your protections are presumably nil.
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I appreciate the feedback! You can shrug off those downvotes.
The sentence “I'm certain the tradeoffs will change” implies that both your interpretations are wrong.
Can someone explain the purpose of this? The only reason I can think of to have this (which Animats mentions in a comment) is to allow fighters with modest fuel tanks to attack deep in territory they couldn't otherwise reach. But this problem is a lot easier to solve with in-air refueling, which has been used since the Korean war.
I'm basing this on my own personal experiences traveling on four continents. I just try to be consistently nice to people and not too forward, particularly if they seem uncomfortable. I don't think I said anything about a universal truth, but I do think people tend to be just as friendly to you as you are to them. YMMV.
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I don't doubt it will, but I think it'll fetch a pretty good ROI.
Thank you Larry. For without Google, all of us would have to wait 2 days for a 'shot in the dark' response.
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http://miles.codes/ doesn’t work well in Firefox, by the way.
Ouch, the bias is dripping from this article. Choice of pictures and wording is quite provocative.
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This got a laugh out of me :)

Pretty impressed you make an account just for this.
For anyone that runs any web-facing IIS machines this has to be treated as a DEFCON 1 situation.
> this doesn't balance actual load

As someone who doesn't have much experience with distributed computing, this part confused me a little. What do you mean by that?
> I'm in an extremely similar position to you Miles, and don't worry about college. I just turned 22 and all of my friends are graduating college while I'm making bank because I jumped into the industry early rather than throwing my money at school.

The long-term impact of not having a degree, by and large, doesn't appear to really show up until your 30's or 40's. It makes continuing in a technical role progressively harder (because it's one area where you negatively stand out to the rest of the candidates passing by) and makes moving into management much harder because, like it or not, things like MBAs are still effective signaling tools for moving into management (and also teach you a lot, but on HN the idea of an MBA having useful lessons to teach is considered madness, so disregard that as you will). Getting there is much, much harder without a degree, and going back for that first degree is by all accounts really hard when you're already in the real world.

> You know what's better at making you a social network of industry peers than college? The actual industry.

The point isn't to have a social network of industry peers. It's to have a social network of people who are not industry peers. I like many people I know in the industry--but I don't go to them when I need to know about law or business or deep-magic political science (it has come up more than you think).
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It'll happen soon. Sears just announced the selling of 200 to 300 stores to a REIT, which will own the property and lease it back to the retail stores. This is pretty much how Sears will die.

http://money.cnn.com/2014/11/07/investing/sears-selling-stor...
My bad, I need to get better at testing on environments that I don't use personally.

I take chrome for granted and know that that's a very bad thing (re: the IE6 era v2.0).
That's the beauty of it. It's hard to waive the anti-circumvention provisions of the DMCA. The law says "no person shall circumvent", not "no person shall circumvent without permission". I just sent a note on this to the EFF.
Same here, really. Although I intentionally avoided most of the non-critical CS classes. I too wrote an OS kernel and all of that, but I made sure to take as many political science, economics, and sociology courses as I could. Learning tech is fine and all, but becoming a well-rounded person is what a degree at a decent (not great, not expensive) school did for me.

Plus, there were girls outside of the CS classes. That didn't hurt.
> I wouldn't be surprised if society will have a different again perspective to what we're doing now.

I would, because the things are completely opposite. One is about subjugating the weak, and the other is about freeing them. I'm surprised you can compare the two! We're not "enacting laws that favor some over others", but laws intended to help communities or groups that have, for centuries or millennia been put down. If you think for one second that women or minorities are somehow "favored" in modern Western society, then you're either blind or delusional. They are still very much disfavored, and some laws are trying to ever-so-lightly tilt the scales a little bit in their favor, and a lot less than they deserve.
Because it mentions Tesla. Spend some time in /r/technology and you will see just how pervasive the Tesla love is amongst the technical community. There's nothing rational about it.
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Survivorship bias: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Survivorship_bias
I like find like it like hard like to kind listen kind to kind it like since like I like noticed like how like many like times kind of he says kind of a certain like word.
Codecademy, a new track for DB beginners, please?
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They aren't competing against it though, they are riding the same wave. Competition would assume that HFT's or stat arbs are market makers, doing pump and dumps, which is not the case based on HFT reserve holdings - the antithesis of arb.

Is it less efficient? Yes. It is also orders of magnitude easier to get into. You need PhD mathematicians, computer scientists/engineers to build real hardcore HFT systems. The manual stuff takes what, a high speed internet connection as its infrastructure.
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I recommend doing a proof of concept to see if you can accomplish what you want using python, ruby, and ASP.NET MVC. Don't implement the entire application. Just implement one functional slice of it from front to back.

Also, if the technology is really holding you back then I would guess that you are not interested enough in the project. That you are considering giving up on the idea altogether is another tell. You can make anything work if you really want to.
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Stateless but state-aware types for transducers, using what seems to be magic
https://www.dropbox.com/s/lotn6u0koxwevcc/foobar.mp4?dl=0
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Interesting. Slang like "pot", "dope" and "herb" sounds older to me. When I hear "dope" I usually think of heroin.

Now the kids are calling it "weed", "tree", "dro", "bomb", "doja" (Southern), "piff" (NY), "gas" (Cali), "Keyshia" (Atlanta / mid West) and a million others. Worse stuff is usually called "mid" or "brick".
I think google should make a system where you can play these puzzles by simply asking to and then agreeing not to share your solutions with anyone.

That way, any hacker news people who would like to do so can.

Sure people could enable google search history and google random python stuff, but any privacy minded hackers will have that disabled permanently ( as I do ). I'd like to note that I actually googled python lambda's myself recently, attempting to ascertain whether "lambda:0" is really the shortest way to make an empty object in python...

The fact that google themselves hasn't commented on this hacker news thread itself is somewhat disappointing to me.
This exchange between imanaccount247 and tctapek is incredibly fascinating.

One the one hand, we have a female who has a very accurate understanding of evolutionary biology, evolutionary psychology, genetics, and logic. Her arguments are logically coherent and validated by centuries of empirical science.

On the other hand, we have a male who has violated Occam's Razor so many times that he has completely annihilated any hope of a coherent hypothesis. His arguments imply conspiracy theories behind the formation of family, society, government, and history itself. All reason is abandoned, and science ignored.

Now the question is...does it really matter which position the male took vs. the female? One of these arguments is far more coherent than the other. Which position an individual supports reveals far more about the person than about the true nature of sexual dimorphism, since the laws of the universe do not suddenly change to cater to the opinions of a few misinformed primates.

EDIT: Hello tctapek! Thanks for the downvote. In case you one day want to educate yourself about the science behind human biology (and its numerous resultant consequences), here are a few books you'll no doubt find elucidating:

1. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Selfish_Gene

2. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Red_Queen:_Sex_and_the_Evol...

3. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Moral_Animal

For some advanced reading, you can move onto the Extended Phenotype by Dawkins, and the references contained therein.

Enjoy, and remember, the world is yours to discover! Science will always be waiting.

EDIT 2: If you lack the patience for all that, here (http://edge.org/memberbio/helena_cronin) is an expert in the field who explains all of imanaccount247's assertions in video format. Enjoy!
OK, how do we know it doesn't install something that will phone home when nobody's using the program? A little cron job or something similar.
Wow that sure would be insidious and hard to notice. I guess at the end of the day it comes down to whether you trust the site enough and what they could stand to gain from it.
I believe poster was trying to say that load balancing is probabilistic rather than deterministic: Load is levelled across the DHT only if the hashing function maps keys evenly over the nodes (assuming each key has an equal amount of work associated with it).
Yes, they did:

"Groupon has agreed to change its product name"
http://www.gnome.org/news/2014/11/groupon-has-agreed-to-chan...

The legal team of course reviews product names pre-launch. This about-face was due to community/Internet pressure.
At the moment of the transaction there is a very specific change -- the number of shares changes! You keep ignoring this for some reason while you talk about meaningless balance sheet offsets.

While it does not affect the line item "shareholder's equity" it very much does affect individual shareholders.

It is not a magic wash covered by some "perfect market" force and shareholders will very much complain about dilution. This was OP's question and you've repeatedly talked in circles around it.
That's awesome news. Now the app is here this was the final drawback of using Fastmail.
statistical arbitrage should come with a general surgeon warning. "may cause hair loss, not actually risk free"
I agree, but in many cases there's not that much most companies can do about this. Do all the initiatives you want and raise as much money as you like, you're not going to somehow overhaul an entire culture (in family life, in schools, among peers) in a few years.
I'm sorry, but as much as I'd want to, I can't give a whole course in history here in a couple of HN comments, but I think you should at least try to understand what I'm actually saying. E.g., I'm not saying that "the individual is irrelevant"; where in God's name did you get that? And I most certainly wasn't comparing the power of Google to that of an individual therapist. But the APA's (or the AMA's) power is, in fact, a lot less concentrated than Google's, it's a democratically elected body, and happens to be headed by men.

And I don't understand what your personal political opinions about taxes and private property have to do with sociology. The discussion about access to central power in a democratic nation is an interesting one, but irrelevant here.
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Lower rates than there are graduates or than there are applicants to each company? Given the former, there are still numerous potential explanations for why this could be the case, none of which necessarily involve bias or discrimination on the part of the companies or hiring staff.
Do you think technical analysis works? Look at the mountains, try drawing resistance lines, my god, you are able to predict when the mountain ridges are going to break through right past 9000! Are you Jesus?
Whatever floats your boat.

The only thing about college that seems good to me now (2 years since I passed out), was that it gave me tonnes of opportunities to meet girls, decent smart girls.

And now, nada. One can't just expect a random girl at the mall to be like that, and the context makes it more difficult to approach. Back in college though, the stuff from college environment being the mutual thing to talk about made it easier.
Prop stands for "proprietary," it means that they trade their own money.
> Resveratrol is the real-deal, I know from personal experience.

Even assuming you aren't lying, so what? Any number of things could have helped you purely by coincidence. Had things worked out differently, you could just as easily have been in here touting the benefits of copper bracelets, or megadose vitamin C, or cod liver oil. It's just not convincing.

That's why trials have hundreds or thousands of people: To make "it was coincidence" the least likely explanation, from a statistical standpoint.
It's interesting the FCC chairman is pretty much straight out saying he's not going to do what Obama wanted.
Don't listen to this guy, you don't need a degree (unless you're trying to be a doctor or lawyer). Most people are better off with a degree in the same sense that most people are better off taking an offer from Google over pursuing a startup, but neither choice is unequivocally better than the other. Going to university is obviously the safer route, but not necessarily the best choice for you. And you can always go to university later in life if you want.

Most people who espouse the necessity of a degree completely neglect the opportunity cost of obtaining one. Even if you pick one of the more practical majors (eg. computer science), you're spending 4 years and paying anywhere from $30-200k to learn information, much of it outdated and useless to employers/you, that you could learn for free online or at a job.

Of course if you're going to dick around and do nothing for 4 years, it's probably better to go to school. But it's very well possible that the 4 years of experience you get will put you in a much better position than a useless liberal arts grad with a fancy piece of paper and $50k in debt. It'll certainly force you to be more self-starting and entrepreneurial.

There will always be hiring managers who automatically filter you out because you don't have a degree. That just means you need to (1) develop an impressive portfolio/resume (2) create a strong network (3) be entrepreneurial. None of these require a degree.

Good luck. If I were in the Bay Area, I might take you up on that offer.
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If the EFF is not worthy of my support, then I don't know who is. I've been a donor and supporter for a while now and no other organization has aligned more with my ideals than they have.

Sure, the bill they support might not be perfect but I trust the EFF to put their weight behind practical measures and laws that are at least a step in the right direction.
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throwaway, because, yeah.

I've been approached with an opportunity to work at a new startup. I've known the founders for several years, working with them at one point or another. They understand both the business and technology side and have had several successful exits.

This is all great, but because of this, they're self funding and not offering a lot of equity, but a pretty competitive salary (10% drop from my current mark which is on the high end in my location). My risk is essentially nil, and my upside will be nice if we're successful, but I'd like to have more skin in the game than the 2%, grant not option, they're offering at the start.

We've started doing some work and I'm making most of the technical decisions, developing our architecture, etc. This is my first time at the ground floor, like we don't have an office yet ground floor.

On the plus side the founders can fund us for a while, and if things go well we'd probably be able to skip several rounds of funding, leading to less dilution. But the downside is that since I'm not putting a few hundred grand into the pot I'm not a founder but merely a first employee.

With the realization that I'm taking the job, and enjoying the ride either way. Do you, HN, think that I have a shot at moving that percentage up, either through some incentives if I continue down the road of "CTO" for the company, or some other way? Or is this just part of the deal when working for something funded when the founders don't need to distribute risk?

Cheers