skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Either replace your degree with solid experience and good skill, or get a degree, or combine both. At the end of the day, just be good at what you do. You know how to get there.

School is an investment. If you believe you will get a good return, go to college.

For example: If I'm making 100k a year right now. I'm clearly employable and skilled. I have no reason to go back to school because it'd take 4 years of earning potential out of my life. However, maybe there's a position I want that pays $250k, but they need a solid understanding of physics. In that case, I'd probably go back to school.

In my experience, nobody cares if you went to school or not as long as you have the skill.
Silicon Valley Diversity Problem Beyond Hiring
I decided to never go back.

I am 5 years into software development, 18 years in the tech industry overall. I have managed to get work at some great companies and have kept my salary close to or above 6 figures for much my career.

How? I worked my ass off. I cannot even really express the amount of time and effort I have put into my career. Especially once I switched gears and started software development full time. Even before that, I always put more time in my job than just about anyone else I knew. The downside is the effort has been detrimental to my health, I have hospitalized myself a few times due to the stress of working to much.

Should you get a degree? My opinion, based on what I have seen over the years, is that with a degree you do not need to work as hard to make as much. I am not implying that people with degrees do not work hard. Without a degree, you really need to bust your ass to make it to the upper salary ranges. Without a degree, many many doors will be closed to you, regardless of how skillful you may be with your craft.

If I had to do it over again, I would buckle down and get that degree. As much as I love what I do, and I truly do, the amount of time and effort it has take me to get this far, not to mention the health issues, it is just not something I would recommend for others.

On the other hand, if your are aspirations are a bit lower and you are just looking to make living...it is definitely possible to pursue this type of job without a degree and maybe even with a little less work than nuts like me.
I've heard of saying: "Valuing options at $x/share, we'll give you $y divided however you want between equity and salary."
Not sure if linked the right article:

http://mobile.nytimes.com/2015/03/15/your-money/how-many-mut...

But I want to comment on that. The article makes it seem like mutual fund managers provide no benefit whatsoever because they did not beat the market.

Bullshit. They might not help investors make money, but they still provide benefits. Saying otherwise like saying Apple and Google and Microsoft provide no benefit because they have not done any better than the tech sector as a whole. In fact, we can look at the growth of the market as a measure of how well mutual fund managers are investing.

We need to remember, mutual fund managers compete with other mutual fund managers. They're investments do matter as they dictate where investment money in our economy goes. They might not make money relative to the market as a whole, but they still provide important benefits to society.

For example, just because airlines only make .2% profits, their services benefit society tremendously.

Replacing mutual fund managers with investing in any company whatsoever (though limiting to public companies changes things) by "flipping a coin" like the article suggests, would likely have a very bad impact on the economy. It would have no effect on how well mutual fund managers do relative to the market, though.
The article doesn't give numbers to any of the pixels in the infinite subdivision. All of the pixels numbered in the article get split in half eventually.
I think your first instinct should be to provide your browser with version# and system.

It works for me on my iPhone.
A practical guide to making up a sensation
I thought you practically demonstrated that ideas are worthless unless someone executes them properly. The idea you executed was an old and tested one, but it kept failing due to scammy executions. You gave it a proper execution and voila!
I run NoScript. Most websites are just fine.
In need of direction for selling my software
I created a point of sale system in java late last August. I am in my senior year of high school and first made the software for my student store to use (they have been using it full time since January 2015). The problem I am having however is selling the software now to local businesses. I have created a website where people can download and install the program, I sell it for $900 (local competition is $5k), but I do not have a working knowledge of marketing or business. So as the title says, how should I go about selling this software?
I personally consider myself part of the alternative right, but my views are overall fairly mainstream. I fall into #3 not because I'm part of some "dark side" but because I think both big government and big tech largely do what they claim to, and the negative side effects are exaggerated.

I am very wary of "X always ends up as Y" arguments. If you don't like big companies abusing power, then close the loopholes or break them up (though I much prefer the former). If you don't like big government abusing citizens, then change the laws to limit government.

I like big government because they really do tend to work towards the public good. Look at healthcare or welfare in Australia for an example. I like big tech because they really do increase economic efficiency, and drive technology forwards.

I think as poorly of the conspiratorial thinking of #4's as they do of the "dark side".
I believe the definition they are using is something like: given a random process X for your percent return, if you invest in n nths of your money into iid copies of X, you will get the same expectation, but with smaller variance compared to putting it all into one copy of X. That's diversification.
I find this terrifying. It makes me want to scream and cry at the same time.
In 1993, no one would have cared about a MIDI soundtrack for a computer game sounding vaguely similar to a few thrash metal tracks.
How? I have been using it for a while now without any issues.
I wonder with these arrangements, is there any pressure or implied pressure on people to accept a larger equity amount? Similar to the issue with unlimited vacation time.
Y Combinator's DMCA Policy
in the English speaking world outside the US, the "toilet" refers to the entire bathroom, not the piece of porcelain. This also explains why "use the toilet" is considered crude in the US but not outside. In the US it refers to the physical act of defacating, but elsewhere it is equivalent to "go to the bathroom"
Surprised that intovps.com is not on the list. One of the earliest VPS providers, and still one of the least expensive. 2TB traffic, 30GB HDD, 1GB RAM, $10/mo.
This is what happens when people actively try to get out of jury duty. The smart ones succeed. The derp ones less so.
Ask HN: PHP Jobs in Bay Area
Anyone knows of any company used PHP in Bay Area? I see so many companies use Ruby/Rails here but cannot find one use PHP
Same price as DigitalOcean, are they SSDs?
When you have a smaller scale, a VPS is usually cheaper than cloud with known billing.
Voting affects the ordering of comments. You should vote based on how you want comments ordered.

Pro tip: If you downvote comments you don't upvote, you get twice the voting power.

(^^ or really, don't do this, treat voting more as a pavlovian thing.)
Are you the inventor of all virtualization we know today or VPS only?
According to their documentation, the data storage for log events is Elasticsearch and if the Elasticsearch data is lost then the logs are gone. Consideribg that ES is not a database and may lose data this sounds a bit scary to me.
I answered "won't a highly improbable magical cure that appears out of nowhere cause problems" with "nope, not if other high improbable magical solutions happen at the same time".

It's my guess that anti aging will happen slowly, and hopefully we can also slowly make policy changes over that time too. I just don't see the default answer of "don't worry, we have a process to go around killing people" to be acceptable.

But if the point was to say that major changes in the world could have major negative consequences, yeah, sure. Maybe they aren't solvable. But just don't pretend that Natural Death is OK because it's slightly alleviating one problem.
San Francisco sparkles in stunning aerial images from 7,200 feet up
@SAM : Whats most excites you in startup
(1) Team
(2) Team from Harvard/Stanford/MIT
(3) Idea
(4) Idea with quick revenue model
(5) Good idea with Avg team
Actually, they DID collect clinical response data even though it was a Phase Ib trial. Specifically, as the NYT piece mentions, they measured both cognitive function (via the mini-mental state exam aka MMSE and the clinical dementia rating scale aka CDR) and plaque removal (using one of Lilly's imaging agent) in relation to dosage. The data shows consistently improving cognitive function and plaque removal as dosage increases (albeit at the cost of additional side effects).

Now this is certainly atypical for Phase 1b data but it does (to some extent) justify Biogen increasing in almost $10B in market cap. In fact, the Phase 1b data is compelling enough that Biogen is going straight to Phase III trials.

While it is healthy to be skeptical about early trial results and subsequent market movement, I think it's clearly misplaced here.
A Great TypeScript IDE: Atom
We've been spending quite a lot of time working on this in the past month with very good reviews both from the TypeScript team and in general. Thought I'd open it up to review. Please leave your feedback on what you would like to see next.
Tableau Data Modeling “Resolving Many to Many Relationship”
Vulnerable to the same bugs as Chrome.
This is really only a question you can answer. If you want to be a doctor then yes you will need a degree. If you want to develope and run your own startup, no you don't need a degree. If you work for an employer not having a degree may hurt you when it comes time to promote. Reason behind that, shareholders and owners want to know a person is well educated. A degree may be just a (piece of paper) but it also shows that person has commitment and can complete the set goals given.

On that note I am a Marketing Executive for a Fortune 500 company without a college degree. Not having a degree has stopped me from having several positions. However I don't intended on working for someone else forever or going to college except for the several times I snuck into UCF business classes. I've always wanted to own and run my own business. I'm currently working on startup number 3. Even though I don't have a degree I still believe self education is very important. All it takes to be successful is setting goals and teaching yourself all the things you need to do to accomplish them.

Hope this helps
Nobody uses Opera, why add it to this competition?

But since you asked, I would be a lot of money Opera is vulnerable to the same bugs as Chrome since it's using the same rendering engine.
Proofs wiki
A wiki about mathematical proofs
I'm not suggesting extending the ASCII art mechanism. I'm just suggesting that compared to the API shown in the first example, cairo makes simple line-art quite trivial to write as code.

Specific features that would make sense to have available rather than drawing art in an image editor:

Line width, to draw the chevron without having to draw two adjacent lines.

Dotted/dashed lines.
Cool. One minor criticism: this is in NYC, but the direction of movement looks like cars driving on the left side.
Fair enough. I certainly did not mean to pretend anything like this.
br is neither deprecated nor obsolete
> Because of “retina”, you also have to create separate files for 1x, 2x, and now 3x-scale

OT but why do you need three different and not just go with the 3x which you scale down?
It seems to provide random data generation only.

I'd say _the_ feature of QuickCheck is minimisation of the counter example.
Incredible that this research from 60 years ago explains much of our current weather events. The Article ice shrinks, northern North America gets more snow.

It also explains why both global warming and impending ice age are linked.

This doesn't deny, of course, that mankind hasn't done his bit to accelerate the natural ebbs and flows of the global climate and the pace at which they are occurring.
From another article on the site:

"Can you ask for too many permissions? Short answer is no ... Our personal experience and that of other startups we’ve chatted with suggest any effect is overplayed. Just by browsing the Play store, you can easily find popular apps, including Facebook, WhatsApp, and Candy Crush, that ask for a lot of permissions. Most users scan the permission requests, and a list with 3 vs 5 permissions makes no difference."

Everything wrong with Android permissions in a single paragraph.

When security relies on users making good secure decisions, you've failed. If Internet Explorer taught us anything it's that people will always click YES to punch the monkey, certificates/sandboxes/policies be damned.
Yes, PNG is probably using less memory. For a few small icons, though, it's negligible either way.
I've never had a new account get treated that way, when I occasionally make a new account when I don't have my password with me. If it's not Tor, it is probably the content of your posts that is making the difference.
Seems to miss quite many providers, such as (most importantly) hetzner online.
Here's a great video recorded at id Software in November of 1993 by Dan Linton, a visiting BBS operator: https://vimeo.com/4022128

Around a month later, the first public version of Doom was uploaded to the BBS that Dan Linton ran.
NSUserDefaults Performance Boost in the simulator
Tesla cures range anxiety, self-driving, and New Jersey all in one week
The 'USB Killer' Won't Fry Your Computer. Probably
Add flag for Tor friendly :)
The reason his income streams kept blowing up is because they were all basically scams and/or spam exploiting early Internet search and advertising schemes, which in pretty short order either collapsed or got wise.

Which is good to see, in a way. As scammy and spammy as the web is today, this shows it could be worse. Hopefully today's scammers are chasing a moving target too, and with any luck having even less success. I'm not certain that's the case (some of the crap seems to have just gotten institutionalized) but one can hope.
> It's terrifying how these juries think.

Two words: jury selection.
What about Justin.tv? Are you saying Twitch is a failure?
And app to make small investments
What about an App to make small investments and get the revenues in a month. Kintos, www.kintos.ga is a service where you can invest from $10 dollars and get the revenue in a month. Also you are able to ask for small credits and pay them in a week. This is a product that is headed to millenials and students.
The smart ones get out of jury duty anyway, because the lawyers select them out if they are honest enough to show signs of critical thinking. And smart Machiavellians have no reason to waste their time on it.
I kill insects in my house all the time so I'm not bothered by it.
>You definitely do want to vet your cofounders for trustworthiness and have some idea whether they're interested in founding a company with you or whether they just want your idea.

This advice would have been handy for the Winkelvoss twins, who hired Zuckerberg to build their social network project. Instead he secretly held their project back while building his own version, including their ideas. The rest, as they say, is his story.
Silicon Valley is very open to risk-taking Mexicans willing to do the program in Mountain View.
Add filter for ALL countries
They used to have laws limiting how many times a week you could feed lobster to prisoners because it was considered inhumane.
aaaaand I just lost another tab in Google Chrome. Hooray for installing Firefox Nightly.

I wonder if something like this could be made fairly easily in SVG. 3D-ish buildings would be hard, but I suppose the roads could be animated paths.
You forgot to multiply by the probability of winning. If you have a 1 in 3 chance of winning, the expected payout is only $75k per attempt.
I do have the same reaction to prawns and I did grow up with them.
To me all the 'cars' are traveling down the middle of the streets.
I expect that some of these companies do:

http://www.warplife.com/jobs/computer/united-states/californ...

Note that my site really doesn't work with Smartphones; until I fix that, use an old-fashioned computer.

I've been building this index manually as I puzzle over how to automate it. I have some good ideas for the automation now, that I'll start working on soon.
Wait, I'm confused. Is that video the actual game and how everything actually looks, or is it a concept video with visual effects and props and whatnot by Weta? Because up until now, I was under the impression that it was the latter.
hmmm, interesting..
Novel polynomial basis and its application to Reed-Solomon erasure codes
SSL is the wrong security mechanism to be relying on here.

If you want immutable deploys, what you actually want is a hash over the content.

When you embed a hash over the content in your deploy script, you guarantee true immutable deploys: everything will be exactly what you ask for, forever. You're not beholden to SSL for security; you're not beholden to anyone maintaining the servers to "be a good citizen". You just have guarantees.

Use a hash over your content.
In social sciences, the stuff you learn in formal education is less useful. I think the example should be in hard sciences, for example, if you want to start a company building quantum computers, a PhD in physics would be very helpful.
If that footage is in-engine I'll eat my hat.
Sorry this didn't get any traction tonight. The mods have been encouraging people to resubmit stories if they go unnoticed, so you might try posting this again in the morning.

Maybe I missed something, but it looks like a user can only be interested in one thing. Are you supposed to create a new user for every interest?

How does suzie know that arizing cares about Larry Page's broken ankle? Does she know arizing outside of the network, so she knows what he's interested in, or does she only know him from the network?
From their official YouTube account: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kPMHcanq0xM

"This is a game we’re playing around the office right now" is extremely provocative.

Edit: ah, you removed your request for citation. Doh. :)
I'm not sure what this has to do with, for example, being able to query the docker hub search API?
Call for Participation in Web Background Sync Community Group
And this also perfectly explains why computers don't feel exponentially faster than 20 years ago. We're always taught to add abstractions all the time.
After TextSecure became data only we forked it for SMS again
>new is not necessarily better

Sure, sure, but getting rid of prejudices that are objectively nonsense is better. Things like which foods are delicacies and which are icky that are not at all based on nutrition, sanitation, etc.
Which tattoos are best for girls?
Hello, Experts!
I need your help, first of all I want to tell you I am very shy girl and I want tattoos on my neck.
can you suggest me best and simple tattoos which look attractive for me.
waiting for your response

Thanks
Cyanogenmod is disabling parts of the Google Play Services APK and then acting surprised when that introduces bugs. I don't have a ton of sympathy towards that.
http://13thlab.com who got acquired by Oculus made something very very similar:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rA2NI4NgsV0&t=19

so the technology for doing this is feasible and real.

Their previous kickstarter: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1203948132/rescape-fps-...
Ask HN: Do you know about any interesting nootropic startups?
A related belief which is found in both Greek and Asian cultures that proovs cycle of ice and warm ages purports that world goes through cyclical but not linear progress.

The ice age is typically considered an age of golden times. In the Timaeus, Plato talks of the mythical island of Atlantis, which was swallowed up by the sea in a “single day and night of misfortune” in c about 11000 years ago which matches with the time ice age is considered to have ended.

Following article goes in length on this cyclical theory, most concretely defined in Hindu's yugas cycle and provides several geological, archaeological and historical evidence to back the research presented.

http://bibhudev.blogspot.in/2012/07/end-of-kali-yuga-in-2025...
600 students have been expelled over this incident: http://www.foxnews.com/world/2015/03/20/600-indian-students-...
600 students expelled over the cheating incident in Indian school
Beautiful. For the soul, mostly ;)
Silkroad was one until you know.
Sorry for mixing things up with a ninja edit!

The article says:

> This is the video of a real-world, first-person shooting game that Magic Leap says it was going to show at TED this week.

At first I parsed that as saying Magic Leap was going to show the game at TED, but what I've seen other articles say is that they were going to show this video at TED.

There is no way this is in-engine AR. This has to be a concept video for a prototype they're working on.

For them to say they're playing this around the office isn't exactly a lie -- they may very well be working on a prototype that has similar mechanics -- but it's bending the truth.
What is your area of expertise, Why the fuck you only just used PHP. LOL