skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have been in IT since 1995, and in my experience people with a BSCS have an easier time getting a job, and are usually working better jobs.

Some jobs say from the get-go they're unavailable to people without a Bachelors. Here is one:

http://sfbay.craigslist.org/nby/sof/5058201264.html

"Bachelors in Engineering or CS is a minimum requirement."

Even if it's not a listed job requirement, some people like to see it anyhow. It doesn't matter as much when things are buzzing, but it becomes important during downturns like after 2000 or after 2008.

It is rare to meet someone without a BSCS who can explain what a finite state automata is, or how you can prove a problem is NP-complete through reductions, and that sort of thing. Or even with less theoretical topics, they're less likely to know what second normal form is, or semaphore P&V's etc.

Of course there are different scenarios and exceptions to every rule. Some people get a diploma while doing the minimum. Some people are superstars and learn theory without a diploma. People can get jobs without a diploma, especially in boom times.

I would go back again to the economic downturns. In 2000 a lot of companies went under and people were let go. The same happened in 2008. You might be laid off, and will then be competing for a very limited number of jobs against people with as much experience as you, plus diplomas. You might think it might not matter, and some other people might tell you that doesn't matter, but that won't be much help when you're laid off, have a family to support and mortgage to pay, and job listings say like the above ad "Bachelors...requirement". Or even if it the job listing doesn't have that as a requirement, HR is taken aback when you tell them you don't have a degree. You hear complaints about people over 40 or over 50 not being able to find work in the Valley, imagine being that age and not even having a Bachelors.

I can see someone, if they have to, working while going for their Bachelors. I can even see someone out of necessity cutting school down to one night/weekend class a week. For a young person to go into development without pursuing a Bachelors seems very risky to me. You'll be the first one thrown into the scrap heap when the economy sours, and by that time you might have a family to support. You don't want to have the realization you need a Bachelors when you're 35 with a family - between work, family and study you'll have no time at all.
The HTML5 details element, in detail
US Gov. hacked by China, and cred. from 4M employees may be compromised
Study: True size of federal government debt is $210 trillion
NPR is targeting ARC, but this is actually a bigger, more difficult problem for the charity industry than one organization not disclosing where it spends its money.

I used to work for a large ($500 million+ annual revenue) NGO fundraising department, both in major gifts and direct response marketing (digital), and I have colleagues who now work for similar organizations (including ARC). We would all tell you that most organizations, even (maybe especially) the largest ones, are absolutely horrible at having any idea whatsoever of the impact of their programs. Even worse, the leadership in these organizations are ambivalent at best at assessing the impact.

Why? Because organizations simply don't have much, if any, incentive to do so. And perhaps more shocking to me, the vast majority of donors don't care. Most people are content to give and reap the warm/fuzzy feeling they get, then not think about it again until year end when taxes are due. Simply put, most people treat giving like buying a product at the store: they hand over money in exchange for the warm and fuzzies. Transaction over.

The people who actually demand some sort of accountability are a minority who are often treated as anti-charity, as in, "Why would we spend money on assessing impact when we can spend that money helping more people?". The result are token 'watch dog' groups like Charity Navigator that latch on to red herrings like 'efficiency' ratings which non-profits have learned to manipulate to the point that they are functionally useless.

ARC is simply the product of a rotten system, and it is far from the only one. If you want to help cure this sickness, only give to organizations that can demonstrate the impact your dollars are having on the cause you care about. Ignore the so-called efficiency splits that say charity Y gives z% of your dollars to programs. These are accounting shenanigans, and nothing more
Degrees show the ability to jump through hoops, which is beneficial in many organizations.

A portfolio shows aptitude.

The combination of both make for the strongest employees.
It's nothing short of astonishing (and, quite frankly, embarrassing) that a macroscopic structure has eluded doctors for the past couple centuries. One can wonder how many other macroscopic structures exist inside every human being.
I actually agree with you in general, but in this case we spent six months hammering in nails with a wet sandwich because the only available hammer has a chainsaw for a handle ("it's perfectly safe, just don't ever press the on-switch"). This blog post is me seeing something that looks like an actual hammer and suspiciously looking for a trap.
Maybe the solution is to give money to people who are poor and either working or not able to, and give a decent paying job to everyone else.

Edited to add: and looking at the concerns of one of the aid recipients, something should probably also be done about radio programmes spreading conspiracy theories about devil worshipping aid workers.
Two finger brushing worked for me. Down voting parent is pretty weak.
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I think that the research shows that self-discipline (or delayed gratification) is the single best indicator of future success in life.

http://jamesclear.com/delayed-gratification
Agreed, this is advice that's steeped in Silicon Valley culture. Not everyone has the same resources, nor does everyone need to be some sort of entrepreneur.

Rather than add to the noise by podcasting/blogging, better advice would be to connect with most talented people who do what you do and learn from them. If you find that you have a platform and something to say, then do so.
So the coherence rules don't treat self specially? That would be good to know.
Numbers 9 and 14 are two of the funniest things I've seen in a while. I actually laughed out loud. At work. And then showed it to my team.
It feels odd to call this a startup instead of a charity or non-profit. The normal goals of a startup vs a charity, which seems a better description for the things this company/group is doing, don't match well to me (edit in italics: forgot to finish writing this sentence). Nothing particularly wrong with calling it a startup I guess, just strikes me as odd.

This seems to be part of a larger turn towards more data and study driven aid than was the standard. Hopefully the larger nation state players can get around to using aid programs to reap longer term improvements vs the current short term and occasionally overall harmful effects some programs have been reported to create.
He also followed our sales guy around and went into every reseller right after him. He has a bag full of tricks. In the end, here we are. At least every day I don't look at the mirror and see a liar and thief looking back at me. I am ok with it at this point.
I'm not defending the Red Cross...

Probably a good thing, because AFAICT, they're pretty much indefensible at this point.
Agree wholeheartedly.

Something about non-profits seem to make them sacrosanct. If you criticize them among friends, it's almost certain that someone will rip into you for being miserly and not caring about the poor $VICTIMS.

Cynically, I think the root of this tendency is the fact that many people don't care about the efficacy of a donation, as such, but only about how it indicates the giver is a morally superior being, over all those non-givers. Whether the organization blows the money on coke and hookers (or, more plausibly, ineffective staffing and programs) is besides the point.

Especially organizations with powerful brands, like the Red Cross.
soup kitchens and bednet distribution programs are trying to solve two different sets of problems, so I am not sure what you mean when you say that one is 'orders of magnitude less effective' than the other
Top 5 things we want to see at WWDC 2015
About half of these work on my Windows Vista machine. Curiously, the third-last example works except for the S.

Is there a font one could install so all of these are visible?
Yes, the conversations with customers totally changed once he was on the scene. Instead of them asking "What is your product again?" in a confused voice, they would ask "How are you different from the other guy?" which then gave a nice opening to tell the story, and get the customer most of the time. Everyone loves the underdog.
I think that's one valid way of looking at it, and many technically-inclined people would be inclined to agree, I'd imagine.

But another way of looking at it, and one I suspect most non-technical people would, is that it just takes one motivated person of roughly-average strength to break a doorframe. It takes someone with fairly uncommon technical sophistication to make one of these devices.

Once someone mass-produces them and sells them in real volume that perception could flip, but right now I'm far more concerned about a flimsy doorframe–which leads to where I live and sleep–than I am about someone rigging up a way to open my garage door–which only gets them into a detached garage where insured stuff is kept. The odds of a break-in being by force (whether against a door frame or a window) are just vastly higher.
We used this when it was called something like tfsonline my god it was shit. 18 months later have they fixed it?
There's selection bias at play here, but anyone else notice that 99% of these are consumer plays? There's mostly photos/food/social/video/community/jobs ideas. In consumer plays, there's a lot of luck involved, since the company is essentially guessing whether the problem itself is significant, let alone their particular solution.
Debug info, ubiquity, simplicity of combining with an otherwise VS based project.

At least VS now supports most of C99. Most. Now about that C11...
summary: xml annoyances for json

:-)
I like that project!

I wrote most of CrushPaper before finding out about Workflowy or HackFlowy, but I tried to take a different path from HackFlowy.

CrushPaper is hopefully easy to deploy because it is a single executable JAR.

CrushPaper is hopefully easy to contribute to because all of the server code is in Java.

CrushPaper has unit tests. I am always surprised when people are willing to store their information in an app that doesn't have any test coverage.
It's even worse as pumping lots of cash into a small area is only going to cause local hyper-inflation.
Or it could just add the the guilt that a person feels and make suicide more likely.

We know that telling someone with a phobia "don't be scared of that thing" doesn't work.

Why do we think that merely saying "think of your family. They love you" will be effective?
People in the industry seem to universally agree that there are some sloppy operators.
Yes. 2008 was very hard on my industry and everything went to hell. I started the year with 23 employees and ended with 10. I developed a chronic health problem and sold out to my partners and the sales manager, and carried the loan (nobody was lending for anything at the end of 2008). I had to repossess the business in 2011 when they stopped paying me for 6 months.

It has been a long, long, slow climb back to the business being healthy. Real revenue in '12 was about $800,000 and we have climbed about 20% per year since, but we are constantly cash limited. I would be happy to sell and do something else, and that much money would fund the 'something elses' I have in mind. The business is not fun anymore, and I am trying to pivot it a new direction but the Queen Mary takes time to turn around.
Are we in a tech bubble? (2014)
What exactly do you guys mean by discipline? Like, sticking to a studying schedule even though the process is repetitive and such?
We are mostly cash flow limited, and credit limited. For example I am trying to buy 4kw laser cutter right now and I am having trouble getting financed. The business is 11 years old, but because of things it is a 3 year old LLC that looks like it doesn't have enough business history.
Braeburn Capital (awesome name IMO) - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Braeburn_Capital
I took the route of leaving college in my 2nd year. Several of my friends have recently graduated, and there is the typical fracturing of those truly passionate, those who just did the coursework, and those who didn't learn a damned thing. The thing about the last group is, they still managed to graduate with a degree. I'm not saying this to be a dick, but one of my best friends graduated with a BS in Computer Science, and he cannot even do FizzBuzz. He's not the only one I know like this. Say what you will about "sticking it out for 4 years", but when you filter based on a criteria that includes folks who can't do the most trivial problems, you might want to rethink your strategy.

Maybe my microcosm is not indicative of most places, but of the companies I've worked/applied to thus far, not having completed college has not been a hindrance. Especially once you've gotten a few solids years experience under your belt, if you're the type who is motivated and a solid developer, you should have no problem getting a good job.
I don't have the money to sue, and I don't think it would be worth it anyhow. It would be great though if the group that bought him decided that they wanted to roll up the other players in the industry. If I get the chance I am selling. We are probably number 3 for unit volume in the industry and the only independent one. It could happen :)
If you're using a CDN, you don't know if the CDN has injected ads or spyware. If you use Cloudflare's RocketLoader, what the user gets is not what you sent.

Once a CDN is involved in "HTTPS Everywhere", it's security theater.
Yes, I learned that one 25 years ago. I had a tool truck, selling tools to mechanics at auto shops and for half my area I was the only one. One day a competitor showed up at all these shops that I had an 'exclusive' on. My sales to them went up, because they now had some point of reference. My stuff was 5% more expensive, but 25% better. With something to compare to, it now appeared to be a better value than previous.
What We Know from a Decade of SaaS
Agreed, I have been in business for my self in one venture or another for 25 years and competition never bothers me if it is at least a little fair.
black triangle.
> Apple, Oracle, Google Inc. and seven of their biggest peers now have in excess of $500 billion of cash and marketable securities, up more than three-fold since 2008, according to data compiled by Bloomberg. The problem is much of it is stuck overseas.

Stuck overseas in the sense that these corporations aren't willing to pay American taxes [1], insisting on using complex tax loopholes that essentially leave the bill on the doorsteps of normal, hard working American citizens.

[1] http://dealbook.nytimes.com/2013/10/08/to-cut-corporate-taxe...
Stop worrying and learn to love Windows 10
...only going to cause...

I think this and other efforts are pretty clearly demonstrating that this doesn't necessarily happen.

EDIT: Not to say it can't happen, but I'm pretty tired of this quasi-religious assertion that giving money to poor people will just inflate that money into meaninglessness, particularly when it has repeatedly not happened.
So encode from back to front? Then when you reach the front you know the length.
I'm rather impressed, especially after using npm for some 4 years without considering this. Thanks.
I suspect you don't know what disclaimer means
going by that logic US should just have given Afghanistan and Iraq people those $2T+ the US spent on the wars there instead... Given 33M population of the each of the both countries, it would be just meager $30K/person (half a Hellfire)
As far as I'm aware: just one.
I'm a bit skeptical of what the EPA says, because it has been documented to suffer from regulatory capture.

http://www.amazon.com/Poison-Spring-Secret-History-Pollution...

But lets assume the EPA is doing its job. At minimum, there needs to be more inspectors - currently there is a huge backlog where high-risk wells are not being inspected. So this problem will just keep getting worse.

http://www.foreffectivegov.org/blog/massive-fracking-federal...

Also, just a few weeks ago from the NYT:

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/05/05/science/earth/fracking-che...
The WinPhone software stack is quite good.
I loved that Macintosh Performa 630CD
No it isn't. That post is refuting an incorrect assumption of the parent post - that people only buy watches to tell time.
I think what the original commenter was getting at was that the UI flow in general doesn't reduce implied next steps. I like your project though.
We fired him* mostly because he was a real jerk to deal with. I found out later from other people in the industry he got fired a lot, mostly for being very abrasive and difficult to work with. A friend of mine fired him 4 hours after hiring him. After I fired him he actually shut down his rep agency (20 product lines and 7 reps) to focus on competing with me. That really surprised me that he would close his company to go head to head with me, at that point I realized I must have a way better idea than I thought.

* technically we fired his sales rep agency, since all 7 of his reps sold our line, his company repped for about 20 product lines at the time.
There are ways out, trust me, you will find them. I honestly think that you could use this moment to just forget how your life has worked so far, and try to look at what your future might be. If you don't feel like talking to someone, I think your best friend might be a book. I would recommend Letters to a Young Poet by Rilke
The encoding for protobufs is significantly more compact than JSON. If you're logging or persistently storing your data on the server, this can cut down your storage and bandwidth costs significantly, particularly if you're operating at Google scale.

Haberman also mentioned the schema benefits.

All that said, I'm using JSON for my current startup. I view them as optimizing for different parts of the product's lifecycle: JSON lets you quickly adapt the protocol and switch out different languages for different services when you're figuring out what product to build, while Protobuf saves you money when you're trying to scale it. I'm also pretty intrigued by Cap'n Proto as a high-performance serialization format, since it fixes a lot of the problems we faced using protobufs at scale at Google, but its language support just isn't up to protobuf/JSON yet, and the protocol is quite complicated.
Right but we are talking about kids. Kids can use an offline spreadhseet app, they don't HAVE to use Excel. They can also use an offline Wikipedia app, or offline "learn-programming" app.
Lot of people commit suicide when they travel. You are a away from home, lonely, no support system. I think travel is great but not always a answer for suicidal people

http://usatoday30.usatoday.com/news/world/story/2012-05-04/a...
You are taking that quote wildly out of context. That quote refers to the use of water as part of the drilling process, not the contamination of water-sources by fracked wells.
Here's my recommendation: you aren't going to make much money without solid references. A portfolio is mostly meaningless. What you want are references.

But the market is strong right now for developers.

So, rather than racking up a bunch of debt, why not finish your BS in CompSci at a state school part-time while working full time?

You'll be getting real, hands-on experience through your work, and buttressing your non-CS skill set as well as your non-practical CS skills. Financially, you'll be making decent enough money that you should be able to afford to live comfortably and pay for school as you go (depending what state you live in). I know it's possible because I recently did the number's for a friend of mine's younger brother who is in the same boat. He lives in Minnesota. YMMV in other regions.

After, say, 6 years, you should be able to have a CS degree and 6 years of experience, plus references.

With that, you should be able to make great money and be well positioned for when the market isn't so good for developers.

A lot my friends in the 90s who dropped out of their CS degrees because the market was hot had to either leave the industry, take massive pay cuts, or go back to school and take on a lot of debt when the market crashed. When nobody is hiring but the big boys, college degrees are the price of admission, even for shit jobs.
#100DaysOfFonts
Thanks for using the AGPL
Actually I took a tiny payday in 08 because of health problems - $200K over 10 years for a third of a $2M per year business with 66% gross margins. Nobody was buying or lending any money at that time and the stress was killing me. I was 38 with children and developed arrhythmia. My wife and I decided it was better to risk being broke to being dead. Fates have been plenty cruel, but things are looking better these days.
Actually, a charity devoted to rooting out corruption in developing countries would probably end up being one of the most efficient and effective for raising living standards.

Hire someone to offer the bribe. Target a well-known corrupt official, and gather lots of evidence to make it obvious that a bribe has happened. Publish the results, get a scalp.

On top of punishing the individual corrupt official, if every official knows that any bribe offered might be a trap, they'd be much more likely to turn it down. Certainly makes the cost of bribery for bribers a lot more expensive to account for the extra risk.

Hell, you don't even need to hire someone. Just have an open offer that if someone can prove they successfully bribed an official, you'll pay them three times the bribe amount.
Why don't you tell us your story?
A $15 Casio can tell time just as accurately as a $5000 Omega. Just like a $14,000 Kia will get you and your groceries back from the grocery store just as well as a $200,000 Ferrari. So will the Ferrari survive the age of cheap cars? You bet.

A Swiss mechanical watch is more of a fashion statement/accessory than a device to keep track of time. You wear it with a nice suit to a business meeting. If I were to shake your hand and happened to notice you were wearing a Patek Philippe, that says something about you - your wealth, taste, status, etc.

The Swiss watches will be fine. So will Ferrari and Lamborghini and Austin Martin, so will Apple, so will Jimmy Choo and his shoes.
I am pretty much unemployable, so the only choice was to make it work somehow. Don't worry there was plenty of fear, I just could do anything about it. "Feel the fear and do it anyway" is a favorite expression in my household.
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Hey hey, there's no rush to die! Could you to share any more details/background about your situation so that we can share common stories, advises, anything that could help you find a way to ease your demons?
I couldn't help but think of Mel Brooks' History of the World, pt.1 when reading the initial answer to "What do you do?". Could've been summed up as:

"What is the name of your occupation? What are the educational requirements to work in your career?"

"So I am a writer (I write books and articles). I’m a podcaster (I’ve had 10 million downloads of my podcast). I speak occasionally. And I advise or invest in over 30 different companies."

"Oh, so you're a bullshit artist."
Stuck overseas in the sense that corporations aren't willing to pay American taxes...

Why should Apple pay American taxes on the profits from a product manufactured in China and sold in Germany? (Albeit "Designed in California"!)
That's alot of vested bonuses! Is this fintech?