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Ask HN: Would getting arrested at restorethefourth affect your hiring decision?
14 points by jurassic 13y ago|9 comments
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by jurassic 13y ago
If anyone is interested in trying this diet, there's a good support community at reddit.com/r/keto
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by jurassic 13y ago
If you watch the video of Alexander's testimony, he says "potential terrorist events" not attacks. So these could have just been meetings among people with fringe political views. I'm not buying it.
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by jurassic 13y ago
I think this is normal everywhere in the US. I expect this has little to do with SF and more to do with the fact that many people all over the country, regardless of income level, are living far beyond their means and lack the discipline t
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by jurassic 13y ago
28k for food and random living expenses is a lot of money unless you are eating out for every meal; that's more that some people's entire paycheck (like grad students.) If you can't make room for savings in there, it definit
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by jurassic 13y ago
I applaud these DIYers. If there's one thing my PhD stint taught me, it's that the high stakes nature of dead ends in one's science career has forced most scientists to be extremely conservative in what they write grants for
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by jurassic 13y ago
I wish twitter would do this. All reasonable variants of my name and initials are held by folks who haven't used the platform since ~2010.
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by jurassic 13y ago
> The administration has now lost all credibility on this issue. Yes. Fuck you Mr. Obama, Mr. Bush, and everyone who ever voted for the PATRIOT Act. Failed promises on Gitmo, mideast conflicts, drone murders, and civil liberties/domesti
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by jurassic 13y ago
> On one flight, he and his aide-de-camp learned "BackTrack," a Linux-based product that helps people test their network security. Aides say the general often scores over 1 million points on the "Bejeweled Blitz" online puzzle game. Ei
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by jurassic 13y ago
I looked into trying something like this and abandoned the idea after a little research into the power issues and realizing what an ergonomic disaster it would be for me. Props to this guy, though, for following his dream.
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by jurassic 13y ago
Maybe he means privacy? https://panopticlick.eff.org/
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by jurassic 13y ago
I think the default HN theme could be improved with tasteful typography, but this alternative offering sacrifices too much information density. Dropping from 21 to 8 items above the fold on my MacBook isn't acceptable to me. Without the g
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by jurassic 13y ago
TLDR: Cronyism works well if all your college bros are top talent.
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by jurassic 13y ago
This post seems to miss the point that the two choices address completely different goals. Do you want to be a professor? Better get that doctorate. Want bags of money? Better work on your idea for the Next Big Thing. Both paths have ups
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by jurassic 13y ago
I agree with the author that pushing kids into STEM for STEM's sake is stupid. In particular, there is no shortage of scientists, which is why they work insane hours and make fast food wages well into their 30's. We already have enough pe
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by jurassic 13y ago
This is a huge step in the right direction, but I'd be lying if I didn't say I'm disappointed about the BS in CS requirement. Plenty of people with BS degrees in other technical fields probably could pass a fair placement/entry examination
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by jurassic 13y ago
Have you done this? I'm interested in knowing my genetic risk factors, but I'm afraid of how I would handle it if there was something really bad and unexpected.
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by jurassic 13y ago
A bedroom is where your bed is. I've never rented a place with closets, so I think that's pretty common -- especially in older buildings.
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by jurassic 13y ago
> Its amazing the amount of work today done by scientist at universities writing code without very basic software development tools. I agree 100%. I recently quit my PhD so I still know a lot of people on the frontlines of science. On
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by jurassic 13y ago
As much as it saddens me to say this, I think this needs a CAPTCHA to keep the "hackers" from spamming it to oblivion. Cool idea, though.
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by jurassic 13y ago
Tax dollars at work!
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by jurassic 13y ago
I agree 100%. This is why I keep all my crappy old code... to see how far I've come. Sustained practice makes a big difference in a short time, but you don't always see the progress unless you've got old code to compare with.
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by jurassic 13y ago
> there are a lot of people who take the stance that doing a phd is working slave labor for a professor over the course of 4-5 years of your prime There are many benefits of doing a PhD, but I couldn't get past the enormous feeling of o
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by jurassic 13y ago
Well I bought three today @55/each. So don't kick yourself too hard.
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by jurassic 13y ago
I hope prices stay "high"; maybe $55+/yr is enough to keep the domain squatters in check to some extent.
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by jurassic 13y ago
A big step for me was realizing that I don't need a university to keep learning and discovering. There's never been a better time to be an independent learner. If there's something you want to learn, then learn it. If you've got somethin
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by jurassic 13y ago
My N=1 advice for aspiring PhDs is: you probably shouldn't go. Outside of CS, the prospects are shitty for all but the rockstars; might as well save yourself 5-10 years of slave wages by not getting the degree.
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by jurassic 13y ago
I prefer to use the batteries Python ships with; argparse is NOT that hard to understand. I haven't seen anyone that says otherwise who isn't just trying to pimp their side project.
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by jurassic 13y ago
I enjoyed the pictures; don't listen to the haters. Milk-chugging at a disaster scene was a big enough "WTF" to keep me interested.
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by jurassic 13y ago
TLDR: Does publishing a paper help position yourself for future opportunities you're interested in (grad school, academia)? If yes, definitely do it. What is your role in the work, and how much has already been completed? Will you positio

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