skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Since we're collecting data from the actual user location, we really do capture the true experience of coverage - if a busy, popular, location has good coverage that will be reflected already in the data. This means that a large country could do extremely well, provided it covered the important urban locations. It obviously still takes more effort on the part of the operators to provide this coverage in a large country, but we're less affected by this problem than more traditional geographic coverage approaches.

Although, that said, I think it could still be interesting and it's definitely feedback we'll take on board for next time. I'd say that the gap between 50% and 80% time on LTE is actually pretty important to the user.
How about take possession and then ignore? The world isn't isn't so black and white.
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TFA (perhaps unsurprisingly) does not mention this particular Microsoft-Google case:

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2015/07/appeals-court-uph...

Of all the patent lawsuits that happened in all the smartphone wars that nobody won, this was the only case where a company was actually sanctioned for, essentially, abusing patents. And this happened on Google's watch. For all the rhetoric Google spewed about how their competitors were abusing patents, ironic that they were the one company that was actually found to be a bad actor. I always thought Google for too much of a free pass on that one.

Interestingly the Ars article I linked does not mention Google at all. Guess it's not so surprising they got a free pass.
My guess is it's just a bug in Google domains, allowing them to 'register' domains that the lookup RPC failed for. Google doesn't act as the registrar for their own domain, so there was never any risk of the ownership actually getting transferred to him.
Higher education is important and must continue. The problem is that, in America, costs are out of control. Some blame it on the ease of obtaining student loans; some blame it on poor management, decrease in public funding, decrease in alumni donations, reduction in federal research grants.

Probably it's a combination of all of the above. But when the average private school is trying to charge $50K+ per year for an undergraduate education, and the average public school is over $10K per year, something's seriously wrong.

I would tighten up the student loan system, cap it at $10K per year, and then let the universities figure out how to roll back their ridiculous tuitions that have risen many times faster than has the cost of living.

You could take an old warehouse, subdivide into about 10 lecture halls and classrooms, get a bunch of chairs and whiteboards, and hire 20 professors. That's in essence all a university should be. In this day and age, of course, you could add some online access, at a minimum stream the lectures in real time which costs almost nothing.

These glitzy $100 million "student centers", multimillion dollar athletic facilities, on-campus coffee shops and restaurants, dorms, hordes of administrative officials, assistant deans, etc. pulling down six figure incomes when they don't even teach -- that's just lifestyle crap that has nothing to do with education (although, sports teams can sometimes bring in big bucks). It all costs money -- maintenance, insurance, expansion, lawyers, advertising, marketing -- money, money, money. That's what has done in the American university system. Some of these campuses have turned into towns-plus-shopping malls and have lost their original vision.
I'm not currently working on any personal projects, but at my job I'm constantly juggling several projects whose priorities keep changing. And for many years I've been doing exactly what you do - keeping logs in text files. Long-running projects get their own text files while smaller projects get recorded in a "daily log". I like text files because they're easy to grep for keywords, and because a simple text editor is free of distractions.

I find that this is even useful in the short term: if I'm working on some code and need to go to a meeting, it's easier to get back into the code later if I have a record of the last thing I did before I was interrupted.
well, then :(

http://caniuse.com/#feat=online-status
Wide open throttle and percentage of maximum output are two different concepts. An engine operating at partial throttle has higher pumping losses (pulling air past the partially closed throttle plates).

An engine operating at WOT but still producing a fraction of its maximum output is certainly possible (and generally more efficient than an engine producing the same output at a partial throttle setting). A diesel engine is almost always in this configuration (metering fuel but generally not restricting air with a throttle plate) and a gas engine at low RPM but WOT is also in this state.

If tuned for efficiency in that config, it can be very efficient and is how many piston airplane engines are regularly operated where fuel consumption is an important part of range (and operating economics).
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I wrote a Chrome extension to do this awhile back https://github.com/tlrobinson/element-capture but newer versions of Chrome broke it at some point. I'll try to get it updated.
> Given the numbers I've seen fly around whenever Hacker News talks about engineering and programmer salaries, I'd have hard time arguing no.

Even there, though, there are plenty of people (myself, for instance) doing just fine in this industry without a degree. There are things I'll likely never work on, like complex computer vision stuff involving oodles of math, but heck, most people without a masters or doctorate don't work on that anyway.
Definitely a move in the right direction. Software companies have operated with a war mentality for too long, despite their common interests. They trade employees pretty often too, exposed no-poaching agreements aside. Competition isn't going away any time soon, but I think everyone appreciates more interoperability and cooperation. Will the Internet communities following them be able to follow this example?
It's funny you say that. Most non-college folks I've worked with have been significantly better compared to their same-aged counterparts.

There's just something to be said about someone who just simply learned through absorption rather than through lectures/assignments/tests.
Public schools in a lot of states are nowhere near that cheap anymore either. The UC system, for example, is comparable to private schools now.
> I'm frustrated by articles like these that lump all of "college" into one bucket

I have a relative who thought of college in exactly this way. She gamed the admissions process to get into a "good" college, then took the easiest classes she could get away with for the next four years - openly mocking those who took classes that required effort. A few months after graduation, she was genuinely angry and felt betrayed that someone hadn't offered her a job with an office and a high 5 figure starting salary - presumably related to "leisure studies" which was her major. After all, she had gone to a good college like everyone had told her to. She was definitely not the only one of her friends who thought the same way.
Yes, you could hire a few professors, rent a few classrooms with chairs and whiteboards, and you have the essence of a university. No real need for all this bloat. Students could live at home and brown bag it for lunch.
Yep! There was a 16 week session last year where we built a bench instrument. This year we're about 8 months into a robot build with multiple boards. It's now "ongoing" content, so we have legacy content and people signing up get access to everything.
I made a site that does something similar:

https://packageindex.com/#!/
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“Most of the attackers do not want to become a bank,” said Mr Härle. “They want to squeeze themselves in between the customer and the bank and skim the cream off.”

I'd argue that most of the new entrants would happily become banks if the regulations were more startup friendly.

So while the article paints banks as the victims of tech firms cutting into profits, the reality is that tech firms have been forced to the periphery of banking because few have the appetite or budget to even remotely consider becoming an actual bank.

This creates a lower bound on the fee Stripe can consider charging, for example, and is why bill.com's ACH payments take a week to clear.

Because of the cozy relationship between too-big-to-fail banks and their self-created bureaucracy, the business is out of reach to startups which are forced to compete on the margin.
This.

It's also worth mentioning that labor markets change. A lot of people working in Silicon Valley today weren't around after the first crash so they can't imagine how an engineer making six figures today with seemingly unlimited opportunities can find himself or herself making $0 tomorrow with seemingly few opportunities. But it has happened, can happen and will happen again at some point.
> articles like these that lump all of "college" into one bucket

The reason they do this is because my generation actually was brought up with the idea that going to college, any college, and getting any degree made you more successful than those without degrees. Now, some realized that this wasn't true, but it wasn't the message hammered into us from kindegarten on.
> Coke is trying to reframe soda as somehow ok.

The whole industry is continuously doing that for processed foods. It's called nutritionism. Margarine is still around, after provoking cancers and heart disease, isn't it? Now enriched with omega-3.
"My hypothesis is that I procrastinate on those things that I was naturally good at during childhood" Yup exactly, because there's an intense emotional connection to those activities, so we avoid them sometimes since they produce feelings of vulnerability.
I really don't like the idea of loan forgiveness (despite being a potential beneficiary), but I really do expect there to be a tipping point soon.
(1) Stop working in the middle of something, so when you get back you don't have to guess what next. It's an old hack (2) Keep a "what's next" list of 3-5 items, in addition to the project plan/to-do list (3) Do try to work, or just open it, every day. Even 15 minutes a day. It's not only the time you work on it, but also you keep thinking and solving and innovating during the day
But that's exactly the point.

All growing up my generation was told, "Just get a degree! It doesn't matter what it's in, it doesn't matter what it costs, just get a degree!" There was no other acceptable route, so all the "good" kids went to college to get degrees.

That leaves parts of my generation racking up student loans they literally cannot pay off with the careers they will get, all the while assuming they'll be alright financially because "degree!"

Of course, college is a big bundle of things: Friends, connections, good time, hopefully skills to get a job. Of course, college is a great thing and completely necessary for some people. But there are a lot of people going into so much debt they would have been in a better position financially by not going.
Well, everyone breaks rules. It's like saying they're hypocritical because sometimes they don't obey parking laws but expect people to obey their licensing terms.

I think the idea here is that being able to fix your own devices rather than put them in a landfill is a moral stance and such rules deserve to be broken.
> Yes, rent is high, but it's not that high when compared to dev salaries.

This is skewed if all your friends are devs. The sentiment is true to my experience as far as my non-dev friends go. Many share rooms with strangers or live with their significant other.
It would be helpful to augment your perspective with multiple studies about patents based on empirical data. The situation week not appear so gloomy then, though it's certainly very complex.
Nothing obliges you or I to accept their judgment without question. Why do you consider this a meaningful definition of obscene? (Also you're getting close to arguing by tautology here.)
Right, otherwise it would have been just AO, not AOL.
In the U.S., we have the Nuclear Football:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_football
> I would tighten up the student loan system, cap it at $10K per year, and then let the universities figure out how to roll back their ridiculous tuitions that have risen many times faster than has the cost of living.

I suppose they'll be forced to when their student numbers dive because nobody can afford it anymore, but what happens in the meantime? Only the rich get to go to school? Or if the public funding tap gets shut off, are private lenders going to step in and just make it cost more? Lowering the "expectation" that going to school is what all good American youths do is another solution that gets proposed sometimes (though maybe at odds with your premise "higher education is important and must continue"), so maybe lower attendance rates is acceptable, but I wouldn't want it to fall along class lines, or any other uneven distribution of demographics.

You could gradually step the funding down each year, but it seems like the steps would either be so small it would take generations to reform, or so big that it's basically as hard as doing it all at once.
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I can leave side projects alone for weeks or months at a time, so I've gotten into a habit of having a tab in my text editor (Sublime Text) with nothing but notes to myself for that project.
This is quite a blast from the past, Green PCs: http://www.my90stv.com/#7Hm7gi5pGeM

Apple's representative talking about packaging was particularly interesting.
Did you link the right article - the referenced article references a court case between Motorola and Microsoft - one that started before Google's acquisition of Moto.

It seems the patent battle was Microsoft abuse of its own patents to take a percentage of all Android sales (and Moto's revenue).

Edit: Motorola vs Microsoft, not Google
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The screenshot api has been in Firefox since v4 I think. I've been using this addon (https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/firecaptor/) to capture element of a page. It works like the inspector tool when selecting an element.
I was looking for a definition of "boredom" that I agree with and "literally not know[ing] what to do because nothing excites you" is the one I most agree with and is the most succinct.

I could replace "excites" with "interests", "relaxes" or some other state changing term.
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It can be, so you have to guard against it.

But what is for certain is that anyone attempting to follow this example will be flooded by applications of lower qualification in general -- making it difficult for any small sized company to deal with.

Just imagine if you had to conduct the search for applicants with a 10x larger pool of candidates. The sheer work involved is sure to cause problems of their own nature. Balance that against how much you really need to find diversity.
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Oh wow, I caught news report on Y2K bug: http://www.my90stv.com/#1xWNm_w8uVg
Perhaps in addition to loan caps, the states should increase grants to their public universities, and that will help keep down tuition.

The private schools, however, are kind of on their own. They'll probably need to cut back on the frills and hope students still want to apply. We're probably going to see a few closures of private schools over the next few years.
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Have you seen NReboot before?

http://nreboot.com/r/m
About the same time they move away from the Imperial measurement system.
I do as well, and while looking around for laws about it I stumbled across this:

http://www.wsj.com/articles/SB100014240527023038478045794799...

and a few articles like it. It seems the laws aren't well enforced though (probably for the better).
I like hack (1) a lot. But at least for me, it's hard to stop my brain when it's in the middle of something, I have this rush to get it done, which is why I like working on my own stuff of the side.

But maybe stopping at a reasonable midpoint without, like a subfunction, is a good idea. What kind of midpoints do you use?
I teach Java and Python intro courses at two different colleges (both < 30 per class), and the way I've developed my courses are very unit test driven. The reason is when I hand graded, it would take easily hours to finish grading everything. Likewise, students would submit code they copy/pasted from the internet and wouldn't compile. After 5 minutes of debugging their code, it begins eating into my overall grading time. Likewise, what percentage should I give them on code that doesn't compile? Now, I say a flat "if it doesn't compile, the best you get is 20% for proper formatting".

In the first few weeks, I use JUnit and System Rules (I am currently build Python unit tests) to let them only work via the main method. Once we introduce methods, I show them how I call them via my tests.

I have also started implementing typing exercises into my weekly work, so students can get a feel before getting thrown to the wolves on the week's assignments. If I head to PyCon next year, I hope to present on whether it was successful or not.

I am looking to automate grading ala Open edX style submissions, as the biggest problem I have is not being able to give students a grade/notes until around Friday when I grade.

One trick I do is lecture all of Monday (2 hour class) and then let them work on their assignment for the week on Wednesday (3 hours). Most students don't realize how much time outside of class needs to be spent in the initial semesters of programming. I use that lab time to let them work and act as a helpful tool if they have questions. For example, this week, we'd gone over building Objects, but the idea of constructors are still shaky to some people. Today, when they were working on their labs, I spent some time with the 1-2 students that needed a little extra help understanding the work to get everything.
Any citations for this "all the time" claim? It's not against the law, but I would think (and online discussion/blog/advice seems to support) that most people would rather quit, as you suggest.
That's wholly possible, I don't know the specific inner workings of her office. I think it is also possible that someone outside created this challenge on constitutional grounds and she has to legally respond to it. All-in-all the delay is a good thing, I'm just concerned that she's too 'hard on crime' to back down here.
How on earth are you going to know if an intangible investment like education will be "worth the cost" over your entire life time?
I can turn off JavaScript, those people being bombed can not turn off the sky.

If it gets to the point that sites are placing ads into the content themselves, I will likely end up sticking only to sites that are subscription or donation based.
This guy bought Google.com from Google for one minute
I need scrambled HBO late night to feel it's real.

I used to be able to slam the top of the cable box sometimes to unscramble the feed. Talking about a proper cable box with a dial. 1-60. This might be why punching equipment is now my first line of recourse when dealing with technical issues.

Anyway, a box I can thunder slam would be a nice addition. If not, that's cool.
AT&T and Verizon pretty much dominate and own the industry. Why improve when you can collude? Its not like anyone can actually compete, they own the spectrum.

Sprint and T-Mobile have significantly worse networks and access to spectrum.

Does not help that AT&T and Verizon are also huge stakeholders in the wired telecom oligopoly. They are overflowing in cash to crush competition.
Interesting result from a survey I conducted on behalf of an artist at the Venice Biennale (possibly the most important contemporary art event in the world): nearly all visitors during the preview (prior to the public opening) who answered (about 1000 people) said they held at least a master's degree. Albeit this is in Europe, where in many countries advanced degrees are quite common, but suffice it to say an Art History degree may be quite valuable to those looking to succeed in the art world.

Anecdotally, I know this to be the case. On the flip side, you are very unlikely to succeed unless you have connections from the outset.
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It's true that programming and engineering tend to pay more. But it is also true that those fields don't require a degree to work in them. You can get paid very well as a programmer even without a college degree.

Also, with programming the vast majority of that information is available for free online. It doesn't make sense to pay that much for something that you can get for free.
The new AppleTV is not yet available for sale. The justification of "help people fix their devices" simply does not apply in this case.
I had a coworker once who was a college drop-out and had exactly all of the flaws that the VP warned about in your story. He was highly intelligent, and could have made a great software engineer, but his focus and work ethic were terrible, and his work suffered for it terribly. He was exactly the kind of person for whom everything was easy their whole life, then they finally reached a level where blind intelligence alone was not sufficient, and has no persevering skills to fall back on.

I hit that same crisis my sophomore-junior years of college, but powered through it and finally learned the skill of hard work (which most other students had already mastered by high school).
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> the referenced article references a court case between Motorola and Google

I think you mean Motorola and Microsoft.
I've actually been studying computer vision on the side. The highest formal math education I had was Integral Calculus. I'm not going to be hired doing that any time soon but it is fun to play around with none the less.
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>Bitcoin is for regulatory arbitrage

In it's current form, with current regulations, it may be used by some for regulatory arbitrage, but I don't think it's fair to say that's what the technology sets out to achieve. Bitcoin is decentralized, programmable money, obviating the need for traditional financial institutional intermediation, as stated in the first line of the original bitcoin whitepaper (I'm paraphrasing), and what many, many users and supporters would like to use it for.

>the suggestion that 'theft' is an issue demonstrates a lack of understanding on how bitcoin works as property

Some of the common modes of 'theft' are described in the article (i.e. boils down to compromised private keys).

Yes, the author uses simplified descriptions, more for the layman, but I think the article does a decent job at summarizing some important aspects of the technology.