skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't see why this is unreasonable. Right now it's basically a pretty easy way to evade taxes with freebies.

Don't have enough money for the payments on your house? No problem, just offer to take a pay cut and move into a "free" house provided by your employer. Alcohol sales tax too high in your state? No problem, just open a bar with "free" alcohol and charge an entry fee to the premises at the door.

In The Netherlands where I reside my employer provides "free" meals but they have to charge me 2 EUR for each one as a matter of law. In some other countries if you give out "free" beers to people you have to pay a mandatory minimum fee for each one etc.

If you don't do that then the optimum financial endgame for a company like Google is to basically turn into some mega corporation that pays its employees almost minimum wage, but provides "free" meals, housing, food, transportation etc. which they don't have to pay any taxes on because it's not being sold to anyone and can all be written off as internal costs.

Compensation isn't just handing someone a dollar bill.
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If you want my humble opinion my friend, you're pretty much fine. Your addiction is quite bearable and you seem to have a pretty structured routine which is a luxury for most of people. Maybe get some more exercice and relax... everyone goes through some bad times every once in a while. Keep calm and keep hustling... everything is fine..
When Google announced Chrome they did not have a history of writing world-class desktop software. Yet Chrome is massively successful.

One thing that Google does better than anyone else (period) is build networks.
Yep, it's got it's limits - I would only use this in production with carefully crafted queries to try too counter this problem.

My usual use is against MS CRM data, which puts a 10k line limit on by default. First instinct for many people is to disable the limit, but in reality it's a good fail safe!
Professor Galloway might be advised to also get his shit together and/or remove the stick from his ass. Rather than say: "This is a suboptimal situation, how can we fix it?", he simply called the student immature and disrespectful, and never acknowledged the possibility that he, or some institution he has influence over, might be partially at fault in the matter.

Masters/professional degrees are hardly an "academic pursuit". Universities treat them as a profit-generating device, and as such, it's reasonable that the customer be able to make an informed decision. In relatively short professional-degree programs, you will often have only one chance to take a given elective during your time there. Sometimes you have to make a decision between these courses. In my Masters program, I made the wrong decision regarding electives more than once, missed out on some very interesting courses, and wasted my time with some absolutely lousy ones.

In an ideal world, the school would provide some reasonable solution for this. Either by having some reasonable culture of course-sampling, or if they feel that harmful, offer videos that allow students to, on their own time, sample the course and make an informed decision as to whether the course is worth their limited resources.
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I’m all in favor of teaching kids how to program, but please be careful about setting expectations. To me, it sounds as if you’re telling people “hey, learn to program in 6 months and get a six figure salary at Facebook!”. While that may be a good way to sell the program, it’s unrealistic and deceitful.

Can you replace a 4-year CS program with a 6 month course? No offense, but I doubt so. I figure the best you can do is have students to know their way around Ruby, know how to build simple apps relying on Rails, some basics about algorithms, familiarity with git, etc. That might be enough for some jobs, but I doubt that’s the kind of engineer companies like Facebook are looking to hire.

Again, I’m not saying that teaching these kids how to program is bad. It’s great. But please think about the expectations that you’re setting.

(I would’ve written more to express myself better, but I don’t have time!)
Yeah, agreed -- I've been waiting for about 5 years for it at my place in park slope and it only became available a couple months ago.

A while back they told me the fiber had been in the avenues for a long time, but the hinderance was running the fiber from the avenues to the back yard utility poles. Specifically, they needed to get permission and backyard access from every owner on the block to pull cable. Knowing how notoriously difficult it is to get a landlord to do anything in NYC, I imagine this was no easy scheduling task.
It was my understanding that bitcoin transactions took about half an hour to clear? So how can they then say "The transaction happens instantaneously, EVR promises." Or, is this one of those things that has been fixed recently?
Why, it's a clear message to the public as well, which states: AT&T is only ready to improve their service when threatened with competition. Otherwise forget it. At least one has to give them a credit that they had guts to admit it.
>>but they're only allowing<<

Notice on the list provided by `trailfox` the "≈ CPU Load" column -- when the programs are written to use 4 cores "they're" allowing Go to access 4 cores.
Why bother writing such a wall of text, when the whole thing can be summarized as "I believe non-free educational materials are bad".

Selling educational materials to schools in the form of textbooks has been going on for a long time. If you replace "Treehouse" with "textbook", your rant reads like it was written by a crazy person.
He discusses the incident here: http://bigthink.com/users/scottgalloway
I just found out that IG Markets have added Bitcoin binaries to their trading platform. You can bet on the Bitcoin price being above / below $100, $150, $200 etc on MtGox at some point in the future.
> In the U.S., it's arguably a FERPA violation to do so.

Not if, as in this case, the student's identity is concealed. In such a case, it becomes as valid an instructional element as a psychological case history (where the subject's identity is always concealed).
I wonder if they'll keep their current capping policy in place in Austin (I'm willing to bet they will not), or if they remove the caps nationally (I'm willing to bet they will not).

If they did, it'd take ~250 seconds at full throttle to use up your download limit. Provided they are charging for overage, this could be very profitable for them.

Sorry for the nitpick - By L3, I'm assume you mean Level 3 Communications, not L-3 Communications. Netflix uses the former's CDN services, I believe.
Create a big, profitable company; bootstraping, without investors to press you to have an exit. And be rich with your profit (remember the good old 20th century capitalism?).

I was just reading the case of weheartit.com - a brazilian "clone" of Pinterest. The quotation marks are there because Weheartit became big before Pinterest even exist.

They became big, but refused any external investment, while Pinterest were genius of raising funding.

There are two sides here: one is that Weheartit lost a billion dollar oportunity to Pinterest for both trying to bootstrap on 37signals style and/or just having worst execution.

Other is that Weheartit is still very big, with regular traffic, and surely large revenue from ads. They didn't die because of Pinterest, they are still a huge company, only by anchoring them to a billion dollar clone one may not call them a successfull company. And their founders are perhaps cashing out dozens (hundreds?) of thousands of dollars each month.

http://www.businessinsider.com/weheartit-fabio-giolito-brazi...
When someone asks if you are male or female, 99% will interpret it as "do you have a penis or a vagina?", not "do you identify as a man or a woman?", nor any other

You seem to suggest that my interpretation is arbitrary, while I think it is the most colloquial. Do you honestly think that a 15 year old girl/boy would see this thread and think "well I am neither of those"? Or are you just deconstructing a very straightforward question by its edge cases to prove some kind of point that I'm missing?
I'm particularly enjoying how ignorance of the state of the industry leads to victim-blaming. Telling women who are continuing to deal with these issues in their "everyday realities" that it's all in their heads is the exact attitude that is perpetuating this mess.
That teacher was from the University of Texas Elementary School, which is in east Austin.

http://www.utelementary.org/
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Where do you draw the line? No free stationery? No free coffee? What about company events?
I don't know about six figure, but you can live comfortably nearly anywhere in the country.
Additionally, here's the "Default Policies for Stern Courses" page on the school's site:

"Arriving Late, Leaving Early, Coming & Going

"Students are expected to arrive to class on time and stay to the end of the class period.

"Arriving late or leaving class early will have impact on the course grade.

"Students may enter class late only if given permission by the instructor and can do so without disrupting the class.

"(Note that instructors are not obliged to admit late students or readmit students who leave class or may choose to admit them only at specific times.)"

http://www.stern.nyu.edu/AcademicAffairs/Policies/GeneralPol...
No. Building an Android version requires a large amount of time and effort. It's a huge waste of time to build an version of an app for a second plantform that you have not already validated the market for on the first.
Yeah, honestly it makes sense. Right now firms in CA are incentivized to provide perks as compensation to employees in lieu of cash because it isn't taxed. Implementing a tax on these perks will probably reduce perks, but it should have the result of higher wages.
Along with having to spend a load of time re-reading the documents because you aren't installing your system on a weekly basis.
I guess there is no way to tell, since I'm not sure how dramatically that would have affected me. But since my life turned out pretty great despite of the divorce, I think Dad going to Mars would only make it that much sweeter.
IRC's the main thing I use my Digital Ocean VPS for - and it's been great.
It's about trust. The transaction hits the network immediately. Then a miner puts it in a block as soon as right away, or as slow as... several days (if you put a transaction fee, you'll move to the frontish of the line). Once its in one block, every subsequent block is a vote for its authenticity.

So, if I accept a bitcoin right away, I open myself up to a fairly trivial double-spend attack. If I wait for one confirmation, it's harder, but still sorta maybe doable. If I wait for several (1-2hours), it's near impossible.

Compare with taking cash which may be phony, or a CC which is easily charge-backable, and the business's risk is ... close enough to the same.
The "let's say they are only 25% as good" is a bad assumption. The real downloads you get from increased app store ranking are as good as any others you'll get.

The ratio - 20K real downloads from 20K incentivized, or 1:1 - is also a bad assumption. Here the actual ratio varies wildly, depending on how much the incentivized installs actually influence your app ranking. It's a feast or famine situation - spend too little, and your ratio will be closer to 1:10, since your ranking won't have moved enough to influence organic traffic. Spend sufficiently, and your ratio will be closer to 10:1, if not higher.

The LTV of 3:1 is also a bad assumption - I've worked with firms who would spend at breakeven all day long, often because they wanted to grow their user base into an acquisition or use it for future in-house cross-promotion. Many others are happy to make (say) $1.50 on $1.00 spend.

My experience agrees with the parent comment - anyone that has the budget to buy incentivized downloads does buy incentivized downloads, except for a small proportion of developers who strongly disagree with the practice. It simply works too well.
What languages are supported? The examples look like C#?
Not 2-4 times less than those Python programs (less would be shown as a fraction), but 2-4x more.
Chairs with wheels, AC, guest wifi...
69Wh vs. 74 Wh and 95 W*h. There are tradeoffs to consider.
EDIT: please disregard.. I have been getting complaints, but they may not be related to this issue.

This would seem to explain all of the 'echoing' complaints I've been getting when using google voice on my N4.
How exciting! Definitely going to followup on this.
I wonder if any research has been done on what the effect on median income would be of distributing jobs that don't require physical presence away from boom towns.

Intuitively, it feels like boom towns are price-inflated, and that letting less crammed parts of the USA (for example) get some of the economic activity would be a win for both the long-term residents of the boom towns (NYC, Silicon Valley would become less expensive) and the other areas (there would be more economic activity).
You underestimate leverage. If this app takes off and shaves off 15 minutes of time for a million people a month, you are looking at 10k man-days of effort a month being saved. Not to mention the fuel thrown away by cars in "loop arounds."
Dude, seriously, it's time to move on. You don't need to bring up Google Reader everytime Google launches a product.
If you choose where you live and work carefully, living without a car in Austin isn't so bad. In particular, car2go is a godsend. That plus my bike and the bus get me around.
I thought so too, but then I remembered Watson, and just how far off we are from search being fully context-aware.
Passive candidates are completely under-represented in recruiting efforts. This is awesome.
I agree with this. If there was any money in the pipes we wouldn't see nearly as many mergers of broadband and content companies. We also wouldn't see content companies getting into broadband either. The nice thing about Google is that their interests as you said are mutually beneficial here. E.g. faster broadband means more money for Google via ad sales. This isn't true with Comcast or other carriers.
This is a case where singular they would have come in handy...
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FiOS in NY is expanding very slowly (not just in Manhattan but in all 5 boroughs). Staten Island got more coverage than most, because it's less urban. Constructing in the middle of the city is always way more expensive, and Verizon is not rushing to do it.
Right.

This is pretty much the conclusion I came to when trying to figure out why this would make sense.
$0.05 more per month! Ludicrous! :) but alright, I'll just go along with the upgrade.
I've been running an old Supermicro 8-port MV88SX6081-based card on FreeBSD+ZFS since about 2008 - never had a problem. Same controller was used by Sun in their venerable 48-drive X4500 "Thumper" servers, too.

Not sure that's entirely relevant information in this case though :P
Bureaucracy's main purpose is to create more bureaucracy.

As a side effect, they collect taxes or issue you your driver's license, it is just a means to the end of self-perpetuation.

Eliminating the income tax and going to a much more transparent method like higher fuel taxes (everyone pays them because everyone uses transportation) or some other broadly based consumption tax, would be excellent.
This proves the fact that as developers we can greatly underestimate the real demand for a product if we base it just on our own needs. One can now see the app being very useful for taxi and limo drivers by automating a crucial part of their business and saving them lots of time and hassle.
Oh neat, it seems my current Firefox (20) works with Persona now when third party cookies are disabled. This was a huge problem before when I was playing around with it a few months ago (it would flat-out never properly authenticate when I was testing it before). Didn't think the new cookie policy would roll out of testing so quickly.
Well, you missed out on a good argument. When I'm annoyed by formatting, I just copy the text into WordPad and read it.
First, an office less world is a dream right now. If you plan to be hyper-competitive, there's no substitution to 'water-cooler' talk. Technology is nowhere near being able to reproduce that.

Second, why would they put the picture of a communist leader who used to shoot defectors and kill artists? Why is he any sort of hero?
Why is it a stupid idea?

Company A pays an employee $100 per day, and provides a lunch which costs the company $10.

Company B pays the employee $110 per day, but the employee has to provide her own lunch.

Is it really fair that Company B has to pay more tax than Company A? Compensation is compensation, whether in kind or in cash.
I'm probably going to get like a hundred downvotes for this, but don't develop for Apple. There rules are not clear, and they ban apps based on their whim. Especially if you are famous and a threat to their current or future apps.
Keep slapping 'em into shape Google. Good job. Come to NY!!
>>>What people have been taught and what people actually do are two different things.

Well, we can agree there.
For a simple side project, you don't really need 512mb dedicated. Voila: http://www.lowendbox.com/
It's true that psychological case histories are published, but much more carefully. You need to make a formal proposal to an independent review board, which will assess your proposed anonymization protocol and the circumstances of data collection and disclosure. The bar is particularly high if you're asking to release a case study where you don't have documentation of the subject's consent (even for anonymized case studies).
Yep.

"This expanded investment is not expected to materially alter AT&T’s anticipated 2013 capital expenditures."

So, they've had the capability for a while now. They just didn't see any reason to bother with the hassle of deploying a newer technology when they could just keep maintaining U-verse over twisted pair, even if capex stayed the same for either choice. Which is an interesting choice.
I've been using this with ChromePhp and it works fantastically well. It sends all of the data as part of the page's header, so you don't have to worry about something hacky like injected console.log calls.
Am I the only one to find Python syntax highlighting pretty poor? Is there any tip, color schemes or plugins to improve this?
For that the fiber has to be at least at some distance from the building street already. It's not the case in the vast majority of places in NY.
> Why layout double the infrastructure when and get into a price war when you can do the same thing somewhere else and be able to charge more?

The point is that AT&T is trying to kill off Google's Internet business. It takes many years to earn back the cost of laying new fiber.

If Google knows that AT&T is going to avoid building wherever they are, Google would just keep going with their plan.
And yet look at how the one YC-funded, quant-founded Bitcoin company is doing in terms of security and stability.
Yeah, this seems like a case of grandstanding. Everyone who agrees with the professor can get on their high horse about decorum. Unfortunately for the lesson, responsible, mature adults don't publicly humiliate those less worldly and wise than they are. That's what assholes do.

So if anything the life lesson here is: wisdom is an excuse to lord it over other people. Score points whenever you can as publicly as possible.
I would rate this as a bad experience. It just happened that this wasn't important to you, but it can be for others.
I forget: what does the P stand for again?

Also, you're off by 2%.
bitcoins was babby's first forex trading platform. I guess it's time for nerds everywhere to get a crash course in options (emphasis on the word crash.)
I don't entirely understand the arguments against taxing the perks made in the article. On one hand they're talking about how incredibly valuable to the company the free meals are, and on the other talking about how taxation would lead to these perks being killed.

If the meals really do provide that value, the company can trivially pay the tax on behalf of the employees.
This is a very incomplete and slightly biased article.

1) He compares the highest end latest greatest product of Apple, to the Lumia 800, when the Lumia 920 is the high end phone for that.
2) The article talks only about minor UI quibbles, when that is something you just have to get used to. Lumia has better mapping and directions, and a host of other core apps.
3) The hardware design of the Lumia series rivals any other smartphone (the HTC 8x comes close), simply because of its simplicity and warmth. It looks like an organic device.
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I occasionally think about how a doctor will be able to work really anywhere in the country and be guaranteed a very comfortable six figure salary (at the minimum)

I would contest the "very comfortable" part. For one thing, the training and education a doctor has to go through is an order of magnitude more intense - and it is expensive as hell[1]. For another, after med school doctors continue to work like crazy. My parents, who are in their late 50s and early 60s, still work 12 hours a day on a regular basis, and have to consume entire journals/periodicals and travel for international conferences just to stay on top of new things.

Among the hundred or more doctors I personally know of among my family's circle of friends and acquaintences, only one or two live "comfortably," by working a few days a week and making a ton of money. But that's because they:

a) have hyper-specialized so that they are one of the few experts in their sub-field
b) live in a geographic area where they can charge a ton for their services

Compared to this, a software engineer making a low six figure salary lives a very comfortable life. AND software is much less location-dependent, since you can work remotely (unlike doctors).

[1]A software engineer goes to college for four years and then gets a job as a programmer. In stark contrast, a doctor though has to do four years of undergrad, four years of med school after that, and then three to seven years of residency. If they want to become highly specialized? Two to three years of fellowship after residency.
But the fact is that there are a huge number of other famous applications which do that and still not banned, it looks like a selective ban - and that has become kind of an Apple culture now.
Basing a business around an app is both risky and potentially very profitable.

Yes, which is why you should treat your ambiguously legitimate AppStore business like a vein of gold which might suddenly run out. You make sure you can put the money in your pocket as you go (note: fundraising can hurt your ability to do this), you don't invest too much in crazy expansion (forty-five employees? hopefully it was all sales) and you don't get too attached to future plans.

It's an unfortunate situation for AppGratis, who did the best they could to keep the wolf from the door in the face of uncertainly, but this was pretty likely to happen eventually.
I have single linode with several domains/projects on it. It's not to difficult to setup virtual domains.
Ouch! When did "CTOs in their 30s" become "the old ones"?
Google launches global hotline to combat human trafficking
Right, communication to Firebase happens with its API.
You can short now: icbit.se is a well-run exchange and derivatives market.
May I humbly suggest my site http://www.oncontracting.com I'm still testing it in Seattle but would happily work on adding new content from elsewhere.
Can't even begin to think how much I agree with this. It kind of reminds me of another great quote:

"Everyone on this planet is given the same 24 hours in the day. The question is: what do you choose to do with yours?”
- Anno Sensei