skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As a BS & MS in CS degree holder, who did not have a thesis option, I agree wholeheartedly. The article mentions that the coursework programs are basically extensions of undergrad, and that certainly applied to my program. I was a bit non-traditional, as I did my MS later in life and as a working professional (8 yrs after finishing my BS), so I wasn't expecting the full-time deep dive experience anyway. I tried to take advantage of the time I did have though and both refresh my knowledge of CS and extend it in a few areas (mainly, learning functional programming and knowledge of language and type theory) Unfortunately, I didn't get to do any research, but I am trying to make up for that by applying to a post-masters advanced study certificate program.

I also had some folks in my program who were, in my opinion, definitely not graduate-level material (a point made in the article as well). I feel like I have a strong CS background and can take things to a higher level, but because of the weaker folks, some of my classes were (to me) watered down and ineffective and thus not challenging to me.
Is this different than folders? Or labels? Is the primary benefit here that these categories are more prominent in the UI?
I actually prefer this as it allows me to check other mails while I'm typing. It actually bothers me that replying on a mail still uses the old compose.
Absolutely agree - I'd love to be able to use my account on other merchant's sites without having to enter cc info.
Can you elaborate on why you feel it's disheartening?
I hate the box look all the companies are going for. It's like the fucking 80s/90s all over again....
Gravity has fundamental differences from the other force, one of the key ones being related the general relativity principles. Gravity causes a distortion in space-time and it is why we have to adjust clocks on satellite in order to match the clocks not in orbit.

Gravity has fundamental principle that makes it different than electromagnetic forces.
You appear to be entirely unaware that Microsoft has spent the best part of a decade responding and working with a Justice Department who was acting on behalf of frustrated or outraged consumers and competitors who believed exactly that. They came to a partial agreement with your position, whilst dismissing other claims entirely.
To me the act of disciplining the teacher makes the very case they're alleging that he portrayed. I.e., "the administration around here is kinda jumpy and will crack down on the slightest appearance of infraction--even if the right course of action is unclear or controversial."
> why would you force users to write emails in a small window in the bottom right corner

Seconded. It's actually very painful to write on the bottom right corner; also at times pasting large amount of text in to the box screws its interface. When you've some formatting on the text pasted there, something goes crazy.

I recently quit accessing my primary Gmail account and this is one of the main reasons for it.

Other being the amount of spam that started coming in, in the name of notifications, deals and whatever "my friend has unlocked...".

I also found Gmail forcing a lot of G+ around the header of my inbox, and tonnes of services that I have never opened or would not be interested in. Unable to switch those off.

That said, I do find this label-tab option interesting. Will definitely give it a go.

[Edits] Added thoughts.
This is something I've often struggled with before I joined Facebook, and it's something I occasionally grapple with there too. Like you, I felt I was usually correct, but had come to the realisation that not only was I occasionally wrong in short-term hindsight (just after the fact), but sometimes only in longer-term hindsight (ie, after I'd learned some lessons further down the road).

Ultimately, it comes down to trust and teamwork. I had a much longer post, but:

a) Make sure you are doing what you believe to be the right thing for the company as a whole, and that you're armed with as much information as is easily obtainable about it to inform your strong opinion.

b) Then, if you are able to believe that the people around you are doing what they believe to be the right thing for the company as a whole (even if you might need to remind them that they should do that) based on the information (and you might need to help them understand what you have discovered) and experience available to them, then your life will be a lot less stressful than if you're the guy that feels they always need to steer the ship.

It's also something I've learned more and more about leadership and mentoring:

a) It's hard to learn lessons if you're not making mistakes. Telling people how to avoid mistakes in one case doesn't help them learn how and whether to try avoid them in future.

b) Choose your battles - expend your influence capital on the most important thing, and don't transform from that person that's been a great help in the past to that person who just tries to meddle in everything.
You do know that you can popout the compose box, or even the other chat boxes into popups which you can expand as you wish?
The spec says that the feature should be disabled if any UEFI boot entry other than "Windows Boot Manager" is chosen. Whether that's actually implemented, I don't know.
I'm not sure how you're bringing morality into this. I'm simply viewing speech as communication and nothing more. Vocal fry increases noise in the signal to noise ratio, and I don't see how that could be useful.
They produce way less content partly because they only recently got into the game. It's unfounded to say that just because they're a small fish means that they'll never be able to make content with neither the breadth nor specificity of other networks.
How many credible MS programs will even allow this? They don't teach you how to program during a MS degree. They give you a project and you are expected to know how to program in c++/java, scheme, or whatever random language the professor feels like using.
I like the lack of comment scores on HN. I don't even want to see my own scores or usernames.

Personally, I tend to associate discussion scores and counters with competitive/adversarial commenting, "bandwagoning" and "crowd-pleasing".
GitHub and Google search, I'd guess.
>That being said, I think this is a great idea. I don't love the Facebook OAuth flow and the amount of access most apps ask for.

You bring up a perfect point from a user's perspective and I agree with you. The challenge for Amazon is that there are two competing interests:

1. Users who don't want their entire life to be open to developers

2. Developers that want as much info as possible on the users

Facebook favors group #2 above, Amazon will probably favor group #1 above. If that ends up being the case, how many developers will be willing to utilize the OAuth service that doesn't give them as much info by default?
Their lack of understanding of CS fundamentals is probably why they are taking the MS in the first place. I would assume they would have improved by graduation.
It comes off as something being masked as a "feature," when in actuality it is just something that is trying to get me to spend money. It seems like it blurs the line between the "content" of my inbox and advertising.
> the poor cross platform support

Guh? I've got KeePass+DropBox on my Linux laptop, iMac desktop, Windows 7 work desktop, and Android phone. What's missing?
Unlike labels, which require fixed rules (or manual action) to place emails into them, the tabs sort emails algorithmically.
NASA working on DARPA-funded warp drive theory/prototype
The article isn't so much about the perceived value of an MS/CS in the job market as it is about the author's unhappiness with what an MS/CS means these days- less often as researchy prep for a PhD, more often as a BS/CS++. He also complains about the fact that there are students getting their MS/CS that don't have a BS/CS, therefore sometimes have fewer CS fundamentals than their undergraduate counterparts. I have a feeling that most of the comments are going to be about whether or not someone with a BS/CS should go for an MS, but that's not what the article is about.

EDIT: typo
...or the box look with the pinterest double-column BS.
This is splitting hairs a bit. They are, for all intents and purposes, world champions.
Yeah, I should have been clearer. It would lower the a la carte price, but it would still be a pretty unsustainable number.
what is that a surprise? He has been working with Mary Meeker on the trend reports for quite a while, since Morgan Stanley days.

http://www.kpcb.com/partner/liang-wu
> Where is the tab for "bills"?

It's a label you create with a filter that has all the email addresses of your providers, so everything skips your Inbox and gets sorted automatically.

Who said GMail has to be designed for engineers? The majority of people have no idea what a filter is and wouldn't be able to figure one out even if you told them where to find it.

As long as the features that I need are there, I don't care what fluff they add on top, so long as I can turn it off. And I can turn this off.
not forced to use it. What would you rather they add?
In my experience talking with colleagues (I'm a B.S. CS guy) I've scene both ends of the spectrum. One friend was effectively obligated to earn a MS in CS at Columbia (not sure if that entailed research) but seemed like a stat grab. Then at Bay2Breakers I met two foreign MS CSers also from Columbia who were doing research in semi-supervised machine learning applied to traffic systems. Seemed legit. It was early and I was drunk in the latter experience, but I stand by it!
Looks really, really great! I can't wait.
> That's dishonest. You know quite well that, above, I was referring to the actress interviewed in the article under discussion, and, below, to Kardashian

I'm sorry. I honestly missed that. That was meant as evidence to support that you were in fact doing what i was describing. I mistakenly accused you of lying but it still seems the behavior fits (EDIT: not lying rather the behavior in the first paragraph of my original comment).
I can't speak for above, but I treat the "Promotions" label the same as spam, and only look at it if/when something gets in there by mistake.
Jeri says, in the recording, that Gabe personally released the technology to them.
I don't have it available yet, but if I had to guess I'd say the primary benefit is the algorithms that sort mail into these categories.
Bills seem to come under 'Updates'
A la cart distribution is good for consumers and content creators, and is bad for networks and cable providers

Consumers - Cheaper for most consumption patterns.

Content creators - Flexible release schedules, deep viewer analytics, more power over networks.

Networks - Only remain relevant as publishers and speculative content investors.

Cable providers - Each hour of TV viewed will earn more money, but less hours will be viewed. Quickly are turned into dumb pipes.

So what happens? Networks and cable providers are going to hold on for dear life, while consumers and creators are going to route around them.
I was really excited about Google Game Services and I've even implemented them into my game, but then I discovered users need a Google+ account (not just a Google account) in order to use high-scores/achievements.

Now I'm considering whether or not to actually publish the version of the game with achievements/high-scores...
>> "I don't understand why that merits the #1 ranking on HN"

Because enough people upvoted it to get it there. The Magazine, although not focussed on tech, I assume attracts a large tech audience (the people on HN). Marco is a well known person in the development community and I'm sure quite a few people saw the post on his blog and submitted here gaining it upvotes.
I also keep making that same mistake.
This a million times over.

The new compose window makes me want to switch away from Gmail. It should be purely optional.
These comments are pretty sad. I know we feel the need to comment on everything right away these days, but honestly there isn't much to say about this feature until we've actually used it.

HN almost universally believes in execution over the idea, yet here we are trashing an idea before seeing the execution. It's great that Gmail is trying to innovate and improve the email experience. Maybe this feature won't work out but how about we try it out first?
I'm sure this will help a lot of folks, but I'll keep using my filters and custom inboxes.
There are not enough course hours in the undergraduate program for students to become fluent in mathematics, physics, chemistry, biology, economics, the liberal arts (very important), and computer science. A fifth year (that is, a Masters degree) allows for a more complete program. And, somewhere along the line, there needs to be some time for a research project where the student works closely with an expert since research remains an apprenticeship program.

The post suggests that course-only Masters degrees are inadequate and dilutive because, while the survey a body of knowledge, the human contact is missing and that the human contact with a real live researcher is how computer science it best taught. I agree.
And here I wrote a similar critique of Silicon Valley something like two days ago. Nice to see the perspective of "the 99%" getting more play.
So wearable computing has gone mainstream now. Looks like lot of institutional investor money is going to flow (in startups in that area) during next couple of years.
I think that level of "failure" isn't exceptional in the field.

It's very frequent that "Team A" works on a software product and gets some of it done. Then the work gets sent to "Team B".

"Team B" usually finds many deficiencies at work in the code. For instance, people frequently bungle the design of 10-table databases, so perhaps there are dragons in the 100s of tables.

"Team B" sometimes delivers the product, usually late. Sometimes it doesn't.

That's life. The Gartner Group says that 2/3 of all IT projects fail and I think that's about par for the course.
Right, changing the way billions of people interact every single day isn't impactful?
I think you're entirely correct.

I'd add that SEO is an easy target because it is (or has been until its very recent transformation into content marketing + nice clean usable sites) blatantly a zero-sum game, whereas most marketing is not inherently zero-sum.

There's uncertainty about what SEO is right now which makes the scammers even harder to spot. Many people using harmful practices (harmful to users as well as the company they're working for) genuinely believe that they are helping.

Black Hat SEO is hilarious. Oh, it works. It works very well, and definitely at least as long as it takes for the SEO to collect their check & a recommendation for the next job.

Interesting that this update comes in the wake of Penguin 2.0, incidentally - could Moz have fallen victim?
What makes you say that? Cord cutters still pay for the content they consume. All that is happening is we are trading one middle man for another (ABC, CBS, FOX for Netflix, Amazon, Hulu ) Cord cutter content prices will rise as the balance of power shifts.
The upgrade won't be distributed as a new product. They'll just release version 4 as an update to the same product as version 3.
It's possible less content for less money is OK with people. The current pricing scheme of TV never got a chance to test that hypothesis. It's certainly true for me.
The main difference I can see with labels (at least for power users) is that the mails get filtered automatically by Google in these categories. I believe that most of us here on HN won't see this feature as revolutionary but it might help the less tech-savvy ones.

For quite some time, I've been happy with GMail because I set up a system through which each email is ultimately stored in one of my predefined labels. I wrote an article about it [1]. It's both simple to setup and easy to use. And although I don't receive that many emails, I believe it can scale quite easily.

[1] http://jgthms.com/organized-gmail-inbox.html
Seems like this is the G+ification of Gmail. All of googles other products (like all the examples shown: g+, zagat, offers, etc) get featured prominently to get more of those sweet, sweet gmail eyeballs.

This is the monetization of gmail. Eyeballs directed towards actual paying or ad-supported services, which is a huge advantage.
Companies should be intelligent enough to hire for what they really need. Hiring an MS just for the sake of the MS is not always the best strategy.

In a research-driven job, someone with a strong research background in CS makes sense.

For a job where you want a top craftsmen and producer of code, it would seem to be much more tangential.

For the latter situation, companies that hire purely based on academic credentials will likely be making suboptimal, if not outright negative EV hiring decisions.
I find all these new email products (Sparrow, Mailbox, etc.) interesting on a UI/UX level but they're highly irrelevant to me. I always read about how hard it has become to manage one's inbox, but I really don't have a problem with it.

My system is simple: do not sign-up for newsletter or notifications (e.g. Facebook, Twitter, GitHub, etc.) you won't read, unsubscribe anytime you realize you don't read the ones you receive, delete emails you won't ever need again, archive the ones that are nice to keep around but won't require anything from you anytime soon, and use filters whenever possible.

So in the end, I don't receive that many emails per day. I certainly don't receive any promotions in the mail… that's just asking for trouble.

Right now I have 25 threads in my inbox and the vast majority of them I keep around because they have pictures I want to save in iPhoto but haven't had time to. (I need to find a system for that actually)
MS in CS here. We all know we did it for the diploma: employers value that MS degree, so it gives you a better negotiating position in pretty much every hiring/selling scenario.
It will likely be a free update on the MAS.
I think you misunderstand what that tab is for. It's not a place for Google advertising; it's a place where promotional emails from any site are automatically sorted into - to keep them separate from other useful email. E.g. a clothing website that sends emails about weekly sales - that'll end up under Promotional.
I would think this simplifies email organization for the average user. Normal people don't use labels extensively and don't customize their inbox. With sane presets for these tabs, Google can give most users an inbox that is organized by default.
Another reason to use LastPass is if you use multiple computers. (I use 5+ computers at work in tech support and 2+ at home.) Using 1Password would require that I install the desktop application on all of these computers, whereas with LastPass all you need is the Chrome extension.
If you're saying what I think you're saying, I think you've misunderstood: if this feature is like their current Labs offering, the "Promotions" label is applied to your incoming mail that is best classified as a "Promotion", such as any promotional email from sites you shop at - it's not additional content that Gmail is feeding you. If you don't have any such email, I suspect this category would simply be empty for you.
They've actually done this for a while without any user interaction. They automatically have setup forums, notifications, and bulk labels for me. They've just moved them too the top. Hopefully they've refined them too cause they never worked too well for me.
The author's claim is that, if we split the price of our meal evenly, we'll all be better off than if we each pay for our own portion.

It may be true that splitting the price encourages us all to eat more, and pay less attention to price. That increases the demand for everything, and expensive options in particular (the lobster and filet mignon).

It's entirely possible that switching to a "pay-for-your-own-meal" model would reduce the amount of food people buy, and possibly even end with the expensive options being removed from the menu.

But our current situation isn't better for everyone--it's just better if you really like to eat, and especially if you really like to eat expensive things, because you'll be subsidized by the people who just get a salad.
Yes, you can hide the Promotions tab and even configure which mails get sent to this tab...
I want your service package! With the lowest tier internet possible (25/2), with a godawful provider I've had issues with in the past (Cablevision), and the lowest tier cable possible (to get the "double play" package), will run me absolutely no less than $80/month.

Meanwhile I get vDSL from the telco for $30. I do not and never have watched enough broadcast TV to justify almost tripling the price..
Wow I can't believe how immature this article is. No one should make such negative generalized statements about people who are not naturally gifted that they can't become experts. It may be true for people with mental disabilities but to make the same statement for healthy people is ridiculous especially when very little is known about the brain.
Bret is trying to get people to see what he sees because he knows it will lead to a leap in humankind's ability to transfer knowledge.

No, he's trying because he believes it will lead to a leap in our ability to transfer knowledge. He admits he doesn't know, because nobody knows what will be important in 100 years.

My question is, what if he's wrong? Consider:

(1) If he's wrong, then so are all the people he's expended all this effort to influence. It's not just him going down a wrong path, it's everyone he's convinced to share his vision. Epic fail.

(2) If he's right, why bother expending all this effort to influence people to see what he sees? Why not just use what he sees to actually do what he describes? He has an idea for building better tools for thinking? Great! Go build some and show how they're better. If he's right, he won't need to influence people; the benefits of his approach will be obvious. But, if he's wrong, it will only be he that's wrong; other people will not have wasted their efforts on a blind alley as well.
Isn’t that the point of the Mac App Store? It doesn’t offer developers the option to charge for updates. The current version is 3.9.6 – if you once bought 1Password in the Mac App Store, you’ve likely received countless free updates already.
email in profile
Discussed at length here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5767379
I second the request for Windows instances. I currently use a spreadsheet to track everything, then update the costs every few months--comparing instance sizes with OS's. It seems like something Amazon should offer themselves, but I'm glad you're taking on the challenge. :)
> Often the direction is set by managers for good reason: Sharing every bit of detail would paralyse even relatively small organisations.

Sure, if you sat everyone down and gave them a briefing on every aspect of everything it would be a pointless waste of time. However, increasing the ease with which information can be pulled down seems fairly simple. If dependencies being complicated is the reason for management setting direction, that seems like a coms problem, the sort of thing that's perhaps best addressed with a project management software than a human manager.
I have a sore memory of a recent lengthy debate on the concept of dialects, so suffice it here to say: It is utterly uncontroversial among linguists that AAVE, among other dialects which use double negation for emphasis, is a real English that young black kids grow up and learn to speak properly. It is not Standard in the sense that it is not used in news or government, and its use in formal speech will leave one branded ignorant, but it is in all other respects the relative equal of the English you speak.

If you have criticisms, that's fine, but again, this is the scientific consensus and not my area of expertise-- I'll have to direct you to Wikipedia.
I'm definitely there to help out :)