skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The problem being there's no universal definition of "better". My guess is it's not a matter of "not being able to tell the difference" - it's putting bank statements in 'promotions' because people have been putting their bank statements there. People who want to receive them for their records, but not have them 'in their face' in their primary inbox.

(Should those people have put dragged them to another tab - maybe 'Updates' rather than 'Promotions'? Possibly. If you think so, drag them to there instead. That'll change it for you, and presumably, if enough people do that it'll eventually change the categorisation for everyone who hasn't changed it themselves).
Actually, I think that mutually-recursive functions are more semantically clear than goto for a state machine, though using explicit state objects is even more clear than either (though probably less efficient.)
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He was at Google for 6 months. Whatever you think about his opinions in general, he doesn't know anything about how things at Google work.
>letting the battery cycle*

Wait- I thought that was for NiCd batteries and Li-ion batteries where suppose to always be topped off? Furthermore going below 15-20% charge hurts their max charge level?

*By cycle he means running it down and charging it up?
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There's a thing called perspective that you may want to consider exploring. Remapping the arrow keys is a minor annoyance at worst.
> Conpig threads still can only run on one core of a processor.

The disillusionment caused by having so many options for non-parallel "concurrency" in Python is, I believe, feeding the high defection rate from Python to Go.
Its really NBD. My 2010 MBA still holds a solid 5-6 hours, down from maybe 7.
The article is about loans. A loan is not a discount. And if you're talking about need-based financial aid, that's usually financed by people (often alumni) who decide to pay into a fund specifically for tuition subsidies. That means he didn't get a "discount" that average students had to make up.
"this pragmatism produces elegant solutions"
I disagree. I think the pragmatism encourages one to "be clever" and just "get it done". Often this is not elegant.
I had an interview at Google (no job :(...), and their food really is excellent. It can easily be compared to a higher end restaurant on Yelp (think $$ or $$$).
Since this isn't reddit, I won't just say: ^^this.

But yes, I believe he was trying to point out that I couldn't have been involved if I didn't know, but doesn't understand the ins and outs of G&A and other such accounting practices.
How many failures gave you the knowledge and/or practice to allow a follow on (non-20%) project a better chance of success?
> That doesn't mean that such people should not be able to apply for loans, it means that the consequences would have to be explained to them in terms that they can understand, not the mathematical equivalent shorthand for those consequences.

See my reply to the same OP: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6225690

I think even explaining the math in Explain-Like-I'm-Five words would not be sufficient for most people because they might not be in a situation to fully grok it. What does $833/mo for 10 years mean to a student training to be a Radiologist? They hear salaries like $120k/yr and think $833/mo isn't a big deal. Then you end up with too many unemployed, qualified Radiologists, salaries plummet to $52k/yr, and suddenly $833/mo is significant.

My point is that when people signed up for these loans, they were told it was a risk-free investment in their own life. Every investment comes with risk. That is the entire point of investments. Nobody ever treats student loans as a risk on the student-side of things. That's what needs to be conveyed more clearly.
Awesome work! I'll start adding some links that I've been saving for myself.
I think part of the problem is that Chrome uses a branch of Webkit, and combined, Webkit has a huge majority of the market share (Safari, Mobile Safari, Chrome, Mobile Chrome). It's a clear winner for "first target", but I agree, FF shouldn't be left behind, it still has a large chunk of the market share.
I'm reading a fun book at the moment about the true story of how the USAF had a squadron of MIGs for aggressor training there too...
They may personally feel that they need manager permission. That doesn't mean that they do. There's also a wide range of managers with different opinions throughout the company.
Fixing the lending problem might influence the overspending, but fixing the overspending would solve the problem much more directly.
The very bottom, where the headline reads:

Lots of Topics
The amount of resources on Pineapple is growing every day. If you don't choose to participate, at least check back often and browse, that's okay too!

I guess that tag cloud is actually an image file...can't it just be a repeat of the sidebar-cloud, for convenience? If not, I guess I had expected either the image or the headline to be clickable and take me to a categories listing.

(this is on Chrome, Mac OS X)
Extremely important skill if you're sailing, and not as easy as it would first appear (they move a lot faster than you would expect). Not that I would read/write a whole book on the subject.
When I was learning vikeys, I just disabled arrowkeys in my .vimrc :)

inoremap <Up> <NOP>
inoremap <Down> <NOP>
inoremap <Left> <NOP>
inoremap <Right> <NOP>
noremap <Up> <NOP>
noremap <Down> <NOP>
noremap <Left> <NOP>
noremap <Right> <NOP>

I know it sounds masochistic, but it really isn't; I actually had to check after a while whether I really set it, because I didn't remember any issues with navigation. Try it!
When did Google first introduce 20% Time? I'm curious how it became an official activity.
Oh right, yes that's an image for this link:

http://pineapple.io/tags/all

That is a good point though, I'll add that in.
College is not and should not be job training. If you want job training go to a trade school, get an internship / coop or apprenticeship. College is about learning how to think.
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> I think that's a good start. Kind of resembling a loan-forgiveness mechanism (which there are already a few). It falls into the same trap most solutions do, though. What's "a reasonable expectation," and who decides it?

One simple change that would have drastic effects is modifying the forgiveness timeframe on income based repayment (IBR) for student loans. Right now, the expiration time is 25 years [1]. In other words, 99% of all kids going to college are on the hook for paying loans for longer than they have been alive.

I think the government should shorten that period down to fifteen or even ten years for any loan that is not dischargeable in bankruptcy. Correspondingly, it might be a wise idea to up the current reduced payment amount from 15% of AGI [2] to maybe 25-50%. I'm throwing out numbers here, clearly some careful study would be warranted if this idea was seriously considered.

This would probably mean a corresponding increase in loan forgiveness for public servents (teachers, firefighters, public defenders, etc). I'm not opposed to such an idea prima facie.

My expectation is this will drastically reduce the availability of certain types of degrees. The upside is we won't have a ton of young kids floating around with degrees they can't use and loan burdens they can't meet.

1. http://studentaid.ed.gov/repay-loans/understand/plans/income...
2. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Student_loans_in_the_United_Sta...

EDIT: one more thing I forgot to mention: I think that, like many social systems with complex feedback, you cannot reduce this problem to "too much loans" or "too much spending". It's difficult to delineate cause from effect, but it's indisputable that the easy availability of credit has at least enabled recent skyrocketing tuition.
It's an important consideration and so a good question.

A couple of points:

First I don't think such a school would remain the best very long. There was a time when CCNY and the CUNY system in general had a fantastic reputation largely because it served an immigrant population that the Harvards of the world refused to take on as students or faculty. CCNY's fortunes turned around for many reasons, but one of them was that the traditional top schools dropped their racial/ethnic quota systems and introduced aggressive need based scholarships.

Second, I think we a society need to move away from the idea that 18-22+ year olds are still members of their parents' economic unit. In Sweden college tuition is free, yet the percentage of students taking out loans is higher than the US because there is no expectation that parents will pay living costs. Perhaps banning co-signers for such student loans is going too far, but perhaps not.
Worse than a six month old PHP project?
IT Geeks are best in bed
I was the same as your friend. And unlike drbawb, I never gave my phone my undivided attention.

Back in the day, PC gamers would learn quick repetitive sequences of key presses, sometimes with specific time delays. It would allow you to quickly select what you wanted so you could continue gaming in real time. I used phones the same way.

End, star, menu, up, select, up, up, select, "4390416046662023020548853052831,down,right,0225509680460,long 3,long 0", select, select, end, keylock.

I would send that text to my girlfriend while I was driving - while the phone was still in my pocket. It's impossible to do today with a smartphone. Luckily, dumb phones still have interfaces that respect certain rules of user input, and have simple single-tasking schedulers that obey your every command without hesitation. The only downside is the lack of good cameras, but the GPS nav and very minimal browsers give me almost all the functionality I need.

For reference, the best T9 texting phones i've ever used were Sony Ericsson. They were european-designed for a market that had long since embraced texting, and made it as natural, efficient and intuitive as possible. Oh the glory days...

[The text I sent above? "Hey i'm gonna be a little late, call you in 30"]
How the hell did that become a patent?

"File system methods and systems enabling efficient detection that a filename exists, by executing a hash function on the file name to reduce the overall computational complexity of determining that a directory entry might match the target filename, prior to performing the string comparison to determine the entry does match the target filename. A cross-device extensible means of providing a conversion function, such as uppercasing the filename, occurs prior to the hash. Methods of creating, deleting, and modifying the directory entries is further provided, as well as details of an embodiment of the file system described."
yes, Moskit is primarily intended against smaller targets. It has too small range and too small warhead. For anti-carrier missiles look at P-500/P-1000 and P-700.

While all these missiles are very fast, they also very visible in IR because of their speed, so it makes shooting them down easier, so they expected to be fired like "wolf pack":

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P-700_Granit :

"The missile, when fired in a swarm (group of 4-8) has a unique guidance mode. One of the weapons climbs to a higher altitude and designates targets while the others attack. The missile responsible for target designation climbs in short pop-ups, so as to be harder to intercept. The missiles are linked by data connections, forming a network. If the designating missile is destroyed the next missile will rise to assume its purpose. Missiles are able to differentiate targets, detect groups and prioritize targets automatically using information gathered during flight and types of ships and battle formations pre-programmed in an onboard computer. They will attack targets in order of priority, highest to lowest: after destroying the first target, any remaining missiles will attack the next prioritized target"
anyone know how to do something similar on a windows laptop?
Yeah, can someone who knows how this shit works chime in? There's a lot of conjecture on the internet but few answers. Apple's advice seems to be "don't worry, be happy, don't let it be in a discharged state for a very long period of time, occasionally cycle through it".

I'm on my third battery for this 2009 Macbook unibody (granted, the first one was water damaged but still…), and 300 cycles in it's starting to give me Service Battery warnings and I must be doing something wrong.
He attempted to explain why MBA behaviour is rational using the language of hill climbing algorithms: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hill_climbing

He didn't express any big new insights, but there was an honest attempt to impart information behind that post.
My 2012 MacBook Air on a full charge only lasts 2-2.5 hours during an intense coding session. Am I the only one?
If lenders had any significant risk, then lenders would evaluate the value of a school/degree combination (value being determined by the likelihood that they could be paid back).

High-tier school with a degree that has great employment potential? Throw a loan at that kid, that is a good investment.

High-tier school with a degree that has great employment potential... but the program has a 99% dropout rate? Think twice about throwing a loan at that kid, if he is in that 99% then you will have a hard time getting your money.

Shit school with a vanity degree? Tell that kid to get lost. If he wants a vanity degree, he can pay for it himself.
Sure, the problem is not the Ivies and top tech schools, most of which have basically committed to paying full tuition for any admitted student who demonstrates they couldn't attend without it.

But for the many excellent schools without massive endowments, the risk of letting in more qualified "Caa3" applicants over "Aaa" applicants could make a substantial difference on the margins.
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And with google translate: http://translate.google.no/translate?sl=auto&tl=en&js=n&prev...
Free college subsidized by taxes? We have had that in Argentina for a long time, and for some time we had the best education you could get in Latin America. I'll admit nowadays we are pretty much average, but still free. I can't really explain the reasons for the decline in the quality of our education, and it may be related to our lack of monetization.
Not all exercise sessions are made equal. If you're just doing 10 pushups or 7 minute circuits for 6 months, you're still very much in the beginner phase.

It took me a few years of consistent intense training to really get into the groove of things. I've been at it for about 9 years now. This is the intensity that I aim for (mind you, this is not me in the video): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LAhNyvTF5Uw

After that level of intensity on a consistent basis for a few years, you adapt to it. While you may feel tired, you gain energy from it as well.
the core problem with college loans is that they are non-dischargeable. this means that no matter what the student's ultimate financial situation (long term unemployed, finances wiped out, etc) they still have to pay down the debt, and it can't be wiped out in bankruptcy.

This stands in contrast to virtually every kind of loan out there, which can be discharged (written off). As a result, there is less risk for the lender to give a loan to any old fool out there, regardless of the major they choose, regardless of the quality of school they go to, etc. anything that might correlate with the ability to pay it back.

you might say, great, they don't discriminate against liberal arts students at no-name schools. and that might be something that suffers if reforms were made. but perhaps that student might be better served if funding were hard to come by. complain now versus complain more later, kind of thing.

the great sin in the student loan market is the online degree mills, which target relatively vulnerable segments of the population, all funded by loans. for example: did you know that online universities cost almost the same as physical ones? that makes absolutely no sense when you think about it, but i don't think many of their students do. online only should be a fraction of the rate.

Perhaps the online university is a market to be disrupted. not unstructured MOOCs, but credentialed degree schools that are a fraction of the cost of current ones. i can see the ycombinator startup already.

and student loans should be dischargeable. it's the only fair thing to do.
Part of the problem is that it's immensely difficult to do science with people.

The hardest of the social sciences will create experiments where they try to study a single variable, like a person's reaction to a specific set of stimuli or decision making under a certain specific set of conditions. That way you can at least pretend to control for things.

It is simply impossible to do this in management. There are millions of variables. You can't know them all, control them, or do multiple runs of an experiment.

One of the more recent management fads has been complex systems simulation -- trying to do computer simulations of difficult managerial problems. This can work for logistics, routing, and mechanistic process optimization, but you can't reduce human beings to "agents" in a model.
Li-ion batteries do have a memory effect also, but it is apparently quite negligible.

Li-ion batteries should NOT be topped up for extended periods; this will shorten their lifespan considerably.

When storing a li-ion battery for an extended period, it is best if the battery has around 30% charge.

However I am not a real expert on this kind of stuff, please don't take this as gospel, if there is a qualified battery expert who can chime in here, please do :)
The NY Times did a seven-part series last year that I felt was a much more thorough and nuanced treatment of the topic: http://www.nytimes.com/2012/05/13/business/student-loans-wei...
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The lack of options for parallel (and non-parallel) concurrency is, along with other things, feeding the high defection rate to many other languages.
Amazing quote
We should stay positive no matter what!
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I like the name "The Silent Bubble" for this impending crisis because when it bursts, the voices of the millions of Millenials this affects will be drowned out by the constant bitching of the Baby Boomers.
To address comment #2, I've dealt with it a bit differently: Meaning backend may not always be ahead of iOS. (Especially if it's a new app).

What I advise is to make a stub instance, to simply create the API calls and return dummy data. You can do this quickly and easily in all major frameworks and gets you most of the way there.

On another note, I never would have thought I'd hear the term "Object Oriented UI design" - but I like it!
And Qualcomm is headquartered in San Diego.
When one of my coworkers (at Google), outside of work, crash-landed his parachute and was in the hospital for months:

1) his manager (my manager) spent the next two days with a translator contacting his family back in Iran to explain what happened
2) paid a huge amount of money to have him rehabbed. He had brain damage. They did a great job- he had access to awesome rehab people and regained a ton of brain function.
3) worked hard to get his work visa extended while he was out of work.

I use bullet points because they are a succinct way to list several orthogonal items. Please don't take my data and generalize to all of Google. All I can say is that this company is pretty incredible, and much of what get published about it isn't very accurate.
The official advice is:

"Apple does not recommend leaving your portable plugged in all the time. An ideal use would be a commuter who uses her notebook on the train, then plugs it in at the office to charge. This keeps the battery juices flowing. If on the other hand, you use a desktop computer at work, and save a notebook for infrequent travel, Apple recommends charging and discharging its battery at least once per month.

[...]

If you don't plan on using your notebook for more than six months, Apple recommends that you store the battery with a 50% charge." [1]

[1] http://www.apple.com/batteries/notebooks.html
No sir, thank YOU!
Do you have information that contradicts the description in the article? Because the article claims that the 20% time is still "official policy", but that employees are expected to still put in 100% time on their normal project (and measured on doing so) and that they also need permission to start a "20% time" project and finally that management has been instructed to be parsimonious in granting this permission.

The article claims that "20% time" at Google is no longer real; do you dispute this?
Huh, they ship to most of Europe, but not to Austria, the Netherlands, Norway, Sweden and Estonia? How did they arrive at this weird set of countries?
That probably depends wildly on what an "intense coding session" entails. Do you have an IDE that is keeping your CPU pegged by constantly rebuilding everything every time you enter a character? Or do you code in Vim and build every few minutes at the absolute most?
Side question: is vote queuing the reason behind the sometimes large drops in score on highly active and popular submissions on reddit?
Spanish region of Alicante has become a "New Cyprus" for the Russians
The ongoing influx of Russians - business travelers, tourists and home-buyers - allows the Spanish to call their province of Alicante a "new Cyprus" or the "Russian capital of the Mediterranean."
Same :'(
I now use Bloomthat for everything (YC and personal). The arrangements are always charming. It's also so easy (and immediate) that I find myself sending flowers to friends and colleagues much more often -- just for little reasons/thankyou's.
I guess that might be true of any inherited codebase in any language - i shudder to think of encountering something written in PERL from an other developer and having to maintain that code.
> One big problem I have with college loans is that people that sign up for it are not adequately informed on the long term consequences of their action. Since this is a loan for education one would expect that before being allowed to sign for the loan there would be a test that you'd have to pass to be able to apply.

I grew up in another country and do not really know what the process is for american would-be college students. Could you please explain to me what the process is for getting a student loan?

I'm imagining that it works just like any other loan. "We will give you this much money. We will charge an annual interest rate of x%. Interest will not accrue until you graduate". Is it not like that?
I had my first macbook's battery replaced. I took it into the apple store for an unrelated problem, the tech noted the awful battery life and asked me how old the laptop was, said, "that's not right...," and grabbed another battery. Nice and easy.
Not to belittle your accomplishment, but you were very lucky to have parents who lived in California, which still has the best public colleges in the US. People whose parents lived in the other 49 states had to either go to a worse (sometimes much worse) school than Cal, or shell out $250K for a private degree.
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I'm in marketing. You left a lot of motivators off of the list. Food. Money. Desire to fit in.