skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Bullshit. I'm a Googler, and I'm 20%ing today (as soon as I finish breakfast).

There's lots of pressure to focus and do well on your main project, sure. But it's not external pressure, it's internal pressure. Everyone wants their software to be great. It's hard to detach for a day, ignore the influx of bugs and emails, switch gears, and work on something completely different. Most engineers don't want to spend the mental overhead.

But speaking from experience, when you do choose that path you get nothing but support.
Its old, well established, isn't particularly trendy, etc.
That seems really interesting, however a working demo would be great, especially because you are asking the credit card before anything else (not saying it's bad, just that I'm not comfortable with giving my payment information after one screenshot only)
Impossible to settle? Probably. Impossible to discuss? No.

I'm not being critical of your account, I'm glad it has worked for you, as the manager of the engineering effort here I want to take the "good" stuff and use it, and leave behind the "not so good" stuff. So that is my agenda in this discussion, nothing more, nothing less.

"In general the people I've seen take 20% time in a focused way tend to be the higher-performers."

That is my experience as well, and regardless of a company policy for or against 20% time, focussed, high performing engineers will spend 20% of their time do cool and innovative things. Whether they do it at home or at work doesn't really matter, and having them do it at work is good for the company.

So the interesting thing about the policy is to capture the next tier of engineers and help them to be more productive by encouraging them to develop habits of the aforementioned highly successful focussed engineers. And to weed out the folks who are abusing the program [1] or at least not being any more productive with it.

If nothing else people are different right? Facebook's response has been "hackathons" which carries with it some characteristics of high performers (who quickly prototype ideas to test their validity or get a handle on their challenges)

But in all those scenarios, if you have managers, you need to also train your management on what the program is trying to achieve and how it might be addressed. So you don't end up with some managers giving their people 1 day a week off, and some demanding they work on Saturday if they want to use that extra time.

If it is "You have this huge resource available, dare to use it." then you can manage to that without damaging either morale or perf scores. From the anecdotes in the OP article it sounds like they are still working on that part.

[1] Like the guy who said he was trying to capture the great ideas he dreamed about in his 20% time so he would spend several hours napping for an hour and then waking up and writing down what he dreamed about.
This is what is preventing me from learning Vim. I play games every day using WASD movement and if I have to switch to hjkl my brain goes haywire.

I have been waiting for someone to create a Vim control scheme that relies on WASD movement and maybe also brings in other common gaming related keys (E for insert?, space for escape?) To me this seems more logical than hjkl/i/esc.

Until then though it just feels like more work that it needs to be for me to personally learn Vim. Which is a shame because I can recognize how useful it can be, especially after watching Destroy all Software screencasts.
As I have said in past threads about marketers who assume their promotional messages are anywhere near as important to me as personal email from friends... "fuck you" (the marketers, not jstalin)

To me that should include the unsolicited bulk messages from recruiters, all the stupid social emails from twitter, facebook, linked-in etc too... It's overload.. there's too damned much of it.

IMHO if you are a business and are sending more than one email a month that isn't regarding a direct transaction (your receipt, your order has shipped, etc)... you're sending out too much crap.
Puppet Class Scope Gotcha
nice piece.
Is this patent US only? Could one take this code to produce a "EuroLinux" or "AsiaLinux"? Kind of like the "non-US" sections that used to be in Debian?
Betting on what instrument? Loans are mostly federal.

For what it's worth, the student loan program is solidly in the black for the federal government.
If you are referring to its origins in the French Revolution, then you could say the same for "conservative" and "right." I personally don't consider any of the aforementioned terms as derogatory. They are sometimes useful categorizations of views on specific topics.
Though it might not be the situation in the video, introducing batching can decrease system latency. I made this little graph to show how this can work:

http://imgur.com/Vr6BqDq
For Illustrator instead of OmniGraffle? No true Mac-head. ;-)
I just launched a project, which made it to #2 on Hacker News, which was done almost exclusively in 20% time. (Well, also a few nights and weekends, and my manager gave me some time away from my main project to work on it, but it was in all ways a 20% project. Self-conceived, self-directed, and done in addition to my regular job duties.)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6209713
A completely wrong piece of HN-bait.
So, the employees and other sources cited by the author are lying about needing manager permission?

Or are you in an unintendedly unique position?
Just wanted to say one more thing: I've heard some Googlers say this is accurate, and I've heard some say 20% time is alive and well.

Google is gigantic these days. It probably depends a lot on where you are in the company. Two people in different Google divisions or even physical offices are not going to have the same experience.
Over the years I've come to realize that what once felt like procrastination is actually my brain working out the solution to a problem, and it quite literally prevents me from reducing the solution to code until it's damned well ready for me to do. So I just go with it now. The only thing that seems to speed this process up is intense cardiovascular exercise, which is probably a good idea on its own anyway (but I imagine it seems awfully odd from the outside).

As for ADHD, I probably have a little of that going on with a sprinkling of Aspberger symptoms, but not seemingly in a sufficient way to have any significant effect on my life and/or overall productivity (except that is when it comes to %$!^ing daily scrum updates which drive me bonkers - once a week would be fine, once a day is ridiculous).
Jobs's Great-Man Theory of Technology
How using design patterns is like baking a loaf of bread | BrandonSavage.net
I worked at Google from 2002-2007, and the dirty little secret is that there is no 20% time. It's 120% time. You work a full schedule, and if you want to put in extra hours for a side project go ahead. I explicitly asked to use 20%-time to work on a side project (i.e., literally take 1 day a week to work on it) and was refused.

20% time has always been a great marketing gimmick for Google. I remember interviewing candidates and mentioning it as a bonus to prospective candidates - most employees mentioned it as a bonus because we were inculcated into believing it was actually a bonus. It's much easier to see that it was never a real perk once you're outside the bubble.
$10 a month seems a little steep. I don't pay that much for a VPS. Did you beta test this?
My experience exactly! Until this change, I didn't quite realize that close to 80% of the chirps are just crap.

Having to dig for stuff is a bit inconvenient, but it's a welcomed trade over the noise.
Reality distortion fields don't emit actual products that work.

It's a field alright, and it does have some reality-distorting side effects, but there is actually a "there" there.

If I had to boil it down I'd say it's this:

(1) California believes in the future. People in California (stereotypically) think about what they can do tomorrow, building on what they have today. Everyone else thinks about what they already have today and fears losing it tomorrow.

(2) California reasons from first principles more than elsewhere. Everyone else looks at what everyone else is doing and tries to superficially copy what looks like it works, or looks to the past. Ideas from the past will only get you what was done in the past, and other peoples' ideas will not make you competitive since they're everyone else's advantages. (Assuming you succeed in copying them at all, and don't just end up cargo-culting them.)

I quoted this elsewhere in the thread. It bears repetition.

"For the engine which drives Enterprise is not Thrift, but Profit." - John Maynard Keynes

California runs on this.
So did anyone else take the most important lessons in the video as:

1. Use AWS

2. Use Postgres

3. Use AWS

4. Use Cassandra

5. Use python, so later you can write C when shit needs to go super fast

That's what I got.
You're confusing human competition with the complex economic system of capitalism.

It's a recent invention, and requires much vigilance and restraint to be kept alive. In many ways it is already gone.
You can opt out. Gear -> Configure Inbox. Or click the + button at the end of the tabs and disable all but Primary.

You can also try dragging emails from one tab to the tab you think fits better and train it. I mean, most of this was explained in the modal they showed you when it went live.

I personally like the Promotions tab because now all my LivingSocial/Groupon deals go there and with a quick scan I can decide if any are worth my time. If not, Select All -> Delete. Much nicer than when they hit my Inbox causing me to check to see if the new mail I got was something important or just a new deal I likely don't care about.
I think it is much simpler than that. Over and beyond not having a safety net and not having a high aversion to risk once you've immigrated to somewhere assuming you didn't do that to go to work for some specific company you're behind the rest of the pack when it comes to applying for jobs. So immigrants have a strong incentive to found a company, they won't have a gap in their CV if they do, they already have the largest gap possible. Nothing to lose is an excellent position to be in when you're confronted with the choice to start a company or not.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paris_Convention_for_the_Protec...
It seems like the tabs idea is geared more towards individuals that don't manage their email subscriptions

Not all emails are created equally, and thus it is not a binary situation where emails either must all be treated equally, or they shouldn't be received.

I absolutely love the tabs -- my primary email gets better attention than it ever did, while the various promotions and LinkedIn updates, etc, all get the quick browsing periodically.

Honestly I probably pay more attention to the social/update/promotional emails than I ever did -- before I quickly tossed them aside while dealing with real stuff. Now during some downtime I switch on over to the promotional tab and see what deals are afoot, etc.
> How so?

If you can't see it, there is no point explaining. There are significantly more than 7 users.

> You're treating YouTube as if it's water. It's a business.

You are semantically correct. 2 issues though. If it's business, surely developing a version for the device is worth the ad revenue. Also doesn't this directly contradict the benevolent and altruistic business image that Google like to project. Microsoft are trying to provide access to a popular service. Google are blocking it on frankly extremely spurious grounds and refusing to develop an app of their own (that I don't take issue with). For the final time; it's about users.
topscore never seems to update.

Try `$.post('/newtop', {score: 16000})`
You can tell Matt Taibbi's articles just by looking at the title.
For someone calling fish 'pretty great' I sure see a lot of angst towards fish in that config file! Thanks for the post though.
1 Second Everyday For iOS And Android
IIRC it uses a micro SIM.
I don't know...I disabled the new tabs actually. Mainly because I HATE that some of my emails are hidden behind other tabs.

I personally love how well Gmail implemented the "important" tags, and I use four inboxes one page: "Important and Unread", "(Other) Unread", "Starred", and "Everything else" (in the inbox). This configuration most importantly lets Gmail intelligently decide mail that's important and not, without me having to re-train Google.
Dunno, but http://scap-on-apple.macosforge.org/ might be of interest.
from what i understand, gmail allows senders to opt-in to a "good known sender program" which then automatically shows images in a users inbox
I just leave bash as my system shell and just configure my terminal emulator to start with fish.
Searching for the perfect reading device: My Nexus 7 (2013) review
I'm glad that I am not the only one. I had this impression that I'm a bad developer because I'm not consistent.

During my internship, I did quite a lot of work but in similar manner. Implement an interesting feature, then a week of laziness. Another feature and laziness.

However the other replies to your comment also make me afraid about some psychological problem. I think I need to visit a doctor! :)
That's actually really messed-up. For normal Gmail, that seems very reasonable and convenient - present ads when I, as a user, indicate I'm looking for deals.

With Google Apps, the assumption should be that this is a work email and deal hunting is not part of the normal job.
I'm sorry, hardly ever had an issue with callback-based programming. If you're used to imperative, maybe the problem is that you're making a mess because you're adapting from a different style and complicating it with workarounds, you need to be functional.
Apple and Television
> They have been doing this since the beginning, with a web interface, with no delete button initially just archive, with no folders just tags and filters, etc.

If that's the evidence for your proposition, it's a little hollow.

"No folders just tags and filters"? Labels are a conceptual superset of folders - if you only ever give an email one label, they reduce to folders. That's your choice. Arguing that restricting you to using one label per email would somehow give you more freedom is pretty backwards.

(The logic for the one-folder restriction is the real-world metaphor: you can only put a physical letter in a single folder. But we're in 2013, why argue that you should be restricted to filing methods that work for physical letters?)

Delete button is two to the right of archive. On the android client you can switch up the toolbar button set in settings (delete, archive, or both). (And I'm not sure how their having "a web interface" is even supposed to be a criticism. Of course they have a web interface).
"The U.S. government is forecast to generate $185 billion in profit over the next decade from students and their families under an overhaul of the federal student loan program endorsed by the White House and approved by the Senate on Wednesday.

The profit figure, if annually averaged through 2023, would place the U.S. student loan program among the 20 most profitable public companies in the world, according to Fortune magazine’s annual list of the world’s 500 biggest companies. The bipartisan Senate bill would increase the government’s profit off student borrowers by more than $700 million compared with existing law, the Congressional Budget Office said."

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/07/24/obama-student-loan-...
I know people with well more than that, particularly when you factor in 'oh my zsh' and its ilk.
Do you have to jump right away? You could, for example, work up your skills in development by doing freelance projects on the side while keeping your current job. I recommend guru.com as a decent marketplace for this. You'll have to do a little more work separating the wheat from the chaff in terms of projects there (and good lord is there a lot of chaff), but there are decent, well-paying employers to be found. Not to mention that the freelance marketplaces give you a nice URL to highlight your feedback from clients; this can actually be better than a CV to show that you can do the work.

Once you have some experience, it's a much smoother move to go from development contracting to full time development; you might even find that one of your contract employers wouldn't mind hiring you full time.
Yea - they didn't quite think it through but I can't imagine the work to let people fix their history to be too big of a problem. Especially if they limit it to web interface only.
I made that switch too and Im really happy I did. Same feeling as switching from Wintendo to Linux. And gnome has gotten really good!
Former Apple employees call ‘Jobs’ biopic a ‘work of fiction’
You can actually swipe the card on the screen. Cool! hard to discover tho.
I have been using fish for a few months exclusively on my Mac. I really miss a few bashisms: mostly pressing esc-. inserts the last part of the last command. I have not changed the shell on my server, somehow I am afraid of breaking things... (bad shell scripts that don't have correct shebang line).
Pulse of the Alley – Julie Frederickson, CEO of playAPI
Amazing, perspective is everything.

I don't deny that college kids are being taken advantage of. Graduating from a small liberal arts college in South Dakota that no one's ever heard of with a degree is Culture Studies and 80k in debt really is a rip off.

The flipside of this coin however is someone like me. My parents are immigrants and I was the first to go to school. To my parents, the fact that someone would be even willing to give you money to go to school is ridiculous. I graduated with 20k in debt with a math degree from Cal. The ease of getting loans and financial aid are the main reasons I was able to attend college as my family was otherwise poor, at least at the time.

In some countries, you don't even have the OPTION to take out a loan to go to school. You either have the money and you go, or you don't and it is that much harder to climb the social ladder.

I'm not sure which evil is worse, but I'm damn glad I was offered those loans.
Reality distortion fields don't emit actual products that work.

I'm not saying that a lot of great stuff doesn't come out of California/SV (just like Apple, for whom the 'reality distortion field' thing was first coined, also produces great products). The casualness with which you suppose that California alone is producing more innovation the entire rest of the country suggests that you're overwhelmingly focused on a very, very specific definition of 'innovation'.
A preview of Hyperloop (pipeline scene from 'The World Is Not Enough')
You can assign labels based on filters already, the only difference is that you access labels on the left side, and tabs at the top.
I don't know what the OP meant but to me standard client means using IMAP/POP protocol as opposed to the official Google apps.
Pineapple – Web tutorials, tools, and resources that don't suck
well, I guess I put a bit of a teaser in there. I don't believe in the concept of wage slavery. I believe we have debt slavery. I.E. Where someone else owns your labor and enforces that ownership using the law.

This is not to say I think lending should be abolished, I just think that paying back should be voluntary, the counterparty should assume all financial risk and the borrower should assume all reputation risk.
Oooh, it's like a MUD!
Remember a while back when the price of gold skyrocketed and suddenly there were all "Cash 4 Gold" places that were willing to pay you "good money" for your gold. I've noticed the same thing has happened with the education system with a of a bunch of college popping up seemingly out of nowhere with promises of making more money by having a better career. The whole college system seems like a racket to saddle people with debt that takes them often decades to pay off. The ironic part is that despite more and more people going to college, our overall educational rank in the world hasn't improved.

Oh and don't get me started on the college textbook scam.
> We are usually taught about the velocity squared rule!

To me this is a sobering reminder of how much of real life is denied to American students in order to honor intellectual mediocrity, which is so widespread here that it might as well be a secular religion.
Cathode: A Vintage Terminal for Mac
The root cause of this is company ownership. Even if Page wants to follow an innovative approach, he might not be able to convince the board and the big shareholders to invest long term because they want to see their shares "appreciated".

If you want to keep innovating, the company need to stay nimble, with the owner(s) only interested in innovation. I don't know, maybe that's why the startup eco system works.

Another model that seems to work as well is the "duel roles". For example, Jeff Bezos lets the MBA optimize the hell out of Amazon, while he can play with Blue Origin in his spare time and focuses on more innovative technology ideas. Again, this is possible because Bezos probably has far more influence at Amazon than Page at Google.
My site was submitted 1 year ago, and I have since made an awful lot of updates. There will be a ton of gems on here that you will find, I assure you of that!
You're probably going to crappy restaurants.
yeah, I see it now.

is there some way to designate blocks of time as open?

if I can only take appointments between 10am and 1pm, is there some way to indicate that with this system?
Interesting. Are there APIs to do this?
I tend to shy away from official communities on official forums, and join the Penny Arcade sub-community version of it.

The forum mods there tend to be utterly draconian in what they won't tolerate, and this kind of shit would get you IP-banned basically instantly. The discussion of games is generally a much higher-level thing and the community is relatively self-policed, too.
But http://patents.stackexchange.com/questions/313/are-us-softwa... ? (I thought software was considered unpatentable in many areas?)
social emails:

Filter them. I have email records of all FB messages, friend confirmations, etc. but they never hit my inbox

promotional email:

You're lumping everything together. Patio11's emails, which I signed up for and love reading, end up in the promotions tab.

Have you heard of 'permission marketing'? Every email I get from a business, I asked for. I WANT to see them.

If a business sends me too much, or stuff I don't want to see, I unsubscribe.

It sounds like you've signed up for a bunch of things you don't want, and haven't unsubscribed.
I'm not an investment adviser, but I have to think there are many ways to bet on a rise in bankruptcies among young working people.
It's left hand vs right hand, though.
I am seriously interested in understanding how an individual would go about shorting college loan securities. I have no doubt in my mind that this the next big crisis just waiting to burst.