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The problem that most people have with this implementation is their salary numbers are quite low, and their equity numbers are quite low or zero.

You have to be very careful to avoid falling in the "build this for me and I'll share it with you" trap, because talented individuals get pitched this way all the time. In fact, you're going to get lost in their mental spam filter if you don't deviate from this stereotype immediately.

Whether you yourself feel this way or not, leading off with admitting you can't do what they can do by yourself, that you're willing to pay handsomely for their help, and that you bring a significant amount of value to the table yourself (not just money, ideas, vision, and a sense of ownership but the ability to raise capital, sell to people, etc.), will be the path to landing the best cofounder.
Bankruptcy for newly-minted medical doctors and dentists used to be a rite of passage. The law was changed because of this. What comes around goes around.
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Right...Did you share this idea with your friends?
Would be great if there is a version for Sketch app.
Your hypothesis about an advertiser asking wikipedia to alter content surely applies to google search results.

Google indexes other people's content. All Google has to say is, "Sorry, we're not in control of the content others make, our automated systems follow an algorithm we're unable to make one-off tweaks to." It could conceivably cost Google $1MM to make a one-off tweak to their algorithm in terms of programming and testing time.

Wikipedia on the other hand is all content. They have no plausible response other than, "Yeah, it would take 5 minutes to update that but we won't do that for you." Hell, all they'd really have to do is let the advertiser update it as they want and then instruct editors to do nothing.

It really is just different for this and a number of other reasons.
Sure. Because the actual statistics don't matter as long as you can draw loose parallels between two somewhat similar situations.
The official overall unemployment rate for recent college graduates has been as high as 9.4% in the past three years. There is still significant underemployment, and many employed college graduates are in roles that don't even require college degrees. Most of the post-2008 college graduates who are fortunate enough to be employed are projected to have lower earnings than their pre-Great Recession counterparts.

As I noted in another comment, one in five federal student loans outstanding is already in default or delayed default, and that number does obviously not include the number of loans that are in deferral still accumulating interest. Put simply, there are a lot of people out there who likely could and would consider filing for bankruptcy if it allowed them to discharge this debt.

We can't have it both ways: if you want everybody who wants a college education to be able to obtain one, the federal government has to be in the lending business and it has to be all but impossible for borrowers to discharge their debt.
I used 2+ monitors from 2000 to 2010ish. After switching to only laptops I gave up secondary displays and never went back. The only times I miss it is when I want to have docs open. I don't know why you'd need it otherwise.
I see the inclusion of paid tutorials. In the interest of your claim of only including things "that don't suck", have all of these been curated and reviewed? Does the tutorial provider give you free access to give it a proper review? Or is this just a list of tutorials, and the Reddit style votes will determine what sucks and what doesn't?
That's a fine prediction. And yet, student loans were only made so hard to discharge due to changes in the law in 1996 and 2000. And prior to 1996 and 2000, student loans were offered at much less than the exorbitant rates you predict, and lenders made nice fat profits on them even so. And no, there was no significant abuse of the system - after all, there's always a judge involved in bankruptcy proceedings, who has the authority NOT to discharge debts if there's any reasonable prospect of them being paid off.

So... your prediction is wrong.
The future is clear! Google will provide you with a self driving car free of charge! The only issue will be that when you tell it you want to go to Safeway it will instead take you to a promoted supermarket, or if you want to see a movie it will take you to a theatre 25 miles away because that theatre bought Google CarWords on the advertising network. They work like AdWords but you get to bid on whether or not the car will bring them to your business when the customer asks to be driven to a business in your category.
Killing Reader -- something no engineer would ever do -- was already proof that the engineers are no longer in charge
STEM training alone might allow for more compartmentalization than an alternate curriculum.
Just to let you know, not everyone in the world uses Ubuntu.
It's not nearly as easy on the notebook style keyboard with "Fn" in the corner, but with some finesse it's still popular. It's even better than using the key in the typical caps lock position as it's essentially zero fingers.

I normally use the top-left corner of my hand to slap the CTRL key down, a trick from RTS type games where you'd often have to do things like CTRL+1, CTRL+2, etc. Same trick applies in any editor making use of control.
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Did u use a IM Client like IMO by any chance? Because with IMO, even if u remove it (while ur status was online from IMO client), u r still signed into Facebuk. I eventually had to download it again, sign-in, changed my status to offline. And since then, I haven't faced any issue.
Single-core concurrency is concurrency is concurrency (you have different computations occurring concurrently, even if they are not executing at the same time). What it's not is parallelism.
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Brazil is missing from that list. BTW, here the public schools are the best (universities that is, public basic education is horrible).

However, the rich still benefit from the system. Here's how it works:

1) Kids with money go to the best prep-schools and get in the public universities through hard entrance exams.
2) Kids that can't get in the public system, but still have money, can pay for medium-level education.
3) Kids with no money due to poor basic education can't get into a public university and can't afford a private alternative.
I already attempted this here with the wiki: http://pineapple.io/wiki

But the scope of that is so huge that it's kind of a daunting task, hehe. I chip away at it slowly.
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Sounds reasonable if you have your brightness way up and have CPU intensive apps running like VMs.
Actually, I've ran Docker within QEMU within Docker (using v9fs so that QEMU could use the container's FS as root FS). Works, but painfully slow and not very resource-efficient :-)
>Go beyond the US Constitution

Yes. But now your are talking about a world government. Do you think the one you hate would not have a major role? If they didn't have a major role would that really be a world government? Your country could try to negotiate anti-spying treaties, but your government is likely complicit. Maybe there is a seed for world governance here, but more likely politicians will play both sides as they always do.
I didn't hear about this the first time around so maybe I missed out, but the press release is not clear. It doesn't actually seem like there was a GPL violation. Samsung released a binary in one product. They later applied the GPL to that component as it is used in another project. That shouldn't have any retroactive effect on the first, however.

Still great of them to release the earlier code though.
On the subject of fun nonfiction, I have to recommend "blind man's bluff"; its the best of the genre, IMO. Any others?

Also, broader away from recent military skunk works is anything by Simon Singh, particularly The Code Book and Fermet's Last Theorum.
Not wanting to be tangential but is exFAT any good? And what do others use for a cross platform file system? I sadly had to format a portable 600GB drive as FAT32 the other day, just so it would play ball across OSs and devices. I went to use extFAT, then realised I'd have to use FUSE to get it to work so fell back to FAT32.

Also is it backwards compatible with the other FATS; as in can't you read an ext4 as ext3 (hoping that I haven't made that up)?
> a large proportion of people could work in some job up to age 80 (possibly after changing jobs)

It would be an interesting question given most of the aged people change their job. Then those categories of jobs would probably be overrun by aged people seeking those jobs, and hence poor wages and rampant unemployment.
Maybe for a year. After that schools will lower costs and everyone will be better off. Well, except for the school administrators and the construction people who build new stuff for them.

You don't make society's huge education bills go away just because the government is paying for them.
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You do realize that ~85% of the student loan debt outstanding - which amounts to more than $800 million - belongs to the federal government, right?
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No offense taken - both of these are obviously visibly delicate.

There is a version in the history that used Greenlet instead of gevent which was potentially a bit less delicate, but it required wrapping of the main file and didn't work with time.sleep, and I didn't feel like it was worth writing my own locks, semaphores, mutexes, pipes and whatnot.
My feeling is we should put the burden on the Colleges or the Loan providers. Make it so if the student fails to graduate, or graduate and cannot get a job in their field they're forced to pay the loan or at least the loan interest. Their incentive would then become to avoid loosing money and only give out loans of appropriate sizes to people who's college degree has a high probability of investment return.

The way it's setup now, the only person who's invested in having a high investment return is the student who usually can't grasp the concept of a loan this large and what it means for their future.

Their's probably some balance between this all out harsh approach and what we have now to allow for smaller loans with high risk so students can attend in state universities without bankrupting the university, but an incentive change is needed.
FuzzDB is a great project that has the potential to improve many existing tools. In the same way Adam suggested in this post, my team uses FuzzDB lists integrated with other tools (Burp Suite, Dirbuster, etc.) in order to use the functionality of those tools with the robust lists that FuzzDB provides.

For those that may not understand how this works: FuzzDB has many lists for many different security checks. A "fuzzer" would dynamically generate these things by basically putting random data into input fields in an attempt to find edge cases (with a security impact) that may not be handled correctly. Instead of generating that data randomly and on-the-fly, FuzzDB uses the most common "win" scenarios for a lot of different tests.

For example, the file Sharepoint.fuzz.txt[1] can easily be fed into any web application assessment tool to find default Sharepoint files. Since FuzzDB is updated more frequently than some older tools (say, nikto), it makes sense to replace old default lists with FuzzDB.

I'm glad that Mozilla is letting Adam publicize the project through their blog; it's a well-known resource in the security industry, but people just learning to conduct assessments of web applications may not know about it.

1: https://code.google.com/p/fuzzdb/source/browse/trunk/Discove...
"This is inherently what the board of directors does."

That would be what the board of directors is theoretically meant to do. In practice it's extremely far from the truth, with board meetings being very infrequent and focused primarily on share price and dividends.

This discussion is not really about Google though: Google does actually have a very relevant board of directors with most of them being founders or directly involved in starting large tech firms. Many other companies (Nokia? Microsoft?) are not so lucky.

Interestingly enough on Google's board only Paul S. Otellini (previous CEO of Intel) and L. John Doerr (early Intel engineer and VC) have an MBA. [1]

[1] http://investor.google.com/corporate/board-of-directors.html
And in the end the Yellow Pages wins, paid placements beats out quality of result.
I agree! Imagine taking a chem class entirely online without a lab. Obviously, certain classes need the skills and hands on approach. Also, Weight Watchers is a good example here. The effort to loose 50 lbs. and the effort to learn calculus are comparable. You do need that social component to motivate you along. Ok, ok, I need it.

Still, the days of the professor-preacher are coming to a close. The days of the super-star explainers and lots of grunt lab assistants are coming. Sort-of like Turbo-Tax and the accounting industry.
> 20% weeks (where engineers without 20% projects, or who prefer time-boxed commitments, take a week once a quarter to work on stuff)

Wouldn't that be 8% weeks?
I wonder if the demise of Digg three years ago and the (supposedly) inflow of new users have been problematic at the time.
> "Whatever happened to personal responsibility?"

Nothing. But we've long since drawn a line between reasonable expectations of responsibility and being the victim of fraud, deception, etc.

One can certainly argue that college loans haven't crossed that line. But society as a whole has rather moved past arguing whether or not the line ought to exist and whether or not we're all better off for having drawn it.
I'd think that they will actually recharge to somewhat less than 100%. But Apple still recommends unplugging the computer from time to time, so I'm assuming they get to very near full capacity.

My laptop is plugged in to a Thunderbolt Display almost all the time, so the battery gets topped off. It says that it is "charged", but I have no idea how much absolute capacity is that.

If I'm not going to unplug the notebook anytime soon (not travelling, not weekend), then I should be able to tell to leave it half charged (half, since discharging completely is even worse).
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That's true. But in my case, there's actually none of my mail I want in promotions.

For regular users, I expect many of them will not do that. Defaults are powerful.
That's what we found at CTLT (former part of Washington State University); distance learning + some classroom time was better than distance learning.
I'm sorry but it isn't.
That's nice. I wasn't aware of notebooks which let you do that.
> They may personally feel that they need manager permission. That doesn't mean that they do.

That doesn't seem to track with the article, or the articles/blogs linked from the article.

Lots of no-comments from the PTBs at Google... too bad. They could end the discussion one way or the other quickly.
Calendar looks broken in FF and Chrome here. All I see is:

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According to Browsershots it looks like this on many browsers:

http://browsershots.org/http://mozilla.github.io/brick/compo...

Same with the datepicker.

Some other stuff also looks broken.

I would much prefer one piece of javascript per component. So if I liked one, I could use it and improve it. Im not so much inclined to use a library of tons of stuff I dont use.
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Google doesn't give you anything for free; you give them data that allows them to sell directed marketing to you. I don't have a problem with that as for me it's a fair trade. But I wouldn't call what they offer as "free".
I know what you mean - my productivity definitely goes in cycles. I might create a great deal in 2 weeks, and then spend the next 2 weeks being unable to get much done.

But I learned long ago not to worry about it. The down cycles inevitably pass and then I'm producing again.

(no, I'm not bipolar)
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Without any kind of price control or accountability on the cost of the education, that's just cutting out the middle man in the cash flow problem. Sure no one will have student loans, but taxes will have to be raised to make up the difference.

As the article points out, all those new buildings they're always building aren't free and the posh dorms are unnecessary. But everyone is paying for them anyway, because why not?
Most likely as Reddit had continued downtime around that time with EC2/EBS scaling issues.
On one hand I agree with your sentiments but expecting an 18 year old to "take responsibility" and choose the right thing for themselves at that age is reasonable at first sight but doesn't take into account the reality of being a young adult.

How many young adults have the confidence, long term thinking and proper guidance to decide that they should go to a cheaper school?

At that age the percentage of people having that kind of maturity is very small (obviously in my opinion). Maybe you are in that small percentage. Now, like I said, you are absolutely right, ultimately it is their decision, but I wouldn't fully blame a fat person for eating that piece of chocolate cake when its been dangled in front of them all day.
Of course between no school and school with loans the choice is clear (in an (post-)industrialized country, mind you).

Doesn't always seem clear to me. The whole point of the article was that you could be saddled with loan payments for a very, very long time with little to no improvement in job prospects.
Unlike the things you listed above, college isn't perceived as a choice. It's perceived as an obligation. Because of this, a myopia has set in among most students: "I need to go to the best possible college or kill myself trying." The decision is no longer theirs, it is the product of tremendous stigmatization, social pressure, and the nonstop inundation of students essentially from birth with platitudes about the necessity not just of education, but of the prestige that comes with an expensive education. The notion of college as a commodity product that needs to be evaluated based on value is foreign to people. As a student currently in the process of applying to schools who tends to associate with academically hyper-qualified students, I can tell you that most of them are taken aback if not totally incredulous when I say that going to my state flagship would be ideal.

Society has not equipped people to evaluate colleges rationally. I don't think it necessarily the fault of the students.
I absolutely don't think the government should decide that. I'd almost say though that the government should only provide loan assistance to state schools (not really willing to stand by that just yet, but it's worth a thought or two). But I'm just sort of questioning that if we're going to say that people aren't to be trusted on their own, that's usually when the government has to step in to set the rules.
As a note, it was cheaper for me to leave Texas and move across the country to Oregon and pay non-resident tuition than it was to stay in Texas and pay resident tuition. Not every state has the same opportunities.

I'm not bemoaning my loans by any means. I consider them to be our generation's Indentured servitude contracts. I'm planning on paying them through the Income Contingent plan and working for a gov't or non-profit.
How are you going to restrict bad loans without asking people (the government) not to accept free money? It's the same problem.
Have you considered that there might've been an issue that you didn't know about?

For me, I was with you until I read your suggestion to "read your comments" to learn about your experience.
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I winced at this quote in the article:

"Nobody sits down and explains to you what it all mean."

That kind of attitude is a problem, and instead of focusing on fixing the system, which I'm not denying is unfair and flawed, we could be focusing on changing this kind of attitude; that you're absolved of responsibility because of ignorance. Teaching kids how to think critically about their future, and that they have control over their own lives is invaluable.
That's why I put 'private' in quotes. Given a decent debugger, nothing is strictly private but then it's a meaningless distinction. Perhaps there's a better term for APIs you can technically call but will get your app kicked out of the store for TOS violation? I think 'private' makes sense but I'm happy to use whatever term you think is reasonable.

As for 'internal OS DLLs' I think it's subjective as to whether those APIs have any use outside of OS components (and indeed what constitutes an 'OS component'). I happen to think there's some really useful stuff in there. Anyway, I only brought it up to highlight that there are some things Microsoft has decided we can't use for whatever reason. Again, I think it's reasonable to consider them 'private', non-public, internal. I'm not saying any of this is good\bad or that they shouldn't have the right to do this sort of thing. Just that it exists.

As for AARD, technically it did 'ship' as the code was included in Win3.1 but was benign thanks to a runtime flag. Even in beta form it highlights that this sort of thing, relying on undocumented behavior, has been used at Microsoft for a very long time. Perhaps it's an insignificant example but it did cost them close to $300M in a settlement so seemed pretty relevant to me.

Anyway, I shall leave it to other readers to decide if any of this constitutes evidence of so-called private APIs by Microsoft.

Thanks.
I review each link that gets submitted for quality (in addition to people voting), although you're right about paid ones, I can't always see the real details. It's fairly easy to tell when something is good quality though, even without seeing the real meat. For example, these are paid, and look very good, just based on the demo, etc: https://www.destroyallsoftware.com/screencasts
I'm usually surprised by the depths of cynicism I find at large corporations, not by their altruistic goody-two-shoes-ness.

Google would be remiss if it wasn't trading against the massive wealth of data it has. They're probably not mining email (though they could use a proxy and look at the frequency of particular ads' being displayed in Gmail), and probably have a privacy line, somewhere, that they're unwilling to cross. But I'd be surprised if most people ended up being comfortable with that line's placement. And it's not like we have any way of knowing where it is.
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of course, you can gpl-license your implementation of a patented algorithm. the copyright license under which software is offered and any patents associated with underlying algorithms are, I think, orthogonal.
Is this just a replacement for the gap left when Tungle.Me was bought by blackberry? http://www.crunchbase.com/company/tungle Am I missing a key difference?
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Here's some data, the report on defaults referenced here:

http://www.takepart.com/article/2013/07/08/student-loan-defa...

The institutions with the highest rates of default are for-profit colleges, about which nobody has nice things to say, and community colleges which most people will defend as a gateway to higher ed for those who had to work to support others or got lousy high school grades or whatever reason.

So... it's complicated.
function fish_user_key_bindings
bind \e. 'history-token-search-backward'
end

There is a thread about it here

https://github.com/fish-shell/fish-shell/issues/89
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