skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
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.

That would get rid of a lot of people that find out the hard way that they've borrowed themselves into a very deep hole. Job prospects, interest rates, cumulative interest, evaluating the small print and so on. There are many ways to get burned on a student loan and there is only one way you can get out, and that way out takes not just skill but also considerable luck and long term stability.

A few of our Canadian employees were saddled with long term versions of these and we managed to get rid of those, and we managed to keep one intern out of debt by paying him enough that he didn't have to apply for a loan.

I don't think student loans are bad in and of themselves, they just don't work out for everybody and for quite a few people that get squeezed by them the risks were not readily apparent when they entered into the agreement.

Student loans are a tool, and like any other tool they required some study and mastery to make the most of them.
Seems like a smart move considering 10,000 baby boomers turn 65 every day. Hopefully they're in it for the long haul.

It will be interesting to see what the marketing strategy will be.
Shutting down the company alerted users to possible surveillance. Government wanted to snoop in secret. Now their secret is out, and they may or may not get to snoop on their target(s) via other channels. Levison loses the proceeds of his business, but he has behaved ethically by discontinuing his service since he can no longer deliver what was promised. Levison took the closest thing he could get to a win.

Levison gets extra karma because he put everyone's interests ahead of his own short-term financial interests. By shutting his business in the manner that he did, he has poisoned the well for gov't snooping at other similar services. If he is lucky, he may suffer little or no further gov't retribution.
raw California chargemaster data was in excel files at this gov't website: http://www.oshpd.ca.gov/chargemaster

outside of California, the data from a release by Medicare: http://www.cms.gov/Research-Statistics-Data-and-Systems/Stat...
There are a lot of good remarks in this thread.

I will try to add a point I haven't seen here yet:

Once I was in a big company with a big, famous
research lab.

The group I was in, just three of us, was led by a
guy who had taken some technical work and published
some papers. The journals were peer-reviewed but
semi-popular so reached some ordinary business
customers. The papers fit in with a lot of hype at
the time.

So, some of the customers picked up a phone and
called our group for more information. So, presto,
we got contact with real customers otherwise
essentially forbidden in research.

Why forbidden? Because the sales/marketing guys
wanted to be the guys who had total control over all
contact with customers.

Eventually our little group broke up, and I wanted
to do some research that would lead to products to
be sold to customers. I started to discover that no
one in the company wanted that. The big guys in
research wanted to throttle all contacts outside
research and mostly didn't want any. The people in
sales, marketing, product development, and product
production didn't want to deal with anything new
from research. No one wanted a research worker bee
talking to real customers.

Next, when research did come up with something that
might be of interest to real customers, no one
wanted to pursue that opportunity. Again, the
marketing people wanted to be the source of all new
product/service initiatives. No one in research
wanted a research worker bee to get credit/blame
having a product go from research to success/failure
in the market.

In the end, research was forced to be essentially
irrelevant to the business. Finally research was
turned into a patent shop so that lawyers could take
the big patent portfolio, go to companies, claim
patent infringement, and 'license' the patent
portfolio.

Point: Generally, a business organization, given a
nice new product/service to offer their customers,
has multiple layers of organizations and people,
processes, reasons, etc. why they just do not, not
want to come out with anything new. Period.

Curiously, yes, some of the people at some of the
customer organizations were eager to work with our
group in research as a way to look more innovative
within their own organizations. Here, of course,
they didn't have to work through layers of
managers but only had to exercise their own
freedom to handle their own responsibilities.

So, lesson: Commonly individuals are ready to do
and offer new things to others or try new things
from others, but it's the layers of managers who
block such things.

So, the blockage of these layers of managers is one
of the main reasons and opportunities for
entrepreneurship.

Yes, it's dumber than paint, but it's usually the
way of the world.
The first few people who were shown the page didn't notice either that they could interact with the phone, I had to add quite a few visual cues, apparently that was not enough yet :(

This project started when I discovered PlaceIt by Breezi(1) as I was making my app's landing page. Since the app is heavily using html5, I could relatively easily take it to the next level and make it actually usable in some ways from the browser.

Anyway I'm glad you like it, I'm hungry for more feedback!

1: http://placeit.breezi.com/
everyone, except possibly the mentally insane has a bigger safety net than they think they have. Even the homeless avoid shelters (rightfully in many cases, since many are violent places).
I believe there can be a significant difference between "Jennifer Hepler, Employee, BioWare" and "Jennifer Hepler, Writer of this specific character you hate on this specific game, BioWare".
To start - email marketing is a huge (and hugely profitable) part of my job. As a user, I love the changes - except for ads in the promotions tab. I am careful to only opt in to emails when necessary, and I regularly unsubscribe from those I don't like. I hate that now I get ads I did not give permission to in my inbox. Anyone know if CAN-SPAM specifically excludes "ads disguised as email" from its definition of spam?
My issue with the promotions tab is that any email subscription got sent there.

I get virtually zero deals or offers in my inbox. But I have subscriptions to a couple of blogs, and mailing lists such as Patio11's

I WANT to receive those emails. But gmail considered them 'promotions', and put them in another inbox, and showed them alongside ads.

So I disabled the promotions tab.

I would feel much better about the promotions tab if it could distinguish between permission based email newsletters, and pure offers.
Why 0.999, ...=1 - also bashing OOP
I'm curious - were the projects you wanted to transfer to in niche technical areas or niche products?

It's very easy at Google to transfer from niche to core. If we (in Search) see someone languishing in another part of the company with skills that we want and they want to work with us, we make the transfer happen, and there's nothing HR or another manager can do about it. It's much harder to transfer from core to niche, and it usually requires a solid track record of sustained performance in your original assignment. I know a number of people that transfer from Search to Google-X after 4-5 years, but I know of virtually nobody that can make that transfer after 1-2. (Basically, the company wants to "make back" their initial investment in you before they'll let you work on speculative projects that may not show a return.)

Arguably some of the niche projects would be better done as startups - they don't face the constraints of working at a large, very visible multinational where they don't get resources or attention from higher management - but the entrepreneurial spirit isn't quite dead at Google.
Sprint, Verizon, and US Cellular refuse to unlock their phones, and even if you convince someone to do it, they won't activate a phone that wasn't originally bought on their network. So I doubt that's going to happen.
No, the whole point of Buddhism is that capitalism teaches people to want more than they need.

It is not an inherent human quality. Our ancestors in the African Savannah weren't going out of their way to acquire material goods. They were lean.
Your shower could dress you!
Who knows how it works? How am I supposed to know it's Bayesian? If G's magic works for people then great, but I just want to check my email without going into multiple little hidey-holes. If you're not the sort of person who gets tons of email, the value prop for stuff like this goes way down.
@3825, my guess was that OP is talking about iOS, where as @corresation are just commenting on how the experience is different for the Android app.

I don't know if the official iOS GMail app has these changes or not.
I am a long time user and fan of CouchDB. It is great to see such an active project. Those who were skeptical after Damien's leave were proofed wrong. I am especially interested in Fauxton and Cloudant's BigCouch merge.
Well, from what I have seen about the business people, their preferred method is b. Since by going to some other company, they can get higher salary, usually higher than the raise they'd be getting.
How do you feel about the aspect ratio? I feel that the 7" device is too small to comfortably read PDFs, especially in portrait mode with such a narrow width.
This. If its a big task, I need to stay focussed and disiplined on not doing the task. Doing small tasks would just distract me from not doing the big task.
Have you built anything with AngularJS? I've built apps in both Flex and AngularJS, and to me AngularJS is a very different beast, and a much better beast. Unlike Flex, AngularJS: does not provide a UI component library, has a first-class runtime environment (that is growing, not shrinking), integrates into existing websites (rather than sitting inside them as black boxes), brings an MV* way of thinking with it (Flex had MV* options, but only 3rd party add-ons), and finally (this is purely a personal one), is a joy to code with (I love AS3, but I found Flex to be clunky)

I'd be willing to bet that AngularJS will be hugely successful, and will gain a significant share of the Single-Page-App market.
esc-. is my biggest miss as well. There are discussions on this but still havent been able to fix it on osx in iterm2 myself. Did get option-. to work for now but esc-. has 20+ years of pure reflex action burned into my brain.
I agree. Loans aren't at the root of the problem, but they're also a bad solution. An even worse solution is getting rid of loans. The only solution worse than that? Blaming students.

This is why, until there's some radical, radical change, I'll always vote for the people perpetuating student loans. I'm not going to be the one that screws an entire generation out of a worthwhile education in the name of "loans are bad!"
How much innovation has come out of San Diego, LA, Fresno or Sacramento? How many tech workers moved to silicon valley from somewhere else after college?

I'm not sure 'California mindset' is the right way of framing the innovation inside silicon valley.
Did the guys at the top ever lose any money?
Ah, now I understand how pressure cookers work
Well, you could use such tags to describe data directly in the markup. I'll think we'll see two definite camps on that issue. Of course, what's data?
it looks like a NP-Complete problem
Commenting as an Oregonian, it isn't going to solve any problems it just makes college more accessible, allowing students to kick the can down the road. College is still too expensive and costs have risen for no reason.

I went to state college in Washington (Washington State, go Cougs) and when I started there tuition was $1300 (semester system, so $2600 per year). My middle-class parents were easily able to cover my full costs (tuition, room and board), with a part-time job I contributed to room and board. It's now well over $9000 (insert Dragonball Z joke here) for the year just for tuition. Now, I'd have had to graduate with student loans.

There's just too much waste in the college system and I have no idea where it's going. Facilities? Sports? Salaries? Marketing? It's certainly not inflation or value since salaries are stagnant pretty much across the board.
Just because he made some massively incorrect assertions while at Google does not mean he is not worth listening to. Everyone says incorrect things sometimes. I mean, can you claim that you are right all the time? Probably not.

I don't know him personally but I read the stuff he writes, and while his character can be a bit abrasive he's an extremely intelligent dude who can make astute observations and connections that other people miss. I think you're doing him a lot of disservice by dismissing him the way you did.
I don't know if the rules have changed since I was in college, but I actually did have to take an online test showing I understood the nature of student loans before my loans could be approved.
That is one issue, indeed. But the downside is that you're hassling your users to give you money, rather than hassling advertisers to give you money.

I'd rather not be hassled as a user.

I would also click on adverts, and buy things if they're useful to me, but I don't think I'd ever donate to a website.
In a previous world you could use 1 email for personal and 1 email for everything else. Unfortunately websites & apps harvesting users address books has ruined that.
Works fine in ChromeOS 28.0.1500.95
The confirmation email went to Junk w/ outlook.

Just letting you know.
I like the concept, it looks quite nice.

I actually signed up, which is unusual for me.

Best of luck with it!
That would be very good news. The time I'm talking about is the year 2000.
Yeah when there is growth in easy-to-qualify loans that may only be spent with one industry, that industry will prosper. The great part about it (for schools) is that they don't actually have to work that hard to lobby for more government-underwritten education loans.

...our overall educational rank in the world hasn't improved.

If you just look at the top end, it isn't actually possible for the USA to improve its rank. ( http://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/world-university-ranki... ) I know there are some awful lower-level schools, but I assume there are all over the world as well.
A part of me gets tense at seeing a MacBook Pro sitting so delicately on a ledge like that.
"But we want to keep sending you heaps of spam... It's not fair, Google! It's just not fair!"
– Marketing peeps
I approve of the name :)
Researchers debunk myth of 'right-brained' and 'left-brained' personality traits
Students didn't want to go to Vietnam and stopped it. Students are getting plundered for going to college, it's probably time to stop that too.
I'm sure it was a 20% but I could misrember, it was a long time ago.

EDIT: Wikipedia says "Orkut was quietly launched on January 22, 2004 by Google. Orkut Büyükökten, a Turkish software engineer, developed it as an independent project while working at Google. While previously working for Affinity Engines, he had developed a similar system, In Circle, intended for use by university alumni groups. In late June 2004, Affinity Engines filed suit against Google, claiming that Büyükkökten and Google based Orkut on In Circle code. The allegation is based on the presence of 9 identical bugs in Orkut that also existed in Circle."
Keep getting 500 after a few tries.
I do both regularly. They are different hands and the different movements actually become very different feeling. When my right hand is on the mouse, WASD feels natural. Otherwise, I naturally hold my left hand near the ESC key and my right hand over HJKL.

Because it's the home row, it also feels more natural when you are getting ready to type. The mental separation between "gaming" and "typing" is not hard to get a hold of really quick. Give it a try! I guarantee you'll be completely used to it within a week.

Also, keep in mind all of these keys can be remapped in Vim anyways :)
I can recommend 'woof' [1] for simple ad-hoc sharing of files through HTTP. It has some extra features, like quickly sharing a directory as tar file.

[1] http://www.home.unix-ag.org/simon/woof.html
It entirely depends on your manager and team. Some managers might want you to ask permission, and/or if you take the "forgiveness" approach your relationship with that manager might suffer. But that's because people are people.

I can't imagine my former TLM ever taking 20% time, but I can thoroughly imagine him encouraging every single one of his direct reports to do so, unless we were on a launch sprint.
vim and BSDs default configurations insisting on inexistance of arrow keys is a "tradition" not completely unlike clitoridectomy. Come on guys (and gals), we've been over this already.
That version is blocked in Germany. This one isn't: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e0j0GCbMC7A Say about RATM (fans) what you will, but this song, and this video of it, still gives me goosebumps. They had it right indeed.

Words cannot describe the restraint I'm exercising right now, to not just post lyrics and generally endulge. I know HN is not the place for that, but I still want to leave this here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ljQ2DM8Mve4
> enjoy in all the other countries of the Union, the advantages that their respective laws grant to nationals

This implies that if a patent is filed in one place, then it is effectively filed in all countries of the Union, but one is still bound by the their respective laws, and therefore if they do not recognize your patent as valid then it is not valid in that country.
AFAIK, there is no GMail list of known-good senders.

When they refer to a "Trusted Sender" they mean someone you have personally emailed two or more times: https://support.google.com/mail/answer/145919?hl=en&ctx=mail...

Actually a pretty clever compromise, IMHO.
Let me rephrase what you said in a better perspective. I don't think anybody would subject themselves to unnecessary testing, regardless of the profession or industry. If this becomes an industry norm, then tough cookie for us engineers.

Interviews are a necessary and evolutionary process of finding good employees, and we know that so that's why we subject ourselves to them. It's not a form of humiliation because it's the norm. How else would a manager figure out if you got the skills and character to do the job? It's not a perfect process by any means, but it definitely helps.

Here's where this startup tries to take things to a different level. I get the idea behind it, but I cannot fathom why anybody would want to subject themselves to unnecessary testing. What's the ROI? Why give out personal information and have it stored on some database for some undetermined, possibly indefinite amount of time (forever? 1 year? 5 years?)? Am I going to be paid to do this? Can I no longer get a job if I don't do this? If this is purely voluntary, I have absolutely no incentive of taking the test.

Perhaps these questions should be something the founders should consider.
> How are you supposed to know that?

I could be misremembering, but IIRC when the new inbox first appeared it featured a popover over my inbox explaining how to drag and drop a miscategorized email into a different tab to train it.
"Have Spacesuit, Will Travel" by Heinlein mentioned this -- I remember as a kid I hadn't understood it.
Matt Taibbi isn't the author of that article. You saw an ad for one of his articles buried in the text of the article.

Edit: Well, I was wrong. I realized that on my mobile, I read "By Victor Juhasz", referring to the photo credit.
'Syn'
I am not sure I would include oh-my-zsh as someone's personal zshrc. Moreover I thought OP had made a distinction between bash (10k) and zsh (1k) so I am not sure how o-m-z counts as a bashrc? I will take your word for it but I cant imagine what people put in there bashrc to get to 10k. The entire bash-it repository is 8,588 and over a third of it is bash completions which seems to duplicate the majority of what is already provided by bash-completion. And I am not sure that bash-completion is really "my .bashrc."

$ cd bash-it
$ sloccount ./
...SNIP...
SLOC Directory SLOC-by-Language (Sorted)
3198 completion sh=3198
3168 plugins sh=3168
1081 themes sh=1081
748 lib sh=748
242 aliases sh=242
135 top_dir sh=135
16 template sh=16
0 custom (none)

Totals grouped by language (dominant language first):
sh: 8588 (100.00%)

Are there some big bashrc customizations that I might be overlooking?

edited to reflect distinction between parent and grandparent comment
A quote: "However, that leaves us reliant on an analytical concept: a limit. It’s true within mathematics as we use it. But is it inherently logically true?"

The answer is that there's no difference -- a mathematical theorem is also a logical one.

Also, the notion of a limit has been examined very carefully, and it passes muster with those who care about logical consistency. Not only that, but the idea of a limit can be replaced with the idea of infinitesimals, with no change in the outcome and no logical inconsistency:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infinitesimal_calculus

Quote: "There are other mathematical regimes that have different rules."

Let's not allow post-modernism into mathematics, all right? Mathematical principles aren't -- shouldn't be -- a matter of opinion. There's one set of mathematical principles -- we don't get to roll out own.
Ubuntu desktop and Debian servers. Life is good.
Thanks! I'm at the point now where I will see something simply incredible that blows my mind, I'll submit it to my own site... and it will already have been submitted like 6 months ago, and I completely missed it the first time, heh.

I've tried to make it easy to find what you're looking for (tags, search by tags as well as text, categories, wiki, etc).

I should also mention that it is quite heavily moderated, similar to HN. People sometimes don't agree with that, but you can see from the quality of HN it beats anything like reddit, because grammar and quality are important. I'm sort of the same way, but related to resources. That really helps the signal-to-noise ratio, and even though some might not like that, it's very important to me.
Agreed. If they are re-investing money to grow the product, that might be why they aren't currently profitable. That doesn't indicate a lack of success in my book.
Didn't we just have an article about a liquid, injectable oxygen for emergency medical use? How about skipping the lungs as O2 input, keep them just for CO2 removal, and take an IV containing the liquid oxygenator?

You might need to keep a small amount of lung pressure (say, less than that used to blow up party balloons) to slow the egress of oxygen through the lungs.

The next problem is likely that your lungs catch fire as the O2 concentration builds up in them. One thing at a time though.
Hard to tell if you're talking to everyone of me as you're responding to my comment but I didn't call anyone ignorant or a coward.
The promotions tab I would say makes me more likely to view your e-mail. When it was all just cluttering up my inbox before I would usually just scan past them and delete. Now I go and look through them and see if anything interests me.