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Raw smarts is one thing, and experience with a particular platform/problem space is another, and both are valuable on the job, and both should be weighted in hiring.

Sometimes it's appropriate to hire a brilliant person who's unfamiliar with your problem space, but not often. Sometimes you need an expert who already knows what they're doing and doesn't need to ramp up on the company's dime.
on that note, I work on wall st and there is a Cash 4 Gold store right on wall st. Go figure!!
Rolling Stone should stick to music.
Why getting women into computer science is a big deal
> The overall price of education is the root of the problem, and the price of education has little correlation to the availability of student loans (contrary to popular belief).

Did you read the article? It provided a fairly sound argument supporting the conclusion that the availability of student loans and the price of tuition are quite related.
Why 15 years?

Let people declare bankruptcy and cancel all their loans.

The worry back in the 70's was that people would get a lot of loans and then declare bankruptcy after graduation and then no one would lend money and no one would afford school.

I can see why they were worried about that. We got something much much much worse.

If students could declare bankruptcy, people would still make educational loans, but only for a few thousand dollars. Schools would have to lower prices.
Just bought one, we'll see if it lives up to the hype.
I did need an unlocked phone anyways so this was a good excuse to buy something neat...
The major problem is that university administrations are becoming top heavy. Instead of hiring tenure-track faculty to teach real subjects like computer science or mechanical engineering (or even English lit, so as not to be prejudiced to the humanities), universities are creating $300K per year sinecure positions like "Vice-President and Associate Dean of Student Diversity".

Guess who pays for this? Students and their families.
Hey, all. Would actually love to talk to you about this.. I'm a Y Combinator founder, and we're building a startup called Crowdery. It is a marketplace and, to some extent, there is overlap here.. Our approach is admittedly much more nuanced. Ping me on twitter @marannelson if you're interested in talking!
Sorry, I'm not the parent commenter.
A solution that converted as many easy things as possible and then output anything it couldn't figure out somewhere so you could convert that by hand would still probably be rather useful.
In New Zealand the government pays about 75% of tuition costs in the first place (a degree is around $5000 NZD a year), there's a student allowance if your parents earn under a certain threshold, and your student loan is interest free as long as you remain in New Zealand.
It looks like compensation is equity + cost of living/stipend.

I imagine Costa Rica could be a pretty solid combination of inexpensive + nice/interesting. If they can pay a fraction of the cost of hosting it in Palo Alto, but have it be way more interesting than Arkansas, perhaps they'll attract some good folks.
They are also places where college kids setup for hours and never leave.
Could be from University of North Dakota, who got the pleasure (early 90's) of being told by Microsoft that they only hired our graduates for Tech Support because we had a nice accent and worked hard (being, of course, all farmer's kids).

Oh, well, at least I had low debt (few $K, paid off easily) even though I got screwed on scholarships by my high school.
I was in a core technical area trying to transfer into another core technical area in both cases (really, they needed me elsewhere, I could have made a genuine difference, and the blind allocation process completely hosed that up).

I also didn't know upfront that little tidbit that whatever assignment I took, I would be stuck there for 4-5 years. If I had known that, I would not have accepted my initial assignment, nor any other, until it was something I knew I'd remotely enjoy, and I'd probably still be there today.

So by relentlessly focusing on short-term ROI, Google lost 100% with me.

If they're going to insist on blind allocation, then they ought to not be surprised when it doesn't work out. But I gather the heuristic is to assume these cases are a 100% indicator of non-googliness.

Again, whatever...
I personally like the new promotions and social tabs, but we build lots of emailers for our clients and will probably have to educate their recipients as in the article.

I did have to manually remove Rackspace ticket updates from the promotions tab. I was wondering why they weren't responding to me for a little while!
> Frankly, I don't think that inconsistant application of rules, and relying on a good Manager is a good thing overall.

If you need humans instead of robots doing a job, that usually (increasingly, as automation advances) means it requires judgement such that pre-written inflexible rules will be inadequate to handle it sufficiently. Which means you need to rely on the judgement of people applying flexible rules for the best results.
What is to stop someone from shouting "Ok Google Now" on a bus or in a crowded room?

I'm curious how the "always listening" will fly. This is another example of technology that is far ahead of the sociological issues which will take a while to resolve.

(On that note, I feel like every day our newest technologies stretch farther and farther away from regular people, and it will become a major issue of our generation.)

I am personally most excited by quick access to the camera. I'm curious what 10 megapixels will look like, but typically this is total BS, and a waste of pixels, you can usually reduce phone photos to 70% of their original size, which means throwing away 1/2 the pixels (and file size).

Now, my biggest issue: upgrade my terribly creaking Nexus S to a Nexus 4 right now, or wait a month or so for this swanky new Moto X?
This config file is glorious. Every other line is just pure gold.

function fish_user_keybindings
jesus_fucking_christ_bind_the_fucking_keys_fish
end
Fake it How to generate fake data in your app.
If you receive ads in a paid GAPPS account is because your administrator has turned on ads
There's no way to win this issue. If you don't give loans, you are doing wrong. If you do give loans, you are doing wrong. If you expand no-strings grants, those are expanding entitlements.
What training data? They've got unlabelled data, not labelled data. Also, all they could provide is really a one-size-fits-all solution, after that it can train to your own needs.
Verizon will unlock the GSM part of your phone if you tell them you're travailing internationally. Would Sprint do that too?
Guardthis.info: a better way to share passwords with your team
Guardthis.info is a better way to share sensitive data, like login information. You input your text and expiration time, and then share a unique link.

I created it because I didn't like the idea of emailing passwords in plain text for shared sites (e.g., Google apps, Heroku) to my colleagues.

It lacks a few essential security features like SSL encryption, but it's good enough for my needs.
Getting rid of loans isn't really on the table, people are generally free to loan each other money and there doesn't need to be a special government program for student loans to exist. But we do have a lot of laws and programs around student loans and I'm not sure that they do more good than harm, on net.
Firstly it's just great to see someone from YC targeting anyone over 24 :) Ok, snarky joke is over.

I think this is a great idea. I see 3 challenges. i) Seniors tend to be more frugal than the younger generation so $30 per month might be a dealbreaker. Having said that children would probably pay that to know their parent is safe so maybe that's the better angle. ii) Superseded by a smart phone based app. No need for $99 for the device and $30 in a subscription. Will someone do 85% of this for an iPhone/Android device at $5 per month?
People often whine more about a "token amount" more than they do a "thank you" in my experience.
Since that is indeed popular belief, do you have any proof otherwise? I'd love to hear different theories.
I think this is a really cool concept, but it seems to be a mish-mash of two ideas: 1) incentivize users to do a bunch of other tasks by identifying an even more daunting one. 2) help users tackle the biggest thing on their list by adding extra motivation (a time-sensitive security deposit). Personally, I like the latter more - I've tried similar things by adding pointification to my todo list, assigning notably more points to tasks that are the most important, but I think adding actual $$$ and a deadline would be even more motivating. I think the product here needs a bit more clarification, but it's a neat idea! I'd also think it's a good idea to drop the actual price of the tasks, but keep the deposits large - I doubt someone would pay $50 for motivation on a huge task, but they might pay $5 and risk $500.
I just tried the sname game and had the same experience (although I use ESDF for controls). My brain is not used to using my right hand for directional control.

That said it should be easy to remap vim keys to use WASD/etc - although there might be conflicts with other functions.
Unless something has changed that I'm not aware of, Google has a share structure that gives Brin and Page effectively full control through shares in a separate class that has 10 times the voting power of the A shares that were offered in the IPO.

So if Page can't convince "the board and the big shareholders" I believe it means he can't convince Brin, not some horde of faceless MBA's or institutional investors.

Your assumption about Bezos relative influence over Amazon seems unlikely, as Bezos Amazon holdings and the lack of a similar share structure means Bezos has far less voting power at Amazon than Page has at Google. Last I heard, Bezos held less than 20% of the voting power at Amazon.
Pandodaily's Sarah Lacy loses it over a banner
A part of me wants to push it off.
Folks who do this 8 hours a day are ridiculously fast at it. I consider myself pretty proficient in PS, and our designers make me look like a toddler with a crayon.
It would seem a much simpler solution would be feasible. A small GSM device that is essentially powered off until it is needed, at which time it would be booted up and begin sending GPS coordinates via SMS. If you wanted higher reliability, you could look into the FM-based system that LoJack uses, but either way, constant communication seems unnecessary.
This appears to be the first device running the MSM7225A at 1GHz (many other android devices use this, all at 600MHz or 800MHz).

Edit: also very surprised there's no bluetooth support.
It is completely unlike that, please don't compare not having arrow keys to genital mutilation.
The article refers to the Synaptic Package Manager, which is available on many Debian-based Linux distros. Your OS may use something different. The general instructions in the article on using Python with SciPy, NumPy, Maxima, and MatPlotLib and should work with any OS, including Windows and Mac OS X.
Funny, years ago a friend of mine refused to go touchscreen phone, because he was able to send a text message without looking at the phone as it had actual buttons.

I'm more like you, but I like to have a physical button on my phone for the camera. I don't find the on-screen camera button user friendly, esp for half-press focus/exposure. It severely limits my choice of phone though...
A quote: "Let’s try not to let them down."

Fair enough. But at present, the key problem is not bias or overt discrimination, it's how women see technical occupations, plus a shortage of role models.

This problem will be solved when women, who are certainly fully qualified to take on technical positions, decide they want to do that.
It fingerprints to your voice to some extent. Not sure how good it does this but on The Verge they had one guy program his Moto X using his voice then the other two hosts tried to activate it and couldn't get it to recognize them.

This is apparently a problem with Google Glass though. Anyone can say, "OK, Glass...show me pictures of Rick Astley" and any nearby active Glass will follow the command.
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A green threading library with true concurrency for Python
Why Juju means I don't need a VPS
My experience with cloud overflow configurations is that it never works as nicely as you expect, due to a lot of the drawbacks of cloud infrastructure such as variable performance and latency issues.
The institutions are the ones receiving the benefits of the subsidized loans; the students bear the long term costs of the 'student loans'.

"Where the supply curve is more inelastic than the demand curve, producers bear more of the tax and receive more of the subsidy than consumers as the difference between the price producers receive and the initial market price is greater than the difference borne by consumers." [1]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Effect_of_taxes_and_subsidies_o...
I didn't say it needed to be in the Bay Area but I see the point. I loved traveling abroad when I was in the Navy but when you've been somewhere you've never been before the last thing you want to do is spend 14 hours behind a keyboard programming something. Especially someplace as beautiful as Costa Rica.
And who is going to decide what's a "degree in bullshit" and what's a "gussied up diploma mill?" What metrics would they use?

Surely this isn't that difficult a problem to solve. President Obama thinks his administration could start to address it:

http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2013/02/13/obama-calls-mo...
This site in encouraging you to share passwords with people over ... a non-encrypted connection. This makes it about as safe as email. That's before you get to the bit where you have to share the information with a 3rd party that looks sketchy at best.
So? Where do these "5k" come from? And where do you get money to live and eat?

Either you have parents who can help, then it doesn't really matter whether we are talking about 5k, 25k or 50k (from a structural perspective), or you don't. If you don't have anybody who can help, it doesn't matter whether you cannot come up with 5k, 25k or 50k.

One of the reasons German students protested 600€ a term (1200€ a year) fees was that it furthered the divide between people who could afford university and those who needed loans or other money. If you could already afford it either way, 1200€ didn't make much of a difference either. If you already struggled massively to keep yourself afloat before that, coming up with 1200€ more was sometimes quite impossible.

If you cannot take out a loan (any form of loan), then you are screwed unless you are already privileged enough to study. If you are, 5k, 15k or 50k make little actual difference.

There are, in my opinion, two possible ways: no fees & affordable student loans for living cost OR no loans, and in the latter case, you already exclude based on wealth, so you might as well just charge whatever it is you want or whatever artificial treshhold you would like to enforce.
It probably has more to do with the fact that "The Patch" often produces low quality news thats uninteresting to most people.
I'm pretty sure one of the major tech review sites specifically tested that out (I think it was The Verge) -- it only responds to your voice.
I know plenty of people in this same situation, degree in psychology, social work, communications and my favorite opera, with a mound of debt accruing. All while they struggle to pay off their debt while working at the same college job they had, working at a restaurant waiting tables or being a barista at Starbucks.

Some of these people are in way over their head and beyond just the government loans. A few of them went to smaller private colleges and accrued well over 150K.

Luckily I was in a technical degree (Information Systems but I didnt graduate from the business school ;-), Math and Science school along with the CS majors) and was able to get a few job offers before settling on what I considered the best one.
Most Perl one-liners don't have semicolons.
Honestly, I'm okay with the student loan system, I just think schools need to face tuition caps to be eligible for federal student loans.

My wife and I have substantial student loans from law school. We got good jobs and can afford to pay. Meanwhile, lots of people don't and can't, and rely on the governments very generous and flexible repayment terms. As long as the program as a whole turns a profit, its a cross-subsidy, and I think that's great. People who take student loans should be uniquely willing to pay to spread out the risk.
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After being thrown out on the street, two asian stepbrothers Koji and Kevin become garbage men that dispose of bodies for the Mafia.
Looks like someone's never heard of sample bias before.
Every time this comes up...

Every time, people have to be reminded that few people start out in communications degrees. Someone makes it to college, trying pre-med. Then they realize that, while not failing, they do not have the grades to make it into medical school, and they don't have an aptitude for the sciences.

So, if they quit at this point, they will have no degree and 20k of debt. The marginal cost:benefit analysis for a social sciences degree is high. We talk about sunk cost fallacies, but the risk profile looks like this:

drop out | 20,000 in debt, 2% chance of job that can pay it off, and a soft limit on class mobility.
continue in social sciences | 60,000 in debt, 35% chance of job that can pay it off, and a better chance of staying in the middle class over a career.

I see my sister run into this. She can't advance in her career because she made the decision to drop out. She is intelligent enough to finish a social sciences degree, and intelligent enough to do the work of a college graduate, but she is filtered out of many jobs because of the requirement.
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Full disclosure: I have a communications degree (CS minor) and am a developer and am not ashamed to say I've used my communication degree to my advantage as a programmer. What I learned about organizational communication and conflict management have helped solve problems.
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>If you try to use them from a regular app then you'll be kicked out of the store.

Um.. That is not a private API. Those are the terms of the STORE, not the OS. You can use the API from whatever app you want. Although as a programmer I personally dislike such restrictions, its no different from what Google or Apple are doing for their own stores.

>Going back in time, there were (still are) a great many dlls and services in Windows with unnamed exports and not available to the general public (eg win32k, csrss, milcore etc)

What the... What are you talking about? Those DLLs are internal OS DLLs. Nobody besides OS components has any use for those APIs.

>Go back to the dark ages and as others have already mentioned there's the famous AARD example

Which never shipped since it was part of a windows beta version.

>Like I said, nothing new.

You can say anything you want ofcource. You'll have to bring actual evidence if you want to be taken seriously though.
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What's the third challenge? :-)
The market. Right now, the government loan programs treat all degrees interchangeably. If you introduce market forces into the equation, the lenders will run some basic stat calculations and you'll quickly end up with the following scenario:

1. Useful degrees from good universities will be easy and cheap for good students to fund.

2. Everything else will get harder/more expensive to fund, in proportion to its statistical returns.

That's all you really need to fix the system.
Its interesting to me that they didnt mention the fact that the Gov't is essentially upgrading an asset. It seems to me that people w/ degrees on average earn more. If they on average earn more, their taxes ought to be higher as well. So the student is borrowing money at interest, to upgrade themselves and in turn will also pay the government more money in the long run. Seems like a great deal for the Gov't.
I agree with this comment so much! The negative stigma of "only" doing high school is so harmful. Take welders for instance. It's an honest job, provides a useful and necessary service. If somebody finds welding interesting enough to occupy them and satisfy their career ambitions, it's a smart decision not to go to college. They will contribute to society just as well for their choice.
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> I learnt how compound interest worked long before high school.

Good for you. I don't mean to be unsympathetic either but not everybody has an intuition for numbers.

I know people that have serious problems relating even simple numbers, doing multiplication of anything over two digits (even with the help of pen and paper), you can just forget about compound interest.

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.

I know that to some people the fact that others can't quite handle numbers is a shocking concept but I've seen this on more than one occasion in people that were otherwise functioning just fine and I definitely don't envy their inability to deal with figures.
Nobody is going to miss the logic bug that causes the Linux kernel random number generator to not even try to seed itself.

Well, NetBSD more or less did that twice in a row earlier this year...
I don't believe anyone well versed in technology was really surprised.

I didn't want to believe it initially as the proof seemed questionable at first, but when it did become obvious that PRISM was real, I was less surprised and more saddened.
True about the stack trace, but teleporting around in space is still the same kind of difficulty. You're taking a whole and scattering it around.
Absolutely. We will be outlining our paid support options soon.
Is there anything like this out there already? With good battery life.
The only time that EC2 pricing becomes close to physical equipment is with reserved instances, and in that case, you lose money if you spin those down.

If you want to maintain that flexibility, you can't use reserved and therefore your costs rise proportionally.
I feel down and couldn't get up to type the last one.
I think his point is that he doesn't understand accounting and how complicated it can be so he thinks that if you were deeply involved in the business you should know every facet of every debit and credit.

If he's right I guess I wasted about 300 hours studying for Financial Reporting and Analysis section in the Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) program.
Wait a minute: Why won't it solve any problems??? If universities are funded by the salaries of their graduates, then 1) they have to ensure that graduates have decent earning potential, so bloated programs which are sending students to flooded markets (I'm looking at you Psychology) will have to shrink drastically while engineering, and god forbid, vocational education would grow,
and 2) Colleges will no longer have a magical hat of endless, low interest, risk free (from the college's perspective) debt to draw on from each student. This, and only this, will force them to cut the bloat.

The Oregon program is the only one I know of that both guarantees qualified students can go to college and simultaneously forces the universities to stop endlessly piling bloated expenses onto taxpayer financed debt.

People don't seem to get this: these universities will have a fixed (but growing annually if they properly prepare graduates) cap on their operating expenses, while simultaneously being able to grow their budgets by training students in skills that the market demands.