skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Or $0, if the sheepskin, corrected homework and grades won't matter. Audit classes at the large institution of your choice means just sitting in on whatever lectures you like. In big lecture halls, even with attendance, it's really quite simple to go unnoticed. Interactive classes JD/MBA might get dicey, but otherwise the worst that can happen is you get thrown out. BFD.

Also, Coursera, Udacity, OCW, Kahn and iTunes

Pluses of going legit:

- dorm life is a unique experience unlike any other, worth it just for that
- parties
- according to Thomas J. Stanley, college is by far the best place to meet a quality spouse
- monetize pizza [0]
- pedigree if it's a big name or hipster elite school
- paid internships
- hustle yourself into a paid ugrad research assistant gig
- connections
- meet potential cofounders

Hazards:

- alcohol spending
- textbook costs (buy used and sell them back)
- dorm food -> "freshman 30"
- all-nighters
- unpaid internships
- min wage jobs on campus

[0] http://m.reviewjournal.com/business/economy/better-slice-hsi...
It certainly comes to no surprise to anybody that a company as large as Google will have mixups in their hiring/recruiting process.

Often one arm of the organization does not know what the other is doing, although I am sure Google is constantly trying to improve their internal communications in order to prevent exactly this.

As for your point about the black list... I would say it would likely be closer to a note that has been placed in your recruiting profile instead.
> How you can help:

> Programmer? I want to buy you a drink!

> Especially if you don't work at night

My brain seems to prefer the afternoon, and as I've gotten older I can't work much at night anymore. After my brain has been fully engaged in a problem for hours at night it can be really difficult to shut it off and go to sleep, even if I'm exhausted.
Universities are like any large organization, mission drift occurs and keeping your customers happy can means offering non-core services in a bundle.

I think the real trouble is that college is still awesome for people who can afford it. It's like anything in capitalism, whatever the people who can pay want is what happens. I read an article awhile back that discussed how one of the private schools in NYC was building new luxury student housing and sending limos to pick students up from the airport, that's about as far from these recommendations as you can get.

The point is that change isn't going to come from the elite schools, not real change. They may offer online programs and such, just dabbling really, but they have no trouble attracting wealthy students and donors, so they have no real incentive to radically change what they are doing. At best, they may tack on some extra programs under different names that just further cement the inequality in education we have in the US.

So, change needs to come from the bottom, from the small state schools and community colleges whose students are struggling to fund their educations. But state schools are on strict budgets, and small ones have small endowments. So real change won't come from there either because those institutions can't afford to make such radical changes, they literally don't have enough money. All they can do in many cases is what they've been doing in the past until they can't do that any more and then they can close up shop.

Either way, I personally have a pretty bleak view of the future of higher education in the US.
100k-ish stock vesting over 4 years is pretty standard among the big SV companies for new grads. It can be a lot more though if you're not a new graduate.
Problem is that the formula you really want is usually productivity per dollar and long-term productivity over time.

You can try to optimize both, but the problem with labor is that productivity per hour is not a constant. Even manual labor may see diminishing returns when working lots of overtime. In fact with manual labor the diminishing returns are often fairly easy to measure. With programming, it's much harder to predict.
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I want to work on something I care about. It doesn't have to make the world a better place in general, it can be "I want to make this system faster at processing 'X'" or "I want to make things easier for the customer". Just something I can believe in or strive towards. In the grand scheme of things it can be really insignificant.

However if at least twice a month I'm asked to change the way the calendar on a page looks, I'm going to get tired of it real fast. It becomes clear that it's just wasted effort and a lack of planning. When it seems like all your effort is being ignored, unnecessary, or thrown away it just kills motivation.

The system I spend most of my time on right now is mostly, if you boil it down, some simple record keeping for insurance customers. It's usually not very sexy. But while working on it there have been scaling challenges, using external services like S3 or Zencoder to give users new functionality, and other complexities. There is usually something I want to sink my teeth into, and that's something that keeps me working on it. If it was an ultra-simple CRUD app that never had any additional features, I don't know how long I would want to work on it.
Is there an actively developed web framework for Rust, kind of like Revel for Go?

I have a toy web project I'm starting. Would love to play with Rust.
I never got the whole scholarship thing.
All of the websites that advertise them sound like scams.

I'd prefer to get an online bachelor's degree if they existed.
God bless you, Michael Eisen. May the force be with you
Income tax is around 30-35% depending on income. There's a 15% GST applied at point of purchase, so you don't really notice it, and if you're a business it can be claimed back.

The NZ Government provides free student allowance (a few hundred dollars per week living allowance for your first 4? years of tertiary education, means-tested against your parents' income, not paid back) as well as interest-free student loans (for as long as you stay within the country).
Sure, they can deprive the idea of state funding, and discriminate against it in credential-centric systems.

But ultimately, if you can manage a nearly-as-good (or in some cases, better) education, for $10K true out-of-pocket cost rather than $200K+, then eventually a lot more people will complete, and be loyal to, the $10K system than the legacy $200K+ one.
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> Several people within have tried to get me considered for those positions only to get shut down by HR without so much as a phone screen.

Well, I rather think that verifies my criticism of dewitt.
Google released hummingbird, and it is cool for structured data, but what about unstructured data? That's where http://samuru.com is looking to change the way people search.

We read a tech crunch article that said humming bird was going to answer all our questions using NLP. It didn't seem to do that, so we said, "let's take the afternoon and put the ability to answer questions in to our search engine."

We did that. Here is the slightly unpolished Alpha of the feature.

Ask some questions like:
Why are kittens cute

Why are barns red

Why are gas prices so expensive

Should I buy a house

It won't answer everything, but it will answer a lot.
plus getting 90% of the exit money while the employees who built the company get to split 10% 200 ways (all of the non-funding allotments).
Hahaha come on, just what do you think a blacklist is?
Microsoft building a single app store for the next Windows
Besides all that, he is not dealing with the collected data itself. But with analysis from non-government-employees, done on that data.

If it is the data, or those people had access to things that are not public yet, then all this discussion is moot and he is right. I'd even sue them for my 2.5 for each article.
But if the arrows only point east to west, how did the pilots make the return trip?

;)
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> good developers

I'm sure plenty of people feel passionately about something, but I don't see how that makes them "good" in any technical sense.

The Spocks will always be a better developer than McCoys.

The best developers I've ever known move around a lot, or work at places like Goldman Sachs. They have a clique, and it's well above any loyalty to some hip corporate mission statement.
What is your conceptualization for 1 key being better than 3 in this context?
I've decided that this expectation is a sign that the founders are sociopaths. So far, I've been right.
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Not yet. As chrismorgan points out above, the http library is still being developed, once it's more stable, web frameworks can be built on top of that.
I work at a National Lab, and all my publications are available for free. However, that's not done through the website of the publishing journal, it's done through my Lab's portal.

The main requirement journals have is that we don't distribute the journal's marked-up final version. So we make them available as "Lab Reports" with our own typesetting, front cover, and so on.
Free pick up and paid delivery?

That's a good incentive to declutter your life.
How difficult is it to switch teams? It seems ridiculous that Google would invest so much time and energy finding bright engineers and then let them go somewhere else because they're bored with what they're working on.
$10K Isn't too far off from what tuition for my EE degree cost in the late 80's. Even adjusted for real inflation it shouldn't be a penny more than $20K, possibly as low as about $15K today. That was of course at a state school.

The somewhat counter-intuitive answer is that easy money has increased the price of education, in this case easy borrowing.

The same phenomenon is responsible for almost all bubbles in modern history. Interest rates dropped and qualification criteria got loose and house prices tripled in some areas, also rising in almost all. VC's got sloppy and we had the dot-com bubble.

The serious problem facing America today is that easy money is already flowing yet this bubble is also called "barely getting by as a nation."
I admit, there are places where my post may have struck some chords with those have been following recent events in the area of privacy and transparency.

However from the perspective of someone who has worked in something like investment banking, I stand by my comment that Google's approach to transparency (at least internally) is headed in the right direction.
We're not shooting for bulletproof security, at this time, as there is no personal info here. If we were, we'd probably be hiding the model portfolios behind the firewall as well.

That said, we would like those who find the information of value to sign up so we can update them as the models change.
Looks like it thinks my iOS chrome is safari. The demo does not look at all like a chrome Internet connection error screen
I've got absolutely no data to support this, so make no mistake that this is anything other than the wildest speculation:

The feeling that's "in the air" is that what's really happened is buildup of too much management in the school systems. There seem to be far more "managers" per professor than there were before, and those managers are being paid far to much, especially in comparison to the professors doing the actual teaching.

It's pretty classic: most large-ish universities have marketing departments (or hire marketing departments), large non-educational functions and services that take up tremendous man power, overly large "cultural" aspects like sports, and many more.

The cost of educating hasn't really changed, but that's not what most universities are focused on doing anymore.
Taking it further, do you first two years at a community college then transfer 100% of your credits to the local state school and start there as a Junior.
No, I swear, it really is a meritocracy.
While the name is not really intuitive, the site is amazing, the realtime walkthrough swf is fantastic, the idea is derivative but great -- something I wish I had thought of starting myself, I noticed the random banners (they're amazing).

I'm a little late with the compliments (as it seems you guys are well on your way, but I love the site), but wanted to say something
Having actually worked on vCenter, I can tell you that it is at best adequate for what it does, but the code is amongst the shittiest I have ever worked on.
Why Eric Schmidt is wrong about college
Holy mother of generalization! There are literally tens of thousands of Googlers and the author made it seem like they are all the same.

Disclaimer: I currently work for Google and I like a lot of the things here. The company culture that you see every day really is refreshing and encouraging, but deep down, we are individual human beings with different motivations and drives and want different things. There are many people who join and leave Google every day, an considering the size of the company, I can guarantee that not everyone works on those "moonshot" problems every day either.

Google is a fantastic company, but using a 3 months experience to generalize the entire workforce and culture of a company this size is a bit ambitious.
Absolutely. Another thing is the "rock stars" these companies are looking for would never work at a Fortune 1000 company doing CRUD applications on an old, poorly-written code base in class B office space. They're not finding the candidates they're looking for because those candidates would never apply there.
Why are toothbrushes and Lego bricks so expensive?
Wow is 30 older? I'm 29, so that means I'm older too? I thought I was just a regular age.
If XIV had been around in 2008 it would have taken a sickening drawdown but it would have bounced back much faster than stocks did.

It's not "picking up nickles in front of a steamroller" because there isn't any steamroller, unless you are using leverage. If you're using leverage or having to deal with anxious customers, it isn't for you.

The tracking error is in your favor because of contango, and that's the reason I invest in XIV, not because I think the VIX will go down. Ought of all the inverse volatility products I picked XIV because it profits from contango the best.

Also the cost isn't bad because the trading they are doing is simple and mechanical, it's the kind of thing I could do myself (and might do slightly differently) if I was working on a scale where trading costs were not so bad.

The phenomenon that implied volatility exceeds realized volatility is a force that is as strong, or stronger, as the force you harvest with beta. If they threw Rupert Murdoch in jail for sedition against the human race and outlawed "news" as we know it, that might change, but as long as people are hearing "sell in may and go away on CNBC", XIV is going to keep going up.

The one thing I worry about is that VelocityShares might blow up or that expanding volumes of volatility trading might cause a discontinuity in the options market. So long as XIV doesn't blow up, it is going to make money in the long term.
Most schools have lists of scholarships that are applicable to the school. No need to go to third party websites.
I've found that the smallest classes at my school have also been the most rewarding.

Sure you could sit in every day on my morning Thermo lecture and go unnoticed, but I've learned very little in that class that I couldn't already get out of an excellent textbook.

On the other hand Pharmacokinetics meets once a week in the professor's office. He also happens to be one of the leaders of the field. For two hours a week we get to discuss complex pharmacokinetic practices, ask open ended questions and, as he would say "learn how to learn". Museum Display Theory also meets once a week off campus with the head curator of the city art museum and today we discussed Foucault's Panopticon as it relates to museum curation.

These are things worth paying for, or as in my case, working hard enough to get financial aid for.
Low fees are clearly better than higher fees, but you probably won't be able to build a very diversified portfolio based on selecting investments based solely on fees. For example,international investments will always be more expensive than domestic, small caps will be pricier than large, etc.

If you're selecting lowest fee fund within specific classes, that will probably serve you relatively well...of course then you need to weight the fund classes. How do you handle that decision?
Didn't qualcomm started with a non-functional product and after making the sales, worked as a broker for nortel equipment?

besides that almost gossip, i never dealt with qualcomm. So i couldn't say anything about their quality.

What did surprised me on that article was ARM. always thought they had very good people and products.
How long has Google Voice provided free voicemail transcription to anyone who signs up for it?
Should Jack Dorsey and PayPal Worry About Clinkle?
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Now that's a position I would envy: busting your ass working 80 hours a week developing world-changing products ("WordPress plugins and iPhone apps like Santa Strike") so that somebody else, who doesn't respect you as an employee, can get rich off your effort (while they spend their time browsing HN).

> "I want people that think about the product even when they aren't in the office."

God forbid your employees have a social life, hobbies, or side-projects. Enriching some sociopath by building "santa strike" apps is a cause worth sacrificing everything for, right?
I find that post you linked disgusting. Now I see why we need laws for things I feel are obvious. I feel like that person should be reported to the authorities or something. Not hiring people because they refuse to regularly work over 40hrs/week should be illegal. I mean, sure I understand crunch time as release-to-production draws near. I have slept in my cubicle overnight before to make sure a critical production-change went smoothly, but that's my choice when I deem it necessary or a manager I respect is in a tough-spot and would really like me to help him/her out. In what world does any manager think they can demand >40hrs/week from me on regular basis? Unless I own a significant part of the company, I'm just an employee and as such >40hrs/week for a regular employee is an indication of a problem.
Well, I hope this doesn't come back and bite me too badly :l

I've mirrored the files here in case the original author decides to take them down:

http://lelandbatey.com/science/
How I plan on getting a bachelor's degree for ~15k.

1. Go to a community college in a county that you are a resident for your two-year associates. The money I'm getting from Pell grants is paying my 18-credit hours per semester tuition right now (Roughly $120 per credit hour tuition). Books on top of that are costing me about 300 a semester (buy cheap old editions as much as possible). I've gotten scholarship money to cover that, and I'll also get Tax credit money.

2. Transfer to an in-state 4-year public university. Tuition rates will double for me during this transition, but YMMV (I'm in Maryland FYI). The hike in tuition will cost me about 7k a year for two years. Hence ~15k out of pocket for a degree.

Moral of the story: If you really want a premier education where you will be learning from those on the forefront of research, by all means spend 100k at an elite private college. If you want to be part of academia or research projects this is probably the route you have to take.

If instead you know what career you are going into and you have a desire to learn those skills on your own, then go the cheap route and just get the piece of paper to prove to HR you are worthy of a job.

*Obviously some careers might not fit this model, but I'd guess most people throwing money away at private universities could go this route with the same basic outcome.
Really? Last I heard, the NY Times was the largest in the US, and its readership was declining.
The best developers I've ever known move around a lot, or work at places like Goldman Sachs. They have a clique, and it's well above any loyalty to some hip corporate mission statement.

Exactly. They care more about keeping their skills sharp than "change the world" mission statements, so they'd rather do machine learning at a hedge fund than grunt work for some 23-year-old kid whose family connections bought funding.

They start thinking about the big-picture passion stuff when they're owners. Before that point, it's not relevant. You care more about growing your skill set and doing good work for (and mentoring) the people around you.
In addition to gaming competitors, there are unreasonable customers who can't be trusted. So, technically, the review is from an actual customer, but still cannot be relied upon.

And, the problem is compounded by the fact that more people are apt to write a review if they have a negative experience. This can really skew the results in a negative direction.

The whole paradigm of reviews as they are currently implemented is just plain broken.
What multi-touch screens looked like 7 years ago (2006)
Microsoft (my employer) at least doesn't really have this problem. First, we hire from a broader talent base so we usually have talent for teams that aren't as sexy as others. Second, you interview to the team you will be working with, even if it is an internal transfer. This is bi-directional: they aren't just interviewing you, you are interviewing them. Perhaps Google simply needs to make the interviewing more bi-directional at the project/team level to fix the problem. From what I understand, right now allocation works only in one directly: teams bid for the new employee, but the employee doesn't get to bid on the teams!
Efficiency is not lines of code produced, it's the experience to choose the right technologies and approach the first time: when to choose a stable, behind-the-curve technology and when to take a calculated risk; when to do something that's good enough and when to do spend more time to make it robust.
From first hand experience in 5 mechanic shops in socal, i can say that 100% of the reviews are fake. On all 5 shops i heard the same thing.

"If you give us 5 star on yelp i can give you $100 (3. 2 others offered 50) check back after your check/CC pass through"
Brazil World Cup workers 'face slave-like conditions'
The SF office is the bomb.
or just federally cap tuition fees
For sure. Most people get ripped off on general electives at big brand schools.

Caltech has/had pretty awesome staff/student ratio.
It looked obvious back then that touch screens would disrupt man-machine interaction. I can't help myself but see similarities between what Apple did in 2007 with the iPhone and in the early 80s with the Xerox PARC/Mac.
>The entire interview process is geared towards company's establishing their dominance in the relationship from the get-go.
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Following the lead of the article, I searched for "nutritional benefits of olive oil vs canola oil" and all I got was a bunch of links (as expected). No new fancy "within-google" nutritional table.
So I guess the version number is not intended to give any hint about how close Rust is to being frozen.
Did they get funded by our taxes? Were they given the funds specifically to further scientific research?
That is correct. Please see my comment here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6454497
How Linux Owns the Internet
I'm thinking each individual boom arm can carry multiple robots. So you can service the entire radius faster.

As for robots with wheels, I was thinking about doing away with the gantries all together. Just let the robots move through the area themselves.

I understand better your gesture recognition method. It might make RSIs go away if the robot picked what the human pointed at. =)

And, yes, except in very few cases, greenhouses don't make sense. Someday...