skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Employer provided 401k plans are great when you receive matching contributions, but otherwise not a very good. They generally have extremely limited investment options. It will be hard to offer general advice applicable to all 401k participants since they will each have a small selection of investment vehicles.

The best advice is to make sure you contribute enough to receive the matching contribution, and then immediately roll the money out into an IRA as soon as you leave the employer. This will allow you access to a much wider range of investment vehicles.
I don't think you had your sarcasm filter turned on there.
It also depends greatly on what you work on. It's not unusual for me to have several towers in various states of disassembly, a few embedded boards, numerous JTAG probes, and a laptop fighting for space around my 2 monitors. In this case, I could definitely use 30 square feet of desk space.
Hey Nathan, many of our customers at Balanced (those that want it) get a designated account manager whom they can call if any of our standard support channels fail them. If that doesn't work feel free to give my cell a ring: (Tucson, AZ area code)-869-1947
Useful information. Do you have an URL for this?
+shelf, search tools, type, Verbatim
Google often ignores quotes. I've had success using "intext:someword" (without quotes) to force Google to only return results that include someword.
Hi everyone, co-author of the paper here. I wanted to clarify the 20% figure. We actually have no way of telling how many, or which reviews are fake. We do not directly observe review fraud, and we clearly spell this out in the paper. The 20% figure represents the percentage of filtered reviews on Yelp. These are reviews that Yelp finds suspicious enough to not publish. Some filtered reviews may be fake, and some might just be false positives. Similarly, Yelp's filter might miss some fake reviews, and end up publishing them. (See http://www.yelp.com/faq#filter_wrong). I hope this makes the distinction between fake and filtered clear.

Our main goal with this paper was to analyze the economic incentives behind review fraud, and for this we used filtered reviews as a proxy for fake reviews. bobf provides a good summary of our key findings so I won't repeat them. For those interested, you can read more here: http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2293164
You can do such a comparison probably in any country worldwide except US. For US in particular the "subsidy" answer is simple - no, you're not getting any subsidies, in mobile comms pricing you're getting ripped off, and noone has any idea on how to fix it.
A company a friend of mine works for does something like this. You have a desk, at your desk is a laptop, monitor, keyboard and mouse. Your desk is yours to personalize and it's in an open area. Want a quiet room? There's a few dedicated working rooms for individuals or small teams, grab your laptop and move there. Work in an office but want the collaborativeness for a bit? Grab your laptop and move to one of the unused desks.

Sure, it involves investing in a space with lots of extra room, but they have been very successful in it so far for the last 5 or so years.
http://www.plainsite.org/api
They're not so much a cost-cutting instrument as a power instrument. Open plan offices let the management see that work is happening. It makes them feel in charge of a vibrant business, and in control of how that business is run.
We've been using it at https://starthq.com for about 6 months and I have to agree. Angular is so hard that even the core committers sometimes struggle to keep it together.

I gave a talk recently on our experience with some tips that may be of interest, here's a link to the slides: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/13_tqIGJYJo7CxLvgZlUQ...

If this comment gets enough upvotes, I can upload a slidecast with the audio as well ;)

On unrelated note: Are there any web apps out there for creating slidecasts apart from Slideshare?
I operate 2 websites that are exact clones of each others, the only difference is the domain. This algorithm change literally shifted %70 of the traffic from one of them to the other one, in a matter of hours.

Edit:

* Links to the websites, I would say almost identical
* Same number of the pages are indexed by google, around ~5 million
* Domains are almost same, no keyword difference
* They both have same pagerank
* Domains are registered together
* Sites are hosted on different ips
* Total traffic sites get is around ~40k/day unique
* By this change, total unique increased by %10
I like the general idea -- many company's 401k options range from slightly sub-optimal to terrible, and helping people make the best of whatever choices they face can be very useful.

On the UI/UX side, the look and feel is very slick, but I'd like to see some deeper tutorial type explanations for things like beta and risk profiles rather than short "help" style definitions.

More fundamentally, it is hard to garner a real understanding of the sites' investment philosophy. That's something I'd really want to know before I send a friend or relative to this sort of website.

For example, although it is clear that the site favors active portfolio management, beyond just re-balancing, what is its take on active versus passively managed underlying funds? Is past performance being used as a predictor of future performance? What is the weight given to fees? What about internal leverage? And so on.
yesterday for the first time I noticed the inline translation e.g. "cat in portuguese" -> gato.

Not sure if it's new.
More and more firms are starting to offer self directed brokerage accounts that you can use within your 401(k) plan.

Also in a 401(k) plan you get to purchase mutual funds at NAV which you cannot do through an IRA.

I don't believe there is a one size fits all ("best advice") solution to personal finances. Though I do agree with making sure you max the matching.
Amazon also says that Settlers of Catan is the number one selling children's musical instrument toy. They don't do everything 100% right.
You can trivially verify it by doing more work (a web request to Stripe) or you could just take the lazy route and trust the data that came with the callback.

I did it the way zrail suggested but laziness typically wins especially if you aren't even aware of the reasons you might want to do it the way zrail suggested.

I'm for making the right way the only way (or at least the default way).
That's not really how things work. Not only is that sanctionable but extremely unethical and would result in diciplinary action if reported.
What stinks about switching jobs is most places don't do a 401k for your first 3-6 months.
Similar. No fancy vacations. No cars. No house. No fancy cloths and only occasional eating out. Only draws are DirecTV, ISP, and phone which I could halve if needed. Put max into 401K, rest of savings in investment fund. Mutual funds are up 71% (yes 71%) YTD. Can easily save that 26K in a year's time, but the reality is when you don't have all the cost sinks of a nuclear family you should save, save, save as that money will grow a ton before you retire over several decades compared to the "shit, I better start investing" thought many people have when they've already gone totally gray.
Just to add to the discussion, intel has a few chips in Tizen. I don't think it will ever succeed in any signifiant way, but it seems they're at least testing the waters.
Rust: which pointer should I use?
Brightscope rates plans based on cost and other attributes, while we provide actionable advice for participants in any plan. The actionable advice is in the form of model portfolios which are updated each quarter (with notifications sent to all subscribers to a particular plan).
Call it FoodStand, let if fill with food vendors in my neighbourhood (preferably those who offer delivery), and I'm all for it.

That would transform PizzaHut from an obnoxious ad ("seller oriented") to a genuinely useful option I would probably use on occasion ("customer oriented").

I dislike intrusive ads (and spending good money on a physical gadget just to be met by "congratulations, and incidentally you've also bought into a lifelong relationship with this pizza vendor" is intrusive).

But I don't mind being told that "newspapers are here, food is over there"; I might even find it useful at some point.

I still think it would be nice if Apple would let me hide the non-deletable apps I don't use: Let me hide the newsstand icon, pop it up again if I ever decide to subcribe to a newspaper.

But the newsstand doesn't grate me the way a permanent link to any particular magazine would. Any particular magazine is unlikely to be my favorite, it might even be one I hate. That doesn't imply that I hate magazines, newsstands, pizza or food in general.
This is very nice as a review of Git, but probably best in that context rather than an initial presentation of the concepts. I really enjoyed the Source Control Made Easy series by Jim Weirich. It presents the same information in an easily digestible, step-by-step approach. Highly recommended for those trying to understand how Git works and how to best make use of it.

http://pragprog.com/screencasts/v-jwsceasy/source-control-ma...
Agree completely wj! Feel free to chat w/me if and when you'd like.
$15,000 in savings
$1,600 a month in costs
Just quit my job so don't know exactly how long it will last
Steve Albini's pitch to Nirvana
Sure, there are always risks with litigation but in general it is not as unpredictable as outsiders think.
Hm right, bidirectional input/output for lightshows and whatnot. We have to be careful not to tread into full peripheral territory - because the whole point of these things is to be covers as well? I guess we'll just have to see what M$ offers and hope it's innovative. Because I have no reason to buy yet another tablet unless there truly is something that makes me excited.
Dude, I am looking too.
Try this: http://www.edis.at/en/server/linux-vserver/iceland/vrs-micro...

Austrian company but they offer hosting in Iceland.
I once tried Malaysia. Bad idead, lot's of spam from Malaysia. Lost 50% of my Email due to blacklisting...
You don't need to bring fuel, assuming there's wood around you to burn.
You weren't talking about the American Government when you said "most Americans" and then went on to basically say that their attitude is disgusting. I didn't confuse anything.
The fact that I can select files to add/commit with checkboxes and permanently check a box that will push every commit is exactly what I want 99% of the time. I know that isn't the "git way", but the "git way" has no value for the kind of projects I work on.
If you're in the Mobile space, cutting out Android 2.x is unacceptable: 33.1%!

(Source: http://developer.android.com/about/dashboards/index.html)
Funny story (at least for me): When I was 13, I wrote a letter to Google to implement this because my mom used to search like this, entire sentences. I also remember I attached an algorithm of how they should do it - rewriting the sentences into separate and useful keywords.
Microsoft wants to scan your JavaScript libraries
4 screens, some testing hardware, printouts, lunch at desk while reading... 30 square feet is reasonable. Not everyone works on Macbook Air.
Looking at Google's Search Operators page,† I see an OR, but no AND. I thought AND'ing was the default.

†https://support.google.com/websearch/answer/136861?hl=en
I'm an engineer with Braintree. This deal will not affect our participation in the Credit Card Portability Standard.
How to walk across a parking lot
Then you might benefit from the advice we provide that takes advantage of the "no commission" ETF lists at the leading brokers (Fidelity, Schwab, E*Trade, TD Ameritrade) to start.

http://www.kivalia.com/blog/

Our advice is applicable in a number of ways.
Turning on Verbatim mode can help. To do this, after you search, go to Search Tools -> All Results -> Verbatim.
You might want to rethink that then; I found one of my reviews filtered once, I have also been a "Yelp Elite" member so I am really unclear what criteria they use for the filtering. I also found some clearly fake reviews for the same place where my review was filtered. It was weird that they filtered my review as well because (I think) it was fairly balanced and mostly positive...
The iPhone 5s’s Fingerprint Scanner Was Hacked, but I’m Not Worried
What also really gets me are employers trying to save money on laptops for knowledge workers (not just programmers, but desk workers in general). They are OK with wasting a week of cumulative time per year because of slow and inadequate hardware, just to save $500 on the purchase price of something that is written off across 3 years. Incredible.

I've been trying to get my own employer to get SSD's for everyone and they're still dragging their feet. It's so frustrating because I know this is costing the business money.
Question for the Valley types:

If I'm Facebook and I want to hire a talented team at a smaller company why would I go though the whole procedure of an acqui-hire?

If I just want the 10 programmers why don't I offer them each a $500k signup bonus ( total $5m ) rather than pay $20m to some VCs and investors for a company and product I'm going to throw away?
This is the advantage of programming over biology: when someone finds a "missing link", they only create two more opportunities to find more missing links. When a programmer fixes a bug, they can introduce an arbitrary number of new bugs.
That is my option after using Searal -

http://searal.wordpress.com/2013/09/26/searal-parallel-searc...
Apple fixes a pair of lock screen bugs with iOS 7.0.2 update
Bioshock Infinite? Starcraft 2? GTA V? Diablo 3? Skyrim? (I'm talking about native ports, not Wine)
Some of those you mentioned are Valve games, and they've been porting the games to Linux because of SteamOS.
I could not agree more. I also have a Brother Laser, and it's been rock solid for years. Inkjets were always a waste of money, ink, and time!
2-3 years worth of living expenses. Should give me plenty of runway to get my business off the ground...
I get a lot of "Showing results for X instead" when searching for model numbers or similar.

Usually you can click "search for {what I actually typed}" but it's still annoying. I liked it when +'s and double-quotes consistently did the same thing every time.

Maybe there is a setting that does this still? I've tried playing with a few settings but have had mixed results / consistency...
All those complaining about Vodaphone S3 coming with a little bookmark which can't be deleted, and still somehow don't find Apple's crapware which can't be uninstalled too bad, two things:
1) That was really only the stock browser. You can very easily install much better browsers and make them the default - Chrome, Firefox, Dolphin browser. Isn't it amazing and unheard of in Apple's world?
2) And, FYI, you can still delete those bookmarks by a small trick, without rooting. http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1707047
Stoves with built-in USB chargers already exist as a commerical product. For example, check out http://www.rei.com/product/846334/biolite-wood-burning-camps...
Not sure why it isn't documented, but you can cycle through chat windows with Ctrl-. and Ctrl-,
If people use your product all day, everyday, and you release the biggest overhaul of your product in 4 years, and nobody notices, is that a good thing, or a bad thing?

How do you know it was the "biggest overhaul"? Google is known to use every moment to hype itself.

Also Google has been doing these changes since 2011 almost monthly. Now sites that sell things or make money have almost given up on "free" traffic from Google, they know it's pay to play (outside Product Search it's not openly pay-to-play but you get the message after a few 70% traffic reducing updates).
s3cmd is battle tested and hasn't had any memory issues for me. (100 buckets, ~40GB each bucket)
One of the best articles on this topic I've seen...pity it sank like a stone as it's pretty much a summary of what's wrong with existing social media.
I haven't used either one, but can anyone who has used both shed some light on how ember.js compares WRT to ease of use / complexity?
Getting git on GoDadddy
anandabits - that's the point of our service! It is specific advice customizable to your specific 401(k) plan. Check out the site to see what I'm talking about.

I've got to agree w/ your last point - it is typically best to move money into an IRA. There are cases however where a larger employer may be able to get lower cost funds than would be available to you in a stand-alone IRA.

What is most important is putting away enough money to maximize any company match you might get.

But you're right, the limited options can be problematic; and that's why we've created Kivalia.
Did I mention changing features (omitting some, changing the navigation to others) and search results (Stack Overflow tends not to show up in local searches in language xyz) ?

And all this with no language/region switch in sight? Except the one inside the account settings, which Google then randomly ignores?

What would you consider to be the appropriate reaction to such a user experience?

Or just imagine clicking on the link at the top of this threat and ending up on a page called "Onze geschiedenis tot in detail", which contains a truly awful, low quality and barely readable Dutch "translation" with no obvious way of accessing the content people are actually discussing here.

Would this put you in a good mood?
There's no reason that a rival company couldn't fake negative reviews though. I'm sure it's common already.
It is surprisingly easy to get nice quiet private office. I charge 40% extra for work in loud open-plan office.
"I'm dying in the snow" hahaha.... Good enough reason, had to comment because it made me laugh right out loud..
I've got a kid. There's a kid in the other house.

I grew up in Manchester NH where housing prices are high in the suburbs where I grew up (that's how I traded a 1200 sq ft house for a 75 acre farm with two houses and a barn the size of an aircraft hangar.)

In a really nice neighborhood in downtown (w/ good access to the freeway as well as a local grocery store 2 blocks away, as well as a dunkin donuts and a great ice cream stand not to mention a municipal pool and a beautiful park with a big pond and hiking trails) my uncle bought a huge 3 story house that was "luxury housing" in 1910, lived on the first floor, put up his mother and sister on the second floor, rented out the third floor to one family since at least 1976, finished 1/3 of the basement and built an addition on the first floor, raised 2 kids.

His property values are "depressed" compared to an array of 2 story colonials that were built in 1998 next to the intersection of Rt 93 and 101 (we measured 80 db noise levels outside.) These houses are made of chipboard (we hit "peak wood" 15 years ago and nobody noticed) and they suffered 90% mortality for the yews planted on the foundations because the idiot contractors didn't know that you're supposed to take the burlap bag off yew plants when you plant them.

But I guess they are expensive because of the liquidity premium that you can sell go get an equally bad house in Texas or Las Vegas or anywhere.
Many people move almost all the stuff they have, for example when they get a good enough relocation amount. Why even waste $50 from your pockets when you already have a good and working printer?
I'm not using git at all, I'm trying to understand how it works before I start. Every guide to git I read before was a completely opaque mess of terminology, so this is the first time it's starting to make a lick of sense.
Oh I know that trust me I do but we dont in normal legal system punish people for the actions of others (not with standing conspiracy which is bloody hard to prove)

This system lends it's self to blackmail "hey ex boss give me 50% of that hold back money you got from the acquisition or I will leave and f&*k you over".

ps Yes I am aware of the "joint enterprise" issue in UK employment law where you can legally fire all of a group of employees if you can prove that one of them did something realy naughty.
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Hard as hell? Nothing to be proud of. Main reason that keeps me from buying into the Angular hype is that apparently even after a year of practice in production, no one knows what the hell is going on.
Whenever my dad and I are looking for a place to eat I pull up Yelp. He grumbles about the possibility of fake reviews, but I tell him that as long as you look at the sample size (n=25 or more is usually safe) then you shouldn't have a problem. I've found amazing restaurants (and many other services) through Yelp that I wouldn't have found otherwise.

Sure, there have been times where I've eaten at a highly-rated restaurant and thought to myself that there must have been some positive review fraud at work. At the end of the day I have tried something new, and I still have my whole life ahead of me to try other things. Nothing is forcing me to go back to said restaurant. And I generally leave a review questioning the merits of the establishment.

The positives of Yelp outweigh the negatives and the NYC regulation is a step in the right direction.
Your post is the epitome of how domain-knowledge trumps idealism.

I look at this and instantly think "Dirt. And water." Dirt and water will destroy their "machine." Whoever conceived it doesn't respect that farming involves dirt. And water.

As you remind us above, THE TRACTOR IS THE ROBOT. The tractor is safe from Dirt and water. Unless this is some desktop thing. Even as a gantry system, their rendering is naive. ISHYGDDT.
Does anyone really go by the star ratings on Yelp? I read the reviews but I don't pay any attention to the overall ratings. One of my favorite places to go is a 2-star, and our local Outback is rated a 5.

Plus with the fact that there's no standard, some people rate everything a 4 or 5 star while others reserve a 5 star for the best places in the area (or even the genre) to eat.
That's very convincing. What then is the advantage of only selectively using SSL, and why are some people recommending it?
Look what love can do
Building Java; rebuilding the JCP
Still kind of shitty - you have to log in to view or download anything. Google scholar is much more useful and open.
I Am Stereoblind, But The Oculus Rift Is My Corrective Lens
If you want an interactive UI and you're on Windows, FFmpeg + VirtualDub is a great solution for doing this.
In my case, I had something like 2,500 saved up before quitting my construction industry related job, moving to Mexico and giving myself 2 months to become a freelance writer. Worked out after all, though it was nerve wracking
And I wouldn't be at all surprised to find out that 20% of Facebook profiles are fake. About 80% of the friend requests I've received over the last year have been from people I don't know; the majority of which are clearly bots.
One of the things that pissed me off about Copy, and in fact made me not want to use them literally 10seconds after I signed up, was they cached referral codes. I first learned about Copy by following someone's referral link, but I didn't sign up at the time. A few days later I decided to sign up so I head over to copy.com and do so. Low and behold, I've someone managed to sign up as a referral despite not following a direct referral link to get there. My account (including personal info) was visible to a random reddit users who I didn't actually know.
What I'm Grateful For
I thought they got rid of the + operator a couple of years ago, recommending instead that you surround the formerly plussed word with quotes or use the Verbatim option under Search Tools.

However, I just tried a search for "anagram +python" and got 67 results vs 139,000 without the plus-sign. Does that mean they quietly restored the operator?
Absurd Portraits from the National Beard & Mustache Championships
What is Sexy?