skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For what it's worth, you're right but not for the reason you expect. Marcus Cole is well known for having grown up in a Pittsburgh housing project (Terrace Village) and having absolutely zero parental support for his college education. He is the type of person who would be the first to be denied a loan if it were possible to do so.

He's also fond of pointing out that medical students started this problem when a number of them declared bankruptcy right as they graduated med school and just before entering lucrative fields.

Source (among others) last page of: http://www.judiciary.senate.gov/pdf/12-3-20ColeTestimony.pdf
If the company I'm working for says "You need to log those X hours as PTO", I give notice

Terminating employment without compromise because they won't let you break the rules sounds cool when you pretend you did it on the Internet, but please don't use this as an employee-employer relations strategy in real life. If you quit because they won't let you count installing cable TV or something as work time, that is almost certainly not the reason why you quit, unless your priorities are very strange.
Indeed, the Finnish market is pretty skewed, as far as I know, it's the only market where Windows Mobile is @ +30% market share for smart phones (because of Nokia loyalty).

It skews the app market too, probably no one outside of Finland cares about Windows Mobile but in Finland supporting it is a big deal.
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Anyone with firsthand access to NFL, MLB, Premier League Soccer(and other pro sports) financial info will attest to the lack of book earnings. see for eg

http://www.wallstreetoasis.com/blog/the-money-leagues-part-2...
Blackberry used to provide hardware-based PIN messaging services. Once the world decided that software was king and that apps trump security it no longer made sense to invest in Blackberry.

Ergo, Blackberry is not a real alternative not from a security perspective but from a usability perspective.

I'm not saying this is correct, only trying to codify the public perception for your benefit.
I agree with what maerF0x0 says (best applicant), but wanted to add, that it's partly a marketing thing, a confidence game. If two equally good applicants present, one with self-esteem issues and one who says, with quiet confidence, "I know I can solve your problems and that you'll be happy with my work," then most people will hire the confident person. We're primates; social signal matter to us.

Also, you should consider whether you're experiencing the Dunning-Kruger effect. The way that people get good is by having high standards and then working to live up to them. As Ira Glass says, "Nobody tells this to people who are beginners, I wish someone told me. All of us who do creative work, we get into it because we have good taste. But there is this gap. For the first couple years you make stuff, it’s just not that good. It’s trying to be good, it has potential, but it’s not. But your taste, the thing that got you into the game, is still killer. And your taste is why your work disappoints you. A lot of people never get past this phase, they quit. Most people I know who do interesting, creative work went through years of this. We know our work doesn’t have this special thing that we want it to have. We all go through this. And if you are just starting out or you are still in this phase, you gotta know its normal and the most important thing you can do is do a lot of work. Put yourself on a deadline so that every week you will finish one story. It is only by going through a volume of work that you will close that gap, and your work will be as good as your ambitions. And I took longer to figure out how to do this than anyone I’ve ever met. It’s gonna take awhile. It’s normal to take awhile. You’ve just gotta fight your way through."

Keep fighting. You'll get better.
All these new OSs to try out and develop for ... has anyone attempted a boot manager for them? I'd love to have a single device rocking all the open-source efforts - Android, FxOS, Tizen, Jolla, Ubuntu. I believe at least some of these have been able to run on various Nexus devices, so should be possible?

I realise multi-booting isn't practical for end-users, but very useful for developers and tech evaluators while the Cambrian explosion of mobile OSs plays out.
At that point, I think that Blackberry is suffering a lot from their now disastrous brand image. It's not that Blackberry isn't a real alternative. It's that most people aren't even considering Blackberry at all anymore.

The feeling I get is that it occurs to very few people that Blackberry could even be an alternative. I doubt that many people would notice if they went under tomorrow.
FWIW I've found that it worked for me just fine as well. Used it up until a few months ago when I transitioned to a Nexus 5.

Hangouts is pretty good too, although a few nitpicks - the emoji icons are ugly as sin (I'm willing to bet that some sort of copyright/patent law is to blame here), and it's gotten a few messages stuck (to be fair I can't say the same thing hasn't happened to iMessage).

Strangely, both Hangouts and iMessage are better than plain SMS though, even with just sending plain text messages back and forth.
Stock photos use models.
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Generally speaking, you can't survive without organs. Generally speaking, you can survive without government.
The income range for the middle 3 quintiles is actually about $20k - $100k.

(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Household_income_in_the_United_...)
Thanks. Mine is being delivered this afternoon; I got the developer edition so that I can root it without fear.
Except that IQs are explicitly made to fit a normal distribution.
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Judging from the current state of quantum computing? For the USG to allocate funds with the expectation of a reasonable chance of success? Billions of dollars.
Example schedule here, with brief descriptions of what the curriculum was in May 2013:

http://rationality.org/schedule/

It's changed some since then; they do regular follow-ups on each participant for six weeks afterward, which lets them measure what works and what doesn't, and iterate based on that.
I think he means that Spotify is a better model for him.
"Germany is no different than France is no different from the US is no different than China etc. etc"

What evidence do you have of this?

I'm highly suspicious of the fact that the German and French governments are spying on their populace as widely as the US government is on its.
(Thanks for the tip, I use Safari at home 90% of the time, I'll look for something like that because that'd be a great improvement.)

Ok, I think I mostly agree with you. I realized in my umpteenth draft that I'd missed an important detail: violence is obviously criminal behavior, authority figures (in particular) should also be held accountable (potentially criminally) for the violence committed by those they are responsible for, specifically in instances where they are able to but neglect to curtail it early on. On this we absolutely agree.

I wasn't intending to restrict my anti-violence position to one of just targeting culture, and some of my earlier replies may have implied that.

In the case of the editorial that started this thread, this is where my "fix the culture" thing really comes into play. Gaming culture (as perceived by the author, I'm so far outside that group that I'm really only familiar with a caricature of it so can't personally comment) is transphobic. But this isn't resulting in real world violence yet (? unless I've missed other articles and reports on the subject, which is possible). My view is this, if a culture tacitly endorses violence but no member has yet committed violence, it's just a matter of time. Some moronic 15 year old is going to decide that he needs to show his peers he's a "big man" and go out and beat the crap out of someone. Or a group of them will. By challenging this culture at this stage we may be able to prevent the violence altogether.

Your approach is sound, and I agree with it, but it's not going to work on its own (IMO). I'll liken this to another problem I once faced. Ants in my family's apartment kitchen, lay down poison and they left. To our neighbor's kitchen. Who laid down poison, and they left. To our kitchen. Only when attacked from both fronts did we drive them out (or perhaps finally killed them, they didn't come back over the next year we lived there).

Violence is like that. It can be somewhat cyclic, moving from real world, physical violence to words and emotional abuse and back again. While your approach may work for curtailing the physical violence (or reducing the number of qualified principals), it doesn't, on its own, deal with the underlying culture that the authority figure either ignored or enabled.

So recognizing that violence can develop from cultures where prejudice and discrimination are considered acceptable, we need to find a way (and yes, this is long term, generations possibly) to change those cultures or discourage their discriminatory attitudes from rising to the level where real physical violence occurs.

TL;DR: Do both. Create real penalties for authorities and leaders who ignore or permit violence. Target the cultures where prejudice and discrimination and violence are tacitly endorsed, but real violence may not yet have occurred, to try and redirect it before real violence breaks out, and not just harsh words in a video game (in this case).
I think it works very well for us at Heroku. I've been here 3 years, and people certainly take enough time off in general. Probably 3-5 weeks for most folks. If they don't take enough time off, their managers are supposed to get on them about it :)

Case in point: our office has been closed for the holidays for the past couple weeks, and I haven't seen evidence of anybody doing any serious work on non-side projects (outside of the unavoidable on call responsibilities). Nobody had to use precious PTO for this or feel bad about traveling overseas to visit relatives.

I'd say it's highly dependent on company culture, though. We were always encouraged by our founders and office managers to take plenty of time off, and they led by example in this way. If that wasn't the case, it might not be working out well for us. I've certainly heard of other companies where it leads to less vacation.
I use Evernote to create todo lists while programming. I name the title todo_[date] or note_[date] that way I can go back to dates in the list and see what I have missed. I see it as simple as gist todo lists but with IMO a better UI for better search/organization.
I didn't realize I might be more than very slightly claustrophobic until I had an MRI recently. I wonder if there might be a greater incidence than most people consider.
Some teachers have a similar deal. One of my best friend's debts will be payed off after she teaches for 5 years in a low income school district.
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Shopify is an awesome company and it's great to see them connecting online and offline commerce. However, I hope they'll explore alternatives to the "race to the bottom" of relying on putting fees on top of already outrageous Credit Card fees, find a way to help customers make payments on ACH, and take smaller and more reasonable fees on top of that.
How did this petition expire so fast?
I'm not sure what it is about this article or business week that attracts so many...interesting comment authors.
Author is still making excuses by writing this article. Vacations are normal for almost other fields. My experience in the tech field leads me to believe they should be mandatory for the "indispensable martyrs" who risk crashing and burning and taking the company down with them.
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You have to understand the place the time this "logic" was applied. America was not brutally attacked twice with a span of couple of decades. America did not loose 30 million people in resource/territorial aggressions. America was not surrounded by technologically and economically advanced nations salivating at its riches.
I agree for most areas of the US. But for someone living with a family in NYC or the Bay Area, I think this would still be middle class. A lot of this comes down to housing and rent costs.
Seems like a fair tradeoff to trade actually owning 8 songs a month for access to millions of songs to me (obviously this is a matter of personal taste). Spotify seems more fair to me than iTunes when it comes to the actual model of the business. With Spotify, the artist is paid according to how much I listen to it, so a song I play constantly is rewarded more than a song that I listen to once or twice. With iTunes, these songs would be rewarded equally. The actual money seen by the artist may tilt towards iTunes currently, but that could just be inertia as the music industry is changing.
Oh, you mean if you live in one of the two highest cost-of-living areas in the country? Give me a break. 100k puts you in the top 5%. If you choose to live somewhere with an astronomical cost of living, that's fine, you might not have much after rent, but you still have the ability to live there. Most of the country couldn't even afford to.
It is a terrible analogy because websites have status codes defined in RFCs.

All analogy is terrible if we're talking about computer access.

The door analogy fails because there are two existing sets of laws covering both sets of circumstances, and how the courts interpret authorized access might have very little to do with what normal people would mean.

By having a website on the public facing Internet with no access controls you are inviting anyone to view that page. You are giving implied consent to view that page. Except that's not how some courts interpret it, so my opinion means very little.
Why exactly would it cost so much?
"Minimum wage really is not built as an independent living wage"

This is exactly what I have always thought which is why I am always surprised to hear outrage about minimum wage jobs that do not provide a living wage yet they seem to think they should...or at least that is what I assume when they propose unions as a "solution".
You should be able to convince yourself that the conclusion is correct by writing a quick script to run a simulation with a million or so iterations. Actually understanding the reasoning intuitively is more challenging, but I think the linked article has a good explanation (the part about how the manner in which we receive information is as important as the information itself): http://scienceblogs.com/evolutionblog/2011/11/08/the-tuesday...
Indeed, we have two of those as well.

Point of interest: To anyone who thinks that they can distract their wife's biological clock with a cat or dog, just don't. You end up with a pet and a child! Or in my case, after the first cat wasn't working, I got a second. Still didn't bloody work! :-)
The gap is even bigger if you consider that most EU countries also have ~2 weeks of fixed statutory holidays that aren't included in the 20 days, while most U.S. companies give only between 0 and 3 "free" fixed holidays (Thanksgiving and Christmas are the most common; sometimes there's a 3rd floating one that can be used for a holiday of the employee's choice, such as Yom Kippur or Good Friday).

So more or less all Europeans get at least 6 weeks off per year. In the wealthier EU countries it's often 7 or 8, if you count both fixed and movable vacation (e.g. the legal minimum in Denmark is 5 weeks movable + 9 fixed days).
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If you're a contractor who is working in 3-6 months contracts...

This is not the situation glesica was describing:

...can't afford to be without health insurance for two weeks every few months...can't justify paying for private health insurance when their employer forces them to accept its own coverage (and won't give them the cash equivalent).

Either you are part of the individual market (in which case your vacation doesn't affect your coverage) or the employer market. In either case, you can do exactly as cookiecaper suggested. Glesica's objection is simply wrong.

I have no idea what "economies of scale" you are referring to.
hmm. i agree about the subtle racism of the job-exporting argument. well not that the argument itself is racist, but that it goes hand in hand with xenophobia.

the core problem though is that free trade has created a race to the bottom where american workers' wages will have to drop to meet those of malaysian / mexican / chinese / taiwanese workers, who have a pretty terrible quality of life. we are competing with countries with ingrained caste systems in their cultures, countries that completely accept treating some people like dirt.

the basic tenet of real life is that people have to get jobs to survive, it's not a voluntary choice. yes, the transaction of paying a sweatshop worker $1/day for stapling fabric to a chair will make that worker happier than he would be with $0, but one party is clearly coming out much better in this scenario. when the best deal you can get is based on exploiting a human being, imo, it is not OK to look for the best deal you can get. not moral, at least. we can have capitalism, a robust economy for business, and treat workers ethically as well.
>>I've managed to open a lot of unlocked doors

Me too! My success rate is over 90% for unlocked doors. Locked ones are harder.

;)
Yes, we are gorgeous.
It works fine on iPhone, but the client for Desktop Mac has had all sorts of weird problems.
>>>Previous history has no effect on future outcomes. A fair coin could come up heads a billion times in a row as well. The next flip will still be 0.5.

You hit the nail on the head here - a fair coin would. But if there are unfair coins, things start to change. If we know there's an unfair coin, and we see an unusual run, we should consider that it may be that coin.

Think of this: increase the flips to 1000, and you're still getting heads each time. Would you bet on the next being heads or tails?
The Hyperloop, if it were possible, would have about three times the current capacity of the Acela.

At an 80min round trip running 20hr a day that's 15 trips per pod per day. So we have 40x28x15 = 16,800 daily round trips.

The Acela holds 360 people per train with 16 round trips per day. That's 360x16 = 5,760 daily round trips.

A high-speed system with dedicated track could run more often, and you could use longer trains than the Acela does, so the potential maximum bandwidth of high-speed rail is higher. But 16,800 daily round trips is large enough to be taken seriously.

(Why do I say "if it were possible"? http://pedestrianobservations.wordpress.com/2013/08/13/loopy... )
> But, yeah, why learn how to build something when you can just consume...

Let's not be so condescending. The tablet won't be an out-of-the-box solution; you'll still have to (a) either hack something out on Android, or (b) use a JS+HTML5-based solution. So you are building something, just not in the way the OP did.
Most British corporate shops, and startups also, transplanted to the US would have everyone headed to HR for sexual harassment training and hurt feelings lawsuits.
I don't want a BIGGER iPhone, I want a SMALLER one. Am I the only person that doesn't need a semi-tablet? I miss the days of the old tiny flip phones.
> Corporations have a fiduciary responsibility to get as much work out of employees for as little compensation as is practical.

Only in the current backwards mindset that your employees are an expense.

Properly managed people are capable of amazing things, and can be turned into an asset easily.

In theory the prevalence of white collar work should make this easier, but the stock market has turned everyone into thinking of just the next quarter. And honestly you will never get a raise out of an employee in the first quarter.
Isn't the Jolla UI and parts of the userland closed-source? If that's the case how can one be use the OS is free from "surveillance"? This also doesn't take in account the privacy issues about what the baseband firmware contains.
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As a programmer who feels I should spend at least some of my life in silicon valley, this is the primary reason I don't. American employment law is frankly barbarian.
Heh, and here I was wondering what the style had to do with climbing ropework. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M%C3%BCnter_hitch
A la Minority Report?
What form are you seeing this Stigma, because in all my jobs I have never felt this at all? And two of those jobs I have vacations organized before I joined, and at one place I was there for one week before leaving for 3 weeks. Never felt any stigma at all?
> you get 8% of your yearly gross income as "vacation money" in the month of May.

I dislike this type of policy, which essentially acts to obfuscate your true gross income.

"Oh, you understood that we would add vacation money? We included vacation money in the quoted income, sorry."

I'm not in the Netherlands but I've been in this situation and had to take frustrating legal action (which, under new legislation, I would now have to pay for).
What sorts of questions or tests were posed to you in interviews for jobs you ended up accepting? Or if you've never been in that situation, can you propose some interview techniques that would give the interviewer a good idea of your abilities?
Very cool, indeed. Great for sellers that would like to take orders on a tradeshow floor, etc. without having the product stock on hand.
Right now there's a HUGE shortage of skilled labor in this country

Maybe if they paid more than unskilled labour, they'd fill those posts.

www.nytimes.com/2012/11/25/magazine/skills-dont-pay-the-bills.html
I know next to nothing about quantum computing, is such a thing even possible with the current state of QC + billions of dollars?

Does the current state of quantum computing excite or keep security researchers awake at night?
Because it involves a result that would be new to computer science and electrical engineering?
Unless you live in a city, I'd put lower-middle somewhere around 45k-90k per household. The kind of range where buying and maintaining one or two slightly used cars isn't a big deal, and the idea of choosing between rent and groceries is alien.

Middle-middle probably kicks in when buying a nice new car every few years isn't a big deal, and your kids all have college funds started.

Upper-middle kicks in when buying a nice german car every few years is assumed, and you plan on paying your kids college tuition without much thought.
Yes, that's the model I mean.

Sorry if it's not working for the other side (I have no idea since I am the consumer, not the producer), but its clearly (to me) an easier to use system than "purchasing" music:

1. I don't need to worry about "backing up" my purchases or buying increasingly bigger hard drives to store content that I am usually only using ~1% of (which while arguably not a problem in desktop land, is certainly an issue in mobile land). iTunes match was kind of too little too late to finally solve this issue (And on a recurring fee ends up defeating the purpose of the whole "own your music" trope). Not to mention the absurdity and waste of millions of people keeping the same data over and over again.

2. Discovery is greatly facilitated when the friction of a purchase is removed. iTunes Radio, et al don't come close to just seeing a friend listening to something, trying it, listening to it on repeat 10 times, then deciding to listen to more from that artist.

3. If I'm not at my computer I can still log into Spotify website and listen to "my music" no matter where I am.

4. I can send songs to my friends without paying for them again.

Go watch some young kids. They go to YouTube for their music. Whether you like it or not this is the model of the future.
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The apropos book is Steven Pinker's The Stuff of Thought. [0]

(language <~~> culture) ~~> world-view ~~> intention ~~> behavior ~~> result.

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