skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've have the opposite opinion. I have found that space is a premium, even if I'm using 20gb for my VM's that's still a small portion of my Mac's SSD.

The biggest issue we had with Browserstack (and the like) was that it required us to tunnel through our proxy. Whilst I appreciate this simplifies testing localhosts, it made us all a bit nervous. Not to mention Browserstack's recent breach.

A VM is a small price to pay for an insulated and customisable testing environment. Plus some sites have the nice habit of badly crashing early IE versions, and recovery from that is quick on a VM.

Not to mention, with IE VM's we can install additional browsers (to enjoy the rendering differences in Windows and Mac Firefox versions). We can also customise IE to reflect the client's environments (for intranets or POS systems, etc). Pretty handy.
Sucking CO2 out of the atmosphere to create carbon nanofibers
a complete WebGL and Typescript engine and the final game

This is Dart, not TypeScript, thanks for the link.
Who are "the people"? Probably 90% of the country never gave a shit about SOPA. Politicians weren't going to fundraising rallies in Iowa and having soccer moms and dads come up to them to talk their ears off about SOPA. From the perspective of a politician it's not "the people" versus "corporate lobbyists" it's "random public interest group" versus "representatives of big companies that create jobs."

And that's totally rational and democratic. A random public interest group may or may not represent an opinion that's broadly shared amongst the public and important enough "to the people" to get any votes. But everyone cares about jobs, and if a job-creating industry leader like Google says something is a good idea, then maybe it's one that'll create jobs and get you some votes.
Been there, done that, found much better ideas, tested them out, and much more.

I started in such things via artificial
intelligence at IBM and gave a paper on
the work at an AAAI IAAI conference at
Stanford.

Later I took a different approach:

Sure, we want:

(1) To exploit data on several variables,
jointly, easily seen as much more powerful
than processing the variables one at a
time. Processing the variables one at a
time usually means that the geometrical
region where do not raise an alarm has to
be a box, just a box, with edges parallel
to the coordinate axes. Bummer.

My work does great even if the region
where we raise an alarm is a fractal,
e.g., the Mandelbrot set or its
complement, yes, in two dimensions or 20
or more.

(2) To be able to select and set false
alarm rate and get that rate exactly.

(3) Know the 'severity' of a detection,
say, the lowest false alarm rate for which
would still have a detection.

(4) Do well on detection rate -- clearly
we can't do as well as in the best
possible Neyman-Pearson result, but still
there is a powerful sense in which we can
be the best.

For the above, I worked out how and wrote
the code.

I tested the technology and code on some
data from a cluster of servers at a large,
famous company. My work performed just as
predicted.
"If you work really hard, you should be able to produce a baby in only three months!"
UK to reopen embassy in Tehran after four years
Universal Basic Income as the Social Vaccine of the 21st Century
They've been doing this for at least 5 years now.
Awhile ago there was some major app, I think Facebook, that updated its Android version, and everyone freaked out because the new version required a seemingly-outrageous level of access. Some kind soul went down the whole list and explained by everything it requested was critical to the functionality of the app, and I seem to recall one of those explanations involving access to local files.

Also, people need to take a step back and look at these privacy notices for what they really are: legal liability waivers. When Spotify says they are allowed to give your data to third parties, they are not saying "we are selling your data to third party marketers as we speak." They're saying, "if this data ends up in the hands of someone other than Spotify, you cannot sue us." That's it.
According to a study (don't have a link unfortunately), 56% of Danes say they would continue working their current jobs if then won millions on the lottery. In a society like that, basic income may very well work.
Just yesterday I was explaining how I did projects to satisfy bank examiners for a prior employer. The bank examiners would ask us to do work that would, under normal conditions, take a year, and to do that work in 3 months. I got great feedback by the examiners on the solutions provided. Better comments than most of my peers were getting. But the next day my boss would give me another one of these 80 hr / week problems to solve. Not even a day to breath again. Darn.

So I left to work in Higher Education where people complain about the workload and I just laugh. 40 hr work weeks, fun people to work with, and only a few crazy schedules. We even have time to have a cup of coffee and chat.

My health has improved dramatically, my kids actually now think I'm a good dad and my wife and I have time for each other.

I got my life back. took a big pay cut, never looked back. Life is too short to over commit for someone else.
The speech is actually interesting, you can see that they put emphasis on perpetual motion for balancing the robot. That's what makes their robots' motion look so "biological" i think, as opposed to others which look like they're trying to compute the next perfect move.

Just as if their robots was doing "just move, and try to correct with another move if the last one wasn't perfect". The name of the company reflects this.

At least that's what i guessed from the speech, i'm not an expert, so correct me if i'm wrong.
YouTube og: image? wtf
Any countries or companies in particular?
I don't question the possibility to test IE (under the limits they present).

The strange (or interesting) part is this "even if it prompts you to do so" not that they don't give you the license. You get the software that tells you something and you're not allowed to click what it tells you.

It suggests that the activation software, both client and server side, can't even be adjusted to manage the use cases intended by the release we discuss. What appears to be a software configuration problem (part of which is the 90 day expiration they give) is solved by the license (as in "you are not licensed").
Come on - that's kinda missing the point.

It's not like they were gonna go buy some mil-spec or space-rated GoPro, then lift it right out of earth's gravity well and schlep it 150 odd million miles to Mars just so they could get some selfies.

This is a _brilliant_ hack using all existing equipment in ways it wasn't designed for, but turns out it's quite good at given the constraints.
Right, but like I said, if this is to be implemented correctly your BI has to be high enough to replace existing welfare programs. One of the benefits is that you eliminate the overhead of maintaining said programs and just cut everyone a check.

You need to look at this in the "end game" scenario, which is, we need BI because there will be so much automation that hardly anyone needs to work anymore. You're not going to sell this to the poor by telling them that they're now unemployable and their BI is going to be less than their previous income + food stamps + housing subsidy + etc. So right off the bat, yeah, the BI floor needs to be the cash value of a person with full welfare benefits. And that's a lot more than $12K.

You're also discounting the inevitability that politicians will promise bumps to the BI for votes, people protesting that they can't afford to live in Manhattan on their BI, etc. It will quickly reach a point that even skilled workers will say "F this" and join the ranks of the unemployed.
Needs to support multiple image types (webp) to really be a better library.
Nobody who knows dang or follows his comments would think this is true.
Damn, never thought 50k was that good for UK to be honest. Always thought it was an ok one.

But even using 26.5k (average), we are at close to 30% on taxes on income alone) http://www.listentotaxman.com/26500?
Cool! Also, great work on Typeset! https://github.com/davidmerfield/typeset
Even if you're just 10% productive that last hour, that's still more work than someone who clocked out at 79 hours.

Not saying that everybody should work 80 hours, just that this whole 'working more than 50 hours is less productive than working 40' is one of those extraordinary claims that require extraordinary evidence.

Because looking at the empirical evidence, it's the companies where people work long, hard hours are the successful ones, and not just in software... Try walking into a Cravath partner meeting, or John Hopkin's neurosurgery ward, and propose people go home after 40 because it would make them 'better' - you'd get laughed out of the room, is where I'd put my money.
You are assuming a 5-6 day work week. It's closer to 12-14 hours a day everyday.

I am also not writing code - which I think people just assume is the case. My role as founder is super varied, so in any given day I will do a meeting or two with investors, calls with the CTO, hangout meetings, design sessions, "brainstorming" or whatever you want to call a creative process, recruiting, reading industry news, reviewing financial statements, calls with customers, customer support emails, building presentations etc... I spread this out from about 830 AM to 1 AM with most of the work from 830AM - 5PM Break for dinner and family time from 5 - 830/9 then do some of the lighter work again from 9PM - 1 AM.

That works for me and my family. I have worked in much more stressful environments and can tell you for a fact that there is no dip in productivity - if anything, working less makes me antsy.
You can live a rich and varied life without spending much money.
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How many YC start ups are so successful that the founders can retire after 4 years? Hardly any. PGs trying to dupe us.
Hmmm... I just took a look at the app. It is not bad. Contrariwise, there's nothing extraordinary, either.

Looking at the comments, I saw one complaint about the notification alarm, which is always the phone, not the app, and one asking for a note field.

Seems to me there's a note field now, and the app generates a notification at the set time - I'm on lollipop and it sounded just like my other notifications as I expected.

IMHO, the reason is that like myself, people searching for task specific utility applications install handfuls of them to try them out and see what features they offer.

Take that behavior into account and go forth!

I like your app. I may not keep it since I don't actually need one, though. But it's not hurting anything and it can live there until I need space.

Edit: DotNick: It's 9am and my 10am reminder just soudned off....
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Yeah because ibanking is an hourly job rollseyes
Dungeons and Dragons is booming online, but not in the way you think
It's an investment bank. It's not "work" in the sense of any of the hourly paid jobs; it's a form of highly sophisticated emotional labour that is dealmaking for very large amounts of money. In this kind of environment, it's very important to show "commitment", in the emotional sense, by being there. What the person is actually doing is irrelevant, it matters only that they're foregoing whatever else they could be doing with their life in order to make this deal.
I bet Jony Ive & Co. consider that "unnecessary ornamentation".
All NoSQL is webscale, that's why it was invented after all....
Ha, maybe but doubtful. I have been in those situations where it is very clear that productivity has dropped but people are still working and I can tell you that they make me mad. I hate wasting time, so that's really what drives my work - that my time is best used when put to something creative/productive rather than un-engaging.
When I have had a host screw me over in a major city where finding accommodation in a peak time is incredibly difficult, I've complained to Airbnb very persistently and aggressively, and they've compensated me.
Yes. This will be great update.
I don't think you mean skeuomorphism, but the point is valid. There should be some sort of action indication. It's really pretty bad design.
I am living in Germany and I think that either way you will have good opportunities if you really develop a strong skill set in that field. But if you "hate" frontend" work and are frequently bored in web dev I would say that customers and contractors are often looking for a "complete package" for developing smaller short-term projects.
> Then I moved to Europe and boy what a change! People here work 32-40 hours max and take bucket loads of vacation.

Let me guess: you didn't move to the UK? Generalising about Europe is difficult.

I know people on a 42.5 hour contract, 1/2 hour lunch! My last job was 9am-6pm with 1 hour lunch (40 hour contract (plus 1 hour commute each way)). I'm now happily on a 37.5 hour contract with 1 hour lunch.
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I don't understand this sort of reaction. In Europe, to be successful, you have to work hard and long, too. Please tell me what your definition of 'success' is if you go home after 35 or 40 hours.
Calculator is working fine, UX is pretty bad.
The brain is a software time machine
It's a wirless bridge, and it assumes you already have a router with an internet connection(i.e. your cable/dsl/fiber box). Setup instructions are here:

https://support.google.com/onhub/answer/6246481?hl=en
It's basically hazing. I doubt many entry-level IBers are in a position to ask their boss for anything, and they work grueling hours (even if it's inefficient) to prove they have the willpower and drive to make it up the ranks in finance. So the IB isn't wasting money, it's actively selecting for the most dedicated/hungry workers.
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I've been working in Germany for three years now. Can back up OP completely.
This also seems like a concern. There is already Bonsai, a hosted ElasticSearch provider, as well as other tech companies using the name.
Nazi gold train 'found in Poland'
I often find myself first scrolling once to the bottom of the page before browsing lists of images if lazy load is implemented.
Of _course_, it was. We believe you. <laughing up sleeve>

Is it my skewed perception, or is lying the first defense of any politician, no matter what the issue?
I don't know. The thing is, it is hard to define "work." All that is clear is that you spend 168 hrs/week engaged in something. Some of that is sleep. Some is eating. Some is writing code, or making plans, or talking with people.

For the last 9 months, I've spend 60-80 of those hours each week putting conscious attention to items directly related to founding my company. Let's call that "work."

But you can also call it "creation." Most of this time I am outside my self. What is being drained or used?

What is different in the time I am not "creating"? My mind is still doing things. What is the difference between "writing the marketing section of the business plan" and "reading a novel"? Does one use less mental energy than the other? I've read so many novels in my life, I'm tired of them. I don't like the way they lock my mind into their train of thought. Reading the novel becomes draining. TV is pure hell. Better to create, to engage in the intricate dance of love and passion with my Muse.

I do take a nice nap in the middle of most days. And it is nice to watch the birds flying in the valley, to lift big heavy things, and to eat good steak.
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http://www.21stcenturyrobot.com
I see http://www.highcharts.com/ come up now and then.

D3.js is a great tool for data visualization, but that might be an overkill if your needs are simple.
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This is my point. Finance, Medicine, Legal - hell even people building pipelines or working long haul logistics etc... all have the same situations.

I think there is value in companies that are 9-5, but those are not $BN high impact companies. The only major organizations with those hours are select government agencies.
It seems to work - for me, in Chrome 44 on a Mac, at least - if you start with a mobile-width browser and then resize the window wider. Resizing from large to small doesn't seem to work.
The only thing you've mentioned which is a barrier to entry (to elite schools, e.g. Yale) is legacy admission and donations.

The remainder are merely possible causes for non-elite people having lower merit. They are not barriers for a meritorious non-elite person to attend Yale or join the elite.
Usually when I am on a slow mobile connection, I open a lot of tabs. In this case, the benefits of lazy loading are clearly visible. I agree it will be great to load all images, and it will be awesome if we can detect in JavaScript there is available bandwidth and preload the images that are below the fold.
Tons of landfill waste turns into clean energy in Pinellas
Don't confuse copyright infringement with theft.

https://www.quora.com/Intellectual-Property-Law/Is-copyright...
That's what I meant :) You can't reboot after expiration.
I agree, the best days are when time flies and you are just challenged at the right level - not to hard to frustrate you, not too easy/repetitive to bore you. But for me this is not the norm, most days are a mix of too hard and too easy, so motivation is sometimes a struggle and/or I'm exhausted and glad if I can go home and recharge for the next day. Even if work is good and fun, sometimes I'm just so much more exited about something not work related (at home, with friends, cool new tech), that I'm also eager to leave or am just distracted while at work.

For me it is "hard" to simply give 100% with no distractions to my fullest potential for 8 hours. I can't even do that for 8 hours most days, so why expect me to do it for 12 or even longer, there would quickly be a negative ROI like the article suggest. I think most people experience work most of the time more or less like that.

On the other hand on days where everything is just right (also on the weekend with non work related tasks I'm exited about) and I'm in the flow, hours do not matter much, and I'm pretty sure I get a positive return from more hours. At least in the short term, I never had the honour to have such a perfect job to experience that daily for months to know about the long term.

That is to say that I could see that for somebody a) with a different personality to shut out distractions, has naturally better motivation or more energy etc or b) with a "perfect" job, it could be or at least feel different. It might be/feel so easy to work fully concentrated for 8 or more hours that "working hard" has to be something even more for them.
> it matters only that they're foregoing whatever else they could be doing with their life in order to make this deal

That is so sad it almost makes me weep. I am thankful every day that I get to both work with cutting-edge tech, being productive, and also have a very healthy work/life balance.
Or, use the money to buy albums (the old fashioned way) and put them on your device or dropbox or whatever. Then you don't spray your private information around the galaxy.
Any European country. I think Germany is pretty strong on the IT front, together with the UK. In every single country in the EU, you're guaranteed a minimum vacation of 4 weeks, and I think in Germany it's a minimum of 6 weeks.

Just DO NOT work for game studios. The lesson I learned from friends who lived that life is NEVER EVER, unless you're in charge and have enough capital to burn on a creative venture. In that branch people do work for 48 hours, sleep at the office and generally run on constant crunch time to ship at a specific date.
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I would have paid money to watch a pile of landsmen in a motor boat trying to chase a free-swimming dolphin!
What's disappointing is that with JavaScript disabled, it doesn't load images at all.
companies where people work long, hard hours are the successful ones

Can we try a little harder than evidence-free correlation/causation here?

A quick look at the world's largest companies https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_largest_companies_by_r... reveals that the secret of being in the top 10 for success is to be in oil&gas, or to be Walmart. Most Walmart employees are paid by the hour and subject to varying schedules outside their control. The highest tech company is Apple at 17.

Speaking of hourly pay, that is undoubtably a big reason why salaried staff are overworked: the extra hours are free to the company. It would be interesting to see how long "long hours" culture would last if every single staff hour over 40 hours a week had to be paid for. (Once we got past all the insistence that employees falsify timesheets, of course)
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I'll just leave this here: https://github.com/zeusk/CS242

I did this during my sophomore year, didn't care much about implementing a proper memory implementation as that was way beyond the scope of our course.
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You seem to have confused the US with India.

Basically no one in the US is living at a "bare subsistence level". People with $0 in market income still consume approx $20k/year in the US, which is more than 3x the mean income (after adjusting for cost of living) over here. If $20k is "bare subsistence" then I should be surrounded by at least 500M corpses.
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Hoisting my own comment from downthread:

Undoubtably a big reason why salaried staff are overworked: the extra hours are free to the company. It would be interesting to see how long "long hours" culture would last if every single staff hour over 40 hours a week had to be paid for. (Once we got past all the insistence that employees falsify timesheets, of course).

The flip side of that is that every extra hour you work, you are devaluing your own compensation by working for free.
This article is specifically about work performed for others in order to secure capital so you can pay rent and buy food. If you work for yourself, it's not really work. It's your life. Most people have to sell part of their life in order to have the rest of it. Your experience is one shared by only a privileged few and I'd appreciate it if you stayed out of this discussion. The life you've had has left you utterly incapable of comprehending the issue.
The people who downvote could elaborate on how this magnificient plan should work. And why it should be implemented? Because communism on paper also seems like a valid idea and then millions die
For the last 9 months, I've spend 60-80 of those hours each week putting conscious attention to items directly related to founding my company. Let's call that "work."

This is it exactly. Someone told me recently: "To make it huge in business, it needs to also be your hobby." That rung really true for me as a founder. My "work" now used to be the thing I did when I got off of work at the end of the day. Now I get to do it all the time and it's great, why would I want to do anything else?

Now, the question is, for non-founders or employees, should we expect them to be as engaged etc... to the same degree as the founder. I think the answer is "it depends."

I mentioned this elsewhere but I firmly think that Bezos/Jobs etc... all want to hire people who are as passionate about their work as a founder is. So that's who they structure the company around.
But why? Have they bought a candidate, too?
I know more than a few people who could do with understanding what you just said.