skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Is the official work week 47.5 hours?

In the U.S., while I think it's true that people tend to work closer to 50 hours, we pay lip service to the "40 hour work week".
It is an enclosure for Samsung phone.
I don't think any of these are problems that don't already exist with the way that ads are done.

As the article states, all Google Contributor does is buy the ad impression on the page you're visiting. One way or the other, there will be an ad impression on that page. This doesn't incentivize webmasters to put any more ads on than they already do, as far as I can tell. From their perspective, ads are working normally.
This. I haven't seen meaningful lifts from changing button colors, wording or all these things I read on guru blogs. Most (all) of the tests I've seen reported on blogs fail miserably at the statistical test, not to mention no DoE, no blocking, no theory and a thousands other things that made the test invalid.

The only way I can see that a change in colors or wording would provide a lift is if the original was confusing, which shouldn't be the case.
TypeScript has a lot of holes.

What I'd like is a language I can use that has optional typing where all the libraries follow a strict type system but the application I put on top of it doesn't care.

That is the exact opposite of what I get with TypeScript. I'm left with a lot of dynamic mess libraries that I build my typed application on top of.

Steel on top of jello.
https://www.reddit.com/gold

I've paid for it, personally, and I know others who do.

Yes, the ads are probably a larger portion of their income right now, but there's certainly an easy way to support them directly.
im confused - who was outside for 15 minutes ?
How to #HACK Twitter Advanced Search to Message Your Product
Does anybody know what bucaran's role is on the fish team? I see he's part of the fish-shell organization?

That'd be the first time I have a clear reason to go back to zsh.
> I get what you are saying, but I don't buy it.

I'm not sure how you "don't buy it". It's like not buying the fact that the moon orbits the earth.

Granted, yes, there is poor content, spammy content, copyright theft, and everything in between, but that doesn't mean all the original and good content vanishes or gets nullified. It's not a zero sum game and it's not black and white. People create content and then many (if not most) hope to monetize that content somehow. The most common form of monetization is ads. Whether it's some guy's physics blog on wordpress, or someone reporting the death of a celebrity on TMZ, all that content relies on paid advertisements.

Without ways to monetize content, the internet simply wouldn't exist in its current form. I don't even know how there is a discussion on this. Sites like youtube wouldn't exist or would be incredibly tiny because what good is hosting all that video content, paying for all that bandwidth, if you can't show some ads and make some money? If you can't make money, you can't pay your hosting bill. And a subscription service just wouldn't work - if youtube tried that originally instead of ads, I doubt most of us would have even heard of youtube in this alternate ad-free reality.

And that's my point. Ads drive the internet. Without ads, the internet would probably still look like it did in 1996. Because without all that TMZ, fantasy football and facebook content, the large majority of the masses wouldn't have dove in head first. If you don't have content, you don't have users. If you don't have users, you don't have innovation. No innovation, no current internet.
Hand-drawn animation of 43 years of the Sun's weather
I wonder how effective this VR actually is.

It seems that VR heavily depends on high quality screens, with very high resolution, and low latency and persistence. However this works with a screen that isn't optimised for those attributes.

$99 may be good, but it seems likely that it will be much worse than the Oculus Rift, I think is targeting ~$400-500, and could be far better. Is it worth it?
I recently ran across Falcon and I'm super excited to give it a go for my next API.

http://falconframework.org/
It is hard to dispute that inner city gun violence is drug related, which is probably why they don't mention it.
Full Communism Is the Ultimate Ad Blocker
Cultural Revolution Shaped Chinese Pres. Xi Jinping, from Schoolboy to Survivor
User focus groups may not be useful, but user testing can be. I'm thinking of studies where you give users some tasks to do, and watch how they interact with the UI to accomplish that.
>The real problem is are people growing up in a society where they are being subconsciously funnelled towards a particular choice (to the point where they don't see other options as valid choices due to subconscious biases).

Mechanisms like this exist in large part to defeat a sort of social entropy that would arise if everybody made their own descisions. It is desirable to be able to have expectations about others behavior and a larger shared social game like 'Nuclear families and husband/wife'. Pretty much necessarily you're going to get something like a competing access need[0] where some people are going to be really hurt by these games because they don't want to play or can't play[1]. We only have a select few remedies to this which aren't 'destroy all the social rules and let anarchy reign', and while some people think that option would result in good outcomes I have a hard time finding faith that it would.

A position likes yours worries me massively because it seems to be something like 'systematic coercion to maintain social norms is never okay unless it's explicitly part of the law and then it's still not okay because the intent is to maintain a social norm rather than keep the peace'.

[0]: http://theunitofcaring.tumblr.com/post/100561778176/safe-spa...

[1]: http://www.meltingasphalt.com/personhood-a-game-for-two-or-m...
A new generation of teen activists is shaking up politics in Asia
That's pretty great; honestly, if it weren't for the cloud-connectedness, I'd consider buying it based on the strength of that story alone.

(I do wonder what the costs of leather and fake leather are, and what the market for fancy laser-etched wallets is...)
Nah, I understand -- though I'm still fairly young, I collected a lot of records in high school and college. I recently moved into a Manhattan apartment. Guess what? Most of my records are now in my parents' basement. Book-wise, most are also at my parents' house, though I have a couple of fairly large art/photography books lined up precariously on the floor of my apartment.

I mostly brought up the dad thing because it actually happened a few months ago. I was visiting my parents and my dad, out of the blue, asks if I've read any Hemingway. I tell him I haven't, and he replies in a very out-of-character way that "Do you wanna be a Real Man? Real Men read Hemingway. Hold on..." He goes to the large bookshelf in another room, grabs a book of short stories, and plops it on the table. Out-of-character because the standard arrangement is me lending him sci-fi books for him to slowly read as he dozes off over the course of a few months. I've been slowly reading through the Hemingway stories on the train and I sometimes notice inscrutable/unreadable notes and underlines on some of the stories.
Regular Expressions for Types in Go
AWS Management Using Terraform and CircleCI
C# dev here. Coming from statically typed language + dynamic support it just doesn't make any sense to switch to full dynamic.
Why you should avoid using an event bus
Still waiting for a lightsaber for taming my jungle of a yard. Is that so much to ask?
It isn't the language itself. I actually like ES2015 and I'm looking forward to improvements. It is digging through NPM trying to find a decent library. It is trying to reconcile versions of node. It is the feeling that everyone it trying to follow the latest hotness.

I think that there will eventually be an abandoned javascript library for every noun, verb, and adjective in the English language.
WGN-TV Chicago Apologizes for Nazi Symbol in Yom Kippur Segment
It was a deception, in that the whole thing was constructed to make the Japanese think the USN had one more operational heavy carrier than they actually did.
And if they go out of business, you have an expensive brick?
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Introducing Oculus Medium
There are no claims that SELinux does anything other than secure the system, but if you're going to distrust things based solely on who sponsored them (Chinese government for this Linux distribution) then it makes sense to ask if this logic is applied consistently.

To make it crystal clear: I'm not saying SELinux is untrustworthy. I am just asking the poster if they would trust SELinux knowing that it came from the NSA. I ask the same question of people when they claim that Windows/OS X is untrustworthy because the NSA may have made changes to spy on the user through it.
> Are you trying to argue that I should watch all advertising that comes my way in case some of it is socially responsible?

No, but I think your view on advertising and the content it supports is hypocritical (because you still accept the desired content), so I thought casting it in light of a hopefully less nefarious cause might cause you to look at it more objectively.

The naivety I reference is specifically in your belief that you can correctly predict the desires of multiple large and small complex business entities in their goal to advertising in front of you, and make decisions in their best interest that are against their expressed desire.

There are many arguments for ad-blockers that can be put forth, but I don't believe taking the moral high-ground is a valid one.

Edit: s/arguments against/arguments for/
It was sort of insulting (probably needlessly so), but it was not an ad hominem.
These are great points on societal expectations of parents. On the flip side, there is still a lot of judgement against stay at home dads, who are typically just thought of as lazy or not manly enough if they stay at home with the kids, even if it makes sense because their wife has greater income potential due to chosen career/education.
> gold

And they have ads, too:

https://www.reddit.com/advertising/
"...increases my standing when being selected by partners."

What type of partners?
I asked about the value of my shares. They're subject to dilution, and the company won't tell me what % of the company they represent, nor the board-evaluated value of the company. Thus I have to consider them entirely worthless until proven otherwise.
What matters here are intentions. Yes, pretty much every human interaction is a form of manipulating the emotional state of participants, often on an unconscious level. But most of the time people do that to facilitate win-win situations, to help each other. On the other hand, most of advertising and marketing is adversarial; companies and salespeople literally want to scam you. I think it is a reasonable stance to be against manipulation with malicious intent.
The Gear VR requires a phone with a 2560 * 1440 resolution. That's actually higher than Oculus DK2, which is only 1920 * 1080.

I have a Gear VR for Note 4 and it's pretty awesome (especially for 360° video)... But there's just no content yet.

I'm really looking forward to Land's End, a new Gear VR game from Monument Valley's makers:
http://www.theverge.com/2015/9/21/9353235/lands-end-vr-game-...
I still can't quite figure out the ramifications for American App Store users. I used CamScanner, downloaded from the American App Store, which showed up on the list. So what does that mean for me? Anything? Is uninstalling and reinstalling all that needs to be done and there are no other repercussions? I'm just really not sure I understand the limits or impact. Was this just a Chinese App Store limited issue?
But didn't they (in a round about sort of way) since there were two carriers instead of one? Wouldn't making something think you had something that wasn't really there be something different?
Python 3.5 and Multitasking
White male landowners also passed great wealth and power down to their daughters. Female offspring weren't being abandoned, they were being raised in the same upper class environment as the males and retained much more power than the vast majority of men and women of lower classes who had essentially no power.

Patriarchy implies men hold some sort of privilege whereas it's really rich people that have the privilege. If all instances of "patriarchy" were replaced with "the upper class" I think we'd have much more accurate and fair representation of reality.

As it stands I don't think you'll ever get the millions upon millions of poor men out there to see themselves as part of the patriarchy, because they hold no power in society.
Ask HN: What is a good tool to track churn/resurrected/retained user in charts?
We (Polarr.co) have multiple products running on multiple platforms. We're currently using GA to track all our services. First of all, the non premium version can't aggregate all the views into one and the premium version is insanely priced. 2ndly, GA doesn't seem to set up around tracking a user's precise return behavior through anonymous id. We'd like to know when was the exact last time, last last time, or last last last time a user used our product, how many times and exactly when a user returned. Being able to produce charts automatically to analysis the MAU segments into resurrected/retained/churn users, and being able to plot ratios are also important. We're thinking about building this tool internally as we can't find an option in the market that's doing that. I'd like to know opinions from you guys.
Just search 40w laser engraver on ebay and you should get several hits around $400. Mine is working great after some mods.

Mods:
~$25 for 8ft ground rod and wire
~ $35 for 24V DC power supply( includes 5 volt supply because I blow out the DC section of the board it come with)
~ $45 Raspberry Pi CNC Board + drivers
~ $35 Raspberry PI

I can scp dxf files to the raspberry then rdp or ssh -X to open bCNC. Open the file and click Run. bCNC just added laser support so the setup is trivial.

I'm not too sure on the cutting power though. I have done paper, leather and cardboard but the 1/8in plywood I have tried is too thick.

I also had to put a 3904 transistor and a resistor in the board to make the laser on signal be sinking.
Running the simulation on fast, it's like those little marbles run out of gas after a certain limit and fall off. In my case the limit is somewhere in the 80s. After they hit that invisible barrier, very few continue to fly.

By comparison, there's a continuous trickle of marbles falling off randomly early.

So what I take from the simulation is that there are two main components: the random stuff that can take you out at any time, and then there's a more-or-less fixed amount of "gas" you have - when that one is gone, it's gone.
From an advertiser's point of view, those fake profiles are still real humans, right? So your ad is still being seen, and those Facebook profiles probably share enough of the social graph with a real Facebook profile that you can still do demographic targeting, no?
"Much of the social history of the Western world over the past three decades has involved replacing what worked with what sounded good." -Thomas Sowell
I think one thing that was not clear are the fumes are extremely toxic. Rarely do you cook where the fumes could make you go unconscious or cause long term health effects. If you dont believe me, check out:
[http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1475175/]
My latest project has been in C# (unity) and it's the first time I've used the language.

It's a breath of fresh air even coming off of using python/django for the last few years.

Types are amazing.
Ahah, nice joke :)
I've tried most VR systems and I think the benefits of Gear FAR outweigh what you lose.

The biggest one is that it's wireless so you don't have to worry about the cord at all.

You do lose processing power, but quite frankly I think that is fine because it forces developers to really focus on making the UX/UI experience really tight.

From the Performance aspect the CV1 is much better and has better interactivity/presence abilities but if the goal is to get MM of people using VR, this is the way to do it. Everyone can thank cardboard for paving the way for this type of implementation.
Have to allow JS from filepicker.io, two amazon.aws domains, and a cloudfront domain.
The article quoted national statistics, which would probably include inner cities in those statistics.

Also, the question isn't whether guns imply drugs, but whether drugs imply guns. P(A|B) != P(B|A).
tl;dr women are different than men.
I'm not sure what that has to do with the discussion so far.
Duly noted!
HAARP+GOLF+BALL+100+TIMES+MORE+POWERFULL+THAN+HAARP+-+YouTube
My impression that the first post I replied to was speaking of things in general, not locked to any kind of specific post-birth time frame. Even if it was though, I disagree with the mother's presence specifically being "ESSENTIAL" for the baby's health. Do babies' whose mothers die during childbirth suffer severe developmental disorders or other problems? What about babies that are immediately given to their adoptive parents instead of their biological mother after being born? My understanding is that as long as they receive love, support, and nutrition from an adult of either gender they grow up fine, with single parents being generally less effective than pairs.
But there literally was another carrier. They stated it openly flew the Union Jack too. It's not really a deception if there is real live carrier right there flying US planes.
I like reddit because they encourage people to visit the websites of the content creators by way of link aggregation. You go to /r/Worldnews or something, and it's a link to the BBC or Reuters. They don't host the articles themselves. This sends much needed traffic to the people who deserve it. Whether you're a big name like cnn.com or a small publisher like StevesBlog.com, you're on an equal playing field.
The screen differences aren't that far off between Gear and Rift CV1, but the biggest difference (aside from processing power) is positional tracking. You only get directional tracking of the user's head on the Gear, but games/experiences can be designed around current limitations.

The other frustrating limitation to the current generation of headsets is field of view, but FOV is fairly similar between the two as well.

IMO the value of each of these platforms is going to come down to content.
Do you use a kernel with a version greater than 2.5? Then you have SELinux as a part of your kernel source, so the NSA has sponsored made changes to your kernel.
Why? I code Go in Vim every day, and I think goimports is perfect. I don't even think about the import ( ... ) block at the top - I just use what packages I want, save my code, and let the machine take care of the imports. If you have your GOPATH set up properly, it works 100% of the time.
To be clear, I don't mean that 240.0.0.0/4 isn't able to be globally routable because everybody's using it for their own private stuff. I mean that 240.0.0.0/4 isn't routable at all.
Well, looks interesting, but too bad it doesn't work with the new Samsung phone I got just 7 months ago (S5).
> that in the not too distant future it's just going to be the programming language. Being a programmer will be synonymous with writing JavaScript.

chortle

Not so long ago they were saying the same about Ruby, and Java before that, and so on down a long and winding history of ludicrous one-language-swallows-the-world predictions.
Your startup has fewer than ten people, and the grants are .1-.25%. Let's say it sells in three years for $50m, with no further dilution because you never hired more or took more investment.

He gets $50-$125K. How much equity do you have yourself as founder? 50% ($25 million)?

What do you dream of doing with your millions once you exit? What do your employees dream of doing with their hundred thousand or so?
Indeed, all you have to do is to read up on who's murdering who. Drugs and violence are intimately tied together at least in the USA. The laws are set-up to punish drug offenders based on the quantity of drugs in one's possession. Beyond a certain quantity, the offender crosses a threshold into "distribution" rather than "use"-- and long histories of violent, organized crime is typical for those folks.
Think of it as an high-tech Google Cardboard.

edit: wording
Interesting that one of the most affected apps is a blatant copy of Angry Birds 2: Angry Bird 2 - Yifeng Li’s Favorite*. It looks like they're even using the actual icon.
Victorious was not nearly as capable as Saratoga. The former only carried ~36 aircraft while the latter carried ~90. Making the Japanese think the other heavy carrier was American would cause them to overestimate the strength of the air group and make it less likely that they would send their own carrier battle group down to challenge American operations.
> The naivety I reference is specifically in your belief that you can correctly predict the desires of multiple large and small complex business entities in their goal to advertising in front of you, and make decisions in their best interest that are against their expressed desire.

I think there is nothing to predict here - they have no goal towards 'Nursie, or any other particular viewer. Advertising on-line is done by carpet-bombing the whole Internet with cheap ads, hoping that enough people get hit.
Dextro SSM: uncovers audiovisual topics in Twitter video with deep learning
> I don't find that creating types to make this contract explicit takes much time at all

This depends on the complexity of your schema. In my case, I was dealing with a 230 table legacy application where some of the tables had as many as 70 columns. I was tasked with building an ad-hoc administrative tool for the owners so that they could perform a few specific tasks and periodically review some information in the system.

I wanted to use an ORM because I didn't want to write a bunch of boilerplate SQL to rig up a tedious but relatively simple internal CRUD app. With that in mind, it certainly didn't make sense to enumerate the details of every column when the alternative (raw SQL) also wouldn't require me to do that. Enumerating explicit column information was unnecessary and certainly would have taken me a lot of time.
Yes. And depending on the material, the fire may spread very rapidly.
I think sama had something good to say about this: https://twitter.com/sama/status/628713105824964608

I would walk away from that situation. Any startup that's unwilling to do everything Sam outlined above is IMO not worth my time.

Hell, refusing to answer something as simple as "what percentage are these shares worth"?! I'd run, not walk, away from that one.

If you want to encourage workers by making them investors in the company, then treat them like it.
Of course Google will pocket a big chunk of the revenue, doh! It's a clever scam to exploit people's guilt to get them to part with some cash, nothing more.

Donate directly, your favorite sites, and then block their ads yourself.

Do not pay this "opt-out ransom".

Heck, it's better to send a donation to someone who makes free ad-blocking software.
One thing JavaScript gets very right is first-class functions. There's nothing bolt-on about those. It makes it very easy to tolerate warts (which don't come up often anyways).
Phone screens on top-end phones are high enough quality to manage (and are higher resolution than most PC monitors anyway). They also have the added benefit of being able to render graphics internally as opposed to being attached to a PC by a cord. Yeah, the graphics may not be quite as good, but the gap in perceived graphics quality between a $1000 PC and a flagship cell phone is rapidly closing.

I think the Rift will be the choice of the "PC Master Race", but a solution like this is much more mass-market friendly. There's no reason a headset like this should cost more than $30 once mass-produced - and that's low enough to be an impulse purchase for a lot of people.