skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Filimundus switched to a six-hour day last year, and says that
the change hasn't really made a major difference in how people
work. The leadership team just asked people to stay off social
media and personal distractions, and eliminated some standard
weekly meetings.

Might work for a company with a good culture, but betting on people to be grateful and voluntarily improve their work ethic works only as long as all the others still have the 8h workday.
The critical flaw in Prop 17 is that it applies to nearly all properties. Florida did homestead protection right. The homestead protections there are nearly as strong as, if not stronger than, Prop 17; however, only owner-occupied residential properties qualify. I think it is ridiculous that someone can move out of their house or condo in SF, rent it out, and still reap the property tax benefits.
Guess what. You don’t deserve to rank number one
Implications are that left mid-superior temporal cortex (LmSTC) carries information about sentence-level meaning, which had kind of already been implied in prior experimentation.

The discussion states that they "Provide preliminary evidence for a long-standing theoretical conjecture of cognitive science: that the brain, on some level, functions like a classical computer, representing structured semantic combinations by explicitly encoding the values of abstract variables", which is little more than hyperbole.

It's interesting, insofar as they identify a very specific region of the brain dedicated to a specific aspect of understanding language, and which plays a small role in a larger network of regions, but it's a bit of a stretch to imply that it's the "most important paper in cognitive neuroscience in many years". Pinker is quoted because this provides some empirical evidence for some of his theories.
The numbers are all meaningless to everyone but opensignal since they're proprietary.
"The proportion of time users have an LTE signal, or LTE 'Time Coverage', is our proprietary metric for looking at coverage holistically, instead of just as a measurement of geographical reach. "

The Canadian numbers are problematic for a few reasons:
1) LTE mainly means you can run through your (typically <= 1gb/month) "bucket" in about 5 minutes, with overage charges starting from the first byte over. So what's the point of LTE is artificially constrained?

Contrast this with France where providers give you a bigger LTE bandwidth cap because it's more spectrally efficient.

2) There are several non-overlapping LTE providers. If one provider has LTE in an area but yours does not, you cannot roam to the other. So what's the point of measuring if a user could get an LTE signal?
And the same company doesn't allow the users of the Windows 10 Home to review the updates, instead, the Windows 10 Home updates always download and install.
I used to use Amana, but I left it for Azendoo (and taiga).
The main reason is that it was impossible to get a cross-project (workspace) list of my to-dos and everyone's to-dos.

Checking them one by one was quite bad and slow...

I hope they fixed that, but I am far from sure...

(I know I should work on only one project, but life is less than ideal)
"When your employer goes belly up, in SF, you have to fight off job offers. That's not going to be the case elsewhere."

In my experience, this is not going to be the case in almost every major city and in some areas not near a major city. Places where I've found/been recruited for jobs easily: Seattle, Portland, Austin, Philadelphia, Central NJ, NYC, San Diego, Atlanta, Dallas, DC. And those are just the places I was looking into at the time. Sure, if you're looking for a very specialized niche, the bay area is a better choice, but for most engineers that just isn't the case.
This button couldn't be customized, otherwise it's useless as someone could easily get away with hiding it / showing only a small portion of it where someone could click without even noticing / etc.

Maybe a small modal-like confirmation that can be placed anywhere on the viewport and is actually on top of everything natively (like Safari's copy/paste on iOS).

Of course, this modal-like confirmation must not be customized or its effect is useless.

Or let's just forget entirely and remove the functionality from the browsers.
You don't even need the drip pot, you can always make it on the stove like my grandparents...
As I always say, HN doesn't have a problem with humor, but it needs to actually be funny.
That looks great!

This doesn't really qualify as multiple discovery but it is funny how common it is for disparate people to have the same idea simultaneously.
Ignored? The lesson was pretty clear: fuck up on a grand scale, and we'll soak the tax slaves to bail you out. I'd say they learned that lesson well.
I'm far from an expert but this is from the Keynes camp(?)
At least here (Austria) the LTE rollout was faster and more useful for customers than the original 3G rollout. It sounds like companies actually are intetested in it for other reasons than just having nicer looking numbers.

Drei/Three here upgraded every single base station throught the country so that you know have LTE in the mountains and rural areas even, though some of the backhaul is not yet fiber in those areas.

It's bizarre now that the mobile networks are faster than what comes out of the cable.

//edit: i doubt the opensignal numbers. They seem very ... different than real live. Wonder how they measure.
we saw this like 4 months ago, where were you?
Realistically, they won't maintain that lifestyle once they have kids.

One of the reasons I got out is that it was too weird living in a place with tons of 20-somethings (I was one too, at the time) and not a lot of everyone else.
But Coffee gives you the ability to work (at least!) an extra few hours a month.
Legally, it would come down to duelling court decisions, I'm afraid. I believe your side is currently winning, but watch this space.

Morally, the answer is either obvious or it's not, and all the Wikipedia citations in the world don't tend to sway existing opinions.
Power consumption is proportional to the cube.

Aerodynamic drag i.e. force opposite the direction of travel is proportional to the square of your velocity. Power consumption for steady cruising is equal to drag multiplied by speed. Thus power consumption is proportional to the cube of speed.
Of course, that presumes they either have skillz or some willingness and ability to get them. These days, a lot of people seem dependent upon microwave meals and fast food.
Let's see, 1772/365... nope, not less than a year old. Nice insult to new accounts, though, very Passive-aGgressive.
That's two OS X upgrades in a row (Yosemite, and now El Capitan) that the upgrade has moved the contents of my home directory /home/users/alphastorm/ into /home-preserved/. Luckily moving/copying everything back seems to fix almost everything.

Anyone else had this happen to them or know why it happens?
Yeah, I have some design issues with the fonts.

Typographically speaking, Amasis (the serif type now being used for headlines) is an odd choice for a pairing with Proxima Nova (what they are continuing to use for everything else). It looks a bit awkward at the size and weight they have it because it's actually a slab serif (check out https://www.myfonts.com/fonts/mti/amasis/) and the slabs turn into slightly chunky serifs on standard-DPI screens (though it does look a bit better on Retina). This, combined with a similar visual weight to the other text, contributes to the lack of contrast you describe.

What I'd advise is either bumping up the weight on Amasis to increase the contrast and disambiguate the slab serifs, or better yet, switching to a nicer overall serif type such as Hoefler & Co's Mercury Display (http://www.typography.com/fonts/mercury-display/overview/).
> I'm going to not share your content, and others will do the same, and you'll see readership drop

The point is that you're extrapolating your intent and level of control to the rest of the internet audience, which you're not colluding with.

The ad-blocking at OS level is arguably even easier to detect than browser-based. It also doesn't stop advertising in apps, which is an example of how Apple is incentivized to keep advertising for it's own platform (i.e. Apple is looking out for #1 when it comes to blocking ads, not you).
I think it's happening.

Uptown is getting busier, and this just happened: http://www.bizjournals.com/sanfrancisco/blog/real-estate/201...
Port knocking can help also
Show HN: Antelope, free iOS adblocker
I'm dyslexic and disagree with the assessment that Comic Sans is easier to read. I stopped after the first third slide because I couldn't read it without reading each line multiple times, assuming that was indeed comic sans.
>Learn to be remote teams. It makes you a better company in the end.

Does it? I hear everyone on here say that more work should be remote but I haven't seen any studies that show that workers can be just as productive when not in the office. I would assume they would be.
hm, no worries at least on my machine.

I knew about /usr/local problem from Yosemite, though on El Capitan (same time as Yosemite, with /usr/local moved to ~/local) it was smooth as butter (I did not move /usr/local). All upgrade took about 30 minutes, and after it was done, I did sudo chown -R $(whoami):admin /usr/local and I was good to go.
As an American, I'm interested in knowing why it would require Sweden to raise taxes. Since you mentioned a huge public sector, is it a case of needing extra workers to work shifts so that pubic services are run at the usual hours?

I imagine private companies would be able to get away with it, as long as all their competitors also switch to six-hour workdays.
iKe: Browser-based k-family language IDE
Support groups aren't attended or helpful to people who don't think what they're doing is having a negative impact on their life. Plenty of fully functional drug users out there - more then a few likely on this very forum.
because the Bart, which better than most of what the US has, is basically a shambling 3rd world disaster. It's slow, uncomfortable, constantly delayed and doesn't go that many places.
Hey, project creator here -- been working on this with some friends as a side project. It's a free, open-source adblocker, and it's based on EasyList / EasyPrivacy. It doesn't have 'acceptable ads.'

Hoping to add user-controlled whitelisting soon. Would love feedback on app design / setup flow / any constructive thoughts!
Standardizing work always leads to problems.

Some individuals need 3 hours, others 12 hours. The only question is whether the job is done.
They were no where near SF prices when I lived in both places last year
That's not uncommon in London, especially amongst immigrants from Eastern Europe — it makes sense, if the aim is to save money rapidly to put a deposit on a house in Poland/Romania etc — and people in their 20s.

I took a room for ~9 months in what was originally a 3 bedroom house. It was (a) very flexible regarding the contract (b) very cheap (£400/mth). (I had to move out of my previous place, but was looking for a new job, so didn't want to commit to something that might be in an inconvenient area.)

I had my own room, and for most of the time there were 4 people in the three other rooms, age 30-40s and one at 50.

Everyone apart from me worked in the kind of jobs where you have to be in by 7-8am, so I never had an issue taking a shower. We had 2 fridges.

This was a "nice" house, in a nice area, with nothing dodgy about the contract / rent etc. In other areas there are really scummy landlords overcharging people for individual rooms, often none of them are British / western European, so they don't seem to know that there are regulations in their favour, for example for getting a deposit returned, or not paying for wear-and-tear repairs.
And no one spells "hella" with a final h.
Registering refugees on the blockchain
OCR all images and re-render text found to be Comic Sans. :)
I should also add when they mean "architecture" they mean it in the literal sense -- the physical structure in the brain in which encoding sentence meaning takes place.
Who's Hiring Spec
I probably work about 10 hours per week, offsetting that by basically being available 24-7 if needed. Luckily, that's very rare. I guarantee my workload and quality of work excels my coworkers who are in the office 40+ hours a week. The 40 hour work week is totally ineffective for most industries but, alas, America would never move away from it.
That's reasonable. We've been the last on so many other progressive social changes.
What Percentage of ECommerce A/B Tests Are Winners?
http://www.tedunangst.com/flak/post/string-interfaces
How NYC's subway buskers are faring
But no Markdown support. :(
The problem with this is that you are starting to treat the OS creator as hostile. This is not a good situation to be in. Microsoft has the equivalent of root on all windows machines so it is difficult to treat them as hostile. They could roll out an upgrade tomorrow that incorporated a critical kernel security update together with non-turnable off automatic updates and you would have to accept the patch or remain vulnerable. There are some that would argue that Windows 10 home editions are exactly this...

Basically in the medium to long term if you regard your OS creator as a potential threat you have very little option but to change OS...
It's worse than that. Here's some 2014 data (surely it's higher now?)

http://www.sf-moh.org/modules/showdocument.aspx?documentid=7...
"Edit n: seperate and unrelated, system does not seem to restart well. Eiter hangs or takes ages."

This is nothing new for OS X. Mavericks and the last couple of versions cannot restart / shut down properly. I'm sure Apple would say it's a feature not a bug.
Our mounting debt is a real problem, no joke. But the ideas behind basic income and shorter work days do not inherently require our government to spend more than the already astronomical sums it's currently leaking.
they tried this with outsourcing and it didn't work.
I suppose an easy way out is to show that such a thing cannot exist in the way that other mathematical structures exist, trivially showing that you have studied all of it that there is(n't) to study.
If your server can't handle serving up 1-200 images at same time, your server sort of doesn't deserve to be on the internet.

Any server today should be able to saturate it's network connection serving static content.
I thought it sounded like London.

http://www.theguardian.com/society/2015/jun/25/overcrowding-...

https://www.rt.com/uk/312452-london-property-overcrowding-la...

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/10863346/Figures-sh...
Because the specificity here is inaccurate and misleading. I've left plenty of comments about what's wrong with the term "base52-encoded random numbers" here and so have a number of other commenters. I didn't ask for anyone to use lay terminology, but it's reasonable to ask for clear and correct terminology.

One of the frustrating things about reading academic papers is that many authors insist on using less common and less clear phrasing when there are much simpler ways of saying the same things. It makes for unpleasant, heavy reading and it makes the author sound pompous.

"Obtuse" also means dumb, and is often used to mean "difficult to understand". "Abstruse" might have been a better choice of word.
>You also rarely see old cars on the road because (my understanding is) that taxes incentivize people to ditch old cars quickly and get new ones.

This is correct. You have to pay a hefty bi-annual inspection fee (beginning three years after a new purchase) to keep a vehicle on the road if it's over 250cc: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motor-vehicle_inspection_%28Ja...

At some point in a vehicle's life, it becomes more economically viable to get rid of it than to keep it up to snuff to pass the inspection. The other vehicle taxes are also based on displacement, so you'll see lots of cute little 1.3L or lower displacement inline-four vans riding around. I kept turning my head because I thought I was hearing motorcycles!
I now believe there is one at least silver-alloy bullet: simplicity, painstakingly maintained and violently defended by well paid developers.
Rents all over SF and the bay area are expensive. SOMA within 0.5 miles is not really the point.
Fair enough! I misread.
Oh man Plan 9 broke my heart once already when they didn't become the Next Big Thing. I was digging their take on namespaces after seeing something similar for filesystems on Apollo's UNIX.

I would love to "break glass" (I.e. temporarily gain privileged access) to a remote system's namepace and dtrace/systemtap running processeses without ever leaving my desktop.
If working with remotes was so easy, don't you think people would have done it more by now?

Clearly there are benefits (worth to many people) of being collocated.
Source-code here: https://github.com/pkimpel/retro-b5500

including Kildall's APL implementation (still needs to be proof read), but also note that Niklaus Wirth's programming language predecessor to Pascal known as Euler is there too.

Another interesting piece of source-code you will find there too is a Burroughs B6500 emulator, B6500 MCP and B6500 ESPOL compiler written for the B5500. The B5500 was used by Burroughs as the development platform for the B6500 which was the follow-on from the B5000 family.

You can see the B6500 emulator running in this short film: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KOElQuCqj0Y#t=3m37s

I'm hoping we can re-create those few seconds of video once we have this B6500 software functional again.
"Trillions of dollars" doesn't really give any insight into the scope of the problem, it just suggests the number is really large.

The scope of the problem is that we have about 1.5 years worth of GDP in debt. So, with yearly payments of 10% of GDP, we could pay down the debt in 15 years. Suppose through automation we increase productivity by 50%. We could shorten the work week by 25%, add a tax to pay down 10% of the debt each year, and still maintain exactly the same standard of living while paying down the national debt in 10 years.

Point being, the United States has no shortage of money to pay down our obligations.
So I get you're using MIDI (instruction source), but what's the sound source? Just whatever samples your browser uses these days? Or is it using a sample set from a soundcard from that era (Yamaha YM3812, YMF262 or similar found in the Soundblaster 16)?
Long One Shoulder Sweetheart Formal Gown
Why isn't this already done?
How Autonomous Cars Will Change Society
A Smarter CLI – Innovation by Simplicity (2009)
^This.

There is an awful lot of perception of what Snowden got that in no way lines up with the presented reality.
Software doesn't short out and burn down your house, for example.

Low voltage systems are a lot safer, but not immune to trouble. Even USB ports occasionally catch on fire if there's a damaged cable or crossed pins.
Have you tried taking the RER with your four young children ? I'm not saying it's not doable, I'm saying it's not desirable. And I'm not even talking about babies or luggages.

Also the RER doesn't go door to door, and only goes so far.
From https://twitter.com/SJosephBurns/status/640698530038943748:

"Twitter needs a CEO who is an @elonmusk with the Street and a @pmarca in the tweets.
- @zerobeta"
It's not stable maybe, works fine when I type "google":
http://imgur.com/BjwlPNn
you missed the point.. GP was sarcastically wondering why game center was protected.
The main reason the numbers are really meaningless is because if you want to test the speeds of just the LTE part it is impossible unless you have access to the carrier's test servers ahead of their hand off to the internet. Otherwise you are just testing the speed of the internet which we all understand varies under a number of factors.

It is good that they have a way of measuring coverage that is not strictly geographically based but since it is proprietary it is hard to actually know what it means.

Lte speeds are faster than Wifi due to the backhaul obviously, typically wireless carriers buy higher BW backhaul that wifi providers since wifi is free so they tend to skimp on that, in theory wifi can do about the same speeds as Lte from the air interface capability by itself.
Microsoft Bringing SSH to Windows and PowerShell
Correction: expanding the housing supply vertically.
Also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lesser_Seattle
Sounds like their "good" pay scale wasn't good enough.
IAAL:
In the US, Copyright can be registered under a pseudonym, and you do not have to give your real name, ever.

On the forms they have, there is a space you can fill out for claimant name, and one for author name. There is also a pseudonym checkbox.

They will happily let you register it only in the name of the pseudonym.

See:
http://www.copyright.gov/fls/fl101.pdf

For more interesting fun, read the last sentence of that PDF, where it goes on to explain that you get different years of protection for distributing under a pseudonym vs if your identity is revealed.
32 Years Later, Checking in on Ogilvy's Advertising Predicitions
This looks good. Please email hn@ycombinator.com so we can send you a repost invite, if you like.
> Maven is obsolete. Just use Gradle. Until something better comes along.

Google released Bazel a few months ago, which runs on Linux, tho not Windows, and fully supports JVM-hosted software. It's better than Gradle, so why not move straight from Maven to Bazel? See http://bazel.io/docs/bazel-user-manual.html
So do software engineers typically live alone in London or no?
I don't think it's possible to conclude that the CIA employee records were not hacked in separate attempts - only that there is no public record of a hack. But that's poor proof, if there were CIA records were separately stolen, I assume there would be a strong justification made to hide that outcome.
False.
See below.
Even if they wanted to enforce copyright, they can register as a pseudonym. They can also enforce in court under a pseudonym, as long as they can prove it's the same person with the registration.

Which may be tricky.
>Email worked in the world of desktop apps

actually it worked well before that.

> the real-time fast paced team collaboration everyone is trying to achieve.

Resist. Just say no. No pasaran.
I'm kind of Ok with letting other countries try this one out first. I'm receptive to the idea of basic income, but the potential unintended consequences seem terrifying.
Roadways don't have to be widened. Just not continually shrinked like they've been for the last 10 years. Traffic is noticeably worse now than 5 years ago, and much worse than 10 years ago, while the population size hasn't grown as much.
Are you saying a "state" is just something that jealously guards prerogatives for itself (love that line btw)?

I agree occasionally humans do have to kill other humans because I'm not a pacifist but I think the death penalty isn't to stop a horrible act, because the person is already caught, but to punish.
If you think the NDA is unreasonable, don't agree to it and don't take possession of the hardware.

If you do accept it and violate it, be prepared for consequences.
So the point is that these official numbers should be taken with a generous pinch of salt.

Now, when you talk about GM, remember this is data from Germany, so GM essentially means Opel. Now I believe that before the quite successfull Insignia which launched in 2008, Opel were mainly known for cheap and efficient and small cars like the Corsa and Astra, while now they have a more premium lineup, and "Turbo" versions of several models.
Life After MOOCs