skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I see it the other way around: Any programming (or similar) job that doesn't compensate you as if you were working 70 hours a week is taking money away from you. These are not the 1900s and you are not assembling widgets in a factory. Your work goes with you wherever you are, quite literately in the form of your smartphone, and more insidiously by not getting off your mind. Maybe it's just me and I lack the skill to forget work at 5 p.m. sharp, but my suspicious is that half our industry comes up with solutions to work-related problem while they are at home, on holiday, etc.
> For one thing, it's highly convenient that the standard US work-week happens to be the exact "correct" amount of hours to work to maximize productivity.

You're right, it's probably actually much less. Go count how many people are browsing Facebook/etc at the start of the day, lunch, and at the end of the day. Even out of what's becoming an increasingly normal 45 hour workweek (9-6), lots of people are probably working 35 at best.

> For another, anecdotally at least, most people know plenty of people who work longer hours and do it successfully. And most of the really successful people out there will mention that they worked insanely hard at some point. Are they all lying? All wrong?

You're comparing the outliers to the average. Some people will have an almost-linear relationship between hours worked and productivity. For most people, it'll be logarithmic.

Further, lots of bias going on here:

* You remember the successful people who worked hard more, because it furthers the idea that hard work == success

* No one's going to tell you they became successful without working hard. It's a slap in the face to everyone else, and few people are honest/tactless enough to admit they became successful without working hard.

* Most successful people would probably rationalize their success as the result of hard work (and obviously that might be true to some degree)

> The article itself mentions people doing extra hours of coding on personal projects, and we all know some people who have started companies that way. What, do these projects simply not exist? How does that make any sense?

One is self-driven and you can drop it at anytime if things get in the way (children, etc.). The other is imposed on you externally and you can't really go from working 70 hours a week to 40 hours a week. Well, you can - but it almost always involves changing jobs.

> Why does everyone on HN just assume they know better than those people themselves, and set off to make them feel bad and exploited?

Because it's downward pressure on our value as laborers. I mean - that's the real story. If you have to work twice as hard to earn 50% of the salary, your value as a laborer has just been divided by 4.

Very few people want to feel like they're becoming worth less over time. This of course can be offset if the output of your labor has more value to you (e.g. people go to work at non-profits, etc), but in general it's easy to pinpoint why most people resist this kind of pressure.
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- Startup time feels subpar - I haven't dug into it, but it feels like it's downloading the JS for the app on load every time. Switching between teams is similarly slow on first access.

- Scrolling up to something that happened fairly far back in history can feel really awkward and broken, image loads and ajax fetches can make the scrollbar behaviour really janky (to be fair, I just tried this and it was better than I remember, although still far from perfect)

- Switching rooms takes about a second, even if I was just in that room, which while not horrible, is still a little laggy for something that should be nearly instant if I have the room's content cached.

Overall while it's gotten better, the "native" Slack app still feels very much like a webpage with OS chrome around it (which is what it is, but other apps like VS Code, Atom, and Discord don't give this impression nearly as much)

This is all on the latest Macbook Pro upgraded as much as possible in every respect save the video card.
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"Neither side struck me as worthy of huge sympathy. But then the battlefront encroached uncomfortably close to home. I watched as Amazon punished Hachette’s writers in its effort to make the publisher feel pain. Books, the products of years of passionate labor, were prevented from reaching the market. Amazon used its bully’s arm to delay their shipments or direct readers to older books on similar subjects, as well as a raft of other vengeful tactics."

I see Foer decided which side needed sympathy. There was another side to that story after all.

And I take it Foer was fired from the New Republic?
The pay cut from my experience can be pretty dramatic. Whenever I have replied to a remote job ad and asked about salary it would often mean 40%+ pay cut for me.
Panoply Raises Another $5M for Its Machine Learning Powered Data Warehouse
No VSCode?
Scale is a problem. To give you an example, as of a few years ago, you could buy copy of a typical mid-sized city newspaper for $2.

The other $15 it took to produce that day's single copy (that's everything combined, editorial costs, and 30% print costs) came from advertising sources, of which something like 10% is digital, including subscriptions. And that's after years of massive layoffs and reductions in cost.

This is a simplified view, but it should illustrate the scale of operations. The headlining stories that people would pay for are currently loss leaders in a sense, so turning them into sole breadwinners is dooming rest of the stories produced for that day (I'm not paying for a police blotter story, unless it features a stolen tomato). And under that model there's the feedback risk of majority stories becoming tailored to their patrons, becoming images of darling kittens and pet goats.

Sideline to show I'm not just being my usual cynical self: for a brief time, AP tried to syndicate lolcats (yes, the i Can Has Cheezburger blog one) but then someone asked about the issue of image rights. Had this happened, it would have resulted in pretty much all of US newspapers ending up with kitten pictures in print, because readers would love it and it's no work at all to produce it.

These cost breakdown numbers are changing and vary greatly from newspaper to newspaper, but I hope it illustrates a dark and complicated reality of news decline. I don't know what's the solution, but you can't dismiss brick and mortar news agencies and think they can either instantly convert to digital media and revenue, or that independent online-online agencies can come replace it.

The non-syndicated stories you see in today's newspaper (go pick one up wherever you are) have been worked on for days, weeks, even months. And tomorrow's stories will have a similar breakdown of labor. Isn't it mind boggling? AP, AFP, Reuters will not concentrate in towns and fact check the local authorities and governance because they'd get stretched too thin, so newspapers mix and match local coverage with national as best they can. The kicker is that all that hard work spanning days, weeks, months gets used by local TV stations that very morning and (if the story is that unusual), by online-only agencies and aggregators, because they don't have all those boots on the ground.

It's complicated.

Reward for reading any of this rant, Dick Irwin's tomato blotter story: "Someone entered the rear yard of a house in the 5900 block of Johnson St. on Saturday morning and removed a tomato from a tomato plant. The tomato was valued at $3, police said."
>> Sick now I have something to blame for my chronic lying, thus clearly releasing me from any blame for my own mis-deeds.

Umm. Stop trying to place blame on others or yourself. Nothing good can come from that. Results stem from effort, nothing more or less. Learning comes from trying, both success and failure. Understand where you went wrong and aim to do better in the future. When you fail again, rinse and repeat all of the above. And remember none of this is easy, you're trying to overcome deeply ingrained patterns of thinking and behavior.
How to develop Similiar app like Paypal Clone?
Checking for bugs in Emscripten perhaps? A project as complex as an OS is probably good for finding edge-cases.
Clearly funds try and avoid going broke. However, many funds also have losses much greater than the market including the one we are talking about.

The truth is risk is hard to measure accurately and most Alpha is simply risk hidden from their investors.

Which is why a statistically significant Alpha takes more than a single funds past performance. And how someone just lost a 1 Million dollar bet on this crap.
National retailers mostly accept checks; they just treat them as debit card transactions though, scanning the numbers and printing the check for the customer, even handing it back to the customer after it is accepted.

I guess it isn't even limited to national retailers, the independent grocer here does it too, I guess because it is worthwhile for them to pay for it.
You have an interesting definition of 'private'.

http://www.npci.org.in/

Maybe diversify the sources you get your news from?
Reading the grandparent comment I was thinking to myself that Brave is trying to fix just this. Seeing you beat me to this comment made me happy!

It's super fast and very modern. Much faster than the live release of FF
It's rather silly to think you can publish an outright hostile and disparaging article about a big advertiser and not lose them.

The fact that you are forced to choose between making money and speaking the truth, shows your business model is broken (if you are the CEO or shareholders) or that you've really made crap life and career choices if you are an employee (or self employed).
I live and work in NYC and several of the companies I've worked for have never required more than 40 hours a week for work. In fact, if you did work long hours they would give you a day off or let you take extra vacation time like say taking a month long vacation to make up for it. You run someone into the ground then that person has health issues or leaves. Tech companies in NYC are very good about not having people work overtime. Even some older companies I've worked at like NYT and Reuters have great time off policies. I know for awhile Reuters had work from home Fridays.

All their business knowledge goes out the door with them. You end up wasting time with the hiring process and then finally hiring someone who costs more money who doesn't understand your business at all and won't be really able to contribute at a high level for 6 months while getting up to speed.
Show HN: 4KB Hacker News single page app using innerself-JS
> Clean your keyboard more regularly.

Just touching an Apple keyboard gives it a slight grease, despite regular cleaning. You don't get that on other keyboards, as they are textured slightly to prevent it.
Don't you need an at-least-mediocre GPU to get high resolution on 3 monitors on any OS? I wouldn't connect 3 high resolution monitors to a Windows or Mac machine with no GPU.
I have a suspicion that these use the same backend and the new brand is for marketing purposes.
its normally expected for salaried jobs that you do on average x hours a week and that you in most days for the core hours say 10 - 4
They don't consistently average 70% returns.

Feel free to list the years they had over 70% returns vs less than 70% returns.
Seems sensible to me. Improvement is the proverbial "learning to learn" lesson. It's also motivating and being motivated by improvement is a great mental habit.

This is what testing should be focused on, IMO. Creating some visibility for the learner on long and short term progress, and a "reward" for improvement.

The canonical system (IMO) for this is Kano Jigoro's judo belt system and its descendants. Works great for kids. Seems like we could do it for math or reading too.
The thing is, Slack isn't really really good at async communication at all. If I @mentioned someone and asked them a question, if they haven't responded to it within an hour or two, the odds of them coming back and answering it are extremely slim. People do miss e-mails, but not to that degree.
"No civil war destroyed all records"

It got pretty damned close in the Cultural Revolution.
Go for it! I'm working a 30-hour week right now. Like you, I feel even 40 hours/week of pure coding ist just not sustainable.

Out of the 3 software dev jobs I had up to this point all the people that 'worked' over-time were just wasting more time drinking coffee and chit-chatting with colleagues. Most of the time I just want to put in a productive day, solve 1 or 2 problems and then go home at a reasonable time, so I can actually enjoy my life, not just sit in a damn office all the time.

Also, having worked a 30-hour week for a few years now, I'd actually be willing to work a 40-hour week again, but only if my job then gives me responsibilies beyond just being a coder. Putting in 4-5 hours of really productive coding work a day and then spend the rest of the time on something else, like managerial work is something I can see myself actually doing. But expecting people to produce high-quality coding work for 8 hours a day is just wishful thinking.
What is your methodology for determining the change in defect rates and code quality?
As an aside, I think newer p2p oriented technologies will slowly improve the "pro bono" culture. When we can all host a site with a good UX, easily, that can handle reddit level traffic for free.. the model changes a lot.

Tech like IPFS could make the world a very interesting place.
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Ryanair is cancelling up to 50 flights a day
I'd pay for an alternative "lite" Slack client for basic channels, DMs, and attachments. With 10+ accounts, my 2017 mac struggles under the weight of the Electron mac client
I quite like the concept but it was pretty slow the last time I tried it. I'm going to keep checking in on it though.
Why this uproar about the licence? It didn't change. That this licence is a bit strange and not really free was obvious from the beginning. People starting converting their projects now only because Apache told them the obvious are as weird as this licence.
your not salaried one of the key features of salaried jobs I sno fixed hours of work and no OT.
Western colonialism happened pretty much among the same lines. Start as law-abiding traders, get pissed off by some local lord, build a fort, train a local army. Local army is better supplied and trained than local lords army, so now you engage in military games (either protection or outright conquest).

Certainly I don't see this happening in any of the African countries. What China can do is what most Western countries do today to get debtor countries in line: refuse access to credit, or increase the interest rates on future loans.

I'm interested to see if China plays regime-changing games that the US and (then) Soviet Union did when its interests were under threat. So far, it doesn't seem to be employing that strategy, but I wonder if they will...
Beliefs are narratives (myths) people hold with the intent to enact. Even atheists have beliefs. So I don't think they're easily dismissed. The story you're enacting might be the most consequential thing about you.

As far as forgiveness of CS, well, whether I'm supposed to forgive someone or not, I prefer forgiving because I want to live in a world where we can be forgiven.
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Mac is really the only choice for someone that has to be able to develop and test for everything because Apple products can only be developed and tested on Apple hardware and software, everything else can be run in VMs or dual booted.
> No, purely pointing out that what @baldfat said was a broad claim that is plainly false.

I get that you're saying it's false. But what you and them are talking about is a broad claim. Any answer to "what is the most commonly used type of laptop at these events?" is by definition a broad claim.

Even if your answer is "there is no one single type, because it varies" you're still making a broad claim about overall usage patterns.
It's fine to post dumb questions on Stack Overflow. It's not fine to post questions that are either incoherent or obviously have been previously asked. And you don't need any reputation/points/whatever.
I mean, they can be purchased with cash for one. There are private sites that let you meet up with sellers and transfer completely off the "grid" so to speak.
I categorise myself as one of the 'elite' beacuse you only need 500 karma in order to downvote; it's not about the fact that I don't have downvoting ability (I do) but about the fact that downvotes do so much to discourage potentially controversial discussion. Thank you for upvoting.
Content Based Image Retrieval Using a Convolutional Denoising Autoencoder
If your minimal travel keyboard is greasy and bacteria covered, I guarantee you your maximum depth mechanical keyboard is just as greasy and bacteria covered.
I'd love to run the latest Android, but my two year old phone can't run it. In fact, I'm stuck on 6.0. My iPad II (the second one) runs iOS9. Still runs fine for youtube, which is it's primary purpose.

When I finally retired my iPhone 4S after years, it could still run the latest iOS.
then your employer needs to plan better and descope where required
I guess that's more of a Windows problem. In my day-to-day use under Arch, I almost never use the function keys. I do, however, have the multimedia keys configured to do the appropriate things with my sound, screen brightness, wifi, etc.
For apps it supports, Ninite is a good way to avoid that kind of thing, although it may not have stopped the CCleaner issue. They package their installer with extraneous bundles removed.
I also really like the new keyboard. I use an older MBP for work and it used to be my favorite key design. Now it feels mushy.

For people who like to hit their keys hard, I can see it being a problem. For most though, give it a week and you'll be back up to speed and won't want to trade back.
Issue at uBlock's GitHub – "[Request for block] Crypto Miners": https://github.com/uBlockOrigin/uAssets/issues/690
Want to kill the fly with your hands, clap above it
Well I don't understand why I'm being downvoted then.

I very much agree with you, although for some amounts it isn't too hard to get a wallet funded without resorting to block mining. For example, meet up in person and buy with cash. Not tenable for hundreds of thousands or millions of dollars in a hurry, but certainly possible for tens of thousands, which is what most unaffiliated low level drug dealers want (so they can buy drugs via Tor and resell them in person for cash).

The thing is, most people fail to appreciate that security and privacy is a continuum. Just because the NSA could figure out who you are if they were highly motivated to do so, doesn't mean that Immigration Germany can, and when you have prostitutes getting human trafficked through employment visa programs, Bitcoin is a whole lot more private than banking. And if you know you are on the other side of an NSA level attacker, then it is still possible to maintain privacy, it's just exceptionally unpleasant and slow.

But once you have the private nodes set up, it's the easiest way of moving hundreds of millions of dollars across boarders. This is why I think it's going to be made illegal. Big gangs have some smart enough cyber guys and they'll use Bitcoin as a shadow banking system. But right now what gives Bitcoin its intrinsic value is greed: People think it might be the currency of the future and they rightly deduce that it will dramatically increase in value if it is. If governments uniformly ban transactions with cryptocurrencies this will collapse like beanie babies.

This is what I think will probably happen, although it is possible that governments try to get in and semi-regulate it enough to stop its usefulness by organized crime.
Most is not a number.

Upd: for more specific details:

https://thebreakthrough.org/generation_archive/effectiveness...

http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/10242694.2011.65...

Just few of dozens with proper citation and research, for those who need it.

This one is for UK known as very serious in police regard, afaik: http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-39183003

And finally, this one is world-wide. Scrolling through 2016 on mobile may be pretty enlightening or frightening, depending on your views: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_thwarted_Islamist_te...
I have one of these (two years newer) as well, but two things are pushing me towards an upgrade: the lack of support for multiple external monitors, and the lack of 4k support.

The somewhat anemic processor can be a concern as well. It in indeed capable of editing movies, but any major conversion jobs can take a lunch break to complete.
I just bought a refurb X230 for pocket change. Threw in a SSD and more RAM, then installed Arch. I can't believe how good it is. I'm going to move to it as my daily driver from a much newer Clevo.
My T470p has 2560x1440 at 14" that's high enough for me.

The T570 is available with 4k display.
Unfortunately, Brave is incompatible with the current business model of journalism, and I don't know if journalism can survive a war on multiple fronts - that is, a war on its pocketbook from the consumer side, and a war on its integrity from the government side.
I think GPs point was that people can clearly be productive more than 40 hours a week because so many are. How people should be compensated for their time is only loosely coupled with how many hours they can work.

I agree with you that we should be fairly compensated, but I also agree that the dogma of "40 is the max a worker can be productive, possibly less" is wrong in a large number of cases.
They don't provide “good prices” compared to traditional printing for any kind of volume, at best they provide good prices compared to common retail prices for traditionally printed work, but a publisher using them still has to amortize fixed non-printing costs across the print run, they can't just sell for the printing costs and even break even.

Those kind of services do make very small print runs possible at lower prices than would be the case for traditional printing at the same time (because they have lower fixed and higher per-unit costs than traditional printing), but they don't represent a reduction in overall printing costs.
A few years back I was able to configure payments for my Citizens' Bank credit card from a non-Citizens' checking account without any verification. Needless to say I was livid and contacted their customer service, who were basically like "yup that's how it works".

(I closed my account with them soon thereafter. Citizens' is awful for other reasons.)
This sounds a lot like the Ripple network. Or is there a substantial technological difference?
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Right pinky brigade checking in.

Mechanical solved this for me instantly.
The worst cost/benefit in terror attacks in history.
It's not working hard though, it's working stupid. You get tired and become less effective. You make more mistakes and you end up going backwards.

Now, people will vary in this, but as a general metric, if you try to get programmers to routinely put in long hours, you're on to a loser.

Personal projects are different, and are not generally deadline-riven stress-fests.
India IT Professional Layoffs: Inevitable or Unnecessary?