skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I love this as ultimately it shows what nonsense the equation really is.

I detest people doing "science-y, maths-y" things to try and give credibility to an idea. The idea here is fine, the equation utter bilge.

For me it goes back to hearing Jeff Dachis of Razorfish doing a talk in which he mentions boolean postulates which left me in little doubt that he knew precisely as much about mathematics as you'd expect from someone with a bachelor’s degree in dance.

BTW - On the last line you mention "watts per half hour". This makes no sense here - a watt is a measure of energy over time, watts per half hour would be a measure of energy over time over time, or more neatly change in power.
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I have been talking about the importance of exercise with joel. You need to be able to operate at peak both mentally and physically if you want to have serious result in your startup.
> in Germany it is very, very common to work extra hours that are not paid and not in the books

I am working in Germany and what are you talking about? More specifically which industry? The employment laws here are so ridiculously pro-employee that I basically need to "excuse" and justify myself if I was to work more than X hours a week. And typically, at least in IT, a certain amount of overtime (or a "flat charge") is in your contract and you get more salary for that - more than the so called "collective agreement" requires your employer to pay you. So for most people in regular jobs, I doubt this holds true. Maybe small IT startups try to squeeze the youngens by circumventing all laws and regulations? At least where I am working, typical German bigger but not huge company, you can set your clock by how punctual they show up to and especially leave work; shortly after 5pm they can start cleaning here because that's when practically the whole building is empty except for some poor souls like me.

"High profile", executive level jobs are different, that is true but this is to be expected at that level and pay rate and I doubt you will find any other country where this doesn't hold true.
I'm doing quite tangible stuff myself as well.

On the one hand, I'm helping people preserving their pension funds by detecting risky situations early. These people don't want highly speculative markets or high profits, they don't want their savings protected from the money printing machine among other things.

I'm also helping decide producers what should they be doing next, to meet demand and so people don't suffer shortages. I don't work for a bucket shop or a commodity hoarding fund. I help supply meet demand and more people have their needs met and better met than otherwise thanks to people like me. There would be a lot more poverty in the world without this industry. In fact, there was a lot more poverty in the world as a direct result of the lack of this level of commerce in the past. It's not our duty to stop the poorest regions of the world from over-breeding, though, which is the main reason for poverty nowadays (including pockets of poverty in wealthy nations).
the code is not 100% complete. I will put it once it's ready.
Cool good stuff.

Couple of ideas you're welcome to (I played with exactly the same idea you have a few years ago but couldn't be bothered in the end):

The distinction between private and commercial ads isn't always clear, particularly on Gumtree where a lot of the time when you call a supposed private ad, it's actually an agent. You could add a "blacklist" of mobile telephone numbers which are known to be agents so if you view a private ad link there should be a link to "report this as a commercial property agent" and then after a threshold, mark any scraped ads with that number as commercial. Some people prefer going directly as the agency fees and service is utter crap and eats into your property budget pretty quick.

Add your own private adverts as well so you're the best augmented source of properties there are. Be the agent :-)

Also, don't just target the word "flat" - it can be a seen as a negative for non-flats so you're excluding some of your potential already. There is a lucrative market in high end housing which you could charge click-throughs on later to support yourself!

Enjoy :-)
Ask HN: Have I burnt out and what should I do?
Hello HN, I'm a fairly active member of the HN community but, as usual with this kind of post, I'm posting with a throwaway to avoid being labelled "damaged goods".

For the past few months, I've found it harder and harder to be motivated at work. I've known that I have had things to do, yet instead of doing them I will browse the internet, do other projects or even just sit there doing nothing. I open terminals, long files or emails - just so I can seem busy.

In my spare time, I contribute a lot to open-source and I work on a lot of projects in my spare time - I don't think I'm just being lazy as I will work hard in my spare time. I just can't bring myself to work hard at my job.

It's becoming more and more stressful as I am unable to complete projects that need to be done. I have a few that are urgent now but I keep putting them off, making up excuses, etc. I've just had yet another given to me. This time with a 3 week deadline. It's stuff I know that I can do and there's more than enough time, but I just can't bring myself to do it.

Most days I go home thinking to myself "I literally did nothing today". It's depressing and I'm really starting to hate work.

Is this burnout or just laziness and how can I tell? What should I do? Should I try and get better or just quit and hope for success at a new position? What if it happens again (I've been fine for the past year or so since I joined my present company, it has just been these past months)? Finally, does anyone else have any experience with burn-out and how did you get over it?
The idea is reverse. It's not about saying "you owe me". It's about "I owe you", so that you don't have to many unreturned favors.
This is indeed one of the many reasons I'd never want to use a stock ROM.
That's a fair point. But it's true that the government took advantage of the tools offered to the country for free and unchecked by the EU (namely, subsidies and cheap credit lines) to lull people into a false sense of euphoria (To think that in 2000-2007 governments were proud for having the highest-growing economy in the EU (with borrowed money, of course)). There is an issue with EU's general lack of adequate checks on how EU money is spent in individual countries (esp. the south).
One thing that I always find very unsettling when reading things like that: how Germany is somehow always an epitome of efficiency and productiveness. I am working here and I absolutely do NOT perceive it like that and friends who are also working here confirmed that impression. We are constantly swapping horror-stories of stupid bureaucracy, lengthy extremely bloated processes, having to do things five times, lazy people, stupid people, people who have no idea about their job and no education, tons of stupid "office wars/games" going on, lengthy discussions about very petty things and just for the sake of "but I was actually right" and so on and so forth...

The only conclusion is then, it is much much MUCH worse elsewhere? Really?? (Or is this just some sort of "halo effect"?)
Perhaps someone needs to get rid of them...
I'd tend to agree with CPops. If you have a reason to learn it will motivate you. If you have clients in that country or if you are intending to travel to a place, it will give you incentive to learn.

I might be a bit biased, but I'd go with Mandarin Chinese! A lot of people speak this language :)

I'm also the founder of a company called Native Tongue which creates vocabulary apps. It's one of the most simple ways to learn and fun to, so I'd invite you to try out our apps. Go to nativetongue.com and check out our mobile apps. If you have any questions, email me on hello at nativetongue dot com.

Thanks,

Matt
Or perhaps not.

Other countries in western Europe are fine without it, and with a low(er) crime rate to boot.

You believe in a connection between surveillance and crimes. Exactly that assumption is the part that seems debatable - even if we ignore the whole privacy argument.
Dear MehdiEG, thanks a bunch for pointing them out.

1) We are indeed trying to solve this problem, our approach is collaboration amongst house hunters. Users who found scam/expired properties can report them, then other won't find it. We also intend to integrate AI in this problem. Pls Keep an eye on this ;)
That site not only does science education, but its founder Deborah Byrd also replies to comments from her website visitors, with a skeptical view. The commenters generally see the End Of The World in solar flares:

Comment: "I believe that a flare big enough [...] would affect the Earth’s magnetic field. [...] the magnetic field is weakening [...] flare lets get some volcanoes and earth quakes [...] infastructure collapse?"

Reply: "We see too much about possible disasters that are, essentially, out of the control of people like you and me. There’s way too much fear-mongering going on in the world."

Comment: "It does not concern me so much what a powerful X-Class flare may do to our technology, but more importantly what it may do to our bodies on a cellular level."

Reply: "We humans evolved under the influence of solar flares, including x-flares. They have been happening for all of human history. We’ll be fine."

Comment: "...wouldn’t that mean that massive solar flares will damage the ozone layer?"

Reply: "The concern most people talk about is not to Earth itself – or our human bodies – but to our technology."
most administrative services close at 13:00 for the public. Still, the greater issue is not the hours worked, it's the fact that it's unacceptably slow. For example, most accounting offices employ people whose job is to wait in queues outside government offices all day (such as tax and social security offices).
Thanks Alpha. That is great info. However, I tried all these tools and none of them are quite good. Blackboard has very few startups (most in their list are publicly traded cos) LinkSV is very hard to navigate. Also, these companies are focused on SV startups alone. I wish they had more data of non-US startups too.
Hint: giraffe is an animal. Next letter is h.

BTW - it's case sensitive so try both ways if it doesn't work.
I made something that looks a bit similar a year ago using Gumtree data: http://www.live-there.co.uk/

All the data is now outdated however since there didn't seem to be anything to gain from putting any more work to it (and I would prefer to avoid web development stuff...).
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Blah, still no mention of SSL CNAME support.
"Your personal brand preferences may be altered to align with those of our sponsors." What marketer wouldn't want the ability to do exactly this?
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I don't know about Greece but the statistics in the page are quite disturbing to read. You do long work hours to be more productive, but in the end (probably it has more factors than that but I am simplifying it) it doesn't do you any good so you do overtime, which damages your productivity even more...

This is the most damned vicious cycle I've ever seen I think...
2) That's absolutely true. We are at the moment like Google for rent and not controlling the data. When the users can post ad on our platform, we definitely notice this point.
They don't do the quite the same thing.

ls | grep junk

is more similar to

ls -d *junk*

You can argue the first is simpler. You can also argue more successfully that it is more general.

edit: I acknowledge the points in your link. Advocates for the unix "bunch of small tools" philosophy tend to overlook its weak spots.
Put on:

1) support for characters outside ASCII (at least latin1, accented letters do appear as a space)

2) better copy/paste. Right now it has problems (FF12)

3) Custom page size

and it will be an excellent tool. Keep up the good work.
Very interesting to see that Norway is the 2nd most productive, but ranks 3rd in fewest hours worked! Makes me feel good about leaving work at four. ;)
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It has both effectively infinite possibility for goodness and infinite possibility for badness. Your virtual body can be anything you want... as long as you control the execution parameters. This is not guaranteed! What if $YOUR_LEAST_FAVORITE_COMPANY is the one in control? Or worse? Even the option of suicide can be removed from you. If Hell does not exist, there is a non-zero chance Man will make it for himself.

Indeed, if things are just left alone I would not even say the default state is that you'll be in control of your own code. It will be a company that develops this technology first, since the alternative is inconceivable, and they will have their own agenda. There's a lot more possibilities that could emerge than just a happy utopia.
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There does not need to be any knowledge of _any_ class. A factory method _still_ needs a class instance, you don't need them with factory constructors.

A classical, say Java or C# way will still need coupling to such a class. In dart, there is real decoupling going on.
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I haven't tried it out yet (it seems pretty early-on) but it is a pretty cool idea. Lunchspire is to Meetup.com what Twitter is to Blogging.
There's a range of options out there. These are some of the ones I've used / encountered

- from podcasts: Chinesepod
- eChineselearning: skype lessons
- Livemocha: connect with people from China and get them to help you out with exercises/voices
- M&MX: http://www.mandmx.com Awesome comics and learn Chinese blog posts
- Confused laowai: confusedlaowai.com

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Germany 'enforced' the borowing rates? Let's look a few years back. The rating agencies rated all kinds of junk very high. The banks all over the place where very creative with products hiding the risks. When Germany was asking for tighter regulations we were ignored or laughed at. Now the Germans simply demand that the lessons are learned and we see structural reforms - reforms which can not be done by just throwing more money at countries high in debt.
From what I have witnessed over the years your feeling could be caused by really various factors. If you want some advice from the crowd here you probably need to provide some more details - at least about your professional situation e.g. big company or small? good management or not? good team or not? interesting project or not?

The optimistic scenario is: maybe you got bored with your current job? Some people just need changes.
As a portuguese also, I totally subscribe this. Hence the reason I don't work in/for Portugal anymore, and I won't until this mentality is gone for good.
What's the name of the first dad.
Why spend more than what you can earn?

Because you can generate more wealth than the interest costs you, and hence everyone can get wealthier. Government and people and companies have been borrowing money to spend on things for ages.
I disagree. What are these great products you talk about?
If you can fix this problem, you've got a goldmine in your hands. Never mind the map, simply knowing that the flats you're looking at are actually real would completely change the experience (the map is very handy though - keep it of course).
I'm not talking about the actual content, just that they had made the service unavailable to people that might direly need them. If you're fighting for democratic rights in a country with severely restricted freedoms, it might not be a matter of just checking back for the service to be up, probably you'd have limited windows to of oportunity operate. You may just have missed the chance to warn a fellow activist in time to save his life, or your own.
As a Greek I have to admit that this number tells half the truth. The other half is that in terms of productivity Greece is very low. So while we may work a lot more than the average German the quality of the products/services we provide is significantly worse.
I think a more appropriate way of putting it is that voters get the government they deserve.

I suspect "making tax evasion harder" hasn't been a viable platform to run on in Greece for a while.
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The idea of marking mobile numbers is excellent, very useful!!!

Flat for rent/Flat for share is indeed just the category name, info of houses are included in the database too.
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I'm not sure about all security-related aspects of it, but concerning a separation between application logic and data, unhosted[1] comes to mind.

[1] http://www.unhosted.org
it's more of the backend work than frontend thou :).
I'm also from Portugal but I have been working in London for some time now. Curiously, I don't see much of a difference besides now working only from 9 to 6 instead of working from 9 to 10. Same useless meetings, a very long line for coffee all day long, everyone is a manager, etc.

My opinion is a simple one: some countries sell stuff others want, some don't. We were just unlucky and not smart enough to value our geographical position in the world.
I think you nailed it. Definitely the way to go.
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>many of the statute on legislation.gov.uk is not guaranteed to be up to date //

They say it's updated within 24h of publication. Which seems to be as up to date as you'll get.

There are http://services.parliament.uk/bills/ and http://bills.ais.co.uk/AC.asp for tracking bills before publication (the later one isn't working at the moment though).

So for example the 1st reading in the Lords of the Online Safety Bill was on 14th May and the text can be read at http://services.parliament.uk/bills/2012-13/onlinesafety.htm....
This is all intended to be constructive, I really like where you're going.

I signed up and began skimming around. Not sure if you're just overloaded with traffic or if your lightboxes are having a hard time loading, but I can't preview any of the themes at the moment. Half of the time the lightbox preloader isn't going away.

Also, please consider adding more hotkey bindings for things. I really would prefer using my mouse as little as possible. I was trying to delete elements only to find that the delete hotkey doesn't work.

Also, as mentioned by adityar, I'm not sure what to do with your charts section. I can't see how the data can be manipulated, if at all.

Lastly, your objects paginator isn't paginating for me. I click on another page, watch the increment, but the icons don't change.
Unfortunately it still happens, the only difference is they have footage.

It's not just CCTV, cameras are ubiquitous, in everyones pockets.

Just look at the London riots, and the mugging of a student after he had already been attacked.

It was caught both on smartphone and on CCTV.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-15232750

Even faced with video evidence they pleaded not guilty.
http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2012/03/02/john-kafunda-reec...

They've now been sentenced to 5 and 3.5 years in jail.

The cameras didn't stop it happening. The police watch from afar and convict later.
Show HN: I have no friends so I created Strangers for Dinner to make friends
Sure, if writers write faster than they can write well, then there will be declines.

But thinking about it, many authors I am quite fond of seem to have routinely published two or more books a year during their more productive phases. Elizabeth Bear and Charles Stross are two great young SF writers who have done it well for their entire novel-publishing careers. Going back further, Asimov (counting non-fiction) and L'Amour seem to have been that productive for most of their careers, Moorcock and Zelazny for the major portions of them.

Thinking over it, I'd say what these authors had in common in their productive period was that they were writing full time and their books were short! I suspect the average page length of the books I counted was 250 pages, maybe as low as 200. Based on that, I'd suggest a good strategy for doubling the number of books you publish in a year without reducing the quality is simply cutting the page count for each book. Honestly, I wouldn't be surprised if that actually raised the quality of the books...
#1 - ABSOLUTELY. Having recently moved in London, my first approach was to search sites like RightMove, etc. and create a little spreadsheet of 15 properties we'd shortlisted. After calling each estate agent, not a single property was actually available. Incredibly frustrating.

edit: Also regarding charges, parking data (whether it's included, or if not how much is an on-street permit from the council, etc.) would be great!
When a market is flooded with easy, cheap money distortions occur. Witness the housing excesses in the U.S. prior to 2008. This is a phenomenon of human nature. Excess credit inevitably leads to too many bad loans.
Don't.

My suggestion for almost all businesses is to use AWS for S3, SQS, SWF etc and then get dedicated/VPS servers in the same data center. I actually get faster ping times to SQS from my dedicated server than from EC2 (both in US-East).

EC2 is the biggest ripoff going around. And all the other AWS services are some of the most awesome going around.
yup this needs to be taken seriously.
RIP my friend. Cheers from a fellow gear head.
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The ability to see a bad side, and the inability to see the bright side are two different things.

Of course digital immortality is inestimably cool. There are so many amazing and obvious positives that we can even imagine on this side of the singularity.

However, if we only think of the positives, without considering the negatives, then we run the risk of stumbling blindly into a dystopia created by the few who did think of the negatives (and how to profit from them), or by optimists who failed to plan for a suboptimal outcome.

From another point of view, fiction about a perfect utopia is boring. You need some imperfection in order to provide the requisite tension to make a story.