skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I guess bad publicity doesn't pay
Python, JavaScript and HTML puts you at 3 and that's the least you need for web development.

Or are you supposed to do nothing but back end in Python, or just HTML front ends?
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45-55/week of actual work, excluding internet time and lunch, including reading time (e.g. becoming a better programmer) and time spent thinking on work. I'm at a startup, so I'm lucky in terms of being able to spend most of my time on real work.

College was 40-45/week including side projects. Grad school was 20-25/week (I wasn't a great student, and I didn't finish). First job out of school was 10-15/week (50+ office presence). Second-- trading at a hedge fund-- was about 35-45 (again, 50+ office presence).

One nice thing about programming is that it's not an unrealistic aspiration to spend 30+ hours per week on actual work.
This may help a little:

http://tom.preston-werner.com/2008/11/03/how-to-meet-your-ne...
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If you can explain it to your customers you should be able to explain it to others to help you sell it.
i'm generally skeptical when people claim they have discovered the single X that caused Y, especially when Y is this particular Wall Street collapse. i don't think this article gives a particularly convincing argument about why this formula single handedly "killed Wall Street".
This is impossible to answer. As a freelancer sometimes I have absolutely no work on a given day, sometimes I'm piling in 12+ hours a day for a deadline. You should add "it depends" as an option.
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>"The internet allows for piracy at a scale that far surpasses the scale of sharing tapes among friends, but it's not going away and need to be capitalized on."

With services available like the Pirate Bay, an artist might have millions of fans enjoying his music but there will be no way for him to capitalize on it. The only way I can see to monetize bit torrent for artists are very indirect and way out of proportion to the enjoyment they create, akin to putting google ads on a popular website. Examples include using recorded music as an advertisement for big, expensive concerts and begging people to donate after they already have your music for free.

>"The argument that a pirated copy equals a lost sale is total bunk. I would have bought maybe 1% of what I've downloaded."

How much of that did you actually buy? For many people it is 0%.

Money has flowed out of music lately. The industry as a whole is shrinking. Downloaders sometimes say it is because "music isn't as good as it used to be". The music industry blames it on easy free downloads. I am more inclined to believe the latter. There is still lots of great music out there.

That said, I don't think there is any way to stop what is happening, and it is incumbent on artists that want to survive to deal with it as best they can. Unfortunately, that might mean going back to that day job at Starbucks for most of them.
Maybe I'll have to watch more, as I've always considered him Ambien in human form.
Stating that the emperor has no clothes is not appreciated here.

I think plenty of the 'wannabe' startups here are a bit like kids 'playing house'. If you say hey, it's just a blanket and two couches they get mad at you for breaking the illusion.
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8-9 hours at work and then another 3-4 on side projects at home... The maximum option should probably be 12-15 hours.

Yes I consider all the stuff besides actually coding to be work as well. Writing on the whiteboard counts, waiting for tests to run counts, even reading hacker news counts. It's all part of it.
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Easily 12 hours a day of work as I have a day job and freelance in my spare time as well (I like the extra money but I'm too much of a Chicken to jump to full time!)
I'm pretty sure the social stuff counts as work, too. But I wouldn't call it nonsense. ;-)
Thank you Allocator2008,

Maybe I was ambiguous. I was referring to 'error skepticism', and 'regress skepticism' rather error and skepticism as distinct entities. But your latter explanation answers my query; I am, however, unimpressed with that response.

To summarise: (1) skepticism is self defeatist, and (2) skepticism offers no ethical foundation. I'll refute each in turn.

(1):

Skepticism is not a proposal, i.e., "Knowledge doesn't exist." for that would be contradictory. Skepticism can be seen, within the Western tradition, as the philosopher's conscience. It asks: "If we prescribe to 'X' can we prescribe to 'Y'". Skeptics posit hypotheticals, not absolutes.

Consider the hard skeptic, he holds nothing - not even that nothing can be known. It's a dark room, but that metaphor can only get us so far because the skeptic can't even know that the room's dark. Skeptic's arguments go thusly, "I cannot run arguments in my metaphysic; however, I see you have a different metaphysical system and I see that within yours argument 'X' would be possible meaning the system collapses in on itself".

In that way skepticism is not contradictory, if you'd like to hear the skeptic's arguments (that run in your metaphysic) ask me to elaborate.

(2):

There's no logical bridge between what-is and what-ought; your metaphysic does not change your ethic; for example,

(1) Humans are egoists.
(C) We ought to make egoist choices.

That doesn't follow; we'd need another proposition, namely: (2) The right thing to do is be true to ourselves. So now we have two distinct propositions (1), which is metaphysical, and (2), which is ethical. We see that any ethical conclusion must admit an ethical proposition. But now we have to support prop. (2), which can only be done using another ethical prop., a la, infinity.

Conclusion: there is no bridge between is and ought. (G.E.Moore)

All that is to say, nobody can act on the basis of a metaphysic.
Yes.
It was fixed nearly right away in Webkit nightlies.
About 10.

I generally work 2.5 hours and then take a 1/2 hours break where I talk to people, browse the Internet, whatever. So with working 6am to 6pm that comes out to about 10 hours total.
Missing option: 13+. I do my best thinking in my sleep.
Apologies for the multpost - Safari 4 Beta is cocking up something Cronic at the mo.
they are relatively simple in terms of business logic. As long as you can 'shard' a problem parallel servers can solve your problem easily. As soon as that is no longer possible because of business logic constraints the real fun begins.
We place the blog home link in the header and the link to our main site in the side content. Do you all think this suffers from the same problem? http://blog.flowmingle.com - thanks
What does "REALLY" really mean here?

Should I count office face time only?

Should I add hours if I check company email from home?

Should I subtract hours when I slack off during office hours?

Should I subtract hours I spend doing paid stuff that I count as useless tedium or overhead work?

So, my answer is: It Depends. Paid face time: 8 hours. Work that matters to the product: <4 hours. Face time plus work-related reading at home: 9 hours.
They valued Ars Technica at $15 million, it sold for a rumored $25 million. That's not "very near" the predicted valuation.
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This is a great news. Google it's free cloud computing. Use Google SpreadSheet to save records (contact forms, order, etcs) it's a great functionality that some rails plugins can add easily.
Horrible writing style. Made me stop reading after the first two paragraphs.
Facebook et al risk 'infantilising' the human mind
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mine does ;) https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/7423
Interesting that US law forbids curved rear view mirrors in cars. Too bad, those seem very improvable.
if you write succinctly it forces you to be clear

Well put. I think this is also true for code: succinct code is generally easier to read and understand. This only works up to a point, though: overly succinct code becomes obfuscated code. Or maybe it's simply that some kinds of succinctness are beneficial, and some kinds are harmful.
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I've been using the Web Inspector in WebKit nightlies for awhile now and it still doesn't measure up to FireBug.

Even the simplest thing like changing CSS properties on the fly just don't work right in Web Inspector yet. I can't wait for it to catch up though so I can quit running 2 browsers simultaneously all the time!
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Neat! I still don't see the use for the awesome bar, period, but that's a good workaround to have.
I said that it started in the 1600s in England, not that they invented it.

And don't be facetious, everyone knows the Dutch were very innovative during the slave trade.
Why not just browser.urlbar.autoFill -> true?
Does anyone know why? Just a wild guess, could it be possible that drivers might get distracted with too much visual information?
I don't see why they'd "spite" Google for taking long on Chrome. They don't want Chrome on the Mac... they get to charge Google for the searches that come through Safari.
Well, I generally come in at least fifteen minutes late, ah, I use the side door--that way Lumbergh can't see me, heh--after that I sorta space out for an hour. I just stare at my desk, but it looks like I'm working. I do that for probably another hour after lunch too, I'd say in a given week I probably only do about fifteen minutes of real, actual, work.
This isn't so bad. I've been at parties with Facebook people who brag about the celebrity accounts they've been spying on.
copyright violates free speech, no? If I'm forbidden from singing happy birthday to you, isn't that censoring my speech?
Haha funny how evertime a poll is post on HN everyone tend not to fit in any categories ... You nerdy hackers ;)

13+ for me
Define "work"
I thoroughly agree with Herring when he said, "To be fair, the quote is wrong."

If you're not going to quote correctly, why quote at all? In this case, it's because the best support Anderson could find for his argument is Peter Norvig's name. Norvig didn't want to give it, but Anderson went and took it anyway.

The most mystifying thing was the fact-checking call. Anderson might as well have said, "Hi, I'm planning to misquote you in a future article. Please say that's OK, because then I'd have slightly more journalistic integrity than when you say no and I go ahead and print it anyway."
Although an amazing feat, it means little if it costs something like $50,000 to produce.

Hope it can become a consumer usable good. For nwo though, there's a lot of industry uses.
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Chrome is the best browser I've used yet. Firefox is nice but I'm a big fan of minimalism and chrome is minimal in most aspects.(Except Memory but I will sacrifice memory for sanity)
> That said, a careful study of my past shows that 40% of my "sick" days have been taken on either Monday or Friday.

Monday and Friday are 40% of the work week! This shows no bias for being "sick" on those days more often.
If you're not happy about how "one sided" this is, I'd suggest http://questioncopyright.org if you want a more reasoned argument.

The gist of it is that if we all abandoned copyright, we'd lose a few things, but the gains would outweigh the losses.

I agree, but I also don't like big-budget movies, and don't lay any closed-source games, so I guess I'm in the tiny minority.
Is it the formula that killed Wall Street or an inability or unwillingness to recognize its limitations? Sounds like the latter.
But when you get used to it you won't be able to go back.
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Leonardo da Vinci was a hopeless procrastinator.
Cool stuff, but I'm having a problem with the new Web Inspector... it seems to show the ungzipped file size for all files, rather than the gzipped one (which would be more useful).
For a startup community, the answers are surprisingly small. I thought everyone was working 80 hrs a week.
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Coming from the glass house of the HN comments section, a documented bastion of productivity...
I like it so far. The only thing that bugs me a little is that when you open a lot of tabs, it's a bit more cramped than before (and I'm always afraid of hitting the "close tab" button), and that to re-arrange tabs, you have to drag them by the corner (otherwise you move the whole window).
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It was a tongue-in-cheek reference to a Dilbert cartoon where the boss gets mad about that particular statistic.
Its probably even less than that
Time spent coding isn't work--it's social nonsense, except involving computers instead of people. Time spent thinking (designing and modeling the problem) is work.
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The Grauniad risks infantilising the human mind by telling people they should sit on their backsides and wait for the government to do everything for them.
I saw a pretty luscious-looking ad at the LA airport as well, on big flatscreens in the Virgin America terminal.
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I tried it and didn't notice any difference. Just saying.
But saying "This isn't reddit" will get you a few.
The "Objects in the mirror may appear closer than they are" warning is a US thing also isn't it?
It's probably because they distort the size/distance of objects, and drivers not accustomed to that might make an accident because of it.
It's really amazing, does anyone has a link to an explanation of how this works? does anyone have a theory?

Also: Does the car driver mirror work from just the driver's angle, or from every angle? It would be amazing if it worked from every angle.
I define work as anything I do that directly adds value to whoever is paying me for that time - client, employer, myself, etc. That clocks in at 3-12 hours a day, depending on day job work load plus side projects, averaging about 3-4 hours.

However, (and this is a big however), I do lots of things that make me a better worker. That includes socializing (sharing ideas), reading, experimenting in different algos, languages, etc. That doesn't directly add value, but it does in the long run.
There is quite a bit to this talk that can't be adequately captured by the title. For one thing, Gladwell shows how people cannot articulate what exactly they want (even though they know it when they see it), a point that pg has previously emphasized in his essays on style and design. Using spaghetti sauce as the metaphor, Gladwell also shows how NOT to survey users on what they prefer, and suggests that celebrating individual differences and tastes (along many dimensions) produces more happiness than a one-size-fits-all model, regardless of how authentic or well-designed that one model is.
Ask HN: How does your software company deal with change?
How does your software company deal with changes to project requirements, teams, business, market, or technology? Any stories, anecdotes, or rants would be appreciated. E.g. If my company receives a project requirement change a week before releasing, we flat-out refuse (wishful thinking, I know).

In the interest of full-disclosure, I'm asking HN because I need to write a paper on how the software industry deals with change in general. Part of the assignment was to interview someone assigned by the professor and get their input. Well, instead I wanted to get some feedback from the HN community, since many of you are actually part of software companies varying in sizes from start-ups to corporations. I'm also very interested in this subject, since I'll be working soon and have to decide between working for a start-up or a big company.

Thanks in advance for any replies! Also, please e-mail me at greg[at]enellcreative[dot]com if you would rather not publish your story here, but wouldn't mind telling me.

P.S. I just registered an account, but have been reading HN for months now. It's great!
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They did not announce the change that I mentioned. In addition, the app broke on a Monday night, which is NOT when platform updates get rolled out.

Someone was editing the code on the live site and made an undocumented change.

The call I'm talking about is a javascript call made through a Flash app. The problem isn't that a page is timing out, the problem is that we have to wait for this call for the app to allow the user to continue.
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Time at my job: An official 8 hours of butt-in-chair. Actual work: usually more like 4 hours. (This is on days without meetings! The things I'm doing right now have a major bottleneck caused by a programmer fresh out of school who did not realize the dire consequences of generating 4000+ subdirectories automatically and checking them into SVN. I don't mind; I probably would have to find other ways to spread out my work time if it weren't for that.)

Time doing "my" work: 1-2 hours on weekdays, 4-6 hours on weekends. The stuff I'm doing is 100x as interesting of course, and I don't have to communicate, so I'm probably 10x as productive. I find that by the end of the weekend I'm always a little shocked at having to come into the workplace and slow down again.

For a few months recently, I found it really, really hard to get things together at the end of the day. Then I realized that a significant part of the problem was because of blood pressure; it's higher in the evening, making it harder to concentrate, and I had let my average drift upwards as well by eating junky stuff.

Now I try very hard to get it down - diet during the day, 20 minutes cardio after work - so that I can stay productive in the evening.
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They say it in the article... the mirror's curve is calculated to cause the light to be bounced more than once before being reflected to the viewer - so it's more like several mirrors, except they're built into a single physical object that looks like a mirror.
I know this is going to sound weird, but I don't separate "work" time from "non-work" time.

Everything I do either provides immediate value to another entity that pays me for it, provides long-term value to me or somebody else, or is in support of providing value at a later date.

Sleep? Got to do it to think clearly during the day. Exercise? Same deal. Travel? Need to reach a client site. Books? Strategic and tactical learning for future capabilities.

I guess the only time that wouldn't fit in the above model would be "pure" family time -- going to a recital or attending a family event. But even most family activities are in support of providing value at some future time.

A long time ago I stopped thinking about "working" like most people do. I'm always working -- or I'm never working. Depends on how you look at it, I guess. I do worthwhile stuff and people give me money for it. There's not a direct relationship between a unit of work and a unit of money, so I just decoupled the concepts.
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~8 just with classes, homework, and studying to get good grades (Attending GATech), plus part time work as a developer gives me somewhere between 9-12, depending on the urgency of the project I'm given.
Are we talking wall-clock time, wall-clock time related to employer, or RescueTime?

I'm at work from about 10:00 AM to around 7:30-8:00 PM. I'm doing employer-related things basically the whole time. However, that includes two meals (usually spent with teammates or friends in other areas of the company), meetings, tech talks, random office chatter, design brainstorming, code reviews, asking for help, etc.

I'm really skeptical that time spent actually coding totals more than 4-5 hours/day. That was my RescueTime average when I was doing my startup, with my absolute max at 7 hours/day, and I think I worked much harder then than I do now.

I also have side projects and do some thinking about work-related stuff at home, but I don't count that at all. How do you measure your thoughts? If you randomly come up with a good idea while in the shower, does that count as work?
I read that. I meant an explanation which actually shows how it's built, not just describing generally its principle of operation.
Why are you so fixated on lists? There is more to functional programming than that.
Couldn't have put it better.

When your work is what you most want to do, you're working 24 hours a day.

Now, to be fair, I don't count watching BSG or Heroes with my girlfriend as a "work activity", but that's really a small percentage of my total time. Certainly I could reading stuff on HN as "work", in that it is productive to my aims (which include being on the bleeding edge of what's going on on the web so that I can make insightful comments about it, draw useful conclusions from it, and generally use the information in various productive ways).

Small caveat: I played WoW a bit for the last 6 months. That was definitely not work, and took up silly amounts of time - hence why I stopped.
I am interested in another question: how do you know how many hours do you really work? Do you count how many minutes you read HN? :-)
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The title is technically correct, but still misleading. I was expecting to see an API for talking to BigTable, but all I got was a way to list my spreadsheets at Google docs.

I've been fooled by this before, so you'd think I'd learn. Still, it would be nice if Google would rename their Google Docs API to "Google Docs API" and ditch the misleading "Data" term.
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How to find a cofounder with talent and drive is the hard part. I know a bunch of people who say "sweet idea" when I mention starting a company, but most of them are not at the top of their game or ready to take the process seriously. The people who are already enjoy what they're doing. :(