skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>I have no idea where it came from or why.

It was very likely a product of the Reformation, and almost certainly had nothing to do with debt. Specifically, the ethic arose from the philosophies of Luther and Calvin in the 16th century. Prior to L&C, the dominant Catholic line held that hard work was a means to achieve salvation. Work was punishment. If you weren't performing good works you would go to hell. Working hard to serve your god? Good: perhaps you will be saved. But don't work too hard, because hoarding wealth is a sin. Pay your excess forward to the Church and it will help your cause in the end.

Luther didn't exactly turn this conception on its head but altered it, which opened the doors for later change. He believed that work was good because it served not only the individual but also the social whole. The main expression of this was a dissolution of occupation-based social hierarchies. For example Luther rejected that something like agricultural work was inherently less valuable than a monastic calling. All work had value, and all work had equal value in the eyes of God. The main thing is that each person was called to work by God, and to work was to exercise your noble calling. This is basically an inversion of the concept of work as punishment.

Calvin both carried Luther further and branched out. His was probably the first interpretation of Christianity to state that maximizing profit from one's work was not only good but also required. This wasn't a call to maximize profit in pursuit of an easy life, since even rich folk had a duty to perform hard work. Rather the duty was to improve the Kingdom of God (and one's society) through investment. This doesn't mean philanthropy or giving to the poor, rather something like modern capitalism where an individual's investment (sometimes, often) produces positive effects for those around him. Devoted, hard workers help to maintain a cohesive social whole, which in turn mitigates the chaos and disorder that might stem from idleness.

Underlying Luther's and to a greater extent Calvin's philosophies is the notion of predestination. Dominant Catholic thought posited that people were born sinners but could earn salvation over a lifetime. Predestination rejected this, stating instead that God chooses the saved at birth. That is, you're either saved or you're not out of the womb, and there's nothing you can do about it. During your life, you can't know whether or not you are one of the elect. However you sure as heck want to be, so you do your best to live in the way you think the elect would live. If you succeeded, this could be perceived as evidence of your having been chosen to be saved. Hence the social drive to work extremely hard and produce as much as possible.

The above is probably a bit rambling and somewhat of a bastardization, but it's generally correct. Given that, I'm not surprised that in a historically Catholic region you came across a very Catholic take on work, which is at odds with the conception of work you're used to in historically Protestant America.
F.C.C. Calls on F.A.A. to Allow Electronics on Planes during takeoff/landing
I heard a story on NPR recently about how the SEC is dramatically underfunded, but I can't seem to find it now. If they're really that underfunded, I wonder if this is someone trying to make their career by finding a new and cheap way of bringing in revenue in fines.
My Crowdfunding Nightmare
Compared to other Bitcoin exchanges, I have high hopes that you guys are more confident. Taking a page out of Stripe's book is the right move, because you look less like previous Bitcoin sites and more like a startup. If Coinbase suffered a security breach I would be very disappointed.
Compass.js - A JavaScript Library To Get Compass Heading On Mobile Phones
via: http://functionn.blogspot.com/2012/12/compassjs-javascript-l...

Info: Compass.js allows you to get compass heading in JavaScript. Today we haven’t any standard way to get compass data, but there are two proprietary APIs and one hack:

- PhoneGap has navigator.compass API.

- iOS Safari adds webkitCompassHeading property to deviceorientation event.

- We can enable GPS and ask user to go forward. GPS will send current heading, so we can calculate difference between real North and zero in deviceorientation event. Next we use this difference to get compass heading only by device orientation.

This library hides all this magic and APIs from you, auto-detects available way and provides clean and simple API for your geolocation web app.
"cheating"? people are claiming that you now need to configure your own smtp server with delivery, spam filtering etc. that's simply not true. most web hosting comes with an smtp server; you likely need web hosting anyway and pointing the smtp server at google is trivial.

i fail to see how making good use of available resources is "cheating". the idea isn't to win some geek hair-shirt contest; it is to get email delivered to your domain.
I have my feed open a lot, but not because I'm reading it. It's because I opened the tab, clicked "Start a Hangout", and that Hangout window opened in a new window. The feed window is now hidden by the Hangout window, so the analytics might be skewed.
When you see that many conditionals, there's usually marketing bullshit going on.
After years of bad headlines the industry finally has some good news
This is the most comprehensive (and correct IMHO) answer Ive ever read... http://www.ribbonfarm.com/2009/10/07/the-gervais-principle-o...
Seems everyone has written one, me included: http://kill.porkrind.org:3141/
Its not in the press much, but Best Buy has probably turned over 50% of its executive level leadership in the last 12 months. In another 12 months another 20-40% will turnover. The new CEO is cleaning house. Its a good thing.
I think it really depends on the company and the founders: I have seen it both ways with friends. There are folks who don't even take a single day off every year in spite of having "Unlimited vacation days" because of a poisonous culture where people who take days off are considered to be slackers by peers. I think this is due to leadership failure because one of the reasons this happens is because the company is so "lean" that they can't afford to even miss one person for a single day. On the other hand, there are places where the CEO forces people to switch off their phones and GTFO because they are sick and have been working their asses off.

As an employee, I prefer the two weeks deal because it is clear and concise and there is no b.s. about whether I can take days off or not. My company does that and also shuts down during christmas holidays from the 24 till Jan 01. I feel like that in all makes a pretty decent holiday package.

Also, to answer your question regarding the fact that this is another parameter to track. You could just get people to self report PTOs on whatever HR management system you use?
Visualizing 50 years of The Rolling Stones
No offense, but that's a dumb measure of activity. None of those things actually requires engaging. I can +1 an app that I used once or do a google hangout because it's more convenient than skype. That doesn't mean I use google+. The activity feed part of the site is mainly crickets.
Thanks, already integrated a few of your recommendations in my site.

Can anyone recommend a good landing page generator for someone who isn't a front end developer? A site where I can quickly generate high quality landing pages. My attempts to find a (free) service in the past were surprisingly futile: I figured there'd be a ton of them out there for the internet marketing crowd.
Who Hacked the Dalai Lama's Website?
3D Printer Transforms Moon Dirt Into Lunar Base
Internet Proclaims This the Worst Video Ever
going to reply to this thread bc i had the same result. boyfriend with whom i never interact on fb, and he's first on the list - i keep my chat disabled. my second is my best friend whose profile i never visit, incidentally - we do interact. the third was a man who i briefly flirted with but he was (and still is) taken- we also never interact. i'm inclined to believe that the numbers are in fact friends who check my profile, in order of frequency. the algorithm must also update this information every so often. FWIW, i wish this information weren't out there. we say we want it...
I dont think G+ gives a personalised feel as FB .I will use FB as long as my friends are in FB. I feel G+ is more geek-ish.
JRuby Swing GUIs with cheri gem
Yeah, been using this more and more. Super handy website.
I use http://www.google.com/search?q=ip

Just search for IP in browser search bar.
Here's what Google should have done instead of Google+. (As for the OP, Google+ is a ghost town. It doesn't matter much how often people pass through and see the tumbleweed blowing around if they're not staying and contributing.)

First, they should not make people register for Google+. They shouldn't even call it Google+. It should just be a feature added to gmail: pages. You create gmail pages and you manage access to gmail pages. Access is not granted to other "Google+" accounts (there's no such thing), but to any set of email contacts. Access may also be made public, in which case a gmail page acts as a lightweight blog post (though you might require login to comment).

That's it. Rather than sending a friend an invitation to Google+, you'd send a link to an interesting gmail page. If it's access controlled (not public), then when they click to retrieve it, if they don't have the cookie yet, they'd need to check their email and click the Google just sent.

In many respects, it should function just like Google+ does now. Pages would have posts, pictures, comments, live chats, hang-outs, games, whatever. And once you're on a gmail page, you could browse up to the author's profile page and see whatever other pages they'd made visible to you. The major difference is that you could send content to anyone without the stupid "are you on Google+?" conversation that has to happen first now and thus can build pages without worrying too much about whether the ghost town will become a popular tourist destination.
Google under Larry Page is obsessed with short-term revenue. They did the same with AppEngine, Maps and now Apps.

Not to mention that I cringed throughout this announcement. They are doing it because it benefits users? C'mon, just tell us you love the money, nothing wrong with that.
I'm sure this guys neighbors love him.
The tale of Michael Church resonates throughout the entire valley. It certainly isn't limited to Google. I wish a Googler on his way out would leak the threads, honestly; I want to see if they live up to the tales.

Context, for the uninitiated (grab a beer before searching): "site:news.ycombinator.com michaelochurch google"
IMAP is not, but the superior Exchange ActiveSync protocol is, through m.outlook.com - despite the name, it's just Exchange, so it works anywhere. See http://help.outlook.com/en-gb/140/bb896613.aspx for more details.
Show HN: Optimizing MySQL Performance at Scale with Anemometer
jsonip.com is the the only one I ever use anymore.

In addition to being JSON, which is programmatically friendly, it loads the fastest for humans too.
Does this mean that some of my domains that are going expire might be worth money as they have google apps?
The first sentence in the article.
It's a problem all across Japan: http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2012-12-06/japans-fear-...
how could hours viewed not be material? Given that most people don't spend every hour of the day watching netflix, the number is a function of users.

It's a very typical metric for a streaming video service.
Here's where the "most dynamic/static/whatever" probably came from

http://james-iry.blogspot.com/2010/05/types-la-chart.html
Love their "About" page linked from the homepage JSON:
http://jsonip.com/about

Nice "Hire-me" true key in there.
Crap, ALL our customers use google apps for email (because we don't want to host email on our servers and it's free).

All our customers are small businesses (photographers, designers) and usually just make 1 to 3 mailboxes.

Any alternative out there?
This has been my go-to IP checker for years now. There must be something magical about that URL/domain name that keeps me coming back..
Here's a nginx config and SSI page to do the same
https://gist.github.com/1678779

even supports json and jsonp
NHSTA To Require Black Boxes On New Cars
How to get number of bytes sent/received via mobile/network Internet in iOS
Because the IP address assigned to the box may not be the IP address it is visible to the outside world on?

The output of ifconfig on my mac is dramatically different from what http://jsonip.com/ is showing me, and for good reason.

In addition to standard NATing, if he were on an EC2 instance, the IP addresses are routed to by Elastic IPs, and aren't necessarily visible from the box itself either.

Simply put, there are a variety of reasons you wouldn't necessarily want to rely upon the system's local IP address as canon for what others might see it as.
It appears that there is, but this is still more than twice as many as the free version Google Apps offered even at the beginning, and far more than it offered when it closed. The closest MS equivalent to paid Google Apps is Office 365 (it offers more than Apps does, but it's actually cheaper on the basic plan), which has its own limits and pricing structure.
I wish a service would provide me with both my IPv4 and IPv6 address...

Google hands me back my IPv6/IPv4, internatddress.me hands me back my IPv4, ipchicken IPv4, jsonip IPv4, ip.webscript.io IPv4, ifconfig.me IPv4, wtfismyip IPv4/IPv6, DDG IPv4.

And some of them bounce between the two ... I know, I know, happy eyeballs and all that, but it would be handy sometimes to know both my IPv6 address and my IPv4 address.
Show HN: UXArchive - How the best iPhone apps handle userflows
Because you may be connected through a router that gives you a local IP in ifconfig? Not everyone is connected "directly" to the internet.
Seconded. Their latest interface update puts them on par with GMail, and they have quite a few unique features on top of that.
ifconfig.me is my personal best. The reason is: http://ifconfig.me/#cli_table
I found that Landerous on Themeforest actually did very well with conversions as long as your propositions are clear.

I've deployed Landerous on 4/6 of my projects so far.
Inside Windows 8: Pedro Teixeira - Thread pool
I liked your last paragraph. I believe too that it was detrimental for the lives of those people who immigrated to cities to find jobs at those factories. Jobs that are detrimental to their health in many ways.
I think this responds to Facebook's continuous decline in service. They have messed up the algorithms so bad that News Feeds tend to be more static than ever before, back in the good days, people checked Facebook a hundred times a day because there was something new all the time. Today, if you check your Facebook 5 times during the day and you will probably get the same news as before.

They also pissed all their page owners off with Edge Rank, which was rolled out too aggressively for my taste. Since not every facebook page owner is a facebook or SMM genius, a lot of small pages lost a lot of engagement, which turns into less engagement on the site overall (from users and page admins).

I started using G+ a couple of months ago because of their Hangouts, but am gradually becoming more engaged on the site.
Facebook will fall, and pretty soon I think. Too much spam, horrible filters and crappy customization on your share settings make it a shitty service now. As G+ emphasizes share settings control, I can see why it will take over pretty fast, they just need to gain a little more momentum.
Maybe because he wants to go exactly one page down as easily as possible, and this is something that has generally worked for decades. It's pretty simple, really.
You can still get a free Standard Google Apps Account with one free email address instead of 10.

See https://groups.google.com/forum/#!msg/google-appengine/pVZfd...
When you say no, I assume you are referring to actual app updates and bug fixes as opposed to content updates?
Not being a pedant, I had never thought of this aspect either.
I don't get it. The copy is confusing to me. I'm not knocking on the startup, but I want to understand what it is about and get their focus. I just don't. Will anyone from qyuki please explain it like I were five years old? Thank you.

PS. Also, how do you pronounce the name/web address?
That is quite sad, the combination of a disproportionately older population, with one that is culturally risk-averse is a recipe for stagnation.
After googling "Alex Okrent", this was on the first page:

"Who Is Alex Okrent? (Apart from another dead Obama contact!)..."

Jesus christ.
my mac pro was assembled in the usa
Some years ago here in Germany there has been an court sentence, that a link is no infringement. >The publishers wanted to kill Google News in this way.

Some years before that a friend of mine had written a news search engine, that did exactly the same as Google News, but he did not have the money to fight before court. So he had to remove a lot of publishers from his index.

So I do not think, that linking will become a problem here - but who knows. But the real problem is, that this law might silence independent bloggers. And it was them, who brought important topics into the public discussions, that were ignored by the big publishers, like a planned web-censorship law, that was discussed some years back...
Thanks for your point.

I do admit that happiness is an ambiguous word: for some people it's about merely feeling good and for some people happiness is just a side-effect from the realization that what you have now is all you can actually claim to have—the past and the future don't count. The conversation started from happiness so I sort of bridged over with that word.

I care about living my own life, not somebody else's, and making choices in life for reasons I'm aware of instead of for reasons I don't. At least for me, happiness comes mostly about facing the facts of your life and accepting them.

Being stoned isn't happiness, it's disconnectedness. Living a happy life isn't about that it always feels good but about that it does good. But in the long term that, too, actually gives a good feeling as well.
ラスティハーツ RMT
The problem for me, when I tried Siri, is it just didn't understand me often enough. You can have all the integration you want, but it doesn't help if the recognition isn't up to scratch.

I think your broad point is true: Google's reco is better, Siri's integration is deeper, but you really need both to make it useful.
At one point Yahoo was tip-toeing into this market with its Zimbra purchase. I wonder if this move prompts Yahoo to look again? $50 per email account per year leaves a lot of room for competition.
Man charges porn copyright trolling firm Prenda Law with identity theft
The Sauce Labs website is really confusing.

- There's no indication that you could login using GitHub.

- There's no (obvious?) way to logout.

- There seems to be no way to login either once you've managed to logout? (without visiting /login directly)

While the product is indeed nice, the website really gives me a bad impression.
I was expecting something more unique/inspirational from something that involved A.R Rahman, who makes amazing music, and from watching about a minute of the (long and rambling) 5 minute intro video on their site.

It's basically just a Pinterest clone that doesn't even autoload additional content when you reach the bottom of the page (you have to click a "Load more content" button for some reason). I don't see any reason why anyone would want to join this. There's some kind of rating system called, weirdly, an "Emobar" that is basically a series of colors that reflect people's rating of your post.

Also, I had to watch the intro video to figure out how to even pronounce that domain name (I was thinking "Qu-you-kee" or maybe even "Quickie" but the founder says it differently in the video).
Great article, it is definitely the approach that makes sense for most start ups, people can spend time developing and then not meet the problem they were trying to solve.

The tough part is getting users to be a part of that feedback loop, but as others have said it helps you answer that "how do I get users" much quicker.
Podling: A social network from the team behind sitepoint, flippa
First comment I have seen saying this, and I know that there is more to some of the product changes than just a new plug, but it sure seems bold to call it a new product. Hell, my body is probably 50% new product compared to 2 months ago using that kind of measure.
I just watched the intro video by the co-founders (one being Academy award winner A R Rahman - slumdog millionaire fame). Looks like a social network for 'creative content' where people can upload their creation (songs/videos/poems/short stories/photography/graphic designing)for others to consume.
This doesn't feel authentic or attractive for the creative community.
for reasons already given in this thread, but Google+ is a good product

It is. The only thing missing is the hordes of people I could connect to. It's a lonely place to hang out at Google+ and I check my streams less often than I would want to.

The best thing is that they might just be able to keep it in life-support for ages because it's hooked to other Google services. What that means, effectively, is waiting for Facebook to make a major screw up and drive a hefty flock of users to the next popular alternative—Google+.
I can only assume that you have failed every economics course you have ever taken, because if you left without understanding the concept of supply and demand orthe concept of value, then there is really nothing I can say to you other than avoid procreating. Though I certainly wish market pricing was determined via plot hole. It would certainly lead to more entertaining conversations. Next you can explain to me why the world is flat or why water is made up of hydrogen and nitrogen, or some other fundementally flawed concept. Have you written any books? I think I could do an entire 2-hour talk on just how fucking stupid you are. You my friend are a gold mine.

Ohh maybe you have a blog. But, in all seriousness, avoid procreating, there are enough retarded people that society has to care for.
so if someone has my IMEI, can i save my account from him as i can't change my password(IMEI)
I just wanted to point out many of those programs are < 4 years old and four years after YC's founding nearly everyone was skeptical of them. It just takes a while to a) get a few winners b) get a market value on them.

If the powerlaw of startup outcomes is accurate, nearly all of these programs are too young and too small to have telling data.
I'm picking that people will call something a Cook product when its faulty/broken/rubbish. Maybe I'm too cynical.
You're looking for an debate in the wrong place. I'm just speculating that the parent was referring to some law that pertains to something generic like 'currency exchanges.' I don't think that anyone has been to court over such a thing (yet) so it could mean that the parent doesn't know what they are talking about too (e.g. said law doesn't apply to bitcoin).