skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree that being happier is important. But it's only natural that responses tend to skew towards the other side of the equation since, in the back of our minds, those of us who enjoy working at home, are almost always thinking of ways to convince management of its value in ways that can't be directly measured. So we're trying to figure out a way to pull "happiness" into the equation in a way that works for management. . .since they don't care if we're happy or not unless it affects the bottom line.
Google prepares Google Now for desktops, adds notification center
I'd start by checking their privacy policy.
Do most cars have an Onboard Diagnostics Port or is this more so in newer cars only? I wish there was some information about what cars this is expected to work with.
If Iraq can use such tactics to sink an aircraft carrier, the US had better pay attention. "Using different tools," may well be a key outcome.
That depends on your situation surely - if you're working for yourself, awesome, you get to make those decisions. If your employer decides that they don't want people working from home because they're less productive, then that's their call.
You aren't alone.

Just seems a lot of people use it to follow what famous people "tweet." Want to know if Tom Cruise is using the bathroom? Better check twitter...

If you aren't interested in fame/famous people then twitter has little value.
What browser and platform are you using?
It seems to render right on your browser. This is what I see: http://i.imgur.com/gJ1xBWn.png
Indeed you may, and you are free to put these preferences to management or find alternate employment, would be my take...
what you describe is emotionally based, not chemically based. There is a HUGE difference.
Daily Habits of Game-changing Social Innovators
The documentary "The Perfect War" mentioned in the article seems unavailable on the interwebs.
Exercise is incredibly important b/c of all the positive neurochemical effects it produces.

But if you're exercising by yourself, it's easy to skip it, especially if you're already feeling down.

It's better to take part in some kind of team or class activity where there's a little bit of social pressure to show up.

There will be mornings when you think, "I don't want to go, but I don't want to let those guys down," and so you wind up doing it.
It seems to work on Firefox x64 19.0 from Gentoo eBuild.
Ask HN: Startup opportunities, not ideas
There was a slideshare of someone who discussed opportunities versus ideas. I've failed to bookmark it, and slideshare, Google and HNSearch don't seem to help. Anyone save the link? Thanks. (Was temporarily on front page March 7 - but don't see it on HNtimeline)
that which cannot be measured cannot be improved. measure what matters. http://blogs.hbr.org/video/2013/03/measure-employee-producti...
A good thing that AngularJS is test friendly then
I wonder what happened to these guys www.mavizon.com?
I love this. When I start my next business, I will have learned how NOT to grow a 'startup' e.g. hiring to grow, instead of growing to hire, raising money to prove a business model instead of being profitable from the start, and giving your product away for free (U.R.L.)

Good luck man, excited to read about your venture.
Works fine on Chrome 25.0.1364.97 on Ubuntu 12.10. Is this a browser issue or something with the underlying platform font rendering libs ?
> I get Van Riper's point, but at the same time he was given an impossibly powerful position -- a military force with the sole objective of military victory without any underlying political objective

I think it would have been interesting to saddle Van Riper with political objectives, then restart the simulation. Saddling him with tactical handicaps only served to validate the status quo.

> If this were a real war, with an underlying political situation, and Red sank an Blue aircraft carrier and killed 20,000 sailors in a day in a preemptive strike, Blue would respond with rules of engagement that would redefine the term "atrocity".

Or the opposition party in Blue's home would have used this chance to take control, with the narrative that the former leaders acted foolishly and got our nose bloody. Getting the most for our defense allocated tax dollars is sacrificed for political gain. So too is the US geopolitical position gamed for the sake of politics and money.
Defense Applications of LIDAR
1996 and later. http://www.epa.gov/obd/
The ability to customize a Jeep is not a mainstream selling point. Whether it is easy or not is irrelevant for most consumers.
Look up ODB-II. Lots of cars have this port. The app Torque for Android has a lot of users. Cheap bluetooth adapters can be had from China :)
PhpStorm 6.0 Released: composer, code (re)arranger, new refactorings, Darcula...
boredom mainly
and loneliness

I dont use it much
`and can work on its own without medication, depending on the situation`

nail on the head! many people don't realize when they need to go to a doctor and get the meds they need.
As a non-Linux user, it's funny to me how Linux users complain about how this will bring fragmentation to Linux, when Linux is one of the most fragmented ecosystems ever. There are tens or hundred of different distros, and at least several different application packages, and I'm probably not aware about a lot of other stuff, too.

I support Canonical in this move, because they do need a very optimized display server and interface for mobile hardware, and they are also the ones who've pushed Linux the most into the mainstream, sometimes by taking steps that are very annoying to regular Linux users, but in the same time very pragmatic in bringing Linux closer to the non-technical current Linux user, or future Linux user.
How Solar Power Can Succeed
lolo Marx railed against the commodification of labor and the implications of making it a commodity (one of which happened to be how a wage was no longer just a worker's time put into something he could just 'do')
chrome 25 and xubuntu 12.10
Yup, not very many, yup.

That's why I lost interest. The smart cards that do active (async) encryption for a proper challenge/response are all contact, rather than contact-less.
Same here, looks fine for me in Chrome and Firefox on Ubuntu
> Weston, the reference Wayland compositor, is a test-bed. It's for the development of the Wayland protocol, not for being an actual desktop shell. We could have forked Weston and bent it to our will, but we're on a bit of an automated-testing run at the moment, and it's generally hard to retro-fit tests onto an existing codebase. Weston has some tests, but we want super-awesome-tested code.

I'd accept this as reason alone to go with Mir, assuming it's correct. My experience with window managers on linux has been riddled with constant bugs and regressions that are the hallmark of software that isn't adequately tested.

And he's absolutely right. If code isn't designed ahead of time to be modular and decoupled (testable), you're going to have a hell of a time refactoring it later to get good test coverage.

I'm not asserting Weston is these things. But, accepting what Christopher says here, Canonical might actually be justified in creating Mir. I'd especially be interested in hearing if someone can refute the mentioned point.
It says on the page "It works with just about any car sold in the United States since 1996." It's been mandatory for all car manufacturers in the US since 1996.
Nice, but nothing compelling. Match irritates me no end, but I don't need to switch phone platforms to fix that.
Showing me the way home is a neat trick, but I know my way home thanks.
I'm more productive at home, but happier at work. For me personally being around my co-workers and joking during the day, getting lunch with them, brings a lot of happiness (jokes, fun discussions, etc). Working from home...aside from all that interaction, I do get more done, but am less happy. When I refer to happiness I'm using the "first world problem" scale.
Several people have mentioned Google Now mining their email for flight reservations. I've seen that, but recently saw a new twist: it wasn't me flying but some friends coming to visit me who had forwarded me their details. Google Now put up a card for their flight, and labelled it with them as passengers, meaning it had distinguished between a reservation for me and one for them. Then the next day, along with the weather card for my town, it showed one for theirs as well. It had recognized that I picked them up.

Another story, this time where I was the one visiting: after spending a night at friends, Google Now added a card for directions and driving time back to what it called "Unknown location." From my location info, it surmised I was staying at that place and was offering directions back. Being in a foreign city, this was actually very useful.

Creepy, yes, but useful.
For knowledge workers, what constitutes as productivity? Is it completion of tasks in time? If yes, then why does it matter where you work as long as you get it done?
Also the solutions to problems you are working on, hardly ever strike you during office hours (there have been so many instances where I've found a solution to a tough problem late into the night while sleeping or dreaming lol).
the flip side of working in the office is that you're more connected to the people (if they aren't the grumpy kind) and the company itself. You get a sense of what's going on around you, not just in your immediate team.
Just a wild guess (just looked at the first snippets quickly) but it looks like AngularStrap generate itself the html (for the dropdown for example).

It's not neccessary (bootstrap HTML is pretty straightforward) and it prevent you from doing a lot of things like custom html inside dropdown menus (icons, ni-click, etc).

So IMO, It abstract the things at the wrong level (too high)
How to Use the New GUI Features in vFabric Postgres 9.2
I'll agree with the working out regularly being good for your health, both mental and physical. Exercising has gotten me through some tough spots in my life and it has always been a major coping mechanism.

Another thing that has always worked for me has been laughter. Whether it's watching a classic movie like Dumb & Dumber, reading reddit/r/funny, or catching The Colbert Report, laughing eases all the little things that otherwise might eat you up.
The Growth of Finance Makes for an Obese Economy
And "previously unknown" contamination at that. That team has just lost a lot of credibility.
http://arduino.cc/forum/index.php?topic=95037.0
That's a false dichotomy. Ultimately all thoughts / brain function rely on "chemicals". The idea of purely "chemical" mental distress is also severely strained - consider "there is a 0% chance your current feelings are influenced by your environment / past".

It's all a bit more of a spectrum.

There is serious money behind the chemical mental-distress-as-an-illness interpretation. If it's a medical problem then you need a medical solution. Anti-depressants anyone? They are being taken in such vast quantities they are starting to poison the water. [1]

[1] http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn21882-antidepressants-...
The Oreo Splitting Wars Escalate with Carnegie Mellon’s Brilliant Bot
If it was the Galaxy that was Samsung's fault. It was the most infuriating autocorrect I've ever seen. If you hit space then back spaced to correct a word you typed it tried to autocorrect your correction but not the whole world.
Google Now heading to Chrome OS and Windows, beta browser reveals
Automatic (YC S11) Launches To Help You Get More Out Of Your Car
I agree that you get paid to be productive, not happy. However, companies should care a great deal about happiness.

Guess where unhappy, highly productive employees go to work? At your competitors.
This is a total side question but I noticed this line:

> The process was stuck in the kernel waiting for an IOCTL, so killing the process did nothing – even kill -9. It was going to stay that way until EBS was back to normal.

I did not know that can happen! Can anyone provide a further explanation/material for why this is the case?
As far as it actually goes it's only a missed opportunity for collaboration, but if Mir and Wayland end up being less compatible than Ubuntu is promising it could also mean a lot of extra effort for others.

Specifically, if they don't end up being able to use the same desktop drivers then this schism will cause a lot of extra work for driver writers. And if applications can't simply link against the Ubuntu-provided Mir version of libwayland then that'll be a lot of extra work for application writers.
Arguing that one person was able to do it is a slap in the face to those that have tried and failed and did nothing differently. Like anyone's success, it is highly dependent on luck (and this luck is partially someone determining your worth). As it stands, there are still many barriers that need to be broken.
Posted a million times already but timeless: http://stackoverflow.com/a/1732454
The Beautiful Table - communicating football statistics with D3.js
I am productive at home, but I'm less happy. I need people to be happy and at home, I just have myself (and my cat). At work, i have my colleagues who energize me, distract me, make me laugh, teach me new things. The biggest reason I don't work from home isnt about productivity. It's because at home nobody's phone rings to the tune of Lady Gaga and nobody tells stupid jokes that make me laugh even while the site is crashing.
I'm a huge fan of CBT. Recent studies have shown that if a person is dedicated to CBT it can actually have the same positive effects on the brain as medication, without the negative effects of medication.

It is important to note, however, that the person must commit.
It's interesting compare this across browsers
http://imgur.com/a/0jxjj
Works fine for me. Safari 6, OS X 10.8.
Consider seeing a therapist. Seriously.

Most people have exposure to death when they are young, but for some people -- for whatever reason -- it's more traumatic. It can become corrosive, subtly or not so subtly, affecting the decisions you make in a harmful way. Personally, I had cancer at a young age, and for years it screwed up the way I saw the world, without me even recognizing it. It took another crisis-type event for me to recognize it. Trust me, if it is something you are already cognizant of, it's better to deal with it now to prevent future crises, then to wait until then.
kwin will be its own wayland compositor, gnome's mutter will be its own compositor. why didn't canonical create unity as its own wayland compositor?

(in other words: criticizing weston is a strawman)
http://kinectforwindows.codeplex.com/

that's where the code is up. neat!
What I find worrying about this whole affair is that first everyone jumped on them saying that the fossils aren't really fossiles but instead just simple rock formations and then afterwords that the fossils are earth life so that the fossils didn't form outside of the earth.

Certainly the JoC is insane, but the jumping to conclusions it's critics engaged in seems worrying to me.
The Adderall analogy is terribly suspect, though. Why should I believe it's a useful analogy? Are we suggesting that ANY kind of non-productive-but-fun behavior should be permitted, and that trying to say, "No, you can't do that because it's not productive" is like forcing someone to take drugs?

What if it's the reverse? Say I'd like to drink, or do heroin, in the office. Yes, sure, I'll be less productive, but I'll also be happier. Does that mean that an office "no getting drunk or high" policy is unreasonable? If not, what is the line that you're drawing between that scenario of "not productive, but happiness enhancing" and the author's scenario of "not productive, but happiness enhancing"?
What would that do?
Do you fear costly #data portability? There is way to escape this
NYTimes working on a new article design
My Netflix password is 20 characters. Where did you get that it only allows 4-10?
Startups best practices
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5362451
and I wonder - does this guy really do mobile development?

...

in last month I jumped in to iOS development. And XCode was a breeze

Something's off here. You're questioning veteran iOS developers' abilities after having started iOS development a month ago?

I used to do iOS development and still keep in touch with several iOS developers of apps everyone has on their devices. The best I can get out of any of them is "XCode is okay", but more often than not, there's expletives and scathing remarks, especially since XCode 4, when they "iTunesified" the interface.

You just started iOS development, which means you're still getting the hang of things and the workflows. Give it a little time before you call people out.

That said, I can't say that Android development is much better, although I've just gone through the tutorials on developer.android.com for the heck of it.
Finding a Viable Replacement for the Password
I played with Meteor and with Derby (http://derbyjs.com/) six months ago and found the latter to be lighter and more interoperable with the node ecosystem.

Is there anyone who has played with both more recently that could give their opinions on the matter?
I love StackOverflow: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/11978912/how-to-protect-a...
You completely missed my point. Read what I said here: "So instead of spending time on a business plan, the recommended route is to build a quick prototype and see how users respond to that."

A business plan is nothing more than an idea wrapped up in some estimates and guesses. Sure, you can do "market research," but those are nothing more than guesses and they usually turn out to be wrong. So in a sense, when you criticize money being thrown at an idea, you are criticizing the notion of business plans. My point was that business plans are a negative signal because all it indicates is that you have an idea and that you haven't built anything to test your idea.

It is not a point of whether or not you can put your idea on paper. It's a point of wasting your time over-analyzing things you cannot know - and then putting all that useless analysis on a multi-page business plan or a 15 slide presentation, etc.

No, it is not the case that Silicon Valley just throws money at ideas (alone), and you're arguing against a straw man if you think I ever made that point. In fact, the process of building a prototype and validating your product by testing it in the real world is the quickest way to get huge multi-million dollar valuations in Silicon Valley. The exception would be having a very strong team with experienced founders.
What if requiring coming into the office subtly introduces stress of commuting, dealing with people on a day to day basis that you might necessarily not want, wasting your down time, potentially forcing you into a very sedentary lifestyle for 8 hours a day? Not to mention that the 40 hour work week is a remnant of the industrial revolution. Relative to the speed of tech innovation over the last 20-30 years, it's an outdated relic of a time long forgotten.

Those are unhealthy things that can cause cancer, depression, anxiety, obesity, etc. They ultimately lower your potential and functional ability. If working from home can ease and circumvent a lot of those things, why wouldn't you do it? If nothing more than just for your own personal health, which is more important than work anyway..
Is this what you're talking about? http://growthbay.com/post/44698344628/stop-thinking-up-start...
Kickoff 2.0 is out
Just 4 things for a start:

1) Size and dependencies. Let's say you want to use buttons directive. If you decide to go with angular-ui/bootstrap you will need this https://github.com/angular-ui/bootstrap/blob/master/src/butt... only - 62 LOC. If you decide to go with Strap you will need jQuery + 100 LOC of Bootstrap's JavaScript + 163 LOC of Strap's wrapper (!!!). Please note that the the wrapper itself is _longer_ than the original version. Native version is 1/3 of the size (!).

2) Customization - try to change a template for say, a typeahead. With the strap solution it is hard-coded in Bootstrap's JavaScript, no way to customize. With angular-ui/bootstrap template is here: https://github.com/angular-ui/bootstrap/blob/master/template... and is fully customizable

3) Integration with the AngularJS ecosystem - since anngular-ui/bootstrap directives are native ones they seamlessly work with all the AngularJS goodies like $q promises. This means that you can provide a promise as a source for, say, typeahead or data for modal.

4) wrapping existing jQuery plugins is not always obvious as lifecycles are really different. As the results you need to do hacks - just search Strap's code for setTimeout and $timeout to see what I mean.

At the end of the day just choose a project that works for you but we've started angular-ui effort since we believe that native AngularJS directives offer much lighter and cleaner solution.
What about this piece compels you so much that you require others to do your reading comprehension for you? Just move along to something else.
Matches well with this: http://www.forbes.com/sites/michaelellsberg/2011/07/18/how-i...
I'm also curious what "Most creative in class" means. It seems odd to say nobody ever gave you a break while simultaneously saying you were the "Most encouraged". While not exactly the same, surely people recognized his strengths then?

> Rejected by every college but one.

Which colleges did you apply to? Plenty of people with great grades and perfect SAT scores still end up rejected from top-tier colleges.

> Taught myself to program and gave it away until someone hired me.

So someone decided to hire a young person with only self-taught programming experience and (I'm assuming) no CS degree. Certainly sounds like someone gave you a break here.
I'm really happy that these posts are getting onto the front page. They are very important.

I want to add one thing. Working with a doctor is important, but work with a psychologist as well. Especially if you are resistant to going on meds (and I don't blame you if you are...). A good psychologist may be able to offer you treatment options that better suit your needs.

Also, if you aren't getting what you need from your Dr or Psychologist then move on and find a new one. Keep doing this until you find someone who genuinely cares about you, and wants to work with you to get you feeling better.
Bingo! http://www.slideshare.net/maciejoleksy/stop-thinking-up-star... +1. Thanks! This thing should be a sticky post on HN :)
How do we know they're highly productive? The guy as much as admits that productivity is a secondary concern to his own happiness!

(Not that I am saying this is bad, happiness is very important to me and why I've gone contractor)
Knife Fight At The TSA
Which phone are you using? I have a Nexus with the stock 4.1 (Jelly Bean) keyboard and it corrects everything as expected -- proximity errors, misspellings, contractions, hyphenation, capitalization, etc.

Android also shows you a list of potential matches for what you typed, and you can add new words to the dictionary on the fly just by selecting the word you've entered from the list. Not to mention it only takes a single backspace to undo a bad autocorrect on Android.

> And regarding third party keyboards, how about Google do a good keyboard that doesn't require installing a third party app? It seems like an important enough feature to do right instead of abdicating responsibility to others.

No keyboard will please 100% of smartphone users. The only way to make everyone happy is to let them pick the keyboard that suits them best.
So this article is addressed to the people that have the option of working from home but choose not to because they think it makes them less productive, and haven't factored their own happiness into that decision. Are there really that many people that fall into this category?