skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I feel like most of work life is now driven by silent aspirations (because they're socially unacceptable) rather than immediate industrial need. Bosses want people in for long hours because it makes them feel important. It serves no benefit to the business (in the long term) but it's about emotion and careerism.

People in managerial positions don't just want to be rewarded for their work. They want prestige and the root of almost all forms of prestige is nostalgia.

Nostalgia (and its attendant fallacies) leads to this long-hours glorification, because people who suffer a lot to push something through, after it succeeds (regardless of whether the suffering contributed) end up remembering the "glory days" of energy drinks and double-all-nighters as if those moments were better than they actually were. Those weren't fun at the time. That's a happy-ending reinterpretation because scary things that end well are often remembered positively.

What's missed is that (1) those crunches aren't sustainable, (2) they're only "glory days" for people who get major, career-improving and permanent benefits from the work-- otherwise it's just managerial abuse, and (3) most of those crunch-driven efforts fail and just become miserable death marches that make people really bitter, and the career damage of that can last years.

If people actually leave at 5:00, they recover better from those death-march episodes because they haven't let their health and network go to shit.
> "Meetings: where minutes are taken and hours are wasted"

Only if you run bad meetings. Don't call one without an agenda. Stick to that agenda (have a chair). Arrive and leave on time. Send minutes (even notes) within the hour after the meeting.

Meetings take discipline on the part of the attendees and it's just a structured communication method. It's not fair to blame the tool because most people are too lazy to use it well.
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Exactly how would Apple bully a Publisher? Jobs went and pulled down the CEO's pants?
Perhaps cities should build bike lanes.
Nah. Hard work + smart work is great. Just don't tweet about it. Don't glorify it.
sorry but you have to be really disconnected with reality to think there's no anonymity in g+

Just pick a new name instead of a lame novelty reddit user name.

Just look the amount of names ending in Goldstein there. It's like the whole state of new York signed up.
That's conflating problems. Google doesn't need to add non-standard API to Chrome Browser so that Chrome OS can use non-standard API. They probably have branches.
Problem with that is that G+ is an even worse version of Reddit than it is a Facebook clone.

Reddit already has (a) anonymity; (b) a working karma system; (c) proper threading; (d) organisation by subject/topic; (e) freedom to start new boards; and (f) a lot more intelligent debate than G+. Fixing all of these G+ deficiencies in the current system looks a long way beyond Google's capabilities, even if it wanted to.

The dog-slow operation of G+ and the extreme information-poverty of the UI (which makes it impossible to scan topics quickly) add to G+'s problems in being a pseudo-Reddit.
> There's a reason many hugely successful people are notorious workaholics

I'd imagine that part of the reason they can be workaholics is that they are hugely successful people. The type of work you do plays a huge rule in how much work you can do.

Especially when you consider this:

> The point is that if you worked 50 vs 35 hours at the same job, you'd simply get more done

Is not something you can bank on.
That's how me and my brother learned to program graphics and games as 14-year olds. We disassembled over 50% of Manic Miner on the Sinclair Spectrum using an hex-to-opcode sheet, lots of pen and paper, and oh yes tracing lines along the jumps. Fun times! (I continued ripping apart many other Spectrum games, but with actual disassemblers)

All it required was: free time, motivation and, above all, a mind free of assumptions and structure, ready to learn and be filled no matter the effort.
There are probably a lot of alternatives that other people know more about than I do. Just to address a concern with Hetzner: connectivity is really good there. Last time I was in the US, I got better roundtrip times from my German server than I got from MediaTemple gs in California (though they also have some very nice features). Of course there is no going around light speed the limitation, but I'd say for a lot of projects a European server +CloudFlare is totally sufficient. In the end, it's all a tradeoff between different factors ;)
It's incredibly buggy for me - chrome on windows. Even when it allowed me to scroll, it was slow and jerky. I suspect it's designed for the acceleration based scrolling on mac touchpads however, so I'm not too surprised that the scrollwheel on my mouse disagreed with it.
>it's a magical ability to lay massive amounts of concrete and bore hundreds of miles of tunnel for several orders of magnitude less money than is currently required.

He isn't boring tunnel but building it above ground. Not that that changes your other points. The devil is in the details and we don't have enough details to evaluate it.
Come to Redmond, WA sometime. http://img.groundspeak.com/waymarking/log/68cddaf2-3fd8-4a67... (Of course I drive everywhere, and two of my housemates have been winged. At least it's more likely to be by a Prius than a pickup.)
This sounds like a worse version of https://www.surespot.me/

Surespot is open source (including the server software too), and doesn't charge you money for "advanced" features like sending images.

And surespot actually exists and is usable today.

Donate your money that way instead: https://www.surespot.me/contribute.html

(not affiliated, just a very happy user)

[EDIT] He details exactly how it works here: https://www.surespot.me/documents/how_surespot_works.html
Please familiarise yourself with the evidence for and against wearing cycle helmets.

http://www.ctc.org.uk/sites/default/files/file_public/cycle-...

Edit:

>mainly ride the bike where there is little traffic anyway

This. Use cycle paths that are off the (car) roads. It more pleasant and safer, and you can usually go faster too, as there are no traffic lights.
How about Pascal/Modula or FreePascal? It's almost as easy as Java (certainly less error prone as C), and almost as fast as C.

Alas, I went to college in a time when they still taught Pascal, but then phased it out for C, which was more widely available on multiple platforms by the late 80s.
One more thing about the post I wrote.

Jason Kincaid, formerly of TC, had a great tweet about four years ago- "The amount of fun you’re having at a party is inversely proportional to the number of times you’ve tweeted about it.”

Some joke and call it Kincaid's Law.

I think there is a new wrinkle to it:

"The amount of hard/smart work you are doing is inversely proportional to the number of times you’ve tweeted about it.”
A trial by judge is very different than a trial by jury. In a jury trial, the only evidence that exists is the evidence that is presented in open court. Making a decision before the courtroom phase of the trial would be irresponsible.

But in a non-jury trial, the judge studies all the evidence independently, and the courtroom phase is just supplemental. You don't need someone to testify to the facts in their report if you can just read the report, right? The courtroom phase is also quite expensive, which is why a judge would indicate that based on the evidence she had seen, it probably wasn't worth doing it. To save everyone the effort.
I agree with that. Sometimes a meeting is the only way to get the right people talking about the problem or issue.
I love the ones that advance slides on a timer regardless of user clicks, so you can manually advance from slide 1 to slide 2 and the timer will kick in 100ms later, advancing you to slide 3.
Because VLC uses ffmpeg for some codec modules.
But the things you broke were my personal phone contacts !!

Back in 2012 my emails started going missing, and other friends' too[1]. Turns out FB devs decided to update my iPhone Address Book without prompting me. They messed it up and emails started going missing.

I've kept the one data point that shows they were mucking around without prompting me. Among all the other actions they added this entry:

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Facebook: update+kdv_h1d@facebook.com

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This forced me to uninstall the iPhone Facebook client to prevent FB ever doing something like this again.

Break your own stuff if you must. Don't break my stuff.

[1]
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4158695

http://news.cnet.com/8301-1023_3-57464415-93/facebook-e-mail...
A few of my friends who are aspiring lawyers are terribly depressed because of their current work. They honestly thought they were going to walk straight into 100,000k/year jobs. Now they're pushing paperwork all day for a third of that salary :\
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This seems incredibly one sided to me and I'm surprised at the number of people who are in agreement. I guess if you make the assumption that the person is lazy or inefficient and that's the reason they're working hard then this would make sense. However, I'm 24; I work a day job from 8 to 5; I go to the gym and go home and work on a startup from ~7-12 and do it all over again. And yea, I'm proud of that.

Not only that, but I like when I see other people who "#hustle" because it motivates me. I like to know my friends or people I respect are working hard to achieve a goal they're excited about. Also "Working hard vs working smart is something you don't learn till you burn out a few times." What? That is just untrue. I agree after you do something the first time you'll definitely become more efficient at executing it, but if you approach problems practically you can almost always break them down and work them "smart". This post just annoys me.
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I switched the office over to the T1 that normally carries our VoIP traffic and it's been smooth sailing ever since. This is a Razorline connection.

traceroute www.google.com shows hops over level3 to 173.194.77.106. Over the Comcast link I was resolving www.google.com to 74.125.229.208 - which appears to be accessible now over the Razorline. Haven't attempted to access via Comcast, so it could just be that it's back up.
I actually really, really hate that concept and I wish Apple didn't try to get people to use it. Numerous times I've tried to interact with a UI that is actually just a flat PNG image.

It feels like Apple is advocating using a really ugly hack to make it look like app loading times are shorter than they really are.
Yes that is precisely the problem (and one that is probably in the interest of government and companies.. just not in the interest of the actual owner of data). Even companies like google providing cloud services like music/mail/docs scan for usage information to push advertisement. So even though this article is for NSA, it applies to companies as well.

The Personal cloud in spite of increased simplicity still requires certain amount of computer setup knowledge, that coupled with murky privacy policies (think facebook) means that user data in public cloud is always going to be a well sought after prize
I never said I think it is more likely. I mentioned it as an aside in response to a comment about futuristic dystopia.

In the context of discussing futuristic dystopia (which I think is unlikely in general given historical trends), surveillance doesn't worry me but robots do. That's because I believe it's entirely possible for whatever negative impact arises from surveillance to be contained through the majoritarian processes. It's been worse before and it's gotten better so we have historical evidence that it's something that can be overcome. We don't know what happens when you don't need to recruit hundreds of thousands of ordinary people, people with families and friends and ties in their communities, as soldiers in order to control the population of a country. That's uncharted territory.

I have a deep and abiding faith in the masses of ordinary people. I don't think you can control large-scale public opposition with surveillance. It certainly didn't do Egypt's previous regime any good. I think even China, with its far more massive surveillance state, will be unable to oppose majoritarian opposition when its time comes. That's why surveillance doesn't worry me, even if it exists today.

It should be noted that even if the NSA is collecting every bit of plain-text data that flows over the internet, minority groups have far more ability to communicate securely today than they did in say the time of MLK. I don't think the NSA can break strong encryption today, but I'd bet they were reading MLK's mail back then. The NSA certainly has a lot more information than the FBI did back then, but it's all low-grade crap that's almost entirely useless for population control.
Pattern matching is great, you can usually use it instead of head, but you want something like Control.Error.Safe.tryRead to replace other unsafe functions like read.
In Praise of Idleness [1932] By Bertrand Russell
Money isn't the problem, it's the entire reason the game is so engaging.

If poker wasn't about money it would be a different game. There has to be an element of risk otherwise decisions do not have any consequences. Without consequences there is no incentive to attempt to play in an optimal manner.

The problem is a player's aversion to risk and fear of loss, both of which are important psychological elements when playing the game.
Very sad. A close friend of mine was an acquaintance of Seth's. He pointed out this video of Seth talking about biking around Durham:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=wE3gi...
Elon Musk, Oprah, Marissa Meyer, Bill Gates, Jack Dorsey -- these are people who have been wildly over-compensated for their time. (Not that they don't deserve what they get, but they make huge amounts of money.) They work because they want to, and if they didn't they could retire tomorrow and live like kings/queens for the rest of their lives. Odds are, you're not in this camp. And never will be.

(And sometimes I wonder: Are all of these top-tier people workaholics? Or is that a myth that's sometimes created to both justify the amount of compensation they receive and to promote workaholism in their employees? Also: Is it easier to seem like a workaholic if you've got huge piles of cash to pay other people to actualize your visions for you?)
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I think other folks covered this one, but yeah the difference here is that this expanded notification API is for Chrome apps, much like Mozilla has non-standards track APIs that are targeting Firefox OS apps.
Chrome supports the W3C standard Notifications API: http://caniuse.com/#feat=notifications as well as edits the spec for it: https://dvcs.w3.org/hg/notifications/raw-file/tip/Overview.h... This works today in Chrome, Firefox, Opera.

The permission model on packaged apps is completely different, and allows for APIs that have a lot more power (raw USB, TCP access) and as such, it's hard to find a way to expose them to the open web without permission bar overload. :/ I'd personally love to find a way to bring some of the powerful APIs that browsers are developing and exposing them to the web, but it seems like we're not there yet.

For Dart.. think of it as another compile-to-JS language that was designed for large app authoring & maintenance productivity. Its performance as compiled JS seems to be pretty good already so you can target all modern browsers with Dart apps already.

But, ultimately, I'm an open web kind of guy. My money's on APIs that the web shares and I see compatibility across the web as the characteristic that drives its power and reach. Chrome's working on a lot of APIs for the open web platform (see my links above) and is constantly working with other browser vendors to get feedback, buy-in, and identify the best APIs that the web can share.
To catch up on tech and startup news and see (normally) useful insight from like-minded individuals.

Most of my friends and family would be useless here. Likewise, I haven't talked to anybody here that I'd like to show pictures of my brats.

I can't understand why you would conflate a social network and a forum.
It's always simple to give advise after the crisis...

We had nothing to say publicly before, because those are security issues...
I remember working with gazelle for a torrent site for live Phish recordings. Truly a terrifying code base.
I don't like price rigging but reading the material around the case I don't think it was unfair of Apple to try and charge more with its partners through their own venue.

I'm gonna play armchair legal analyst here and say this is a smack down by the government because Apple didn't want to settle and pay the fine. Because they thought they were in the right. I tend to agree.

Let me clarify since people are already down voting because they disagree: What if Walmart told Hasbro that it could sell its GI Joe action figures for $5 more than K-Mart could? Then they went to negotiate an agreement to purchase as many as possible. Would it not be in Hasbro's best interest to sell as many as possible through Walmart? When K-Mart comes to negotiate it will have to make a justification for why it can't charge more, that's how markets work. K-Mart will either convince Hasbro to still sell the items for cheaper or it will have to renegotiate.

Now throw in the fact that these were not real-life items. There is no limitation on how many items each retailer can acquire. The number is infinite.

Does it really seem so terrible now? Try not to appeal to emotion when making the decision.
Right, and I am saying that VLC is not only a Desktop app, it has extensive remote capabilities as well: http://www.videolan.org/doc/streaming-howto/en/ch04.html and http://www.videolan.org/doc/streaming-howto/en/ch05.html , which means that it is going to get used in ways involving automation, which means it might be injesting arbitrary files.

Don't get me wrong, I am not saying that is a good idea (I decided against it), but that the scope of this bug is much larger than just a desktop "Don't open that file then" kind of bug.
Part 3 is also really interesting.

http://www.robotron2084guidebook.com/technical/christianging... (cached: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:SOgJkJa...)

Incredible that he was working for minimum wage after completing this. And he is true on saying that we value too much a university diploma (but this is slowly changing).
Apple guilty of e-books price fixing
These skills apply to many analyst jobs in DC. Path to political glory: become manipulative policy / econ/ PR wonk -> get high paying / low influence job in DC -> catch someone powerful doing blow off a hooker -> get on ticket in home district -> forget you ever learned these skills -> become member of congress -> retire after one term after someone catches you doing blow off a hooker -> become Fox News regular -> book deal
Hacker News and Reddit have lots of information and good discussions. People use them because of the quality of the content, not because they know the contributors.

People use Facebook because they know the people, and that's what makes the content significant to them but not to outsiders.

G+ simply doesn't have the ease of access or quality of content (links, discussions) that you get on HN or Reddit, and it doesn't have your friends. It fails at both.
The more important difference is safety in numbers e.g. drivers will look over their shoulder before turning right, because usually there is a bike. Drivers are conditioned to take into account bikes and their erratic driving.
I agree they can be annoying, but teaching that all and every use of carousels is devastating to your business is careless and wrong. All of these very profitable companies use carousels and probably laugh at the short-sightedness of this sentiment.

http://www.amazon.com/
http://store.apple.com/us/browse/home/shop_mac
http://www.rakuten.com/
http://www.ebay.com/electronics
https://www.youtube.com/
http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/default.aspx
etc..
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Glorify results.

Glorify efficient results. And then, going out there and having a life, even if it's sitting home alone drinking tea and ready mystery novels.
On of my favorite Adam Smith quotes is apropos (http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Adam_Smith#Book_I):

"People of the same trade seldom meet together, even for merriment and diversion, but the conversation ends in a conspiracy against the public, or in some contrivance to raise prices."

This is classic, slam dunk antitrust, no need to spin elaborate economic theories, just prove to the court's satisfaction that consumers were harmed by an overt conspiracy to raise prices.
So it would be equally outrageous when a thief's stolen goods are returned to the original owner? I mean, it might be wrong to disrespect property rights in the first place, but is it even more wrong if it is done again?

PS.
Yeah, I know, "sharing is not stealing!!!1! blah blah blah". Please pay attention here, this example does not equate the two. I am pointing at the pattern "It might be wrong to do X in the first place, but I am outraged when the X is done to the X's perpetrator!"
Relevant part of the decision:

A chief stumbling block to raising e-book prices was the Publishers’ fear that Amazon would retaliate against any Publisher who pressured it to raise prices. Each of them could also expect to lose substantial sales if they unilaterally raised the prices of their own e-books and none of their competitors followed suit. This is where Apple’s participation in the conspiracy proved essential. It assured each Publisher Defendant that it would only move forward if a critical mass of the major publishing houses agreed to its agency terms. It promised each Publisher Defendant that it was getting identical terms in its Agreement in every material way.
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Without the collective action that Apple nurtured, it is unlikely any individual Publisher would have succeeded in unilaterally imposing an agency relationship on Amazon.
>bore hundreds of miles of tunnel

It's elevated, not below ground. But I think most of your point stands. Just getting through the politics alone would be impressive.
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Try this rename script if you really want to profit:

http://plasmasturm.org/code/rename/

The -z flag is phenomenal. The only thing I wish it had was a -R for recursive.
How does this differ from something like RayBan sunglasses which cost the same everywhere ... the MSRP?
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Without the option of privacy, we are lost
I wonder about that “#2 social network” statistic. Google is, e.g. getting increasingly pushy about getting me to merge my YouTube account with my G+ account. I wouldn’t be surprised if a sizable proportion of whatever metrics went into determining that #2 ranking were derived from people who did NOT think of themselves as “being active on G+”.

Of course the same is true for Facebook, to some extent, with an increasing number of web sites outsourcing their comment system to them.
It's only for android.
I thought it was a useful post highlighting a common problem with HiPPOs!!
It works the other way too. About every other week there is an article or comment posted here on HN that talks about how artists or authors should be able to charge what they want and people should pay it purely because that's what the creator values their work at.
Google should "remove" whatever person is in charge of the G+ UI/UX . It's so bad . that's why people dont use it. Let the content breath , get ride of the header that takes half the page on laptops , stuffs like that. It's like they want it to fail ... It's funny with the load of money Google has , they usually suck at UI. Youtube UI is good most of the time though some iterations were bad.

Keep things simple for god sake. Even Microsoft is better at UI than Google.