skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
From the viewpoint of someone who has seen the inside of BigCo, that sounds pretty naive. I'd guess most "software" jobs are not too far from spreadsheet automation.
Working twice as hard to do twice as much grunt work (especially someone else's grunt work) is a gigantic waste of time. If the boss gives a shit, he'll hire more people.

As far as I'm concerned, if I have to work more than 40 hours to earn my keep, that means the work is of marginal importance and we should really be discussing either (a) hiring more people to handle this glut of grunt work, or (b) not doing it, focusing instead on higher-yield stuff. A programmer's salary is low enough in comparison to value-add that 15 hours per week is break-even, unless the work being assigned is of unusually low importance. So a 60-hour mandate is a sign that we're making up for a lack of strategy through sheer effort, and that never works out in the long run.

On the other hand, working twice as hard to learn twice as fast (or to have twice as good an insight into what it worth working on) is a different story. That can be worth it, because it often ends up making huge differences. If you think of a skill set as an asset, the difference between 10% per year and 5% per year, taken out over 30 years, is that one portfolio does 4.32x and the other does 17.45x-- massive difference. Also, knowledge's time value is such that one might have to work hard (at least in spurts) to get and use the high-yield knowledge.
"At trial, the Justice Department said it wanted to block Apple from using the agency business model for two years, and to stop the company from entering contracts that insure it will offer the lowest retail prices."

Does anyone know if this just applies to ebooks? Or might this ruling impact their ability to apply agency model and "most favored nation" contracts across all their content marketplaces?
On the subject of buying ads against those "long-tail" search terms, I see a lot of times when I'm in the research-phase of a purchase cases where it looks like a company has bought the right search term, but they've completely failed to provide the information I was looking for. I scroll past the Google Ads not because I'm not interested in the bought-and-paid-for results, but because they suck.

If you're buying "best golf clubs for beginners" and you dumped me to golf clubs category page, I'm just going to close the tab and go back to the next result. Get me information specifically about the beginner golf clubs you offer. Put up a nice article describing what a beginner should look for and which of your products fit the bill best. If I walked into a store and asked "which set is best for beginners" and your salesman silently pointed me to the golf clubs aisle, I'd probably look around for a minute and then just walk out since I don't want to make a purchase flying blind.

Look how much google loves About.com. Everybody knows that site sucks - the information is half-assed and spammy, but they know how to create content that matches the search terms perfectly. If I ask Google a question, I'm pretty much guaranteed to get an About.com article that will provide a surface-level discussion directly pertaining to my issue. The fact that the article sucks is irrelevant, because most people are Googling these questions because they're too deep in the dark to know the article sucks.
You expect me to take your argument seriously when your dissing me because of my dyslexia?

And whohoo psychology and sociology the soft and easy choice for schools gaming the OFSTEAD system.
op's page ironically made the carousel useful
Also, this page:

http://whatcd.github.io/Gazelle/
You must have skimmed the article, this isn't miles of tunnel that he's proposing.
They are already building their own in Africa.
sorry man. I hear you. the point isn't to bash working hard- it pushes a bit that you should work hard + smart. it's more of a rant about pushing that out to the twitterz/4sq. I mean how many successful people actually push out how hard they are working and how much shit they are getting done? I can't count any.

can't agree on the #hustle comment though. That stuff makes me cringe the f out.
StatCounter: Samsung overtakes Apple for first place in mobile Web traffic
I want to hear the arguments of someone who thinks that a person that sits down and meticulously transcribes a song by ear is doing something that is ethically wrong. I really do. Is learning someone else's song something that should be illegal (I'm just throwing it out there, not talking to you specifically)? Or are they afraid that someone is going to make a midi file out of the transcription and have a grand old time rocking out to this vastly inferior version of the song while playing Super Nintendo?

Given enough time I can tab songs myself if someone decides to shut down such websites. So what does that make it on my part, some kind of copyright thought-crime?

If making tabs for songs of other people is illegal, I really want to believe that it is just some side-effect of the overarching copyright laws.
Awesome !! Is there so info on -

- which country was he from ?
- Did he become a successful coder ???
- What is he upto these days ??

This story is incomplete !!
No, you stop glorifying "smart" work and shorter hours.

Could it possibly be that people work at different paces, have different work ethic, and have different aspirations, but that they can't be compared at face value purely on the hours worked? Just because you work less hours, doesn't necessarily imply you're doing the work "smarter," it probably just means that you are only doing the required the work. It is possible that I work much "smarter" than you do and still work 50-60 hours work weeks because I am doing twice the required work. This isn't that bizarre if you are really trying to cover a large amount of the material that exists in CS beyond making cool, hip web-apps and mobile sites. In that case, you might NEED to put in extra work since you are possibly taking on two jobs: one as an employee and one as a student.

That being said, I recall a lot of people making this argument to me as I progressed through school and every activity I've done. They claimed the exact same thing about being the "real geniuses" (please don't fool yourself here) because they learned how to work "smarter"; which usually came down to putting in ONLY the minimally required hours, constantly calculating their grade to make sure it was high enough for them to fail the tests and still pass with a C, and overall cutting corners. You want to know what I saw happen to those people? Failure. These are the same people who were high school dropouts or got kicked out of college for not doing the work. Here's the thing, in a world where the job market is extremely competitive, your stubbornness to work "unreasonable" hours is purely a weakness and hardly a strength. You can have all of knowledge in the world and truly be a "real genius," but if your boss can't confirm your work ethic, you still don't have a job. Oh, and good luck starting/running a business with your 35 hours work weeks.

Finally, you should probably apologize to those of us who are hard workers out there for being purely insulting. As if CEOs and CTOs and great hackers all over the world worked somehow less "smart" than you did because they worked hard hours and slept underneath their desks. Sometimes to excel and to surpass yourself, you have to sacrifice and change the pace of things. Do you really think Elon Musk, Bill Gates, Larry Page, Steve Jobs, etc, got where they were by saying "well, I've done 35 hours of 'smart' work now, I need to stop an meditate?" Well, maybe, but they definitely didn't start like that. And god forbid you have to take care of a family and multiple children. Do you think your spouse is going to be happy with "Oh, I already did my 35 hours of 'smartly' raising the kids and providing for the family, I'm done now."

There are reasons that people "glorify" the hard work and long hours they put into things; they are proud of their work. It doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure this out. If your twitter friends are "humble brag"-ers, get new friends. But don't pretend everyone who loves to share their hard work is trying to shame you or brag about it.
Check out http://www.gq-magazine.co.uk/ for a suited version - same keys - UP UP DOWN DOWN LEFT RIGHT LEFT RIGHT B A and then press A for more dino's...
I am not sure "sell at the prices below the cost to drive out competition" is not some new way.
I'm a Durham resident. The city as a whole does not have great accomodations for bikers on the roads. It has some great bike paths, but in places where that isn't an option you generally are on the road with cars and very little leeway to get out of the way.
The subtitles are a derivative work of the film. It's illegal to make and distribute a derivative work of a copyrighted work without permission.
I'm increasingly convinced that the mystery amounts to "Circles working as designed."

Let's say you've got a classic oversharer in your Aunt Sally. It's uncouth to ignore her entirely, as sometimes she does post things you need/want to be aware of, if for no other reason than to reduce family stress.

On Facebook, there's just a steady peppering of her stuff in all the other posts. On Google+, you can shunt her off into a "noisy" circle and deal with her posts maybe once a week.

But there-in lies the rub: any given dull Facebook session you can click on an Aunt Sally link -- they're always right in front of you. But on Google+ even if you've got 5 minutes to kill on a random link, clicking over to the "noisy" circle carries a mental obligation to not just find a link, but actually do the chore of scanning her aggregated posts to see if there was anything in there about your Uncle's knee surgery or the family reunion.

So you generally don't do it. Or, if you do, you're not concentrating on the random links, you're dealing with the chore of sorting the pile, and the random links still aren't getting clicked.

And the flip side is that when you construct circles for your own sharing, you may think you're sparing your gear-head uncle bob from all your links to computing articles, not realizing that he actually did read them from time to time on Facebook.

Though this explanation does raise the question of "was the lost traffic actually valuable?" as your killing 5 minutes on an Aunt Sally post, or Uncle Bob skimming an anti-Facebook rant are certainly going to be page-views, they're unlikely to have resulted in any sales or ad-clicks.
As it is an open source project, and they obviously have some internal communications issues at VLC, it is likely that you would get a different response and opinion about this depending on who at VLC you talked to. They don't have a traditional legal/PR/management structure, so they're naturally going to be more chaotic when dealing with things.

This isn't necessarily a bad thing, they're probably more resilient as well due to that loosely coupled structure, it just means that sometimes you get inconsistent communications, sometimes about important topics. It would be a mistake to think that VLC has some underlying dislike of vulnerability reports or an aversion to fixing known bugs, and I would be really surprised if counsel has been retained (or has vetted) this 'plan' to sue.
The most amazing thing about this to me is the description of the internals of Robotron... Given a lot of the 8-bit machine code I've read it's simply astonishing to hear about a game of that era being so structured rather than the more typical approach of the day of hardcoding data all over the place (some games even used the on screen life counter as the actual "variable" holding the number of lives left, often full of bugs like not overflow checking the values) and using a basic event loop hanging off the irq. A lot of the time it was seen as necessary in order to fit everything in the small amount of memory, and so even on larger machines like the Amiga a lot of programmers kept manually laying out data structures for many years...

Compare the recently released Prince of Persia code to that description, for example. I found the Prince of Persia code very clean and readable for the period when I read it, but still relatively typical of the style of 80's 8-bit machine code programs even if it looks like it avoided the dirtiest tricks.

A game from that era using dynamic memory allocation, multi-tasking and an object oriented structure just sounds totally alien. Even Amiga games, running on a system with substantially more memory, and on an OS with substantial built in support for it mostly, - with some honourable exceptions - just disabled the multi-tasking entirely and often hung everything off a loop tied to an interrupt handler or at most an interrupt handler and a separate "main" thread.
Object Orientation, it's time to get real
ITT, don't tweet about things you are proud of. It makes us regular people feel bad. ;(
Buy non RayBan sunglasses if you don't like RayBan prices.
Yeah it's back up for me now too. CNN had an article on it, funnily enough. They are headquartered in Atlanta though so they probably all got hit with the outage. Seems the southeast and comcast users were hit hardest
You completely missed the point. VLC is not just a desktop app. It's scriptable so it can be run on a headless server. Open Office is a desktop application but it's also a library that can be scripted against.
The Laws you can't see
Oh, right. I forgot that Nokia had made their exclusive thing. My phone is just a Samsung WP7 device that's getting really long in the tooth.
The most favored nation clauses and the subsequent agency deals that were pushed on competing ebook sellers by the publishers make it clear it wasn't just Apple and partners working in their own venue to raise prices. It was a tactic to use the iPad's launch as a moment of uncertainty that would allow the publishers to raise prices across the entire industry.

Edit: To address your added analogy, I agree. Your proposed example does not seem terrible. It is also not at all close to what happened with Apple and the book publishers. It wasn't one company increasing prices successfully at one store and then shopping the new deal to other stores. It was nearly the entire industry swiftly pushing new deals designed to increase prices and break Amazon's position of power in the industry. The increased prices weren't due to the success of the prices in the iBookstore, but the legally binding clauses and assurances from Apple and the other publishers that they would present a united front. If Hasbro, Mattel, and every other major toy manufacturer raised prices to K-Mart at the same time due to suggestions from Walmart, I would object on intellectual and emotional levels. And I am sure the DoJ would too.
Worse than carousels - web pages that play videos or adverts with audio attached automatically.

I thought we got away from that 10 years ago.
You asked for my reaction, so here it is. I think this post is juvenile and borders on being a "click-like-or-else" digital chain letter.
The idea that bike lanes always make cycling safer is not universally accepted. Many cyclists believe that, at least in certain circumstances, it's safer to operate in the same lanes as motor vehicles. There are a number of reasons, but a couple of the main ones are increased visibility and reduced lane conflicts in right turns.
In my view, the hacker mentality is always about finding a way to automate your way out of tedium and do something more interesting with that time instead.

We're all mortal. Even computers have a finite number of ticks on this earth. Time should not be jail-time, where you try to make it pass quickly, which feels like being dead already. It should be child-time, where you look forward to each second and are spent and saddened when it's over.
I was expecting a site like http://www.arechairslikefacebook.com/
You can get an unlimited ride (almost) on the Yamanote line in Tokyo (it's a loop line) for 100 yen (about 1 dollar :))
Have you actually read the greenpeace report? Amazon uses less coal than most cloud companies.
What you guys think about my carousel implementation? IMO, it is done tastefully. I made this site for a friend of mine: http://indieviddy.com/

It's just an aesthetic presentation of non-essential content (random portfolio items).
I think some of this stems from our feeling the need to compete early on in high school to get acceptance into a "good" college. Later on in life this is merely repeated in different forms at work. E.g.,

"I want to get ahead and get that VP spot, I need to outsmart or outwork everyone else."

"Crap someone just stepped into our space and is eating our lunch, we need to move our roadmap up by 3 months."
Hehe, I used to work at a place where it seemed like the only purpose of a meeting was to schedule another meeting at the end.
True True!
> It's not fair to blame the tool because most people are too lazy to use it well.

Which tool? The tool who called the meeting? Har-har... I'm here all week.

But seriously, I think you make a good point. There's an equally good counterpoint, which is that most people can't do this well. Would training help? Or are some people congenitally boring and disorganized (the two are related, I think)?
It is fully expected, and Gabe probably did not intended this to happen.

It is only human nature: to strive for authority, to build little exclusive clubs around it, and to suck up to such authoritative group of people for a sense of security if one not part of such a group. Decades and decades (centuries and centuries?) of human society has trained people in this mechanism regardless of race, gender or religion. So ValveSoftware, even with good intentions, is fighting against a trait that is part of being human. Regardless of how flat Gabe wants it to be, some people will become more and more important on the part of the company they are working on as their time goes by at Valve. And they will form old-timers club who will feel like they are on the next level, and start to form the barrier from the rest.

Only viable solution towards truly flat structure would be to not give anyone a chance to become an old-timer, a.k.a., one too important/authoritative: recycle people to different parts of the company as soon as arguments like this one arises: "OK group, what you all are suggesting for this product's next phase is really great and all, but we will need to ask Mr. X because he had been working on the product since the first iteration, and he knows about it all, so he knows what is best for the product."
Sorry but Chromebooks are a crap prospect for 99% of people and after about a week, any consumer will realise that.

That happens post-sale which means the sales figures are good.

They are lured in by the price and get screwed. That's all this shows.

Crap netbooks, no-brand PC accessories and appliances, landfill Androids and supermarket bubble-packed electronics fill the same market sector.

Edit: I stand by my comment :)
Productivity > Hard Work and Long Hours
most drivers do hit cyclists on purpose, to "teach them" not to ride on the street (street is for cars).

besides, most of the time there is no responsibility for the driver (I advice you to browse through "cyclist hit" articles on some pro-cyclist sites).

Story usually goes like this:
I also were hit by a car last year. No responsibility for the driver. As I was unconsious the driver was free to tell anything. It ended with police determinig that I was cycling peacefuly and suddenly my front wheel fell off.
If you wonder why I didn't go to court, my aunt is a judge, I asked her opinion and she convinced me thet I would just waste money - a person she knows personally takes care of those types of cases (main court - after which you might not appeal anymore), and she just doesn't like cyclists, so she makes sure drivers don't get "abused". (Poland, "Województwo Łódzkie" region) - that case is NOT special, simmilar stuff happens all over the world.
Braintree partners with online bank Simple to expand reach of one-touch payments
I'm one of the developers of DisRedis and the devops engineer running the servers. Let me know if you have any questions.
Doesn't that indicate a huge organizational dysfunction, if you cannot get an answer through (say) email?
This is a popular idea, but developers can also fall into the trap of thinking they can code their way through every problem. Tweeting and blogging especially may in fact be extremely important, if done well and purposefully. Same with (some) meetings, depending on who you're meeting.

You can build the best damn software in the world, but it won't matter if no one knows.
Orbot (Tor for Android) allows you to host hidden services on your phone. My ideal IM app would be one which uses Tor to enable peer to peer delivery of messages over Tor hidden services directly between phones.

This way, not only would the message content be safe from pyring eyes, but nobody would be able to see who is talking to who or when.
Commence with the cognitive dissonance!
They market their Provisioned IOPS for that purpose.
This post, which hints at something interesting while actually doing no difficult work at all, is the apotheosis of the tl;dr mindset. "Too hard; didn't write".
He's working on an iOS version too. Plus, it's open source so other people can write clients for other operating systems if they want.

[EDIT]: https://www.facebook.com/surespot/posts/614633905213667

26th June: "Just sent first successful surespot encrypted message from iPhone to Android."
I've seen this promoted in subtle ways. At Microsoft, I once saw a VP talk about how a team had worked nights and weekends to make something extraordinary happen and how he was surprised to get emails from them in the middle of the night. I had a private chat with him later of how this encourages the wrong behavior - the key is that great work got done, not the fact that teams worked late nights or that they were on late night email.
And also fear of getting blamed when something goes wrong.

If something goes wrong and you were working 80-hour weeks, you can say, "We did everything possible and still the ship sank."

If you were out having fun most of the time and the ship sank, most of the people standing around are going to blame you for laziness and inattention.
It's open source. Fund it and it'll get ported to other platforms =)
Wow, never seen that bug before. I've created a issue ticket ( https://github.com/bramp/js-sequence-diagrams/issues/39 ), and I will fix it shortly.
The idea that Steve Jobs ever spent a single day at Apple where he didn't play extremely hard to win is kind of funny. He just overstepped the line here.
I would respectfully have to disagree. I've been programming for about 30 years, but finally broke down and bought my first Mac about a year ago. It's a nice platform, and the native apps are a joy to use, compared to the sludge that most Windows apps are.

Oh, and it lets me do most of what I have been doing on Linux the last 18 years. Not quite everything, but pretty close.

No matter how much you tweak and tune a GC, there are still going to be times when it destroys "locality" in a hierarchical memory system and causes some kind of pause. For a small form entry program, this is probably negligible. As the size of the program and/or its data grows, or the time constraints grow tighter, these pauses will become more and more unacceptable.

Most of my work the last 10 years has been in Java, but the JVM is not the one true path to enlightenment. TMTOWTDI :-)
MSRP is an agreement between Rayban and each of their retailers. If someone wants to sell Raybans, they have to agree to sell at MSRP. But as a retailer, there are plenty of other sunglass makers, who might not have the same requirements. So it's not like you have to sell sunglasses at $100 or anything.

Now imagine that one day, all the sunglass makers come to you at once, and say, you have to sell at MSRP, and it's $100. Since you are in the sunglass selling business, this sucks but what choice do you have? That's why this is also generally illegal, for competitors to collude in setting prices.