skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The point is that if you worked 50 vs 35 hours at the same job

But isn't that, in many ways, the point? We need to optimize every hour of our life, because life (and in particular youth) really is short.

If I choose to spend my life cutting grass with a pair of nail clippers, I can absolutely get more done spending 60 hours versus 35 hours. But you know, I'd rather pull out the driving lawn mower. That should be all of our goals.

There's a reason many hugely successful people are notorious workaholics - see Elon Musk, Oprah, Marissa Meyer, Bill Gates, Jack Dorsey, etc.

This is cargo culting. These people are often "workaholics" because they are highly successful. And in many cases it's hard to even attribute whether it's work or pleasure, because many business heads "put in the hours" that they do because it essentially becomes their recreation: I doubt any of them lie in bed dreading going to "work".

And ultimately that is the dream of all of us, isn't it? To eventually be in a place where we are effectively choosing everything we do, and where our work is completely rewarding and self-satisfying? In no universe can you compare that to putting in more time at a job you don't enjoy.
Amazon's customer service (especially with respect to books) second-to-none, by a large margin. Consumers are doing far better than zero.

And I wouldn't hold my breath waiting for that ebook monopoly. Even if Microsoft/B&N and Apple both decide to bow out (not at all likely they both care too much about content for mobile devices to do that), Amazon still would have Google and Kobo/buy.com/Rakuten (aka "the Amazon of Japan") to contend with both of which are more than capable of fighting a price war.
Hi, I'm in the dancer in the video. I don't work for Lift, I'm a user. I found that once I started using it, I really didn't want to miss a day of dance. Something about having a 90+ day streak that other people are holding you accountable to makes you want to keep it up.
Anthropology
Indeed. The source code of mapM_ is literally:

mapM_ f as = sequence_ (map f as)
>Sure but then Netflix and Universal stealing translated subtitles from these "pirates" and including it on their commercial content is also piracy.

Umm, no. It may be unethical but the "pirates" have no copyright protections for a movie dialogue unless they wrote the movie.
Google Plus is like the movie Dark City. It's a group of technical aliens picking apart the human experience, trying different scenarios in order to find out what the human soul is.

Once per day, humans wake up and find themselves in its meticulously-constructed parallel universe, doing things as ordinary humans do on other websites. Their activities, such as appreciating music and searching for lovers, feel familiar, necessary and meaningful, but at the same time, the unsettling atmosphere prevents the existential questions from settling deeply repressed where they should be. Instead, we're left wondering, "Why are we doing this here?" Isn't there something better? Is there a Shell Beach out there somewhere? Couldn't I just do this all myself on 1999-style website and live a more natural life?

Successful, albeit defunct, networks like MySpace work b/c above and beyond, they were passionate about connecting people with things they want. e.g. music... at all costs! Facebook reassures you that you dodged a bullet when you didn't marry your high school sweetheart. Google Plus just screams "use me. use me. use me for... everything or anything.. so that... um... so that google can keep track of what's hip and make money while I don't." There's no soul or love deep at the bottom.

There's a whole lot more I could say about passion, sacrifice, vulnerability, and empty vs. full cabinets, but I have a customer to service now, so I'll leave you with this hint: Germick is onto something with the google doodles. Hire me as a consultant if you really want to pick my brain.
But than you are introducing overhead of deciding this. For obvious reasons this is something that needs to be negotiated with a client and documented.
In the early days of game piracy on computers like the Apple ][, people hand-disassembled the copy protection schemes to understand how they worked and develop workaround patches.

Granted, it's a lot easier to get to the object code on an Apple ][ than it was on a Williams Robotron. Harder still when you don't have documentation about the specific I/O ports on the hardware and other things like the blitter chip.
I think you mean "the publisher and distributors lose out when geographically exclusive licenses are undermined, and the customer when they are enforced".
I'm honestly fascinated by that kind of work -- not that its interesting, but the fact that it exists is just strange to me.

Right now I'm doing iOS development. I get to take my laptop to the park, or anywhere outside and it's goddamn amazing. Last night I worked all day on an isolated beach on an island right across from my city. Possibly the most fun I've had in months to be honest.

Sounds like you're living the dream. Good luck with your continued success!
It looks like they've got OTP-like functionality: http://doc.akka.io/docs/akka/2.2.0/scala/fault-tolerance.htm...
So if you finish them in one day - you don't send them to the client until Friday?

I imagine if you did them in a day or two the client would be asking why they paid for a week of work and if they can use the rest of the time somewhere else
I self-censor because I want people to like me. If I accidentally blurt out that I think Pearl Jam sucks or the Metallica black album "has some good songs," they may decide I'm a moron and never talk to me again.
I added a sketch to my top comment.
There's a difference between an obsession, your life's work, and something you do to make a living. It can be nice if they cross paths, but as you say, far too many people confuse working long hours with being "productive" or "responsible" or "hard-working".

I think a big test is: how do you feel after a day of work? If you just feel like vegging in front of the TV, you might want to reconsider how you spent the day.
+1 on the Mead Cambridge notebook. Plus, you can't beat the price.

Moleskin makes a great pocket notebook. Better than Field Notes, IMO.
ISP: AT&T
Location: Meriden, CT

The main Google home page comes up for me; as does Google Voice and Google Docs. And my Google Apps email accounts are working.
How is this different from a traditionally structured office? The Boss is the CEO, the inner circle are the VPs. The Untouchables can be literally anywhere in the org, but generally have special titles, like "Director of Creative Direction". The Loyals tend to be management. The rest are the rank and file.

All this really tells me is, given a lack of formal hierarchy, people tend to organize themselves into the exact same hierarchies that are formalized everywhere else.
Crowdfunding targeted drug delivery using magnetic nanoparticles
One wonders if users would even have Flash installed if it weren't sandboxed.

http://www.cvedetails.com/vulnerability-list/vendor_id-53/pr...
Disney as a rule do their thing and wait to see if anyone complains, and then, and only then, do they license.
The crime rate in San Francisco is well higher than the national average [1]. If you value your life, you should not live in San Francisco. It's the only logical choice.

Heart disease is the leading cause of death in the US [2], and is empirically linked with dietary and lifestyle choices. If you value your life, you should not live in the US.

The leading cause of HIV infection in the US (by a large margin) is male-to-male sexual contact [3]. If you are gay and value your life, you should remain celibate.

Logical programmers will avoid all of these things.

HN, take note.

[1] http://www.city-data.com/crime/crime-San-Francisco-Californi...

[2] http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/fastats/deaths.htm

[3] http://www.cdc.gov/hiv/statistics/basics/
For developers building something, the following are often true:

Tweeting != Work
TalkingAboutWork != Work
Blogging != Work
DoingSomethingInYourIDE does not necessarily = Work
DoingSomethingInGithub does not necessarily = Work
ThinkingButAppearingToBeDoingNothing may = Work
Meetings != Work
CodeReview may = Work
Testing usually = Work
DeliveringBuiltSoftware(AndItsPrerequisites) = Work
HackerNews definitely != Work
Go Beyond Push Notifications with In-App Content
Our "response" to this is radical transparency. Client should be able to track the progress in almost realtime.

The problem is that usually the business is not sure what it wants then the project starts - the scope is not well defined. And it's ok. This is something that all stakeholders learn along the way.
It was first released under the GPLv3
http://torrentfreak.com/gazelle-rejuvenates-the-bittorrent-t...

You can view a mirror of the original release here:
https://code.google.com/p/gazellewhatcd/
The internet is full of information and we've find this 3D Cloud Effect tutorial http://www.clicktorelease.com/blog/how-to-make-clouds-with-c... You should try it too.
I found this post entirely unreadable due to its usage of Helvetica Neue Light #777 body font.
http://www.haskell.org/ghc/docs/latest/html/libraries/base/s...
Pirate Bay Co-Founder Wants to Build NSA-Proof Messaging App
It doesn't need to end. It is "work life choice" not "work life balance.

Choosing to spend more of your time to a task will generally return a better results. Now choose your own adventure and determine where you want those results, friends/startup/employer/family/fitness or whatever else you value.
You are saying that elitism is the product of a system that produces it. I am saying that elitism is inherent to the human condition. There are three ways to become elite: by force, by theft, or by merit. The only way to ensure it happens by the method of merit is to forbid theft and force.
You can't just translate Harry Potter and distribute it.
Other way around, more likely. Everybody's abandoning open protocols - Google has functionally dropped RSS and their instant messaging protocol, for example. The modern approach is to avoid the protocol and offer a massive cloud-based service, first-party apps, and maybe an API for a little while when you're in the growth state (kill the API when your apps have every feature you want them to have).
Moving to g+ is the same as killing.

Its the same with sites that only have a Facebook login. Goodbye.
Cool, I hope this helps startups that need HIPAA, PCI, and other compliance requirements.
* Lois Bujold
* Connie Willis
* Vernor Vinge
* Kim Stanley Robinson
* Neal Stephenson
* Larry Niven
* Hell, even John Scalzi

If it weren't for the "alive" requirement, I'd include Iain M. Banks. :-( Regardless, I highly recommend anything Banks has written over anything of Card's.

If we're willing to include fantasy...

* Brandon Sanderson
* Patrick Rothfuss
* George R. R. Martin
* Terry Pratchett
* Mira Grant
* Jim Butcher

This just from a brief glance over my most-recent on Goodreads. There is lots and lots of good Sci-Fi and Fantasy out there, and I'd be willing to argue any of these authors over Card in terms of quality. (Though -- to be fair -- I was monumentally unimpressed with Card even before I knew his politics.)

A few of the authors on my list have politics I disagree with as well, but they at least are much less obnoxious and hateful about it.
Hold on. Apple has huge incentives to push content competitors off of iOS. It dramatically increases the switching costs to other platforms (see: video in particular).

And while pushing competitors off of iOS technically might not be squeezing them out of the space, it is still awfully damaging - especially when backed up by something like agency ebook pricing.
Google Chromebook Under $300 Defies PC Market With Growth
Also checkout M5 hosting[1][2]. They have excellent customer support and I've had no issues since I started using them a few months ago. I currently have a dedicated freebsd server, for $209/month:

Xeon X3450 Quad Core, 32GB ECC RAM, 2x 500GB HD, and 2TB/month bandwidth plus a whole bunch of extra IPs allowing me to run numerous jails for hosting all sorts of sites and dev-environments. Very good machine for the price. You can still pick one up [3].

[1] http://www.m5hosting.com
[2] They are also working on a an amazon AWS competitor service.
[3] http://www.m5hosting.com/buynow.php
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Sure there are a number of competitors, but iTunes still dominates when it comes to dollar share of music purchases. Regardless of their intention, Apple has certainly "squeezed out" most of the competition, and remains the dominant platform for purchasing music.

Similarly, there are still options outside of Amazon when it comes to eBooks. There's Nook, Kobo, iBooks, Google Books, Sony, and others. So Amazon's desire to make profit hasn't completely wiped out the market.

So this argument does not really hold in either direction...
Don't disagree with your point on Apple but worth saying if Amazon's goal is to make a profit it's doing remarkably badly.

On a turnover of around $60bn it makes a profit of about $90m. Given that it's nearly 20 years old and beyond the point where it should be struggling to break even either it's doing a very bad job of being profitable or being profitable isn't the companies primary goal right now.

To me it looks like they're managing profit to zero to continue the land grab.

Now that may be legal and fair and in the short term it's good for consumers, but in the longer term I'm not sure it's good for the market (and therefore for consumers) given that most of it's competitors have shareholders who probably do expect profits.
Even if you do subscribe to that point of view, modern politicians neither pay attention to their constituents' opinions nor exercise judgment for the good of the same. The reality-relevant betrayal is the application of the representative's judgment for the good of himself or his sponsors; that people are attempting to replace this but going about it in a way that might not be ideal might be an overreaction, but I'd argue at least it's a mistake they can learn from rather than a total abandonment of principle.
your mention of lawyers reminds me of the Kia Motors outside counsel technology audit[1]. Many lawyers waste ridiculous amounts of time doing busywork. In my day job, I spend many hours visiting customers and spend much of that time adding automation for them, simple bash scripts that allow them to do things much more quickly. Yesterday, I taught someone the rename command[2]. Previously, they had been spending an doing it manually with the mv command. I am constantly reminded about the amount of low-hanging fruit there is out there for automation that is currently handled extremely manually, sometimes by some very well-paid people.

[1] http://www.law.com/jsp/lawtechnologynews/PubArticleLTN.jsp?i...
[2] http://linux.die.net/man/1/rename
I joined the last batch (winter 2013) after having been rejected from the prior one. The rejection sucked, I questioned my programming skills, my legitimacy as a real developer. Turns out I'm just awful at interviewing - spent most of the time talking about startups for some reason, probably because it seemed safer than exposing my relative programming inexperience at the time.

I'll second the sentiment that admissions are based purely on fit for Hacker School, not likelihood of making money for them, gender, or any other criteria. I just came across as too much of a "startup guy" first time around in the limited interview time.
It's actually not harmless because it undermines geographically exclusive distribution licenses. European distributiors pay a lot of money for the rights to sell Hollywood movies in Europe and are understandably annoyed when people then import movies from the USA and watch them with crowdsourced subtitles.

Arguably, the benefit to consumers should outweigh the harm to license models, but that's not what the law says, currently.
Ok google was down and they cite a couple funny tweets about how the world is going to end. Anything else that's of interest here? Google's not gonna tell us how it was caused (they're too cool for that)...
So how does one propose to get around negotiating land usage permission in all the podunk districts between SF and LA? That's what kept BART from circling the Bay 20 years ago and I suspect it has a great deal to do with the ridiculous price and schedule for the HSR.
It almost sounds like the driver purposefully hit him:

http://www.wral.com/bicyclist-killed-in-durham-hit-and-run/1...

Witnesses told police that the car, a late-1990s or early 2000s model, slowed quickly and swerved before hitting Vidal and continuing north on Hillandale Road.
Free? I paid 600 for my phone directly from Google and my wife paid 700 from hers. Doesn't seem much free now.
Cool, it's like watching how people did PHP 4-5 years ago when there weren't many frameworks available, and people used GLOBAL variables for accessing the DB/cache.
The issue, at least for me, appears to be with Comcast. I've confirmed that Google is accessible on both Verizon and T-Mobile networks.

Since I happen to be working on a web application with several scripts pulling from Google's CDN, I needed access to it. Assuming you have a server that is not on Comcast's, you should be able to setup a simple SOCKS proxy and tunnel your traffic through it:

ssh -D localhost:6772 username@hostname

Assuming OS X as your OS, go under Network Preferences -> Advanced -> Proxies, check "SOCKS Proxy" and enter the host/port.

From there, your internet traffic should be tunneled through the server.
Metacritics seems to be perfectly timed to always advance exactly as I'm clicking on an item, leading to it navigating to something different entirely. Always meant to look if there's some troll code in there.
I don't want to diminish what he did, but consider that this was one of the most common methods of learning assembler programming in depth in that era. Most books on the subject were relatively primitive in the context of games and demo programming, and so if you didn't want to lag behind, you needed to figure out techniques by studying disassembled programs.

(EDIT: Just to add that this is in reference to the disassembling bit. Pulling eproms to dump them and studying them so intently you start to fix bugs the game designers hadn't managed to solve is certainly dedication well above the typical level)

Many large demos at least for 8-bit computers, and quite likely some games too, were written even without a symbolic assembler, but instead entered using a simple machine code monitor (think just one step above debug.com on MS DOS, and decidedly more primitive than programming directly in gdb...) using hardcoded address references instead of labels.

I'd actually been programming on the C64 for a couple of years before I got an assembler that supported labels that was good enough to use (I had some before that, but they wasted too much memory and/or were too slow to seem worth it) and from people I met I gather that's a fairly common experience.
I don't know, the more I see of this conversation between flat vs hierarchical management, the more I think the actual structure doesn't matter. If you have highly ego driven people with bad motivations, the company will be a bad place to work no matter the structure. Small, family owned or "lifestyle" businesses tend to be better because the motivations are more modest. People working and running those companies are looking to make a living instead of getting filthy rich. Maybe I'm romanticizing it, but the best jobs I've ever had were at private companies where the focus wasn't on getting obscenely rich.
The three chief virtues of a programmer are: Laziness, Impatience and Hubris. – Larry Wall
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Well VLC does have a case for libel if they were to take secunia to court. Would be interesting to see.
It's not geographically exclusive licenses per se; rather an implementation of said licenses which let licensees to provide subpar product in their geo region: later, less accessible and more expensive.

This is not zero sum game. It is possible for both customer and publisher lose; it is possible for both to win at the same time.
An email to support@ctf365.com would help us a lot to make you happy. Thanks!
I think the average HN reader would rather have Google go out of business. I'm not sure why, but that's what they want.
... :-( Condolences to my fellow Fedora community members and those who have worked with him at Red Hat. He will be missed.

Thanks Jono Bacon for his message: http://www.jonobacon.org/2013/07/09/remembering-seth-vidal/
See my post above for links/references, but it was originally released under the GPLv3.
Just because you assume that VLC is going to be used as a desktop application and that exploitation would require opening a file by hand, doesn't mean that matches every use case.

VLC has broadcasting, relaying, stream processing capabilities, all scriptable. I have done POC transcoding and broadcast applications that required VLC. In these cases, a denial of service might be serious. Also, a use after free may involve other vulnerabilities that require more effort to exploit, but the onus is not on the reporter to iterate every possibility, it is on the developers to fix the bug.

This really sounds like an argument over triage of bugs for VLC (and perhaps some bad internal communications practices), and the VLC devs don't seem to understand that nobody cares about their internal process, just about getting the bugs fixed.
Who makes the call?

If it's truly a lean MVP, the end user/paying customer. Is it an MVP is if no one is getting out of the building and talking to customers/users before designing or writing a line of code?

Completing the problem solution fit, product market fit, and engaging in customer development prior to writing a line of code has to happen if we are wanting to be honest when using a term like MVP.

If you feel this is a binary issue: ultimately the person signing the cheques make the call, and you have a choice on whether to accept said cheque for managing said potential headache.

The grey area in between:

If the customer wants to do whatever they do and call it an MVP by sprinkling the lean dust on it to justify it, you have to recognize it for what it is and either adjust your approach, or decide if that kind of work is something you can live with. No process can correct development pagentry, management/design by committee, and failing to get out of the building.

Building an MVP requires getting through the build - measure - learn loop as quickly as possible.

Interrupting you mid-cycle if it's that ground breaking (customers are saying I'm trying to find a way to give you money) requires answering "Did we really understand anything before hallucinating an MVP ourselves"?

It leaves a few options:

- Change the scope

- Change the deadline

- Change the budget

- Trade features -- something that was important can no longer be important as a result of what was traded.

Avoiding this is the business skills development we all constantly need that I mention to in my initial post.

For me, I try to make sure I understand, and the customer understands why we're doing the things we want first and hopefully minimize the above.

I don't rush customers into building something, but rather rush into understanding what our experiment is, and why we're testing those things. It helps create a checklist to test our assumptions/discoveries against when the next great insight comes in.
It's not about the lack of skill on the supplier side. It's usually the client that is not sure how exactly the project should look like. And that's ok - he does not need to scope out every detail - it can be worked out along the way.