skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's kind of the point. NASDAQ trading hours are 0930 to 1600 eastern. At a former job thats what mattered, although we were not in the eastern zone and had sites spread across 5 or 6 timezones. Live where you want but production hours on the production boxes were 0930-1600 eastern. A large chunk of financial world workers live in eastern standard time. They might live anywhere in the world, but that doesn't matter.

With the almost sole exception of the financial world, the rest of the world wide users stick with UTC.
The Nordic countries were featured in an article a year ago.

http://www.economist.com/news/leaders/21571136-politicians-b...

If there is an agenda somewhere, it's probably not on the part of The Economist (I don't know enough about The Economist to comment on more than their apparent public face overall).
> he thinks (and I agree) that people should learn to program because it helps people think, and helps people learn.

Read it again. He specifically called that out as a terrible idea.

Bret believes in Seymour Papert's vision, where coding is not an end in itself, but a vessel for experiential learning about important ideas in mathematics and other fields.
did you look at Base ? I'm also evaluating sales tools for my startup couple of months down - does something like this allow me to migrate to Salesforce a year down the line (easy migration of data).
A traffic graph would be interesting. It was incredibly popular fad about a year ago for about a week, then crickets.
Meanwhile in Pakistan the Taliban has banned polio vaccination.

http://indianexpress.com/article/world/asia/vaccinators-refu...
DanBC was talking about HN specifically.
Great chance to check out Offline! I use it pretty regularly for things here in the Triangle: https://www.get-offline.com/
Here in Germany, the entire television system is somewhat different from the US. Most people do not have what we call "pay TV", but consume only free-TV and DVDs/Blurays. There is no usable streaming service (usable in the sense that it has more than two (!) non-ancient TV series on it). No Hulu, no Netflix.

Now with Game of Thrones, what happened is this: The pay-TV group Sky got the rights for it and is showing it with a rather short delay compared to the US date. However, you can't just buy the channel that has GoT, but you have to buy a whole package of channels. That package is rather expensive, since Sky owns several very costly sports transmission licenses. Needless to say, I don't know anybody with a Sky subscription who is not a very devoted sports fan.

So for most GoT fans, it is as if you were paying your whole "cable bill" just for that one series.

If you decide against that (how could you!), you can of course buy the DVD. The DVD for the third season will be available in March 2014.

Yes. One year later.

So essentially, you are locked out of the conversation about GoT that is going on on the internet if you want to remain legal without footing the enormous Sky bill. I wonder if there is a firefox extension out there that filters your on-screen text for GoT mentions, since it is absolutely impossible to be one year behind on GoT and spoiler-free.

Does anybody still wonder, why GoT was the most torrented thing out there for 2013?
Interesting! Can I suggest some other kinds of videos to offer? You have Creative Commercial, Tutorial, Music video, Crowd funding, Testimonial and Micro Ads. You could also have:

* Retail commercial -- for larger retailers

* Local Shop -- for local brick & mortar shops

* Product ad -- product ad by a manufacturer

* B2B -- videos aimed at corporate and business buyers

* Investors -- a video aimed at wooing investors

Excellent idea! I hope you see a lot of success.
It was a Slide project I believe. Slide was shuttered a few years ago, along with some gift/pet apps, but Schemer came out the tail end of it and survived for a little bit. It was never promoted or associated with Google much, so there's really no sense in keeping it around.
Yeah, I'm usually working on some remote machine, and keep multiple tmux instances running with the state of each medium or high level project. I've found I rarely have more than two going at once though.
Try "Peopleware" from DeMarco and Lister: http://www.amazon.com/Peopleware-Productive-Projects-Teams-3...
> aesthetics aside, what other advantages do you think an analog watch provides?

* Appreciation of craftsmanship. Look at a watch with 10+ complications and try not to be impressed. Do not get me started on the Patek Philippe Calibre 89.

* Sentimental attachment/Nostalgia, e.g. the family heirloom.

* EMP resistance

* Permitted inside testing room during LSAT administration
The second video is obviously slowed down to keep pace with the old video. Certainly the buses and horse-drawn carts would be a lot slower.
Especially this huge circle expending automatically the left divs is extremely surprising and annoying. The worst part is that it doesn't give any more information. Just repeating the number in the div title...

It looks interesting but I am still not sure if this is about conferences or if it's an accelerator or something else.
As opposed to full time jobs, that can fire you at will and you might get two weeks termination pay?
Maybe in just being too idealist, but I don't want to think of that look as frustration with a car driving through, but I get that's probably it. Yeah, though, what a bummer that your only pictured self is that look.
I go back and forth on name-and-shame with this one. I made that mistake at Google by exposing some mildly embarrassing information about the company, and it hurt me pretty bad in the long run. Admittedly, Google is a good company with some bad apples; this startup has an executive team that is pure rot. So this company "deserves" it more. On the other hand, it'll do a lot more damage.

Nothing I could say about Google could ever really hurt it, but if I name this company, I destroy it. While it shouldn't exist, that means that about 100 innocent people lose their jobs (and suffer the same kinds of unexpected financial difficulty that made my life hell for a while) and the executives mark it as a mild annoyance. Shit floats, no matter what ya do. Then, there are 100 people who hate me for causing them to lose their jobs, and I don't really gain anything. This CEO is rich/powerful enough that even if I could prove everything I said (which would take a lot of time and energy) it wouldn't mess up his life. Anyway, there are a lot of shitty startups that don't deserve to live, but taking down all of them would be a massive waste of time. I'm not sure that taking down one is worth doing either. I have no moral problem with the idea, I just see it as potentially producing more bad than good.

I'll say this much here: it's New York based and in the ed-tech space. I only worked there for 3 months and it has a pretty horrible reputation among people in the know-- one interviewer I had said he'd never hire anyone who worked there, but made an exception for me because of my unusual story-- so I've taken it off my resume, but if you end up considering such a company for a job, feel free to email me and I'll confirm or deny whether we're talking about the same company.
The graph shows a decreasing level of extra happiness per additional dollar earned, and caps out at $100k. The data here does not support the article at all, it supports the mainstream view. What a rubbish article.
http://upout.com
> Can't one argue that income from rental properties is more predictable than the income from full-time employment?

Sure, in an open market for lenders some may agree it's in their interest to risk their capital, or they may not, if the numbers don't add up.
> Quite frankly I'm shocked and confused by some of the negativity I've seen expressed (including those from the HN community) towards code.org, and the idea of programming as a basic literacy in general.

I couldn't agree more, I thought code.org was really cool, educational and entertaining.

I take the view that the less money or resources you have, the more education you require. I currently have £0.90 in my bank account, so I need all the knowledge and skills I can get my hands on.

> To me, this comes off as a desperate attempt to defame this movement because it threatens to demote the status of basic technology roles from "elite magic" to "basic literacy" -- and to some people, apparently that's not an amazing social good, but a terrifying prospect of power loss. Am I way off base here in perceiving this?

To be less verbose, RTFM. RTFM seems to be applicable only when some noob asks a question; when a noob makes a statement that is considered incorrect, you get loads of experts correcting said noob. A lot of the time the original noob statement was misunderstood because the experts misread the statement. I have even come across this on HN.

I started coding at the grand old age of 31 and have no background in CS, so I tend to be treated like a noob, even though I can write a quine in C. A few months ago I was chatting with a friend of mine who works in software development about linked lists, the first sentence I uttered went straight over his head.
I first read the few quotes and they made sense. I thought this is good.

Then I went to HN and saw the cynicism. It is one of the moments when am thankful for the cynicism. I should waste my time on something more specialised. It's worrying how naive sometimes one gets until one gets another POV.
The README says that the c extension is only 1.5x-2x faster than the pure PHP Pux. So this doesn't explain 50x faster.
The avc.com Word Cloud
The US is still upwardly mobile. If you have any ambition at all, it's possible to rise. It's not easy, but it's far from impossible.

http://www.nationalreview.com/article/367903/white-ghetto-ke...

This article on the poorest county in the US is very interesting, while they're very poor, it's not like anyone's starving, the food stamp program seems to support them well enough.
Digging into the NSA revelations
Yes, I think you have the two points:

1) Lower your expectation. Most of our feeling comes with our expectation. If we adjust our expectation, things will be much different.

2) Do not rely on other people. It's not only for loneliness. We should rely on ourselves more and be more confident.

One of the solutions is to find something you can really dedicate to work on that sucks most of your energy. You will feel less lonely but more rewarded by the outcome of the work, may it be a game or a business.
Assuming you're in the U.S.: If you don't have a written agreement otherwise, then if you were to "fire" your co-founder, he might nonetheless remain a joint owner of the intellectual property. (The result would be basically the same if you previously formed a corporation or LLC but didn't provide for a break-up in the governing documents.)

If that were the case, then (A) you'd likely have a hard time attracting funding in the future, because your co-founder would still have an ownership claim; (B) your co-founder might well be able to start -- or license someone else to start -- a competing business; (C) your co-founder might be entitled to claim a share of the future profits of the business.

So, if you're going to go your separate ways, you might consider offering to buy out your co-founder, either in cash or for some (capped) percentage royalty on future revenues.

Food for thought.
Gtk to Qt - a strange journey (linux.conf.au 2014)
Financial Cryptography 2014 - Tentative List of Accepted Papers
As always, it depends
I don't think people liked hats back then. There was a specific season in the early 1960s where most American men wore hats before that season and after that season almost none did. Tipping point dynamics indicate most wearers strongly wanted to stop wearing hats but couldn't for social pressure, until a tipping point hit and instantly almost everyone stopped, permanently.

"nicer" is debatable, but it certainly was expensive and annoying. I'm hoping the necktie and business suit experience the same collapse.
From the README, it also looks like that he didn't use the optimised (default) versions at all: "Pux tries not to consume computation time to build all routes dynamically (like Symfony/Routing). Instead, Pux compiles your routes to plain PHP array for caching, the compiled routes can be loaded from cache very fast."
Glad to see it go. I signed up a while ago and soon deleted the app; 99% of the "schemes" it sent me were pure advertising. E.g. "Eat at this restaurant", "Go to this casino", "Donate money to this charity", "Book a trip with this travel agency for 10% off!".
I live in Germany, where the old people all like to critizise everything and the young people are as enthusiastic about apps as any American.

Bimodal rating distributions everywhere. Help!
> Web application development.

I don't know if I'd make that distinction. Routing certainly gets a lot of use in web application development, but routing at the application level is not web-specific: examples of the pattern can be found in the Android SDK,[1] userland Android/iOS development,[2] and in a number of EIPs.[3]

> I'm sure plenty of programmers would think of the Layer-3 device that chooses paths to forward packets through nodes to a destination.

I don't discount this at all, but I do think it's pretty obvious from the context and the README which type of routing this library provides.

[1]: http://developer.android.com/reference/android/media/MediaRo...

[2]: https://usepropeller.com/blog/posts/routable/

[3]: http://www.eaipatterns.com/MessageRoutingIntro.html
Who uses GMT in the summer? My bigger point is that metrologists and/or people that care about time use UTC not GMT.
The Four Architectures That Will Inspire Your Programming
Don't we need dopamine to just about anything? What is this belief amongst people that whatever they feel in their body is anything other than just chemicals?
I really like this idea of maker time. Counting down in general seems like a good way to encourage me to get things done.
What do people mean when they say "I'm not surprised by the NSA revelations"?
Valerie Plame Wilson on security, surveillance and privacy
Another real time application issue that rarely gets any attention is WebRTC. I wish people would start tackling these issues for python/django, too. As of writing this I don't know about any library that would allow me to write a server application in python that would serve as a peer in a WebRTC session. The benefit would be unreliable real time data channels to the server. This can be of great use for games. Of course there are many different use cases.
Call function for each argument
Call function for each argument.
Los Angeles in 24 hours by Public Transportation
I don't understand how someone being subjected to a border search while crossing the actual border has to do with the supposed "100 mile wide Constitution-free zone" that is the topic of this thread.

The last sentence in your comment is simply incorrect.
There are more smart people today than x years ago != The smartest people today are smarter than the smartest of x years ago.

I spent a bit of time over the past few years really old text (some 2000 years+). Nothing in those writings suggest we are smarter than those people.
But when I look at performance Python is not near C# or Java

For most websites out there it doesn't matter. Facebook ran on normal PHP (similar performance to Python) up until the point when they had 500 million users and were forced to make some changes.

Instagram and Pinterest are powered by Python. Unless your site is bigger than those, you'll be fine running Python.

And I can't seem the find features of C# in Python

Python has a huge ecosystem of libraries. Maybe you just don't know where to look?
God this system would have been beautiful.
It's an amazing talk.
looks like a classic case of Egyptian sand in the va....
Founder of Streak here. Happy to answer questions about the product from the OP or anyone else - reach me directly at aleem at streak.

"The cons are that it can be a bit tricky to manage anything other than a basic flat pipeline"

We just launched the ability to link boxes together to allow for more complicated relationships. See: http://blog.streak.com/2014/01/linked-boxes.html

"...and if leads start with a contact or phonecall we send ourselves blank emails to build the stub in Streak."

We have some ideas about how we can do a way better job here. It basically boils down to letting you log meetings or phone calls really easily, but under the hood, its still an email (and all the benefits that come with it).

We also have an iOS app as well as an android app in beta. If you'd like to join the beta, shoot me an email.
> Did you mean literate programming?

I was thinking more along the lines of IOCCC. No matter how unreadable the code is, if it compiles and runs without grievance, it is superior to most of the nonsensical, god-awful English seen on the web.

> Something like "A Retargetable C Compiler" maybe?

Shit - come back to me in ten years time, then I might be able to answer.
> Node.js isn't actually better - it uses the callback model of async programming,

The point is not about the code style, it's that since Node is 'asynchronous by default,' culturally, Node produces libraries that are also asynchronous by default. Most Ruby or Python libraries aren't.
"why would he be speaking at RSA conference."

Well, let's say you've got an extra 10 million dollars laying around after selling out your customers, you gotta use it on something...
What browser and version are you currently using? We support Safari 6+ and Chrome 23+...
That and making money.
We like Pipedrive's overall structure (in particular for the way it looks a bit like a Trello board) a lot for the types of sales we do (multi $k/month deals).

The interface is kind of slow and laggy which for something that our sales team spends all day in, is very annoying... For our purposes we can probably live with it but if we were really sweating call volume then I think we'd get something snappier.

We looked at a lot of alternatives and I was blown away by how un-blown-away I was by anything we looked at.
In my experience 'Option one' is not so bad. You need different industry directories (not just "yellow pages") to find most relevant companies and then contact them. Laborious but better than being one in a hundred applicants.
best development book I ever read was called "Antifragile" by Nassim Nicholas Taleb.
It's not bullshit, it's interesting. But comparing this result to the previous results is not valid considering the very strong framing device they used to get that result.

They are basically getting people to judge their happiness against a hypothetical future rich self, when we already know that people have a bias to assuming more money would make them much happier than it actually would.

If I wanted to "prove" money made you happier I would construct a poll exactly like this (or at least I hope I would have been smart enough to come up with this). The fact that it worked is still interesting however.
Green spaces have lasting positive effect on well-being
"Our main issue has been that in person meetings and calls are difficult to log and keep track of, and as we've progressed towards those its become less and less useful."

We're working on handling this better - the main idea will be to let you log meetings or phone calls really easily, but under the hood, its still an email (and all the benefits that come with it).
It has mostly got to do with health workers who were at risk because the clerics and Taliban threatened them. They also spread the misinformation that vaccinations are a Western conspiracy against Pakistanis to sterilise and reduce the population of Muslims.

http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/belief/2011/nov/04/...

Sadly, most people in these areas are uneducated and they believe what the clerics tell them. The health workers were literally risking their lives.
Yup. On the one hand, recruiting is hardly the rocket science of software engineering, and on the other hand, it's hard to imagine a more user-unfriendly system than Taleo, yet somehow they seem to dominate the market.
And attracting trolls evidently.
Seems like gwern predicted this: http://www.gwern.net/Google%20shutdowns#predictions
https://github.com/christian-fei/stats-meteor
Well, 99% of apps don't do anything useful - they're either for killing time or an invention of marketing department hell-bent on selling you more of the stuff you don't need. So I'm not surprised that it's not difficult to build something that can compete in this market.
quick fix to make it readable on firefox, I right-clicked on the paragraph -> Inspect Element, selected the div.single-content and removed the "float:left" CSS rule.
Isn't it better to let a recruitment company do the hard work for you?

If you want to entrust your professional future to someone who doesn't understand the work you do and whose interests aren't necessarily aligned with yours, sure.

Recruiters aren't all bad - they can be one prong of your job-search strategy. (I just found a great startup job through a recruiter.) But don't put them in charge.

And read Ask The Headhunter.
I know what you mean. Biggest difficulty was trying and make it clear to the user how the app works. The more features you add, the harder that can get.
At least within the area of the UK which I lived in until recently the idea that there are lots of unadvertised jobs is a myth. When I was unemployed I did the experiment of applying both via "the usual channels" and also speculatively based upon fairly elaborate analysis to try to identify suitable organisations. The number of "conversions" - which means inquiries turning into job interviews - was vastly higher for the usual channels, with very few companies responding to speculative inquiries.
iOS Static Libraries Are, Like, Really Bad
Here are few examples of great 1000+ pages books with lots of code. Though reading them is much more effort than reading a self-help book:
http://www.amazon.com/Programming-Environment-Addison-Wesley...
http://www.amazon.com/TCP-IP-Illustrated-Implementation-Vol/...
http://www.amazon.com/Physically-Based-Rendering-Second-Edit...
Maybe it's just me, but I find the simultaneous popularity of "only check your email 4 times a day" and "OMG ALL WEB APPZ MUST BE REALTIME" slightly peculiar.
On the other hand, 6th April is the first day of the tax year in the UK, so that would work out quite well.
Silk Road and SuccessFactors are just as terrible in my opinion but seem to also have a healthy percentage of the market. I believe all these HR software systems follow a similar pattern of starting out solving a fairly simple problem, then as Sales brings in more and more disparate customers, the developers keep tacking on stuff until it is a hodgepodge mess.
Obligatory: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S63kIH96Bi0

"They say money can't buy happiness? Look at the fucking smile on my face".
There seems to be a meme going around that things like Rails or Django need to somehow change and react to single page javascript web apps.

Maybe it's just me, but trying to modify your favorite web app framework to accommodate something they were never designed to do in the first place is foolish and will end up ruining what was originally great about tools like Django in the first place.

Just because a hammer is a popular tool that you really like doesn't mean it needs to change into ladder when you decide you need to climb onto a roof.
I sometimes wonder why AdBlock doesn't silently simulate click on all ads in the background. This way you not only protect users from ad bloat, you also make an incentive for people to stop doing website ads.
About a year or 2 ago, a realtor friend couldn't complete a sale of a house in Southern California for a Medical Doctor because the loan was not approved. A young MD who has a full time job.

Reason? he/she had not been working long enough (less than a year at the job). Afaik, it was to be his primary residence.

So I'm not surprised.