skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I used to spend 3-4 hours on commuting per day, but I didn't consider this extreme, as many of my colleagues lived outside the city and spent up to 6 — this is unfortunately common situation in Moscow, especially for those who use their own cars instead of trains and subway.

Then I chose a small apartment in the city center instead of a bigger one on the outer rim. Now I live in 20 minutes walk distance from the office. If I'm running late, I catch a cab and get there under 5. I feel much more relaxed and have more energy; overall, I think it was one of the best decisions that I made in my entire life.
I once remember reading about a guy who commuted from Bridgeport or some other Connecticut city to Boston every day. It was about 3 or 3.5 hours each way in his pickup (this was in the era of cheap gas). Then I saw this article (1):

SIDNEY, Maine -- Boston commuters who grind their teeth during the patience-fraying gantlet of exhaust-shrouded traffic and bad etiquette should consider the case of Stephen Jordan. The way to work could be much, much longer.

Jordan, a retirement fund analyst in Boston's Financial District, commutes 340 miles a day, 1,700 miles a week, from a 15-acre spread outside Augusta that he praises for its proximity to nature and ultra-affordability.

But there is a price: Jordan spends nine hours a day on the road and the rails, leaving his house at 4:15 a.m. to drive 62 miles to Portland and ride Amtrak's Downeaster train to North Station. After an eight-hour workday and a long trip home, Jordan opens his door to greet his wife at 10:15 p.m.

Jordan's story is 10 years old, and I would be very surprised if he had managed to keep it up ... but he did note that he was able to get a lot of work done on the train.

1. http://www.boston.com/news/local/massachusetts/articles/2004... (Complete ungated text here: http://www.urbanplanet.org/forums/index.php/topic/2082-340-m... )
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But Python only supports dynamic where C# supports both static and dynamic. It's a good trade-off.
Past has no influence on the future - each toss of a coin is independent. Jokes aside, there was never such a massive bubble and such dramatic rise in price without any economic reasons. For me it looks like nothing but speculation.

If you would look at volumes in bitcoincharts.com you will notice that its dramatic rise was on relatively high volumes, while after the first drop, from $1200 to $1000 volume is rather low, which may suggest the impression that everyone are holding in hope or looking for an opportunity of a bulk sell. Right now, I think, there is no position who would buy, say, 200+ BTC at the ticker price of $900 or whatever it is.

And, of course, such kind of predictions are nothing but fun, like tea leafs.
Sounds eminently blusterous.
I would love to hear it.
Heh, I wonder if it's because it's an American looking for a taxi in France, as opposed to a French person looking for a taxi.

When travelling around Europe, I put big Irish stickers on my motorbike. You can get Scottish flag stickers for your car that say "Scotland" in French[1], so the French drivers don't think you're English.

[1] http://www.amazon.co.uk/Scotland-Ecosse-Sticker-Number-Salti...
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Taxis in new accession states (i.e. 'out east') are IME more corrupt than taxis in countries in the west.
Its an interesting puritan relic that commuting is bad / wasted but driving a service truck around all day is just fine.

I used to work directly with guys who spent well over 80% of their working day driving trucks full of fiber optic, SONET, and router gear all over the countryside. If you've got one guy assigned to maintain four POPs each a hundred miles apart, you can expect to log some serious windshield time. This does nothing good to mean time to repair if a tech can be working on one problem and get called to a new outage over three hundred miles away.
If you are trying to keep you children away from porn sites, you have to set that option:

"Typo Correction is required for Web Content Filtering.

You will lose 13 categories of blocking if you disable Typo Correction."
Very nice use of Medium theme...
Every good thing has some sort of label attached to it (look at Android now)...
> The startup community is missing out on a lot of extremely useful experience and maturity with these cheapskate shenanigans. Of course, the investors are happy to lack this, because exploitation of naivety in founders is one of their primary mechanisms to maximize profit.

Perhaps the SV Startup Community is but as far as the Midwest and East Coast goes; 90% of the founders I interact with have a house and kids. The biggest difference in business is that most of these companies actually have mechanisms for generating revenue. Aside from the fact they are solving 'real world' problems, not just building iPhone apps that delete the picture after you take it...
You are making brave assumptions here, aren't you? Dogs = unfriendly cats that smell bad and look ugly, mice - edible cats that smell tasty and are small.

It might look like this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HPeattKV74A

Again that's just speculation. I would love to see scientific data here.
My prediction is special-purpose devices that store private keys and sign transactions, without the ability to obtain the private keys directly, like smart cards.
> faster [...] than your ISP's nameservers usually

This is probably incorrect.

Here's one of my ISP's (full disclosure: I work for this ISP) local NS:

--- 188.64.128.3 ping statistics ---
50 packets transmitted, 50 received, 0% packet loss, time 990ms
rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 0.142/0.198/0.423/0.059 ms

And here's OpenDNS:

--- 208.67.222.222 ping statistics ---
50 packets transmitted, 50 received, 0% packet loss, time 1156ms
rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 36.448/36.820/37.379/0.346 ms, pipe 2

So, OpenDNS responses are about 36.6ms slower (considering most queries should be cache hits, not misses), just because it's 4 hops further from me. I believe, unless local ISPs nameservers are running on particularly slow or busy server and have proper caching, they should perform better than more physically distant nameservers. I presume, for most users, OpenDNS servers are farther than local ISP ones.
Who's to say that a founder without a family will not posses realism, maturity, or seriousness. If anything, I would turn it around and say that being a founder and having a family is like trying to have your cake and eat it too, which is not realistic. Delayed gratification is one of the prevailing signs of maturity, and postponing settling down and starting a family until after establishing a business would be a clear example of it. And someone who consistently works very long hours is if anything serious.

We can argue these points all day, but the reality is, unless you can provide evidence that founders with families possess these attributes in measurably greater quantities, and with statistically significant higher probability of success, whether or not having a family is an asset or not in achieving success with a startup is purely subjective.

On the other hand, the number of available working hours, and how more work will result in greater likelihood of success is pretty objective. There may be diminishing returns as the number of hours increase, but at least up to a pretty high point, those returns will still be positive.
Interesting - over the past couple of months, Chinese troops have occupied land in the Ladakh region of India. This is infact one of the largest political issues in the scheduled Indian general elections in April.

Looks like its happening all over Asia.

[1] http://www.firstpost.com/india/why-india-needs-to-be-more-wa...
[2] http://www.livemint.com/Politics/fHAd0H2KBmVMcJW0HvC75H/Indi...
Does having a degree still count as much as it did?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thitu_Island

It's an inhabited island with a military base and an airstrip; I don't see the Philippines just walking away. Moreover, both Taiwan and Vietnam also have claims on the island, not to mention that the US has no desire to see any part of the Spratlys leave its sphere of influence. China might like to confine the repercussions of a military capture of the island, but that relies on intimidating all the countries I just mentioned, which I do not believe it can do.
Whilst I think the need for speed is often overestimated, it's definitely important in some industries. If you need to move quickly and get a decent product to market first, cash is essential.
Children can affect that decision significantly, particularly when it comes to finding good schools and a good neighbourhood in which to raise kids.

But in general, I agree with you. My current client's office (I'm a contract consultant) is 20 minutes walk from home, across the Thames[1] and I'm really the option of getting home before 6pm.

[1]: From my walk to work this morning: http://twitter.com/JackGavigan/statuses/422671719145295872
Intentionally acting crazy has actually been used as a strategy in international relations:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madman_theory
Ask HN: I dropped out of school at 17. Freelance is my only hope. Advice?
So I dropped out of school recently for various personal reasons. I just couldn't cope. I can't get a job, obviously. So I figure freelancing is my only shot.

I've been programming since I was like 12. I'm primarily a web developer. I know Ruby, JavaScript (Node & client), and the obvious CSS, HTML, et al.

How do I actually get clients? I have no portfolio or any real open source contributions. My GitHub profile is pretty empty. And I doubt anyone would hire me due to my age.
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Awesome, totally !
Nitpick: You are probably thinking of Chamberlain saying "Peace for our time"

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peace_for_our_time
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pngquant is great. I make an iPhone app that displays transit maps. Transit maps are ideal candidates for quantization (limited color range, large blocks of color that are perfect for RLE) and I saved a lot of file size by quantizing the map tiles. Thanks pngquant!
The airstrip is larger than the island: https://maps.google.com/maps?q=Thitu+Island&hl=sv&geocode=FQ...
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Should we move to an all HTTPS web?
if the factory owner can fire all of the union workers during a strike, isn't that akin to the factory worker banning unions outright?

Yes it is. And that's why (in many countries) you can't fire people when they go on strike. The employer doesn't have to pay them, but the can't fire them. When/If the strike is over, they still have a job.[1]

Is it legal to fire striking employees in USA?! That sounds bizare!

[1] Here's the UK Government advice on it. The UK had Thatcher, so that employment law would not be as strong as in France https://www.gov.uk/industrial-action-strikes/your-employment...
Who is to say NSA are not "Satoshi Nakamoto" after all the code is of very high quality that was likely done by a team not a single person.
One implied claim that stuck out was that their recent full-frame digital camera produces images comparable with "medium format film". This is extremely unlikely, and casts all their claims in doubt. Also, I couldn't find anything about their creative research into incorporating rootkits and other exploits into their products: I know what that makes me feel.
Cool, but I'd say Go is easy to learn. You can power through the spec, read Effective Go, figure out the go tools and GOPATH and be on your way. There's so little cruft. Go is limited in some ways, but the benefit is how simple it is.

With a language like JavaScript it can take a really long time to learn all the stupid stuff like when what this means. With Python it can also take a long time before you start having to figure out the various string representations, operator overloading and the crazy underscore variables. That kind of magical hidden complexity you see in other languages I don't think exists in Go, which makes it easy to learn.

With Go, I feel at least you can learn all that is Go in a week or so, and start building. Something like the "learn ruby/rails in 30 days" would never make sense to me given how easy it is to learn Go.

A lot of the expertise you see in Go comes from people who really know about the Go implementation. The way structs are represented in memory on different hardware, compilation optimization, the crazy stuff that most people are just not going to care about especially if they're going to run Go on some kind of cloud provider or in a vm.
Reading this just makes me feel all the happier that my usual commute it is a 15 minute walk along the Amsterdam canals. (Although currently that is extended with, the horror, a 10 minute tram ride.)

I gladly pay the price for that in terms of less space for more money. At least have the time to enjoy being home, and not be exhausted or asleep while I'm there.
Please look at selenium webdriver
And the webdriver w3c draft API
There's something enjoyable about being on the train, for some people anyway. Seeing the countryside go past, and meeting a variety of people in an environment where socially it's ok to talk to strangers but also ok if you don't want to.
There's a lot of chatter over on Reddit about it [0]. There was a pretty widespread outage around 4 hours ago. Likely an accumulation of attacks in commemoration of the anniversary of Aaron Swartz's death, as have been going on the last few days.

[0] http://www.reddit.com/r/technology/comments/1v3fb2/internets...
You are making assumption that cat's brain works the same as human's brain. Maybe that's good assumption but question is how good?

Have you seen this TED talk http://www.ted.com/talks/jill_bolte_taylor_s_powerful_stroke... ? "being a cat" is related to self-awareness. Does cat has the same self-awareness as human beings?
Very low amount of news in this article, doesn't mention the attack being used. I feel I needed to assume its a DDoS. But then several types of DDoS don't require large amounts of network traffic (and traffic volumes would be the easiest way to see DDoS from the outside looking in) some DDoS's can keep a server down with 10-100 packets per second.

Basically I learned nothing, and I want this article to have a "Want to know more?" button.
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i always thought that firebase should be easy to replicate with some node + express REST + websockets + client code if you plan on doing a bigger longterm project with sensitive data.
For smaller projects (experiments, campaign related stuff) firebase should be fine.
You're right that I haven't personally been in that predicament.

But you haven't seen, as I've seen (as an employee), the huge value of YC and the meetings I've had with YC founders who had families (including one with a young child).

You haven't explained why what you said is not asking for a free lunch. Why is it that there aren't/shouldn't be tradeoffs? Either you move to YC or you don't do YC. Tradeoffs ensue. You yourself are arguing that the tradeoffs aren't worth it. Okay, they aren't worth it for you. The tradeoffs just don't make sense for your personal tolerance level.

Having children involves tradeoffs at all levels of your life. Tradeoffs in working hours. Tradeoffs in social activity. Tradeoffs in mobility. You accept those tradeoffs, for a certain time period, when you decide to start a family. The fact is those tradeoffs exist. And we don't live in an idealized world with no tradeoffs.
Beyond giving my heartfelt wishes that he turns up ok, I have to give kudos to Yahoo for hiring a private investigator to try to find him.
"Think of the licensing costs for visual studio, sqlserver and windows server."

Think of the costs of paying your developers. Those things are a pittance compared to the cost of hiring and retaining good developers.
I am socially isolated. I can go for several days without speaking to anyone. Sometimes the only speaking I do is the hellos and thank yous to shop keepers.

I find it easy to understand someone who might not know anyone to talk to.

Using a web search engine to find a support service or using Reddit is very different to talking to someone who knows you.
Let me put it this way:

It is NEVER worth putting at risk even one GLOBAL humanitarian campaign that has been going on since 1988 and is so far 99.9% effective, has cost billions of dollars, has saved thousands, if not millions of lives, and is very close to meeting its goals. If it meets its goals, then there is no more suffering or death from polio forever, just to get one person. Even if this person was a murderous thug.

There was a time where polio was feared in the United States, there was a time were Americans suffered, children died. People lived in iron lungs, and we had a President with polio paralysis. (Franklin D. Roosevelt) Vaccination was so important that the The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine was awarded to John Franklin Enders, Thomas Huckle Weller and Frederick Chapman Robbins "for their discovery of the ability of poliomyelitis viruses to grow in cultures of various types of tissue." This lead to the development of the vaccine(s). We are removed from it, so now we don't seem to care about the others who aren't. There hasn't been polio in the North American continent since 1994.

The United States was so focused on Bin Ladin and catching him that they were willing to do whatever it took without thinking about the consequences of their actions. They had serious blinders on.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poliomyelitis_eradication

http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/medicine/laureates/19...
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First, there does not exist a known logical system that is more complex than first order logic. In order for such a system to exist, it would at the very least be able to prove it's own consistency, otherwise it's merely a wild guess whether it's "logical" or not. Since that premise itself violates logic (a proof exists that the only consistent logical systems that prove their own consistency are wrong). So when it comes to "a logical system of views and values", that does not exist.

When it comes to systems of views and values that do not assume indefinitely prolonging human life is a good thing :

1) all religions (meaning this is what > 6 billion people on this planet think)

2) when it comes to people over 75 or so, I find it very rare to find ones that don't want to die. It baffles me that I actually know people that old other than my grandfather. I'm getting old. Oh well.

3) various atheist systems of views and values, all boil down to malthusianism of course, but they include : socialism (communism/marxism/leninism and "other" socialist views), nazism, libertarians (to some extent, according to wikipedia), conservatives, "free market enthousiasts", feminists and human rights advocates. [1]

4) economics would have a few words to say on the subject.

I don't think it's as simple as you propose. I may or may not chose to become immortal ... but I'd still like the option.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malthusianism
Although there are outliers with super-bikers riding 20 year old bikes for thousands of miles per year, joe 6 pack average dude finds bikes are extremely high maintenance demands per mile, expensive to maintain per mile, and make 1970s detroit iron look reliable and long lived.

I have a "Giant" from 1992 and I am not a serious bike rider but I believe I've purchased more tires for the bike than for my car, despite commuting probably 100x further in my car. Bikes are a serious headache to maintain compared to a decent car.

If someone could design a bicycle that lasted as long as a car for normal users, that required as little maintenance as a car for the first decade or so, that was as reliable as a car, that blew out tires as rarely as a car, then it would be one heck of a bike... unfortunately due to lack of economy of scale and having almost nothing in common with conventional bike design, it would probably cost almost as much as a car...
Effective CPU mining of Bitcoin ended in 2010.

Effective GPU mining ended last year.

Now only highly-specialized ASIC hardware can mine Bitcoins effectively, and even then profits are questionable at current hardware prices.

Finally, the earliest farm mining of Bitcoins that I'm aware of started back in early 2011, and probably earlier (when did ArtForz start?).
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It just occurred to me: installing malware on an extension targeted towards developers - the kind of people who just might notice hijacked links - seems like the dumbest idea in the world. Leads me to wonder what sort of nastiness is hidden in those other extensions.
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Founders at Work is by Jessica Livingston (of ycombinator fame) and Coders at Work is by Peter Seibel (of Practical Common Lisp fame, who took inspiration from Founders at Work).
The Swiss are scandalized by trains that run three minutes behind schedule
Exactly, some good examples:

Churchill's plans to attack the Soviet Union (again): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Unthinkable

US plans for war with British Empire: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_Plan_Red

Edit: In case anyone was wondering what the "(again)" was about, it is a reference to the intervention in the Russian Civil war against the Soviets by Britain, the United States and a number of other powers - Churchill was a proponent of this action.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allied_intervention_in_the_Russ...
Even one would protect you for ~10 years. It would still have a profound positive effect. And yes, there are always better options in existence, and there is always a shortage of people wanting to pay for it.