skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This article went in depth about the author's perspective on the social implications of doing what you love based on the author's definition of DWYL. She didn't examine her definition or delve into what the expression might mean, or how the people that use it might mean it. For all her research, it doesn't seem like she asked even one person - "what does this expression mean to you?"

Doing what you love isn't about what you do, it's about the relationship you have with what you do. Whether you're working a menial job or running a company, the love is in the self awareness. The love is in knowing why you do what you do and how it affects the world around you.

Understanding why you do what you do is not a privilege reserved for the elite. Aspiring to do work that is meaningful to you, that allows you to fully explore and cultivate the things you're interested in, is what makes us human.
That seems wide. I thought it was human readable to machine indexable, not human readable to human readable.
I've taken to calling it the Northwest Freeze, because it exists in Vancouver and Victoria too.
Datadog, leftronic or Rackspace monitoring for hosted solutions.
pg's How Not To Die essay:

http://www.paulgraham.com/die.html

pmarca's The Only Thing That Matters post:

http://pmarchive.com/guide_to_startups_part4.html

Pretty much everything Steve Blank has written on Customer Development:

http://steveblank.com/category/customer-development/

Mark Cuban on How To Get Rich:

http://blogmaverick.com/2008/10/04/how-to-get-rich/

Mark Cuban on Success & Motivation:

http://blogmaverick.com/2007/12/24/success-and-motivation/

Jamie Zawinski's Groupware Bad post:

http://www.jwz.org/doc/groupware.html
I like that you called them ideals.

A lot of what I consider weirder political thought seems to come from treating some set of principles as inviolate. It's harder to make that mistake of thought with an ideal.

(and any system involving more than 1 human seems likely enough to require compromise somewhere)
The 360 isn't arbitrary, rather boils down to 60 arc-minutes and 60 arc-seconds, which of course is 3600 arc-seconds in circle. Where the 60 comes from:

http://mathforum.org/library/drmath/view/65468.html

Wouldn't surprise me if the minutes and seconds relates to navigation time in the past.
I have no idea. We've been suggesting that for years as well. But the web fonts team seems to have no interest in mitigating the Google Chrome Windows bug.
Scala looks interesting especially with Lift.

Would be good to play with larger datasets too.
"If the common good justifies killing X agent, then it must be ok for a doctor to kill a patient in their sleep, take his organs and save three people with his two kidneys and heart."

Isn't that a variation of a semantic shift fallacy? [1]

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[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semantic_change
The "would you eat this?" syndrome.
Everpix team, thanks for being generous. These metrics and insights are a gift to the startup community. Thanks also for choosing SendGrid to deliver your transactional and marketing email. Judging by the different categories of email you sent, you put a lot of thought into your email program. Question: How essential was reliable email delivery to your business expansion? What lessons did you learn about using email effectively?

(BTW, would you consider publishing more of your email metrics on GitHub? For example, SendGrid reports the type of email clients that read the mail you sent (e.g. desktop, mobile, webmail), and the mailbox providers that you sent the most mail to (e.g. Gmail, Yahoo, Hotmail, etc.) Here's where to find and download those reports: http://www.screencast.com/t/5mW9bm4Ueq)

Best wishes for your next gig!
Obama: Marijuana No More Dangerous Than Alcohol
This is an encouraging piece of advice to those who have set goals and had trouble achieving them. Focusing on process allows you to revel in the success you feel from "ordinary" work and gives you the encouragement you need to push through to the next day.
Head over to /r/bitcoin sometime... Full of people figuring out how to buy bitcoins with a credit card, etc. Something about it drives people crazy.
A link that will let you actually read the story: https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&c...
The video was completely void of real content and seemed more created as an attempt to self-justify and rationalize the choice for the author of it to rent, instead of buy a home.

There are different markets, different economies, different lifestyles, and different situations. For some in some places, renting is wiser. For others, owning a home.

I sure delight in knowing that the home I bought in 2010 for $195k with 20% down and a $160k mortgage at 4.85% is not only worth $220k today, but costs me the same about ($1,200) for mortgage, insurance, and property tax as I used to pay just for my rent. And the place is 3,000sqft versus 1,000sqft of the apartment. And I get all the benefits of a home, such as a lawn, storage, nobody pounding on the floor because I'm listening to music, pets, a security system, and nobody else with a key to let themselves in whenever they feel like it.

In addition, that $1,200 I paid in rent started as $1,000 only four years earlier. In twenty years, it'll probably be at least $2,000+ while my mortgage will still be $850 (not counting insurance/tax). And, in the end, I'll have actual property that is worth something.

I see so many of these arguments back and forth and it always sounds more like people trying to convince themselves that they made the right decision than trying to convince someone else what decision to make. It's a lot like parents frustrated by their kids trying to convince other couples that they should have kids. Or a married couple always trying to convince their friends that they should get married.

It all comes down to individual situations and opportunities. Where that guy lives and with his opportunities in that market, his decision very well may be appropriate for him. For others, not so much. And that's okay.

After all, my next step is to buy more property. Real-estate is a dandy way to counter inflation and when I buy a couple more properties, I'm going to need people like the guy who made that video to be willing to pay me rent.
> a spoiled kid living a cushioned life inside a cocoon

Oh, I wasn't aware that you knew the author of blog post and software. Was he really very spoiled as a child?

(I'm assuming you knew him, based on your comment, because surely you're not blanket-judging everyone who goes to a top-tier or Ivy League school as a coddled little brat with a silver spoon and an insular view of the world? Such a judgment would not even be correct to first order.)
> I've now spent more of my adult life outside the States than in the U.S., and I've also come to the opinion that the U.S. is one of the most amazing places in the world.

Yes. The American backed/sponsored slaughter of innocent men, women, and children across the Middle East and Africa in the name of profit, power, and greed doesn't seem to cross your mind. Also, it's clear that as an American you have free speech, but Americans who speak too freely might not wake up to see tomorrow [1] [2]

[1] http://www.globalresearch.ca/who-killed-michael-hastings/535...
[2] http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/may/22/white-house-dro...
IPython: A unified environment for interactive data analysis
Considering how easy templating is with Flask, I don't understand who someone would write HTML directly in the controller the way the author did. I agree that Flask is great, though.
Depending on your structure and size, I'd suggest just doing a catch-all so any of these will work and so emails to the wrong email address (anything@mydomain.com) will get to the general inbox.

That being said, I think hello@ or team@ are most friendly and general enough. Help@ and support@ seem to not welcome sales or pre-sales inquiries.
I wonder whether organizations today are really so dumb that they need some education before making public knee-jerk reactions. Regardless of the rights or wrongs of the case, (and most of the readers don't understand or care) Yale would avoided all the bad publicity if they had just let the whole thing slide.
My experience is that people who consistently overwork and choose work over their family life feel that those who don't are lazy. The inability to have reasonable expectations of others, and tendency to look down on coworkers can undermine large projects or create a reputation of being incapable of working with others. This can limit their career, especially at senior levels where employees are expected to coordinate high risk projects across many people or serve as a mentor for newer employees.
Do what you love... that people will pay you to do

^ I always felt like that quote was missing something

You gotta understand and research.

How many people are in that field?
What are their qualifications? How do you stack against them?
How many openings do they have each year?
What seasons/quarters/times do they hire in? Will you be able to be the best candidate and show that in an interview at that time?

What do people who graduate with that major make? What area(s) do the top people in that field congregate? Can you afford to live there with or without at job? If you lose one what's the market like for the next? Do you even want to live there?

What's the culture of that industry? Are they straight laced corporate suits who make all their decisions on a golf course? Are they creatives? Hackers who could care less how they dress? Are you or do you want to become like these people?

If you don't pay attention to these variables and more its likely that you will end up very unhappy "doing what you love".

If you do and you find something where you can marry doing what you love with a sustainable wage... now that is when you're on your way to happiness.
Agree on everything. The point here is that the video should be a source of information while it's not. +1 for the super-realistic analysis which should inspire future readers.
I wonder what european VCs make of the fact that the VCs from US are talking about european startup scene as a virgin land, ready to be conquered.

So far I see only 3 parties in this discussion 1) US startups 2) European startups 3) American VCs.

Would be nice to hear the views of the 4th party conspicuously missing from the discussion.
> The world-wide web is the linked universe of addressable documents (resources).

"Documents" and "resources" aren't even approximately equivalent. "Resources" are more "things that can be described by nouns" than just "documents".

A document may be a representation of a resource, but the two are not equivalent.
The Tablet Is The New General Purpose Computer
I just read the link and I am not following your reasoning. Please explain.
Best Buy vs Rent calculator out there.

http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/business/buy-rent-calcula...
> begin to deal with (a problem or task) in a determined and vigorous way:

http://www.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/english/attack
Criminality is not an identity but a consequence of circumstances.

Put it another way, it could be you ...
Pick a few and look around sample code, tutorials, SO, rosettacode, cheat sheets floating on the web etc.

Rust, D, golang. scala, F#, ocaml, haskell. Clojure, racket, SBCL.

Orthogonally: study probability/stats, linear algebra and calculus thru diff eq, basically the first 2 years of undergrad math for physics, math majors, EE, etc.

relev: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6464127

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6409370

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6953568
Ask HN: How can I get people interested in programming?
I'm a programmer since 2000 and I love it.

I know some people - varying from age 14 to ~35 - who still don't know what to do their lives,
and I'd would like to introduce them to programming, maybe they'll get interested and start building cool things.

What is a efficient way to do so? Bonus points if:

- I can get the job done (raise interest in programming) by pairing in front of the computer for 30 minutes

- It involves some python

- It doesn't involve a lot of math

- It doesn't require them to know english.
Hackerne.ws redirect broken
Yeah Hi or Hello are defiantly the best if you want to be friendly.
HiHowCanIHelpYou@anydomain.com
2.7, mostly. Check here though; if the libs you use are green consider using 3.

https://python3wos.appspot.com/
It's hard to extract anything useful from an article that assume that wages are set by rhetoric, and not supply and demand.

The reason people in the "lovable-work" camp make more money, is that their skills have lower supply and higher demand. This in turn is because these jobs tend to require more intellectual and creative skills.
The article may be light on science, but it does have a link to the review paper by Mike Lockwood, "Solar Influence on Global and Regional Climates" here: http://www.eiscat.rl.ac.uk/Members/mike/publications/pdfs/20...

This is a very good summary of current research, and it's excellent to see the BBC giving easy direct access to primary sources in scientific reporting. The Guardian is also good at providing links to source material, and this should be the default for inline media. Too many journalists simply summarise press releases from universities and give vague statements like 'in a recent paper, scientists say ...' and so on.
M1T license.
The M1T License (M1T)

Copyright (c) <year> <copyright holders>

Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy
of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal
in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights
to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell
copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is
furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:

The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in
all copies or substantial portions of the Software.

THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR
IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY,
FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE
AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER
LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM,
OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH ANY SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN
ANY SOFTWARE.
support - if you are helping customers

team - if you want to get to know the team or make a general inquiry

contact - feels kind of too formal

Just my take on it.
I hope Reddit can use HTTPS for its whole site soon. People use pseudonyms and multiple accounts on Reddit for a reason: freedom of expression. Yet NSA can easily collect all that data and mine it and search through it automatically, because they're tapping the Internet cables, which means all unencrypted data is theirs to own (and abuse).
European VCs are few and far between. Despite working in the largest market on Earth, the overall level of investment is half what you'll find in the States (if that). Some of that is due to cultural issues, some to economic ones (wealth is much, much more distributed here, making the average investment smaller and the average investor more conservative and wary).

I suspect EuroVCs would be absolutely ecstatic if "them Yanks" were to bring lots of cash to the table while, at the same time, relying on "local knowledge" to direct that cash.
Without diminishing what you say, it happens in other democratic countries as well. In many Latin American universities (and even lower education) the students are a force to be reckoned with. For example, in recent years a student coalition demonstrated against the education policies of former president of Chile, Sebastián Piñera, and it was a major crisis.

Similar demonstrations can happen against, for example, the principal of a university or school in other countries. The students protest even when they risk being expelled.

The US seems mild in comparison...
UK here, we split our house bills and pay each other by bank transfer. No fee, as instant as your internet connection, account number/sort code pairs are safe to share and all that's needed. Europe wide there are similar id numbers that cover all banks to my knowledge, so you can do the same there.

Free bank to bank transfers to anyone you deal with regularly seems like a completely necessary part of a useful consumer banking system to me.
So you feel I should register in order to view what you have to say? I closed the tab as soon as I saw that signup page.
Speech summary: If you like your privacy, you can keep it.
My Transmission is stuck in "torrent metadata needed", so it fails to download the actual torrent file from the Magnet link. Do you have some directy links to the torrent files?
I went to a conference last year on people skills for digital workers which had some great talks. If you're interested in this sphere, they're definitely worth checking out as the videos are available online for free.

http://2013.dareconf.com/videos

No affiliation, just a satisfied attendee.
An example that beginners would be likely to be inspired by. It wouldn't have been much harder to write a single line of

render_template('something.html')

and then write the HTML for the template in a separate code section.
> A teacher cannot teach a student who doesn't make an effort to learn.

Quite so. But a poor teacher can do quite a lot to impair a student who does make an effort to learn, and, at least in the public schools of the United States, there is little meaningful incentive for a teacher to be other than poor. Not to say that all US public school teachers are poor, of course; there are at least a few really excellent ones, or were when I was a student. Excellence, though, is anything but a requirement.

I'd also argue that a really good teacher can elicit from her students the sort of effort you describe; I've seen it happen -- indeed, most of my basic facility with the English language, I gained under the tutelage of precisely such a teacher. That's a more complicated proposition, of course, but I start to wonder whether or not it's at the core of the current argument.

It's not hard, or so the US public school system would have us believe, to teach someone enough of a given subject that she can qualify to teach it herself. But is that the essential feature of pedagogy? Or is it instead to lead a class full of students, in such fashion as to overcome the basic distaste, for complex and difficult learning without immediate reward, which is part of the human heritage?
Worth mentioning is that JWT is used in the OpenID Connect standard, which is built on top of OAuth 2) for the authentication part. We use it in https://userbin.com to smoothly transfer user sessions between different platforms. Previously we used to roll our own (de-)serialization, signing, session expiration and encryption schemes, but JWT solves a lot of pain and makes it more obvious for developers to understand how this part of our authentication flow works, and are able to use the JWT libraries available in most programming languages.
In your country, are the Fire service, Ambulance service, or Coast Guard, necessarily military? Because they were uniforms, have rank structures, operate heavy equipment, and are government employees.

(Yes, this is a trick question. In some countries these are paramilitary organizations and services -- or provided by private corporations. But in the UK, they're civilian government agencies that are explicitly non-military. It's possible to have a centralized, hierarchical uniformed state agency that isn't militaries and isn't there to point guns at the public. That's the point I'm trying to make here.)

Your secondary point about systems needing to be amenable to reform is a good one. Too much rigidity and inflexibility makes reform hard: but it may also help prevent corruption. Which aspect wins out probably has something to do with the type of people the organization recruits -- are they dedicated to public service, or are they attracted to a role where they get to carry a gun and wear a uniform and are feared by the public? My gut feeling is that authoritarian followers (per Altermayer) are a really bad fit for community policing ... but unfortunately uniformed armed services are attractive to such personality types.
> There’s little doubt that “do what you love” (DWYL) is now the unofficial work mantra for our time.

Really? I would like to see some sort of basis for that, since it doesn't seem that way at all to me. Otherwise this seems like a strawman.

(A few thousand retweets etc. is not sufficient to convince me it is "the unofficial work mantra for our time".)
The NSA has no credibility and even lied to Congress as a matter of policy, so why should we believe them now? This is all part of the Snowden smear campaign, like the 60 Minutes "news" report.
How do we know that having undue respect for hierarchy is objectively a bad thing?

I'd say China in the late Qing Dynasty would be a good data point for it being a bad thing. Or a compare-and-contrast of Spain and the Netherlands in the early modern period.

With respect to Japan, yeah, we think of it as super-hierarchical. Then again, Japan had two major hierarchy-toppling social revolutions pretty recently. First the military-imperial apparatus toppled the feudal nobility during the Meiji Restoration. Then General McArthur toppled the military-imperial apparatus during the American occupation. So, perhaps the slope of the long term trend line is as important as the current value?
For reference, tza is referring to the page linked on the word "penalties" in the first sentence of the 7th paragraph: https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2014/01/safeguard-public-domai...
A free market doesn't optimize for money. It optimizes for the production of what people are willing to pay for. They don't care if they can be better off financially for renting. What they want is home ownership.
The iso's are there, but there was no official release announcement yet, and because of that I would hold your horses for now - until the announcement has been sent out, those can be replaced in case of any issues.
I would divide it up by business functions. "Contact", "team" etc are very generic. For example, both an exisiting customer and a prospective customer could tehcnically be "contacting" you. But you want to differentiate there.
I would go for something like:

Sales: sales@xyz.com

Customer Support: customersupport@xyz.com

Press release/inquiry: press@xyz.com

Partners/vendors etc: partner@xyz.com

Anything else: hello@xyz.com (This can be creative as you like)
I don't think SPA's will be "the death of the web" exactly, but there is a big problem with this muddling of concerns... browsers get more and more confused with each passing year - is it for browsing hypermedia content, or is it a poor man's X server? Is the browser good at navigating, following links and rendering HTML, or is it good at becoming an application delivery platform? Or is it both? Why should it be both? Separation of concerns anybody?

Having content and apps on the web makes perfect sense to me, but I can't help but think we need to do something different in terms of delivering apps over the web. The problem is, the browser itself is the only "runtime" that's guaranteed to be available in all browsers on all platforms. Something like Java had tons of promise at one time for handling the "app" side, but Sun screwed the pooch by not shipping a JVM with reasonable startup times until years too late, and missing the boat on security. Now Java has a such a bad rep as a consumer-facing tech, that it would be just-short-of-impossible to revive it, even though it's probably still the best solution for "apps over the web" in many ways.

Maybe Google's NaCl / PNaCl will eventually help, but I'm not holding my breath.
Maybe he just wants it. Or maybe he finds Yale to be a good environment for learning. It might not be about need.
Personally I use "howdy@domain.com" because it is just so darn friendly ;-)