skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There was a study some time ago stating that there is a reverse relation between the time one spends on commute and happiness. The more time you lose in the commute, less happy you are. Maybe this is something you can do for an year or two, but I can't imagine doing it for 10 or 20 years.

On the bright side - maybe these people will be amongst the first to adopt self-driving cars. I even can go so far into the future to imagine that there is only one means of transport - self-driving, electrical, shared cars. You just order one from here to there, it comes from the parking lot nearby, takes you to your destination and finds another spot to a parking lot nearby. Clean, fast, reliable, able to schedule the travel in non-congestive way. Hm but the thing is that the buses/trains can have far more people per space, so maybe the electric, self-driving buses will be the answer to our needs in business districts on a weekday.
In the end, do you think the 15-16 hour work day was close to being as productive as two 8 hour work days?

I feel that in the end you will create more harm than good as more mistakes creep in during the later hours of the day which will then have to fixed the next day. (aside from your mental/physical health going to shit that is)
I used to use this argument and only now I realize how flawed it was. At some point there were 1000 COBOL programmers for every <your favorite language> programmers. If you decide to go with COBOL career, you will be maintaining bad software for years.
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For that to work you'd have to have your own repository with all the packages you install. Old specific versions will not be preserved in the upstream repos if a new package is released.
At the best of times, dear God no. At the worst of times, a week of 16+ hour days probably accomplished less than two 4 hour days.

You know how great your ability to debug a hard problem through multiple levels of a call stack is when you're so tired that you don't know what day of the week it is and cannot remember the name of any Java implementation of the Map interface? Yeah. Those were probably not my most productive days in my career. Now stick six months of them end to end.
It's not necessarily that people tend to have extreme feelings about an app - it's just that if they don't feel strongly about it (positively or otherwise), they don't bother to vote.
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> It will be an intolerable insult to China

Like little kids...
I got a pretty good desktop computer and it's choppy. These things really have to be silky smooth for me or I leave pretty quickly.
Better question: does working a 15-16 hour day, day after day, result in higher productivity than 8 hour days?

I suspect that there are no creative/logical jobs where that is the case.
Also middle class aspirations. Formerly most Uni students were upper class, so middle class sons/daughters stood an excellent chance of marrying into an upper class family and at least making some upper class social / business connections. Now that its a mostly middle class thing, its not quite as appealing.
I noticed this about a month back. I was browsing the web one Saturday morning and spotted an "Eco link" next to the search results. Most of them were big sites, like Amazon and eBay etc.

I immediately emailed one of our SEO guys with a snippet of the page and said, "we need to know how to do this in Google, it must be a new feature". I stupidly assumed it was a new feature Google had rolled out. When he replied that he can't see it I started googling the problem, most of the results pertained to Malware and I was shocked, I'm a very careful browser in general.

When I started digging around it was only then I started switching off my plugins 1 by 1 and the eco link went when I switched off the browser resizer, I was honestly shocked. I knew the developer wasn't supporting the plugin any more due to funding but I didn't think it would go in that direction, I expected it to just fade away.

No, I didn't read the updates on the product. I don't have time to read updates on products, especially plugins. After reading his comments on there, there is no remorse for his actions. He is nothing more than a simple malware spreader, he should apply for a job at SourceForge.
Holy crap. On the other hand, China can do pretty much whatever it wants. Even if China was actively crazy all the time, it's doubtful anyone would be willing or able to stop them. Which, incidentally, might be a theory they are testing on the world right now.

For everyone involved, I sincerely hope the Philippines does the right thing and avoids a hopeless military standoff, any outcome of which will only strengthen China further in a myriad ways.
No one is using Java because it has great features compared to C#. Java is essentially what C# 2.0 used to be and C# has already moved on to V5. People use Java because it's cross platform. When you write server code you want it to be able to run on whatever box instead of paying for hefty Windows hosting. With now Oracle at helm, Java is likely the worst choice for any new project.
Clearly not. (Or do you mean, could support be added for other things?)
Their money was paid to the previous holder of it, not to the state.
I wonder how much pollution is generated to make the bike. This is a genuine question, I don't mean to quarrel. I'm certain that car is polluting far more then bike of course.

There is certainly some from the paint and the tires (mostly oil right?). I wonder what else?

EDIT: The initial text was stating that a bike pollutes more then a car which is obvious shit. This is just my english at its finest. I'm sorry for this.
We bootstrapped our app www.staffsquared.com.

While there are limits on what we can do using profits from our main business and income from the app as it grows, I love the fact that we got the app off of the ground organically. I think spolsky said that when you bootstrap you can only grow the business in line with revenue - which is of course true and a difficult trick to pull off.

I think more importantly, the process of bootstrapping forces you to go about recruitment, sales, marketing, development etc etc in a way that is more innovative (as opposed to just throwing money at problems to make them go away). While you won't want to scale a company using these money saving techniques, they are still excellent tools and skills that can be applied to a business at any stage and put the founding team in to a mindset of sustainability.
I know, it's very good. I use Android Studio and PHPStorm, both are mutations of Idea.
After all, it's not about what we make; it's about what we make you feel.

What their site, their opening punchline, the responsive design problems, and the slowness make me feel is that they're overly focussed on superficial form at the expense of deeper functionality.
Is this for real or just a propaganda bluff?

What's next, capture the Japanese Islands in the south that China is disputing?

Really hope this is just sensationalist news, as there are always plenty of them around. But there's also been a stream of weird updates on this region for the last years, and it's not just about rogue state North Korea.
disappointed to see this getting continual attention...

embarassed as to the choice of hero this community seems to have chosen.

let the down votes roll, i take them with pride.
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> I'd do the train journey in one and a half hours but it cost 250 euros (£208) a day

That's certainly correct if you always pay full price (~90€ each way in 2nd, 140 in 1st), but not if you use frequent user programs. IIRC thalys has a "premium" pass between Brussels and Paris with a flat 30€/way (in 1st unless train full, so you get a fairly large seat, a meal, slow wifi and a ~100W 220V plug), specifically for commuters.
It would be third, the eradication of rinderpest was confirmed a couple of years ago.
"Peace in our time" they used to say
Those two hours can probably be struck off. Getting ready in the morning and evening, eating, and maybe an errand and that's gone.

Makes me wonder if these people are running from spouses they don't want.
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Actually, mandatory courses in statistics and Latex would be a great idea. You have no idea how much time is wasted getting those wrong!
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It depends. If the commute is your "me time" then it can work out. My commute (by train) is my quality reading time for example. Some people like audiobooks. Of course there comes a tipping point.
Well played, Abel.
In such applications, I wouldn't even want to get the GC penalty, so I'd be constrained to a very small set of languages.
I commute 6 hours per day and don't want to move "because I'm a fanatical skier, I live half an hour away from a chair lift."
I might have gone with: move 30 minutes from work, and then get to ski/spend an extra 22 hours a week with my family.

I can't believe people don't put more value into a short commute when buying their houses. Why do people say "I could get an extra 1000 square feet of house for my money" instead of "I can do what I want with an extra 10% of my life by living closer to work"?
There are 17000 taxis in Paris, so I doubt that I'm their only customer. And I'll answer to your anecdotal evidence that 100% of the people I know take a taxi somewhat regularly...
not if there is a non-cacheable command like "apt-get update". And if the subsequent command is something like "apt-get nodejs", then potentially two builds can have two different versions
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> Not everyone with a patent is a troll, rather many are the little guy who were not able to win the race because A) they don't have enough resources or B) they couldn't rally enough troops to get behind them

In other words, the patent system benefits big companies with big lawyer armies and trolls with nothing to lose, and is useless for the little inventor who doesn't have the muscle to fight the legal war if someone copies his precious invention but now also have to worry to be the one being sued because of some obvious patent one can infringe just by breathing.

But let's keep the fantasy that patents protect the little guy after all.
> I've never experienced such an ISP

How did they provide DNS services to their clients then? Or they bootstrapped you (via DHCP[v6], PPP's IP[6]CP or whatever they use to set up your IP layer) with public nameserver addresses like OpenDNS or Google Public DNS?

I believe I heard somewhere desktop Windows' resolver won't work iteratively and requires a nameserver capable of recursion. Although I may be mistaken on this matter.
Here is a version from before the takedown: http://ge.tt/8PSuzxD1/v/0

(I zipped the '3rd-party' directory and removed references to those scripts in the manifest file. So it's there if you wanna inspect it, but ecolinks won't run. I don't have time to restructure the options page though :-)
Making a bike pollutes more than making a car? Not even to mention usage pollution itself (which I primarily had in mind)... Also, just compare a lifespan of a car vs. a lifespan of a bicycle. I have several bicycles, the one I use mostly is around 20 years old, I have others considerably older than that, still functioning perfectly.
Every phone for the last 10 years has had this.
> 9. The price of Bitcoin is likely to range between $4000-5000 by the end of 2014

Setting aside the author's flawed reasoning as to what drives demand for currency - I don't see how this is a positive prediction for Bitcoin as I think it implies.

I'd like to see a decentralised currency work in the long run and the best thing for Bitcoin right now is to maintain stability against USD. It needs to prove itself as a trusted medium of exchange/store of value.

My prediction for 2014: speculators will deal a big blow to the credibility of Bitcoin slowing down widespread adoption for any decentralised currency
I would love it, if you can share any ideas about activities for such a meetup. A casual one is okay, but more can be achieved if there are fun or productive activities.

Look forward to your ideas!

Some of mine:
1. Snooker competition.. yeah that would be nice to have.. a little knockout tournament among those interested.. no wagers..

2. err.. I'm out of ideas already ! :(
My commute used to be 3 hours if lucky, closer to 4 on average, and once took 6 hours. After doing for 2 years I ended up switching to a job where I'm a remote worker and my sense of wellbeing and overall happiness is significantly higher knowing that when I wake up I don't have a commute lying ahead of me. Spending 6 hours of your life just traveling to make money at a job is as crazy as the people who think you need to work nothing but 14 hours a day, every day.
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I've always wondered that about Guy Steele. Must've been an awfully well-paid job.
You think making a bike is /more/ polluting than making a car?
NSA-proof? The willingness to say this makes it suspect. shrug
He is the initial creator of https://github.com/mauricemach/zappa, but his online activity stopped late 2011
Just have some "me time" at home?
Historically, there was never a case when Bitcoin had a stable price and then crashed from it. It was always the other way: everyone who wanted to sell off, did so quickly. Then after 6-8 months of some stable price (in late 2011, mid 2012, late 2012 and mid 2013) new investors saw that it's not going down any time soon and started jumping in. The massive increases were also caused by the fact that most people got to learn about Bitcoin during the previous "bubble" and have taken some time to learn about it and wait till the prices stabilizes or starts rising again. There's no technical reason to break this pattern yet. On contrary, more and more people learn about Bitcoin and see that it's still working as well as 1 or 2 years ago.
As a Scala developer I would really buy a book on Scala, which explains advanced features. "Scala in Depth" is good, but I would want a book with a lot of stuff on type system, FP, to the level of Scalaz, Shapeless, and macros.
My friend used to commute from Bristol, UK to Munich, DE. Wake up at 04:00 Monday, drive to Heathrow, fly to Munich airport, get a lift to work, in by 13:00. Then do it in reverse on Friday. It's no 6 hours a day, probably a bit better, but still seemed crazy to me... Not cheep either
You are certain a bike generates more pollution over it's lifetime then a car? Or only in the manufacturing?
Well, you can't exactly fix it all at once. But that doesn't mean that we shouldn't start somewhere.

And there is still the possibility to run this on your (possibly security hardened) computer.
I'm not entirely sure what your point is here? The pollution generated by making a bike will be orders of magnitude less than the pollution generated by making a car.

Following on from that, the pollution generated from day to day upkeep will be less as well (when was the last time you had to change the oil on your bicycle?)

Lastly, the energy required to power the bike (the energy that you provide), is a bit of a sunk cost, you need to eat to stay alive after all, and while you _might_ need a little more, it's still not going to be equivalent to driving your car to work and back every day.
It's an SQLite 3 database, but Ghost allows you to export it to JSON for backing up.

I've not had a big load in the few days I've changed from Octopress to Ghost, so I don't know how well it handles it.
What this one-off look does not tell me - are the attacks higher on new areas not used to attacks, or are the highlighted areas used to a significant level of attacks and might therefore have defences?

And 98% of what?

At a glance and with no real history or numbers this would seem meaningless.
I saw that staffsquared was built by Atlas, which looks to be a client services agency.

I've been hearing of startups taking on client work as a means to fund products. Is that essentially what you guys did? I think It's a noble way to bootstrap but am curious of the implications that stem from splitting your time between client and product.
Methods with that many arguments are probably not a very good idea anyway.
I want to agree. Watched this just yesterday and really, really liked it. Its a bit slow in the beginning and but it really ties to getter in the end. Better then I first thought.

Its a really important point and I often have trouble explaining this to people, now thanks to this talk I have a much clear handle on what the point is.

It can be used when arguing things like ORMs and things like that.
Maybe their definition of "fair" is off.
Yeah, there's no way making a bike pollutes more than making a car.

However, there's a slightly more interesting analysis to be had if you consider that car fuel is way more efficient than bike fuel (human calories). So maybe, just maybe, a sufficiently poor diet can cause riding a bike to work to be worse for the environment than driving.
If there are enough scabs to fill the required positions, one might question the legitimacy of the union.
Fantastic news :)
there's a Venus de Milo inside the ps4 controller! can't wait to open mine!
Doesn't this leave zero tolerance for incidents on the road? A 3 hour commute, could that not turn into 6 hours?
I don't find the bit where they say they will do it.

The militrary make plans all the time, so they are ready if the politicians demand action. This doesn't mean they execute them.
My commute used to be 'only' a little over an hour each way. Once I began my remote work, I became much healthier as well, both physically and mentally.

It's a shame not more organizations offer this option.
Not only with people refuse vaccination, but more importantly entire governments will refuse vaccinations on its people, even if its people are willing to receive them because of distrust of vaccination programs. This is huge, really really really big huge.
It's not really useless. There is Primecoin that is searching for prime chains as proof of work. At the moment there is no (public?) GPU miner. The involved computations are also difficult to port to the GPU.
What do you mean by "I'm certain that it is far more then what car needs"?

Let's guess that a car weighs about 3000 lbs, and then let's guess that a bike weighs about 20 (obviously there is large variance). Mining or producing all those resources produces pollution, we can even generalize it to be similar levels of pollution. The 3000 lbs. of raw materials times the pollutant level will, by far, be the dominating factor in the 'how much pollution did creating this thing create' equation.
> Of course if anyone knows this stuff very well I'd be very eager for some feedback!

Exactly why you should be considering changing the algorithm.

http://happybearsoftware.com/you-are-dangerously-bad-at-cryp...
I think the point was that Yelp's algorithm is not clear and is >rumored< to be biased to raise their own income.

While google is higher profile and would not keep an intentional practice secret for long, it is also not an entirely neutral party.

For example, changing it's algorithms to move businesses lower than other sites (review, blog, forum, etc) may make sense from the user perspective to a degree. But taking that even further works against both the customer and businesses to google's monetary benefit. Then the businesses must purchase SEM from google for searches that were directed at finding the business.

Dropping organic list algorithm changes whenever they hurt SEM profit combined with A/B testing to raise conversion rates/revenue on the advertising could end up with an effective extortion racket simply because that is optimal when you have a monopoly.
1. Because my management won't let me.
2. Because nobody cares enough about F# to get the tools right (e.g. no ReSharper, no Roslyn for F# on horizon), it feels like a second class citizen even in MS land.
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A bicycle will have a smaller carbon footprint when it's made (reduction of material etc) than a car, and lower carbon emission costs as it's used. A car in theory if it's well taken car of can be used for decades, as can a bike. A car will need regular oil changes, new fluids (brakes, etc), new components as parts fail, more equipment is required to work on it. A bike will require cleaning, oiling and maintaining, new tyres as and when needed (probably about the same time scale as a car), but has less components than a car and generally requires fewer tools.

Overall whilst a bike isn't carbon neutral to make, it'll produce less over it's life time.
If that were his only reason, I'd agree, but his very next sentence is, "My wife is an English teacher which she enjoys and we have a great group of friends so it would be selfish to ask to move again." In other words, it isn't just the skiing. His wife also has a job in the area and they are socially established there. And from the sounds of it, they've moved a fair bit in the past.
Lately i noticed a number of cloudfare outages in popular websites, does this relate or is it just because the cloudfare network had some technical glitches?
If it worked, it would become USA's Public Enemy #1 in no time. After all, anything that precludes the NSA from penetrating your sphincter is terrorist's work, right?
Sitting in a car, you can't feel guilty about not doing the laundry / mowing the lawn / painting that fence, so in some ways "me time" can be better in the car. I wouldn't listen to as many podcasts/audiobooks if I didn't have a 1/2 hour commute each way.
Ghost is one of these things that you didn't know you needed until you have used it. I also have an Octopress blog running, which is great, but with the addition of static pages, I'll be switching to Ghost.

I can also see Ghost becoming a decent competitor for Wordpress. For the purpose of blogging that is, because I remember reading somewhere Ghost didn't have any intentions competing with Wordpress.
In some sense, the killer app of Bitcoin is ability to preserve (and possibly multiply) wealth. That's already useful and many people jump on Bitcoin for that reason alone.

In the same time, Blockchain.info, BitPay and Coinbase are doing great job in servicing private people and businesses. These three are the most Netscape-like guys in this early history.
I'm assuming you are the developer?

Now I see these pages I can see you were quite transparent about the eco links update. I still didn't see it though.

It's a shame it went in this direction as I used it all the time.
Dogecoin's transaction volume has been higher than Bitcoin for the past few days: http://bitinfocharts.com/comparison/transactions-btc-doge.ht.... Of course, Bitcoin doesn't take into account off-chain transactions, which at this stage is probably higher than Dogecoin's. The high tx volume is most likely due to all the tipping happening with it.
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Regardless of any competitive or status-based desires, income relative to your neighbours (everyone in your city) is a big part of actual purchasing power.

In most cities, housing prices are based on land value, not construction costs. And land value is entirely based on demand: what your neighbours are willing to pay for the same lot.

And most services are priced based on the salaries of your neighbours - the more you earn relative to them, the more of their time you can afford.
I used to use Octopress too, but when I tried out Ghost on a DO droplet I had to switch.

I had started running into problems with generating my Octopress blog when I messed up my Ruby install. Also, although it was a good thing at the time, I didn't like not being able to write posts without my MacBook to hand.

Ghost is nice, fast and easy to use. Static pages are really going to make it even better.