skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Google ditched that motto a long, long time ago.

Now it's "Don't be evil to our profits".
It's also culture. The only place I hear about crunch mode is Hacker News (e.g. Silicon Valley) and game programmers. I'm in Europe.

In fact, we have the opposite problem: a commonplace deeply-felt entitlement to a decent salary for max 8 hours a day, by the clock, never more, but also never less. This prevents crunch mode to happen most of the time (fortunately), but there's plenty other problems instead, such as a lack of commitment and team spirit, people who don't care about outcomes but just about clocking their hours. Stuff like that.
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Google have indexed the Internet. They have indexed public roads (Street View). Both things are pretty useful. Pretty cool.

The issue now is they want to index people.. pretty creepy. This can be seen with Google+ and the various inflexible policies it has towards Google accounts. Is Google "person search" really that far off? Already you can email anyone with a Google account right(?) How long before you put in a name and a town and you get Google+, Facebook, Twitter profiles along with posts related to that user from their public names and confirmed alias.

The only way to opt out is to destroy your Google account which is a shame as gmail + docs are pretty awesome. I don't know how that would affect Android for the day to day user.
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In my opinion, there's a crucial issue you have to keep in mind about crunch mode.

Software development is one of the last few cases where you have smart, highly educated people doing the "grunt work". We've automated mostly everything else, or got low-skilled labour doing tasks where more hours map well to more productivity. Developers are the assembly line for software, and it's very, very easy to then take that notion too far. Surely, if you keep the assembly line working longer, you'll get more stuff at the end?
Well, yes.

Think about it. Your doing what your told over and over is good for the country. You really don't understand all the ins and outs but suddenly what you have putting all your effort into is declared criminal by some. If your a mid/low level worker how are you supposed to feel? Brush it off and blame those above you? Hang your head in shame? There certainly are enough people out there; if not posting here; who would excoriate you for not knowing what any one one with a brain should have known/etc/etc
They have to honour the license. Which provides and guarantees basic freedoms. But it allows the code to be reused in any project honouring the license. So your initial statement is false.
I was surprised by the tweet saying she was glad she lived in a state where it was illegal to fire her...does this imply there are states where it would be legal to fire someone who was transgender?
To pause the Google-hate, and the same G+ identity talk for just one second I'd like to point out that the details in that post are not accurate.

First and most important - the linchpin to that whole post is wrong:

Google's response was that her outing was "user error" - Google blamed her, the user for not understanding the new, confusing integration.

That statement is untrue, the author is citing a previous reporting that never received any statement from Google: http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/jan/07/google-han...

Nonetheless the incident itself was self-inflicted:

The trans woman in question flashed a ROM which skipped the usual disclaimer and notice about which identity will be used: https://twitter.com/eiridescent/status/419604310213672960

Also it's very unfair to cavalierly invoke that Grantland tragedy and to choose that very provocative title to drive page views.
I guess Doge as in Dogecoin was meant to be pronounced "doggie", deliberately misspelt, whereas the Venetian Doge is pronounced /ˈdoʊdʒ/ (~doj).
Nice app. Looks clean and straight-forward to use and I like the name! Also, thanks for open sourcing!!

Only question, why just pull requests and not all GitHub issue activity?
Very interesting read. I loved the game.

I wonder if it wouldn't be a lot easier to rewrite the game from scratch using a modern engine - it shouldn't be too complicated to reach a similar state as the original game with modern tools.

Or maybe just extend an existing (free) flight simulator like FlightGear.
Thanks for the reply. Angula-UI seems a bit too simple in terms of available set of components.

I got the idea that although you can use jQuery, it is an anti-pattern and not guaranteed to always work. At least from what I could find in SO and blogs.

My main problem is that I and many others in our teams, don't have any problem doing native UIs, but always get lost in the HTML/CSS/JavaScript jungle without designer help. Regardless of the experience level in web projects.
Ctrl-c is NOT equivalent to ESC. Yes, it lets you switch modes but you loose out other important actions. See :help for more details.

Edit:
Here's a short explanation of the options
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/5030164/whats-the-differe...
I'm starting to get seriously scared about Android 4.4 whenever it becomes more widespread.

I use CyanogenMod, who should strip out some of the worst intrusions, but I guess with 4.4, I'll need a replacement dialer and SMS as I don't let Hangouts get anywhere near my phone, and the dialer will be sending numbers I call / get called by to google. I've looked at Handcent for SMS, but are there any privacy-focused dialer replacements?
Nice! Will certainly give it a go!
To be honest I just winged the whole thing. Did all the trading on bter.com which I am a fan of.

I know nothing about trading at all. Well nothing beyond random reading. Hence the appeal of trying it out with inconsequential sums of money like dogecoin. After all 20000 Dodge is cheap but enough to have fun with on the exchange. I got to experience the rush of a pump with unsustainable grow followed by a crash. All the while trying to increase my holding. I also had a ball doing so. The fun value I got out of Dodge easily exceeds anything I got in the bitcoin world.
Well, the alternative is working for days / weeks on a feature that the end-user may not even use (is the message I'm getting from this article). Being able to create and alter a feature quickly is important in an agile environment.
Primarily only by not being able to use the play store, and having to disable the 'Google Contacts Sync' to store numbers locally without having google sniff them.

Make a gmail account, add no personal data, and use it only for the playstore, and problem solved.
http://spaaaccccce.com/Yes_Please_Space_Orbit_Space_orbit_In...
Please don't buy into the FUD, there is plenty on control and notice about identity in hangouts: https://support.google.com/hangouts/answer/3441321?hl=en

http://www.groovypost.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/Hangout...
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I have it without such extensions. I pasted the text from the article in a comment below if anyone still has difficulty accessing it (it took me a while to get through).
They seriously hurt a lot of people in a very predictable and avoidable way, and are not interested in fixing the harm they've done. And you're whitewashing it without giving any substantive answer to the points in the linked article.
In a significant part of the US, you can fire people with no notice, with no recourse, for any/no reason.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/At-will_employment
I'm not using Ghostery and I'm seeing the same thing. Could be Adblock I'm using from Chrome store. https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/adblock-plus/cfhdo...
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It's still not going onto my phone. Merging google+ into SMS is a bad idea, and dangerous to privacy no matter what options there are today that will likely disappear later. Google have consistently proven themselves hostile to privacy and user choice.

I think if there's anything I'm not buying into, it's a new account which seems to only exist to promote Hangouts / google+.
This, pretty much. I have a friend who had to change her (legal) name due to a stalker, and consequently never uses it anywhere online (she uses an alias on facebook).
Probably because we (HouseTrip) tend to not use Github issues for internal projects.

But that's a very valid point, thanks for the suggestion. Perhaps you'd like to open an issue on the Trailer repo and propose a change?
When I see "she" it makes me reflexively stop and look back to make sure I haven't missed something, wondering, "who is this 'she', I must have skipped the paragraph introducing the subject."

This is definitely bad for readability, the user, and all that. Please, anyone reading this who complains about line-heights and font-sizes, pay attention to grammar as well.
Maybe more a kind of protection if the mere reason for being fired is the outing as a transgender.
In France a pregnant woman has some level of protection concerning her job.
I wouldn't know. YouTube is actually not so bad now if you block Flash, save the videos via the HTML5 interface, and watch them at your leisure.
I tried following your arguments, but failed.
The woman in question flashed CM11 and (official, unchanged, albeit unsupported/in a grey area if you grab them yourself?) GApps. G+ etc. is part of that and as far as I can tell and that is what the person in question states in the discussion you link.

How do you know that 'The ROM'(?) 'skipped all disclaimer and notice about which identity will be used'? The Twitter link at least doesn't say that at all.

Obviously you might have a point, but you didn't present it well/the facts given don't match what you claim to know.
Impressive.

But I'm more impressed about another post there about "Out of This World" that game has a huge storytelling and a VM kind of architecture.

http://fabiensanglard.net/anotherWorld_code_review/index.php
besides the obvious lack of knowledge of how the game plays, I find most people underestimate by half the age of most games jerks.

As in, most games the jerks are twenty somethings.
It's not just in new startups.
Agencies with poor engineering culture tend to do a lot o crunch. INCLUDING in Europe.
Because I got the disclaimer: http://www.groovypost.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/Hangout...

And another screen after it notifying me.
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Well, most assembly lines nowadays actually run 24/7 ;)
Escher's "Ascending and Descending" in Lego
Bitcoin funding open source development
Facebook is used by different people for many different purposes.

In Ukraine right now it is the default news channel for the opposition with the mass protests going on now, and has served a similar function in other countries.

For some people it's a way to stay in touch with close friends.

For others it's a way to occasionally keep in touch with more distant friends.

Others use it as a contact/ address book.

Others use it for games.

I don't think it's going to die out, instead it's going to evolve.

I also do think it's possible it might die out, but way too early to know what will happen.
I think crunch has very important place in startups. How else would you expel technical cofounders/employees before they exercise their stock options?
Can anyone explain how, exactly, is one such machine programmed to solve a given problem?
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You defended Hangouts elsewhere. Again I followed your links and don't find things that match your explanations.

The second link is just a screenshot and I see nothing concerning 'identities' there. It wants to replace SMS and you can accept or deny? Granted, one should click on that learn more button before accepting that - I don't know what hides behind that link.

Maybe it is the first link you posted? That .. doesn't seem to say a thing about identities either, unless you mean the single paragraph about being able to select among multiple accounts, should you be signed in to more than one?

I didn't watch the video, maybe that one offers more, but so far I don't think FUD is the right term here..
I... don't get it. Why don't respectable hackers boycott MIT because of Aaron's death? They never apologized AFAIK.
Im one to agree. I can see how a woman would be pleased by seeing this, but, when I scroll up and notice it's a "Nick" who wrote the article, all I can think is; huh? Is this guy trying to be edgy? So I re-read, like you said, and there is no mention of a she.

It's just awkward, please stop with the forced gender equality if that's what that is. If it's just being playful then I guess you can shrug it off.
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"It makes people lazy and less productive. This may seem ironic, but when someone puts in heroic levels of effort, they start to place less value on each minute. I know that if I work all night, then an hour brain-break mid-day sounds very reasonable. The problem is that these breaks become a habit that can persist between Crunch times."

While I found the rest of the article to be thoughtful and useful, this part sounds like it was written by a pointy-haired boss who doesn't believe his employees can possibly be productive unless their butts are firmly planted in their chairs.

A one hour mid-day brain-break might make many people more productive. In fact, taking an hour for lunch and getting out of the office is a good way to clear you head, and by the time you get back, your brain might have figured out the answers to the problems you had when you left (which might have taken you the rest of the afternoon to figure out otherwise).

If you can't trust your employees to take mental breaks when they need them, then you should be managing assembly line workers, not knowledge workers.
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No version of IE8 that has a version number lower than IE9.
Three here: quora, w3schools and expertsexchange
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Fortunately you're wrong. Violating my constitutionally guaranteed liberties is the harm in fact.

Eroding the protections I'm guaranteed, for example against general search warrants, is causing me immediate harm.

What is the harm? Something that belongs to me has been taken from me against my will, through the use of coercion, intimidation and force.
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I'm curious about what one of these decks looks like.

When you raise money, you presumably have some notion of how you are going to spend that money. $X for new engineers, $Y to build out the London office, etc.

What does a plan for SPENDING the $80m they raised in this round even look like?
I've written a pretty long blog post on the entire topic some time ago. It's about my experience as a founder and entrepreneurial student in the US, Asia and Europe and the cultural differences..

Here's the link http://www.mgreschke.com/view/entry/1?locale=en#disqus_threa...

Getting easy capital (even from private angels, its already hard to get more than 25-50k Euros from a German business angel) is one side of the deal, but at least in Europe I cant help but think that the social environment has been holding entrepreneurship back for the last decades. Although that seems to be changing slowly.
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I'd love to know what benefits the real name system has been providing users. It seems like it's causing more outrage and problems (i.e. recent Youtube comment redesign) than actual good.
Crunch mode is pretty standard across the whole U.S. business culture, not just in Silicon Valley startups.
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This is just the setup. They are actually modelling linkbait headlines to build a data set for a thesis on optimization of online marketing buys. You are the punchline.

That, or this is just bad science.
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It lets google scrape more data to profit from.

Oh, you meant benefit to users? None. They're the product as far as google is concerned.
Ask HN: Help. I need to go away from here
I am in Italy and I need help. I hope there is anyone here on HN that can help me. I am a Computer Science student, I started 3 years ago the course because I LOVE PROGRAMMING. My only wish is to get away from here. It's like a trap. I have to thank the internet for connecting me to the outside world. It feels like it's the only way out for me and I am obsessed. Thing is "startups" here are hell, lots of bureaucracy and so on. I tried to look away, apply for a job/internship in the U.S. but the reason is always the same: visas are hell. I would do anything to get my way out.

I study EVERY DAY so hard, University here is a mess, bad management and few very good professors. I know how to program, I have a strong passion for algorithms, data structure and complexity analysis. In addition I try to learn new things in my free time, like other programming languages, tools, etc. You know, I am in my third and final year and if it wasn't for my curiosity now I would have no knowledge at all for REST, Python or even Maven! (Just saying)

I feel trapped, I am trapped. Jobs here in enterprises are that trap, you can get a job, maybe programming in Java, and stay there forever. Because here is how the things works. I can't get my way out. I would like to pursue my educational career and I hope that my applications to English University succeed but still it's just a try.

I don't expect anything more from my situation, I really hope that someone can point me to the right direction or at least give some help.

Thank you HN and sorry for this post, but I had no other chance.
"BTW, I use the VPN to mask my internet traffic… sorry NSA"

As if using a VPN made you NSA-proof. Every time I see phrases like this I force myself not to think the person is a fool but it's hard.

People need to realize that ensuring security and privacy isn't fixed by installing just some tool and be done with it. Worse, they will do this and trust they are immune (and then the damage will be worse).
"If 80% of the country hated the law that allows blanket collection of business records then it would have been changed long ago."

Even if people hated some laws like they, they can get passed by putting something else in the law like "anti child porn" language, and call the bill "protect the children from abuse act", which just happens to have language permitting unrestricted data monitoring provisions. Try to vote against that bill? You're in favor of child abuse?

Over the top example, slightly, but even in this case, it presumes that people even read the bills before voting on them, which we all know doesn't happen as often as it should. Trying to get past that problem requires a far more educated and engaged population.
Ionic is pretty good if you're looking for the whole flat iOS7 look
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Constitutional violations aren't "crimes." E.g. Nobody went to jail for attempting to enforce the unconstitutional election law in citizens united.
I know that from personal experience! I got that screen I link to, then another notice poped-up telling me what identity I'm currently using, I'm searching for a screen cap of that.
I agree. What that fact shows is that people are no longer searching for Facebook (either to get the site or find out what it is) but now people either know what Facebook is, or have been to the site enough for it to prepopulate when typing fa..

A better stat (which Facebook provide in one way or other) to base on is the number of active users, time on the platform and devices used to interact.
a deep lack of understanding and empathy from some here. whether or not someone fucks up because they fail to understand how a service works shouldn't result in them getting outed in a way that can be deeply damaging to them. The lack of care and foresight that google are showing is reprehensible.
"Game comes on 11 x 1.44MB floppy disks."

Thanks for rekindling my appreciation for optical media.
If you don't want to be "outed" by google, why give google the information needed to do that?

Is creating 2 separate google accounts impossible these days?
http://spaaaccccce.com/Wanna_go_to_space_Space_Please_go_to_...
Google creates a real identity for you, without you explicitly asking them to, based on the information they already have about you, like your interests(google now), gmail account (and its contents!!!), youtube, blogger, author profile, G maps, waze, android (photos, who you call, who calls you) GPS (where you go, with whom, how much you stay there), your friends, coleagues, acquaintances and possibly indexed 3rd party web pages. And they buried what they are doing and the privacy controls through dark patterns, so most of the people aren't even aware of that.

Not only they are forcing the majority of the internet population to have an account pulling information from different parts of their lives, they are forcing them to use that account publicly and start identifying with it - youtube, sms, email, blogger (soon waze?).

Tell me how dystopian this is? Now consider that the same company knows all the sites you visit and how you got there.
Not for any reason. Even in at-will employment states, you cannot fire someone on the basis that you discovered they are Christian (or Muslim, or Polish, or an Army veteran) and you don't like Christians (or Muslims, or Poles, or vets). Some are federally protected categories (termination on the basis of race/ethnicity/religion/gender is banned nationally under the Civil Rights Act of 1964), while others are prohibited by state laws. The status of firing someone because they are transgender under federal law is in flux; the EEOC issued an interpretation in 2012 that the 1964 ban on gender-related employment discrimination covers employment discrimination on the basis of transgender status, but I'm not sure whether this has been upheld by courts.

Of course, you can state no reason, and avoid leaving evidence of your real motivations, which might make it harder to prove: if you fire someone because you discovered they're Polish and you hate Poles, they can only win an unlawful-termination suit if they can prove that was the reason.
As someone you would call a "UX Specialist" I would be embarrassed to have that site in my portfolio. It's a wireframe with working links.

That being said... who voted this Site of the Year? Just because people who don't know anything about web design give out awards doesn't mean they are valid or credible.

It seems like a pretty big leap to go from that misguided award to the conclusion in the title.
Chrome browser becomes eavesdropping tool
How would you optimise internal git commands or a loop that will still need to brute-force either way?
Amazing.

I wondered that on just about every link. Same with old BBC News links with /hi/ (if anyone knows what that one is, go ahead).
This was previously posted here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7104647