skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not really data in any sense justifying the plural use of the word, merely a look down the hallway of the chair where I work – nobody comes in before 8:30 and most people have left by 18:30, averaging a nice-ish 40h/week, given that those who come in early will leave early, too, there are extensive lunch and coffee breaks and most people keep their evenings and weekends work-free (though, of course, not all of them).
I think it's about what the 60h is for. As a salary man, completely agree, what are you working for? So that you make $180,000/year in 5 years instead of $100,000? Not worth it.

But 60h/week for your own startup? Gosh, when I just started out, I loved every single minute of work on my startup, I even didn't want to sleep, I wouldn't get more joy of doing anything else than my startup, because it wasn't work, it was me. I was building my very own future.

I think a 60h week is a completely different story if you compare it to being a salary man and building your own company --> your own life.
> One last point on this, almost any VC will take a meeting with almost any entrepreneur.

As someone who was trying desperately to raise money in 2008 (from the Midwest, no less), just wanted to note that this is false. I contacted several dozen VCs and literally zero were interested in hearing a pitch.

This was for a company that had thousands of users and won a $50k business plan competition, so it's not like we were a joke company on the "almost any entrepreneur" spectrum.

Sure, it was 2008, and sure, we were nowhere near Sand Hill Road, but I wouldn't want people getting the impression that it's trivial for non-YC companies to get in the room with VCs anytime they please. It's not.
Tell HN: Search is weird on mobile devices
This is meant as polite feedback of my experience of using search on mobile. Maybe other HN users have more feedback?

On Chrome, on iOS.

I enter a search term and get a page of results. I am unable to modify that search. (I can't sort it by date, for example.) The results are not relevant. There are no search instructions on that page.

I look at a clean search page. There are no instructions there either. There is text in the search box, but that's not instructive either.

None of the links give me instructions.

A high barrier to entry is good. But that barrier should be on posting, not on searching.

http://imgur.com/syiG0aT

http://imgur.com/4pg8yL9
You've got a point there!
I'm an 80h a week guy
A bit of pressure on #FloodHack to come up with something useful tomorrow.
In the enterprise world this is done via user groups - http://www.sap.com/communities/user-groups.html

You'd be surprised how often competitors (let's say BP and Shell for example) make purchasing decision after discussions at user group events, simply "to keep up with the Jones's".
GoPro's IPO isn't about selling cameras, it's about creating a media empire
It's interesting to play around with this.

There are 168 hours a week. Say you sleep for 8 hours per day. That takes up 56 hours, leaving 112 hours. If you legitimately work for 80 hours, that leaves 32 hours of downtime a week, or roughly 4.5 hours per day. That's only 270 minutes (it's closer to 4.6 hours, but that is only 276 minutes).

270 minutes a day. What can you accomplish in that time? Is there enough left over to stay sane?

Of course, there are plenty of variables to play around with. Sleep 6, and that's an extra 14 hours a week. Now you have plenty of downtime. Over the long run, is stealing these two hours away from your sleep beneficial? Maybe for some. Are you in that category. Are you sure? Really?
Hm, probably almost everyone wouldn't be able to spend it since they have to build the app for the first 2 months, no?
...will we ever get to a point of normality and sanity where:

1. guy A who want to work just 30hrs a week can say that this is how much he wants to work and get paid a fair hourly rate (same as guy B if he's just as good)

2. guy B who wants to work 70+hrs a week can say that this is how much he wants to work and get the same fair hourly rate (same as guy A if he's just as good, a reasonable 25% more for hours worked about a certain threshold - let's say 40hrs per week mandated, to set an arbitrary bar and stimulate employment of more people over exploitation)

3. guy A and B can have a coffee together and both see each other as equal value guys but with different life priorities, both ok

4. employers will not favor type B guys over type A guys (if this happens, mandatory extra-payment for overtime or extra-taxation could sway things to an equilibrium).

...it all boils down to Bertrand Russel's idea: why not have two people working X hrs a day instead of one guy working 2X hrs a day, and at the same time let the guy who wants to work 2X do it but don't discriminate in his favor (http://www.zpub.com/notes/idle.html).
Two months is nothing. Create a business that doesn't require much upfront capital and put that $25k into your living expenses until your business can support you.
Ok. Would you do only that or also one of these options

* put an error message "you are trying to use a card issued in X from Y, contact support"

* put a prefilled unchangeable field containing the current country

* signal an error on all fields when I insert something invalid (say, country and city) rather than only the zip code

* block the transaction before you validate my card

Because if so, you're better than what is currently available.
If not, I'd be happy to understand what would be the downsides of doing these things :)

EDIT:
also I realized now: you'd flag me if I put a non matching _billing address_ rather than if I use a card from abroad? That seems counterintuitive :)
Exploit has become a dirty word. For an American claim that a global supply chain is a negative thing while writing for a British media company for money is a glaring hypocrisy.

Everything we have, every tool we use, every byte we distribute over the internet relies on that global supply chain. Abstract concepts do not abuse workers.
But that is because 2 year old babies see their parents doing those gestures on that shiny black square and try to imitate them. I have a dumb phone with actual keyboard. My kid grew up watching me use it and understands the concept of keys and doesn't touch the screen. I was with a friend's kid (about same age) and his whole family has iPhones and the kid just kept touching my phones monitor ignoring the keys completely.

Can't speak for cats as I don't have one.
If the accident had not happened she would still be alive and we most likely would not read anything about her. Perhaps her life can be inspiring, as the sister posting suggested (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7244943), but the fact that we often do not learn about interesting, inspirational people until after their deaths is somewhat depressing.
Darktable, which is mentioned in passing in the article, is really a great application already. For those who haven't yet seen it, I would highly recommend checking it out. IMHO its development community could benefit from some more voices, and there are definitely some annoying 'features', but it's truly an excellent tool for producing finished images from digital photography. http://www.darktable.org/
the problem is that in most locations companies seem to have the upper hand, and IT staff work in a cost centre, and the drive is on to reduce salaries to less than that of a french deodorant salesman.
Startup America: Our Best Hope
Evolution in real time
Original Post: http://foundersblock.com/anecdotes/why-startups-fail-an-anal...
Not sure about businesses but:

1) Some photography projects. I'd like nice, standard, photos of all the buildings in Pevsner. And other nice buildings. These would be released under permissive licences in web and print resolutions. So the money would be used to set up web hosting and some torrents. The photographs would I hope be provided by students and amateurs and etc etc. The other project would be something like the http://www.antweb.org/ project, but for bees.
I can offer an instantly effective alternative to "someone needs to supervise the social network," stop using it. The terrible tyranny of facebook has to be the epitome of first world problems.

Why are your kids there? In your own words, it's a professional risk, den of commercialism, not to mention the inevitable psychological damage from refreshing a webpage instead of having actual social interactions. And it's not even hip any more.
Exactly! The few rich people who bought up all the land and placed foreign-owned sweatshops on it are doing the workers a favor. Sure, many goods produced there are priced way out of the range of what the workers could ever dream of affording, but what the locals have lost in terms of self-sustainable living has been more than made up for by the pleasantries of factory towns, jobs for every man, woman, and child, and living quarters with meals for purchase on site, making it easy for children to fulfill the labor requirements they were contracted for as adolescents. And since capitalism has priced every other option but starvation and crime out of reach, sweatshops certainly appear to be good options for wage slaves.
Communists are those that recognize this basic psychology and promote it. The term is new, but as you have stated, and I agree, the psychology isn't. Nothing wrong with using a modern term to describe past actions. Imagine using the term "mind" or "will" to describe actions used by ancient Egyptians. Or the term "incentive" to describe cave men hunting.
I found the same sentence strange. Is sacrifice no longer in the dictionary of reasonable action? Running around thinking you can mutually maximize "everyone involved" is a recipe for disaster.
I would buy a site on flippa, something with revenue and work intensely in increasing its revenue by 10X. Maybe to gain a monthly income of 7K or 10K, something that could sustain you for a couple of years in order to build your next big project.

You could even do this a couple of times before embarking into larger things.
If you are still interested in trying Azure, shoot me an email (thmacie at microsoft dot com). I'll see if we can fix your problem.
Insolvable? Charge 5zl per visit and watch wait times improve as the number old people who come in for socializing as much as medical care plummets.
Show HN: nextfeed – a minimalistic rss reader
I'm wondering about the legality, but also the latency. How long does it take to register an action?
Microsoft Office on iPad: It's alive and coming sooner than most think
I haven't jumped on the 'we hate Google' bandwagon yet. I actually use Google+ a lot - my whole family and most of my friends and co-workers are there. I mean I don't use it a lot by Facebook standards, I'll share some pics or thoughts a few times a month. I use Hangouts constantly though. I have a big group chat with my family that's been running for several months, we use it basically the way that I imagine Path is supposed to be used. And I have group chats with various sets of coworkers, and individual chats have entirely replaced SMS and other chat protocol use. Plus - really really easy group video chats, which I actually use quite a bit because of the way my workflow flows.
> Only the Gödel sentences are true but not provable.

An important aspect of the incompleteness theorems, relevant to the present topic, is that one cannot deterministically locate those particular true claims that cannot be proven true, to which the theorems apply. If this were not so, it would undermine the very notion of indeterminacy.

But the subjective nature of our view of the universe extends beyond the incompleteness theorems into more pedestrian issues like how we can claim to objectively define a property of physical reality, using tools and methods embedded in that same reality.

> When I think too hard about apply Gödel to physics in my night thoughts, it makes me wonder if there is really a "final theory of everything" or if every theory is really just an effective field theory [0] with another deeper theory underneath, and it's turtles all the way down.

"Turtles all the way down" -- I love that expression -- it aptly describes the problem faced by creatures trying to fully define their domain from within. From time to time I picture the day this expression came into being ... "'You're very clever, young man, very clever,' said the old lady. 'But it's tortoises all the way down!'"

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turtles_all_the_way_down#Origin
I had already seen some her artwork and inventions before she died. My goal is to raise a child like that.
There was an interesting article recently about teens and social networking, and insight of the article was that teens want to socialize IRL, but there is nowhere for them to go without parental supervision.

I would argue that this approximately true for adults, American cities don't have pedestrian-only town squares,
the public transit is abysmal (because long ago they ripped out all the streetcars, which led to the destruction of many social places, like Excelsior Amusement Park and Wonderland Amusement Park),

[warning anecdotal evidence]

The few dynamic social spaces I've known have been

Paved (Hidden Beach),

Pushed out due to rent increases (Loring Bar, Little Nikkis Cafe, CyberX),

Turned into a Bank of America (Filter in Wicker Park),

Out of business due to the smoking ban (The tobacco shop next to Filter in Wicker Park)

Purposefully destroyed by fake art to prevent gatherings
(That little area next to the Subway on State Street in Madison, WI (where I used to play hackeysack))

Not to mention that we destroyed all the beer gardens during WW2 (this really happened), because that was too German, you can't drink a bottle of wine in a park like the French do, because I guess the drunks would abuse it, and the parks we do have generally don't also have any commercial activity whatsoever, not even a little kiosk where you can buy a coffee.

That's not even considering the destruction of ethnic neighborhoods by intersecting them with freeways (the old Catholic neighborhood [that no longer exists] that used to surround the Basilica in Minneapolis)

You know we're doing something wrong with urban design (which I argue is directly related to loneliness), when you see statues of children playing and not actual children playing.

Further reading/viewing:

James Howard Kunstler: The ghastly tragedy of the suburbs

James Howard Kunstler: Geography of Nowhere

The Slaughter of Cities: Urban Renewal as Ethnic Cleansing

Streets for People: A Primer for Americans

Bowling Alone: The Collapse and Revival of American Community

The Great Good Place: Cafes, Coffee Shops, Bookstores, Bars, Hair Salons, and Other Hangouts at the Heart of a Community
My former boss was a PSP/TSP certified software developer.

He said studios had shown that programmer can work 4 hour/day and plans should be made accordingly (e.g., if you have 16 hours to solve set of tasks, plan for four days, not two). He also said that this statistics was actually proven true during the course of their training and later in the practical application.

Other four hours of "work" time is related to documentation and social aspects of development, like discussing ideas and plans.
Yes, the Wealthy Can Be Deserving
Gone with the same solution myself. Significant benefits, plus it fixes the issue with poor rendering of Google Fonts in Chrome for Windows. Wrote a post about using Font Squirrel a few weeks back on my blog: http://www.jeffmould.com/2014/01/29/how-to-fix-google-fonts-...
I think at that level of exertion you'd have to give your self the 8 hours sleep. Either that or lead an extremely healthy lifestyle otherwise.
Ministers bid to block extremist videos posted on foreign websites
Haha, quite right, and well spotted.
Lady Visa and Master Card. The companies that have the most to lose if cryptocurrencies take off
From the info below the video:

> The amount of lag is approximately 20~40 seconds depending on connection quality. After watching the stream for awhile the lag may increase a tiny amount (enough for chat spoilers), refreshing may help in this case.
That's like saying... "I know I chopped off 2 of your fingers, but the employer across the street will take a whole arm... so ya know ...this is better than the alternative."

Yes, it could be worse but that doesn't meant they're not being exploited and the issue shouldn't be brought up and examined for improvement.
Yeah, $120k (even if only ~20k$ is cash), is a drop in the bucket compared to the WHOLE IP catalog.
as suspected nothing is happening, thousands of people are all giving conflicting commands so the character is just wandering aimlessly without really going anywhere
Convertible or priced (we did a convertible note). The 100k is optional. It was for us at least.
Just as a counter-point to "shitty life of being obsessively active" - I've noticed my mental health is much better now that I've become regularly active. Plus, it's amazing how much of the city/country you experience when you're on a long run.
2) Translate "How to Solve it by Computer" from Pascal to Python. http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/How_to_Solve_it_by_Computer

3) Fork Wikipedia. I'd have inclusion criteria for what I wanted to include (STEM; other academic stuff) and I would exclude a bunch of other stuff (pokemon, recentist fluff, etc.) I'd then create a style manual. I'd then hire people to fact check, cite and source, correct, spell check, etc the pages I had. Each page would have a similar page layout. The lead paragraph would aim to tell someone with no previous exposure to the subject what it was. Each article would have a simple intro, with moderate or advanced sections if needed. The aim is to produce something trustworthy and stable that can be released on a 6 month schedule that could be useful to students.
It's streaming lag, the input lag should be far higher.

I suspect a very simple setup :

- An IRC bot listen for message including a key name and queue them somewhere (Redis maybe?).

- Another process just dequeue keys and apply them in emulator.
It says in the description( for teh lazy ~ 20s-40s ). I have experienced about 20 seconds.

EDIT: Actually, the time to register the "keypress" is almost zero, but the effect is only seen many seconds later. You have to guess what the game state will be in ~20s-40s.

The input rate us pretty crazy right now, the game is barely playable. There was some slow constant progress when there were about 4000 viewers, and they even managed to catch a few pokemon when the view count was low.
Louis C.K. had some good points on this: http://youtu.be/5HbYScltf1c
3 seconds is already way too long.
To combat the broscience prevalent in this thread on what a good exercise regime looks like, here are some reviews of exercise science on the relationship between different activities and health.

Cardio, vigorous is better
http://extremelongevity.net/2011/08/31/more-vigorous-exercis...

Resistance training, how much is optimal?
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16287373

How much total activity?
http://www.plosone.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjourna...

My take on all this:
It seems like you want to be burning at least 1000 calories a week. There have been benefits reported at higher levels but the first 1k calories are guaranteed to get you a large proportion of the benefits. A routine of lifting twice a week and doing rigorous cardio 2-3 days a week puts you comfortably in the 1000-1500 calories burned range.

To the people who are saying that the normal activity of everyday life is adequate, you are fooling yourself because you don't want to have to make changes. It's fine if you want to do that but please don't spread FUD to others who don't know any better. You are hurting them.
Why Startups Fail: An Analysis of Post-Mortems (2011)
IANAL but isn't it illegal (grounds for a lawsuit at least) to use the image of someone, who is too young to provide legal consent, in an advertisement without their legal guardian's express written consent?

In the article they list the states that it is illegal in. This is presumably a federal case that doesn't take that into account.
Children abuse by fashion industry
Not really, an increment to the major version number simply indicates non backwards-compatible API changes. See: http://semver.org/
Didn't Google fonts just add such a feature? (though it's still in beta)
Good point. When we ask whether this is all a simulation, I think most people assume an agency, a wizard behind a curtain. But the question doesn't necessarily imply that form.

But think -- until about 50 years ago we wouldn't have necessarily thought of the universe as a computer, because we didn't think of things in terms of computers until recently. My point is this conversation and its terminology is only possible because of the present state of technical evolution -- in us and in our machines.

> What is it computing? Its own history / dynamics.

Yes, agreed. On a scale smaller than the universe, we can examine evolution by natural selection as an example of an algorithm that works in a reliable, predictable way (predictable only in a statistical sense). I prefer evolution as an example of a natural algorithmic model because it's easy to express, but produces so much complexity.
JavaScript inheritance library? JS does this by default, no need for more useless boilerplate. The below works in all browsers, IE5 included.

function inherits(child, parent) {
function tmp() {};
tmp.prototype = parent.prototype;
child.prototype = new tmp();
child.prototype.constructor = child;
}

function A() { this.x_ = 5 }; function B() {A.call(this);};inherits(B, A);
Merkel, Hollande to discuss European communication network avoiding U.S
Beware: State tax laws could nail your startup
Very nice experiment that really proved worthwhile to the developer. With some luck and media coverage, they have enough viewers now that they have introduced the subscribe (read: $) option, not present before.

I would really like to see more games done in similar fashion.
Data protection: Angela Merkel proposes Europe network
I think this hints at the crux of the problem. I have no problem with others working long hours, and will even put in a stint here and there when I feel it's warranted.

The problem I see is that it slowly becomes the new norm and benchmark, regardless of whether long hours are productive. These new expectations then get encoded in cultures that devalue those who either choose to spend time on other things or who are simply more efficient.

Do we just need to find better measures of output and figure out what fair compensation for average output is?
Thales’ triangles: be careful with computers
It looks like the player has been stuck on a part of the map that is easily sidetracked by one or two "down" commands.

Here is a graph someone posted in the chat: http://i.imgur.com/6Iy7h7l.png
I'm definitely with you that all the people who want super easy activities to count as exercise are speaking from cognitive dissonance. I will say however that I've been lifting fairly regularly for a decent amount of time and I still see it as tedious.
Wow, this is really surprising to me, considering it's the UK. Sounds exactly like the Brazilian SUS (our extremely dysfunctional universal healthcare system).
I didn't say that idleness is the only cause of hunger.
Post-individualism, posts like these will look pretty childish.
Human societies do exist, and have existed. We not just just individuals.
No, definitely not this. Japan has good case law regarding the protection of virtual goods, whereas there is a lot of ambiguity on this side of the pacific. If anything this is one point in favor of mtgox being in Japan.
Ignoring Modern UI in Windows 8 is relatively easy: http://www.gizmag.com/windows-81-modern-ui/29552/