skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
GPs in London seem to be at breaking point. I move house every year, staying in the same area, but even though it's only a short walk from my current flat to my old one I no longer fall within the catchment area of my GP. In fact, I am right on the edge of the catchment area of my nearest GP! My local A&E is absolutely swamped with people going straight there instead of even bothering with their GPs. You get told off for doing that but at least you can see someone.
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I couldn't agree more. Sometimes it is the fault of the worker, but unless that worker is an executive, this is almost always the fault of management. I have occasionally worked more than 40 hours because something was engrossing, but this is unusual as I know when to stop. In almost every single case of working more hours it was because of bad management. Unfortunately, a lot of these management decisions are do or get fired and I have left many a job because of it, usually to my detriment.

The other problem is that somehow people want to make an exception for their startup. Their startup is special. Their startup won't suffer from these problems. As if their startup has found a way to make humans efficient and healthy without sleep. Please. That kind of thinking (I'm staring at a comment right now) is exactly what leads to this kind of mess. Where does the 40 hours a week come from? Years of experience by both workers and their managers and executives.

Why then are executives nowadays so clueless, especially the ones at startups?
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Is the Universe a Simulation?
Yeah that's cool too, but where does the $100 trillion to build all the robots come from? Robots ain't cheap and it's not like it's all software license fees either, you need to actually pay people (or robots) to dig ore out of the ground and to use energy to transform it into metal and then form those ingots into usable shapes and then transform those usable shapes into robot frames and then attach electrical or hydraulic actuators and pumps and put controlling circuitry in there and then you still have to have the control system. So far all that stuff is owned privately and I don't foresee the people who've spent millions or billions of dollars of private capital to make all that exist suddenly say "hey it's cool, we're giving all this stuff away for the greater good!"
Thsi is really, like, hell...

This is awesome!
I forgot the part where producers were also asking for the state to ensure a 'fair competition' based on merit and not birth.

Now, takes Forbes top 500 fortunes of the world and tell me how much people are not xth generation dynasty kids.

I love Bill Gates he has a lot of merit, one of which is being well borned.

We do have a meritocratic system, but this system is biased because he is mainly accessible through birth.

This is the definition of a society based on casts. We are regressing in the name of a so called "liberalism" that looks like the "communism" of Lenin : an implementation that contradict the purpose.

Our political systems are wrong implementations of good ideas. How can we repeatedly fail that much collectively?
I'd imagine. That sucks :(.
What's enough exercise? I walk 20 minutes a day. That should be good enough or do I need to turn into a fitness nut and work on strengthening every muscle in my body, eating raw nuts or whatever and run 5 miles a day?

Like if the tradeoff for ultra-longevity is a shitty life of being obsessively active I think I'll pick a shorter life. If just a reasonable amount of exercise is ok and I don't have to work to look like I should be on the cover of a magazine, then I can do that.

Edit: reasonable question gets downvoted.
This article doesn't pass the smell test. There is nothing magical about 40 hours per week. 60 hours is just as arbitrary as 40. Also, it probably originated when people did actual physical labor, and so it wont apply to dev work. Countless people in the sciences have toiled day and night to bring about great discoveries - and that's a good thing.

Question: Do non-software people (I'm thinking Scientists, Mathematicians, etc) ever complain about this?
Well said; the problem is that worked hours is a useless metric of productivity. Even the horribly poor metric "lines of code written" is much better—at least I know that you have been producing work, not social media posts.
what would make Persona a killer solution for me is if it could hand out disposable email addresses to every site I sign into, that forward transparently to my main address (a la Gishpuppy). This way, I can identify which site is the cause of me suddenly receiving a bunch of spam (whether they're doing it themselves or their email database was hacked). Then its a simple question of disabling that disposable address from forwarding to my private one, and notifying the site that their database might be exposed.
What stopped you from spawning the daemon in a cgroup?
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Which Windows are you in? It's supposed to be working only with 7 right now. Any bug reports with more details are appreciated.
cozycloud, you can just install it on a raspberry pi if i'm not mistaking.

Edit:
I was mistaking, it has a lot but no email :(
I used postgres for the first time last week, and was wondering, "WHERE IS UPSERT?" Ended up going with a "UPDATE table SET field='C', field2='Z' WHERE id=3;
INSERT INTO table (id, field, field2)
SELECT 3, 'C', 'Z'
WHERE NOT EXISTS (SELECT 1 FROM table WHERE id=3);" (as seen on http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1109061/insert-on-duplica... - although, not the chosen answer). Anyone come up with better or their own solutions?
The 8.8 million lines joke refers to <http://techcrunch.com/2013/05/16/google-has-already-removed-....
> The huge deal-breaking problem with bitcoind is that it provides no way to query for transactions associated with a specific address unless you import that address into the client and give it the private key.

The reason bitcoind doesn't provide the feature you're after is because it's not actually possible to tie an address to a comprehensive set of transactions.

Addresses are hashes of public keys... public keys which may or may not have been used in isolation, or in one of several common conventions, to make a transaction. Only a particular implementation programmed to parse a predetermined set of transaction script types can actually determine what subset of transaction outputs are spendable, and what consistutes your wallets balance. The protocol itself has no concept of wallets or balances
IMHO there are no rules of this kind that apply for every situation. Just do whatever you like, since you like working on your thing 24/7 go for it.

We should be very careful when we're talking about employees though.
Agree that the # of hours worked in a week is by no means an indication of productivity, and sometimes perhaps a product of a misaligned culture.

However, I do find long hours may result out of necessity for the sheer work involved as well. Especially in the earlier days of a company, you compensate for an initial lack of resources and staff by performing multiple roles.

On the business side, you could easily see your mornings taken up by customer calls (especially if you have an international market), the afternoons spent on ad campaigns and marketing content, the late afternoons on general office management. In the evenings when there's less client interaction, I would spend time on product feedback, some data analysis and metrics reporting for the day/week's past. This could easily extend to a 60-80 hour work week, and I would consider fairly typical of early startups.

As you grow there's less need for sure to work so long, as the company grows and responsibilities become more focused. But overall, I think there are circumstances where a 60-80 hr workweeks are necessary, and not necessarily an indication of a problem.
I'm also an entrepreneur. It's the best job I've ever had.

Back in the day, I was a salaryman. A Japanese megacorp owned me body and soul.

If you had asked me, during much of those three years, whether I was overworked, I would have told you no. Seventy hours was surely not more than many salarymen worked, and anyhow, I had just had a nice relaxing 50 hour week only... what month is it again? I would have described myself as an attentive boyfriend, and didn't understand at all why a girlfriend might disagree with that assessment. My best friends had an album titled Patrick Falling Asleep At Parties -- they were such kidders, those two. I had blackouts. I stayed in a hotel frequently, some days because it was impossible to catch the last train but some days because while I technically could have made the train I was staggering so much I was uncertain that I'd make it home safely. Somebody once did a graph of HN posts by hour it was utterly impossible to identify core sleep hours for me by looking at it, for three years. When my salaryman friends and I got together for dinners we'd do the requisite amount of kvetching about our jobs and then talk about people who had real problems. Did you hear about how bad it gets at the Tokyo office? Cripes, we dodged a bullet, didn't we.

In hindsight, I can only describe it as three years of temporary insanity.

I don't want to attack any part of your self-conception, and wish only for your happiness. In that spirit: consider the possibility that alexandros is executing on unreliable hardware and attempt to get verifiable external measurements about what that hardware is telling you.
There are problems with having "tied" housing what happens when you leave or have a disagreement with your boss oops you are now homeless.

Also a lot of these model villages like cadburys etc where very small c conservative and had rule about behavior out side of work that might not go down well.

One real world example in my village in the UK even today both of the village pubs are not in the actual Parrish as the landowners didn't like the "workers" drinking - of course the landowners had wine with dinner but thats different

sorry Mr Smith you haven't been mowing your lawn regularly enough so you are fired.
I wish the author would have talked specifically about the clash with his partner(s), that would have been actually insightful/interesting. But maybe privacy concerns prevent that which is understandable.

I've actually been in a similar position with an incubator startup-thing where my cofounders couldn't carry on working on what we (perhaps mostly I) initially set out to do. Working on anything else certainly feels like hot pants to me. But alas, I'm taking the other route and seeing what happens when I swallow my pride and decide to try learning about something that I think is otherwise bullshit. Just this one time though... can't let the rest of the world tell you to work on shit you don't want to work on forever ;)

Anyone else relate to this for an incubator-type thing? How did staying a path you didn't initially like vs. quitting work out for y'all?
For most people, I'd agree. But as a startup founder, given how resource constrained we are (and we've chosen the self-funded, bootstrapping model for now) I don't have a whole lot of choice if we're going to succeed. Especially when you factor in that I still work a regular job to pay the bills.

So, 40 hrs at the regular job + x hours working on the startup, where x consumes almost every evening and almost all day on Sat. and Sunday, I'm regularly doing 70+ hour weeks.

Humblebrag? I don't know, and I don't care. I just care about getting this damn thing going and achieving my dreams.

Luckily I enjoy this, because I'm working on something I am actually passionate about. Not that it doesn't get frustrating on occasion, but most of the time it's more pleasure than pain.

So why do all this? Well, as theorique says here:

It isn't about disrupting an industry. It's about money.

That's a little bit of an oversimplification, but there's a lot of truth there. There are things I'd like to do, dreams I'd like to live out, that I can't do at my present level of income. But it's more than that for me (and, I'm guessing, for a lot of other people). I work on building a startup because A. I enjoy the act of building and creating something, and B. as the founder I'm in control and get to call the shots. Here, succeed for fail, it'll be down to my decisions and actions, not some random $BOSS. (Yeah, yeah, go ahead and chime in "everything is luck" crowd. I don't care about you either).

Anyway, when I get tired of working I just imagine myself cruising through New York or London, driving a Ferrari while getting sucked off by a gorgeous readheaded supermodel, and remind myself that there are reasons for doing all this work...
Ignorant idiot here will assume the role of First Person That Finds This Interesting But Has No Real Clue What It Means title.

Could someone outline loosely what the implications are of this in layperson's terms?

Thanks.
Nobody outright brags about it, it's done a different way by:

1) Sending out team wide emails very late at night and on the weekends

2) Sending out team wide code reviews very late at night and on the weekends

3) Monday morning during scrum standup mentioning "Over the weekend I did..."

I believe the above behavior is eventually toxic to a team if done on a regular basis.
It says "For Windows 7 and above" under the top download button while it says "For Windows XP and above" on the other two.
An additional +10 goes to the fact that this awesome comment came from the nickname 'pizza234'.
Doesn't seem to work here. I'm in The Netherlands, if it helps. Clicking "watch now!" shows "Buffering video..." for a short while, but after that, it doesn't do anything.

[edit] After a while it started playing. However, I had very few FPS on Win7.
I find it very interesting.

When people want their time to be respected, they show how little free time they have. They basically are saying they are dirt-poor in time.

Imagine if people all announced they were dirt-poor in money. And when they met up with their friends, they kept saying, somewhat with pride, how little money they have saved up. In the USA that would seem ludicrous.
The Windows "tutorial" item in question is a shortcut for switching to recent applications. The equivalent action on iOS is either a four-finger swipe to the right, or else double-tapping the home button, then tapping on an app. These are obvious to 2 year old babies and cats?
I'm glad to see this on the HN homepage, it's about time americans started questioning why their insurance/healthcare system is focussed on money and not health.
I am divorced. I rarely see my family, and my cofounder is my best (and currently only real) friend. Everything is on hold until my product is done.

The time constraint is more motivating when you're working on your product full time and have not released yet (are not making any money).
The problem is its not accurate..the worst social network in terms of user number is linkedin.

G+ surpassed linkedin numbers in first 3 months of operation
The initial Google work was done at Stanford, Woz worked for HP while developing the Apple I, and I'm not sure which "startup" you're referring to for Elon, but the early Confinity investors included a major bank and one of the CyberCash founders, while Tesla and SpaceX were necessarily heavily-funded long-term projects that were inherently unlike what tech VCs typically go for.

You've listed people whose stories bear little resemblance to the vast majority of little tech startups that subsist on ramen and go through accelerators.
That sounds like one person doing the work of three or four people.
Neither of those have hard point metrics, psychologically it's a different to see a number that represents your progress in the game drop to zero in a spectacular three bird crash.
is it limited to US at the moment? Just hangs on "Please wait.." in the UK
sorry, it was just meant as indicator that it was not new. I read it back then so if I had known it was not a new story I would not have clicked. That's all. :)
This is just an experiment using the peerflix module of node and connecting a bunch of APIs.
> JSON in postgres is just a container type isn't it?

At the moment JSON is stored in a text field so accessing a JSON field involves parsing the entire text value. If instead the JSON is stored in a parsed binary format then you can more efficiently access individual fields.

If you're only accessing a small set of known fields you can work around the issue by using plv8 to create function indexes on the fields that you'll be using. This doesn't work for arbitrary expressions though. If you want to filter a WHERE clause based on a non-indexed field the entire JSON text will need to be parsed.

Binary JSON storage makes all of this much faster with no change on the user's side. It's all transparent and just faster!

In theory it could also reduce storage space for tuples. Duplicate field names need not be repeated. I don't think it's in scope in the Postgres JSON improvements but it's a possibility.

> Why is everyone expecting it to become document storage?

Document storage in a relational database is really useful and there are plenty of use cases for it.

The standard example I use for JSON (or hstore) usage for Postgres is an audit table. You'd have all the usual audit fields (who/what/when) but you'd also have a "detail" field with event specific details. Using hstore or JSON for this is perfect. Improved support for JSON makes it much easier to provide event specific search.
If you come to a C shop and implement something in VisualBasic, you will de escorted right out.

Well, no duh! But I have seen things in unusual languages in large companies become useful then become indispensable. Actually, I worked for a company that couldn't have made $130 million/year if this were not the case.

So - hell, no - it's not how it works at all.

Classic example of someone on the internet mistakenly (and overconfidently) generalizing from their limited experience.
This is apples to oranges. The French system is designed to provide medical care. The American system is designed to make money.
"At least they can finally sell the patient history to third parties"

Not sure your sarcasm is all that clear. To those not aware the UK government is passing this off as a way to improve your care within the NHS via centralised records. They have made it opt-out and have sent out a confusing leaflet that leads the reader to believe their care will suffer if they opt-out of selling patient records.

Records are already centralised within the NHS. What is happening is the government is setting up a free for all with easily de-anonymised records being sold off to third parties (read: private health providers and insurance companies).
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True, but in an early stage startup (<10 people), you often have to perform the roles of multiple people, which in turn may result in longer hours.
Cool, this is neat. Here is a fuller usage example:

var Rectangle = augment(Object, {
constructor: function (width, height) {
this.height = height;
this.width = width;
},
area: function () {
return this.width * this.height;
}
});

var Square = augment(Rectangle, {
constructor: function (side) {
Rectangle.call(this, side, side);
}
});

sq = new Square(3)
//augment.constructor {height: 3, width: 3, constructor: function, area: function}
// it will be a little annoying to see augment.constructor in the console

sq.width
// 3
sq.area()
// 9

Square.prototype
// Surrogate {constructor: function, area: function}
Square.constructor
// function Function() { [native code] }
sq instanceof Rectangle
//true
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I could not disagree more. Most people hate having to manage passwords across many sites and using a password manager doesn't help enough. Email validation is a speed bump but a necessary one for many sites.

It sounds like Persona will move in the right direction of being a really simple way to confirm an email address without other privacy implications. That seems like a great deal to me over having to maintain and de-dupe huge lists of passwords in every device / browser you use.
The feynman lectures were aimed at the smartest students at caltech to keep them interested in physics. You have to consider who the audience was. If Feynman made a series of lectures for physics 101 where the majority of students had no physics experience (or a physics 101 for the general public), then he would make the material different. You can't look at one set of materials by Feynman for one group of students and conclude that he isn't a gifted teacher. There is a reason he is called the "Great Explainer." There is a reason people called him the Greatest Science Teacher while he was alive.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aXtnYnoutKk
Best example is probably .deb (1995) vs. .rpm (1997).
My name is Rick and I'm a 80 hour a week guy.

I'm 26, single, and have no pets. I have a family and friends, but I'm very transparent about my work habits and priorities as a full-stack engineer.

Being so young, I see myself as training to be the person I want to be in the future. The best programmers in the world worked at it relentlessly. Sure, there are variances in the amount that they all worked, and some did it with much less work than others. But if I want to be the best in the world, or at least attain my personal upper bound, I have to work hard at it and I have to work consistently at it.

John Resig didn't wake up one day and write jQuery. Steve Wozniak didn't just throw together the Apple I. Linus didn't just decide to write the Linux kernel one afternoon. They all put to work the investments they made in themselves.

I don't do it because I want money, success, or fame. I do it because I deeply want to make a meaningful impact on the world. I want it so bad that when I think about it my palms sweat and my chest gets heavy. When you look at the future of humanity as a whole, we need to either improve or die. And to improve, we need improvers. I want to be an improver and I don't want to rest until I am.

To be clear, I love what I do and I don't really consider it work. Solving hard problems with creative techniques is one of my favorite things to do. I really enjoy learning new things, and being able to pull them into my work is really satisfying. Being able to build something that I imagine, push it out to people, and see them get excited about it is surreal. I don't want to be doing anything else. I don't want to stop working.

But I understand the research. I understand that the work I put in will be more productive and beneficial to me if I have a balance in all areas of my life--which means that I need to be social, have hobbies, and live a healthy lifestyle.

So I've aligned my life such that those interactions still help me reach my upper bound. My friends are smarter than I am and many are in technical fields so getting a beer with them involves talking about a hard problem we solved. My hobbies include writing StackOverflow posts, trying out new frameworks, and reading books like Thinking, Fast and Slow, RabbitMQ in Action, and Secrets of the Javascript Ninja. I truly enjoy and am satisfied with these parts of my life, even though I'm never really leaving the mindset of work.

One day I want to write those books, not just read them, and I want those books to meaningfully impact the world. So I train, and that means I'm an 80 hours a week guy.
Looks like different browsers behave differently. http://24ways.org/2010/using-the-webfont-loader-to-make-brow... (edited)
This scattershot approach to inconveniencing suspected criminals seems similar to how the US conducts drone strikes: it doesn't matter how much collateral damage you cause, as long as you're targeting the right guy.