skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hell, if I didn't know any better, I would almost believe this is a legitimate app.

I'm right with you on "fuck DRM" and I want better media options, but that doesn't mean I'll go out and build apps to facilitate pirating movies and then sign commits under my own name to GitHub. What the hell.
The problem comes from the culture; certain cultures identify success as the core value of a person, so people tend to identify their identity with the product of their work.

It's more than some "important"; work is how people [with this attitude] values theirselves.

Keep in mind that if you grow up pushed to be the best at school and then at work, there's nothing really meaningful in life outside those areas.

That's where the false dichotomy "being great vs. family comes". Essentially, it's perceived as having something that makes one happy at the perceived cost of "being a nobody".

At the extreme of this attitude the is Japan, where work is taking over the sexual life (there was an article some time ago in HN).
Note that the fact "Lack of exercise kills roughly as many as smoking" says almost nothing about the danger of smoking compared to lack of exercise, unless you happen to know the rates of each.
The math checks out. You're good to go.
Ask HN: Alternate to Google Apps Mail service for personal email
It is 2014 and I am still using the free version of Google's apps for my email (my domain). Although, I have started to move away from Google (been using DDG for a year instead of Google search), but the email service is still with Google apps.

What is the consensus of everyone here about a personal email service? What is everyone using for their own domain?

Some features that I desire are -

* Reliable

* Economical (or great bang for the buck)

* IMAP support

* Fast Web access

* Secure (not asking for NSA-proof :-))

Please feel free to add or suggest anything.
Ah I see. A very polished looking app all the same. But most certainly shady as far as legality is concerned.
How does something like the following sound?:

For this service, you can sign in with your email address. If you are using one of the supported email providers, you will be redirected to them to finish signup, otherwise you will be asked to create a Persona account. Your email provider will not know which sites you are signing in to, and we won't know your email password or other data.
Yes, OP mentioned that it was fixed in Mavericks. Since Mavericks is free, I don't really see the problem. If you are running a < 2007 Mac you really don't care about security anyway.
> Also, do these special lists really flag people just by their names?

Yes. Yes they do. Welcome to the security theatre!
At the UCC in our local hospital, we get same-day blood work and imaging done and a call back from a doctor when the results come back in.

Screw the GP's week lead time. It's about time we stopped funding their mismanagement if you ask me.

(Disclaimer: I spent a lot of time in my life working at GP's as well and they are inefficient and incompetent as a rule to say the least).
There are a million ways to proxy a store transaction. Guess what else the user can do:

- Add trusted CA certificates.

- Configure proxy settings.

- Launch arbitrary applications.

- Delete all the users files.

What you're talking about here is sandboxing to protect the user from themselves, and all the lost utility that results. In other words, iOS.
That's why you go into another room and lock the door.
There's a bunch of caveats to __proto__: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Refe...
The author asserts that "more ads, fewer users, lower revenue, more ads" is an unavoidable death spiral. In actuality, any property owner with a rudimentary awareness of the concept of diminishing returns will understand that there's an equilibrium point: too few ads and you're not monetizing to the fullest, too many and you annoy enough users to damage the property.

I like the concept of a service that tracks adblock usage. That's actually something that's missing: insert a tiny javascript tag that adds a Google Analytics counter for adblock usage.
I think about this a lot
I totally agree that a long work week is not a badge of honor and that the results of your work should speak for themselves. Things take time and sometimes you can't rush things.

I've worked crazy long weeks and its not glamorous and, in my opinion, just straight unhealthy on so many levels.

I think the challenge in working 45+ hours/week is maintaining adequate sleep/diet/exercise/social so that you can remain productive and happy over the long-term. Best of luck.
The article doesn't suggest anything. It seems a puff piece to include a link to a landing page for a vaporware service that promises to tell you how much of your readership uses adblockers.
Isn't giving away services for free how nearly every consumer internet startup works, at least until they figure out a business plan.
Show HN: The result of a 3 month development sprint
I'm saying once you download and run arbitrary native code, all bets are off. Hell, I just kind of assume any such code has full root access no matter what user it's started as, given the commonality of privilege escalation vulnerabilities.
Solve Viking rune codes
http://forum.xbmc.org/showthread.php?tid=174736

XBMCtorrent has been doing this already and is open source. runs on all platforms and devices.
Otherwise known as the Reddit hivemind syndrome. Don't agree with someone's opinion? Flag or bury it? How about instead you rebut it in the comments and help inform those "crap voters".
"Due to rising costs, publishers will try to increase revenue by adding more Ads."

What rising costs?
> QuarkXPress which I always preferred to InDesign

First time I've ever heard this.
What he's saying is that if these artists didn't have a supply of income, they would not have studied art.

Withholding jobs from China because they are "too low" by Western standards simply further lowers their wages (due to artificial constriction of demand), hurts economic development, and discourages development of human capital (like artists) because foreign companies think it's too cheap to pay them.
Two relevant articles from a few years ago, on the culture around taking pride in being overworked:

"The cult of busy": https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1187353

"The busy trap": https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4184317
I don't think your theory is very good re: natural resources. Sure, some developed countries have a lot of natural resources, but most don't, include many associated with the highest standards of living and socialized care.

Percent of GDP from natural resources:

Norway: 13.6

Canada: 5.1

Denmark: 2.4

US: 1.7

United Kingdom: 1.5

Sweden: 1.2

Germany: 0.3

Italy: 0.2

France: 0.1

Japan: 0.0

Switzerland: 0.0

http://data.worldbank.org/indicator/NY.GDP.TOTL.RT.ZS
I'm not sure why you felt the need to open with a politically controversial assertion (assuming email addresses, not hits, were your goal). You've alienated at least half your readers at that point, and likely more than half, since the "government debt is bad" camp usually employs far more sophisticated arguments to reach far less overstated conclusions. There are a million tragedies of the commons to pick from, why not choose one that's more relevant to your analogy or less controversial?

I'm not even sure you benefit from the analogy, since I found it to be significantly more difficult to understand than your value proposition. Automating the process of tossing up a "If you block our ads, we don't get paid, please unblock (link)" message over a sad-looking animal, intelligently selecting the most valuable ads that can bypass blocking, and providing quantitative insight (graphs, etc) into the tradeoffs of different ad campaigns are all interesting propositions. But you're awfully cagy about what it is you'll actually be doing to a degree that seems ridiculous next to the enthusiasm with which you thrust your political views into the discussion.

More details, less politics.
- Add a trusted CA: will prompt for credentials

- Configure proxy settings: prompt for admin credentials

- Launch arbitrary: already admitted as much

- Delete all users files: yup, that's a problem

But the problems I illustrated aren't limited to the single machine that gets infected.

Just clarifying.
Exactly. The thing is, people who make say $120k/year but work 80h weeks, are at exactly the same level of compensation / status / respect as people who work 40h but make $60k/year.

This applies to salaried or consulting professionals of course; if you're working your ass off to build your own business and maybe hit big rewards in the future, it's a sensible choice. Otherwise, you're just busting your health and personal life for somebody else's benefit. Which is only acceptable if you have no choice (really need the money, and don't have the market value to earn the same in a job with more normal dedication).
You would have to be somewhat out of touch to think we haven't had a tiered system in the US since long before the ACA.

Yeah, but that interferes with the narrative, that the ACA is responsible for everything bad that's happening in the US. It is appalling to me how much is blamed on the ACA.
Nuclear explosion pictures
You should really increase the width of your text divs for mobile. 3-5 words per line is soooo frustrating.
Have you ever tried Microsoft Support (even if you have a fully paid up gold partnership agreement)?

At best you'll get some low end support peon who doesn't know ass from elbow. At best you get denial.

Then there's Microsoft Connect, their public bug tracker (for products they feel like pretending to support), which basically is a route for them to close every ticket straight away as not reproducible despite being reproducible by hundreds of people.
Well I'm willing to bet that this graph will reappear all over the internet. People in this thread spent a lot of time debating the evidence and logic surrounding it, and posting links to rebuttals. Since you've flagged this topic and it's disappeared from the front pages, it just makes it more likely that this graph will spread round the internet unchallenged.
I still don't understand what the new class is. Convex polyhedral with all equal edges? Some additional symmetry? The faces are regular polygons?
The nicest people I met in France were SNCF employees. They seemed to like going out of their way to help me out.
BitBucket: file history should follow copies and renames
(a) Google isn't like "nearly every consumer startup". It is arguably the most powerful Internet company in the world. Thus its actions must be viewed differently.

(b) In this case Google is using its dominance in the search space (70-90% in many markets) to push G+ on customers who may not normally have signed up for it.
The bible is also a good read. If you are into it you could read and study it for a lifetime.
I'm not convinced that you need an adjective to describe the documents. Describe the process/tool instead.

Something like: "An elegant markdown editor for..."?
So far I've only accepted jobs that will let me be paid by the hour, instead of salary, with 1.5 times pay for overtime. I feel like it much more reasonably aligns expectations, and in 10+ years of working that way, I've only done a few hours of overtime here or there during true emergencies.
> Add a trusted CA: will prompt for credentials

You've already social-engineered your way to getting somebody to download and run an application, ignoring warnings along the way. Prompts for credentials when installing applications are perfectly normal.

> Configure proxy settings: prompt for admin credentials

??? Not on my machine. There isn't even a padlock icon in the relevant window.
I'd flag you for fraud and ask you to contact support too.

(Former fraud prevention research scientist)
JSON in postgres is just a container type isn't it? Why is everyone expecting it to become document storage?
Thanks, I'll give it a try, though I'm using Minitest. I haven't really tried much yet on that front; I mostly just got to the point of realizing that this issue I'm working on now is really going to be a pain to get figured out without a debugger.

For this project, I just switched, like a month or so ago, to an all-Vim workflow. I mostly feel more productive in it so far, but a real debugger is the one thing that I had been putting off figuring out.
In my opinion, Coinbase and Bitstamp are currently the only Bitcoin exchanges worth using. Coinbase might be the better exhange (as far as I know, it wasn't vulnerable to the recent attack), but Coinbase is unusable for non-Americans as it doesn't accept international money transfers. Meanwhile, you can transfer money to Bitstamp regardless of where you live in the world (and if you're in Europe, currency transfers to Bitstamp are free of charge).
Shipping? Just give a different name. Delivery guy never asked me for an id.
Instead of tossing around hyperbole, can you perhaps point out some specifics?
I've tried Azure support, and it was pretty good.
> You fancy DOOM I take it?

Whoops, mis-parsed your comment initially. I thought you meant the video game, not MF-DOOM.

Yes, to both.
Certainly. But one difference with e.g. Skydrive is that everytime I upload a photo to what used to be Picasa (now Google+ Photos), it offers to share on Google+ and I have to skip that step.
I will be reasonable. However I would have said that face to face.

Apologies if I have offended anyone.
It was until the day it was down last year. At which point it was hopeless for nearly a week. I was on the end of a down system deployed to Azure as the technical contact. Not fun.
The End of 'Marriageability'
Social networking overall has run its course. below are the phases it has gone through like everything else.

1. Initial Launch: OMG! Cool. Signup

2. More people Jump in, it becomes even more exciting.

3. Everyone starts using it.

4. Eventually, excitement starts to fade away.

5. It becomes boring.

6. People’s addiction eventually starts to decline.

7. People totally lose their interest.

8. Eventually, it becomes a ghost town. End.

Sadly, Google+ even couldn’t pass through the 2nd phase and skipped all the way to point 8.
Forking our of conflict
I skipped the part with US debts then. My bad

In the rough French revolution context is basically the same as today:
* huge debts contracted by gvt;
* unfair repartition of the fiscality (the 1% wealthiest don't pay in proportion to their income);
* producers (the 10% wealthiest) are not able to produce anymore because fiscality is to high;

The convocation of "tiers etats" that triggered the revolution was about asking how to make the repartition of fiscality more fair.

the 1% wealthier said we don't care we don't pay and you can't change the system anyway because we make the rules and they "mouhahaha"ed
The remaining said, okay, are you losing your head (saracasm and irony)? and they said to the other europeans 1% (germans, brits, dutch, spanish)... Oh btw, we are not a kingdom anymore. As a result, we dont have anymore debts. Go fuck yourselves

The banks were pissed off and they said: WUT! Debts are to be honored, if people begin to think that money don't rule the world the world is doomed.

Thus the coalitions against France, battles (Valmy), Napoleon tricking Italia in Republic and then betraying them so that the bankers got another ennemy ...

And here we are, in the same situation again.
Because then your JavaScript will break in both old, and even relatively recent versions of Internet Explorer.
If I hadn't been reading this on a Saturday at 11:30 local while waiting for my regression tests to finish, I may have been more enthusiastic to the message.

Speaking in extremes rarely doesn't do anyone any good. Yeah, this weekend is capping out a 60 hour week for me (and then some), but the problem isn't that this occurred. Its when this becomes the norm. I look at it like peaks and valleys. This week I'm working long. Last week, I did, too. But, this weekend's testing will be testing a prod bug we've been chasing for three weeks. My boss knows, and he's going to trade me some time in the upcoming weeks. Likewise, there have been plenty of weeks that I worked sub-40. As long as work doesn't take over your life unwillingly, things are probably fine. Paraphrasing a TV theme (the source of all wisdom) - you take the good, you take the bad, you take them both and there you have the Facts of Life.
> Better to ask for forgiveness than ask for permission.

You can say that again; I forgot this rule, and it cost me quite a good job. It's hard for anyone to argue with a fait accompli.
Quote: "I don’t care who disputes this — every woman wants a man with wealth."

First absurd claim, stopped reading.
Show HN: Mobcrush, an iOS sdk to stream your game to Twitch.tv, Hitbox.tv, etc.
i'd really like an app for this for my phone. i love the music and visuals.
I've never done a 60 hour work week, even on crunch mode - you run into the risk of your mind deteriorating too much and putting out sloppy work that needs to be fixed when you come in for the next day.

I don't know why anyone would pride themselves over it.
I wonder if the author would give the same advice to famous workaholics like Paul Erdos?

Here's my issue: I'm an entrepreneur. Doing a startup is my dream. I'm having fun and creating amazing memories. I work as much as I possibly can. Stopping me from working on my startup is like keeping a child locked in a room. I don't force my team to do the same (and they don't). I don't brag about it, I am not burning out, not messing with my sleep, not jeopardising my health. Moreso, when I force myself to stop it takes me a long time to start again. That's how my brain works. Why is 40 the golden standard? Do I have to apologise for the amount of work I do?
You can download the binary for free from http://www.gum.co/mobcrush
The silly part is the whole thing. You may give your friends name when ordering a package.
I thoroughly enjoyed this.
Not entirely related, but UK's NHS holds a crown for (probably) biggest IT project failure ever. It took 11 years and £9.8b to reinvent patient record system.

At least they can finally sell the patient history to third parties.
I Graduated High School, Now What?
Realtime physically-based rendering on an XBox 360
This week I was told another employee has been "working weekends for months" to get the project done, passive aggressively implying I hadn't done the same.

The problem with this is the guy is addicted to working weekends. He's been doing it for years and it makes everyone else look like "slackers", despite his obvious burnout.
Bubble Cursor: browse faster, click less
How did your boss respond?
The "NASCAR slide" can also appeal to emotions, as a form of peer pressure. "Oh I wanna be like the big guys, and the big guys use this, I should do what they do".
"Refusing to take preventive measures could potentially be called selfish"

The problem isn't just the illness clouding the need for them but also that there are sometimes more significant side-effects as well.
I should add that the right way to count these hours is including both the "productive" work, and associated activities such as learning new tools or "working" on pet projects, i.e. things you do for fun/passion but are also a career investment. Considering also that these "extras" are often easy to accommodate without big sacrifices—reading a book in your long bus/train commute, hacking in your laptop while watching the kids, listening to tech podcasts in the gym, etc.—a 60h week may be perfectly normal if it includes everything... and even 70-80h not too bad if that number includes ALL your computing, up to reading HN ;)
> - Add a trusted CA: will prompt for credentials

IIRC this isn't protected by the actual keychain file, and can be done by simply editing the file manually.

Regardless, peer commentator already noted that password prompts are hardly an issue here.

> - Configure proxy settings: prompt for admin credentials

Actually, it doesn't. Additionally, browsers have per-user local configuration.
Heck no, do your thing. Startups are a long game though and pace matters.
That's the joke, I assume - ALL of WebKit is less than 8.8 million lines.
Social Network Built for Two
Stop arguing. I'm a programmer, not a salesperson. $FOO (a new programming language) needs to sell itself.

Cost. What is it going to cost?

Benefit. What are the benefits of using $FOO?

The answer is: it's going to bring in revenue.

$FOO needs to be adopted because it is popular, it is an industry and open standard.

> Do we need to convert everything to $FOO?

The answer is: no.

> Do all of the programmers need to learn $FOO?

The answer is: everyone already knows how to programs in $FOO.

I'd be curious to know what the "entrenched" programming lanaguage is, and what the "new programming language" is.
For some, the rights of the user are non-negotiable. Considering how much our freedoms depend on being able to trust our computers and networks, I am very much inclined to think that way too.
So, to confirm, is it a post-mortem or not? I'm about to launch a fairly big project using Persona and would love to know if its a bit to get shut down..
1) Yes, 2) Yes, 3) No.

This is what makes a desktop computer useful. If you don't trust code, don't run untrusted code.

I also recommend not aiming loaded weapons at your own foot.
What are the best practices for assigning functions to variables?
You have a better chance of getting free liposuction then e.g. a modern medicine for your flu-related complications: "Just take some ibuprofen".
Please don't suggest that introversion has anything whatsoever to do with what you've described. Introversion/extroversion has little or nothing to do with overworking oneself.
They're the same per hour, but the absolute amount of money is still different. If you value 40 extra hours less than 60k, and you can somehow stay productive, there's no reason not to take the job that pays more money.
Anybody else hating web fonts lately?
I adore great typography, but I think @font-face in practice contributes to some of the most annoying user experiences on the web today.

It is very frustrating when loading up a website and seeing a mostly blank page because the fonts are still downloading. This is especially frustrating on a slow internet connection or on mobile.

I'm sure that more people will discover and adopt best practices to improve performance and overall user experience over time, but right now I'm noticing this slowdown very frequently. - see http://www.igvita.com/2014/01/31/optimizing-web-font-rendering-performance/ for some notes on best practices

To me, speed is still the most important feature of a website, and it's shocking how bad this experience often becomes when web fonts are added to the equation.

This is one of the biggest problems I have with the current web because of how frequently I'm noticing this.
No joke - One of my friends was amazed the day he was at another friend's house and noticed that she had one of those great-big ashtrays attached to her treadmill to allow walking and smoking at the same time...
It's a joke. The entirety of WebKit is less than 8.8 million lines of code.
Here's the official state of affairs
http://whois.domaintools.com/facebook.com
Was wondering if anyone would correct me for calling it a typo instead of a grammar error since if I wrote "your" instead of "you're" it would have been too obvious. Seriously though, I used to judge people the same way right after undergrad. I was young and thought people who made such errors were stupid. But, over the years I encountered some very successful people that could barely write and had to reflect a bit. "How is guy is a self-made multimillionaire when he can barely write?" I realized that my dismissing of people like that made me feel superior but it wasn't actually a good filter. Obviously you've reached a different conclusion by deciding that people who make grammar errors on internet forums aren't worth your time, so to each his own.