skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I fire up my G+ stream and get:

A post by Timothy Gowers about Mobius strips and Valentine's Day: https://plus.google.com/103703080789076472131/posts/gYmEcGuN...

A repost by Michael Chui with an animation of a double star + planet system showing chaos: https://plus.google.com/113476531580617567600/posts/Y3yiBojn...

A post by an acquaintance about local politics with interesting infographics.

A post from Rajini Rao titled "An Academic Valentine: The Science Behind Flower Color": https://plus.google.com/114601143134471609087/posts/7mWzModf...

A post by David Brin on an interesting sci-fi TV series I hadn't heard of: https://plus.google.com/116665417191671711571/posts/CJFcZkUf...

A report from Human Rights Watch on sectarian violence in the Central African Republic: https://plus.google.com/113055770163061121890/posts/jYRxedAB...

A repost by Romain Guy about an open source live wallpaper for Android that shows works of art: https://plus.google.com/109538161516040592207/posts/1zueVNE8...

A post from the EFF on the history of surveillance and the Black community: https://plus.google.com/113175636916099066477/posts/ZUoVA3u5...

There's quite some noise around those posts of course, but far less than on Twitter, and the pictures make it easier for me to sift through it. I'm not a fan of social networks but I like to check my G+ stream now and then when I'm bored on the computer. I definitely don't use it as a Facebook replacement (which I don't really use at all actually...).
This was Ireland, not US.
> But stop imposing onto others what is right or wrong

Well. I am not sure anything is being imposed here. The original is just a blog by someone stating that working too long (by his definition) is not something he considers a badge of honor/skill/awesomeness. You don't have to follow the recommendation.
Also, the lack of assumptions aspect implies to me that this is a method well-suited to learning with no domain knowledge, or in other words, unsupervised machine learning. There's one spare mention to unsupervised machine learning which I don't understand but I'd be interested if anyone could discuss that as well.
Statistics tell a different story. There were numerous studies on productivity relative to many measures.

Then again, you know, you might be a actual snowflake...
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The result is not totally surprising but it's nice to see some numbers to quantify it. The only negative thing I see is the fact that the only comments so far are complaining about identifying investors.
+1 - this is dreadful on the iPhone. There is surely some kind of sane fallback that could be used while it loads
Gonna make some guesses:

1. I have in the past counted as a unique monthly user by Googling something (restaraunt, hotel, ??) and then looking at the "Google Reviews" which would take you to a plus.google.com page. It seems Google changed the UI on this now: "Google reviews" brings up a popup thing and the hours and everything else is on a card on the right of search results.

Good on them for changing it, but do I still count as a user by having consumed content which I assume come from G+ APIs? Wouldn't be surprised.

2. I bet many of those 41 million smartphone users are just auto-uploading pictures to Google+ without really knowing what Google+ is. They just like that they can auto-upload their pictures.

Google+ isn't doing "just fine".

edit: I'd like to know the unique monthly ACTIVE users. Where "active user" is defined as having posted something on Google+ (I'd concede to defining an active user as someone who has done an action to someone else's post, e.g. Like or Comment)
Humans survived because we evolved to eat literally everything. From the tiniest of seeds to whale blubber. Fruit, bugs, cows, wheat, ocelots, cactus, pufferfish. If it moves or grows humans likely survived on it at one time or another.

There are clearly diets that allow for more than survival. Just be careful saying we evolved to do X. It's easy to get your causal arrows mixed up.
When I was 25 to 29, I used to spend a lot of time at work. For a while, it just came naturally because I was so eager to learn; I'd stay at work reading books, programming, looking for information on the web and newsgroups (I hadn't internet access at home back then).

But at some point in 1998, for a few months we entered in death march after accepting to be the rescue team for a doomed, undoable project; I've worked 100 to 120 hours a week for 4 months, one of my colleague burnt out like a candle (I remember him asleep the face literally on his keyboard, late at night, while waiting for compilation to end; two days later he lied on an hospital bed) and after that I had serious health problems repeatedly for several years. We had the satisfaction to actually save the project and make the deadline, but two of us ended in hospital, and most on the team had serious family, health of other serious problems afterwards.

So what to say? Know your limits. Don't try to push it to far; it's actually very easy to kill oneself, for instance falling asleep at the wheel, late at night, on the way back home after a very long day.
Not an option?
Because with things like climate change denialism there is very little point in having that conversation.

People either listen to the vast majority of scientists (global change is happening; global change is almost certainly driven by human activity) or they can listen to scientists who do not work in climate and who have been paid by industry to create FUD - some of these scientists are the same people who ised to work for the tobacco industry.
Facebook made my teenager into an ad
If only it was so simple. The right advice should be "See an orthopedic specialist and then a physical therapist."

From my experience with running injuries:

1. Strengthen your core
2. Strengthen your thigh muscles
3. Strengthen ankle and foot muscles
4. Get the right shoes that work for you

Running barefoot is one possible way of achieving the above. But running barefoot also comes with its own problems, including increased risk of certain other injuries.

If I have to hazard giving advice, I'd say to the guy with the shin-pain what my physical therapist told me: build strength with low-impact exercises, maintain aerobic health while you do that via low-impact aerobic swimming/water-running/biking/tennis/climbing/xc-skiing/etc. etc., then once you have recovered from your injury, slowly ease into running.
I think you can establish what's enough by how you feel, provided you have a minimum amount of sensitivity. e.g. notice how you feel now if you did some uphill walking and lost your breath earlier today.
That's exactly what they did. In Jan 2012:

http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2012/01/updating-our-privacy-...
> in reality can be very fragile and needs to be rolled out all or nothing.

What makes you say that? That certainly isn't my experience with Shibboleth.

We deployed our IDP in 2006-07 (I think) and slowly migrated services to it.
I'd wager that more than 25% of "full-time" employees in an office-worker setting are spending less than 30 hours per week actually working. Probably far more than 25%.

How many facebook posts do you get at all hours of the workday? Assuming their job isn't social media community relations manager, those people aren't working; they're simply attending their job.
It's called price discrimination and it's common among many, many products and services.

If there was only one version then you'd either have to price it higher than the "cheap" version, which will lead to price conscious consumers choosing a competitor. Charge less and you're leaving money on the table from businesses that are happy to pay more.

It's the same logic behind "Senior Discounts" and coupons.
Simply put, you don't make a business from treating sickness. When people are sick, they are least able to pay. Also, when one is sick, there is no incentive to insure him/her because it doesn't generate profit.
> But, why must we say such anomalies lead to "we are living in a simulation"?

That is not the main argument that we are living in a simulation. The main argument is the following disjunction (from wikipedia). Either:

* human civilization is unlikely to reach a level of technological maturity capable of producing simulated realities, or

* a comparable civilization reaching this technological status will likely not produce a many simulated realities for any of a number of reasons, such as, diversion of computational processing power for other tasks, ethical considerations of holding entities captive in simulated realities, etc., or

* any entities with our general set of experiences are almost certainly living in a simulation.

Personally I think the biggest prima facie weakness in this argument is that while we will probably reach a point where simulating a human mind is feasible, and we will probably do so when that time comes, it may take a lot of computational mass to simulate a person. Thus, any recursive simulations would get smaller and smaller in terms of the number of thinking entities in them.
So most people don't make it.

Do you really think that you're telling him something he doesn't already know?

Some people are served well by humility, others aren't. Just because humility and practicality works for you (and me, I might add) doesn't mean that it's the approach for everyone.
The only type of Facebook marketing that kinda "works" - is "remarketing". I.e. when you show ads to people who have already visited your website.
Yes. Most people who are employed full-time are expected to work full-time.

Yes, they could leave full-time work and fine new sources of income, but that no longer falls under "just work 30 hours instead".
To be fair to the poster you're replying to, he did mention reading Thinking Fast & Slow which is by the nobel prize winning psychologist Daniel Kahneman. That's no web programming manual.
Its beautiful how anonymous groups from everywhere specially from south america are supporting us with the "tango down" operation, see #opvenezuela.
/waves at another Brisbanite on HN

It gets my Location wrongish here on the Gold Coast, but not too far out. We have huge suburbs though, all of the GeoIP DB's seem to think im in the wrong suburb, despite having a static IP on Telstra cable.
So...how do we detect we're running in Perl instead of Ruby?
No, Flappy Bird developer didn't give up on $50,000 a day
How well does Typekit implement those best practices?
i find these posts funny.

because one project doesnt work out... lets conclude all other projects sucks!
such a cool argument.

im typing this from "firefox mobile" - its called firefox or fennec however. it has a high rating on the play store.a 4.5 stars. it works very well too, much better than chrome has for a long time.
Yes my mistake on that. I'm mixing up 9.2 (where you had to do use plv8) and 9.3 (which has the native operator). The rest of the comment still stands though, a parsed representation makes the operator faster and more efficient.
Could he just be bad at his job? Maybe he needs the extra time to compensate for what he does not accomplish during the M-F work week.
> Plus is a Top-5 social network

Actually spending time on five non-niche social networks sounds like an incredible waste of time. Either it's one of the top two, it fills a particular niche, or it doesn't matter.

> Google's many-account problem

Exactly: it's theirs, not mine. Multiple, independent accounts were a feature.
I think he may be implying that it is easier to handle the lower levels of social interaction (with friends/family) that come along with working a lot of hours if you're more introverted.
Probably not. Unless you're walking "vigorously", which most people tend not to do when they're just trying to get from A to B.

The good news is that it is very easy to add some form of exercise into your life. You don't have to become a gym rat, the key is to find a hobby that you actually enjoy and that involves some physical activity: hiking, skiing, surfing, join a local soccer league, etc. I highly recommend Brazilian Jiu Jitsu. It's like playing chess with your body; raw athleticism, strength, and speed are always defeated by intelligence and technique. It's also great stress relief.
As of last summer, my experience was that Firefox (and IE) would render text in a fallback/default font if waiting for another font to download. Has this changed?
Logical replication. Please let that be true.

I didn't know live data migration from one database version to another had a name, but I have been waiting for it for years. (Since 7.3, in fact.) And if I'm interpreting this right, that feature could also allow for a fairly straightforward way to move data from a running instance to a new one.

Perhaps not yet in the first release, but eventually that too could work.
> Maybe you should consider that the guy writing the post actually has contact with these people and has vastly superior knowledge of what they want than you do.

And maybe you should consider thinking a bit more deeply. First, what value does an exhaustive list of investors add to the article? Second, do you really think it's in the interest of a small investor to have his name be associated with a particular speculative investment in this way?

If an investor's specific choices are known, he will be approached by people who know how to pitch a given project in a way calculated for maximum effect. This distorts the investment process. It's the equivalent of SEO for investors.

> and has vastly superior knowledge of what they want than you do.

If that were true, he wouldn't be an applicant, he would be an investor. And to think, if you thought a bit more deeply before posting, this obvious fact would have occurred to you.
I agree that you'll be able to get used to almost anything, however;

The old location (inside the start menu) was at least a 'logical' location, because the start menu in W95 was designed to be the central place for anything you did. The only confusing part was the naming.

Settings is possibly the worst possible location to put this;
- In daily use, you will never use the settings menu
- Settings are meant to make a (permanent) change in the configuration of your computer. (I configure my computer to 'reboot'? Should it reboot whenever I switch it on?)
It depends on your model - no number of mosquitos killed can deductively prove (à la mathematical proof) that a bug spray will kill all mosquitoes.

It can at best inductively prove it - the scientific approach, or alternately do what you called '100% rate' (the hidden words there being 'so far').
Would anyone mind annotating jashkenas' version of this? For someone like me who isn't yet an advanced Javascript user, I feel this could be a terrific, concise learning opportunity, and while I understand more or less what is going on, I have next to no idea as to the why.
Growth Hacking with Google+ Video Recap
I always think that speculation about YC's fundraising value obscures the correct causal link. YC doesn't make fundraising easier, per se, it makes you build a more valuable company. That makes fundraising easier.

I get some variation of this question a lot. I assume that all recent YC alumni do. I always talk about (a) the intense focus that YC gives it's founders, (b) the positive pressure that the partners, the dinners, and the batch provides, and (c) the incredibly supportive guild of alumni.

YC helps founders build companies that are valuable. VCs and angels know that.
I didn't know about them at the time, and I wasn't the one who wrote the script that spawned it.
The main objection is that the way edge cases would "differ from the real thing" depends on what their "computers" are like which may not be anything like our computers. In fact there is no reason to believe they are similar at all.
What are the other tests? I've read Bostrom's argument, but wasn't aware that he was proposing any specific tests.
But the crappy codebases already exist outside of postgres anytime people have to roll their own upsert implementation.

The fact that it's hard is exactly why it should be in the database.
for the record the main reason for adoptions issues around me seem to be:
i got a fb/googke/twitter account that let me login too. i aint making a new account/pass. privacy? i care but not enough for that
I found this explanation, also from the same blog and also posted here, to be quite clear:
http://www.righto.com/2014/02/bitcoin-transaction-malleabili...

Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7232175
zxcvvcxz says: "Regarding friends/partners/etc. If the amount of hours you want to work isn't compatible with your partner's expectations... get a new partner. Seriously. Your priorities aren't aligned. I don't know what I'd do if my partner expected me to be home for dinner at 6pm on weeknights... Oh wait I do, I'd get a new partner, which I did. Now everyone involved (myself, previous partner, new partner) are very happy."

Man, I hope you develop some empathy before you end up directing others. I've worked for some of these automatons, and it results in a toxic environment with limited productivity. Far more gets done when your people are excited to be along for the ride.
I agree with the headline if only because "hours present at desk" is a completely facile metric for performance. What matters is what was accomplished, not how much time was taken. Is your feature or project closer to (successful) completion? Have you automated away the busywork time-sink that has has been slowing down your team? Is your organization now more able to effectively use its scarce resources? If not, fuck your "hours."
Avoid use of the word "prove" in a discussion of science and scientific theories. Science can't prove theories true, it can only prove theories false. Philosopher David Hume expressed this best: “No amount of observations of white swans can allow the inference that all swans are white, but the observation of a single black swan is sufficient to refute that conclusion.”
IP addresses should only be announced by one ASN at a time (regardless if that AS is multihomed or singlehomed). If that's not the case that's usually a hint of prefix hijacking.
Cool product, but when I read "inline" I thought it would render the markdown in real time (this editor waits until you press Enter to go to the next paragraph).
The minor cuts and bruises is not the strong point of the French system. The solidarity principle applies mainly for serious diseases, like the example of the article.

I think US system is superior for tooth care.
I think it was just a confusion between Shadoe DOM and React's virtual DOM, which is basically a pure-JavaScript doppelgänger of the real DOM for your React components.
I haven't noticed it too much, but I agree a few design trends today have horrendous impact on UX.

My personal beef is anything that causes jerky or laggy scrolling. Usually it's caused by parallax and/or fixed fancy header of some sort.

The only parallax effect that I found truly functional was this page: http://www.fiftythree.com/pencil
Distinction is lost on you if you cannot tell the difference between G+ and a big, empty version of Facebook.
You may try to use IPA for English.
Private firms argue First Amendment right to collect license plate data
I was just let go from a company the day before yesterday and this was a primary reason. It was a startup and the CEO said that it's just how things had to be. I did in the end explain my position and why what they were doing was chaos and unnecessary. They were in a constant state of breaking or incomplete but they think that spending nights and weekends is how it's supposed to be so they will continue on down that destructive path and just keep on patting each other's backs for being so dedicated.
Some of the potential reasons that this is more annoying than usual (for Chrome users) right now are these bugs:

https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=336170

https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=336879
You could install the popular icon fonts (bootstrap and font awesome) locally, should work for Open Sans etc too.
It's always amazing how much hate exercise gets on the internet. The majority of the comments on here are - well this or that should count as exercise not actually having to go and do some specific "exercise" training.

As someone who did not used to like to exercise and now do I think it's just a whole wad of cognitive dissonance for people who largely are out of shape (by the way that /= fat) and don't want to feel like they should spend time doing specific body improving exercises.
Compression doesn't seem that smart on the level of 'gzip'. But one can also look at what the brain is doing when learning (and classifying stuff into conceptual clusters) as also being compression. Given the enormous theoretical 'capacity' of the brain (however defined), the compression may not be required for space reasons - but it potentially serves an interesting function in terms of understanding.
Hacker Removes Mark Zuckerberg's Facebook Cover Photo
While it's true Google enjoys a near monopoly (maybe an actual monopoly, I'm not intending to split that hair) but it's very important to make the distinction between a natural monopoly and an illegal monopoly.
And I'll 'third' the suggestion. Would love to see a SSO option that didn't bleed private info and wasn't linked to someone trying to make money from my data.
I fired up my plus.google.com again.

Beautiful pictures from pro photographers and travelers.

Great links on Android Development by developers I'm following.

I dislike Facebook because it's mostly personal posts that I care less about. My Google+ stream are much more useful especially to my work.

Your network, my network are different. Applies not only to Google+ but on Facebook and Twitter as well.
And, apparently the official way to do things ;)

"your computer will restart in 10 minutes", no you cannot finish your presentation, or keep to your deadline. We will forcibly restart your PC and don't allow you to save your work when the countdown has completed... This update solves a potential data-loss probl.........

One customer less. Problem solved!
I am 29 and did several years at a large blue chip on 60-80 hour weeks (when the odd month at 100 hours!) and it gave me a break down. Perhaps I am just not as "strong" as others but I much prefer being in control of my own life (social, work, personal). I learned a lot but personally I don't feel it has done me any good in the long run. Interestingly the people who have done "the best" when it comes to promotion/salary are the ones who didn't slave away for 60+ hours a week so I question why others do it.

With the exception of your own business of course.
We are living in a universe with natural laws and intelligence. Whether it's a "simulation" is sort of a nonsensical question. Is an iPhone emulator a simulation or an actual iPhone? What distinguishes those two other than our definition of iPhone, which of course is subjective?

The question is similar to "is there a god?" That is, is there an intelligence outside of our universe that consciously created this one.

Do wave function anonomolies indicate that our universe is the product of intelligence, or do they just show us how little we understand about the nature of existence?

Further, following the logic of the article, we most likely live in near infinite nested simulated universes, since the same reasoning applies to our gods, unless of course reason is an aspect of out universe in which case how can we expect to reason about what is outside it?

These are interesting questions, but jumping to the conclusion that we are in a simulation seems both premature and nonsensical to me.
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We'd love to play a bigger part in the crypto currency community. We have a server we are not using, you can run it up to $2400 a month.

Anything past that you pay the difference.

We are willing to trade for traffic.

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