skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Is there any evidence LinkedIn reports all members email contacts as LinkedIn users?

The g+ post just displays OP's confusion at "connect" really meaning "invite" in instances where contacts don't have a LinkedIn account.
The Mongols are an example where I don't see nearly as much upside. I admit I don't know much about their impact on China, but pre-Mongol Russia (Novgorod and Kiev) were quite democratic and free. The Mongols moved the seat of power to Moscow and installed authoritatian regimes, and Russia has always remained very autocratic ever since.

But even without that, of course we shouldn't go about causing terrible evil hoping some good will come of it. The Holocaust and everything Hitler did will always be terrible. It was the response to this evil, and the memory of it, that hopefully keeps driving us towards good for a long time to come. These are the lessons of history that we need to learn: that it's everybody's duty to ensure that this kind of evil can never happen again.
They are like lisp without cons/cdr, higher order functions, or homonicity. Oh, wait, they aren't like lisp at all.
We live in a globalized world, and especially for internet aficionados there seem to exist no borders. But one should always remember that the world is not homogeneous mass of minds. Quite the opposite is true: if you deal with a customer base in the millions, you also have to (or should) deal with a multitude of cultural backgrounds. Thinking like this, I would say, opens up many opportunities and niches which could be your next target group.

The International Mother Language Day reminds me of this. Hence, in my own language: I winsh aikh an shehna Muaddashprakhladog
Exactly, the amount of cocoa butter is just as important if not more important than the amount of cocoa. Unfortunately the amount of cocoa butter is rarely found on the package.
Not really anymore.
Agent Model is even more interesting IMHO.
MDN search has an api,

http://paulrouget.com/e/mdnapi/
One of many reasons Linkedin are never getting my email logins (not that I use a webmail service which they can scrape anyway; my saved addresses are in thunderbird).
Here's the application I thought was immediately obvious: memory palaces.

Based on the old mnemonic trick of taking a real physical location that you know well, and associating memories with objects in that space. The digital version of this would be having files and data stored in a "physical" place - although they're not solid, they'd be tied to a single location.

Harder to organise, but I know several people who have completely filled their computer's desktop with shortcuts, because they don't like futzing around with folders. The folder metaphor isn't the be-all and end-all, there are times when it's appropriate and times when it's not. The metaphor of icons that are dragged around the screen is limited by available screen space - Project Tango gives you a house-sized (or even just room-sized) 3D space to play with, more than enough for all the files you could need to be immediately visible.

The main risk is that my virtual room could end up as messy as my real room.

I don't know how anyone could make money from this, but it would be really damn cool.
You're making the same mistake as those who talk about space travel usually make: you're considering the people who stay behind!

This is irrelevant. The gains obtained from travel benefit the traveler, not those who stay behind.

If you want to go into the galaxy, just put up a nuclear reactor in space, and with the energy obtained, produce a permanent thrust, as small as it may be (given the mass of your space ship including a whole nuclear reactor, and a self contained biotope).

When you kee a permanent thrust, you reach relativistic speed soon enough, so that a travel to the closests stars (or the planets detected around them), can be done in a reasonable time, FOR THE TRAVELLER!

With an acceleration of about 1g, you can get to the closest star (4 light years) in about one year.

Of course, for those who stay behind, time goes faster, and it'll be ten years (plus four years for the light to get back) for them to learn that you've reached your destination. But who cares about those losers who stayed behind?

Well, it's the same here. Who cares about those losers who didn't travel back in time. Let's have them keep their lousy timeline! At least, the TIME TRAVELLER gets to change his own future!
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The first time I tried Hersheys I only had a few bites before saying to my family that it tasted like vomit. They thought I was exaggerating but didn't like it either. I was genuinely horrified that people would eat something that tasted that way as confectionery. I remember googling 'vomit' and 'Hersheys' at the time to see if I was the only one, but couldn't find any other matter-of-fact or serious reference to the likeness. And bam, here it is on HN years later.

p.s. British
Most of the great powers didn't want war, but Germany clearly did. For a single assassination to legitimately trigger a war between Germany and France is silly. It was the trigger, but the tension was already there. They would probably have taken any excuse to go to war.
When is letting a website have this a good idea, not just Linkedin, but ever?

Never.

I'm amazed how many people fall for it.
Drafting a separate post on this so bear with me but you can see the press release I sent here: http://www.codingcupboard.com/press/releases/Coding-Cupboard...
http://hub.cm/blog/cm-feature-highlight-privacy-guard
Will make sure to update!
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I'm a screen die-hard. tmux is probably lovely but since it's not on 100% of the machines I use, it's not going to get any traction with me.
Lovefilm becomes 'Prime Instant Video' in Amazon shake-up
3D Transforms and Webcams
DozerJS Foundational Framework for NodeJS Web Services
I'd never install such apps. I once had the Facebook one, long, long ago, but nuked it when the update wanted mic/camera access (and now it wants to read people's SMS on top of that...).
Rarely known C++ constructs (part 1): Function try blocks
@beck5: Your post is dead. are you banned? Think you should contact a mod, this seems to be an error.

Sharelatex is really awesome. It works well and makes it so much easier to just start writing latex. And with the preview it is even more comfortable than my desktop workflow before, which is the best compliment I can make for a web-based UI.

So, great. I used sharelatex for some really important documents, and I plan to use it for quite some more. And having it opensourced makes it more future-proof, so thanks for that.
Cheese is overripe milk though, it's kind of expected. Many people have a sensitive palate and won't eat any cheese: it all tastes rotten to them.
That's why you have online and offline backups.
> I thought the Europeans had been at each other's throats for around three hundred years.

Three hundred? More like two thousand. In the late middle ages a war could last 30, 80 or 114 years. There was always some sort of armed conflict somewhere in Europe. The peace we've seen post-WW2 is pretty unique.
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Ok! But that's not an answer :) it's your press release. Looking forward to reading how "CodingCupboard got on TechCrunch" in a week!
> Nobody expected war in 1914

That's not the impression one gets from the popular literature (thriller romances, etc.) of the preceding years. For instance, it is obvious that the English were expecting a naval clash with Germany sooner or later.

What was unexpected was the prolonged slaughter of trench warfare. The previous war of 1870 had been a relatively quick affair ...
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Cryengine also have VPL similar to Unreal's Kismet. http://media.moddb.com/images/articles/1/25/24522/FG_Tutoria...

There's also Virtools by Dassault Systèmes. http://images.gamedev.net/features/reviews/virtools/Image1.p...
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"Just avoid Debian, and everything else related to .deb packages" seems a fitting solution to me.

(even more so after rewriting Erlang packages to get something that a) works and b) is not stale)
>It's funny that most people that are actually working on AGI have stopped even bothering to provide arguments for why they think AGI it's possible to the general public, because they know they're close and that "they'll just prove that it's possible to build it by fucking building it" instead of doing armchair thinking, while AGI detractors don't lose any opportunity to launch pseudo-arguments like missiles :)

If you've read some history, it's clear that this is exactly what the Wright brothers did when they pioneered powered flight. Three things makes Kitty Hawk a good place to test airplanes: You'll survive if you crash in the sand dunes, there is enough steady wind and there are no newspaper reporters around to make fun of your failures.
Mac users four times more likely to run latest OS than Windows users
Very well said and good points. Agreed on the distinction between outlook and "thinking". Obviously, optimism in the sense of ignorance of one's environment is a bad idea.
So at 23 this person feels he has enough anecdotal experience to trump 100+ years of research.

Let's see...he states he has no life outside of work, that he forced himself to pull those hours even when there wasn't work enough to demand it, that he was working those hours without remuneration of any kind, and while conflating 'working' with 'learning', leading me to question if he was really being productive, rather than just playing around with new languages and technologies, 'causing him to credit what he would have done in his free time to 'working'.
Byobu is a pre-configured 'easy mode' for either Screen or Tmux.

I use it all the time on my RasPi at work, running a mutt instance. I can hop in from any machine and have my 'native' email client accessible.
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Isn't that concept also close to homeomorphic encryption?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homomorphic_encryption
Yeah, especially with certain foods, it becomes a matter of quality vs. preference. As in, "this wine cannot possibly be of high quality because it is too sweet". So, you're an ignorant peasant for preferring it.

So, white wines in general are inferior to reds. I always chuckle when I come across red descriptions that read "hints of leather and chocolate" or similar. I never taste what's described. Either my palate is severely underdeveloped (as with any good peasant) or there's a lot of Emperor's New Clothes going on.

Over the last few years, however, the elite seem to be relenting at least somewhat. Reislings have begun to cross over at least to the extent that you won't lose your trust fund for sneaking down a glass now and then.
I have not problem with someone working 60+ hours per week. It is your life. Do with it whatever you like.

I think the previous discussion was not about turning down people working long hours. It was about turning down the idea that working 60+ hours is something heroic, something which is worthwhile to do for everyone.
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Applied for our local Hackerspace. I hope Google will consider applications not only from companies, but from community R&D labs as well :).
Links are broken to the article explaining it.
I was just about to comment the same thing. Ridiculous.
We found a great supplier for metal frames and fittings, but not the flexible laminated containers.
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How exactly?

It just amuses me that people bring up the vomit thing (actually butyric acid) like it is some laughable feature of Hershey's and inherently horrifying.. but they never mention all the other foods that are high in butyric acid, and are in fact loved by foodies.

People can dislike hersheys, but going on about how it "is made to taste like vomit" like it is a shocking revelation, is a double standard.
There is another alternative, which is that there is only one causal universe, and it is impossible to change things that happened in the past (e.g. every time you try to kill Hitler you fail, and maybe make him tighten up his security making it impossible for a local-time assassin to do their job, all of which was reported in local documents that you already knew about, or similar.)

Clearly if changing the past is impossible, then traveling to the past it's completely impossible, since your simple presence in a place is a change. It makes no sense that the laws of physics would prevent you from killing Hitler but not from changing the position of the air molecules around you,
I used to think it was possibly to work 60 hour weeks just because I loved what I was doing. When I was shipping Assassin's Creed 2 and being both the team lead and main programmer on the combat system, I worked sustained 60 hour weeks for somewhere in the range of six months.

Just before shipping, I realized I was making so many ridiculously obvious mistakes that I requested someone shadow all my code commits.

And then when the project was done? I was burned out so bad I would have panic attacks if I even saw code. It was nearly three months before I could program again.

Just because you love it doesn't mean you will avoid burn out and other downsides to sustained long work days.
This looks excellent. I'll certainly try it for my next paper and will see if I can lobby our university to pay for the hosted version.

I'm assuming universities are what you are aiming for? I think you should focus on CSy departments.

Could also target conferences/journals i.e. allow them to offer access to the hosted version for people collaborating on a paper for that journal/conference.

From a business development POV, I think it would make sense to wade through university pages and collect departments that offer Latex-Templates to their students as potential contacts.
> I guess guys like Charles Babbage and Ada Lovelace just sat on their hands.

Well no, but they didn't succeed either. For a world where they did, read some steampunk literature.
Exactly this. I would even agree with him that 40 hours is not the point where you become less productive. It's less than that. I don't want to waste my time when I'm less productive, my time is important to me. I would like to work 20 hours a week.
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This is what is great about decorators (the most awesome part of Web Components that probably will never be implemented):

http://www.w3.org/TR/components-intro/#decorator-section
Time travel is entirely outside of our theory of physics.

If you want to insist on rules, you have to say that we can't do it, not argue about how it would work.

(I mean, it is entirely possible that the universe is a-causal in the presence of certain types of events that we do not yet understand)
You Learn and Accomplish More

This is what everyone else is arguing against and what the research is invalidating. You may feel you're getting more done, but are you really? Few high quality hours are much more productive than many low quality hours, especially if its work that requires your brain to actually work efficiently (anything creative, programming etc).

I refuse to believe that this tipping point is exactly 40 hours per week

Of course its not some one-size-fits-all magic number. Different people have different capacities. The same person has different capacities based on age, what they're working on, their health/mood/etc. Its also well researched that limited crunch time is more productive but that it drops very sharply over time. Its also often observed that the people don't realise they're not productive - like a lot of things, it can be hard to self-measure.

As long as your net contribution3 per hour is positive, what is the harm in working more?

You're health? You're social life? You're non-work-related interests?

I actively assess what makes me productive and what hurts me

This is good. Many people don't do this.

But the other thing is that when I was in my early twenties (I'm in my late twenties now, so not that long ago) I was absolutely able to work 30 hours straight without problem - but its not sustainable and ultimately leads to burnout. As you get older, it becomes even less sustainable and really, looking back, I would have benefited much more from normal hours and more of a life outside of study/work (I did have a reasonable one, but in hindsight I should have had even more of one). This persons statement that he has no life outside work is scary to me - he'll fuck himself up longer term.

In my opinion, the biggest problem isn't even how effective it is for one-self, but rather the expectation for others. Most people don't assess how productive they actually are (or do it badly), but will work long hours. One might think "Great! A person willing and able to work long hours! Hired!" and get significantly less quality work out of them than from someone working more "normal" hours.
People really liked this one: https://github.com/davidgfnet/whatsapp-purple

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I'm explaining that calling out "a law against bribing the government" as "more government power to oppress the private sector!" illuminates the silliness of putting everything on a single axis.

I'm not trying to convince you to "stop being libertarian", I'm trying to convince you to stop being anything-ian. Get in the gray zone, man. It's where actual understanding or admitting that you don't understand happens.

Libertarians these days remind me of nothing so much as college marxists. It's all about theory and ideology, nothing about the real world.
The problem isn't the 60 hour weeks, it's the expectations they create. A 60 hour week is easy when you're happy, but having to do a 60 hour week when you're not because that's all you've done for the last year is a serious drag.
We do div soup because CSS is still not good enough to do all of your styling there. When you can trivially make an element 6 columns in CSS we'll all stop treating Bootstrap like this. Maybe Flexbox version 6 (or whatever we are on now) finally fixes this but who can keep up and find out.
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“There is absolutely nothing wrong with working a modest 40 hour week. I am in no way putting this normal practice down.”

“All else being equal, why would I hire someone that works 40 hour weeks when there are a ton of other people willing to work 60? “

So, which one is it?
Me, I’m a 23 year old startup founder

I think that people making the argument of 40 hours a week is not that is it impossible or not beneficial to work 60+ hours a week at a particular time. But that it's not sustainable.
It's not the same living on ramen for two years than defending that living on ramen is actually great.
Again, assuming that an exceptional situation (young startup founder with no commitments) is the norm is a mistake.

Also, it is easy to think that working those extra 20 hours are a big deal, hey 50% por output! But the fact is that that's not necessarily true. Ideas need time to develop, and spending time in different activities is good for your mind.
I had a shop for a couple of years, and I worked A LOT during that time (I was the only one taking care of it), and I know how founding a company sucks up absolutely all your energy and mind. But being obsessed with it is not sane on the long term. I also work right now a lot less hours and more relaxed than when I was younger and I am waaaaay more productive.
Please cite the 100+ years of research. I've looked into it, and found very little. All I've found is a few results like the average construction worker can only productively work 60 hour weeks for about 6 weeks in a row before fatigue sets in.

For example: http://www.danzpage.com/Construction-Management-Resources/Ca...

(Hourly productivity is lower during the 60 hour weeks, but weekly product is higher.)

I have never seen a result that says no one can work 60+ hours regularly. I've never seen a result that even applied to knowledge workers - the entire literature is about construction and manufacturing.

So if you want to make a strong claim that "100+ years of research" proves something, please cite the research. If it's so voluminous, it shouldn't be hard.

(Incidentally, just remembered Claudia Goldin's paper on gender gaps. She cites a bunch of literature showing that in some occupations, productivity is actually superlinear in the number of hours worked, not sublinear like construction. http://www.aeaweb.org/aea/2014conference/program/retrieve.ph... )
Really though, how would they know? How can they know?
Still the most comprehensive rebuttal to this common (and I feel, badly mistaken) complaint:

"About HTML semantics and front-end architecture" (from March 2012):

http://nicolasgallagher.com/about-html-semantics-front-end-a...

It's all well worth reading, but the conclusion is particularly to the point:

"The experience of many skilled developers, over many years, has led to a shift in how large-scale website and applications are developed. Despite this, for individuals weaned on an ideology where “semantic HTML” means using content-derived class names (and even then, only as a last resort), it usually requires you to work on a large application before you can become acutely aware of the impractical nature of that approach. You have to be prepared to disgard old ideas, look at alternatives, and even revisit ways that you may have previously dismissed.

...

When you choose to author HTML and CSS in a way that seeks to reduce the amount of time you spend writing and editing CSS, it involves accepting that you must instead spend more time changing HTML classes on elements if you want to change their styles. This turns out to be fairly practical, both for front-end and back-end developers – anyone can rearrange pre-built “lego blocks”; it turns out that no one can perform CSS-alchemy."
Here are some more:

1. http://slidetocode.com/

2. Thyrd: Which combines spreadsheet and infinite zooms in a very interesting way. http://thyrd.org/thyrd/. Some screenshots are at http://thyrd.org/thyrd/paper/, but the video works better to understand it.
There is a usenet thread discussing groups for geeks here: http://squte.com/usenet/comp.misc-list-active-newsgroups

Among those recommended are: comp.editors, comp.os.linux.advocacy, sci.electronics.repair, rec.games.roguelike.nethack, sci.logic, sci.physics.relativity, alt.philosophy & uk.rec.sheds
Phones aren't commodity x86 hardware in the way PCs are. The hardware can't be enumerated.
A fantastic move! I've been using ShareLaTeX for quite some time, it's a great service. This move to open source really shows you're pushing your product in the right direction. Thanks :)
Posts like this make me wish there was a "Best of" category/indicator on HN.

If I'd logged in later today, I might have missed it!
I refuse to believe that this tipping point is exactly 40 hours per week

Ok, give or take 5 hours (35-45). That's different than 50% more :-P
You can actually be incredibly productive when working a 60 hour work week, and I used to do it regularly. When I was doing it at a large company, there was little reward for it, but I did learn a lot and was able to turn that into a better, and less stressful job in finance.

There are definitely benefits to having one person work 60 hours rather than two work 40, beyond cost savings to the company. Often if you're tackling a hard and involved problem, it often isn't something that can be easily split up. There is a lot of context, and one person working on it steadily will certainly be more efficient than trying to have two people work on it and communicate.

I don't work like this now, but I can say that when I did I was remarkably productive. It does come with an associated cost on family life and out-of-work activities, and unless you're going to actually get compensated for it; it is likely not worth it.

Working on an interesting problem, though, can be very difficult to put down.