skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Of course they're not using Apple's push servers on J2ME devices. They're using it on iOS. Of course they're not using Google's push servers on Windows Phone devices. They're using it on Android.... How else would you get notified?

Also I never said it wasn't attractive. I just tried to explain that conceptionally as a product it's the same as text messaging and should thus have similar Daily to Monthly User ratios.
* NCDevCon (http://ncdevcon.com)
* cfObjective (http://www.cfobjective.com/)

Both these started out as small ColdFusion (it's not dead) conferences but have grown into great general web development conferences.
First impression of Robocoin's new bitcoin ATM in Austin, TX
None whatsoever, the OP is making a gigantic leap based on a logical fallacy.

LinkedIn claims X number of users

Suggested connections by LinkedIn can be generated for users that do not even have a present LinkedIn account.

Therefor, the number X must include those users.
Looks interesting, but I think they should have focused more on the spec.

Although, I definitely like the SDcard slot and real buttons rather than stupid onscreen ones.
If you see this can you grab the "Ray ID" (long hex string on the page) and send it to me. I can look in the CloudFlare logging stuff to see where the problem occurred.
> At what age would this person's comments hold water? 25? 28? 30?

39.
I have as a rule that if you are in a situation where there can only be 1 element with those properties (it would make no sense at all to have more), I should use the id.

The top elements are one example. It makes no sense to include them inside any other element, and if that ever changes, all the styling will need to change anyway.
Every C++ book I even read mentions function-level try blocks. Unfortunately, they are rarely useful due to scope semantics (it's difficult to perform shared cleanup, even when using object guards).
I've read the research. It doesn't back up the claims made by the OP.

Last time you you were trying to claim 40-60 hours was an 'optimal' working time for manual labour and linked research yourself which showed that it wasn't.

The research linked to shows that weekly product (which is not the same as hourly productivity) can be maximized by anything from 40-60 hours, depending on the nature of the work and the duration of the project.

For example, look at Figure 16 which has numbers:

100% productivity x 40 hours = 40
90% productivity x 50 hours = 45
83% productivity x 60 hours = 49.8
69% productivity x 70 hours = 48.3

Output is maximized by 60 hour weeks.

Figure 6 shows similar results, based on eyeballing the 5 and 6 day weeks (10 hours/day each) as being about 83% productivity. (Data is in a bar chart, numbers not listed.)

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

In any case, any paper discussing averages (i.e., every source I've ever found) simply does not address the question of whether the author of the piece can productively work 60 hour weeks. That's like saying "the mean American wage is $50k/year or so, therefore it's impossible for a software engineer to earn $100k".
[python] Performance overhead when applying decorators to methods
>> Americans have terrible chocolate because in 1914 a Moravian took a wrong turn and got an Austrian shot by a Bosnian

That's like saying America has terrible cheeseburgers because of McDonald's.
There are also a lot of people out there that _really_ dislike learning a whole new platform and API with all its foibles, quirks, bugs/misfeatures, and caveats. Especially when the platform is this new and so will likely change a lot for at least the first year.
>> I feel like there's probably a good opportunity to make a business selling just slightly higher-quality products.

Whole Foods?
Am I the only European who actually likes Hershey's?!

I honestly don't mind it when compared to European chocolates in the same price bracket. It's obviously not the same product, but also not a worse product. At the end of the day given a choice between between cheap shitty Hershey's and cheap shitty Cadbury, I'll choose the Hershey's, mainly since Cadbury is far too sweet. It's also probably the only time ever where an American product is less sweet than its European equivalent.

Of course if I'm in a store spending my own money I'll chose neither and buy a more expensive, but smaller, piece of higher quality dark chocolate.
Happy Kyiv
For those who're disturbed by this and would like to get away from WhatsApp, the least you can do is delete your WhatsApp account, followed by deleting the app itself. [This does not protect you from WhatsApp transferring all your data to Facebook]

Follow the instructions for your device to delete your WhatsApp account:

iPhone - http://www.whatsapp.com/faq/iphone/21325453

Android - http://www.whatsapp.com/faq/en/android/21119703

BB10 - http://www.whatsapp.com/faq/en/bb10/28020005

Windows Phone - http://www.whatsapp.com/faq/en/wp/21335316

Nokia - http://www.whatsapp.com/faq/en/nokia/21477616

Blackberry - http://www.whatsapp.com/faq/en/bb/21306771

---

Also, Telegram is wicked fast in my personal experience. I see a trickle of people joining Telegram over a period of time (well before this acquisition).
"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?"

A good one is that this person has no clue of business, resources and the general nature of deals. They just signed a contract for 40 hours and are willing to throw 20 hours on top, cutting down their effective wage. Unless you make a 60 hour contract with them.

I cannot, with good conscience, have this person make guesses on costs of parts of a project, assert the cost letting work done outside of the company or generally allow them to make any decisions on efforts. I cannot have them work in a group of people that has to plan with time constraints.

I am okay with freelancers working 60 hours and billing them, if they really want to optimize for money. I am not okay with people singing on for bad deals, skewing the market for everyone with a tiny bit of business sense.
We need a good "in defence of the partial work week".

In the UK, there is an ongoing political issue about declaring people with disabilities or chronic illnesses "fit to work". Everyone from cancer and dialysis patients to those with chronic fatigue, pain, depression or back injuries. An essentially binary prospect is presented: you have to take a job you are deemed fit to do, or the money you were relying on to eat is cut off.

The thing is, quite a lot of these people can do some things for some period of time. But if you force them to 40 hours it will run down their health and achieve zero productivity. With reasonable accomodation they could be part time workers. But nobody is interested in making this happen. The person who figures out the "hack" of making one 40 hour week out of four people's 10 hour weeks will be doing the world a great service.

Less extremely, this applies to parents of small children and the elderly; scope for doing more than zero hours, but not the full 40.
Another problem is the expectations it puts on others in a team. Is it ok if there are people working 40+ hours and people working constantly 60+ hours in the same team? I guess this can lead to serious tensions.
Maybe the butyric acid is more pleasant/expected in a savory food than in a sweet one.
Pepsi, however, offers "Throwback" versions of Pepsi and Mountain Dew which use cane sugar instead of HFCS, and seem to be commonly available at many normal grocery stores in 12-packs for the same price as the regular ones. I prefer it to regular Coke, though Mexican Coke is a little better (but also much more expensive).

I visited the World of Coke in Atlanta a couple years ago, and at the end of the tour they had machines dispensing samples of all kinds of their international sodas. I was disappointed to find that Mexican coke was not offered, although in retrospect, not surprising as they probably would prefer not to advertise how much better cane sugar Coke is.
Why, oh why, are passwords limited to 16 characters? It simply baffles me that modern applications are still being built with these pointless limits. Can you please explain your reasoning to me?
OSCAR: The Open Screen Adapter
I'm always surprised at the passion this subject always generates, particularly in how many people express an opinion on how many hours a week I should work.

I can understand being upset by having to work >40hr/wk when you don't want to, or those 70hr/wk coworkers being declared best. employees. ever., but the reaction when someone expresses an opinion on their personal experience is just ridiculous. It's either the patronizing "when you're my age, sonny, you'll understand" or the similarly unhelpful "you're doing it wrong", with no admission that someone's experience might be different.
I think it is better to call it model-based development rather than visual programming. Apart from those visual tools (e.g. Alice) which can be used to teach children the programming concepts, there are serious tools such as Simulink and SCADE (missing from the list) which are used to develop safety-critical applications in medical and aerospace fields. The reason to use these tools is to allow experts in other disciplines to specify an abstraction of their designs for computer.
I use an extension to always set google to Verbatim search results. It works very nicely.
It has nothing to do with your company's private repo, it has to do with getting a list of ORGS you belong to.

In fact chats for private repos is a completely separate matter and we allow users to upgrade their access to GitHub's repo scope if they want access to private repos.

Otherwise we'd have to do:
* signup (only public repos)
* upgrade permissions -> org chats
* upgrade permissions -> repo chats

And so then users need to understand three levels of permissions and scope and I don't want to burden people with that level of cognitive overload. It's hard enough to explain to people that they need to elevate privileges to get private repo access.

Whilst a few people share your view, we've had nearly 10,000 grant us this access in a very short space of time and so it's not massively affecting our product right now and we have confidence in the future that GitHub will change their permissions and introduce a read-only permission that we will then switch to.
FWIW, I have never seen this, and I have quite a few C++ books on my shelf. I either missed it repeatedly, or it is so obscure that it never came up.
But Sailfish OS should not require too much learning for developers with Qt experience, right?

For me personally, that is what has put it on my "interesting"-radar. I know that Qt has served me well in the past and that I have some grasp on developing with it, so the potential barrier I have to jump here is low.
I really don't buy the "web is native on Firefox OS" argument that you and others make.

Architecturally, it's really no different than a PhoneGap or web app running on Android, iOS or BlackBerry OS. They all involve an "app" typically written with HTML+JavaScript, executed in a web browser (often full-screen and without chrome), which in turn runs on an operating system of some sort.

If it's "native" on Firefox OS, then why isn't it just as "native" on Android, or iOS, or BlackBerry OS, or other mobile OSes?

What I think we really see is Firefox OS totally lacking any sort of real native software development support. This creates the illusion that web apps are somehow "native", when this is just a result of there being no other viable option.
Share latex.....

Open source.....

I will just come out and say it. I had funny thoughts in my head when I read that.

The official site as well as the products looks well designed (love the idea of templates). Here is the clickable link

https://www.sharelatex.com/
Building a Decision Tree in Python from Postgres data
I've been thinking about this recently, as like others in this thread I too have't used it in a while, but I think it's less indicative of the quality of the premise behind App.net (pay = no ads + privacy) than how little I notice Twitter ads and consequently how little they alienate me onto another platform.
> The DMCA does have provisions against reverse engineering

Here in the EU reverse engineering is allowed and even if you sign a contract saying you won't reverse engineer something you've still got the right to do it.

How would the DMCA comply with this, would anyone be able to shut down legally reverse engineered code on GitHub?
> When you can trivially make an element 6 columns in CSS

As demonstrated in the article you can trivially make an element 6 columns in LESS (or SASS, which has a bootstrap port also)
Exactly. The smart people ego thing. Yikes, that's me. Programming is humbling the shit out of me. It really is a good process.

Just slow down, be patient, expect many failures and false starts. Hell, if I can do this, it seems like I'll be better prepared for all sorts of challenges in life.
> If they are doing it any more often than that, then they shouldn't need to google "flowers" each time....

Why not? Computers are better at memorizing things than people; it shouldn't be a human's job to remember a site URL (and browser bookmarks are less useful than intelligent search engines).
Since you seem to know a lot about this sort of thing, any idea how long before I'll be able to put these on my arms?
Things that cost more than Space Exploration: WhatsApp.
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Yes they do, when I purchase a domain they give a SSL cert for 2$ for 1 year. That's kind of a no brainer for me.
I'm surprised no one mentioned you can do !mdn "html table tag" and go straight to the mdn page.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7246035
ScraperWiki's values and how to brainstorm your organisation's values
I guess Qt is better than starting from scratch; maybe it won't be as empty as my first reaction was to assume.
We don't have any hard data - this is based on our personal vision, and our understanding of our user base. People mostly use ShareLaTeX because: 1) There is no installation, 2) You can access it anywhere, 3) You can collaborate easily and effectively without needing to be technical and know git/svn/etc. I don't think being open source will threaten any of those points, but it will make ShareLaTeX accessible to the large group of people who want to run a local version but haven't been able to so far.

It will be interesting to see how things look in a months time. I'll try to post an update!
bollox I say.

Even very young me could taste the difference. As a young child, one of the things I always looked forward to when visiting my grandparents is the States was to drink American Coke since I though it tasted so much better than stuff they had in Europe.
The average user doesn't understand Bitcoin and will most likely always use an exchange.
I already have that in my browser. And have since before DDG was launched.
Not only do I completely agree with this article, but I see it every day. Everything you want has a cost and a sacrifice. I look at the executive team at my firm and they have be working 60+ hrs a week for over 15 years. And you know what? They are VPs. Win. Sure it probably cost them a lot of social and family time, but they accomplished their goals. If your goal is to have a wife, kids, and a white picket fence, with a low stress job, then go for it. No one is telling you not to. But if you want to be a senior vice president, or a founder of a company - news flash you should probably work more than 40 hours a week. Do you think every executive is smarter than the people he was promoted over? No, of course not. So most likely they worked harder and longer to get there.
Alternatively use SASS (and the bootstrap SASS port[1]) which doesn't has this problem, as it instead rewrites selectors.

i.e. if you have:

.column {
width: 100px;
display: inline-block;
}

And you do:

.cool-sidebar {
@extend .column;
}

Then the generated css will be something like:

.column, .cool-sidebar {
width: 100px;
display: inline-block;
}

[1] https://github.com/twbs/bootstrap-sass
Well, i have been working on something similar for a little while, what is the biggest challenge when getting started with this type of SAAS? what do you wish you knew when you were getting up and running?
Would you recommend anyone to try out the same venture you guys have done?
Is there some worry about what this might do to revenue? or was there already some evidence this would do nothing evil to your business model?
It's a learning curve for us. That's why this kind of feedback is important.
I never understood the point, personally. App.net was created to fix the problems with Twitter. But to me, the root problem with Twitter is that it's centralized, and App.net doesn't even try to solve that.
Haha, no worries. I was just lucky my boss had past by me when I opened it up!
Nicer looking div soup is still div soup. <div class="container"> != semantic.
Mouse vs keyboard: I navigate with whatever my hand is on at the moment.
Awesome, thanks for the feedback. Will hack together some updates over the weekend!
Personally, I think citing user growth numbers is an unsophisticated perspective.

Engagement doesn't directly translate into money.
Whatsapp does charge $1/year or something, so that times XXX million users = some baseline value.
Just rushing about at the moment and want to spend the time on a more detailed post that can help more!
No. See my response (with citation) to your other comment, up-thread.
Oobleck security
They are included in TC++PL at least. But so is everything else in C++ :)

They are probably obscure because they are only really useful for logging or remapping exceptions (unless a new exception is thrown the original one will be re-thrown at the end of the catch-block) in constructors and destructors.

They can be used in normal functions as well, but offers nothing beyond what normal try-blocks do there.
What about figure 9 that shows sustained 60+ hour work weeks drop productivity to 45% that of a 40 hour work week after week 4?

Additionally, you are never going to find research that discussed the magical unicorns you describe and not averages. That's not how research works.
I always hear talk about "if you're not paying for it, you're not the customer". App.net was designed to solve that: you pay for it, so there's no ads, no privacy intrusions, and no worries about who is selling you to whom.

I guess the experiment failed, and free-to-play wins out.
Video in the article is pretty straightforward. I have tried it myself with 0.35 mm fishing line, but I haven't got a heat gun, and that was a huge problem. I've tried to heat the coil with lighter, but it's really difficult to control the temperature. If it's too low, coil does not contract, if too high - melts immediately. But one of about ten attempts was successful, so it definitely could be done at home.
As far as I know, some players of the (both) World War(s) were involved because they got only later in the game for colonies. Actually that's exactly what formed the Axis Power in the WW2 - countries constituted only later as Germany and Italy, or Japan which only later got itself out of a stagnant isolationist stance. No single event could have prevented the war(s).
You're not the first (and I doubt you'll be the last) to think that we're some sort of social media site based around prophylactics :)
I've found that working long hours is practical with regimented conditioning, much like training for any strenuous activity. If you jump headlong into a 60-hour work week, you'll suffer and burn out rather quickly. A slow ramp eases you into the commitment and tests your limits, gradually pushing them upward. It's also crucial to take down weeks every so often.
Golden Ratio + Modular Scaling + Responsive
no, but <section> or <div class="products"> are semantic, and there's no reason you couldn't use those instead of <div class="container"> by using the features of LESS or SASS.
SuperDARN
@beck5 is banned (?) but here is his answer:

>Thanks, we were a bit worried that people will stop using the site but we hope everyone is wise like yourself! I think overall the main people who will set up there own versions are those who want to work on a private network which is an group of people we have been unable to help so far.
"Changes in HTML5 in recent years have been absolutely mind blowing" - my mind will be blown when I will not need third-party packages to position controls on page in a fluid, reliable and logical way. HTML will always lag behind because of compatibility requirements. I am all for fragmentation. You get better languages because companies compete and you get better compensation because you can specialize.
After 5 minutes of Googling.

http://legacy.igda.org/why-crunch-modes-doesnt-work-six-less...

http://psychclassics.yorku.ca/Munster/Industrial/chap17.htm

http://www.hcgexperts.com/scheduled-overtime-effect-on-const...

http://history.nasa.gov/rogersrep/v2appg.htm

http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/news/press/2005/mar05/03-15th...

http://econospeak.blogspot.com/2009/07/hours-of-labour-2.htm... (a translation of Sidney Chapman's work)

Etc.

From the first article you mention, "Subject to the qualifications already expressed, there is a certain consistency in that there is a definite, but not necessarily linear, decrease in productivity for each additional 10 hours per week."
As a husband and father I struggle to put in a 37.5 hour week. Overtime is has to be traded off against seeing my children grow up and finding (literally) a few minutes a week alone with my wife.

Hence at 23 I think you should embrace longer work hours, as long as you also maintain a healthy social life in the balance.

'My company is my life' should be a red warning flag however, because for any number of foreseen and unforeseen reasons that company might not exist in the future.
What if you had a requirement to create variation styles of those elements? How would you do that? Would you add you base style in your id selector, and then variations with classes? Again, you'll face specificity issues with that approach. Keeping things simple is the best approach here IMO. I've done a heck-load of CSS and have seen how hacky a stylesheet can become because of specificity issues. Sticking with classes and keeping selectors short will make your stylesheet easier to follow and more maintainable, but this is just my approach!
Babbage might have, but only if he had several times the funding and lifespan he did.
The quote accompanying those figures:

the majority based on 10-hour workdays and an overtime schedule of four consecutive weeks

FOUR WEEKS. Did you read that bit? Productivity continues to drop after 4 weeks (with some parts of it suggesting the productivity drop stops around week 16ish).

You're a lost cause.
Isn't one person's competence offsetting another person's stupidity what programmers and sysadmins do all day, every day anyway? ;)
Generally if you have connection to a techcrunch writer, you can easily get a shoutout.
It's better to pick proper language for proper tasks, scripting is supposed to be a bit messy though.
Not necessarily true. If people weren't getting compensated in some way they would leave. Investment bankers work 80-120 hours per week, and they get paid as such. Same with lawyers.
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