skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My take away was that when your work is the same thing you would personally want to do with your free time (something you are passionate about) that doing 80 hours of work for your employer isn't really any different than 30 hours of work and 50 hours of leisure time.

80 hours still leaves over half his time for eating, sleeping, the small amounts of physical activity which are realistic, and small amounts of human interaction. It simply does not leave time for leisure or to unwind, but as I said previously if your work is what you would do with your leisure time then that's not an issue, as there is nothing to unwind from.

Now I have only encountered this situation for a brief 3 month project which I wish had never been finished. But this type of dream job type situation does exist, and I don not believe is unhealthy, unless you have some sort of family to maintain also (it doesn't really leave enough time for a healthy family life).
Oh, I could care less about the company, but I do care about the integrity of HN as a whole. That doesn't mean I don't like the occasional joke on here either, but since that story seemed a bit light on details and people were looking for information, posting satire that looks very much like valid information can be unintentionally misleading.
I use traditional QuickBooks, but I hate it. Problem is switching cost is too high at the moment (when isn't it though).

I'm happy to see that most others aren't using it. It's really a miserable piece of software and is a full 10 years behind in terms of design and UX.

I've heard wonderful things about Xero. Haven't moved yet but that would likely be my pick if starting from scratch today.

Edit: This is for a non-tech business. Few thousand transactions per month, mostly CC.
The saddest part of the New York tech economy are the dozens(if not hundreds) of ad "tech" companies selling retargeting disguised as some new proprietary technology.
Yes, I'm a Firefox user, and when I install extensions I don't expect being asked to provide a login and password. I'm definitely NOT comfortable with Google knowing what extensions I use, when I use them, etc. A nice reminder of one of the reasons I can't seriously consider Chrome as my main browser.
Can we just discontinue submissions from forbes, wsj, bloomberg, theguardian, wired, and techcrunch?
A stock exchange for brick-and-mortar stores...
Open Supporter Data Interface
Are Employees With Autism Better Employees?
... probably yes, ask that question again in 10 years.

I bootstrapped because I had to stay at home with new born baby. I took my open-source hobby project and turned it into business. Work load, working hours, and money are similar to my previous job. I only miss my old colleagues.
What I like about this is the very clear roadmap with a lot of notice, what the changes mean, and some concise points about what bugs they can't fix.
As a Xamarin customer I'm also wondering if Microsoft will announce a purchase or investment today. The risk for Microsoft has to be that if they don't then someone else might buy them first.

Xamarin's twitter feed has been kind of quiet today.
Amazon Officially Unveils Amazon Fire TV, A Tiny Media Streaming Bpx
Amazon announces Fire TV
I don't think they are going to erase data from your devices, so I don't see a reason doing such a strange migration.
Very well said, and thank you for taking on the task of debunking this flawed analysis. It is a mostly thankless task since the people who would be on your side (e.g. people with a good understanding of economics) tend to avoid articles like that in the first place.
EtherScripter – a visual smart contract builder
And a link to the nicely titled study[1]:

"Is the curb 80% full or 20% empty? Assessing the impacts of San Francisco's parking pricing experiment"

[1] http://people.ucsc.edu/~adammb/publications/Millard-Ball_Wei...
I don't even carry keys in my pocket though because they're too annoying and bulky. I'd also be concerned about breaking it off or filling it with pocket fluff.

Definitely a cool idea though - and some cool rewards.
It only takes one reader to agree with you that something is interesting for it to end up on HN after all :-)

I wouldn't worry about that -- most of the really interesting (hacking/programming) stuff on HN isn't time sensitive. A tutorial/intro on <lang/stack/arch/design> that's great today, will be great in a year as well.
That's a great next question, unfortunately I don't have the data at hand to give you a good answer. I casually looked for some of this (read: spent a few minutes) and anything I could put together would be an amalgamation of several different sources of information and I'd likely make incorrect inferences from it.
>the sanity of access control?
only at a directory level, git has it at a repo level.

>Great, so now the code and the assets going with the code, both being used to build the product, are completely out of sync and essentially unsyncable?

no. read up on artifact repositories. you declare the asset version that you depend on in your a build script. the assets are fetched from the artifact repo.

there pros and cons of course...
FREEAGENT!
The Hyper Text Coffee Pot Control Protocol for Tea Efflux Appliances
The NSA (No Secrecy Afforded) Certificate Extension
I'm in the your boat too, it's really a pity
Bookmarked a few resources here: http://benrmatthews.com/2014/01/free-high-quality-stock-phot...
Same here. I have been using Ubuntu One file services extensively on a free account while at university to backup my assignments, projects and whatnot.
I used the service because for me it was better than the Dropbox app and it integrated nicely in Unity (though that could have changed in the mean time, I haven't checked it in a while).

This being said, it did have its warts (for example sometimes when uploading a file the app hung for no reason; there was even one time when I had some files reverted to an older version).

I understand their decision and I think it is better to discontinue a service than to keep it running without improving it.
I guess it's time to switch...
Doing 80 hours a week, pulling all-nighters. This sounds to me as they are putting out fires instead of building a product the pro-active way. If an all-nighter is unavoidable, you should definitely ask yourself what you're doing wrong, and how to prevent it.
First C-plus-Equality, now this.

It's growing increasingly apparent that GitHub is not about open hosting, but a company that has no spines and a tendency towards political self-censorship.
Moniker DNS down?
Moniker DNS seems to be down

www.uniqueproperty.com - fails

Direct IP

http://37.187.27.116/ - works

What gives moniker?
For my part, it's a closely related reason: I'd sign up for the service today if the client were Open Source, rather than "look but don't touch" source.
Whereas the public, upon being presented with a photorealistic render of a building, immediately go "sh, right, as if" and start imagining the car parks and advertising hoardings and ...

(cf the recent renders of "London's Garden Bridge" which were gently mocked for their "optimistic" view)
At least you got the latest SBCL version installed. It could have been worse. ;-)
Supreme Court lifts overall limits on congressional campaign donations
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Political_action_committee#Supe...

Practically speaking, as long as some needed transparency is in place, is there much of a real difference to how things are currently run?

Also, the rash of 5-4 decisions in the supreme court lately bothers me. Was there ever a time where the supreme court was this polarized?
I mean it really doesn't cost anything pushing your old code in a github repo or something.

That's not true. The code must be checked for licensing issues; certain parts may depend on components they don't intend to release, or on third-party ones they can't release. It must also be checked to make sure it doesn't have any security implications (credentials, information about internal architectures, etc). Finally, releasing it may expose them to patent attacks of which existence they might not even be aware.
The average-median thing seems to be just a mistake by whoever wrote that summary. If you look at the full report, this is what they have:

"Workers in the New York City tech ecosystem earn 49% more than the average City-wide hourly wage. The hourly wage for the tech ecosystem is $39.50, while the average City-wide wage is $26.50."

Your other points are valid, of course.

Edit: this is the full report and is quite a bit more informative than the summary: http://www.hraadvisors.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/NYC_Te...

Edit2: no longer completely sure what they are talking about:

"As of 2013, the average New York City median hourly
wage was $26.50. Tech ecosystem jobs pay above the
City-wide average. In fact, tech ecosystem workers are
paid 49% more than the City-wide average of $26.50.
In comparison to this average, tech workers in tech firms
earn 75% more, tech workers in non-tech firms earn
51% more, and non-tech workers in tech firms earn 25%
more."

I suspect their "average" "median" income is median income by job category averaged together. With that said, it looks like they arrived at the tech average wage in a similar fashion.
What Michael Lewis Gets Wrong About High-Frequency Trading
My Russian is not that good, but doesn't this also mention some irregularities which cast some doubt on that number?

Regardless, if a single polling station in a fairly pro-Russian area, kept on its toes by (amateur) observers, gets a 75% turnout that makes an 80% turnout overall very unlikely given the boycott of the referendum by Crimean tatars.

What's your take on the 123% turnout in Sebastopol btw?

P.S. You are talking about turnout right? Because the votes being 80+% in favor is perfectly possible.
Constitutional Court [of Turkey] orders authorities to unblock Twitter
This particular TOS part is not ambiguous. It means "we can delete anything".
Apparently there are no talks about C++ at all, what a dissapointment.

I was expecting Herb Sutter or Bjarne giving a talk.
How do Americans outsmart NSA spying? Oh wait,they cant.
I like that - akin to a live-action Balsamiq.
The funny part is there are more police-men now, then during communism.
Atlanta-based Better Walk invents more comfortable/safer crutches
I wonder though, now that the process to buy candidates is a bit more direct (no need to funnel your money into a super PAC and then have that money weaseled to fuel campaign machinery) could in these coming elections we see the first crowdfunded candidate? I'm envisioning a system by which a representative could sell direct democracy back to the voters. They fund his campaign and (assuming he wins) in return are able to vote (online and in a manner actually convenient to them as opposed to the terrible system the US uses now) on all his actions on the Hill. IANAL, but, the thought seems interesting.
I think the project is worthy of marketing. Nothing wrong with trying to get some jake together to speed development if that's what they're trying to do. Full time developers should be working on this effort.
And here's an explanation with some code examples: http://www.quora.com/Algorithms/How-is-the-fuzzy-search-algo...
Twitter Now Lets You Easily Search For Tweets By Date Range
And, once again, who does this satisfy other than the people seeking a cheap XBMC platform?
U.S. confirms warrantless searches of Americans
Great news. The headline is misleading. Congress again was trying to play games with who could donate to who/what and when they could and so and so on. They were not interested in a level playing field, they were again protecting their interest.

Restricting how money is spent in political races only protects incumbents and their party. It in no way protects the right of the people to vote for whom they want. The costs involved in modern campaigns can be insurmountable with the restrictions placed on donations and expenditures. The costs have exceed inflation, the limits have not.

Never ever support such restrictions just because you don't like the message or messenger because you are merely handing someone the means to do the same to you.
thing is that mobile web has not yet integrated into mobile platform per-se. Apps have access to far more features of the OS than web pages. I think if browsers would be able to expose and integrate web-apps something that can be a blend of an app and webservice then one will see how limited and stupid using isolated app is.

Open services promote integration and availability of things you want to do.. for example I can't instapaper an article in my safari browser, I am sure I could've fixed that if there'd been a layer of script language between OS apps and web apps. It is only a sliver but it has been annoying me quite a bit. If the mobile ecosystem will be scriptable and integratable then one can make web be a first class citizen on the mobile. For now browser is a pretty crummy way to do web on a mobile device. Screen is too small, value added features are only available to apps only. Maybe for a good reason - technological one, battery and security(those are the problems to solve). Yet I would like to program my alarm clock from the web and have it send me some news for the time when I got up ... something like that (I am brain storming here)

2c
A win for freedom of speech, and of the press. Running a press costs money, as does speaking to more than a few people; if a group of people with common interests choose to fund & pool their money to promote a message, they have the right to do so.

Ruling here: http://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/09pdf/08-205.pdf

Crux of argument:

First Amendment protections do not depend on the speaker’s “financial ability to engage in public discussion.” ... Distinguishing wealthy individuals from corporations based on the latter’s special advantages of, e.g., limited liability, does not suffice to allow laws prohibiting speech. It is irrelevant for First Amendment purposes that corporate funds may “have little or no correlation to the public’s support for the corporation’s political ideas.” Austin, supra, at 660. All speakers, including individuals and the media, use money amassed from the economic marketplace to fund their speech, and the First Amendment protects the resulting speech.

That and related points go on in detail for 57 pages.
Use whatever will work best with your accountant. Unless you are an accountant yourself and that's your function at your company my standard advise is to stop trying to micro-manage everything and move accounting off your desk as quickly as possible. Focus on your product.

Most accountants in the US are setup to ingest from and work with tools like Quickbooks. If you use a tool that provides a low impedance path for your accountant it will make your life a million times easier.

Do. Not. Reinvent. The. Wheel.
This one[1] was fork just after the original closed. I guess it's the most up to date.

[1] https://github.com/isra17/popcorn-app
ipdb

import ipdb

Later:

ipdb.set_trace()

Look around. Inspect some stuff. Change some values. Write some prototype code.

I have no idea how I debugged before ipdb, and my node suffers because node inspector isn't anywhere near as powerful.

Seriously, it's awesome.
None of this is relevant. You made a baseless allegation. There is no grounds for claiming that Eich is against gays.
As a law-talking-guy, I can say: this is really, really bad. It's really unusual to see such a split (4-1-4) in such an important decision, and it's tough to say for sure what the law actually is now. One thing that's clear: this doesn't bode well for American democracy UNLESS the legislature takes the clear signal the Court appears to be trying to send and crafts new law to fix the problems this decision creates.
The Mobile Pro Project
We use QuickBooks Online. As mentioned elsewhere in the thread, the new redesign is pretty slick and catches QuickBooks back up with Xero. In the US, you're going to find more accountants/bookkeepers that are familiar with QuickBooks over Xero...which is very important if you're not an accounting expert (most of us). That being said, Xero is working hard to woo those accountants in the US. I'd recommend doing a trial of both QuickBooks Online and Xero and seeing which one feels the best, syncs with your bank accounts, and saves you the most time.
Have you tried Debian + backports?
In the example you posted it shows an HTML page which I guess would be an easy place to put your SEO content.
That article is much more informative. Kudos to you, nzp.
First, I'm so sorry. We were broken into in October 2012. The big fear as we waited outside for the police to say we could enter (they dusted for prints) was that we'd lose photos of our kids. They took laptops, but not the backups. I now have offsite backups.

Security is an antiquated industry. I went with Simplisafe.com. It's a self-installed system, it uses wireless over t-mobile to call home. It has a 24/7 call center monitoring the alarm and they do call 911 quickly. I know this bc we had a few false alarms after installing.

Simplisafe has great service and there is no contract, but as a practical reality you don't have many choices in the space anyway. So yeah, you can cancel, but there's not too many places to go. You can also buy a brinks/ADT yard sign on eBay, since to my mind that's scarier than a startup most thieves haven't heard of.

The only part of home security Simplisafe reinvents is the installation. I thought they were coming out with a networked fire alarm, but they're not moving to be a total home automation or internet of things play. You can't add third party hardware, like the Foscam or GE home automation stuff I have. I see why Simplisafe doesn't want to just support any HW, since the result of a false positive is their call center calling the police .

I am not a fan of their motion sensors. That was the cause of both false alarms. It wasn't the cat, they later told us that the air mass coming out of forced air heating looks like a person. This is a big deal and I screamed at them for not disclosing this. The police where I live are very helpful, and we cried wolf twice. The first time, the neighbor unlocked the door and an officer entered our home gun drawn. That must've been incredibly tramautic for that officer. And of course we were fined twice.

Hang in there. That first night, my family slept w/ the neighbors. I was at Home Depot and a man starting his late night shift cut a perfect piece of plywood for me. I used it to board up our broken door like you might before a hurricane. I was so grateful to have that help, to have the help of police, and neighbors. It was a temporary euphoria because, as you mention, you're going to be on guard for quit a while.
Do you use the payroll component of it?
I think as the NYT article states, it will likely funnel some money away from the super-PACs. This just brings the donor and the candidate closer together.

People like Sheldon Adelson will still continue to contribute huge sums of money to candidates, he'll just be able to do it directly now.
Campaigns cost money.

Politicians get the lion's share of that money from people expecting an ROI.

Our political system literally has a mandatory bribe quota.

> but in the case of company X the lobbying ROI is a net positive for everyone, so the system can't be all bad

Please list the top 10 donors (heck, I'll be generous: any 10 consecutive donors) to any seat-holding political party of your choice, along with your opinion of whether or not the policy they're after is net-beneficial to society (+), zero sum (0), or a net loss to society (-). Alternatively, pick the +/0/- labels according to your unapologetic self-interest, since it's reasonable to vote on that basis rather than trying to work out the whole "net benefit to society" thing.

Let's focus on what lobbying IS instead of hoping (for example) that google will displace comcast from the gravy train.
I am a Romanian and I lived through all three systems. Why I say three: I lived 10 years through the worst period of communism, 10 through the savage transition and more than 10 through the crony capitalism.

And although I pay a lot for not leaving with all the waves of brain drain, it deserves all I pay to experience this, all three systems are so similar, the way they sell themselves is different.

At least they had the chance to survey those files and learn from them. Imagine us survey our files at NSA, GCHQ or any other services that gets its targets from linkedin. It will never happen.
In addition to the compatibility point that someone explained, there is also the fact that XP is much lighter than his successors.

I can install XP on a VM and get away with a few GBs of space; the last time I tried Windows 7 instead, the space occupied started to grow uncontrollably, even after making little changes.
There's lots of approaches (as you note), but if I had to boil them down to a rule of thumb it would be this: give away functionality, charge for convenience.

You love our app, but want an MSI installer so you can deploy it on your network more easily? You can roll your own by checking out our source code here... or you can pay us $X for this already-made-and-thoroughly-tested installer.

You love our app, but want to learn more about how it works? You can browse this repository of 15,000 Doxygen-generated API pages... or you can pay us $Y for this beautiful book that explains everything in plain English.

You love our app, but want someone who can support it if something goes wrong? You can spend ten years turning someone on your staff into an expert on it... or you can pay us $Z for this support contract, and get access to our experts.

This approach can feel counter-intuitive to geeks, because we value functionality more than convenience, so it feels "wrong" to charge for the things we see as needless frills. But in general, people put a lot of value on convenience, and they are more than willing to pay for it if you're willing to provide it.

Sometimes people try the opposite approach -- charging for functionality. (i.e. "Try the open source edition of our app, or pay $X for the Premium Edition and get custom fields!") This rarely works.
I'm thinking on that, not sure if it's worth it.

Surely I will like to open source it, is just a 17Kb script that keeps listening and add a permission layer to create directories
Clearly big news:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7515819

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7515821

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7515841

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7515910

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7515978

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7516043

There are probably more. It's currently unclear which, if any, will attract lots of comments and/or discussion.

Added in edit: This has the comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7515841
I'm not sure if iOS users spend more time on apps vs Android, but there are lots of studies showing that iOS users spend significantly more money on apps/in apps than Android users.
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This is nothing to do with Islam. Saudi Kings are making up their own religion. Choice of faith, or even lack of faith is a freedom given in this world:

"There shall be no compulsion in [acceptance of] the religion. ..."

http://quran.com/2/256

I think world (including Muslims) are tired of Saudi interpretation of the religion...
There was some confusion on another HN thread[1] a few days ago as to what Ethereum actually is or is aiming to solve.

This visual contract builder is a really cool demo of what's possible with Ethereum.

For more read the whitepaper: https://github.com/ethereum/wiki/wiki/%5BEnglish%5D-White-Pa...

For some mind-bending implications of what might be in store with this technology, see the blog post on Decentralised Autonomous Organisations: http://blog.ethereum.org/2014/02/24/daos-are-not-scary-part-...

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7492731
In-browser mining for new cryptocurrency
I'm doing that - took a job straight out for 1.5 years, did a startup - didnt work out. Now, going back into workforce to save up some more $$ (for the next one :) )