skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is exactly what I was looking for - Thanks for the article looking forward to reading it this weekend
>When I was a machine operator at Harte-Hanks outside of Baltimore, I worked a 76 hour week without a day off for three months straight (12h * 5, 8h * 2).

Was it worth it though? It doesnt look like you are still at that job.

The salmon dinner didnt cause the stroke, its not usually what you are doing at the time that causes the heart attack/stroke. It was probably the decades of bad health/choices whatever that caused it.

>Right now, somebody in Germany is wondering how I can deal with only having 2 weeks of vacation a year

Hell right now I am asking myself why I dont live in Europe.
Not the kind you seem to be thinking of.
The people of the Soviet Union suffered 26,000,000 deaths, and presumably some multiple of that as casualties during the Second World War. Clearing anti-personnel mines by footfall is, given an abundance of feet, an elegantly simple engineering solution. Operational aesthetics are probably another matter. On the other hand, the way one deals with matters of life and death is a matter of life and death.

There are some lessons to be drawn in regard to simplicity from Soviet [or American or Costa Rican] military doctrine. But it's important to keep in mind the context.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=oWr_...
Mankinds total energy consumption is on the order of 10^13 , 290 million new power ... about 34500 more of these required. Or to be really blunt: A new plant every day for 100 years.
If you really like Bach and are interested in his complete works, you should definitely check out the Hännsler Bach Edition. (http://www.haenssler-classic.de/en/series-and-editions/johan...)

Its 199 Euros which is really not a lot if you consider its 172 CDs. And its not just a cheaply thrown together compilation but it was curated (and in large parts conducted) by Helmuth Rilling who is one of the premier Bach experts of our day. The quality of performance and recording is very good throughout. You certainly find superior recordings for some of Bachs works but I have yet to find a real disappointment in the set (I'm only about half way through).
50-80, 80-90, 90-110, any difference?

Factory work can be high or low stress, depending on the pacing and risk of injury.
Apple Eyes Beats, Say Sources
> I'm not trying to win a popularity contest.

No, that much is clear. What is clear is that you have an axe to grind and have lost perspective as to what is and is not a proper venue for making your point (you're suing, what else do you want to do?), and that your concerns are now a matter of court review so whatever someone here has to say about it (including Sam Altman) has no importance at all.

Ethics have relatively little to do with your complaint, you contend that it should be illegal, that does not mean that it is ethical or not to engage in said practice.

Lots of things that are legal are not ethical and vice versa, but by involving the courts you have made your battleground the legal aspect, not the ethical one.

The one that does not want to hear it seems in this case is you.
They are an entire LTS release behind for the new version coming later this year. 12.04 still has 3 years of support though.
And what part of my comment implied "covering monetary needs" does not include that?
From a hiring perspective: if you're at a start-up, take advantage of the trend and try to hire these people who want out after their 2-3 years. They know how to get stuff done in crunch periods and are still young enough where their creativity hasn't been (totally) crushed. Bonus points for a former Big 4 auditor--they tend to have the same work ethic but without the entitlement. [1]

Disclaimer: former Big 4 auditor but used to run a finance org, so have tons of friends in both (many of which have made the transition)

[1] Bit of a stereotype here, but most i-bankers get used to the huge salaries and massive expense budgets, which auditors and tech startups don't have.
How Beats By Dre became a billion-dollar business
Best headphones for work
Hi,
I am looking for a pair of headphones that would be great to be used by a Quality assurance analyst when doing testing. I get distracted with the sound of keyboard tapping around me. So I need something that is not too bulky but also not very expensive.
Most people who go into finance do so right after undergrad, when they're 22-23. Working a few years of 80-90 hour weeks* at a major bank almost guarantees admission to a top business school, allows you to save up a significant amount of money for later ventures, and is a resume line-item that carries almost universal weight in the F500 business world.

*) Although that's more typical of M&A than finance as a whole. My brother is a trader at one of the big banks and probably works more like 60.
Only if you're looking from a particular angle

I'd say most angles except the type system as you point out, or am I missing something?
So your friend was the 1 in 10. What happens to the other 9?

For me my priorities are providing for my future family and being there with them. I wouldnt want to be gone when my child walks or other small events early in life.
Just from the first couple pages, it seems your quote is apropos. The author makes a distinction between his feelings on war, and the weapon itself. And it's hard not to get swept up in the rhetoric of their design, which is indeed a tragedy given the suffering both inflicted and halted by the devices.
Olympic bosses make secret plea to use 2012 venues
A Wanderer Star Cluster Speeding Towards Earth
Hmm, I think this wholesale pricing may be more accurate:

http://www.eia.gov/electricity/monthly/update/wholesale_mark...

The plant will serve California which seems to be in the 130-170$/MWhr right? But, this all assumes that a plant like this would not put a downward pressure on prices.
Man that hurts. I know it is totally off-topic but the fact that there will be no more sequels really hit the other day when I was in a bookstore looking for something new to read. I'd gravitated to the area where Ian M. Banks books are on display and it took me a full minute to realize there never would be anything new in that section again. What a pity.
Numerical ability predicts mortgage default
“I’m not sure how you stop work if there’s a deal on..."

This makes me the think the guy is totally clueless and doesn't understand time management. Why is it that these types of people think you absolutely must squeeze in two weeks worth of work in three days? What's so important that you can't take the time to do it properly the first time without doing it in a manner that almost literally kills the staff? What's wrong with saying "hey, you've been on this for ten hours today, go home and rest up to hit it fresh in the morning"? Seems logic dictates productivity would increase in that case.

Then he follows up with "Hey, have we got this right?" If you don't realize that right off after someone freaking dies essentially doing their job then you are clueless.

But, I'm a developer, so what do I know?
If you want to see the van, I believe it is at Fermilab for this week.
I think AirBnB might have a problem with your website's design.
The Promise (?) of Online EDA
lz4 typically compresses logs 6:1 (note: the "high compression" mode allows fast searching.)
It's a temporary protest, not a punishment.
> This doesn't seem like the best outlet to protest the FCC's stance on net neutrality

Its not a protest of the FCC's stance on net neutrality, its a protest of a media rumor of the stance of the FCC chair in a proposal under discussion at the FCC that has been denied by the FCC chair. Literally no one at the FCC (well, except maybe the minority on the commission that were overtly opposed to net neutrality before the recent Open Internet Order was struck down) has publicly endorsed anything like the rumored position.

> When news outlets say the "FCC's plan for net neutrality", what they really mean is the plan that Tom Wheeler and his office put together.

But when they say it would "allow a fast lane", they mean that a couple of news outlets had anonymous sources that claimed something like that (which other outlets have grabbed and reported the fact that other outlets have reported it), and Wheeler himself has rather forcefully denied it.

Now we've got some news outlets claiming, based on the original leaks, and not paying attention to later information, that the "fast lane" is part of the FCC proposal, and others, based on assuming the original leaks were completely accurate, but trying to reconcile the later denial into a coherent narrative, that the FCC "reversed course" on the "fast lane" proposal.
More on Salomon culture:

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salomon_Brothers#1990s_Treasu...

Ite not "Solomon" :-)
Author here. Perhaps the "if sbperftest runs well, most other HTML5 games should run decently as well" statement should have been inverted, so it reads "if sbperftest doesn't run well, few other HTML5 games will". We develop a major HTML5 game engine, and this statement is backed by quite a bit of testing and profiling of real-world games.

The test is deliberately based on a real-world game (it was adapted from an interactive game) so it's not a synthetic benchmark. No it is not enormously onerous for the CPU or GPU, but if you look at the results many mobile devices still can't quite manage a rock-solid 60 FPS, so I think it serves pretty well to see if mobile devices are fast enough for relatively simple games. There is actually a lot of collision testing in the laser-to-enemy intersection test - all of the objects in the game have custom collision polygons, it's not a simple bounding box test. The explosions use additive blending (or "lighter" composite mode) which actually seems to stress many canvas2d implementations but generally is a lot smoother with WebGL. So it's not that simple a test.

I'm not sure why the 60 second period is important; the most intensive part is the waves of green sprites which should come well within the measured period, and it gets quieter after that when the test ends, so it's not skipping the hard bit.
I use DNA by Monster, they have a good balance between bulkiness, cost and sound quality. - http://www.monsterproducts.com/headphones/Dna/default.asp#12...
I edited my comment for precision, but what happens is that the bank finally notice that you are not as eager as the next batch of freshly promoted coworker. (i.e. you have a life on the side, you cannot be contacted during the we, you go on holiday, ...)

So if your department made slightly less profit that year, you get selected in the next batch of firing that happen generally just before bonus time.

Note that firing is a regular event for bankers. There is not much stigma attached to it, you just need to have the willpower to use the opportunity to retire.
West's individualism and East's collectivism may be due to agriculture
I've updated the copy on the site. It's better than it was before, but still not great. Open to any suggestions.
I could see this backfiring. If this gains any momentum at all, the media response from the ISPs will be obvious: "We appreciate that web developers are embracing their right to throttle certain customers. We're very happy that the FCC has decided to grant ISPs those same privileges."
There are more reasons for doing things than money. If a particular job does not satisfy them, when another one does, that is a price you pay (well, a trade-off with a net loss, so to speak).

It's highly personal, I suppose, but a rhetorical question of "who in their right mind" assumes a lot about what a right mind is an isn't. Yet my response gets downvotes somehow.
Ask HN: How much time do you spend on HN a week?
Precisely. I have a friend who is 32 and he couldn't create Amazon account on his own. I think certain people actually try hard to block any technical knowledge.
What astounds me is that this project is called LiMux and not Munix.
similar sentence modification for the license plates then. They are not emitters, just reflectors.
That's a good point. As with most things in life, it's always a balance. I'll admit I'm more toward the introverted side of the spectrum, which probably leads me to take more solitary time than someone like you. But it doesn't have to take too much out of your life—the benefit of self-directed learning is that since there's (typically) no deadline, you can take it at your own pace. If that means the learning stretches on for months on end, that's ok. And you can choose to go only as deep as you need to—the goal is not necessarily to get a super-deep understanding of the topic, but to get enough of a taste of it to demystify it. After you've touched on it, you can decide whether it's worth it to go deeper. In my case, when I was studying typography and design[0], I learned just enough that I could come up with a simple, functional design for my website that I was satisfied with, and then I mostly stopped.

It also helps if you can pick a topic that doesn't require large bursts of uninterrupted time, something you can read up on when you have a spare moment and are bored. Bayesian networks might not fit that mold, but things like personal finance and Chinese can—the former I learned mostly from short articles and looking up things I was unfamiliar with, and the latter is mostly involving continued repetition of the vocabulary I have to memorize, in short but frequent bursts. It can be powerful if you can make it a part of the background radiation of your life.

Lastly, I do want to mention that the two don't have to be mutually exclusive. Part of the reason I've been learning Chinese is for the sake of coming closer to those around me.

In the end, it's your life. You get to choose how you spend your time. But it's definitely not a black-and-white choice.

[0] Mostly from http://practicaltypography.com/ and assorted blog posts.
I agree with you entirely on leadership.

But I disagree entirely on the golden rule. I hear about people all the time who justify some action with, "Well, it isn't illegal". Because with a legal code as complex as the one in the US, it's easy to lose sight of "it's right". Empathy, though, is a foundation of human moral reasoning, and the golden rule points that out.

You can see this in kids all the time. There's the classic "but I didn't break rule X" defense, wherein the kid hacks the rules. E.g., "You said not to touch him." But "How would you feel in that situation?" and "How do you think they feel?" are much harder to hack. Even if the transgressor is able to self-fool, the flaws are much more obvious to third parties. The apparent lack of content of the golden rule is a benefit; the simplicity leaves less room to hide.
Yes, that's a marketing trick Microsoft managed to pull with Windows 8.

"Look, Windows 8 boots in 15 seconds!" - until the lockscreen, and then it takes 2 minutes to load everything.
A "warning" typically just leads to analysts eating hours (not recording all the hours they actually worked), especially for fixed fee projects.
>they would have won just by surviving the dust and breaks in logistic chains.

Where did this myth come from where US/NATO weaponry were these delicate things but for some reason Soviet weapons were wonderfully engineered. We saw the US go into various conflicts against various enemies during the cold war and get a real life test of its methods and equipment in Korea and Vietnam and later in the Balkans and Iraq.

The Red Army saw action in Afghanistan where an largely unfunded resistance fought them off. Later, in Georgia, we saw how delicate the Soviet-era equipment is and how poor Russia's ability to maintain a supply chain is.

If I had to go to war tomorrow, I'd want NATO's weaponry, not Putin's. I'll carry the AR15 instead of the AK47, thanks. It has longer effective range, better accuracy, and less weight.
Yes don't call GetFileAttributes (which your POSIX layer does to emulate grep) - especially over a network (samba) connection.

But the original point is OPEN is expensive, which it really is, especially over a network connection.
Google is extremely invested in education, recently they announced Google Apps for eductation:
http://www.google.com/enterprise/apps/education/

They also contributed a pile of money to EdX. Those are 2 examples off the top of my head
Another author (and neuroscientist) is David Eagleman. His book - Incognito: The Secret Lives of the Brain, is fantastic.
There's really no solution to this problem. It's obvious you disagree with the outcome, but equally obviously many would agree... he certainly didn't have the agency to give a solid answer by most of our standards (apparently some here disagree). There's no good solution, nor would I even agree there's a "default answer" here per se that we can fall back to. In the end all you can possibly end up with is a power struggle over whose personal preferences are going to be followed.
Too bad there is not an online version of this. Hardly any device in my home is able to play CDs.
Is Mobile Game Development Worth the Effort?
It comes up from time to time. I don't remember the details, but that they aren't particularly significant if my impression is correct.
The End Of The American Entrepreneur?
Pouring Saltwater Over Graphene Generates Electricity
Not if they can't particularly help effect change. "Random departmental secretary trying to book flights" isn't going to write their congressman over your clever code. All you've done is make their day worse.
The Light and Dark Sides of Python Name Binding
FBI Hacker-Informant Sabu's Sentencing Has Been Delayed for the Seventh Time
I'd love to read the Afghani version of this.
I like to think about those people. I'm imagining a bored little boy kicking the pew in front of him, not realizing he's hearing some of the greatest music that will ever be written.
Grouper (YC W12) is hiring a front-end engineer in NYC
Hey HN,

We’re looking for an experienced front-end dev to join us. You’ll work with us to build a javascript app for our members to use while out on Groupers.

Who are you?

- You have 3+ years of experience building rich client applications with Backbone, Ember, Angular etc.

- Deep understanding of HTML, CSS, and JavaScript, and their client-side performance implications

- You’re comfortable hosting a brown bag tech talk.

- You’re a fearless explorer - If there’s something you don’t know how to do, you’ll figure out the lowest cost path to understanding it.

- You’ve used some of these tools and you can tell me why they matter (or why they suck)

- clojurescript
- react (or om)
- meteor
- es6/harmony modules
- component
- browserify
- gulpjs

Who are we?

We’re a tiny team based in NYC working to engineer the perfect night out with friends. What goes into that? So far we’ve built out matching algorithms, logistics optimizations, customer service AI, and a real-time collaborative email client that’s better than Gmail.

We love open source:

https://github.com/Grouper/FlatUIKit
https://github.com/Grouper/Cuttlefish

And we have strong opinions on code:

http://eng.joingrouper.com/

I’d love to chat, just email me at tom@joingrouper.com

Cheers,

-Tom

P.S. We just announced the Grouper Fellow Program, so if we give you an offer, you get all the perks of being on the team, even if you don't accept it. bit.ly/grouper-fellow
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> "Actions speak louder than words."

I think the FCC's repeated adoption of pro-neutrality regulations are very clear actions. The people who keep knocking them down are the federal courts, and then the FCC keeps setting up new ones framed slightly differently but aimed at achieving the same ends. So, yeah, actions speak louder than words -- and the FCC's actions on net neutrality are pretty consistently in favor of it (just as the words of the majority of commissioners, including the current chair, are.)

The whole "fast lane" idea is based on a couple news outlets reporting of claims of anonymous sources with unspecified qualifications about their interpretation of the content of an unreleased proposal (note also that the original articles weren't actually consistent on their claims, either, as one claimed that the proposal would include a provision allowing for "fast lanes", and one suggesting that the proposal would allow it implicitly because it didn't address the practice at all), claims which have been emphatically denied on the record by Wheeler, whose proposal it is.

Once they've actually published a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking for public comment, there will be a chance for informed discussion.
I like this concept but think about how the user at the FCC will perceive this. When your internet is slow who do you blame?

1 - The site, i.e. "Yahoo must be getting a lot of traffic today."

2 - Your ISP. ie. "Comcast must be overloaded in my area right now."

3 - Your equipment. i.e. "Maybe I need to restart my wifi / PC"

And then, somewhere way down that list you maybe, just maybe think - "I wonder if there is an organized effort by a small group of developers to set up their sites in such a way that my particular IP here at the FCC is having its speed throttled."

I agree that we need to spread the word about what is at stake with Net Neutrality but I'm not sure if this is the best way.
How did I get 50 advices for only a few $.
Thanks. Is there a way to type something like take 5 . repeat? Or more generally, how do you make use of codata in these languages?
You mean the finance work? Although almost all of it has tax implications, most actual tax work is handled by accounting and law firms. The finance folks do the bread and butter of corporate financial transactions and asset management. They underwrite IPO's, put together bond issues, arrange lines of credit, and work out mergers and divestitures. Very little of it arises due to the tax system. Even the law firms doing the legal side of these transactions don't devote huge resources to tax. The NYC firm where I used to work, which had a top-rated tax practice, had about 1/10 as many lawyers working on tax matters as they did working on M&A or securities matters. I'd imagine the accounting firms have a higher percentage of tax people, though.
The result is even stronger: we can prove that it will sometimes not terminate!

Still that's not too bad, since type checking is always conservative: if a program passes, we know it's correct(ly typed). If it doesn't pass, we don't gain any knowledge: it may be incorrect, or it may be correct in a way which the type checker's limited algorithm cannot determine (ie. a Goedel sentence).

I'm very concerned whether my programs terminate/coterminate, since having to kill them part-way-through could cause corruption and other nastiness. Whether the type-checker terminates or not I don't really care about; I can just kill it after a certain timeout and keep fiddling with my code until it passes, just like any other type error.

Of course, a timeout removes Turing-completeness, but that timeout is under my control at the commandline, rather than being an inherent property of the algorithm.
IE-friendly mobile-first CSS with LESS
Why Apple Wants Beats
Silly sysadmins ADDING Heartbleed to servers
White House Update on Open Government Data Initiative
I'm going even further off-topic, but I saw a blog posting by David Brin where he describes the Culture as "a humanity-that-succeeds" - which is a description I loved.

http://davidbrin.blogspot.co.uk/2013/06/science-fiction-lame...
$1.8B / 5MM = $360 per panel. That includes frames, land, infrastructure and most importantly, connection to the grid, which itself was significantly upgraded in late 1990's early 2000's to support the construction of gas fired turbine facilities (which use ALOT of water for cooling).

$360 per panel is very reasonable.

With PPG is buying all of its capacity, it appears this is a solution that works.

Is my math right tho'? 290MW is roughly 58 Watts per panel. Aren't these things capable of 300+ watts or more?

edit: changed $1.6B to $1.8B