skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As articles like this attest, there is a deep resentment on HN with the idea that success requires long hours and slavish commitment to work. But then every article about a successful company bolsters the sense that success requires exactly that kind of sacrifice. As Michael Bloomberg put it in his autobiography, Bloomberg succeeded "because we worked harder."

It's nice to read about the exception like 37Signals, but Apple, Google, Facebook, Dropbox, etc. are not known as places where work-life balance is a priority (and they have done more than anyone technologically to make work ubiquitous). Those mega-successful companies are also the entire reason the VC model (including YC) works, which can be an uncomfortable truth if you work at a venture-backed startup.

Worker productivity has been steadily rising over the last half century, and yet people aren't working less, as originally predicted. You can view that as an indictment of American consumer culture, or you can view it as evidence that we're motivated by something else.

Just my observations.
http://arisalexis.com/2014/04/27/odyssey-2014-a-journey-into...

keep tuned I will write a similar back end post soon.
In the US, the quality of your math education is determined by where you live on the community level, usually by property value. Within 10 miles, you can have both a school that performs on par with Sweden and another that performs on par with Turkey.

What does this mean? Things are way worse for the poor here than this study even acknowledges. If you're poor in America, your best chance at a good education is by raffle.
If anyone is interested in a Node.js alternative, it’s pretty straightforward to use Gulp (http://gulpjs.com/) for this. Take a look at the deploy task for my personal web site for an example: https://github.com/steadicat/attardi.org/blob/master/gulpfil...
Like the app. If you ever want a job, I'd love for you to come help us at PredPol (jobs@predpol.com). We predict where crime is going to happen in the future so cops can stop is before it happens, and mobile is going to be a big part of that.
Well, it remains legal to download music and movies in Switzerland (PirateBay & Co), so there's that.
The joystick used to land Apollo 15 on the moon is up for sale
> pretty improbable these days

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/4b/Doomsday_...
THANK YOU!

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Currently I'm using a local Wordpress install and a static site plugin and I'm getting kinda fed up with the gotchas. (Detail and links at http://www.oddevan.com/about ) If this does what you say it does, not only can I automate the deploy process, I can move over to Ghost (which I'm already using for its superior Markdown editor).
I'd be curious to see what others think about this question:

There are so many articles that preach the wonders of international math education in Asian countries, and just as many that attempt to mortify with the Asian system of rote memorization that kills any creativity or true problem-solving. Which effect do we think is greater?

Because if the latter, then perhaps focusing just on math is as myopic as focusing within a country.
https://news.ycombinator.com/rss
I was just looking for something like this. I missed my push->circleci->test->deploy workflow when I moved to iOS development. Will be having a serious look at this later.
> It's become a place for young, single people, not families.

Sounds excellent. :) And as bad as BK rents are, SF rents are worse. Regardless, I'm glad you've found a place that works for you. I grew up on a beef cattle farm, and I know I need huge cities.
I don't know how feature complete it is, but I don't think you need to build one from scratch: https://github.com/nairteashop/CocoaAMF
You assume that any code installed through CocoaPods will be created by ‘third-parties’, this is incorrect. Dependencies are simply that. You can use your own, like many companies have been doing successfully internally. E.g. http://dev.hubspot.com/blog/architecting-a-large-ios-app-wit...

Regarding “it’s not difficult” to do; Indeed it’s not, but it can be time consuming when you do want to quickly try out some libs. Especially once you have committed them to SCM and later on decide to remove them, because they weren’t what you wanted after all. This becomes even more a factor if you want to see a community that builds stuff together, instead of everybody re-inventing the wheel and/or vendoring their dependencies inside their lib leading to the mess that brings (at linker and runtime level), because then you need actual transitive dependencies and calculate a graph.

It is my experience that the lack of a tool and an ecosystem, such as CocoaPods, has led to the Objective-C OSS community staying minimal, in terms of working together. This can be noticed by the instant feedback people get on their projects when they release a library through CocoaPods and the decline of monolithic frameworks.

Whether or not your situation asks for this is another question. In consulting you’ll notice the benefit of quickly adding your dependencies, while on your own (single) product that’s probably a negligible amount of time. YMMV and all are fine.
Could not help but wonder about this, if history was re-ordered appropriately, operating systems hacking could have been a major organized religion associated with all the heft, influence, funds and muscle that they are associated with.

Many researchers believe that the religious episodes that prophets talk about, their visions and hearings that led them to their religion, may have been psychotic episodes. I find this hypothesis extremely believable.

I think for something to become an organized religion more deliberate and political measures are required. Also needed: powerful people with axes to grind, but the roots of theistic organized religion of our times could surely have been aural/visual hallucinations and schizophrenia of their prophets who could have been just as smart, interesting, and at the same time human as Terry Davis.

http://www.salon.com/2013/08/02/i_thought_i_was_a_prophet/
Objective standards that come down from on high probably create perverse incentives and do more harm than good.
How are you going to quantify what constitutes normal advertising and what is "ramming it down throats"?
It appears to add characters, so I doubt it.

If it sometimes removes characters, then perhaps so.
I think its our job to teach our own kids, if the govt cant do anything because of all the naysayers and doubters then its left to upon the parents.

My parents challenged me in Math at a young age and I was always a step ahead in school.

Also as a nation we need to stop putting everyone on the same playing field. Students will always be left behind lets start focusing on programs that will help the smart and the challenged, not one program for all.
> So the politicians wanted to have their cake and eat it, no I get that perfectly.

That's how capitalism works (under ideal conditions). Everyone tries to make the best possible deal for themselves, not just politicians.

> For that matter, why is the city in the business of trying to make a profit out of peoples' pensions?

For a multitude of possible reasons. Because the profit there can be used to reduce the tax rates. Because the profit can be used to pay for something that the city couldn't otherwise afford. Because the benefits plan allows them to more accurately plan future liabilities (compared to paying employees a market rate salary (that's not otherwise lowered by a pension) that floats up and down with inflation and the economy).

> And even then there was no accountability or repercussions for politicians that decided to dip their fingers into the pension investment pools.

Are you talking about embezzlement or about the city borrowing money from the pension fund? The first is illegal and an enforcement problem that's pretty unrelated to where the money was embezzled from. The second may or may not actually be a problem depending on the terms at which the city borrows the money. Regardless, that's also not related to pensions specifically, since the city can borrow money at stupid terms from anyone, not just the pension fund.

> I think the reason why most people are shocked at this article, is because they've been conditioned and drilled with the thought that public servants are under-paid.

That's because the public workers actually were underpaid compared to private industry workers when the deals were originally negotiated (even including the expected value of the pension). Over the years since then, private corporations have lowered the salaries they pay (usually by not keeping up with inflation as opposed to actual pay cuts, though that happens, too) most of their workers, so public sector jobs have become much more competitive.

> If [the public servants did this on "purpose" as a risk-mitigating process]'s the case, then they need to stop yapping incessantly in the public sphere about how they're paid less in comparison to their private counterparts.

I have a few problems with many of the implicit assumptions in this statement; specifically that there is an agreed upon way to value a pension, that there is an agreed upon way to value the value of the risk-mitigation of a pension plan, that there is little variation in the ratio of the total compensation public workers earn to a market rate salary across all government workers, that all government workers are yapping incessantly about being paid less than market rate when using total compensation instead of just salary (combined with the previous assumption: as opposed to just the ones that are currently underpaid), and that only the workers are benefiting (or that they benefit much more than the city) from such a deal.

On a side note, it's disappointing to see people want to drag the public sector workers down to a their (possibly only just perceived) lower level instead of wanting to drag themselves up to the public sector workers' level.
I originally lived in the Mission, and then moved to Inner Richmond because the rent was cheaper. Brooklyn is cheaper yet, at least for me, by $250/month. And that's comparing my share for a two bedroom (BK is a little smaller, admittedly) in Bushwick vs. Inner Richmond. The 2BRs I was looking at in the Mission are ~$1100/month total more expensive than Inner Richmond.

I also could be really bad at looking. I don't have hard numbers, just what I found.
Tradition and market demand, I guess. I'm not completely philosophically opposed to dubs, but the truth is that the vast majority of German dubs are awful. And I'm talking about major Hollywood films and popular TV series. It really sounds like a bunch of actors sitting in a studio, reading lines melodramatically with zero nuance.

I swear, German radio dramas (which are quite popular) have better voice acting.
GoPro does cross promotion with TV/media companies and they often run discount coupons to attract sales. This is what companies do to promote their products. Microsoft also invests in events, users and activities.
"It only looks bolted on if you look very superficially, and you darned near have to bring the preconception in the first place to even briefly come to that conclusion."

...or read any of the older Haskell books and tutorials, which all seemed to start in pure expression-land and attempt to stay there as long as possible (which is good programming style, don't get me wrong; but learning is different). IO and other monadic things are treated like huge and scary monsters that must be left until the very last possible moment, if treated at all, because they're HUGE AND SCARY!!!!1! Aaaaahhhhhh!
Yes, CocoaPods can’t fix API breaking changes, but as we use semantic-versions and encourage authors to follow those, it can at least be mitigated more easily. E.g. A version requirement of: ‘~> 1’ should then install the latest v1.x.x, but not v2 which has API breakage.

Obviously this is not fool-proof and many are still getting used to it.
One size fits all is surely the answer.
> Comcast would very quickly start paying for upgrades if they were losing customers over it.

This seems irrelevant. They're not losing customers.

Is Comcast obligated to "lose" those customers themselves, as some sort of self-punishment?

> I'd love to switch to someone else.

About 3 weeks ago, I had an idea. It might have not been a very good idea. But I turned to my coworker, and I said "hey, those signs Google gives out in Kansas City for people to put in their yards... do you think we could make the local news if we could get 100 people to put them in their yards?".

He said he thought that might actually be possible. And if we could get on the evening news, maybe we could drum up support for our city council to actually do something about it.

The signs cost about $600 (give or take), and we launched an indiegogo campaign that will end soon.

No one is helping though. We've got hundreds and maybe even thousands of Facebook likes, but people won't even donate $5. Hell, they'd end up getting the yard sign that the $5 buys. But they're not just cheapskates, they're also dumb as rocks. One person was complaining about the idea that someone else might get a yard sign if they donated... as if it matters whose yard the sign ends up in, supposing this works. Another said it was a waste of money, that we should just go speak at city council... absent the display of public support of the idea, apparently.

Despite all the griping and complaining, I'm having alot of trouble believing anyone who says they want something different. Maybe you would want something different, if it just happens to you. But none of you really deserve anymore than you're getting.

> Peering is only broken because consumer ISPs are monopolistic,

That's dumb. I've already described how and why peering might be broken. If you had Comcast and Evil Universe Comcast both available where you live right now... we'd still be going through the same crap. Why?

Because Netflix would be flooding both of them with asymmetric traffic. And both would still refuse to pay for the upgrades that only benefit Netflix.

It's not a monopoly problem. You'd get that if you bothered to think about it.

> some of the most hated companies in the US,

Some of that hatred is deserved. But that doesn't change the fact that it may not be their fault here.

So blaming them, even punishing them... that's not going to fix it.
Well, no. I'm not that close. I'm pretty sure he doesn't have a job; one of his pages mentioned he only lives on disability.
It's not about legality, it's about convenience, while living in the UK, I honestly stopped downloading illegal stuff and was surviving on spotify+netflix+lovefilm+bbc iPlayer.

Now I'm in Latvia for a while and none of those (except for spotify) work without a proxy. So TPB is my friend again.

I have no problem with paying, just make it convenient and reasonably priced (iTunes I think is not, maybe I'm not rich enough).
Your arguments seem to boil down to saying that the things that he found intolerable are all true, but some other people find them tolerable. That's not very interesting.

Pretty disappointing comment.
"Hi, I'm a coward, and here's what I think of someone on HN."
EBay asks users to change password after breach
Looks like it offers a subset of the features by allowing you to use the same require() function for both amd and commonjs modules.

https://gist.github.com/spenceralger/946ddc6c55d997d4a028
How to Use Twitter Tailored Audiences
> "More likely, we'll figure out some stuff's working, some stuff's not; we'll adjust the formula."

I absolutely love this mindset from Netflix. Every conf talk, article I hear from them they talk about stuff that didn't work, that did work for a while but didn't scale. Then show what worked better.
Thanks a lot. We will look into it for future releases.
http://supermar.in/modular-objective-c/ is a great article too.
Pretty sure that's "the" Billy Hoffman. :)
James Shore (The Art of Agile Development) currently doing AMA on reddit
A how-to book like The Memory Book[1] is good for getting started on the techniques. When I read Moonwalking With Einstein it sounded like more and more techniques are being invented all the time, but it didn't go into as much "how-to" detail. If there's a more up to date how-to book out there, I'd be interested.

[1] http://www.amazon.com/The-Memory-Book-Classic-Improving/dp/0...
> so you'd need to check if the character was still not drunk after sending the FriendNet messages

Just send a checksum with the message.
Consider the fact that of the quotes from female chemists in the article, none of them were minorities. They were white women.
In Switzerland, you can legally download but not upload, so bittorrent should not be considered safe.

The interesting loophole for the bittorrent users is the fact that a private company cannot arvest the ip ( http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2010/09/switzerland-gathe... ) addresses from trackers, thus making quite hard the prosecution. (And from past cases, it looks like they will prosecute only people that are doing it for money, not for personal use).

Interesting move from netflix, but I'm quite curious how they will handle the localization of the content. Will they provide italian and french content too in Switzerland? Or like everybody else, they will ignore us linguistic minorities?
Of course, when I last tried installing stylish-haskell (last week), it insisted on taking non-compatible/broken dependencies. Yes, on a clean environment.

When I learn more Haskell, I may succeed to figuring out what's wrong.
That would be even worse if true.

That means the public is composed of blithering imbeciles who rally to inane causes without even understanding what's going on. Please, I beg all the gods that you are wrong.
So I logged into eBay for the first time in over a year to change my password, and noticed that eBay edited my reply to a buyer's feedback.

Has anyone else heard about eBay doing this? I have no way to edit it back to the way it was from what I can tell. It's infuriating -- they changed the word "Buyer" to "Seller" to make it sound like my reply to feedback was referring to myself.
> not one program for all.

It wasn't "one program for all" in any of the public schools I attended in the US. Admittedly, we send everyone to high school (well, offer it, some students fail out early, some are failed by their teachers, others by their family). But once in high school, all 4 states (VA, NC, GA, NV) I'm familiar with (admittedly dated, 90s) had different tracks and graduation requirements. At least two tracks, usually 3 (college prep, honors, vocational; the first two could be considered the same track with honors as a specialization given the overlap in courses).
Bitcoin investments illegal to sell in Belgium (dutch)
The FSMA, or financial services authority for Belgium, has outlawed offering financial services and/or products in Belgium.<p>Harbinger for Europe ?
Show HN: ZenQuery 1.0 is available today.
I’m pleased to announce the first public version of ZenQuery ( http://www.zenqry.com/ ) today. ZenQuery is an enterprise backend as a service (think Heroku Dataclips for your internal, non-cloud databases) that turns SQL queries into a REST API.

Since the first post regarding ZenQuery here on Hacker News roughly 30 days ago we’ve been busy working on this release. Today, you’ll be able to try out ZenQuery 1.0 yourselves on your own server and environment. I really hope you like what we’ve got for you so far. You can download ZenQuey here:

http://www.zenqry.com/download

The current documentation is available under http://www.zenqry.com/manual

If you like please take the survey (Very short. You’ll be done in no time.) at https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/9VPF6LM

Any kind of suggestion or comment is helpful to us and will be highly appreciated.
Why does it matter who sends who how many bits? It seems like that would only matter if one peer is sending traffic over another peer's network that's has yet a third peer as the real destination. But if e.g. Level3 is sending bits to Comcast because they're going to Comcast customers, then that seems entirely ok. These aren't bits that Level3 is forcing on Comcast. Comcast asked for these bits. Or rather, Comcast's customers did, but that's the same thing as far as I'm concerned.

If Comcast is asking Level3 for massive amounts of traffic, it makes no sense at all for Comcast to then turn around and accuse Level3 of sending them too much traffic. I suspect the real problem is that Comcast simply didn't expects its customers to actually use all the bandwidth Comcast promised them. They can't very well accuse their own customers of using too much traffic (for legitimate purposes, I'm ignoring BitTorrent here).

Comcast just needs to admit their equipment simply isn't up to the task of servicing their own customers, and they need to upgrade. Trying to charge Netflix for all the traffic is just pure greed.
Seriously, who came up with the idea that you should have to scroll down at least one full screen page in order to see just the tiniest bit of actual content?

On the home page - okay, if you need to do so. But why, just why on content subpages? Do you really believe that your purple banner with Roboto is that incredibly beautiful that I want to just stare at it for a minute before scrolling down to the meat, each single time that I click on a link?

"The computer industry is the only industry that's more fashion-driven than women's fashion." Damn, Ellison was so right about that.

Don't get me wrong, I am actually a typographer, and I am the last person on earth who wouldn't value appropriate white space. But ... seriously, find the right balance!
Any game where you can play badly on purpose has skill involved.

Some games still involve more luck than skill--blackjack, for instance.

Other games involve more skill than luck, and poker certainly falls into that category.

Poker is a game of skill with an element of luck. It is not a game of chance.
Majority of population preffers it that way for one reason or another (like old people having eye issues and people used to "listening" to TV and others just peeking at it at random while doing other activities), and minority watches movies in cinemas/dvds/bluerays/internet where stuff if subbed instead.
ECC's way overkill, just use a CRC and cancel the exchange if users are drunk.
What it does (and doesn't) mean for an AI system to work like the brain
It'll really require a culture shift, starting with the parents. I don't know much about school systems in other parts of the country, but going to school in Maryland there wasn't a lack of mathematical support and teaching. The kids who excelled and wanted to push themselves got all the support they needed. And usually it was kids with intelligent parents that pushed the importance of education and mathematics on them that did well. I'd bet the top performers in American schools are basically on par with top performers in other countries. The will and determination to push kids into that top performer bracket isn't there, even amongst the well-off.

You can force stricter math curriculum onto students, but all it will accomplish is more students failing and their parents complaining that they are pushing the kids too hard. And a lot of those parents have good paying jobs that don't require them to even remember algebra... so they probably don't have any respect for the subject. That type of mentality is endemic in America. Naturally it's going to get passed on to the kids.
It's quite ironic for NPR to say some news outlets twist facts and headlines to get a point across. Considering the main stream media does this on a daily basis and nobody bats an eye about it.

If you want to talk about misreporting something, you should start there, not a few articles on people casually using weed.
I was getting a 404 on the original link but these still loaded.