skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've tried a few things:

For the first year after my first daughter was born I "worked from home" on Wednesdays so I could stay home with her. Working from home consisted of doing a lot of extra work Tuesday and Thursday and being available by chat/email on Wednesdays. It worked okay, but I felt constantly stressed not knowing what would possibly come up in the office and if I would be able to handle it plus watch my daughter.

After my second daughter was born I spent a year working 12 - 8 so I could watch the children in the morning and they could have their mother in the evening. I didn't see my wife much, but this was a good year with the children. I enjoyed seeing them every morning and having that time. Plus I was able to run some of the regular errands you speak of...

Now I'm on to my third daughter and I'm not sure what I'll do when my wife's maternity leave is over. I am considering going in to the office very early while my wife is on leave so I can be home earlier in the evening.

I often feel that sometimes I'm wasting my time with the 40-hour work week. I could probably accomplish the same in less hours each week but I like my job and we're a small company so we need someone each day.

In a perfect world, I'd work an extra two hours each day early in the morning and take Friday's off. But that wouldn't work with getting the kids to school now (first daughter is now 5yo) and again my employer needs me everyday.

I wish there was a solution.
Of course they lose revenue. your view is like any other.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cost_per_impression)
you won't be taking money from the company, which started the ad campaign.
also: don't underestimate the effects on brand value, which will come subconsciously, if you look at ads.
You will know certain companies are still active etc. This is why you don't necessarily need to be targeted. simply informed.

The "sometimes" you talk about should just be with ads on. it won't hurt much, because it's just sometimes.
I think it's always going to be fluffy. Hard things are hard.
Of course not. But its also not reasonable to expect that.

Does your TV work outside of your TV?
It is a downgrade. The whole post sounded like a downgrade since they felt the need to emphasize their commitment to experimentation.

I am one of the people affected by this since I was running a one-page website dyno and had pingdom keeping it out of sleep mode. This is what they are referring to as well in the last paragraph. I didn't know it was that many people doing this, though the solution for me would be a simple one: just allow me to serve static files.
I've successfully worked a 4-day work week for over a year. I assume you mean 4, 10-hour days, which is what I did. I actually staggered my work week so I'd work Mon-Thur, then Tues-Fri, giving me a 2-day weekend, then a 4-day weekend.

Other members of my team had the same schedule, and we'd stagger our schedules as well.

It worked very well for me. I loved the extra time. I don't have kids, so the 4-10s was pretty easy for me. And having 4-day weekends every other week allowed me to do take mini-vacations and do some travel.
https://www.heroku.com/beta-pricing
Is SourceForge really open source? Guess I must have missed that news. Regardless, Gitlab would still be a better choice in terms of UX and is also open source.
Yeah, its an argument of Breadth vs. Depth of knowledge. An "expert" maintains a healthy portion of both.
MIT's neutrality really comes through as a badge of shame there.
Adverts are not just about getting a click to follow through to a purchase.

What do you gain by blocking adverts? An extra 150K from your data plan?

>websites aren't losing any revenue by me not seeing their ads.

This argument is a little too close to justifying piracy for my liking. "I wasn't going to buy it anyway, so it's fine"
It works. If you try to cram 40+ hours in those 4 days, some things that you might have had time to do such as exercising or things like that may be impacted. The benefits you list are huge though. I'd say its worth trying. For some people, it's too long of a day, but for others they're fine with the trade off. Personally, I prefer 8 hour days to 10 hour days, but I don't have a kid yet and I have a pretty flexible schedule at work for appointments and stuff right now.
Technically speaking, carbon dioxide, which is what I assume you refer to by carbon pollution, is not a pollutant. It is a non-toxic inert greenhouse gas, used by a very large quantity of organisms as an exchange gas.
What does this have to do with Erlang? As far as I know, Erlang doesn't have a concept of a "stream" nor any particular mechanism for handling back-pressure.
Seems like they're walking back from the previous announcement, which said they'd give 12 hours of non-sleep time per day: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9295874

There's a huge difference between 24 hours/day and 18 hours/day, but I don't think there's such a big difference going from 18->12, so I don't think many people will care about this improvement.
A real dyno costs $34. So in essence, they're replacing the 24h free tier with an 18h free tier, but lowering the cost of the first paid dyno to $7. At least that's how I'm reading it...
I fundamentally disagree with this. New things for the web appear all the time, undeniably, but their appearance doesn't invalidate your expertise with older things, especially given that the new things are rarely either entirely novel or a complete replacement for the older things.
I'm a bit late, but you are mixing up diffuse reflection with specular reflection. The problem with solar panels is that they are practically mirrors.
I use dtach because detaching from the terminal is the only feature I would use in tmux.
sure, lets shut down everything and go tribal
More importantly, these kinds of developments bring the features of hipper, HN-popular languages to the multitude of enterprise Java devs who will likely never be approved to write anything in Erlang, green field project or not.

It's always a good thing when a mainstream language gets better - it positively impacts a lot more people who don't get to use niche languages for their work.

EDIT: My grammar and spelling suck first thing in the morning.
Michigan is unusually conservative/libertarian. Its a shame children, the elderly, and those with lung conditions pay for this misguided philosophy with their health.
Exiled from the Everything Store
Twitter actually recognizes this as a problem, and is working to ensure that people who haven't done this get more value from their feed, and people who have get less.

I recently created a new twitter account (in addition to the one I've had since 2007), and the onboarding process is over-the-top frustrating. It almost forces you to choose celebrities, etc. that you're interested in, it nags you constantly to add more people, it even e-mails you about it. If I didn't know what Twitter was or why I wanted it, it would drive me away within the hour.

Plus, they're showing favourites in your feed now, as if they were retweets, which means that your feed is getting cluttered with things that people didn't mean to share to you, that you may not want to see, whether you like it or not. Then if you visit someone's page on Twitter, it's no longer a simple list of tweets. There are older tweets that Twitter's algorithm likes more, then their more recent tweets, and they're all different sizes to draw your attention to the tweet Twitter thinks you should read, rather than whatever you might want to read.

All in all, it reminds me of Facebook's non-chronological timeline. I look at my feed on FB, and I see a post from last week, then yesterday, then an hour ago, then two weeks ago, then last Tuesday, etc. It's a mess. I once refreshed my feed and saw two posts, back-to-back, from the same company. One talking about their livestream 'tomorrow' from the day before (i.e. the livestream was today), and one talking about how their hour-long livestream was starting in 'ten minutes' (from two hours ago). These were two items that were highly relevant and time-sensitive, and which didn't show up in my feed until after it was too late to do anything about them.

On top of that, it often fails to show me content from people I care about (e.g. my wife) but shows me lots of 'someone-you-know commented on someone you've-never-heard-of's selfie'. It shows me three things that someone, whose posts I've never interacted with, posted today, but nothing my wife, whose posts I comment on, like, share, etc. all the time, posted today. Then, out of the blue, it 'surfaces' content from last week back to the top of my feed again.

And this is what Twitter seems to be trying to do: figure out what we 'should' be looking at to 'drive engagement'. Because they can't create a sane onboarding procedure that accomplishes any of this, they're just going to start doing it to everyone, even non-logged-in users, in the hopes that the users they attract will be of higher value than the users they drive away.
I thought of that but for a starter I didn't want to optimise too much. But still it's a good suggestion and I will apply "boy scout rule" for sure!
Web Operations Weekly
My tv doesn't claim to work outside the tv. This title ("displays 3D images just like R2D2") does.

Still, it is amazing. This is something that makes me feel like I'm living in the future.
Since I couldn't find any historical citations about the story:

http://writingabookwithwally.com/writing-a-book/checking-the...

Still interesting.
Yeah, self-employed, but not really in an hourly pay scenario where more hours worked directly correlates to more income. If that were the case, it would likely be more difficult to take a reduction in pay to make it work.
This could work on a certain level/like front page, AdWords, FB Ads/, though I don't really know how can I trick my customer to write a blog post for me or an article that will be published in a magazine/blog.
Opera (before they switched to WebKit/Blink) has per-site settings. IE has security zones (not per-site, but only a trusted/untrusted grouping.) Firefox can do it with extensions like NoScript, and I'm not familiar enough with Chrome or anything WebKit/Blink-based to know whether it can be done.
Part of the experience adults use to interpret that image is that they, at one point in their life, either stepped the scale of someone else, had their scale stepped by someone else or assisted to such a scene or even a different kind of prank suitable to draw the analogy, laughing or getting angry about it. How are you going to provide such experience to a system?
Edit: typo
I keep a blog centered around a niche topic (the pricing and positioning of software applications). I created a backlog of 300+ ideas for posts, but rarely look at it.

Once I got into the habit of writing something every day, my posts became easier to write. The discipline I gained by writing a book on the same topic helped immensely.

It's extremely risky to go with low-bidders for blog content. You'll wind up with low quality articles that make your company appear sub par.

How much is a blog post worth? As with all things, it depends. That's like asking how much a car is worth. Are you buying a Ferrari or a Toyota? Do you want to create content for SEO or to interest potential customers? How much research is required for your articles? How original do you need your content to be?

A link to your site would allow us to provide more detail.
I look forward to buying his books of printed G Code [1] which would build a gun from scratch when OCR'd or typed back in.

This reminds me, I still have the PGP source book on my bookshelf.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G-code
I'm not seeing your point about targeting a younger audience. A great investor can come from a combination of being self taught and from experience. The earlier you start the better better chance you have to make mistakes, learn from them, and get good at it. When you are young, you probably don't have much money to loose anyway. Not investing until you are older, and have a substantial savings is when lots of money really gets lost or else they are completely depended on financial advisers, but still not knowing which of them to really trust.
i thought i remembered, and so confirmed(i), that the super dracos were positioned in pairs and run at half thrust each

a precaution against a possible failure

in the event of a failure the others will increase thrust to compensate:

if your analysis is correct, i'd speculate further at a possible intentional shutdown to test the super draco's buddy system

(i) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zLdhhPGLntk#t=10m17s
I would rather see a massive uptick in retrofitting newer engines into older cars; I've done it a couple of times on older Volvos (240-940 vintage) and other makes, after the engines got really tired. I'd imagine it's cheaper/easier to just manufacture better engines and ECMs than it is to manufacture new cars, and you get to keep cool old cars on the road.
I know :). I am learning Elixir as well! Glad that you liked it :)
Author here.

This is a funny area. I feel quite confident giving prescriptive advice about strategies for software development, but not so much about strategies for dealing with psychological issues like depression and helplessness.

What I can do is share my own experience, and tell you where to find the resources that helped me. Thus... I would say that if anything in the post feels like something that is bothering you or has bothered you in the past, go and read about Learned Optimism, the rough opposite of Learned Helplessness:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Learned_optimism

And especially Seligman’s self-help book on the subject: http://amzn.to/1zFQXcr

The book claims that “optimism” can be measured, and that there are strategies for improving it, and discusses those strategies. I personally found that they did help me, and further that Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) under the supervision of a professional helped me even more.

I also wrote a post directly about Optimism a while back, it outlines Seligman’s strategies:

http://braythwayt.com/homoiconic/2009/05/01/optimism.html

There was lively HN discussion at the time, you may find it informative:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=589200
Consider using <C-Space>. I recently switched and it's made a world of difference to my speed.
This is pure speculation on my part and I have no basis for saying it so take it with a gigantic grain of salt. It is important to remember when someone offers you a free service you are NOT their customer. So you need to determine who is the customer.

In this case the obvious, though maybe not correct, inference is that their customer is the order execution companies that they are selling their order flow to. If that is the case, it is in robinhoods best interest to make that order flow as "dumb" as possible such that it doesn't make order volume go down.

It might be that it is a tactical decision not to provide high fidelity trading interfaces (via the web or otherwise) because those make their product (you) less valuable to their customer (the order routers).

Again, purely speculation, but it seems a reasonable hypothesis.
People wouldn't have been pinging their dynos to remain awake if it didn't take so long for them to spin back up. Know of any alternative places for projects that don't use a lot of resources?
As a CTO you will hopefully ALWAYS have better developers than you working for you, that's the point, the CTO role is not to be the best tech guy in the room. Its the guy that sets the vision, talks to investors, sets high level tech strategy (with a lot of team involvement), hires, fires, keep sales guys away from dev's etc

Eg. sort out everything that would distract your developers from building.
That's not the only issue. Parallel construction is also a concern - a process where the government "launders" information received unconstitutionally, such as lying and claiming it was from a confidential informant; or using the illegally received information to give them insight into how to pursue building a "clean" line of evidence that appears to be from scratch but isn't, such as "coincidentally" stopping a particular vehicle for a traffic violation, when investigators know the vehicle will be breaking the law from their dragnet surveillance (e.g., smuggling drugs). In some cases, these agencies have lied to the courts about how they obtained their evidence.

> But instead of being truthful with criminal defendants, judges, and even prosecutors about where the information came from, DEA agents are reportedly obscuring the source of these tips. For example, a law enforcement agent could receive a tip from SOD—which SOD, in turn, got from the NSA—to look for a specific car at a certain place. But instead of relying solely on that tip, the agent would be instructed to find his or her own reason to stop and search the car. Agents are directed to keep SOD under wraps and not mention it in "investigative reports, affidavits, discussions with prosecutors and courtroom testimony," according to Reuters.

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2013/08/dea-and-nsa-team-intel...
Typical sunglasses absorb 90% of light. Therefore two sunglasses on top another would absorb 99% and let 1% through. Is the remaining light enough to blind you when looking directly at the sun? I assumed yes, but I might be wrong. I'll have to find a second pair of shades to test.
Learned Optimism by Dr. Martin Seligman is well worth a read. It contains more details.

There's a interesting experiment where he shows how dogs learn to be helpless. Fascinating.
The theory about capitalism-critique has stopped to blame people for these problems long time ago.

It's about the systems and how they force people to do things they normally wouldn't do.
Relevant links:

https://blog.heroku.com/archives/2015/5/7/new-dyno-types-pub...

https://www.heroku.com/beta-pricing
Emacs is great and I know lots of people who love evil mode. I prefer vim because it comes pre-installed - good for ops. Many of my tools have embedded Lua, so it's great that I can exercise my Lua skills with Neovim. None of my other tools embeds elisp, so for me, elisp is a dead-end.
> But if I open Terminal C, which is yet another size, and attach to my existing session [...]

I might be misunderstanding, but could you not use `tmux new-session -t 0` again for the third terminal?

> and when I disconnect from Terminal C, those panes do not appear to switch back to what they now should be, unconstrained by Terminal C.

Odd. Unrelated to your earlier issue, but that's not what I'd expect or am seeing when I try to reproduce is locally.
Right. I was wondering if silk worms could be made to produce nano-silk if drenched in nanotube-water, like the spiders (or fed leaves dipped in nanotube-water etc).

[ed: I probably should've written "normal" silk, not natural silk...]
I've been doing webdevelopment for almost 15 years. And I think little has changed. Yes now we have transparency, animation, dropshadows, simple Ajax, and so on. But in the end we are still dealing with the same simple request and building webapps is still difficult.
Building a Xwalk Cordova shell to test app code (almost) directly from GitHub
Book of Shadows: Shamanism
> The Space Shuttle was based on engineering studies that

> somehow didn't anticipate that the whole spaceship would blow

> up if launched on a cold day[1] nor anticipate that the

> shuttle could break up on reentry if it was nicked by a piece

> of its own booster rocket while being launched.[2]

However it is worth noting that the engineers correctly predicted about a 2% catastrophic failure rate - that is loss of orbiter. Sure enough we lost two shuttles by mission 107. You can find the prediction in one of the two volume histories of the Space Shuttle project [1], [2].

Incidentally I think the books should be required reading for all engineers to understand how truly ambitious national projects such as the Shuttle are done. That includes the political, economic, and of course engineering issues involved.

[1] http://www.amazon.com/Shuttle-Decision-1965-1972-History-Vol...

[2] http://www.amazon.com/Development-Shuttle-1972-1981-History-...
I use `bind a send-prefix` and do a `<^-a> a` to make up for the bind :)
This is pretty much what I am looking for, though I am afraid of hiring in the big marketplaces like oDesk, afraid of not having any way to make sure these are good writers with a good knowledge in the niche that I work.

I tried once in oDesk and was flooded with offers for half a cent per word despite my budget, which was way higher. Once I talked a bit with the people who offered me my price range /40-50$ per 750-850 words and I am really not sure that this is the right price range/, it was very obvious that they were not native speakers and made random mistakes.
Over here in the Netherlands, part time working is pretty normal. I've been working four days a week for a couple of years now and I can really recommend it. Perhaps you will be a little bit less productive, but definitely not 20%.

If you can handle it financially, just do it.
https://hn.algolia.com/?query=internet%27s%20own%20boy&sort=...
I'm in the same position with similar circumstances. You did what you had to do - instead of going back to school and learning the theory, you decided to focus on the problem and build practical solutions in the form of prototypes/mvps. There's no shame in that.

My approach will be to stay humble and eager to learn. I want to hire people smarter than me so that I can grow by working with them.
Well, we've been stuck in this situation for a while. I'd say the consequences have been: persistently low inflation because the new money never gets into people's wallets, and lots of capital-asset valuation bubbles.

Ultimately, actual inflation would be a good thing, by helping households deleverage. Instead, the asset bubbles are likely to cause more household debt, and around we will go until another crash.

I honestly think there will be open revolution in at least some countries (well, Greece is already in such a state!) due to the radical detachment of the capital markets, and the political class held captive to those capital markets, from the household sector.
Hmm looks like the 1st and 2nd tier dynos are actually cheaper now at $25 and $50. Before they were $34.99 and something else.
this game is not about being safer (that's what the USA government sells to their citizens), it's about political and industrial espionage, and building a database of dissenters for the future.
Isn't everything will be solved by a some kind of grep that's date/timespan aware?
It's okay. A good portion of the justice system is in cahoots with investigators' tactics because it puts people they believe are guilty behind bars.
I saw this as an introduction to what helplessness is, what it means and where it comes from and more importantly, that it can be dealt with.

The reader is supposed to come away with the knowledge that this thing exist and it seems to make sense.

The author tells of an expert and links to his work for more in depth.
Why do you create a new window to maximize a pane [1] instead of using resize-pane -Z (mapped to bind-key z by default)?

[1]: https://github.com/jbnicolai/tmux/blob/master/.tmux.conf#L96
>Biotech sounds cool, but it may just be a new rent seeking industry that sucks off the teat of inefficiencies of socialized medicine.

Uhhhh... what socialized medicine? In the USA we just plain don't have socialized medicine.