jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
First of all, Google isn't to blame for this trend and Google's open-plan offices, although flawed, are more spacious and better planned than what most companies use. I've seen startups and banks under the 100 SF/employee barrier.

Second, it's not even the noise that wrecks people but visibility from behind ("open-back visibility"). That's not because people are constantly hiding things. It suggests low status and makes it hard (and stressful) to perform at one's best.

There are environments where open-plan offices are better, but they're rare. One is a trading floor, where seconds matter (a lot) and information must be broadcast quickly and verbally (i.e. yelling). Unless there's a real-time sensitivity to what they're doing, programmers are better off with more privacy.

If you are going to use an open-plan office, the least you can do is to give everyone a 7-foot wall at his or her back.
Not a chance. Anything sufficiently complex enough to be a "work" is automatically copyright (in most countries).

That means absent an open source license you cannot "copy" (as distinct from "view") or create a derivative of that work.

"Open source" does not refer to the code being publicly viewable (Microsoft tried to pull that one a decade ago).
Heads up: The image on the package page is broken
True story. Dogmatism is really bad always. If copy pasting into 10 almost identical functions seems resonable just do it. Atleast it obvoius that the code is a mess and that is not hidden in deep abstractions.
> The only reason Linux is so successful is actually the fact that it's open source. For individuals (like me) because that gives you much more flexibility in customizing the system, tinkering with it, and more importantly, debugging problems and understanding inner workings.

I agree a significant part (necessary part?) of Linux success among hackers and developers is it being FOSS... I don't know much about NT kernel but it would be quite interesting to see the alternate reality in which it was also FOSS and independent of the rest of windows, I wonder if it would have a similar success in the arenas Linux does.

There are some other really interesting FOSS kernels out there today like Minix3 (quite different from the Minix that inspired Linux), they are sure to have deficiencies when directly compared to something like Linux due to the difference in the shear size of community driving them, but they have noteworthy designs, superior in various aspects, and they make me wonder, is there only enough space in the world for so many popular FOSS kernels? i.e how much of Linux is now inertia much like windows desktop? (and I say this as a full time Linux user)
There were WebOS-like design changes in Android before the adoption of the official material design spec.
> Wikipedia is probably about as close to an ideal democracy as any human project ever attempted.

wikipedia has their own drama. it has contributors who shape the content into what they want the world to see instead of staying objective on certain topics. often articles on simple topics are so complex because they are written by enthusiasts and aren't trying to inform beginners or curious.

we need better!
Nah, that's due to the Apple Effect. Apple has for a long time performed and perfected the "Gas Lighting effect", including issues unrelated to China.

"You're holding it wrong", "Our butterfly keyboards are perfectly fine", "The iOS update does not slow down our older models"...

Other companies screw up, cheat and sometimes even lie, but Apple and a section of its fanboys repeatedly gaslight - even on small faults.
I hope you get the opportunity to learn the folly of your vision first hand, without leaving a path of destroyed lives in your wake. Your vision is short sighted, ignorant of how the world works, and lacks even the most basic amounts of humanity. I am appalled to see such vitriol here. Your own words paint yourself to be of the same character as those you would thrust into prison over petty crimes.
To enter a flow state you need to be working on something moderately challenging, but within your ability. It has to be a task that takes concentration and will take at least an hour to complete. You need to be relaxed and cannot have any distractions around you. It takes a good 15-20 minutes to get into a flow state.

For me flow is very pleasant but I don't get to experience it often, maybe once a month. It always feels very productive. I can be in a light flow state where I am still slightly aware of my surroundings, but on rare occasions I have experienced deep flow where I am aware of nothing but my internal monologue and the code. I daydream about being able to get into that mode sometimes.
I'm amazed this works great on my iPhone and had great touch controls.
No, the XLERATORS predate the dyson airblade by ~4-5 years. The dyson just made people realize that they were more expensive than the garbage units people used before, but not that expensive.
We can't wait to have you! If you have any questions or we can be helpful - just let us know!
I have recently found out you can actually run Docker containers with LXC as well. I've yet to get deep into it, but it seems to work fine*.

* Manual config tweaking may be required.
I've been working through 'Haskell From First Principles', and it turned on a lightbulb: the 'right' half of Either is the 'important' one because its type variable is free to change.

instance Functor (Either a) where -- a is fixed here!
fmap :: (b -> c) -> Either a b -> Either a c
fmap _ (Left l) = Left l
fmap f (Right r) = Right (f r)

As a general rule, the last type parameter of a type carries special significance: the same applies to Tuples.

You _can_ trivially construct a type where the two labels are swapped; it's just labels, Left and Right aren't intrinsically important, except insofar as they reflect the positions of the type arguments in written text.

data Either' a b = Left b | Right a
First of all you didn't read the whole text, second you think you can discount the opinion of the mot successful hedge fund manager ever and the due diligence of his team! because you know better. Amazing dunning krugger effect at play. Go back and read the report and don't rush to make hate comments. He describes in the text those that are blinded.
> Once upon a time the world used money whose value the oligarchs and governments couldn't easily manipulate: gold (and gold certificates).

Why do you think gold certificates can’t be manipulated?

> The outcome? Widespread poverty, depressions, wars, etc.

You’re missing the part where you substantiate your opinion that “poverty, depressions, wars, etc.” are the result of a stable currency.

> What makes you think that wouldn't happen again with Bitcoin?

I’m not sure “again” is warranted given that the invention of government fiat has done nothing to mitigate “poverty, depressions, wars, etc.”

Also I’m not claiming that bitcoin will end war for all time. Just that governments/banks can’t currently print more than 24 million or so.
This Twitter thread seems very enthusiastic:
https://twitter.com/skathire/status/1359639442537988096
In another news scientists discovered that water is wet...
Pretty neat, but I wouldn't want to contaminate the integrity of my Handcrafted With Love™ footer banner
Many (non-religious) gay people don't like gay marriage. I agree with the previous comment that the level of social pressure on the issue has reached ridiculous levels.

You can't have a conversation about it without one of those awful social disclaimers "now I support gay marriage but..." tacked on to your opinion.
For those who don't know: Albert Hofmann has passed away since this article was written. He lived to the ripe old age of 102. RIP.
Spot on Ivan! Looks a lot more polished than when you showed it to me a few weeks ago.
Reads like the narrative from Burn Notice. But better.
What about David Sacks?

http://www.fastcompany.com/3007336/creative-conversations/wh...
Interesting that Google also has stack ranking. If stack ranking were such a major factor of MS's decline why isn't it affecting Google the same way?
This isn't a Microsoft thing. If I remember correctly its used at IBM as well as a bunch of other big name companies.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vitality_curve
Heh, I find it ironic that the comments on that article quickly degenerated into a political argument about racism :P
Personally, I authed via GitHub, but still got a weird flash message along the lines of "Unable to create new account" and then was redirected to the funding page (the one with amount and rewards, etc) and was able to donate via PayPal without further problems.

I wish I could give you better details, but it's Friday night and my attention had wandered before I realized what happened.
It sounds like a more inherent result of ZFS being copy-on-write; if you run a pre-allocated fixed size database on top of it which is applying random writes to existing records it's going to heavily fragment over time where a write-in-place filesystem would not.

I think it's fair to examine this behavior without the very-much mediating features such as ARC, since ideally we want ARC boosting performance well above the block storage media, not just earning back lost performance from copy-on-write.

I think the key take-away is if you have spinning rust and expect to sequentially read from disk a large database table by primary key, to the extent old records have been updated they will be fragmented, cause unexpected seeks killing your read throughput, and there's no way to defrag it without taking the database offline.

It sounds like a serious factor to consider depending on the particular workload your database expects.
Right, you have to move it instead into the SSE registers.
I recently saw the "Vikings" Exhibition [1] in Berlin, they had several bladed weapons on Display that were bent like this. I don't remember dirks, but five to ten swords that were bent to really weird shapes and buried with their owners. Was really interesting.

[1] http://www.smb.museum/en/exhibitions/detail/die-wikinger.htm...
Jamie Zawinski's CADT[1] observation is relevant again. We are perpetually stuck on version 0.8.

[1][http://www.jwz.org/doc/cadt.html]
...while another one says you must cheer up:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8912699

Pretty confusing, isn't it?
Yeah. If you want to do things differently, you have to see things differently, and/or you have to want different things. And different emotional states achieve that. Or drugs. Or travel. Or anything, really, apart from "the same thing that happened yesterday". (Which is most people's default.)
I'm curious: Why do you switch between fcitx and XIM? What are the advantages of one over the other, and in what situations?
http://www.wired.com/2010/10/feeling-sad-makes-us-more-creat...

Just above in the news someone posted an article about being more creative when sad. Which one is wrong?
Most libraries that are still in C are in C so that people can embed them from many languages, or because they need to be used in scenarios where GC is unacceptable. I don't think many libraries that have remained in C (and not used e.g. D, or OCaml, or Haskell) will be suitable for migration into Go.
Nothing will stop the fraking. It's simply too profitable for Congress to do something about it (one of the few bright areas in a dismal economy), and the courts have gutted the environmental laws too much for the courts to do anything about it. It's an intrinsically attractive business: the product is something (energy) that's extremely valuable and has exploding demand, and many of the inherent costs of creating that product can be foisted onto people in the surrounding community that have little recourse, legal or otherwise, to do anything about it.

Fracking will end when the oil/gas is gone. In its wake it will leave behind the mess the energy and chemical industries have left all over the country: polluted, barely usable land in economically devastated regions (which is what happens after the oil is gone and the companies leave) that must be cleaned up at enormous public expense: http://www.epa.gov/superfund.[1]

Every story is some form of the same thing (plug: http://cleanupdepue.org). Company moves into little town. Residents rejoice in the new jobs. Company leaves when the land is polluted and used up. Property values plummet, and the town is left with no jobs and no ability to sell their houses and move out. The western midwest is in the first part of that story right now, hopefully they'll be smart enough and not have to see what the second part looks like 30-50 years from now.

[1] Incidentally, I think one of the great weaknesses of our country is that Congress sits in D.C., a city that is insulated from pretty much every substantial problem present in the rest of the country. In this particular context, it's a city that has never seen much industrialization and which has historically been surrounded by low-intensity agriculture in every direction (now: vast swaths of suburbia). I think we'd see a different attention to environmental issues if we relocated Congress to say the industrial New Jersey/Delaware/Pennsylvania coast...
Markets like "Airbnb for drilling holes in my wall" will take off once we have self-driving cars. Right now to order a "hole in my wall" you need to pay:

1) A human's time to come to you
2) A human's time to drill the hole
3) Capex for the drilling machine

Self driving car tech can solve point 1, which would leave a huge incentive to solve point 2. Even a low cost worker can easily cost $50K all-in (including overhead), so if self driving car tech is commonplace that would mean a "robot that drills holes and knows how to drive itself to the customer's wall" can cost up to $50K / risk adjusted interest rate.

Take interest rate at 10%, that means the market will pay upto $500K per such robot, multiply by a few of those in a few hundred cities and you now have a market oppotunity for 1000 hole drilling robots i.e. 500 million USD. It now becomes interesting for VCs.

Now redo this scenario for every little thing people do in life. Of course eventually someone who will invent the "iPhone for robots", a base robot that does the self driving and developers can make apps on top of it to do different tasks. The robot can go back to base to retool when needed.

This is why I am convinced self-driving cars will take automation to a whole new level. I think PG is right when he says ownership could turn out to be a temporary hack for efficient crowd sharing. (I am saying this as a 100% capitalist.)
Totally. Every time I see tall, beautiful churches I wonder how they built those, without cranes and such. Bhaskara supposedly calculated length of year etc, fairly accurately (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bhaskaracharya). Then there is the wonder of pyramids, non rusting tower in Delhi etc. They were a knowledgeable bunch.
I have a feeling the TSA will soon be ordering Xboxes and Kinects for their um, training department.
Learn to have fun without spending much money, learn to cook and prepare food so as to lower food expenses. Time to bring hobbies and things you always planned to learn up in plane one and perhaps join clubs to replace expensive social interactions with more wholesome and oldschool ways of having fun that costs next to nothing.
Also sleep efficiently. If you or your partner suspect sleep apneas or any other sleep disorder don't hesitate to reach out to an accredited sleep laboratory in your healthcare system.

Disclaimer: I'm a registered sleep technologist with 17+ years of experience in the field of sleep research so I might be biased.
Surely there's some point where the ability of the individual to not expend energy inefficiently becomes balanced with the ability of the organism to evade tigers. It's clearly not true that the individual who thinks they hear a tiger more often (without bound) will be more successful at surviving/reproducing.
what's more important - they will return you files fit for XCode! icanlocalize is awesome.
For those who never read it, here is the link to the archive.org version of the short story HARRISON BERGERON by Kurt Vonnegut [1].

[1] https://archive.org/stream/HarrisonBergeron/Harrison%20Berge...

EDIT: This is the opening paragraph. It says it all:

THE YEAR WAS 2081, and everybody was finally equal. They weren't only equal before God and the law. They were equal every which way. Nobody was smarter than anybody else. Nobody was better looking than anybody else. Nobody was stronger or quicker than anybody else. All this equality was due to the 211th, 212th, and 213th Amendments to the Constitution, and to the unceasing vigilance of agents of the United States Handicapper General.
Does modafinil require a prescription?
> Even the very title of the article doesn't make much sense: why would you _want_ to translate Z3 to Coq?

You misread both the title and the article itself. It's not about some sort of general translation from Z3 to Coq. It's about translating examples from a tutorial to compare certain introductory proofs and (for the SEND+MORE=MONEY) problem solving strategies.
Definitely not true in the UK(and wasn't true when we were still in the EU) - if the contract comes to an end and the landlord doesn't want to extend it then that's it, you have to move out. They don't have to give any reason.
> Are public programs that benefit my children going to be cancelled because they tend to include disproportionately more children from our group than other groups? Will I be forced to go private to get the teaching I need for my children?

Well yes, this is what they mean when they talk about "combating privilege".
I suppose its a question of resource distribution.

Should you spend your resources to nurture your best and brightest, or spend it to bring everyone up.

Given its public money, I suppose the latter is more desirable?
Writing things on paper is just a term rewriting system [0] which is just another universal computational system.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abstract_rewriting_system
Is this a Latin double negation?
The intention is kind, but there's no better way to force _every_ remaining parent who can afford it to send their kids to private schools (or move to the 'burbs) and increase the inequality even more.

There was an interesting podcast series that took on the disparity issue in some detail when a neighborhood public school in NYC got effectively taken over by parents who could no longer find slots for their kids in the "good" schools: "Nice White Parents" [https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/23/podcasts/nice-white-paren...].

It's an uncomfortable thing to approach no matter how you look at it. But the solution, if there even is one, is for parents to take a much deeper role in how schools are operated and funded. For the wealthy, that will simply mean private school, period. For those that can't do that but who still care about their kids education, it going to mean A LOT MORE involvement in public schools.
Librem 5 is the only phone in the world having mobile/desktop convergence and OpenPGP smartcard. This is not just theoretical possibility, a lot of research has already been put into it.
I hope one of the users wasn't Wendi Murdoch, otherwise (the then) UK Prime Minister Tony Blair would have a LOT of answering to do [0].

>> The passionate note surfaced amid the flotsam of a shipwrecked marriage. It was written in broken English by a woman to herself, pouring out her love for a man called Tony. “Oh, shit, oh, shit,” she wrote. “Whatever why I’m so so missing Tony. Because he is so so charming and his clothes are so good. He has such good body and he has really really good legs Butt . . . And he is slim tall and good skin. Pierce blue eyes which I love. Love his eyes. Also I love his power on the stage . . . and what else and what else and what else . . . ”

>> The woman was Wendi Deng Murdoch, the Chinese wife of the Australian media mogul Rupert Murdoch. The note, not revealed until now, could have been one of the few pieces of evidence in their surprise divorce last year, had the case come to trial. “Tony” was the former prime minister of Great Britain, Tony Blair.

[0] http://www.vanityfair.com/society/2014/03/wendi-deng-note-to...
The mark ring. The kill ring.

Registers. Each kind has its own use.

Painless keyboard macros. Name, save, edit, insert a counter, make them yours.

Dired. Wdired. The find-*-dired functions.

Org-mode.

Tramp.

These are all built in. Beyond that: a major mode for pretty much any language you can think of. Packages like magit and expand-region also immediately come to mind.
The big city culture in Texas is actually quite progressive. Houston was the first major city to elect an openly gay mayor.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Annise_Parker
Most people I've known who've gone in to full time freelancing have not been as lucky as you within days of quitting their job. Most had something lined up - as in a paying client with at least one project for a few weeks or couple months - not 12 months guaranteed at higher pay for less effort. Again, of the people I've known, they generally had to work to build that up over time - usually most didn't hit that "higher pay than corp job" until between 6 and 18 months. huge sample size? No, but it's not just my experience. :)

While you had great serendipity (congrats!), but not everyone can consider doing that if they've got obligations. In the US at least, the 'insurance tied to employers' is a massive problem, and inhibits most of the people I know from switching jobs too much, let alone quitting to freelance. Single people, young people without health issues or too much debt - sure.
Tianhe-1A with a peak performance of 4.701 PetaFLOPS

Nit: Linpack is an astoundingly easy benchmark to optimize, and they only attained 2.57 Pflop/s there. Most real science runs at much lower efficiency than Linpack (often more than an order of magnitude), primarily due to architectural reasons, so the theoretical peak number is even less meaningful than Linpack.
You can't colocate at two stock exchanges at once, which is required to make use of the arbitrage opportunities the article talks about.
Git itself handles robustness for what counts -- the source code and revision history. This outage did not affect repos as far as I have heard.

Backing up and restoring mysql is an orthogonal problem.

The fact that github can operate at all in a degraded mode very much indicates their competence. Many architectures can not operate without the entire db.

Plus I bet they'll shore up their db operations next. Github is very much a young company that will take a lick or two in their way to greatness. All the startups here will.
Berlin is fairly cheap, cheaper than any other major city in western europe at least. Accommodation prices can vary widely, they can go from as little as 200 euros/months for a studio on the outskirts. I was paying 800 euros/month for a large one-bed flat in fairly central east berlin (P-Berg).

Lots of startups, probably some doing Python, not sure who off the top of my head. Most recruitment in Berlin seems to be done via social networks rather than via job boards, so your best bet might be to get involved with the startup community and get some leads from there.
> Is multiplication anything but shorthand for counting the number of blocks in an M by N rectangle?

His point is that the notion of primality doesn't have anything to do with the properties of real blocks. Primality tables are not constructed in the laboratory by teams of scientists with giant collections of blocks. Real world objects may have motivated the idea of multiplication and primality, but the idea ultimately does not depend upon any particular real world objects.
This is good, but still not a good as a service that requires at least an unauthenticated encryption. The problem is that the attacker has to be active, but very little effort is needed to break this without the user noticing - it's enough to inject some packets to disrupt the TLS connection.

However, for HTTP it's the best thing possible at this point.