jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
So as a remote worker, you would be more productive in the office 5 days a week?

If everyone on the team has a 2 hour commute, that is a guarantee that there will be less time available to the individual and thus the team. Commutes are a big problem aside from the communication.

I have also found that companies that do remote or allow it, just communicate better, to all parties, even clients or stakeholders. They are more external focused companies without internal blinders, they take an external view of the company instead of internal. Lots of employees time is commuting and dealing with office politics which become a bigger part of your job than working at some places.

Personally I think companies that are remote or allow remote are much better at communication overall and have a saner external view of themselves coupled with the internal view, rather than just an internal view of what matters. I have seen this across many companies I have worked for or with. Some internal places I have worked that didn't allow remote made it very hard to get information because they expect people to barge into offices to ask.

Overall I feel remote companies have the benefit here and make for more robust teams if they do it right, not to mention the benefit of attracting great developers all over the country or world.

Today, virtual communication is how we communicate to most of our clients, customers and stakeholders. Companies that allow remote just do this better because they also communicate that way. Remote companies value external views of the company and communication much higher than non remote capable companies.

Two more benefits of remote capable: When you setup another office upon growth the new office will not have the virtual communication problem (office to office within the same company is typically virtual communication and non remote companies do this badly), also remote companies root out non-contributors more quickly as you can't just hide behind being there physically as work you must contribute and build.

VCs are so against remote that it seems like they almost have some tax hookups and own lots of real estate in SF as some of the logic makes no sense, ultimately labor costs would be cheaper and the companies would be more robust to changes.
"A lot of startups have ambitious goals and very hard technical challenges"

And those companies aren't billion dollar companies either.

"All those teleconferencing/videoconferencing/virtualwhiteboards/etc are not as effective as everyone sharing the same physical workspace"

But they're more effective than those people not working together at all.

"Remote workers even with today's fanciest collaboration technology is not the answer to finding the best talent."

You have to define 'best'. If the definition of 'best' has to include "people who are willing to uproot their entire life to spend a portion of it in someone else's office", then yes, you're correct.

"I see no evidence that this has ever been successfully done. Small scale modest businesses, yes, but not big ones."

I see little evidence that co-located teams are all that much more successful at becoming billion dollar behemoths than virtual teams.

You get access to a wider breadth of experience of worker when you embrace remote. Just because management hasn't had enough experience with the model yet to be able to grow a billion dollar company doesn't mean a) it's bad or that b) it may not happen in the future.
It's spooky to read that while eating dinner and thinking that I cloud get a remote job and go back to Krakow.

This is one of my concerns - to be a second class employee. Company has to have remote modus operandi.
The advantage to using "cat foo | grep pattern" is that it is trivial to ^p and edit the pattern before adding the next pipeline sequence.
Why is it so slow? Looking at a 30 second load time on ipad...
The article addresses this:

> The -F for grep indicates that we are only matching on fixed strings and not doing any fancy regex, and can offer a small speedup, which I did not notice in my testing.

I guess grep is probably clever enough to choose a faster matching algorithm once it's parsed the pattern and discovered it doesn't contain any regex fun.
Sounds like your devices are not being controlled by Google, but are instead being left in AT&T's hands... I'm very sorry to hear that, but it shows yet again that AT&T is the weakest link...
I would argue everybody does it (besides maybe Buddha :)

This book covers many of the fallacies people fall for http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1400077427/randohouse... Stumbling on Happiness

"Most of us spend our lives steering ourselves toward the best of all possible futures, only to find that tomorrow rarely turns out as we had presumed. Why? As Harvard psychologist Daniel Gilbert explains, when people try to imagine what the future will hold, they make some basic and consistent mistakes. Just as memory plays tricks on us when we try to look backward in time, so does imagination play tricks when we try to look forward."
Ah, yeah, when I'm writing code, I frequently do something like:

Foo *f = Other Foo();

They're so confusingly similar. ;-) But more seriously, I do agree with your point, if there's confusion (or the possibility), they would have to defend the trademark. I guess I just have a different bar for "confusing" than others.
well, impressive, indeed, that is the cutting edge of "use your on product" mantra.

Thinking a bit more about this principle of use it your own, be happy you are not the founder of amazon or ebay, in those cases you would have have to start buying all items available on the shop.

Looking forward reading updates about this journey.
At the start of the OP the author says that he has not seen any other language docs that are as good as the PHP ones. I have to disagree with that. The docs are fairly good, but they're not great. And they're not exactly easily portable.

Using RI and RDOC for Ruby projects has opened my eyes to what great documentation is...
Kind of off-topic, but since it's a discussion about iOS and Android, you know what I think would be the best thing ever that could happen to the iPhone? If Apple would officially support dual-booting Android. Think about it, Apple could claim making the best device (in terms of display quality, hardware, manufacturing), but also would be the only phone on the market that lets you use the 2 best phone OS's at the same time. It would be kind of an advanced feature, so it wouldn't interfere with the 'user experience' of the normal consumer. Basically full of win for everybody.

Of course I can expect this to happen when hell freezes over I guess.
this is repost.
So we should be thinking about this as a crazy overreach by Customs/ICE rather than a crazy overreach of Homeland Security?
Duplicate:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2010025 - deleted - 1 comment
Perhaps this app in itself is limited, but it's a first step. What would you say to a pair of glasses that did this?
Dup: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2009666

Many comments.
there are some hipe_bifs that let you do naughty and unpure things like destructive modification of arrays and what-not.
Thanks, Mike. We're fixing this up right now.
I used to enjoy listening to This Week in Tech until they started focusing on Twitter, Facebook, and Zynga. I still listen because I genuinely like Leo Laporte's presentation and personality. However, I am disappointed with him and tech journalism in general in how they covered Digg's downfall. They really didn't cover it at all. I really think they turned a blind eye, hoping that things would bounce back because they apparently gained so much traffic from Digg. I understand Digg still gets decent traffic so maybe they just don't want to make things worse.

To me it seemed to be a big story. Kevin Rose was on TWiT a couple episodes ago and they hardly mentioned Digg's problems. Journalism indeed.
"The only way to make people really disappear is to kill them or throw them into a gulag."

But no one was suggesting making anyone disappear, least of all Engels. All the myriad principalities and duchies of the German world are now gone, except Liechtenstein & Co -- this is an example of what Engels is anticipating and saying would be an 'advance' (he is thinking in this case of those of the southern parts of the Austrian Empire) Those who wanted the unification of Germany didn't want to kill off the people of Schleswig-Holstein! The suggestion is an outrage! Every rational person in the period thought that (1) a world full of petty duchies ruled by the church keeping peasants in darkness, etc etc. was fated to go away and that (2) this would be good; Americans, who were familiar with something better, would have been even more emphatic than Engels. In claiming that the ideas here propounded are the source of all evil, you are claiming that e.g. America is an example of this evil.

The claim that Marx and Engels 'spent their lives undermining' individual rights does not come with any evidence. Marx spent his life trying to write a book about the inner nature of the so-called 'capitalistic mode of production', of which he managed to finish one volume. It's a good read, you should try it sometime. Incredibly funny for one thing. That it is somehow all an argument against individual rights is a complete inversion of the actual text. You are as usual employing Russian barbarism as an argument against Marx.

You are in fact representing Stalinist propaganda. The idea the the Soviet Union somehow realized something in Marx is pure Stalinism. Marx did nothing appreciable except attempt an analysis -- true or false it matters not -- of the present, specifically capitalistic form of life, without offering the least suggestion for a possible replacement: "I am not writing recipes for the cook-shops of the future". Every attempt to imagine a possible better future society he sneers at as utopianism, Fourierism, Saint Simonism etc etc. The only formula he has for the imagined replacement is "communism", i.e. people living together and making their life together on the basis of thinking out together how to live together and make their lives together -- an ancient expression, another word for democracy -- and one admitting as many interpretations, many of course corrupt.
> What you’re doing is akin to tipping 5% in restaurants in the US and only tipping 15% when you have an outstanding experience. In reality, restaurants workers in the USA would expect 15% to 20% unless they dramatically fucked up.

This is actually the sole reason I don't go to restaurants/diners. These rules aren't what I grew up with (yes, in the US, I've never left the country), seem to be different every time I hear them, and usually keep creeping higher. I just never know what to tip, so it's either fast food and no tip, or go a bit hungry until I can get home.
Your biological intuition is poor. I'll leave it at that.
Is there nothing you can do yourself? Maybe something you could suggest at the next retro
Yes, it is the buyer's problem. And no, it doesn't follow that just because a person acknowledges sketchy business policy that the person believes that the answer is legislation. In my case, I understand unit pricing, but It's easier to remember whole package pricing than remembering unit pricing, as well as sizes that were in whole units versus fractional units. It's also aggravating that I have to buy more product than I need in order to make certain recipes that have been geared toward old standard sizing. There are also people out there who lack the intelligence to understand simple concepts and obviously they are expected to suffer the consequences for being less capable intellectually.
The ubuntu phone is based on it, so they will be hanging onto it for a while.
I suppose I should make that more clear. Thanks.
Yeah or just track all calls from inside the prison and build a map of who the criminals are talking to good source of intel.

SOCA obviously needs to get away from the cop on the beat mentality and think outside the box.

And stoping the rip of charges for inmates using the legitimate phone inside the prisons would stop the use of phone cards as an internal currency.
I would advise you to set a salary & benefits target and then actively hunt for a job that is acceptable to you.

Consider hunting on a national basis and relocating as needed, instead of staying tied to your home or college town. You probably won't have a spouse, kids, or a mortgage when you graduate, you'll be a perfect position to move & get what you want, instead of being forced to settle with something less than desirable due to circumstances.
Some HD Video flyovers done by the Japanese Self Defense Force show various abnormalities in quality once they fly over the damaged reactors. See this video[0] from the 2m40s mark.

[0] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M22Gt4sswEA#t=2m40s
I think the 99c price point provides a lower level of risk, especially when the book is in the charts. You don't know whether or not you'll like the book. At $12.99 you may as well go to a bookshop not to buy the book but to try a few pages. At $2.99 you might be put off by the book's price because you don't know the author, but the risk is fairly low. At 99c the book is going to cost less than a newspaper.

If all books were 99c I'd definitely jump. At that point you're seriously disrupting print media to the point where future generations would refer to this period as a dark age.
It's funny, but there are very few things in modern physics which aren't measured via electromagnetic radiation.
Just go to your contacts, email them one by one with personalized message, or utilize any connections you have on Facebook or Twitter.

You might find my idea validating blog post relevant: http://artsyeditor.com/2011/04/how-did-i-get-38-willing-to-p...
Dunning-Kruger I presume; they may assume that everyone programs by copy-paste or trial-and-error.
It's such a great book and I basically agree with everything you said, but I feel I should add a little caveat.

SICP is truly a masterpiece, but it might not be the best book for someone just starting out who wants to do productive stuff like prototype web apps. Peter Norvig wrote in his review, "I agree that the book's odds of success are better if you read it after having some experience" and I think I agree too, although I'm biased since I only read it after getting a degree in CS. I don't know how I would have felt if I'd read it as a freshman.

Felleisen et al argue that SICP isn't the best intro in their "The Structure and Interpretation of the Computer Science Curriculum" and although I haven't read the whole thing, I think I agree that How to Design Programs might be a better first book. It's certainly easier going, and you couldn't ask for a better environment than DrRacket to get started. And it's also freely available online.

1st ed: http://www.htdp.org/

draft of 2nd: http://www.ccs.neu.edu/home/matthias/HtDP2e/
It's interesting to me how people's rephrasings of "submit a patch" in this thread almost universally seem less objectionable. Perhaps it's all about how you say it. Perhaps the biggest issue with the statement "it's open source, submit a patch" is its curtness. Just changing it to "perhaps you should consider" takes the edge off.

I imagine people saying this are usually at the end of their tether fending off suggestions and feature requests. The best response in those situations is to say nothing, and to take a break. If the guy that finally did it for you just submitted an innocent suggestion, there's no sense in snapping at him.
I want the U.S to be the best global partner it can in fighting this pandemic and that’s impossible under its current leadership. Leadership doesn't mean telling the rest of the world what to do or being its cop. Leadership means the sorts of things outlined here:

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/23/opinion/coronavirus-mcchr...

> This is the time to work together,

Agreed. Best of luck in Spain.
Thus is the nature of knowledge and of discovery? This is why the Scientific Method was invented, correct?
> I was under the impression that 10s of meters was state of the art for indirect fire.

GLMRS [0] - 'the 70km sniper' - is a precision indirect fire weapon.

[0] https://www.thinkdefence.co.uk/uk-complex-weapons/guided-mul...
it was proposed and implemented, then the standards body did an about-face.

https://hacks.mozilla.org/2015/06/the-state-of-web-component...
(ctrl+f "HTML Imports")

"HTML Imports do lend themselves well to a simpler/more declarative workflow. [...] Imports don’t offer enough control to be taken seriously as a dependency management solution. [...] Mozilla had a working implementation behind a flag, but struggled through an incomplete specification."

which to me reads a bit like: "js frameworks won't use it, and the spec didn't get enough love because everybody's only thinking about frameworks rather than vanilla-js."
When this is over, what we absolutely have to look into is the generational conflict.

<50yo: all MDs understand and have been vocal about it for weeks.

>50yo: nah, this can't happen to us great minds. Let's start preparing when the first patients are already in the ICU.
The FT one is since 100th case, not since 10th death, according to the graph.
it’s not his needs, it’s something that why people use read it later services.
your product is not solving a problem that read it later services has, actually cannot finding saved items is a problem for a read it later service.
better call your service something like temporary bookmarks
Feynman-II has a nice chapter describing the idea of curved spaces: http://www.feynmanlectures.caltech.edu/II_42.html

The chapters on electromagnetism and special relativity are outstanding: starting with why the magnetism we observe around a wire carrying current is a v^2/c^2 effect, and proceeding all the way to how the electric and magnetic field intensities are both part of an electromagnetic tensor. And then the field-versus-potential question, leading to a discussion of the Aharanov-Bohm effect, etc.

The discussion on the classical theories of the electromagnetic self-energy of an electron is outstanding. It's in Vol.II that we really understand how much this guy had thought through the stuff, he wasn't just drawing squiggly lines to calculate some numbers.
If you liked the earlier books, I'd give it another try. I also thought the 5th book was the worst, but 6 and 7 are my favorites of the whole series.
You can usually do this in Firefox too, although just double-clicking doesn't work in this case because it selects the [1] at the beginning as well.
The idea behind OOP makes sense. But the carry-out of OOP in pragmatic programming languages is the problem.

http://www.infoq.com/presentations/Are-We-There-Yet-Rich-Hic...
I read this as "this is the worst job at a 'startup' that's never going to have big exit"
or the constant posting of child porn
As a long-time follower of the mysterious and opinionated Startup L Jackson, we had a fun time chatting with him on the podcast.
The further you get from the source, the less credible you get. It's one thing when a buddy of a buddy of a buddy who I trust says something and another when the CEO of the company says it on film.
>>Yes, the US has some extra administrative costs due to the billing nonsense of non taxpayer funded healthcare and overhead of health insurance companies, but bottom line is healthcare costs more in the US because everyone earns more top to bottom in the US, and supply of healthcare and medicine is constrained.

Right, but just like your healthcare professionals are paid an order of magnitude more than ours, you guys will be paying an order of magnitude more in taxes and healthcare costs. So I don't think it's an excuse for the level of care provided in the US - yes, it's more expensive, but you also pay more for it, so.....why is the experience worse?

And I mean, Polish supply of doctors and medicine is massively constrained too, that's by no means a uniquely American problem to have.

>>I assume healthcare providers in Poland are also not subject to the legal liability they would be in the US.

I'm sure the deeper legal nouances of legal liabilities are of course not the same, but at least on the surface level it's similar - of course you can sue a hospital for malpractice if it occurs, and you will be awarded damages.
In countries where big industry is gone the main demands become consumers, and so it becomes consumer loads on the grid that need to change to adapt to supply. That's more complicated than a few big industrial users being paid to turn off equipment.
There's many more stakeholders to coordinate.
Those laws do not prevent it from happening, they just offer a small stick for anyone getting screwed to attempt to use in court.

Meanwhile your insurance company can just wait for you to die while you try to hash it out.

Plus, every calendar year that passes while you’re desperately trying to get them to cover services is another shot at them avoiding any responsibility for the next service you need.
I try to use Bing for all my searches (set it as the browser default), but at least a third of the time I end up needing to open Google and search there instead. Anyone got any tips for getting better results out of Bing? It doesn't help that when I'm using a VPN, searching for an English term often causes Bing to deliver a bunch of results in the native language of the place the VPN is located, rather than in English.
You know, he does have a more than a passing resemblance to Jim Raynor, of Starcraft...
Nothing will change here. We are too comfortable with cheap Chinese goods that we will just cast this out of our minds. Same thing happened with coffee as well. Its not like people werent aware that coffee used slave labour but oh well what about the quality of life. The great western values of democracy, freedom and human rights have a very cheap price tag.
"Intel has just published a news release on its website stating that Jim Keller has resigned from the company, effective immediately, due to personal reasons.

"Intel’s press release today states that Jim Keller is leaving the position on June 11th ( 2020 ) due to personal reasons. However, he will remain with the company as a consultant for six months in order to assist with the transition." [1]

Exactly six months later he took a new job. Some may want to look back at their comment on the subject. [2] [3]

Still waiting for the Story between Jim and Gerard.[4]

[1] https://www.anandtech.com/show/15846/jim-keller-resigns-from...

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23496083

[3] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23493046

[4] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23497336
Apparently it's either legal or at least accepted in Whataburger country (Texas). Stores there offer free meals to anyone in uniform--police, firefighter, EMS, security guard, military, nurse, etc--eating in the restaurant.
This makes sense to me, there is legal and cultural differences.

China is a sovereign country, and Apple is just playing by the rules in that country, one that is rooted in authoritarianism and surveillance.

In America, although companies could voluntarily work with law enforcement, the cultural norm and historical momentum is rooted in pushing back against big government and the people’s role in checking the government’s power. There are many different viewpoints around this and those ideas constantly changing.

It should be no surprise though, that Apple may have different strategies in different counties.