skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A good question, the kind that should always be raised with these sorts of studies.

On the anecdotal side, I've played music with a lot of people over the years, and have long suspected there is some sort of inborn talent spectrum for both rhythm and pitch discernment (somewhat separately from each other, too). Practicing a ton will make a difference, but it definitely appears that certain skills come much more easily for some people than others. Good drummers are actually pretty hard to find in my experience, and they tend to be in high demand.
> Is there a Smalltalk with JIT-only but no AOT?

I don't know about the current state of Smalltalk, but it definitely has a JIT. Many other languages (JavaScript, all JVM languages) have JITs but not always AOT because a JIT gives much better performance.

But what difference does it make if you get a single native binary file with the runtime statically linked (like Go), or with the runtime in its own shared library (like with the JVM)? In either case you can create a native binary to launch the program if you don't want to run `vm program.file`.
This BBC article isn't really about Jeff Bezos. The bulk of the text is about Nick Ciubotariu's blog post. Just read the source directly:

https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/amazonians-response-inside-am...

Understandably, a story that could have been titled "Nick Ciubotariu from Amazon responds to criticism" is not as eye-catching as "Jeff Bezos defends company's workplace"
The 6 Must-Dos in Modern Log Management
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A classic company nowadays will have their code in Github, their e-mail and documents over at Google, even more documents in office 365 cloud, critical company files in Dropbox etc.

All for the sake of convenience. For me the important thing is to keep a work machine which is solely dedicated to work, which is only connected to the necessary services.
"Getting Things Done" (David Allen)
After years of working remotely, I find I'm very different than the author when it comes to being flexible with my day. While initially it was great to be able to head out for an hour here and there when I was feeling burnt or losing focus, I realized that I often made excuses just to get out of the house. It also meant that I was working "all day" and late into the night in order to make up for the lost hours from taking these breaks.

Ever since I have converted to my own set schedule (5:30 am and finished by early afternoon), I've never been more productive. Long story short, find a way to be productive that works for YOU. This may mean working early, working late, or working in chunks from morning until you go to bed. The author's experience didn't parallel mine, and it may or may not parallel yours.
Solitude and Silence are foundation for individual growth as per Indian philosophy. In the words of Sri Aurobindo (1), a modern Indian philosopher and mystic,

"The love of solitude is a sign of the disposition towards knowledge; but knowledge itself is only achieved when we have a settled perception of solitude in the crowd, in the battle and in the mart"

1 - http://nptel.ac.in/courses/109101002/16
"Get Things Done"

It's a popular book [1] discussing a system of how to be more productive.

[1]: http://gettingthingsdone.com/
Does anyone think this "final language" thing is realistic at all?

I do. Remember, there were hundreds of search engines, and it looked like it would forever be that way, until Google came along. It's chaos until suddenly it's not anymore.

The thing is, it's a definitely a 'hard problem', so we could normally forgive ourselves for not having solved it yet. Sadly, I'm not sure we're trying.
There's a bit of a divide that no one seems to be touching on - most of the issues talked about in the NYT article seem to be from non technical folks, while engineering tends to be a little happier for precisely the reasons Bezos mentions.

Amazon and most other companies have separate staff, culture and levels of morale for engineering and non engineering divisions. Can't really compare them directly.
You never see posts about people at Google or Facebook saying they're abused and overworked. Even with Microsoft, you read about political infighting and stack-ranking being stupid, but not downright emotional abuse or on-call madness. With Amazon, it's quite a regular occurrence.

Where there is smoke...
Yet another Github project that could be useful, except that there is no explicit license. Which means it's under traditional copyright.
Firefox can do this with separate profiles too, so long as you also include --no-remote with other instances.
Uh... Neat?
You may be interested in https://ind.ie/about/vision/
Why This Remote Company Spends 40k+ a Year on Meetings
I don't think I've ever enjoyed being wrong so much haha. Thanks for the knowledge drop!
This is how the modern-day tech resume should look
You aren't wrong. Objective-C is dying. The huge machine that nursed the frail, nearly-forgotten language back to health -- and then pumped it full of steroids and made it a monster -- has been disconnected, and hooked up to Swift, instead.

Apple's bet on Objective-C was the only thing that made it broadly relevant -- but now they have moved on, and Apple is generally the type of company that does the opposite of "support both forever".

I agree that it is dying very slowly, however. You will probably still be able to write OS X apps in Objective-C in 2020, albeit with various caveats.
Just because you are remote doesn't mean you can't instantly talk to coworkers. Just call them by phone/skype/hangouts/screenhero.

My remote working friends and I have a slack group where we hangout and chat about stuff, it is great you never feel alone.
Additionally while there IS a response from Jeff, its full text is actually available here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10071600
* Speed!

* Something other than javascript as a compilation target when using something else for those of us allergic to JS (scalajs.) I've only looked at it briefly but WebAssembly looks like a good candidate for this

* Less feature bloat, remove as many features as possible from the browser core and leave any non essential feature to plugins.
> This is the most important piece of advice. You need to have a space that is for work and for work only. When you enter that space, it puts you in a work mindset.

Yes and no for my part, I have different places for different kind of work I do like I wrote in my post. Desk = coding, dining table = writing. It works for me but will probably not work for everyone.

> In my experience, it is critical for you to jump on the phone every day, once a day. Like clockwork. The meeting shouldn't last more than 5 minutes.

When working with a team or simply more people than yourself, then yes!
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According to Soylent, they test every batch[1]. But yes, it seems like As You Sow is like a patent troll, but instead is a prop 65 troll.

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/soylent/comments/3ha4et/soylent_is_...
Long term cookie saving only with opt-in by default - Firefox still will give every user the google cookie by default, handing millions of users out to google tracking.

Make device fingerprinting impossible.
Lasp: A language for distributed, coordination-free programming
Introduction to Indian Philosophy [MOOC]
Academic tabloid, FTFY
DDG has two ways you could get local results:

1) Type in your city for example "news new york" "pizza toronto"

2) localization toggle - this sets country specific results

It's a bit of change in search style but you can get great local results while still being private
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Measuring front end performance, the missing ingredient
> Amazon's boss Jeff Bezos wrote in a memo to staff that the "article doesn't describe the Amazon I know".

I'm not surprised he feels this way, being solely unaccountable in the way that his employees are and primarily responsible for both denying and preserving the culture.

> Mr Ciubotariu invoked the company's culture of fun in his LinkedIn post. "We have Nerf wars, almost daily, that often get a bit out of hand," he wrote.

Did this make anyone else cringe? You couldn't pick an example that better demonstrated an awkward, forced element of corporate "fun."

I have to wonder, though, what he means by them getting "a bit out of hand":

- "fun" exhaustion?

- loss of place in stack ranking system?

- injuries? deaths?

- productivity lost to spontaneous bouts of letter-writing from employees to their friends about how much fun it is to work at Amazon?
I completely agree! And I hope I got that across in my post (but perhaps not?), that it all comes down to finding the ways that work for you. Since all in all, switching to a remote job is about finding your own way, or at least it was for me.
I think you just made all that up! Narcissism is orthogonal to achievement, in the sense of having a drive to achieve.
(Not a JS'er) You can pass a comment as a parameter?
AMA-Ryan Bednar: Co-Founded Tutorspree with Aaron Harris(YC Partner), SEO Expert
You do know that the DMCA applies even when you're self-hosting right?
Take a photo to your liking proceed to add effects, add audio, type a message
Explaining the browser's event loop, tasks, and microtasks
> Long story short, find a way to be productive that works for YOU.

Exactly. I am so tired of all these "Open offices are great", "Open offices suck", "Remote work is great", "Remote work sucks", posts. If it works, keep it, if it doesn't work, change it.
FE MS with Polymer Web Components and TDD (2/5): Polishing the First Component
How Startups Can Best Plan to Expand Their Websites as They Grow and Change
The Hacker News Effect
The future of the Web Looks a lot like Bitcoin
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I like to consider the mathematical use of 'exists' as something quite similar to its use in sentences like "a solution to such-and-such problem exists" - basically, an assertion that if you do X then Y will result - not so dissimilar from your "come let us reason together..." explanation, perhaps.
Thought some people might find this interesting - we got on the front page of hacker news the other day and I thought I'd share some stats.
The Hardest Day
Also in the news: sky blue, grass green.
Conversely, just because you're in an office doesn't mean you can instantly talk to the right coworker.

I find on-site has high-bandwidth communications but limited productivity because of distractions.

Remote is the opposite.

However - it's usually easier to find ways to increase bandwidth than to remove distractions in a shared space.
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>> Mr Ciubotariu invoked the company's culture of fun in his LinkedIn post. "We have Nerf wars, almost daily, that often get a bit out of hand," he wrote.

This reminds me of Rackspace. Rackspace claims to have this great fun environment and they love their employees and they're always doing this fun stuff at work. I know a handful of people that work there and I'm always being told about the elaborate pranks games going on.

Then I wonder why it takes them 2 days for a sales specialist to call me back, 6 hours to respond to a support ticket or it takes them 45 minutes to locate my server in one of their datacenters.
Relevant wiki page for those who are finding it difficult to follow the slides: http://wiki.xenproject.org/wiki/Unikernels
I use firefox, but if I remember correctly the passwords are stored in plain text? And there is no global password to protect the saved password.
KATT does a few more things (since it's goal is testing HTTP), but I've used it also for scripting purposes. The syntax is 99% plain HTTP syntax.

https://github.com/for-GET/katt
The future of open source for programmers
I'm curious why this was made into a scripting language instead of into a regular Python library. It it were regular Python you would get tons of features for free like loops, functions, if statements, etc.
So you're saying there's space for a "DIY self-hosting" product which integrates with a promotion network?
I just wondered how you can have Nerf wars in offices full of electronic equipment. Do you go outside then? Seattle is known for being rainy... And how are you getting people out, all in one go? Doesn't sound very spontaneous.

Dunno, it just sounds awkward.
The simple answer is an exponential moving average, but there's some additional stuff to compensate for the lag associated with using a moving average on a downward-trending or upward-trending dataset.
I'm highly out of the loop. Why would someone self hosting their own music be prey to DMCA?
It is only happier because demand/supply seem to be working out for engineers at the moment. High competition to hire engineers = you have to be nice to them.

Bezos would treat engineers much worse if he could.
Another anecdote: when I lived in Seattle I knew several amazon engineers and most seemed overworked and miserable. The reputation is that they hire college grads and work them until they burn out. My understanding is that the attrition rate is high within engineering so that may provide some data to back up this narrative.
Dig in and figure it out, rather than wait for people to tattle to HR who definitely are not advocating for you.

Something "while I don't recognize this as a description of the company I have built, if it is even partly true it is horrifying and wrong. I have hired an independent firm to come in and blah blah...".

I think saying 'my door is open' is both nice and important, but it is a pretty limp response if that is the beginning and end of what you are doing. All you have to do is read Glassdoor, or talk to people, to know the reputation of Amazon.
No — 'humiliating U-turn' on the front pages is very much a political problem, and could lead to early entrenchment of positions.
That's a valid and easy to miss point, thanks!
Of course there is a meaning in chinese characters.

Once you get that 木 is a tree (which is pretty easy to see), you might figure that 林 is woods and 森 is a forest, even though 森 will look wildly complicated for someone who never really looked at chinese characters. People are learning to read chinese like this for thousands of years, and instead of remembering 12 individual brushstrokes for 森 you just need to remember that it's 3 trees.
not in the language itself, but you can obtain the full text of a function, detect the comment and parse it, and inject it where ever it needs to go.
> Haskell is an amazing language for writing your own compiler. If you are writing a compiler in another language you should genuinely consider switching.

Uhm, no, thank you, but no. Haskell is poorly equipped for implementing compilers, because of its lack of unrestricted compile-time metaprogramming.

I'm spoiled. This is what I want from a language for implementing compilers:

1) Cheap, boilerplate-free definition for chains of slightly different ASTs and IRs. Haskell and ML are notoriously weak in this area (see the "Expression Problem" thing)

2) Boilerplate-free generation of various (potentially complex) visitors for these ASTs and IRs. For Haskell, Scrap Your Boilerplate library is the closest thing to what I want, but it is still far too clumsy.

3) I need efficient embedded Prolog and Datalog (yes, both, the latter allows some cool optimisations not possible for the former). Not feasible without compile-time metaprogramming. Both are important for simplifying compiler construction.

4) Parsing is not very important. But yet, it is necessary. The best Haskell got on offer is Parsec. Sorry, not good enough for my requirements.
It's a big world, someone will criticize you no matter what you do.
Yeah I can completely relate to this and have attributed it to being introverted as well. I am extremely social when I do attend social events, often being the most talkative if it's a group of 4 or less, but need to recharge alone the day after whereas my friends will continue to want be around each other. They often accuse me of being horrible at communication and making the effort to hang out with them, but to me, it's a simple matter of needing to be alone for a period of time, which I assume they are not familiar with as they all seem on the extrovert side of the spectrum. Sure, it's important for me to override that sense of wanting to be alone to catch up with friends and be a better communicator/friend, but it is in no way natural for me.
The Nerf thing made me cringe too. Sometimes I feel like I'm the only software developer out there that does not want to be treated like I am some sort of over-sized elementary school kid.

Maybe I am just getting old... Work can be fun without resorting to gimmicks. What's next snack time and mandatory naps?
Retro ThinkPad: Time to Think
I somewhat agree, but I think that solving the technological problems pushes the government into taking actions that are more and more outside the realm of what generally-ambivalent people care about. People are generally less okay with the government opening their mail and inserting spy devices into their computers than they are with the government sniffing their network traffic, for example.
I'm not the original poster of that comment, but I'll answer what's on my list.

Soda bottle rocket launcher,
Pickup baseball games,
Solar Eclipse of 2017,
spotting the ISS,
Ham Radio,
Making a forge to make molten metal,
3D print a design of theirs,
Pinewood derbys,
Electronics & Arduino games,
Nerf gun wars, etc.
Guess the sessions I looked at just were not quite what I expected to see... perhaps that's the interesting part?
This works, but can't beat talking in-person, at least in my case.

That said, I still don't consider going to a regular office. Should try a coworking space.
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"No one tells me to work nights. No one makes me answer emails at night. No one texts me to ask me why emails aren't answered."

Well, if you're willingly working nights and weekends (which we know you do, as you penned the response on a Saturday), then of course nobody is going to tell you to do so. This statement does nothing to disprove that those who wish to have lives outside the workplace aren't harassed by their coworkers and/or managers.
Adversarial negotiations require not telling your negotiation opponent too much about your goals and priorities. This unfortunately doesn't interact well with country-internal public discussion.
HTC to cut work force by 15 percent, amid struggling smartphone sales
> If you're any sort of extrovert, you're going to need to find outlets to recharge your social batteries.

This is still the biggest hurdle I’ve had to get over after freelancing for a year.

I lived alone when I started but it was easy enough to meet friends for lunch or after work and go to meetups to recharge, in the summer. Once Canadian winter hit the meetups happen less frequently and people are less likely to brave the winter for a cup of coffee.

Depending on where you live you may be able to keep a year-long routine of getting your social needs in order after work. But for me I’ve also had to change my mindset and appreciate times when I have no choice but to embrace solitude.
Agreed that it's not nearly as easy finding a remote sys admin job as it is software development. On https://www.wfh.io, we currently have 20 active sys admin jobs versus 197 software development. I'm actually seeing this increase slightly though, so hopefully as more businesses adopt full time remotes we'll see this number increase. Our sys admin jobs FYI:

https://www.wfh.io/categories/2-system-administration/jobs
I'm working from home for 3 years and I'm happy too. I share the lunch + coffee breaks with my wife, best thing ever.

But with 2 kids in home, Can you say to them that you're working? they respect you? I spoke with some people that had success working from home, but when kids born they couldn't follow working from home.

I may add make any sport when you working from home. Sport help me a lot to get fresh air and ideas.

Cheers
Treating employees in the fullfilment centers like shit is another side of the story, right?

Do you need sources?
What exactly were you looking for? Which libraries did you find that were alpha or abandoned?

It's highly likely that your experience was simply due to the problem domain you were looking at. If i were to look at something i work with, 3d graphics, my results would look much the same as what you said.

That doesn't mean all of CPAN's like that though.
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CMnBTFZUAAIs5UA.jpg:large
Thank you, looking into this!
Like the idea but I don't want to have to sign up before seeing what all the site has to offer. I'd also like to see a bit less generic design.
Amazon may well be the most evil company in technology
The safe harbor limits are very low.

From http://www.oehha.ca.gov/prop65/background/p65plain.html

> For chemicals that are listed as causing cancer, the "no significant risk level” is defined as the level of exposure that would result in not more than one excess case of cancer in 100,000 individuals exposed to the chemical over a 70-year lifetime. In other words, a person exposed to the chemical at the “no significant risk level” for 70 years would not have more than a “one in 100,000” chance of developing cancer as a result of that exposure.

> For chemicals that are listed as causing birth defects or reproductive harm, the “no observable effect level” is determined by identifying the level of exposure that has been shown to not pose any harm to humans or laboratory animals. Proposition 65 then requires this “no observable effect level” to be divided by 1,000 in order to provide an ample margin of safety. Businesses subject to Proposition 65 are required to provide a warning if they cause exposures to chemicals listed as causing birth defects or reproductive harm that exceed 1/1000th of the “no observable effect level.”
How would you suggest dealing with shared passwords? I would rather have a much better solution than having a vault in a closed source app (even though it promises encryption) on Dropbox which pretty much have to release information to for example NSA if I'm not mistaken. It's by far the easiest solution I've found but would very much want a more secure and more private solution.
3 Reasons Why Remote Working Has Boosted My Productivity
Ask HN: Freelance academia
Is it possible to be an academic (someone who publishes papers and does research) outside of a university (or other academic institution), and not necessarily for income?
If Bezos really wanted to put his money where his mouth is, he would implement a minimum mandatory vacation period and significant maternity/paternity leave at the least, if not a max # of hours per week.

Of course, that would not maximize profits at amazon or most other companies so that's not really what will happen.
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