skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So much horrible stuff is lost, too. Commute, distraction, ambient paranoia and discomfort, resentment, etc. The bullshit where someone comes in with the flu and everyone else gets sick, progressively, over the next month.

And the huge things: inclusive workforce (people with kids/sick relatives, mobility or other disabilities, etc. -- this will predominantly hurt women). Visa problems largely eliminated. Global talent pool.

You could make up for the positives by having scheduled in-person sessions with your team (if you live genuinely remotely, do it for a week or two at a time, or longer; if you live in the same metro, do "in-person Wednesdays".

A pathologically bad environment is an open plan with a bunch of disparate teams in the same space. Coworking spaces across several (potentially competing!) companies are the worst, but in a larger company, having relatively separate teams in the same space is almost as bad.

Open plan is pretty much a personal instapass. If it's not worth spending +$1k/mo per employee on office space (even in the worst markets, it's +100sf/mo, which is about $500-700/mo), the employees are probably not contributing much value. Being in an environment where people are making $3-5mm in value is key. Don't be a junior callcenter employee (even those are moving remote, for cost saving reasons). Exceptions for temporary onsite engagements with clients, or something crazy like "we're on a warship" or "enroute to Mars", or <10 people in a single office during early days of a startup, but volitional shitty open plan is just insane. (Unfortunately this basically rules out the majority of Silicon Valley companies these days.)

I do agree that corner offices as status for useless mid-level managers are ALSO bad, but the correct solution is offices for all, or at least anyone who wants them, some kind of dynamic environment, etc. It's entirely reasonable to have ICs in offices and managers in open areas.

Anytime someone complains about recruiting/hiring/retention in a company with work-in-office, open plan, one or two high cost locations, it's hard to not bring this up. A few companies at a time can get away with it, but not everyone. It would be an easy way for companies to differentiate themselves in hiring; if even 25% of workers would rather have a private office, you would get first pick of those employees.
I work with a team that is doing large scale ML and CV on millions of pages and videos. It's a production system tied to millions of dollars in revenue. Everything's done in Python.
Is there a link to the actual study this article is referring to?

Because this write up is almost pointlessly vague. The author seems more interested in repeating the coffee shop joke than getting into the meat of the study.
i was going to say unimpress
Wow. If there’s anyone deserving the title of a hacker, it’s the author of this page.
What's really crazy is that apparently some people have the idea that mercury is an 'investment' and will voluntarily keep jugs of it in their home: http://www.ert.org/products/mercury_response_guide/Attachmen...
I think that is exactly his point. The government doesn't make you get insurance that would cover hail damage to your car. It only makes you get insurance that will cover you when someone sues you for injuring them and damaging their property.
I just read the article you linked… in what way were they recommending using truecrypt? Pretty straightforward article as far as I could tell, I don't even recall a positive recommendation of anything other than bitlocker and time machine.
Personally I'd find it incredibly lonely to work from home. Of course I have a five minute commute. If your commute is terrible, arrange your life better.
While the statistics are updated, the definition of "extreme poverty" just fails to keep up.
The moment people have food, they want lots of food, then they want delicious food, then they want more exclusive food, and so on.
There'd be no problem if the supply of food (resources) can keep up with human's greed, which never happens.
A decent CS undergrad degree decade ago included abstract math concepts. I took Engineering math, Information Theory, Numerical analysis, Probability, Simulation in my sophomore and Junior years. NLP and AI were electives in Senior year.

As a Junior, we were building toy programs that do Operations research type of work - solving linear equations via various matrix operations, design optimal queue processes based on poisson process.

Assuming a software engineer is a CS undergrad, he/she most likely has good footing to learn more by themselves.
"cold embrace death"

- What showing a large black bird sitting between candles?

- Talk about why those burning eyes spoke of terrible things that have been done.

- What is fuck all?

- Did daylight blind their way the sun will never shine through someone?

- Was the military encampment calling to them like a bitch in heat?

- Describe how it was not long before they were under assault by infected.

- Did the boy sprint towards the doors that would answer his questions?

- What did the strain of making ends meet and paying for?

- How does someone not know too much helpful spells yet?
The planet has lost a profound majority of it's water and consequently it is ostensibly dead or dying a slow death. Whatever microbes are alive there one must suspect that is probably less diverse than it once was when Mars had an ocean. Perhaps adding more bio diversity to that planet might even help it. Of course we should add this diversity once we find out what life is there if any so as to make responsible choices.
Exactly! I wish Gobo and its filesystem structure was used more outside Brazil!
That's basically what happened with the discovery of the new world - maintaining control with slow communication and inability to project power over the seperating distance doesn't really work
I assume they are not silly enough to buy a house then right?
OP could just cut back on their charitable giving.

And, perhaps that's what they did: http://www.jefftk.com/donations
As a kid I often played with mercury used in a blood pressure monitor. Spilling it on the table and mesmerized by its look and feel. I am not sure what damages that might have caused to my brain now that I know its toxic!
I'm guessing ubeam is also the subject of this wsj article, though I can't get past the loginwall:
http://www.wsj.com/articles/soon-power-will-be-delivered-to-...

I believe the CEO Meredith Perry was on TED or some such preaching about ignoring scientists and techies when they say something is impossible, just believe, keep pushing, and it'll all come good.

Maybe this is the next unicorn.
Someone drove his car into a hailstorm unprotected. That's not an act of god.
> Health insurance is somewhat the same too... Hospitals and Dentists have special rates for insured patients (much higher)... you can end up paying the same as an uninsured patient...

Health insurance is actually very different[0]. The flow of money with medical billing is really, really complicated, which is why we end up with a system that's so confusing that even most physicians and clinicians don't really understand it.

Hospitals are generally not legally allowed to have higher rates for insured patients; this is actually why the sticker price for uninsured patients is so high. Hospitals use those high prices as a starting point to negotiate lower prices with insurers. (As an uninsured patient, you can almost always get the hospital to knock off 90% of a large bill for this reason; they really don't care what you pay, and they'd rather negotiate a smaller bill with you than have you default).

I could go on a long rant about the indirection of the medical billing system and all the problems it leads to, but I'll save that for another time.

> Also, I have been told that it might be illegal to claim that you are uninsured, pay the bill and then get reimbursed by your insurance company to avoid surcharges... not sure if that is true.

Yes, this is fraud. (It also happens to be a pretty bad example of fraud, since it's probably going to end up costing you more money, but it's still fraud).

[0] Strictly speaking, health insurance isn't really 'insurance', even though we talk about it and price it like it is, because one of the primary functions has nothing to do with smoothing risk.
And if you miss any, your young daughter is going to find it. Seriously isn't something you want to mess with.
This is a great alternative to help wikipedia to sustain operation instead of monetary donation. Users are able to contribute with no hassle of installation of any software or extension. And it works on all major browsers (i.e., chrome, firefox). Most importantly, the decentralized architecture brings higher resilience to single point of failure which wikipedia is expected to survive. I believe the community based decentralized solution is the trend for operating big non-profit contents service like wikipedia.
Wonder if there are similar articles about beginner image classification.
> Personally I'd find it incredibly lonely to work from home.

Honest question: Why? Please be detailed. I could explain all the things that keep my home work from feeling lonely, but it'll be easier for me to stick to things relevant to you if i know exactly what is on your mind.

> Of course I have a five minute commute.

Five minutes from exactly where to where? Living room sofa in normal clothes to office desk with computer switched on and work software running? The exit of your apartment complex to the external door of your office building?

I'm sure you're being a little ... optimistic about your timing there.

> Of course I have a five minute commute.

You're suggesting people move from a place where they may be near the things they enjoy in their life, to work. That is not an improvement, that just shifts the pain from one end to the other.
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We only hear about this in mobile but I presume Comcast, Time Warner and friends do the same thing for broadband users, or is there some regulation that stands in their way?

For that matter I've always wondered why the tv industry pays so much for inaccurate Nielson data (sometimes still based on diaries) when presumably the cable providers have much more accurate data for many more users.
Fossil fuels get on the order of 100+ billion per year in direct and indirect subsidies in the US as a conservative estimate. By far the largest subsides for 'Green Energy' go to corn ethanol which is mostly political football. After that there really more rounding errors than anything else.

PS: Nuclear seems to be popular on a lot of tech sites, but it needs massive subsides to come close to break even.
Pollution has a cost associated with it. Is regulation that makes the polluter liable for those costs a pro-human thing to do? Isn't that more equitable?
Hi, I work in tech.

Whole Foods is shit - it's literally just a CostCo with fancier packaging that charges more - and that movie theater sounds like pretentious pap. This all sounds like overpriced crap even though I'm the target demographic.

Are you sure there's a magical market force whereby tech workers volunteer to be surrounded by overpriced crap?
100% virtual companies, especially 100% virtual consulting companies, can end up with incompetent people who "hide" successfully for years, and make the culture worse. They also miss out on that subtle competition that makes you better: "Oh yeah, well I do this which lets me build with one button" etc.

The small stuff really matters, it's why I left my last job.
If that part bothers you, ignore it. Solar and wind are already cheaper without any subsidies. It should bother you though, but I've learned to not bother wasting my time with people about why. It doesn't matter at this point, now that fossil fuels have lost the lead.

"Wind power is now the cheapest electricity to produce in both Germany and the U.K., even without government subsidies, according to a new analysis by Bloomberg New Energy Finance (BNEF). It's the first time that threshold has been crossed by a G7 economy."

I didn't paste the rest in here, its long, but you should read it. Its even better in the US.

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-10-06/solar-wind...
Thanks. This explains a lot of things I heard related to claims that I have wondered about in the past.
Hey, I didn't downvote you, but your questions were just... very off. I imagine that the typical HN user was just downvoting because the questions aren't even relevant.

(And sorry for he spirit science comment, it was an unfair dig. They're a pseudo-science page on facebook that often tries to connect disparate phenomena.)
That's very strange. Not saying it didn't happen to you, but to my knowledge, most medical professionals charge insured patients much LESS than insured ones, because insurance companies negotiate special rates.

My wife had to have an intensive surgery a few years ago. The total bill amounted to over $100,000. Insurance negotiated it down to $25,000 or so, and then paid 90% of the balance. That's pretty typical of my experience.

I see no reason that you couldn't tell the doctors that you are uninsured, negotiate it down on your own, pay the bill, and then submit it to insurance for reimbursement.
That's on the surface, at least. We keep learning how life on our own planet exists places far below sea level, and not just in the ocean. The same could be true for any number of celestial bodies in the known universe.
That document turned out to be a very interesting, thorough read. I think it's more crazy that mercury is apparently still used in ritualistic/spiritual contexts.
I used to be on the fence. I knew I hated journald with a passion. But for systemd, the last straw was trying to mount a USB drive one day. I would do "mount", and nothing was mounted. I looked through the logs and noticed it was being unmounted on mount. What the fuck, right? Turns out, a prior unmount of a USB stick killed some service that systemd runs. So systemd thinks the service is dead, which means it should not be mounted, which means it keeps umounting the damn thing. Totally braindead.

That's also when I learned systemd was running an entire virtual fstab layer. Because, you know, /etc/fstab just isn't good enough anymore.
One thing that makes this February talk particularly relevant now is the part about 40+ minutes in where he talks about cache interference. That's the inverse of cache partitioning (or Cache Allocation Technology in Intel-speak) which Dan Luu wrote an excellent article about a few days ago.

http://danluu.com/intel-cat/

Anyone trying to cram lots of workloads onto a single physical system should make sure they understand this stuff.
The study in question is here, if anyone is interested:

http://amd.aom.org/content/early/2015/10/07/amd.2014.0016.fu...

In a qualitative study of a Fortune 100 company on the forefront of
allowing offsite work, we examine how the prevalence of offsite working
arrangements influences perceptions of the onsite office as well as
decisions regarding where one works.
> 100% virtual companies, especially 100% virtual consulting companies, can end up with incompetent people who "hide" successfully for years, and make the culture worse.

How is that any different than non-remote companies?
Hear, hear!

I once read a study from a major state university, commissioned by the state government, that argued that it was more economic to recycle plastic bottles than to landfill them.

BUT... when you dug into the details of the report (something the journalists and general public were unlikely to do), you found the calculations didn't correct for taxation (landfills) and subsidies (recyclers) as regulatory distortion. The report simply treated them as natural economic components; itemized, yes, but not removed from the conclusion.

When I saw that I have to admit I became rather more cynical about the intersection of politics and academics. It just wasn't right.
During the 20th century, deaths due to temperature extremes dropped by over 70% (mostly due to the advent of air-conditioning): http://www.econ.yale.edu/~js2755/Climate_Adaptation_BCDGS.pd...

I also found these statistics helpful: http://www.moralcaseforfossilfuels.com/data/
That's arguably overkill for domestic contamination by elemental and inorganic mercury. Even that family in that contaminated house was probably at far greater risk from methylmercury[0] in predatory fish. So cutting predatory fish from the diet would have arguably been more cost effective. But it's hard to say. CDC[1] is more nuanced on the topic than EPA[2]. And I do tend to trust CDC.

[0] http://toxics.usgs.gov/definitions/methylmercury.html

[1] http://www.cdc.gov/biomonitoring/pdf/Mercury_FactSheet.pdf

[2] http://www3.epa.gov/airtoxics/hlthef/mercury.html
I'm not sure what you are talking about. Price of a house is not some thing banks get to decide, at least not directly. They only get they to decide the amount of interest they should collect to stay profitable after lending you money that you borrow to purchase a house.

Price of a house apart from the raw materials depends on various thing like supply-demand factors. But that is the case with any investment.

If you are having problems with investments in general where people can get rich by starting small but growing non-linear with time, then you are literally ruled out to ever be rich.
It very much depends on if you fit the Seattle type. The reality is that Seattle and the Northwest in general is very hostile to people who are different from the norm there. If you happen to line up with that it's a great place to be. If not it can be uncomfortable.
Makes sense. Isn't this more of an issue of discrimination and what data a company can have access to?

Are employers getting access to search data today? I'm not sure that's happening. Most 3rd party tracking isn't that accurate in coming up with interests/segments for the user in the first place and 1st party data is well protected in that it's what gives the holder value.

I think privacy is important, but there a lot of levels here and browsing history (while valuable) for advertising is not as big of an issue as other wholesale data collection that we see out there.
Losing 10% is clearly worse than losing 0% while watching someone else (irrelevantly) gain 10%.
Follow blogs / forums / prominent devs on Twitter for the tech you use /are interested in, at least that's what I do. And HN =)
Exactly. I wasn't sure at the time what the name for the Verizon headers was, so I just showed all of them.
the bits about the importance of the "hinge being able to connect two devices going forwards" in the middle of the article really made me remember the MS "courier" prototype.

i really suspect they'll launch a "second touchscreen" peripheral that replaces the keyboard section of the surfacebook.
Ok, I get it. But then what? How is this being used against you? Better (so called) ads? Is it just a innate feeling of not wanting it tracked?
Speaking of standards, has anything happened with POSIX since '08?
>Translated into plain English:

>As more governments raise the price of fossil fuels through increased taxation, solar and wind may cost less than fossil fuels.

well, as it stands currently the whole society pays the tax for the fossil fuels use - that tax is the expenses and damages caused by the environment damage and climate change, oil wars, backward countries and people having huge political power due to being rich from oil, etc... It is only fair to shift at least some of the tax burden to the actual producers and consumers of the fossil fuels.

>What is the impact on people when their energy costs are raised?

what are you talking about? 100w solar panel costs less than $100, double that for installation and wires&converter. So $200 loan at 6% for 20 years is $1.5/month or $0.05/day. In CA the panel will produce 1kwh/day. I.e. $0.05/kwh. And no more kissing of Saudi princes' lower backs :)
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I'm genuinely trying to understand how this has any significance at all. They are implementing emoticons - all of which could be expressed in other ways on the platform (in a comment etc).

The only thing that changes is that now facebook will be able to explicitly map the emoticon expression to the posted content - something that humans could do already given the contextual clues in the use of an emoticon in a comment.

Generally, people "like" the person far more than the like the content (i.e. it's various aspects of the person, e.g. status, that are primarily causal with respect to others wanting to click that 'like' button.) My prediction is that people will be unlikely to use these extra buttons because they confuse this essential signalling game. A 'wow' emoticon, for example - can often be ambiguous as to whether or not you are aligning with the recipient, or signalling negatively toward them. Thus folks will struggle with the fear of sending the wrong signal.

If facebook persists and people do start using them - then the result will be a greater number of signalling failures, increased conflict, and greater user dissatisfaction.
To all the downvotes - Why? It's sad that asking any opposing questions around here leads to this.
"PhD as a short-cut to getting permanent residency infuriates me"
You should not be. There are managers with 1 year work experience outside US and they come to US in L1 Visa and apply for Greencard in EB1 - Multinational Manager category and gets their Greencard in less than a year. May be this should infuriate everybody.
By doing so these people use up the Greencard visas significantly. So EB2 guys from India who applied for Greencard in 2005 are getting their greencard now.
My point is you're far less likely to even hit the hand. Aiming for it would be the worst decision you could make when your life is on the line and depends on you actually hitting and disabling the threat.

My point was you should never shoot to harm, only to kill. That means no hand shots. Period. Regardless of the chances of a fatally wounding shot.

My point - furthermore - was that it isn't a guaranteed "disabling" shot. It's still possible to kill. The thought of "shoot to disable" is a misinformed thought educated on nothing but Hollywood movies and video games.
I agree that YAML block style as on lines 22, 23, 24 should be eliminated (I will probably prevent my framework from parsing this). If you use an unescaped { or } it should signify that you are using Jinja2.

Similarly, I'm no fan of the {% sets %} at the top - it's a code smell.

Apart from those things, though, what you linked to seems easy to read and understand to me.

I'm absolutely positive that Tcl or Guile (or python) would create the potential for bigger messes than what you just linked to under similar circumstances. Simply being turing complete is enough for that.
This is nothing new, of course. NeXTStep introduced things like ~/Apps, /LocalLibrary, and /LocalApps back in the early 1990s.

Daniel J. Bernstein, around the turn of the century, proposed a /package hierarchy (for package management without the need for conflict resolution) and a /command directory. (http://cr.yp.to/slashpackage.html) Their major problem was the idea that one had to register things with what was to most of the world just some bloke on another continent. But they had concepts like a hierarchical package naming scheme ("admin/", "mail/", &c.), self-contained build trees with versioned names, and an "index" directory full of symbolic links.