skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
And you lose all social interactions. I enjoy people stopping by my desk and having random chat with them.
As a remote worker you can sing it loud and proud.
It's cheap for people with money but little time. But a 27-day cruise seems more aimed at people with time but little money.
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A friend of mine is some kind of leader in border patrol. He said that he knows he is in real trouble the moment his dudes stop trash talking him. In most sausage fests it's like this. Offensive remark is actually flattering, as it's completely based on assumption that the receiving party is confident enough to take the joke.

It's at least seemingly male cultural phenomena. Or alternatively women are really really careful about it.
+1 here, git+ssh and git+http(s) are essential imho... its' the easiest way to sidestep the need for an npm server for some internal projects/libraries.
Working remotely is an awesome experience for me as well, but I work for myself so it might be different if you work in a regular job that lets you work from home. I have the ability to ignore customers who are being overly pushy/demanding/rude, and I can take time off whenever I like. I tend to take a lot of breaks during the day to watch TV, do exercise, etc. I'm married, so that is sufficient social interaction for me. For work communication, I find email/skype to be more efficient than being in an office and having "status" meetings every day.

However, I can see that if you work for someone else, there could be a lot of pressure if things aren't going well or if you have a demanding boss, and you might feel trapped being at home and not having anywhere else to escape to.
Physically Based Rendering by Pharr and Humphreys (a literate program) is exceptionally readable ndncdall of the source code. It won an Academy Award.
I'd guess it's hard even if you start with that. Local equivalents are often much better (e.g sharing a screen with someone is much better than all screen sharing apps, meeting someone is much better than all of the video conferencing apps etc).
Please don't overuse the word genocide, its was not a genocide.
I didn't want to rub it in.
He seems to be partial to the term blood-thirsty...

This interview with a former recruiter and who now disavows the whole movement is quite interesting and illuminating: http://www.npr.org/2013/10/25/195238189/how-does-an-islamist...

His time spent in an Egyptian jail in the company of other Islamists changed his mind about the ideology and its aims.

Goes into detail here too: http://www.npr.org/player/v2/mediaPlayer.html?action=1&t=1&i...
That's not the best example to pick: people are still killed on accusations of witchcraft. [0,1] The Hollywood blacklists are still in living memory, and someone was fired in the US for being communist ~2001.[2]

I, personally, am something of a free speech absolutist, and believe it is important to protect even (nay, especially) loathsome speech. I am not aware of the what the happened in the incident described in the letter, so I am not willing to judge whether the original letter is an overreaction as tptacek claims, or not. Nevertheless I generally like to see arguments made accurately.

[0]: Papua New Guinea, 2013. http://world.time.com/2013/06/05/despite-legal-moves-pngs-te...

[1]: Tanzania, 2014. http://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-29572974

[2]: http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/chatterbox/2...
That cuts both ways. Social justice types like these claim the legacy of King, so much so that they call people like Ben Carson an Uncle Tom. (I don't support Carson by any means, but resorting to insults hardly bolsters ones moral position.)
The cultures that try and experiment with different ideas?

Rather than spending 18 months building and 'perfecting' and idea in private then releasing it to real people, doesn't it seem more efficient to Throw 10 ideas/'micro mvps' at the wall and see what sticks? Seems fairly solid to me.
Why are people entitled to low income housing in one of the most expensive areas to live in in the world.
I agree, Filipinos on the whole love the USA and I have asked a few younger Filipino-American immigrants about these topics and the most common response was a blank stare. I guess they haven't discovered the fallacy of the American dream yet either, they're just damn happy to be here.
No, actually, that's where the Stepford Wives live.
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I've found, after coding+managing remotely[0], that it takes a specific set of traits to be a successful remote worker.

- strong work ethic: no one needs to tell you that it's time to start working for the day/after lunch etc.

- strong communication: not the same as being an extrovert. might even help if you are an introvert. Just comfortable with text being the dominant means of articulation.

- strong 9-5 boundaries: might not be 9-5, might not be exactly 8 hours, but they have work hours and non-work hours and adhere to them.

- not junior: I've met a few junior devs who are good remote workers, but overwhelmingly most are seasoned. Maybe it just takes time to figure out the work-life balance/discipline integral to being an effective remote worker?

- trustworthy: the kind of person you can hand off something to and know it will be done.

- not great at ping pong: maybe those relate to the strong work ethic? That is, they never took/had time for honing ping pong skills at work ? Maybe that's just me :)

I work remotely too so maybe the traits are biased towards the positive.

[0] Team lead with one on ones + reviews for ~20 people.
Does installing this app somehow disable the regular camera app? Not sure how it ensures anything.

Joe takes a picture. I want to see it. But, oops, Billy isn't here to complete the nuclear launch procedure. So I turn to Joe and say "hey, text me that funny picture of Billy." What happens next?
I personally miss some human interaction after long periods of time at home, but not office interaction. It works for me to break up my schedule to socialize with my wife, friends and family to properly quell those feelings.
What interests me is the opposite situation: When a minority imposes itself not because they can force themselves on others, because they are immune to external influence. It's the same principle.

We see a lot of that in OSS, and I've seen it happen in companies: Bad behavior designed to make dissenting opinion go away (when sometimes the dissenting opinion is to just not be insulting), runs amok, and forces the lowest common denominator of behavior.

So IMO, it's not really about tolerance or intolerance, but about which side allows itself to be influenced, either by law, or pressure. When enough pressure to make someone resign is stronger, you end up with an environment where the intolerant wins. But in an environment where this doesn't happen, it's the people who have more to lose by leaving that wins. You can imagine how that is not helpful in a company: It's normally your best employees that have better alternatives when they leave.

Another important part is whether we really know everyone's opinion. When an opinion is considered impolite, we will think it's less popular than it really is, because people that share it will just be quite about it. It's one of the reasons we've seen quick changes of opinion in topics like Gay marriage: It's not that opinions change that quickly, but that what was considered the "polite opinion" has had a big reversal. So it isn't just about tolerance.

Ultimately what matters is, who really wins? An OSS project that kicks people out, for one mechanism or the other, wins when it keeps the most value. Maybe removing dissent is helpful. Maybe the dissent was making things better. So whether this effect is good, or bad, happens in a case by case basis.
There are two components to successful remote work: it has to work for the employee, and for the company. Obviously, how well it works depends not only on the particulars of the arrangement, but on the specific employee (introvert, extrovert, etc.) and the specific company (type of product, type of role, other employees, etc.)

"Remote work is terrible" and "Remote work is The Way" are gross oversimplifications that are guaranteed to be wrong.
And just to address this:

> there's no serious argument here

That's a pretty ridiculous opinion to have considering the voting in this thread. Even if you're right, I'm clearly far from alone in thinking that what you've done here is wrong. So, in fact, there is an argument to be had here, and trying to preempt discussion like that just shows a false and unjustified confidence in your assertion. A little humility goes a long way, you know?
What is the truth behind Di Maria's Real Madrid exit?
I enjoy socializing, but I do not enjoy socializing when I'm trying to work.
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I acknowledge your point, it is arguable whether it constituted genocide, some believe it to be so. Killing hundreds of thousands and placing them in concentration camps is ugly no matter what word is used though.
I learned that the task tracker for this is at https://gitlab.com/debian-ruby/TaskTracker/milestones/1
Telize is shutting down
Really sorry about that -- there was a snag in the case when someone has multiple github emails and no bugzilla account.
It was fixed by https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1223590 and that should be going live this week (last weak was a rarity, no code push).
It's because you understand that programs, when you write them, are frozen at time zero, that it's s-expr tentacles are ready to accept inputs, and when they get an input, they contract in computation and, for long lived programs, emit new tentacles that no programmer ever wrote.

(If you can write reliable tentacles and dress them up so that people want to touch them frequently, you can become very, very rich.)
Interesting to see how views around AI evolve over the years. My opinion is that AI from a Turing Test perspective or from a singularity pov is focusing on the wrong things. My focus instead is on symbiotic intelligence (i.e. how machines will change the way symbiotic people/technology societies operate.) I have fragments of an unpublished paper I am working on, around these ideas, here, for anyone interested

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0BxtoB2exHDnISjFDSEdCOEN1cDA...
MLK would have probably supported them:

First, I must confess that over the past few years I have been gravely disappointed with the white moderate. I have almost reached the regrettable conclusion that the Negro's great stumbling block in his stride toward freedom is not the White Citizen's Counciler or the Ku Klux Klanner, but the white moderate, who is more devoted to "order" than to justice; who prefers a negative peace which is the absence of tension to a positive peace which is the presence of justice; who constantly says: "I agree with you in the goal you seek, but I cannot agree with your methods of direct action"; who paternalistically believes he can set the timetable for another man's freedom; who lives by a mythical concept of time and who constantly advises the Negro to wait for a "more convenient season."
The Indian 4th and 5th divisions were some of the best. 5th Indian was part of Operation Compass and both were involved part of the East African Campaign. Plus tons of other places.

Whoever said that, was a fucking idiot.
Again impossible to define, either no true scotsman or an arbitrary cut off.
Hezbollah, Hamas, the Taliban and many other while being "terrorist" organizations are also very much state like, with their own political, social, and economical infrastructure.
About 2M Lebanese live under Hezbollah's rule in Lebanon, they get more services from Hezbollah than from the Lebanese government.
Hamas is the de-facto and de-jure (even tho they didn't had elections in 10 years) government of Gaza, and the Taliban was the government of Afghanistan for nearly 30 years.
And should we only count Islamic terrorism as religious? Because the Christian militia's in Lebanon killed 100,000's, and on the other hand socialist/communist groups in Asia and Latin America have probably claimed easily over a million by now.
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Microwaving cooks food without generating as much carcinogenic char as other methods, so it can actually be healthier.

Relatedly, freezing is the healthiest way to preserve and transport fruits and vegetables. It also allows them to be harvested when naturally ripe, rather than artificially ripened.
Are you comparing ARM with Intel now?
It breaks in the case someone has multiple email addresses associated with their github account. That bug was fixed and will be out soon. :-)
The third Reich was a very progressive society by many of today's metrics until the holocaust happened in the name of "progress." It's a very vague term with any number of interpretations.
For me:

communication - This is really hard and sometimes harder in person.
loneliness - I'm married, wife is a homemaker so I get to see her all the time, this isn't an issue for me but i can see it could be for some.
isolation - Exactly, that is the point, sweet quiet.
timezones - This is only not an issue when it isn't. Otherwise the problem with timezones makes no difference whether the people are remote or in an office, the problem is the timezone difference itself.
discipline, After several years in the military early on, this isn't an issue either.
Gut reaction: arggh

Slightly-less gut-based reaction: everyone has a different comfort zone on the privacy/security spectrum. I respect that. However, Twitter is not the medium to discuss where society's zone should be, nor will a debate be productive when the starting premise is "you have to prove to me you're right" on a contentious issue. Especially if the initial justification is relatively raw and emotionally-charged.

There may be an argument that encryption could have prevented the attacks (unsubstantiated), but it was definitely not the only means. For example, what about cameras or armed soldiers everywhere?

Encryption also did not cause the attacks, as far as I know. Nor did it play a deadly part in the actual attack. It seems a strange place to start dissecting the problem.
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I've practiced with & without apps for a similar time period. The apps helped me keep a schedule I found difficult without them. YMMV but for me headspace was worth it.
Good lord. I kept waiting for Morlocks to show up and eat some of them. This positively has to be the beginning of an X-Files episode.

Then again, I live in an an industrial park behind the rail yard of a plastic factory so from their perspective, I might be a Morlock...
Ok, so your company only hires country singers? You are missing out on amazing, qualified candidates that don't sing country music.

Even if you are having a successful time hiring great people that are happy remote, how are you going to retain them? A remote software job is much closer to a commodity than a traditional software job. (I read the 37signals book and built a remote team over 5 years; in the end the difficulty finding people that are truly happy remote meant retention was difficult and, overall recruiting and cost of living considered, a remote team was, for me, a net wash).

Edit: after thinking more, it's even worse; you don't know if most applicants can really be happy singing country music for a year, 2 years, or longer... Even those that seem to really value and are excited about the prospect of singing country music may learn before too long that it's not for them.
I don't use ad-blockers or Ghostery; just out-of-the-box Chrome.
Youtubbing for "mindfulness meditation" yields multiple results.

I haven't looked into any of those yet but was wondering if HN would recommend them.

What I've been doing on and off is to play a calming "meditation tune", sit down on a pillow, try to get into lotus (eventually shifting to a simple sitting when it becomes uncomfortable), and flush thoughts out. So far I haven't reached the stage of focusing on breathing, so many things rushing through my mind lately.
well yes but was it a racist joke?
> This makes you even more valuable for an advertiser than you were when you paid nothing...

But it's the websites that are being paid by the advertisers. If the reader is more valuable to the website than the advertiser is, then advertising might be reduced. Of course, it's possible advertisers would respond to this by offering more money per ad.
The difference is institutionalized racism in the 1950's vs a few bad actors on these college campuses. A minority in the 1950's had good reasons to feel unsafe; that should be obvious to everyone. It's less obvious today as the conditions are extremely different. While it may be true that these college kids really feel unsafe, it's not unreasonable to think that they are overreacting. I can see the "toughen up" argument applying to these situations.
They're satisfied with creating apps for problems no one is really experiencing en masse. I mean it's neat that they're building these things, but I'm driven by problems I encounter that can be solved by software or education. We're just very different yet similar people.
I don't think this is all that surprising. Basically you want your wealth in a balanced portfolio of different companies, so that a downturn in a single company's fortune doesn't affect you.

Thus, a big win should be cashed out, otherwise it ends up being too a large a piece of your portfolio.
The more things change, the more they stay the same.

If you enjoyed that, you will enjoy this too:

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Not really.

I have been to Kashmir. All I associate with it is sheer beauty. Just ignore the two big babies with the big guns, fighting over it.
I lived a situation like yours, after I left from big consulting company, where you are in continuous contact with your your customer and other many people.
I'm not introverts, I like to meet and chat with people and I've played many sports also as pro.

But after I decided to change my job, I went back to live with my parents in my city. I started to work at home.
I'm honest I've made many mistakes, just for I had not experience.
The results were just immediate:

* Do not discern work place and house

* Have no desire to go out. I remind that going out for me had become very hard, maybe for laziness, I don't know.

* Personal relationships very bad. Having relationships with friends or girl friend is not simple. If you stay all day at home with only your pc, you degrade your ability on cultivate relationships.

I've made similar choice to yours, I've took an office with my friend and many things are changed, I back to gym I start to meet many people each day.
But I continue to work as remote position :)

Indeed the problem is not the remote work , the problem is your job location.
In my experience, take an small desk in an open office or a room with a friend is a good choice, and it solved many problems for me.
Running without ECC is no worse than doing so with any other filesystem [as far as I understand].

The thing about corrupting the entire zpool looks to be a bit of an urban legend (http://jrs-s.net/2015/02/03/will-zfs-and-non-ecc-ram-kill-yo...). Flipping bits can of course cause problems, but doing a scrub after a bit is flipped in memory doesn't hose your whole pool. There's been endless discussion and flame wars on the topic, but I've never once heard someone who actually had it happen (because it can't really happen). You can lose some data due to bit flips, you won't however lose everything in the whole volume like some people claim (unless you have something like an entire chip on the memory fail, then you're definitely screwed but neither ECC nor a different FS will help you there).

ECC is a good idea and it's not hugely expensive, but there is one very big difference. That is, most people who might want to build a NAS have a decent bit of spare hardware lying around that they might be able to repurpose. That hardware is probably an old desktop machine and doesn't have ECC, so if you insist on using ECC then you can't use that old machine and have to buy a new mobo+RAM at least. I've been running ZFS for years without ECC doing weekly scrubs and never once destroyed anything.

Edit: the counter-argument/source of the theory that you absolutely need ECC is primarily this post https://forums.freenas.org/index.php?threads/ecc-vs-non-ecc-... if you want to the other side for yourself.
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What about 1.3 million Africans? https://martinplaut.wordpress.com/2014/03/11/african-troops-...
It's a bad litmus test if there is no github account or the github account is completely empty, but you know for certain someone is actually in a position doing real engineering. Every example where I've looked up an SJW's github account, they have had some content on it and it's been very little of very poor quality (typically some HTML and CSS and poor quality jQuery JavaScript or a remarkably trivial Ruby on Rails project). The only example I recall ever encountering where there was an SJW article where the person was quite accomplished was from an MtF trans engineer. That was also the only SJW article that I remember being pretty solid and found myself agreeing with a lot of it. That article was the only decent one I've read on Model-View-Culture.

The two most prominent examples where the SJW had a remarkably unremarkable github account both worked at companies with a very very strong open-source contribution culture because they quit or were let go.
In what world do these people have phones but no access to the Internet? Like why is that the first piece of information about the app? No one uses their devices like that!

I feel like I'm taking crazy pills!
I have been working remotely since 2011, and it wasnt until I had the flexibility to experiment with when I worked that I finally hit my stride. I tend to work best in two, concentrated sprints, rather than one endurance run. This means I have a siesta during the middle of the day most days where I do evening errands and have lunch, and then I usually work from the late afternoon into the early evening.

The results? 400% output, and when youre self-employed that means 400% more potential for revenue. For me, I dont mind working on any project with any psrson or team - but anybody asking me to operate in a way that knocks me down to 25% output is NOT worth my time or money, or theirs! It just doesnt make sense at this point.

After 2-3 years working at home, even an introvert gets a little stir-crazy. Thats normal! I would go out and hit up Starbucks, or local coffee shops that were friendly to me buying a couple drinks over 2-3 hours. But after a while even that isnt enough.

The single, biggest change I made to my work lifestyle as far as my emotional health is concerned has been joining a shared office space. The rent is a little more than my Starbucks budget was each month, but I can go to an office 24/7 with free flowing coffee and hack on anything I want. Even though none of the folks there work with me, I have found work through other members.

For me, having the option of going i to a shared office space any time I want has removed all those awkward days for me. And on any day I dont feel like going in, literally nobody will notice or expect me to be there. Its perfect.

In the future I believe companies will realize that they dont have to house their employees, and so many business simply wont! I envision a new style of employment where you choose and rent the office space you want, you surround yourself with the atmosphere and people you work best with, and even if you dont work for the same company, or during the time you have the office you change work - only your paycheck changes.

I cant wait to rent a private shared office with friends someday in the future :)