skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I assume you're talking about UDFy-38135539 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UDFy-38135539), with a redshift of z=8.6. It is not 13 Gly away, even though the light detected by Hubble's infrared camera was emitted about 13 billion years ago. Due to the metric expansion of space, the distance to that object is around 32 Gly (9710 Mpc according to http://www.bo.astro.it/~cappi/CosmoWidget.html).
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I did it this way by accident : I installed chrome and logged into gmail. Chrome asked me if I wanted to make gmail the default mail app and I said yes.

I would have NEVER discovered that this would be even possible any other way. I don't know if it works on other browsers but it's cool that it works.

On right click in chrome I have two "search with DuckDuckGo" options and one searches on a new tab and another on the same tab. I don't know why.
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Separation of work and personal is key IMO.

I thought I'd like working at home, as it turns out I didn't at all because once you're working at home, it's hard to draw the line.

I learned it well working for myself. After 5pm, no work unless it's a real emergency and those might happen 1-2x a year.

Having gone back into the workforce, people were always amazed I didn't carry the latest greatest phone (only got an iPhone once they added GPS, currently using a Lumia 1020). I don't need a computer in my pocket. I'm in front of a computer roughly 12-16 hours a day, that little time I'm not, I'm okay with being away from email, etc.

Even though I'm on my computer at night (like now). I never check work emails, they're also never sent to my phone. Only personal. If it's an emergency, call. It better fucking be an emergency (why I left my last job, owner didn't understand boundaries). I also don't work overtime. If you want 24/7 support, hire it.
Looks pretty good, but would like to see more than just a features list. Some documentation? An issues list? A way to discuss the project with the developers and other users? (e.g. via Gitter or a Google Group)
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From my perspective the quality of their games is declining. Rapidly.

I don't know the author and his gaming background but he certainly hasn't spent much time playing blizzard games. At least he isn't a 'hardcore' gamer. Truth is, if you are a casual gamer you probably won't notice how dumb their current development is.

In short:
WoW: Numbers don't lie. People would still play mmos if there werent any worth playing.
http://www.mmo-champion.com/content/5063-WoW-Down-to-5-6-Mil...

Diablo: Current content is shit, multiple design failes that needed to be corrected. Both D3 and the addon weren't ready on release, needed patches to correct the bad quality.

Hots/Hearthstone/Overwatch:
Knockoffs of Dota/LoL, Magic, Team Fortress. I don't think a knockoff should be called a quality game. Also, both Hots and Hearthstone have/has horrible balancing issues => bad quality considering being balanced is the core content of the game.
Not to mention that Hots was really shitty from a technical pov (after beta).
That actually sounds kind of interesting, especially the not necessarily grouping same teams. What do you think of rotating every so often?
I've heard that offices aren't more expensive cited here many times, but haven't found that to be true.

Also consider that despite Peopleware, literally nobody builds offices for programmers as if they were attorneys. And yet we muddle through.

Having been involved in office planning to support moves 4-5 times... Costs were 5x-7x more for build out for a fixed office design vs. modular and would take much much longer.

Just in terms of labor, you're talking about dramatically higher costs for drywall, electricians, and carpenters. If you're retrofitting, construction triggers full code compliance ($$$), and in major cities you often run into labor/prevailing wage problem.
EDIT: Nevermind my correction, I misread.

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I had an idea to produce room-temperature superconductivity, but I haven't been able to find any similar research so I've largely dismissed it as a crazy idea borne out of ignorance of the finer details of electrical engineering and/or physics.

One day, I'll probably set up an experiment to test my idea, and if it works, probably just drop it into a blog post and submit it to HN (where it will fade into obscurity like most of the articles under the "new" link). And if it doesn't, it will be a good cautionary tale for anyone with the same wrong idea about how the world works.
Yes, tech workers often are just pieces of office furniture these days, and so getting to be cool rustic armoir is better than being a lame ottoman.

This is an important lesson for undergrad CS majors. Instead of working really hard to master dynamic programming or taking that extra course on programming language concepts, you should instead just watch Michael Bay's Transformers movie so that you know when to say "Furrier Transform" at the right moment.

Seriously. Go right now and buy a pair of purely decorative eye glasses. At work tomorrow, got stand by the coffee machine and let your glasses slide slightly down your nose. Wait for an important-seeming person to walk by and then push your glasses up and say "Furrier Transform" -- this is a much faster way to a promotion than coding at your desk.

Be wearing a slim-fitting hoodie if at all possible. If your MacBook doesn't already have stickers reflecting which causes you SJW on reddit, get some now!!!!11
You could open an issue on his repo :)
Try the "this was a gift" checkbox in order history. I've been hesitant to share this as I don't want it to stop working, but it's magic for me. Allows you to select what you want ads for in the future.
Theory proposed by Alan Turing in 1952 can explain the formation of fingers
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This would have no effect on military uses. It was a static piece of data that was misconfigured on one satellite, not the actual time code on any satellite.

Disrupting GPS is less useful for military goals these days, since there are independent positioning constellations, like GLONASS.
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Especially when the correct / better answer is not the accepted one.
Headphones are a shitty solution, and laptops make it easier to opt into whichever you want.
It shouldn't be solitary. At any given time it'll have a range between zero and the entire team in it based on what needs to happen... You do work with other people right? :)

And now you can actually talk to each other which you can't really do in an open space...
Yeah, so like other bad employees, bad managers hide from metrics that are hard to measure, and report metrics that are easy to measure and hope nobody calls bullshit on them.
What do you do if you have a family? I have small kids. No way I could handle working from home.
Yes, shame on them for buying into the very line promoted by the propagandists for higher eduction! /s

To adapt a scene from Bojack Horseman[1]:

"You're probably wondering how we got all these students to go to great lengths to be accepted to our school."

'You said it was because you offer a good education.'

"Right, but you're probably wondering the real way we get students to come here."

'Nope, we took you at face value!'

[1] http://transcripts.foreverdreaming.org/viewtopic.php?f=361&t...
So it took longer to happen in FX because of the lack of exchanges? Or what?
> In a similar way, I could _borrow_ books from the library, take them home and digitise them, then return the library book while retaining the digital _copy_. I'm pretty sure this is not allowed under copyright law.

Its, on first glance, a violation of the copyright owner's exclusive rights to create copies, sure.

Whether its actually infringement or not depends on whether it falls in one of the exceptions to the exclusive rights, such as fair use. Copying a library book and just to keep it for yourself does not seem likely to do that.

> However, if I go one step further, commercialising my collection of digitised books by providing them online to everyone in the world in a searchable format - but removing every few pages - that somehow makes the original copyright infringement legal?...

Quite possibly. Fair use is funny that way, because the boundaries are not crisply defined but anything that falls within it is an exception to the exclusive rights of copyright, transforming what would otherwise be infringement into non-infringement.

> I suggest if they bought every book that they digitise, they would then have the right to index those books so that they could offer their fair use service to people.

If the service is fair use, then whether they own physical copies or not is immaterial, since the users ownership of physical copies of the work is not one of the factors called to be considered in fair use analysis.

You don't acquire a right to fair use of a copyrighted work by purchasing a copy of the work, everyone has an inherent right to fair use (which was a judicially identified limitation of Constitutional character before being enshrined in statute) inherently.
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Compose released RethinkDB 2.2.4 today. https://www.compose.io/articles/rethinkdb-2-2-4-available/
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Any chance this is open source? Would love to set this up for my office
So run it on AWS. In general, I think running mail servers off a residential, or even business ISP is very sketchy. E-mail is my primary line of communication for important matters, and I can't afford to have a snowstorm, busted hard drive, orange juice spill, or basement flood take out my mail sever.
"secret code" is rather linkbait-y. The code is not secret at all, except that it deals with obscure parliamentary procedure and thus it's not generally interesting to the general public. (Fine article though.)
That's not right, I host some email servers for small companies and private people who all have problems with Google accounts although supporting DKIM, SPF and a TLS connection. They block them as bulk mail and in their FAQ the option hosting your own server isn't even listed. Of course contacting them is impossible, so the only way left is creating a ton of fake accounts on gmail and add the addresses to their contacts or ask friends with gmail accounts to add them and mark them as no spam. Google definitely IS the email bully and there's not much you can do about it.
For fun, try trolling obnoxious people by pronouncing it like "squeal" :)
Ah, unlimited vacation. A competition to see who can take the least vacation!

It should be called undefined vacation, because there's clearly a limit, unless taking half of the year off is fine.
> Well you really shouldn't be serving static content through Django, you should be serving it through a CDN

The two aren't mutually exclusive. My CDN points to Django for retrieving the static media.

> if you're making the right ones it should just work

"If you're making the ones that Zappa requires", you mean.

> The one thing you'll have to watch out for are C-extensions

Eh, that's to be expected, though.
Opt out = permanently damage hearing?
FWIW, there's also https://www.theguardian.com/science/2016/feb/09/watch-this-s..., with no adblock issues.
This might help you understand:

"Misconceptions about the Big Bang"
http://www.physics.uq.edu.au/download/tamarad/papers/SciAm_B...
No, the total light in each spherical "shell" is the same as every other shell.

Stars that are 20 light-years away are 4x dimmer than stars 10 light-years away. But there are 4x more stars 20 light-years away than 10 light-years away. As you go outward from Earth, the stars get dimmer and more numerous, but these balance each other, and the infinite sum is 1 + 1 + 1 + ...

(This is no chance happening; regardless of the # of spatial dimensions the universe has, this relationship holds true.)
Thanks for that. The HTML encoding is... interesting there - &lt; is there, but > isn't replaced by &gt;. How on earth is a feed reader meant to parse that?
TBH, I knew a number of folks within Google Search who took "Don't be evil" very seriously. I dunno about the top-level execs, but there were plenty of folks with mid-level VP or Director titles who cared deeply about the user experience and doing right by users.
I really wish that I could kick out the office dogs, shut down the office music, and enforce library rules.

I am definitely the "no fun employee".
Pull requests will work there.
Office rent is more expensive than open-plan rent. Nobody disagrees.

Office productivity, morale, collaboration, and communication are higher than open-plan. The degree to which those things are higher is enough to more than make up for the higher rent, even over relatively short periods of time.

If you're building from scratch, up-front costs are higher, and long-term gains from productivity, etc., are also much higher, once again more than offsetting the higher up-front costs and making private offices a winner from a net-present-value perspective.
"not an official google product"
When I was first learning UNIX many years ago a grey-beard told me to always keep a spiral bound notebook and pen at my side. It was great advice. Jotting down the arcane commands committed most of them to memory, for the rest my black little spell book held the magical incantation for any situation. I've since gotten away from that habit. Perhaps I should follow this fellow's lead.
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I've suffered in open office environments, and I really want to believe that a private office would benefit the company as well as me, but I'm afraid that might just be wishful thinking on my part. Can you back up these assertions with references?
> When you say "there's nothing innovative about it" regarding hearthstone, you could say that about several of the games Blizzard has made.

This makes them good at making money, not necessarily good at making games. I personally see WoW as the beginning of Blizzard's decent. I can't argue that it made a boatload of money though, or that millions of people love it.

As for how it's a bad thing, Blizzard used to develop some seminal games in the RTS genre. These games showed significant innovation and shaped the genre (though they didn't invent it). Compare that to their current lineup of rehashed and cloned games. I don't see the same level of innovation anywhere.

I think Blizzard is so focused on profits at this point that monetization is the primary concern of any new game. It's just my personal, anecdotal opinion but it's also the reason I don't buy Blizzard games at release anymore.
You'd have to capture the action with a browser extension - it doesn't look like "who upvoted what" is exposed at all: http://data.stackexchange.com/stackoverflow/query/new
I think it's a bad idea. Stability is good.
20K is -253c conversion from K to C is quite simple just 273(.15) from C to K or subtract it from K to C :P

As far as temperature goes we don't need room temperature we need it to be high enough to be able to get to those temperatures efficiently (e.g. phase cooling) which can then be applied easily to large scale computing systems.

With Optic-On-Chip/PIC becoming a plausible reality it's also might be possible to use laser based cooling within the silicon it self to get certain parts of it cold enough to introduce superconductivity but again every single degree (kelvin or otherwise) counts because the implications on the power required to cool the components down and keep them cool are enormous.

The problem with very low temperature and very small components isn't even necessarily the energy if we are talking about the same component size and current and emerging silicon then with ~0-20K a stray high energy photon or any other type of cosmic radiation might be enough to knock your "gates" out of order if they are using some superconductive elements since we are already getting to the point of gates being atoms in size at least in some dimension.
One of the few other companies that made games of similar quality for me was Bioware. The critically acclaimed Star Wars RPGs, the Mass Effect and DragonAge franchises started as something new and special, with MassEffects focusing on epic interactive storytelling and DA on complex yet accessible RPG. Sadly, after EA (the dev killer) bought them, DA turned into a hack n slay, and ME into a CoD in space. With a VERY bad ending.
Status once again. There's actually quite a lot of formal research on this, such as here:

< http://homepages.se.edu/cvonbergen/files/2013/01/Reversing-t... >
I agree. It's sure easier and more fun to be on fiber, but honestly, how many tech positions require connection that fast? I worked for quite a while now on 8Mbps DSL - I'd say that's enough for many devs.
> Not long after we tallied up every penny of what your money is used for when you purchase a Buffer subscription, we noticed that office space was a not-insignificant element of our overall expenditures each month—more than we paid for health insurance, or advertising and marketing.

and here is the real point. We can save money.

I think remote options are a great idea. I also think that forcing workers to take their work outside the office is a lousy idea.
Correct.

Receiving and sending money isn't just about having an invoice, it about documenting that business decisions were made for ethical reasons.

Getting a bank account suspended because of AML/ATF automatic red-flags is a major risk for any small business.
So, on top of this, they have since decided SQL is no longer Structured Query Language--it's just SQL.
This should really be called "Directory of Awesome Developers' Github Repositories".

(I was immediately struck by the absence of Brian Kernighan, Dennis Ritchie, etc. from the C list.)
I've been watching them for a bit, this technology is pretty interesting since it lets you build what the supercomputers of the 80s-90s were - simply and on commodity HW. Lots of CPUs, lots of ram available to an individual process/threadpool.

Not clear how network/disk IO is sorted out yet.

It looks like it could have promise for apps where people don't have the time to scale out into services. If its less latent than IP based APIs that could be pretty profound as well.

Could be entertaining with Docker as well.
"On one hand you have hard data, open offices cost x, open plan costs x/2, on the other hand you have "engineers say they could be more productive with offices" against "do you remember when we were small and working in a single room, that was awesome, we were so agile and communicative" (whether or not that is applicable at your particular company size or stage, burning the midnight oil on your stack to cobble together a demo for a pitch is not the same as writing production level tricky security code)"

Not to mention that part of why you do that then is so you don't have to do that anymore.
Ok, so I don't really want to get in an argument with you over this and waste even more of your (and my) valuable time, but does it not say "Request an Invite" as the CTA? Isn't that pretty clear?

Do you really expect everything you come across on HN to be a fully hashed out and mature product? That's not really what this site is about… There is no "ready for the front page of HN", it's just a collection of links that are meant to be interesting to "hackers". It seems pretty clear to me that this fits.
Many of the older Oxford and Cambridge colleges have two doors in one doorway: the external one for the 'interruptible/not' signal, and the internal one to keep the heat in when the outer is open. We have a term for it: 'sporting one's oak'.

http://www.grammarphobia.com/blog/2008/02/sporting-the-oak.h...

This was a great system in medieval buildings where most doors opened directly to the outdoors, which in itself is a great privacy feature.
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I just don't agree, and won't; it's a computer playing pre-recorded sounds, not an instrument, no matter what this generation wants to call it, playing with a sampler is not being a musician.
The Pragmatic Programmer book talked about creating a solutions log, which can be consulted at a later time.
I love this technique! I take notes in a small notebook during the day and then look back at in the evening to see if there is anything worth TIL'ing about.
I do feel for your situation. It's apparent that this was the management's plan and you might not have been communicate to. Excited about Parse 2.0 nonetheless!
That's true, but if it's sitting in your datacenter which is stably attached to some point on the surface of the earth, that's a well defined frame of reference.
It would be a spectacular conflict with the Hulse-Taylor binary pulsar system, whose orbital decay is exactly in line with the prediction for energy loss through gravitational waves.
I just thought about doing this for learning hardware design a few hours ago. I started dabbling a while ago, and writing down the things I learnt would result in a concise document full of compressed knowledge. I'll probably use a different format (a continuously updated page on my site), but it's the same idea. Thanks for sharing!
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When departments have been abandoned from an IT budget, the most common replacement I've seen has been SharePoint.

Not a bad replacement.
Haven't used them, will check it out, thanks for the tip
https://github.com/google/ion/tree/master/ion/demos and https://github.com/google/ion/tree/master/ion/doc/usersguide... may help.
I hear what you're saying, but I'm not sure I agree with the argument that this approach is not in their interest (I also use an ad blocker by the way, not preaching just being practical). I would bet that ~50%+ of people are choosing to disable their ad blocker to view Forbes content once they got stopped (I did), and that that the value driven by that increase in ads served outweighs the cost of not having the small % of users who refuse to turn off ad blockers not share their links.

I can also 100% guarantee they split tested this, before rolling it out, to make sure it was the right cost/benefit choice.
You want to regularly sit next to people with headphones on, coding away on some side project, while momentarily taking off said headphones to ask/answer questions and talking shit about quirks of some arbitrary framework?
Facebook (seriously!)

For Boulder/Denver, start here: https://www.facebook.com/groups/boulderstartups/

For Austin (where I live), start with these three groups:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/austinstartups/

https://www.facebook.com/groups/austindigitaljobs/

https://www.facebook.com/groups/capitalfactoryjobs/

I'm sure there are others, but these are the ones I'm familiar with.