skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Paul Graham expressed this much more strongly than I have, and he wrote about it over 10 years ago:

"After software, the most important tool to a hacker is probably his office. Big companies think the function of office space is to express rank. But hackers use their offices for more than that: they use their office as a place to think in. And if you're a technology company, their thoughts are your product. So making hackers work in a noisy, distracting environment is like having a paint factory where the air is full of soot.

The cartoon strip Dilbert has a lot to say about cubicles, and with good reason. All the hackers I know despise them. The mere prospect of being interrupted is enough to prevent hackers from working on hard problems. If you want to get real work done in an office with cubicles, you have two options: work at home, or come in early or late or on a weekend, when no one else is there. Don't companies realize this is a sign that something is broken? An office environment is supposed to be something that helps you work, not something you work despite.

Companies like Cisco are proud that everyone there has a cubicle, even the CEO. But they're not so advanced as they think; obviously they still view office space as a badge of rank. Note too that Cisco is famous for doing very little product development in house. They get new technology by buying the startups that created it-- where presumably the hackers did have somewhere quiet to work.

One big company that understands what hackers need is Microsoft. I once saw a recruiting ad for Microsoft with a big picture of a door. Work for us, the premise was, and we'll give you a place to work where you can actually get work done. And you know, Microsoft is remarkable among big companies in that they are able to develop software in house. Not well, perhaps, but well enough."

from Great Hackers section called "The Final Frontier"

http://paulgraham.com/gh.html

I agree that open plan is the worst, but cubes are a close second, and both types of space are not as cost effective as private offices (even in dense urban areas).

If the executives want to be "egalitarian" about it, then raise the conditions of everyone up. Don't act like a proud martyr and lower your own conditions. It's patronizing and solves none of the problems. Plus, executives who do this will always find other status games to play if they want to feel superior, so it's never really egalitarian anyway.
Pretty sure the upvotes do something, but green accounts take longer to update the karma for. Or something like that - not entirely sure, but I'm pretty sure the 20 is indicative of their karma at some unspecified point in the past. dang, what's causing this?

Also, I just upvoted you, and your karma didn't change (stayed at 35897.) Interesting stuff.
It also seems unfair when one's parents lived well within their means and prioritized saving and spending on education, so one's family has to pay all their life savings for university, while a friend's family with the same or slightly higher income but no savings is given significant financial aid.

(Or maybe they're better at filling in FAFSA? My father is a self-taught accountant who later went pro (incl. classes/tests etc), but may have been too honest.)
Ford has the trademark on 'Model E' - they contacted Telsa when the name was floated and warned them off it.

Elon Musk has joked several times that 'Ford killed off SEX'
Yeah, I looked it up after I posted (probably should have done it the other way around), but thanks.
Yeah, I believe that ending a whole pile of legal strategies is the point of that suggestion.
http://thinkaurelius.com/2013/11/01/a-letter-regarding-nativ...
Sure, that's what they want you to think.

That's actually a perfectly reasonable explanation of how they ended up with such a name, but it's still unfortunate.
Alcohol is a terrible example here. Many premium products already exist in the marketplace with no clear connection between production cost and price. You could possibly build a case with tobacco but you'd have to ignore the cigar market, which similarly has a large premium market segment.

It seems unlikely that other recreational drugs would be different.
In which you can make more money to donate to the fund.

It's turtles all the way down
I went to a talk by the author of their auto-layout engine.

He would always tell his manager, "You can give me two weeks to enhance the tool, or two weeks to do it manually. Your choice."
Isn't proprietary stupid software feature restriction what sparked the GNU movement?
Really? I've used iText for years. It is extensively documented both online and in the 600-page book from Manning and the guys who wrote the library answer questions on SO, most being answered in less than 24 hours. In addition, iText has both a high-level API and a low-level interface, so anything you can do in a PDF you can do with iText. I'd be hard-pressed to think what could be frustrating about it. That doesn't match my experience at all.
I'm all for it. If you bring suit the other party should be allowed to cause you to have to continue if you feel like dropping it. There is some potential for abuse there though, this is not a simple matter.
I didn't write the initial post about 5% of 5% :)
It was stated a while ago that the pricing would be $35,000 before incentives. They probably don't want to say a specific price if incentives aren't nailed down yet.
I totally hear you. It absolutely infuriates me that such bad policy can be so hard-headingly acted, and it's actually the biggest reason I'm libertarian leaning. I don't even consume drugs, but the drug war is so bad, so pervasive and so toxic, it affects my ability to travel, it destroys countless lives and it causes mass inequality in the US. It absolutely makes me lose faith in government as a concept.
> why are we still stuck with 16 GB of storage on base model phones

Because upgrades are where they make most of their money.
The problem is not CO2, but reactive chemicals such as nitrogen oxides released near the ozone layer, which is a particular concern with supersonic transport because of the high cruise altitude. See:
http://science.sciencemag.org/content/270/5233/70
Before smartphones, it was normal for a line of phones to look similar for years.
Almost all silicon valley interviews are a 1hr phone screen and a full day of interviewing with lunch in the middle. What they seem to be asking seems to be about the same amount of time. And TBH it's less intense sounding since it should be a mostly normal work day.
DalmatinerDB: A fast, distributed metric store
...and half of those are comments, no? (ie. the ones starting with a ';')
It's an ad hominem, it's irrelevant. Engage with the theory if you want to a meaningful discussion. I'm not being dismissive because I don't want to deal with criticism, I'm being dismissive because it's not criticism of the content.
To set a legal precedent. Sort of a set it and forget it kind of law.
Not true, as far as I can tell. I use mine for the usual tasks (ssh, Chrome) and photo editing (Lightroom and Photoshop). Chrome, Lightroom, and Photoshop are the exact same versions I have on my desktop, and work perfectly on the Surface, including understanding touch and the pen. It's great. Nice screen too.

The iPad has potential, but Lightroom for the iPad is crap. You can connect an SD card with RAW files on it to the iPad... but Lightroom can't read them. Won't even show you a preview (even though Apple's built-in app can). Not good.

The iPad Pro is a way better device on paper than the Surface. But being able to run every Windows program ever is better than being able to maybe get a stripped-down version of the software you're used to.

I imagine sales numbers between iPad Pro and Surface Pro 4 are orders of magnitude in favor of the iPad for two reasons. One, the Surface Pro 4 competes with every Windows laptop ever -- there are many cheaper ways to get all your favorite Windows programs "on the go". Two, I bet a lot of people bought the iPad Pro imagining things like Lightroom would be useful, discovered they aren't, and put the iPad in the drawer two weeks after buying it. I loved my iPad for the first two weeks after I bought it. Now I don't know where it is. Dead in a drawer somewhere, no doubt.
EVOLUTION OF CAR COLOR IN NORTH AMERICA SINCE 2000
Noted; I've adjusted the pronouns in my the above, accordingly.
For one thing, iText has both Java and .NET implementations. Also, iText also has excellent documentation (both online and third-party books) and the authors answer questions all the time on SO.
Yes, we definitely need a black bar here. Grove set the tone of a lot of what we take for granted in Silicon Valley, like a meritocracy, no offices for execs, the best idea wins regardless of who suggested it, etc.
No question about censorship on the platform. Extremely disappointing. Twitter is being wielded as a political censorship weapon.
You can copy the image, paste it into Word and print it.
Facebook's app has a super-bloated > 100MB binary:

http://quellish.tumblr.com/post/126712999812/how-on-earth-th...

I think they have something like 150+ iOS devs, so they're almost up to a megabyte per dev!
Senate proposal on encryption gives judges authority over Apple
Well for the art example, just because someone could make a piece of art doesn't mean they have any interest in doing so. I could squirt paint randomly on a canvas, but it would be a huge waste of time.
Try being in the UK right now. The government have even given up the pretence that it has anything to do with harm-- every unapproved psychoactive substance on earth is about to be banned from sale/import. Be thankful at least you are dealing with a blacklist and not a (very short) whitelist!

The whitelist being; tea, coffee, alcohol, tobacco/nicotine, in addition to prescription medication.
That's because most people just consume the mass media with out applying much thought to the process. Not only is the the people unjustly put in prison. But their families, central America and Mexico, the lives ruined and lost there.
I don't see how it's a nice gesture. Not only does it fail to improve what is bad about the conditions, but also it creates an unspoken rule that you're not even allowed to complain, not even allowed to hope, for something better.

Wearing tattered shoes and claiming they are "good enough" isn't a nice gesture nor is it helpful for the person who badly needs better shoes. Instead it's a message: deal with the bad stuff because I am dealing with it.

As for whether it's poor taste, I guess, I don't know. I'm responding to a comment on an internet thread, a comment that could be misinterpreted as supportive of open-plan offices, and I see the effect of that as socially bad. I mean no disrespect, but I'm also going to speak up for what I believe matters.
No they don't. Their - or anyone's - ability to restructure society is (or at least ought to be) constrained by the requirement to respect the rights of those in that society.
The Levitron top demonstrates that it doesn't: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Levitron
I closed my browser for 5 minutes and then wrote down what I remembered. I've printed out these pages and put them in a splendid ring binder. The hardback edition therefore takes pride of place on my shelf, and by the logic of the authors I wrote it myself.
Levitron floating magnetic top
This sounds to me like the type of law that appears to solve a problem in this particular case but would open a can of worms in other cases that involve legitimate investigation into faulty business practices.
> The future business leaders of America

"All we had to do was download a program and we got free Internet" seems similar, and the dialer-scam was used widely throughout the US.
I tend to dislike systems of the form "if you make/own less than $X, you get $Y benefit". It often leads to nasty non-monotonic outcomes and like this.

For actual public benefits, I'd much prefer to give all the benefits to all the people and raise taxes accordingly. This means that, as a CA resident, I think I should be permitted to deduct rent even if my AGI is $38,259, and I think I should get the full Affordable Care Act subsidy regardless of my income. The rules would be simpler and my taxes would be simpler. In exchange, I would gladly pay higher taxes to make up the deficit.

For public university, it's a bit messier because of state residency rules. And for private universities, this wouldn't work at all unless the government directly subsidized private education.

(But maybe the government should ditch all the complicated student aid and student loan benefits and offer a blanket subsidy for education at accredited universities.)
Well that took forever. Congrats on getting to the right place though Google.
another immigrant who dragged on the economy
Ah thats right. I remember Go can be used with the NDK as well I think.
What sets this book apart from Apple's "The Swift Programming Language"?
Tribute to Andy Grove with Ben Horowitz. Worth watching.

http://a16z.com/2015/09/28/the-man-who-built-silicon-valley-...
So then there is a payoff to lying?
Why is the author seemingly afraid of every new experience? Is this normal?
Direct link to report (PDF) without the 13-click blogspam slideshow (which hits external metrics sites 145 times):

https://www.comptia.org/docs/default-source/advocacydocs/cyb...
This one time, this specific case, Apple pushed back. They need to be commended for that, but let's not forget all the other times (and there are very many) when they (and all tech companies) just handed over the data when given a valid warrant.
The author of this article is quite pro-gun. Read his excellent article: http://archive.is/JM57Y

I don't know his position on privacy.

And, as others have said, there's no reason for anybody to constrain themselves to one political label. You can agree with libertarians on some things and authoritarians on others, without subscribing to the underlying philosophies of either one.
If it's not something you're interested in and inspired by then it'll be hard to follow through with it. I get that you're looking for ideas that interest you, but your brain can easily give you a short term false sense of excitement until you realize a week later that this idea you picked up is something you're really not as interested in as you thought you were. I suggest to use anything posted on here merely as inspiration and nothing more.

Now, for starters, what are some tipics/fields/'things' you are interested in? What are some past projects you worked on that you really enjoyed?
Also apps using sd for storage is on an app by app basis. So say if Google turns that off for Play Music - as it seems they just did - well, now I have to cancel my subscription for that service and find something else to use my 64gb sd for. ffs.
Gates also is known for having built a home that stood out. It's not about the era its about the person.
Does the job they're interviewing involve finding the longest paths on weighted bipartite graphs? Or is this just non-recursive Towers of Hanoi pretending to be a realistic work sample?
Be better than everyone else, and be able to demonstrate it
Stack (by TJ Holowaychuk) – An Idempotent Task Runner (ala Dockerfile)
Absolutely, of course, without a spreadsheet like this, its really damn hard to know what ballpark "get paid what you're worth" even is. At least with numbers like this, a few visualizations accounting for remote/office, and geographic location people will know the appropriate ballpark figures to work towards.

It would be nice if a simple spreadsheet could include minimum PTO/year and some anecdotal average working hours (does everyone live at the office? or not?)
> Their legal reasoning heavily relies on Apple being the only party capable of assisting with unlocking the phone.

That has been known to be false since day one, as methods of bypassing the reset have long been known that don't require Apple's help. The problem for the FBI is that these methods can't be used on a large scale, or without the targets' knowledge.
That's a great idea and I'm glad I thought of it.
This is really simplified and unfortunately, doesn't 'tell the whole truth'. For example, it shows 10/25/75/150/250 Mbps options, in my area. But our 'Extreme 105 Mbps' service here hasn't been upgraded to 150 Mbps like elsewhere in the country. 150 Mbps isn't actually the speed offered here, but Amazon thinks it is.
Still, it's ambiguous whether the article recommends that Portugese localisation should still be done despite the piracy from Brazil, or whether other western european languages should be done excluding Portugese.
Reflections on Programming
You're taking a sympathetic act and you're twisting it out of proportion just so you can promote your hobby horse. I don't personally like cubicles either but I'd far prefer the managers of the company to dogfood what they believe is best for their employees rather than that they create a better situation for themselves. If you don't understand why if every manager did that you might actually achieve your goal then that's just too bad.
It is fact from my life. 4 my classmates started to smoke in school, when they were 14 years old. Then somebody told them how to make cheap drug from papaver, which is called «shirka» there. Now they are dead.
> They can't spend 2%(540/26,000) of their endowment per year on free tuition? What is this money for?

The safe withdrawal rate is set at 4 percent. Earmarking half of that 4 percent for student aid is pretty severe on the budget.
In a later statement, McAfee explained that he'd do it in "a half an hour" by finding the location in flash where the passcode is stored. (Never mind that the passcode is used as an encryption key, not as a password.)

http://arstechnica.com/security/2016/03/john-mcafee-better-p...
Throwing more free money at universities will just make things worse.
The Domo Trilogy
Isn't it pretty possible to mess up this and brick the device though?
Is it just me or "Boom" sounds like the worst-name-ever for an airline?

I'm serious. My immediate association for "boom" is an explosion sound, not a sonic boom. I would feel just as comfortable flying an airline called "Bang", "Crash", "Kaboom", "Blast" or "OhMyGodWeAreGoingDown".

Please, do rethink that name, I dream of shorter trips to Bora Bora every single day of my life (not serious now).
Andy was brilliant and driven. After he retired from Intel, he worked to help find a cure for Parkinson's, from which he suffered. I wish that story had a happier ending but it does demonstrate the fight in him.

http://www.forbes.com/forbes/2008/0128/070.html
I definitely expect Apple to comply with valid warrants to the extent possible. Is there a serious belief that Apple should flout the law? Is there a company in the world that obstructs justice in their home country?
Create a website to coordinate the conversion of "How to Solve it by Computer" into Python 3 or Perl 6.

That book is used in education in some places, so you want to make sure you're using best practice in the code. You want to tack a forum or a sub-reddit or a stack exchange onto the website for people to ask questions. You want some way for people to point out errors or to improve the examples.

You want some way for people to provide translations of the English bits into Spanish, Portuguese, the various Indian languages, etc.
If only there was a site where people could enter in their salary info, and it would automatically calculate average/median/range based on specific cities/companies/title/years-of-experience.
When you have 40 BILLION to invest, you can't just dump it into an index fund.
I've seen this cover around for a while as a sort of joke image. I never realized I had made it into a book.
I came to the realisation the other day that I really don't care about free lunch, or free Red Bull, or any of those freebies.

They're not really free, because that money could be otherwise used to pay you. I'd rather get money that I could then spend on lunch, than get free lunch.
> And as long as we live in a democracy, they're entitled to structure their society as they see fit.

I strongly disagree. There are certain human rights that should not be able to be voted away in a democracy. I believe that the right to modulate our own minds as we see fit belongs in this category.
>They can't spend 2%(540/26,000) of their endowment per year on free tuition? What is this money for?

Oddly enough, it's possible they can't. Endowment bequests frequently come with conditions, so they don't have complete flexibility in that respect.
It seems more correct to say that their real goal was to have a set of "independent" pharmacies (but really not) that would pay high prices for Valeant's drugs but still appear to insurers to be doing so because the pharmacies concluded Valeant was the best supplier on its merits, not because they were secretly controlled by Valeant. Seems like someone should be spending time in Club Fed, but won't happen of course.
The price of Serious Education, like that of Serious Illness is now quoted at $ImpossibleSum and then generously negotiated down to ($EverythingYouveGot + $EverythingYouCanBorrow).
Bloomberg, a company famous for an executive who expressed this same "down in the trenches" preference for cubicles, famously does not have offices.

Far from their "egalitarian" culture leading to acceptable working conditions over time, it has only enshrined the idea that no one, ever, may have an office.

It is much better that some people have offices even if not all do, for then at least there can be a path to earning the chance to work in one. Some hope. When they are all taken away under the guise of egalitarian conditions, you can bet they are not coming back.
The only thing that has ever worked -- for programmers anyway -- is a quiet, roomy office with a comfortable chair, plenty of desk space and a solid door.

And very few interruptions.
Companies will always comply with valid warrants for data in their possession, and it would be ridiculous to expect them to do otherwise.

What made this case different was that it was not about a simple warrant for data held by Apple.
Grove's High Output Management is highly recommended. It's a masterpiece of management theory and practice.

http://www.amazon.com/High-Output-Management-Andrew-Grove/dp...
I hope one day to be as productive as TJ.
The first crowd-written story?
Using this now and I really wish he would update it.
Do you mean S 70Ds? According to modelxtracker.com, no X 70Ds have been delivered yet. That's not a comprehensive list, but I'd expect to see some there if they've been making deliveries.
U.S. Wants to Cancel Apple Court Hearing Over Terrorist iPhone
The previous sentence about SIM cards:

"We tried to buy 3, and we were told they were free."

Welcome to not-America. I think the free data reloads are a sign of how cheap mobile bandwidth could be.

Maybe they can bring back that practice.
I agree that it ought to be, but to a lot of people, those rights end when they involve behavior outside unspoken social norms. The concept of rights and freedoms has always brushed up against that limit. There's been constant change in what those norms are, but changing them has never been easy.
Try this: https://www.shodan.io/search?query=port%3A443+product%3A%22O...
> The vast majority of the time, kids with rich parents have a substantially blessed childhood & family-support, which justifies them having to pay substantially more in tuition fees.

How does it justify that? We want to punish them with debt because their parents might have provided them with some opportunities?

The current system of funding higher education penalizes children of parents who don't prioritize college. There is no point to this and it just helps perpetuate privilege. We should stop unfairly assuming that parents are willing and able to pay for college.
Challenger Engineer Who Warned of Shuttle Disaster Dies
Sure, but watch how the message will change from "Company obviously hands over data when given a warrant" to "company doesn't hand over data when given a warrant; they really care about privacy".
All Oculus Software and VR applications must be stored in C:\ drive