skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I am someone who got an "on-site only" job and now work full time remote in the same position on the other side of the country (and sometimes the world).

This happened because I worked on-site for a year and I wasn't happy with the lifestyle the city I lived in provided (specifically SF/the bay-area, spent 5mo in SF then 5mo in SJ, still wasn't happy, so I moved to VN for 6 weeks).

I told my boss I needed a change of scene-ary and I really enjoyed working for and doing the things that I do at work, but I really did not like the bay and I wanted to live other places. He agreed to let me work remotely from Vietnam for 6 weeks, then Florida indefinitely. I think a few things that drove that decision were:

1. After working with me for a year, I am a known quantity that they like. With every new hire, there is risk and some people think more risk, since people won't be there.

2. The company is very small (10 people) and I play an important role in our platform. It would be expensive to replace me and they don't really want to, because of 1.

* Why does the person who does this job need to be on-site? Please be specific. Give me examples of things that can only be done if she were in the office.

Having been on site and remote, a couple of things that I feel that I am missing out are:

1. I feel like I have less klout in the office. When it comes to product design and company policy decisions, I am often left sitting on my hands while everyone else chats about it in the office.

2. Sometimes I miss spontaneous product discussions that happen within the office and am not typically told about that. This should be fixable, but it is about building good habits and keeping the team informed.

* Have you been in a position where you personally would be okay with an employee being a telecommuter, but a decision-maker deemed otherwise? How did you handle it?

No.

* How has the policy affected your company’s ability to attract candidates?

Since the office is in the bay, people fly from all over the world to work in our office. Has not been an issue.

* Have you hired someone for an in-the-office job, and later given permission for the individual to work from home? What happened to make the change okay?

me! see above.

* What would it take for the company to change the no-telecommuters policy, even if only for one specific position?
When I got hired, there was a no-telecommuters policy and they were letting go both of our remote workers. I think I have been able to work remotely because of the points mentioned above.
It depends upon the op / byte loaded intensity. Nvidia packs their GPUs with a lot of float32 (or float64) units because some problems (e.g., convolution, or more typical HPC problems like PDEs, which will probably be done in float64) have a high flop / byte ratio.

A problem just calculating, say, hamming distance or 1-2 integer bit ops per integer word loaded will probably be memory bandwidth bound rather than integer op throughput limited. More complicated operations (e.g., cryptographic hashing) that have a higher iop / byte loaded will be limited by the reduced throughput of the integer op functional units rather than memory bandwidth.

For "deep learning", convolution is one of the few operations that tends to be compute rather than memory b/w bound. It's my understanding that Sgemm (float32 matrix multiplication) has been memory b/w limited for a while on Nvidia GPUs. Though, if you muck around with the architecture (as with Pascal), the ratio of compute to memory b/w to compute resources (smem, register file memory) may change the ratios up.
Danielle Morrill of Mattermark, Live Chat – AMA on Product Hunt
If you work with React a lot, you can setup a React project to your taste in about 30 minutes. But the catch being if you leave React for a while then come back, all bets are off.

I think most boilerplates add way too much and are overly opinionated. I like that this is simple, and "eject" gives power users an even better starting point.
Along this topic, there is a tribe in Mauritania that communicate with dolphins through water splashes, so they can help them by puhing fishes towards their nets: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eJ12t_VoZwA
(1) Is a killer, unless collaborating over distance comes naturally to the team.
Not sure. Perhaps misinterpretation of what you mean by Idle game (usually people mean that genre of silly Flash games where you don't do anything, just watch) or (less likely) grammar sticklers who see inappropriate use of the horizontal ellipse (i.e., …) as laziness?
> These gaffes don't represent the majority of the company.

Maybe a disgruntled support person then.
Here are the apps that may be suffering from Pokémon Go’s popularity
It seems like the tribe that built the site and the tribe that is trying to run it now are not the same thing. The culture of reddit is not civilized, equal, or any of the other HR type directives they are going to try and make.

If the people in charge now tried to start reddit back then, with all the focus on fairness, equality, correctness, and inclusiveness reddit would never exist.

It would be something else. I'm not sure it would be bigger, smaller, better, or worse, but I know it wouldn't be reddit.

You can't have a bunch of "bros" build a popular site and then pretend that they didn't. You can't bring in a bunch of nerds into a community and then kick them out and take it away from them once it's popular and successful.

Actually you can try and do those things, but it won't work because the tribe will reject you and go somewhere else. It happened to slashdot, it happened to digg, it will happen to reddit and Hacker News too.

If you don't understand the tribe, you can't hope to lead them. You don't lead the tribe by pretending it's not what it is.

Reddit's owners and operators seem to be ashamed by their tribe. That is going to be their downfall.
Is Verizon Wireless still injecting tracking headers into cellular data traffic? If so, how will these new acquisitions affect the way that these headers can be used?
At an extreme it is. (The buckets aren't so black and white)

Look at France. The costs of firing employees is so high, that companies on the margin choose to hire elsewhere. They only hire after extensively validating the employee. It's much harder to convince an employer to "give me a shot" because they can't back out of the decision easily. It helps the employees already hired, but hurts the ecosystems.

Other laws which force good behavior on everyone at a relatively low cost can help the ecosystem. (Voiding non-competes is one, getting rid of child labor is another)
Dolphin-assisted Fishing in Mauritania
> Certainly it's easier to look at education, corporate brand as signaling than to really dive into someone's skills and capacity to be successful.

Even more insidious because it actually works. The "average" Stanford CS major coming out of Google is very good. Your false-positive rate (they're actually not that great) is pretty low. However, your false-negative rate (if you didn't go to Stanford or work at Google, you're crap) is insanely high.
All text submissions are the same. HN really should change the styling as even the most upvoted text submission by the HN staff shows up as the same dim text, like this one from 'dang', a moderator: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12073675
While I agree the ensuing argument was excessive, I'll provide a defense of the "botched" definition.

The top definition for "predicate", that most people are familiar with, and that was omitted from the dictionary quote, is:

> 1. (grammar) The part of the sentence (or clause) which states something about the subject or the object of the sentence.

And in that context, it was a perfectly valid use of predicate, effectively synonymous with "unary function".

Sure, someone could & should have pointed out that the term was confusing because it has a more specific meaning in a computer science context, but all of the responses were simply "you're wrong" and creating in-group/out-group boundaries[1] rather than trying to understand the communication mismatch.

[1] It's usually a bad sign when someone comes in and says "serious programmers should know [...]". :P
All of those installation steps and disjoint applications make this comment sound like one of the early detractors of Dropbox commenting on its Show HN thread.
They're likely thinking of people talking to people over the Internet (Skype/Mumble/Discord), not talking to machines (Siri/OK Google).
I'm not a fan of US copyright law to say the least, but it's hard to feel any sympathy for these sites or their creators. Mostly they have derived multi-million dollar incomes from selling very shaddy adware or otherwise space for virus infested adds which they show to the users, 95% of who are there to download pirated content. This is probably an unpopular opinion here.
Sorry, forgot the 27 inch screen, external mouse, keyboard and USB Hub. In short, my phone contains the OS and my data and it can be used on small screens or multi-monitor setups.
I agree 100%, this matches my experiences pretty closely. I worked 80% remote for a six months a while back, and it was astonishing how much better productivity was, as well as the quality, if not necessarily the quantity of communication. Now I've basically flipped that ratio, and it is depressing how much of my time is wasted by low-quality communication, interruptions, as well as the low-grade stress and irritation of having to be in the office.
That's a very positivist approach, and I hope the liberal arts continue to erode such binary based thinking in the sciences as I believe that philosophy makes better scientists. . And so what if you "made up" another gender? Gender is socially constructed and is not a real, concrete construct. I'm sorry that considering concepts and people as unable to be hyper taxonomized by artificial constraints is inconvenient to you and more valuable than treating the identities of others with respect.
I once set up a remote testing rig for hardware approximately ranging in the $1-10k order of magnitude for my own development. The setup time, cost of remotifying hardware, and convenience were much cheaper than replacing the hardware elsewhere.
No, it's is an outage for paid accounts. It is just apparently that you need a dedicated IP account to have not been effected.
just curious -- but if one of your team said, Hey my spouse has a great opportunity in another city/state/country, and I love the job. Would you let her/him work remotely?
Many people (especially beginners) appreciate automatic updates of their dependencies. If you eject straight away you’ll have to manage them yourself, which is a big turnoff to many.
AirNote: HTML Rich Editor for Android
Now I would like to introduce the HTML Rich Editor component for Android to here, it is called the AirNote.
In a word, AirNote uses the HTML Rendering Engine implemented in a purely Java code, it is the outstanding characteristic of AirNote WYSIWYG HTML editor.
Unlike iOS environment of Apple, In Android's WebKit environment, the interoperability between WebView and an editing app is getting more complex and unstable because it runs in a separate Process.
So as you have known, Evernote's Android versions do not offer the HTML Rich editor, unlike their iOS version.
But AirNote we made is provided the HTML Rich Editor in the form of libraries, it is the biggest advantage because it runs in the same UI thread can be easily and reliably interlocked between the HTML engine and the UI of editor.
AirNote is now included in the world famous Nine(Exchange mail client) for Android as HTML rich editor, it's going through in the beta testing phase. Even though you can make sure with your eyes if you use AirNote demo app downloaded from Google playstore, AirNote has a similar ability level of editing functions such as Gmail for PC, and you can feel the HTML
rendering performance much better than MS Word. AirNote provides also some special features for smartphone environment such as image resizing and rotating.
But we don't have WebKit-based solutions for the PC using Javascript. So it will be the best solution for companies that have some troubles to implement HTML editor based WebKit to your Android applications, even if you have the WebKit based editor.

Please review the materials and demonstration program of AirNote below.

The homepage of AirNote : http://airnote.github.io/
the demo app of AirNote for Evernote :
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.wise.airnote.demo
Feedback email : Airnote.xyz@gmail.com
OK, so where do all the liabilities go in this case?
What will cause the cheap money to end?

From where I'm sitting, I see zero inflation, a federal reserve that's happy to keep buying assets to stimulate growth, a sluggish economic recovery that's led to 1-2% growth in the US, meanwhile 50% growth in aggregate household nominal wealth since 2010 (that's from the fed's survey of consumer finances) so everyone with home equity and stocks feels rich, and bigger-than-ever VC fundraising from LPs.

I'm gonna get back to work now, but, as much as I'd like this phase of ZIRP-driven asset price inflation and general ethos of cheap money/greed to end, I just really don't see it, at least not in the next 10 years. Please, tell me I'm wrong, I want to be, I just don't see it.
In response to "First Proof That Wild Animals Really Can Communicate With Us" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12144521
what about everquest? My husband is a big gamer. What is everquest?
Probably the Dale Carnegie book, as dumb as that sounds.
Demo app: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.wise.airno...
https://wikileaks.org/dnc-emails/?q=off+the+record&mfrom=&mt...

"Off the record" is a fun search term to browse.
That's exactly what Bubble does. Having played with it a bit it seems pretty nice ...basically the latest iteration of tools like Klik & Play or Mediator from the 1990s. You get a visual designer with a few basic widgets, a simple workflow editor that allows for basic sequences of actions and so on. It's programming stripped down to the absolute basics. You get a database, a simple visual query builder thingie that vaguely resembles English, etc.

I just showed it to my girlfriend who is learning Python. Her comment was "hmm but is this really easier than learning to code"? Well, it probably IS a lot easier, as long as your app fits within the constraints of what Bubble can do.

The problem with such tools is always that you very quickly hit the limits of what they can do, and then you're stuck. You can't easily peel back the abstraction and go deeper. You end up having to scrap the project or just give up on certain things. Bubble's "language" can't do looping, for instance. You can apparently write snippets of Javascript to do other stuff, but then you're back to needing to learn programming again.
The Mars Curiosity Rover Is Starting to Make Its Own Decisions
There's nothing wrong with criticism, but GP hasn't substantiated their opinion, so it isn't helpful.
Really alarming that this is starting to happen on an almost weekly basis.

So sad to me, violence from another part of the world spilling into Western Europe, an area that's finally settled into stable and peaceful democracy after millennia of war.
Show HN: Miraheze marks 1 year of libre wiki hosting
He's actually a really nice and interesting guy around a lot of SF communities. He has definitely traveled a lot and has tons of other great stories too.
> We tend to make a strong distinction between Natural and Legal Rights[1] and to group the Constitution into the latter category

The framers debated the inclusion of the Bill of Rights in the US Constitution for the simple fact that enumerating the rights made them appear though they were "granted" or in your words "Legal Rights." Furthermore, just by entertaining the idea that they should be explicitly enumerated, called into question whether they were "inalienable". However, they fully believed that those first ten amendments were "Natural Rights". In the end, they felt that enumerating them worthy, and given how the amendments are treated/respected/discussed and the litigous environment today - I'm glad they did.
Not to mention that this is certainly going to play into the hands of nativist and xenophobic elements in those regions, regardless of whether or not perpetrators turn out to be homegrown or not.
Facebook have activated their 'Safety Check' feature: https://www.facebook.com/safetycheck/munich-germany-shooting...
Zapier if I recall correctly.
Tablets can be slightly cheaper than houses near the office.
> 1. (grammar) The part of the sentence (or clause) which states something about the subject or the object of the sentence.

It's likely OP was using this definition, which in a programming context is effectively synonymous with "unary function".

Not trying to restart any discussion here, just wanted to clarify for any future visitors.
"Verizon has bought a significant portion of traffic on the web for roughly 8 billion"

Isn't AOL's traffic a small fraction of Yahoo's?
Answering for the hiring side at an organization where remote work is not allowed.

The reasons given by the founders to only allow local workers are:
* we want everybody in the room to build the culture and for people to learn how to work together
* whiteboard sessions/intense discussions are difficult to do remotely
* for lead positions: face time is important to properly lead the team

I feel like it's a disastrous policy to find candidates. I'm in MA and we compete with a lot of companies over a rather small pool of candidates. The worse is that the "local only" comes with a "please, go easy on the WFH" policy. Recruiters literally laugh at us, and tell us that we will never be able to compete if we don't allow flexible hours/locations.

We did manager to hire a couple developers, but we had to lower our standards (and one could question them, but it's not really the point here).

Interestingly, after a while the "limit the WFH" policy was relaxed. And now people are still local but can take a couple days to stay home every week. I think it's just because the team delivered, worked hard and built trust. It's just sad that it took a long time, and that still has not changed the no full-remote policy.

I think the candidate would have to be extraordinary and, more important, fill a position that had been open for a long time to allow remote workers. Enough time to convince upper management that we had to consider a wider pool or we would never find anybody.
I can't find a reference anywhere for this to back it up, but I recall reading that Stephen Wolfram (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_Wolfram) started Wolfram Research (Mathematica) with 100% remote employees.
None of that is needed for a real world production frontend app, with the exception of maybe tests.
Were they really remote in the beginning? Remember, they started as a "New Media" agency in the late 90s, and built up their following in their blog before pivoting into SaaS. It's hard to imagine having a creative agency all remote, and everything I've read from them—and I have been reading them since that early Zeldman era where they first rose to prominence—indicates that they started hiring remote to find the best people to work on their core products, not for client work.

Not that I don't think you can start a good startup as all-remote, but I just don't think that's how 37S bootstrapped.
I've always held that if you don't enjoy something across a wide range of the spectrum on which it exists, you can't really call yourself an enthusiast.

If you say you're a sushi connoisseur, but you only like top-shelf sushi prepared by world renowned chefs, then you don't really like sushi. You just like nice things. If you say you're a wine aficionado, but you will only drink wine that you've read is good, you don't really like wine.
There are so many things wrong with your post. Women are NOT objects to be acquired as some sort of sick goal or prize for being a productive society member. Women do not exert a control over men from which they must be freed. In fact, patriarchal society most often (and visibly) keeps women out of control and away from success and the kind of sick thinking you demonstrated above and is exalted by red pill communities actually perpetuates the oppression of women. I'm going to repeat this because you clearly lack an understanding of this fundamental concept: WOMEN ARE NOT OBJECTS
Please don't consider these questions a criticism.

In instance 1, could you use a remote screen sharing app to sit side saddle with a new junior dev? (and then record the session to allow the dev to replay the session later, come up with follow-up questions)

In instance 2, how often do you check on the progress of a dev? Is it a longer period of time for a remote vs an on-site employee?
you are clearly missing the point of this conversation. The point of this conversation is not to claim that 2 times 2 is equal to women's suffrage, but to simply state the obvious: when somebody says something that sounds pretty obviously idiotic, the likelihood that this person actually is an idiot goes up dramatically.
Munich shooting: Several killed at shopping mall, report says
In which DNC executives discuss smearing Bernie Sanders as Jewish:
https://wikileaks.org/dnc-emails/emailid/7643
https://wikileaks.org/dnc-emails/emailid/11508
https://wikileaks.org/dnc-emails/?q=otr&mfrom=&mto=&title=&n...

"otr" might be interesting too
Peter Thiel and the Ice Storm
it seems that the interesting languages fall more on github side

the popular languages seems to fall more on stack overflow side

those on the line are vanillas
Like I said, mocking the other side isn't helpful.
Is that for real?
And it doesn't even write your app for you, how dare they!
This is what we do, we have 3 senior developers, 2 intermediate level developers and 3 juniors on our team. Even before we hired the juniors we ALWAYS had GoToMeeting up and conversed throughout the day and worked together on projects, it's more imperative with the Jr's so we'll usually pair someone up 1:1 with them on a separate call to mentor them on a project. We haven't felt a need for a physical office except as an occasional meeting space (which is why we are working on getting one built-out in the city where the majority of our remote team lives).
Can you not do an ordinary open without O_NOFOLLOW and then lstat the filename?
I could be more productive remote, because it's less chair-time and more working when I'm really concentrated, 1.5h less commute, less distractions (i really love to block out the rest of the world with music and don't like headphones), real food and a bed for a quick nap at home. We are partly remote, but I'm sadly not.

What is nice about non remote though:

- you can see if a college has time for your questions

- you can scribble stuff easier while explaining complex things

- less language barrier. I find it really hard to understand non-native speakers over a bad skype connection (high quality headsets would fix this I believe)

- you can sense how the other feels and act accordingly

- It's easier to guide inexperienced people when they feel more free to ask questions. Probably fixable through good culture, but an effort to be made. It's also easier to see when they really got what you mean. (had trouble with the remote people here, though being forced to write even tighter specifications or more making more detailed mockups is not necessarily bad)
I don't have an aisle, so I can't mock the opposite side. But I can mock the Democratic aisle for having descending into complete buffoonery.

If you have liberal leaning ideals I would suggest abandoning ship and starting something new. Nobody with a functioning brain is voting that way any more. It is a horrible clown show what has happened, unprecedented.