skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>At some point we made fun of cubicles, and now we'll make fun of industrial-looking open spaces.

Yep, I remember making fun of cubicles, and pining for a walled office when I had one.

Now, I pine for the days when I had a cubicle. It wasn't great, but it was a whole lot better than this open-plan crap.

I guess it's a lot like a prisoner stuck in "the pit" or similar inhumane cage pining for going back to living with the general inmate population where he had to worry about getting shanked.
After more discussion, Linus says:

"Heh. Sounds like we do indeed end up agreeing here, there was nothing I disagreed with in this email for example.

Maybe I read more into Bradley's saying than I should have, but it _really_ rubbed me the wrong way."

https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/pipermail/ksummit-discuss/...

Bradley Kuhn later comments:

"In its more than a decade of existence, Conservancy has
only participated directly in one lawsuit (with Erik Andersen, over
BusyBox), and helped fund another one (Christoph's against VMware). That's
it. We don't take a litigation decision lightly, we do it very rarely, and
only after every other idea has been tried over a long time period.

That's my position, and my position on lawsuits hasn't changed since 2003.
If you thought my position was something different, you've misunderstood."

https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/pipermail/ksummit-discuss/...
Better usability since you can have imap.
Additionally card-dav, cal-dav.
There was a fiasco? And I'm not aware of any features that old plans don't have access to. AFAIK the only difference that would be made by me moving to the new plan structure would be paying $50/year for 25GB instead of paying $45/year for 15GB.
This definitely seems like an improvement even if you're treaty country citizen; particularly if you don't have $100-150K to invest (or whatever is required depending on the industry), or you'd rather have US investors contribute the capital. The E-2 investor visa requires the foreign national to be the investor:

"The E-2 nonimmigrant classification allows a national of a treaty country (a country with which the United States maintains a treaty of commerce and navigation) to be admitted to the United States when investing a substantial amount of capital in a U.S. business" https://www.uscis.gov/working-united-states/temporary-worker...

In any case more options is better for people seeking to start a business in the US (even people who are not paroled will benefit from not having to compete with paroled entrepreneurs over the same limited number of visas).
Inside ‘The Attack That Almost Broke the Internet’
> algorithms are implemented with data structures

Eh, for a certain definition of "algorithm". Plenty of signal processing algorithms, for instance, have nothing to do with data structures.
Interesting that you say nude, since its is common illegal to be nude on beaches unless explicitly permitted. If everyone has a right to wear as much clothing they want so long that choice don't harm anyone else, shouldn't the opposite clothing choice also be permitted?
Replying to someone trying to argue in good faith, "We obviously disagree on some pretty basic facts. Have a nice day!" would generally be considered impolite in real life, so I suspect most people are reacting to that. If he had just used some polite, meaningless social courtesy, like "I don't have time to discuss this right now", then it would be less controversial.
Chomsky's position to the question of intention, cited in the letters above, as given me pause for thought (considering that the attack was openly acknowledged as a retaliation for the earlier attacks on US embassies[1]):

And of course they knew that there would be major casualties. They are not imbeciles, but rather adopt a stance that is arguably even more immoral than purposeful killing, which at least recognizes the human status of the victims, not just killing ants while walking down the street, who cares? (...)

It is inconceivable that in that brief interim period evidence was found that it was a chemical weapons factory, and properly evaluated to justify a bombing. And of course no evidence was ever found. Plainly, if there had been evidence, the bombing would not have (just by accident) taken place immediately after the Embassy bombings (along with bombings in Afghanistan at the same time, also clearly retaliation). There’s no rational way to explain this except by assuming that he intentionally bombed what was known to be Sudan’s major pharmaceutical plant, and of course he and his advisers knew that under severe sanctions, this poor African country could not replenish them (...)

[1] http://edition.cnn.com/US/9808/20/clinton.02/
It is a problem, true. But suspicion never killed anybody. In worst case suspicion alone would lead to you thinking that person is an asshole. To take it to the level of mortal danger would require armed people acting in specific way on this suspicion, and that's not the reporter who's doing that.
> In this case, Google might actually be better for "privacy" because they at least have the economic capability to push back against Doe subpoenas.

I'm pretty sure Google complies with subpoenas for data all the time. Given their scale, they probably even have employees whose full-time job is dealing with government subpoenas for data.
Is your JavaScript function actually pure?
They're illegal because they're bad. Or wait, are they bad because they're illegal?
How many licenses are still being sold? I see that the last update was in May 2006.
No love for equal weight? RSP has some interesting performance characteristics. There is the Wilshire 5000 Equal Weight Index, but, alas, no fund tracks it.
The old style is kitschy, but at least it's coherent.

The picture showing off the prototype location is just terrrible though - it succeeds in mimicking the modern minimalistic aesthetic, but the result falls completely flat. Weird colors, mismatched chairs and tables, it's just a clutter of furniture... ugh. The booths, propped up menus, and haphazardly placed pillars are all out of place here.

Some European McDonald's look better than that. I wonder how much they paid for this concept, because a group of interior design senior students could do better in a month.
Fair enough, but that just brings us back to the problem of separating the improved and unimproved value. If we can do that, which we must be able to do if LVT is ever to be implementable, we can still use the auction method proposed.
In addition, there was also the, "The company is closing down during the week before New Years so that you may spend more time with your family."

Which is a not so clever way of clearing vacation off the books also.

I will no longer work for companies that play similar games.

I urge others to consider doing the same.
I think it's funny that people downvote because they don't like what they read even if its true.

Put yourself in the shoes of the game developer who puts everything on the line to develop a game that thousands of people watch but the developer gets no revenue for.
Wouldn't the more obvious choice be to have 3 different beaches, one for no clothes, one for cultural accepted amount of clothes, and one fully clothed. It would follow the current setup of non-nude and nude beaches, and everyone could avoid being confronted with situations that they are uncomfortable with.
Now Friday's looks just like the inside of a Perkins or IHOP... I don't see how this is more appealing to millennials.
Open sourcing a small Clojure project for issue tracking
If you're interested in the backstory of Justin.tv (which became Twitch), StartUp has a two part podcast on it:

https://gimletmedia.com/episode/almost-famous-season-3-episo...

https://gimletmedia.com/episode/season-3-episode-2/
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Yeah and 'flair' in the movie was something the staff wore, you know buttons and zany accessories.

I never thought it referred to the stuff on the walls.
During the 2008 financial crisis, I got a great deal on some lovely and interesting commercial rental space for my 20 person software and consulting company in the financial district of San Francisco. It was an old bank building with lots of marble in the entrance and a nice view of the Transamerica building.

The developers we hired from outside of San Francisco did not like the space because a commercial bank building did not match their expectations of what a Bay Area tech company should look like. After our lease was up, I let the developers decide what space we would move to. We ended up in a minimalist SOMA warehouse with unfinished walls and ceiling and sealed concrete floors.
Think like when you watched your grand brother or friend play a game and gave advice on how to progress. Sometimes it's great to take a backseat and watch others play and say funny things.
I'm a mailbox.org user since a few months.

I like the product it supports open standards, imap, caldav, carddav.
If you want you can lock down pretty much everything with pgp.
Data is in Germany/EU and the pricing is really fair stars with 1€/month with 3 mail aliases and 2 GB.

The guys behind it seem to be IT people with Linux/open source mindset and good ethics as far as I can judge.

I feel very comfortable with mailbox.org
Their Branding / Marketing sounds weird but these guys are just providing consulting / hosting / training etc. for gov's and orgs

The guys behind jpberlin are = https://www.heinlein-support.de/

you can see some of their clientwork here:

https://www.heinlein-support.de/consulting/referenzen

https://www.heinlein-support.de/referenzen

hope this helps
No problem--use what you find useful!
Umm they use the first 6 months of data in the model. How is it surprising that trajectory of stars in first 6 months predicts the rest of the trajectory.....
Annotated version of Janet Yellen's speech given today at Jackson Hole
The country where the company and servers are located makes all the difference IMHO. Many things that government can push in US under Homeland Security and similar acts, they can't in Germany. Their privacy laws are much more protective against mass and/or unsubstantiated surveillance, legal services are not that ridiculously expensive as in US, etc.
An Ode to Boring: Creating Open and Stable Container World
I guess you could just call F[_] a monoid in the category of endofunctors of F[_]...
I am not afraid of big words, I did some research on implicit parallelization with arrows. :) But Scala is a hybrid pragmatic functional language, not aspiring to some advanced type research (except in FP-OOP interop). Even typeclasses, while working, are somewhat a hack in Scala. Why not use more appropriate languages for research and leave Scala to be good where it excels?
> Not necessarily. Wire has shown that a Telegram like UX is possible with end-to-end encryption, multi-device sync and multi-platform support. It's just that Wire and Signal are slow in catching up and seem like they need a slightly larger team and/or better management of the development.

To clarify not that it's a fundamental tradeoff that you can't have end to end encryption with good UX, but that the current choice between Signal and Telegram is a choice between security (Signal) and UX (Telegram).

From everything I've read you'd probably be better off trusting iMessage or WhatsApp over Telegram.
There are 2 major types of content on Twitch:

- competition broadcasting. With teams, pro players, sponsors, shoutcasters, analysts, interviews during the breaks, huge shows, stadiums and fans. It's like watching any "classic" sports on the TV. Can rise several hundreds of thousands of spectators (League of Legends, CS:GO, Dota 2 and Hearthstone mostly).

- player stream. Can be pro players during their training or just really really good players who stream all day as a job. On a personal note, I watch them because, as I said, they are really really good and the most popular of them are generally entertaining. The most popular have peaks at 5000-30000 spectators.

In the 2 cases, we talk about watching the best players in the world (may be 0.1% of the streamers). The rest of the streamers doesn't really have a public (friends and family probably).
Info on what ProtonMail encrypts is here: https://protonmail.com/support/knowledge-base/what-is-encryp...

TL;DR: It encrypts just about everything in storage but "Subject lines and recipient/sender email addresses are encrypted, but not end-to-end encrypted.", which tells me they might have access to these things.
Given the context ("on Its Own") is doesn't seem very ambiguous.
Without a long-lived leader, the performance would be so bad that I doubt there is a single production implementation that doesn't use that optimization.
Pulling out of large managed funds would have similar effects.
You mentioned Islam and he is talking about Islamist here. Huge difference, though I'm not agreeing with a first strike here.
Valuable framework.

> "Venture backed tech companies are built to get huge or die. Like a lottery ticket, you either win big or lose. But outside of tech, it's common to run a business to generate free cash flow for its owners."

Only a small percentage of companies should be pursuing venture capital. Unfortunately, the way the tech media celebrates raising money, it projects that it signifies success. This has misled many startup founders.
If you want to stop using Google for email, but want to keep the domain in Google Apps for whatever reason, you can set up a FastMail account and then configure Gmail to forward all of your email to FastMail. Yeah your email still goes through Google's servers so it's not completely ick-free, but at least you don't have to deal with using Google for email on a day-to-day basis anymore.
Many years ago I read a New Yorker profile of Chomsky.
http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2003/03/31/noam-chomsky
I got the strong impression he has autism, or at least is on the asperger's spectrum.

I think that's a real problem for his political views. Political philosophy is about how you design a good society, and that means a society in which people treat each other well. To do that you have to have a good understanding of human psychology.

But people with Asperger's are very low in their psychological understanding skills. With Chomsky, I get the impression that leads him to fall into a simplistic moralism for explaining why people behave in good or bad ways.
WebAssembly: A New Compilation Target for the Web
You might have a point if you compare FastMail and Google on intrusions for example - FastMail (ie, any small service provider) may not have the same calibre security team Google does.

All providers respond to subpoenas, IIRC. Even if it's just to say "we don't log anything".
Neighbors whose property breeds mosquitos aren't as universally shunned as sex offenders.
Followup question. Now that we know it's 100 amps of current going to the chip. In a conservertive world that would be ~300 power and another ~300 ground pins. (Could be 100 of each)

Lets talk board layers. My best board was two data, one power and one ground. I was nowhere near 100 amps for current needs. How many layers in a motherboard to support this CPU?

I'm thinking that these state of the art chips are really pushing the support infrastructure of board layers and power supplies.

Thanks1
Maybe, though streaming seems to me like more of a form of free marketing for these publishers than anything. Watching a game being played several times over will probably turn into a sale for a lot of people (though not everyone).

If you have a multiplayer game and want to make some money from the streams, it would be smart to host your own tournament and sell ads through it rather than charging royalties. Otherwise, streamers are doing your product a huge favor through exposure.
> 4 August 2016	New Evaluation Version of Epsilon 13.12 Available.

> 19 September 2011	Epsilon 13.12 update available, compatible with OS X 10.7 Lion.

Those aren't updates?
I see that as Harris trying to get Chomsky to acknowledge that intentions can matter in moral judgment, using an extreme hypothetical example to force his hand.

Of course, this is unnecessary because it's arguing against a straw-man of Chomsky's position.
Still being sold for $250 != still being bought for $250, as a lot of people who try selling things on eBay find out to their dismay.
Right, the war efficiency and quality car production sure created this stereotypes. It is quite amusing when you see how poorly things are ran in Germany irl. Like road works taking 10 years. Or the Berlin Airport debacle, which can teach Italian Mafia a lesson or two:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berlin_Brandenburg_Airport

And also: http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-36185194
Show HN: How to annoy a Web Developer
Web development gets annoying sometimes, by our colleagues, employers, browsee makers or whatnot.
I started this project to list whatever can annoy us web developers, hoping we can work together to find ways to ease the pain.
Comments and contributions will be appreciated:

http://howtoannoyawebdeveloper.com/
This was really good advice.

I've taken the liberty of posting a key quote from Linus separately. The SFC do a lot of important work and are currently struggling for funding. They really don't need or deserve this kind of press.

The SFC aren't trigger-happy, and only sue when every other avenue fails, which is actually one of the reasons that they are struggling, since they can't recover costs if the license violator eventually starts to comply, either avoiding a suit being filed, or stopping the suit before legal judgement. There have only been a couple of instances where actual lawsuits started.
Birds, insects, spiders, etc would probably benefit a lot more from humans no longer needing to spray insecticide to control mosquitoes.

And mosquitoes would still exist -- just not the species that are regionally eradicated because they spread diseases (and many of which are invasive species such as Aedes aegypti).
> both are hard to get rid of. You know, like those gross toenail and skin condition ad-banners found at the bottom of every cheapo blog you've ever seen, forever burned into the "can't unsee" section of your brain.

Actually, when a blog I follow switched to Disqus-with-ads, I kept seeing the same disgusting ad every time I visited any post. I liked the blog enough to file a complaint in the hopes of something being done about it. (Disqus provides a method for doing so right in the commenting UI.) And I never saw that ad again.
Short answer: that is not correct for heavier than air aircraft.

https://www.grc.nasa.gov/www/k-12/airplane/forces.html

Lift requires energy, usually kinetic, like the forward motion of an aeroplane being converted to lift (and drag) via the wings, or the blades of a helicopter pushing air down, or real hot and fast gases pointed downwards (think harrier jump jet).

A blimp, on the other hand, relies on buoyancy for lift, so yeah, in that case, given an altitude at which it's stable, to maintain velocity it only needs to add enough thrust to counteract the drag created by its forward movement.
The most popular games on Twitch are not story driven though.
If that does happen it will be unprecedented. Activision and Bungie, which own Destiny, frequently works with streamers to premiere new content and hold events and they are not alone. They seem to know that streamers are good for business.
Thanks to the unquestionable red tape and annoyingly (really annoying) slow and sloppy work-culture at the USCIS it is a privilege here to share with you that even the EB1 categories of both India & China are now s̶i̶g̶n̶i̶f̶i̶c̶a̶n̶t̶l̶y̶ ̶b̶a̶c̶k̶l̶o̶g̶g̶e̶d̶ frozen [1].

Yes, welcome to 2016.

A significant portion of talent that used to earlier fall in H1B->(Eb2/Eb3) category has now grown up in life and also gone up the corporate ladder to only come back and (re)apply as multinational managers/executive in the EB1C category.

No matter what the USCIS tries to do now it cannot make up for the pile of shit (at the cost of anxiety and torture of millions of legal immigrants) accumulated in the past fifteen/twenty years. The beast is simply too big.

[1] money.cnn.com/2016/08/19/technology/eb1-visa-india-china/
Do what inspires you! That likely implies you don't consider the opportunity costs; be ready to take risks and learn from your mistakes.

Try to reach milestones on any project. Personally, in this stage of my software engineering I almost always intend to ship projects with "production" quality to "production".
TensorLayer: Deep Learning and Reinforcement Learning Library for TensorFlow
If Turkey ask data from Gmail Google says that the USA has rights for free speach so we cannot give this guy's real IP (who sweared to Erdoğan). On the other hand Hotmail immediatly gives this kind of data to the Turkish prosecuters. Why? Because Government of Turkey is the customer of Microsoft but Google is not. So if you live in Turkey who you would trust? If you live in USA who you would trust? If you live in X who you would trust?
> An HDD/SSD without ECC will not work, and wouldn't have worked for a long time now. Many of the reads performed will require some ECC use.

Yeah, I expressed that badly. I always forget about the ECC bytes that are in the firmware.

> The probability of failure during rebuild is not really directly linked to drive size, the usual interpretation of the drive BER is wrong (media BER is stated across a large population of drives rather than just one drive).

Regardless of interpretations of BER, I can't agree about drive sizes. The phenomenon of failures during rebuild is well documented and the driving principle behind double-parity RAID. Adam Leventhal (who ought to know this stuff better than either of us) wrote a paper several years back on the need for triple-parity RAID, and it was entirely driven by increased drive densities: http://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=1670144

The reality is the higher drive densities mean you lose more bytes at a time when you have a drive failure, and that means more bytes you want to have "recovered".
There has been a lot of commentary about us being more paranoid about children's safety.

I think there are couple of factors that are responsible for this.

1) Couples in general have fewer children than we had in the past. If you have 1 child - a loss leaves you completely childless. If you have 5 children - a loss leaves with with 4 children.

2) There has been a remarkable drop in childhood disease mortality. In the past, when it was very likely that one or more of your children would die with a childhood disease, the 1 in a million chance of abduction is not that big of a deal. Now, we generally don't expect any of our children to die of infection or disease in childhood, and so the chance of abduction (while still the same or smaller than before) becomes comparatively larger.
What exactly do you mean by free will? Do environmental factors have no influence over the individual?
RxJava 2.0.0-RC1
Language learning is a lifelong effort. My advice is accepting that point and giving yourself time.

More practical advice, pick a TV series you enjoy and watch it ten timea. My pick: friends
glad someone added this. the pod is pretty amazing to see to the persistence and struggle justin and co. went through. last five minutes of the second episode were best part
https://github.com/ReactiveX/RxJava/wiki/What's-different-in...
Are you actually claiming that a helicopter doesn't use any energy to hover in place? Your argument describes the work done on the helicopter (or plane), but not the work the helicopter does on the air, which it pushes downward considerably. So, too, does an airplane's wings 'push' air downwards. Contrast to the vehicle sitting on the ground, where the ground is incompressible and no work is done on it.
Man Therapy
Thousands of people watch -> word of mouth marketing -> people who wouldn't have heard of the game now know it, and might buy it

No people watch -> nothing happens -> nothing happens
Because old white racist people are just exceptionally rare in the US.