skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've been mostly working remotely (80-90% remote work) as a developer and consultant for over a decade. The changing point for me was to have a dedicated office space (an entire bedroom or den). Let's face it, if you are working late in the evening at the office and no one else is in the office, what difference is there from working remotely? Now, for me, it mostly doesn't matter where I work from: home office, rented space, living room in a La-Z-Boy, coffee shop, etc; anything but a cubicle or an open floor plan.

Slightly off-topic: my wife, who also works remotely and has a dedicated office space (a tricked-out bedroom), commented today how she hasn't had a sick day in over two years because she is not exposed to the multitude of germs and viruses she was exposed to in the corporate office. I noticed similar results: I have not called in sick to a client in many years while working remotely. Not getting sick as much is definitely a productivity boost. Not having to shave and dress up (good ol' pj pants and a polo shirt top works great on skype) and make a two-way commute are also productivity/lifestyle boosts.

I also have a camera behind me, overlooking my monitors and the back of my desk chair (the monitors are not readable by the camera, can only make out color blocks but can't read 12pt text). When someone skypes me, I just turn around to face the camera. The viewer can more easily see that I am actually working and if I have to check something on the computer, I just turn around and let them watch me work on it. This has been very effective in eliminating comments/feelings that remote workers are ineffective.

This week I do have to be onsite and the weekly commute will eat 15-20 hours, depending on traffic, for my 26 mile commute (each way). That is 15-20 hours of basically nothing but listening to podcasts or music. That's a productivity hit, as other than the feel good of being in the office, there is nothing that I could not do remotely, but it is a new client so I think it is a fair trade off.

I also stopped using the phrase "work from home" as I truly can work remotely from any location with electricity and optionally, wifi/cell service. I once worked remotely for two weeks from the campgrounds near the Redwood National Park and just drove to Crescent City to send/receive emails and code every evening during my nightly and rightly beer run. I did have regular or extended cell service (no data tho) if someone needed to discuss anything urgent.
And what makes it different from the hypothetical drug blog? I'm not saying it's innocent, I'm saying there's some weird mismatch here where you can't go with a mile of a copyright infringement but you can get pretty close to normal crimes as long as you don't touch anything or join a conspiracy.
I've been battling aphid farming ants in my garden for years now. It's kind of fun to watch them tend their aphids but they wreak havock on plants. I've used diatomaceous earth to repel the ants. It acts like tiny shards of glass that gets caught in exoskeletons. The ants hate it. But it's ineffective of it gets wet. I'm interested in trying Tanglefoot. Anyone have experience with this product?
Fair enough: for that particular detail. The point is, when UX matters, you cannot add mode switch (like command line flags), and you can't give the user all the data: their eyes would pop out. The GUI is a higher level abstraction: lack of control is the tradeoff.
Only if you're white, otherwise looks don't matter. We are diverse and progressive!
Also being white and male.
Outer Space and an Astronaut’s Mind
Letter of Recommendation: Glass Bricks
Defining New LaTeX Macros
Charisma is hard to quickly measure and height might be a bit more work, but I sampled 10 of the CEOs of the largest German companies [0]. Most of them did _not_ have a full head of hair.

[0] https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vorstandsvorsitzender#Liste_de...
Most tech is made by tech companies, for tech people
Doesn't importation require a licensed citizen on the receiving side too though, which the government already has in a database? Those names can't be cheap.
>Normally theft is defined in terms of the property system of the society it occurs within.

As you said, let's not get hung up on semantics. It's taking property from someone that they are morally entitled to. If John gives me a widget, you have no moral right to take it from me without my consent because you happened to sign a piece of paper saying it's the law, and get Bob and Alice to add their signatures as well. Government does not have any rights that a group of people do not have. If it's wrong for a group of people to deprive you of your property, it's wrong for a government to do so as well.

>We can say murder is intrinsically bad because life is evident in the universe, but there is no intrinsic notion of property in the universe.

What about slavery? What about predation, or parasitism, where one animal lives off of the life of another? The predator/parasite robs the prey/host of their bodily resources. Property is absolutely evident. Every bit as evident as freedom/self-ownership. Animals will fight against attempts to prey/parasite off of their body, just as they'll fight against attempts to steal their kill.

First Possession is a principle observed in animals to reduce conflict, and it is the basis of property rights. It is also found to lead to a stable equilibrium in game theory experiments.
I recommend a game mode where you can check a box and send a notification to the server that you completed your turn. If all 50 players checked their turn then automatically update the server move on to next round.
Ember.js 2.8.0 and 2.9.0-beta released
I have one from the very early days.

http://blag.fingswotidun.com/2015/09/8-bit-machine.html

I've been planning on an update talking about Getting C programs running on it then building avr BASIC and Lisp for run time languages.

Probably far more likely to do updates given someone has actually shown interest in reading them. I kind of assumed My blog posts went into a void.

It's also on github https://github.com/Lerc/kwak-8
...I would say clojure goes in a third direction, but fair enough.
We don't need comments like this on Hacker News. We ask that you post civilly and substantively, or not at all.
To be clear, I am not suggesting that Stroustrup is being misleading in any way. I think the complexity is inevitable, given the goals, and I came to this view from asking whether there is one thing about C++ that leads to this complexity. Perhaps the closest thing to a single cause was the decision to make C++ a superset of C, which in turn leads to the use of naked pointers, arrays that do not know their dimensions, and to accessing arrays through pointers. Another issue may be separate compilation, which seems to complicate templates and polymorphism.
There is arbitrary code transformation in tcl through subst or string map
Yeah, I guess so, you are right.
> Everything you link is "for money". Do you have a Google ad on your hobby blog? Technically, you're getting paid for it.

So why do people have Google ads on their hobby blogs? Could it be that it's actually for money, not just "for money"? If it's not for money, why even bother running ads? Sounds to me like a pretty good indicator of intention.
The Painstaking, Secretive Process of Designing New Money
They can't: that's the price you pay for the abstraction. Smalltalk got the closest, but if you really want to dig into a GUI, at the end of the day, you have to read the code behind it.
I don't know ruby, so I can't answer your question directly. But I can ask you one: why not just learn a lisp? You don't have to learn a whole language to know what makes people like it. Working at it for a week or two, in you free time, would probably be enough for you to settle the question permanently. Lisp doesn't have to be a search for nirvana.
If you want to save the environment, a Leaf or Prius is far cheaper and has been around much longer than the Model 3 will have been. It's mostly a status symbol masquerading as an environmental benefit, something that I think Apple could play to easily.
I couldn't have written a unit test framework which evaluates at compile-time in Ruby, but I did in Gambit Scheme. (If any test fails, the compiler exits in error, and no library or executable is produced.)

https://github.com/billsix/bug
I can only say one thing about "gutter oil": WTF.
I read the opening two pages but I'm not sure what this really is. A higher math text book? It looks great though!...
HTSQL – A comprehensive navigational query language for relational databases
Can I get your email? Would love to hear about that stack
What I don't get is: which library lets you draw stuff on the screen. GLib or GTK+?

I thought that was GLib, and GTK+ was using GLib to implement controls.

Which library does one need to build their own controls?
PAL TVs had 50Hz interlaced screen refresh (each refresh updated only half of scanlines, but that's not the same as having a 25Hz refresh). NTSC was 59.94 Hz.

The console hardware had to drive an actual 50/60Hz signal and you had to account for that - including doing some updates/color switches/bank switches in horizontal blank interval (when the cannon was returning to the left side to start a new line) and vertical blank interval (a longer one, when cannon was returning to the top to start displaying another interlaced field - "frame"). So you couldn't just behave like you have a 25/29.97 Hz refresh.

A lot of games did the refresh in lockstep with this frequency so there were actual issues porting them between regions.
I think there's clearly a dimension of persuasion that falls outside strictly logical argumentation. That said, if you're writing something, it had better be something you want others to believe.

There needn't be a fundamental difference, in my view. You can structure and describe true premises and relations persuasively without manipulating your reader.
Samsung Will Replace Current Note7 with New One
Does C actually control 30% of the legal entity (c-corp or LLC I assume), or was the agreement an up front verbal commitment of 30%?

Is there a vesting schedule in place?

The most reasonable thing, I think, it to treat the situation as a well-formed c-corp would. 30% of shares allocated but vesting over a four year period. There's a one year cliff for 25% of allocated shares then 1/36th of remaining shares per month for the next 36 months. Depending on when you consider the venture to have started, six months ago when A and B went full time or when it was a side project, C may have between 0 (because they haven't hit the one year cliff) and 1 year and N months worth of shares (between 7.5% and 15% ownership).

Based on what you've written, I assume that:

You don't want to completely wipe this person off the cap table by asserting that they aren't legally entitled to anything because of not meeting their one year cliff. However, You also don't feel that they should get 7.5-15% ownership.

If both of those are true, it's a negotiation. Having two people whose entire livelihood is dedicated to something but a third who is not but is earning equity at the same rate sounds like the sort of thing that will only ratchet up in pressure over time.

"Founder c thinks this is unfair." That's the most interesting thing that you wrote. All of the options that you laid out seem reasonable given the situation that's described.
Dicts with integer keys have always had a very predictable order. Do you consider that technical debt?
That's more like a tracker. A closer analogy to magnet links is that I tell you a hashtag that's used by a particular sort of hitman, and you use that to find your own hitmen on the social media site of your choice.
What I'm saying is, the more experience you have the less you have ahead of you, so that should close off future opportunities. Whereas if you have only 10 years of experience, you still have 15 years to make better decisions than the folks with 25 years experience, whose 25 years are already determined.
Some needs are so deeply wired into us – like the need to be loved, especially by our parents – that no matter how hard we rationalise and fight our emotions, we will always want to fill that gap one way or another. It is especially heartbreaking in the case of abuse or otherwise failed parenting, because the one person who had to love and protect you unconditionally, didn't. Overcoming the "why" in that question is probably a lifelong struggle with(in) oneself.
I got this as an audiobook about two months ago but never got around to listening to it. This convinced me to give it another shot :)
Also, in a similar vein: SlateStarCodex Gives A Graduation Speech http://slatestarcodex.com/2014/05/23/ssc-gives-a-graduation-...
Curious why the domain was registered through Domains By Proxy.
It's a Mobius strip: http://i.imgur.com/1MVkbta.png
True, but let's not forget that in California 70% of the population is white. 6% are black. Most of those are at a disadvantage early on (parents, location/city, schools) before they may even start working. So it is not surprising that many CEOs are white, too.

The problem is not at the C-level ...
The reason I posted this is that RevDB just had its first beta release, and now I just found the official blog post announcing that release. So probably better than the above url would have been this, https://morepypy.blogspot.com/2016/09/revdb-released-v541.ht...
Interesting. Are you sure a single point can be stretched out to a line? Certainly lines can be stretched or shrunk, but having a point become a line seems a bit of a stretch (if you'll pardon the pun).

It's a nice argument, but is it valid ... ?
Because hobbies cost money? It's not their day job, they're just looking to maybe pay for their hosting and a little more, generally.
Maybe this is meta (the wish) :-)

I remember tcl in the early 90s then it disappeared from my radar, mostly web and mobile apps. Honest question: is it still relevant in some application area?
To be fair, to a lot of prisoners, 10k wouldn't result them in being richer than regular people when they get out because they'll immediately have to spend thousands on renting a place, getting a used car, buying some furniture, etc.

Starting a life from scratch is expensive and after they do that they'll be on the same footing as a standard "pay-check to pay-check" citizen.
I think the novelty is in putting all these things together with a tractable user experience: one person loads the game in a web page, and then everyone else sees the game listed in their browser and joins it.
Has anyone read Sowells "Black Rednecks and White Liberals"? It's on my reading list and the premise (that much of black culture is derived from Scottish highland culture) is very interesting.
Page 4 has a "Preface: Why this exists"
Chariot acquired by Ford Mobility
Yeah, because regex is so great at parsing code. It's not like that'll break in unexpected ways. And we all just love writing parsers in our macros.

Oh, wait.
How the TPP Special Court Crushes Domestic Laws
This article has apparently been deleted:

"410 Error: The author deleted this Medium story"

Link to Google cache:

https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:gkIJNj...
What if the data where there but not in front of their eyes. I want there to be data there.
Comparing my top sites: 2012 vs. now
If you can prove that you only took as much money as required for hosting (and donated the rest), a court might be fine with that.
> The journal in itself does not ANY value. The people who peer review the articles in journal do it at no cost. The articles are completely written by authors. The ONLY value that the journal adds is by hosting online PDFs.

I suppose if you are not a practicing scientist the difference between a PDF hosted by a journal and a PDF on arXiv can seem irrelevant. It is not.

Good journals have an effective peer review process that requires editors who will curate articles, match them with expert reviewers and subsequently provide their own meta review on the paper and the process. All of this is a valuable contribution that goes way beyond simply hosting a PDF. Even good work is genuinely improved by going through this process.
It's irrelevant what you plan to spend the revenue on. My hobbies cost money as well, but I don't subsidize them with ads. I pay for them with my own money.

If you want to run a blog as a hobby, great. Spend your own money to buy hosting and be done with it. If you want to generate revenue off your hobby, that's fine as well, but know that it's not purely a "hobby" anymore. Even if the amounts are small or you're not profitable, it doesn't matter.

EDIT: Sibling comment may be more accurate. If you show non-profitness, (I'm speaking abstractly, not in relation to linked court decision), that would be enough to sever the link between the otherwise infringing links and your revenue.
Maybe I should read the code behind Smalltalk. I'm glad the day isn't over.
It is fun . . . what's it built with.

More maps, leader board, start a signup system so users log in to keep points/score, username etc. Invite friends to play on a map together.

Add signups to an email list drip.co.

Good luck, it's fun to play so I'll keep checking it out.
Couldn't recommend EconTalk enough. I'd consider Russ Roberts the standard of what honest intellectual discourse sounds like. Even when you can tell he disagrees with the guest, you can tell he works very hard to make sure he presents their views fully and honestly explore where exactly the differences of opinion form from.
Hilary Clinton Should Be Wary – Primate Ayodele Releases Prophecies
Unrelated, but I found interesting to see that the new W1-powered Beats headphones charge via a micro-usb cable instead or Apple's lightning.
If you have not read it yet, pick up a copy of *Getting to Yes." It is research based and a quick read.

After reading it, try to determine some of the parameters that really matter here. What are the sticking points? Then do some brainstorming.

After you brainstorm, then try to come to an agreement.
I use ads on my hobby site to pay for my hobby site. I make like $10 a year off of it.

I run ads because I'd rather not pay out of pocket but I hardly consider it as something that makes me money for the sake of making money.
So then if you had zero experience and it was your first day working in your life, the percentage of becoming a CEO would be the total CEOs of the world divided by the total workers of companies with CEOs which I feel is quite small. Thus, it could only go up.
On the other functional JavaScript side of things, there are also Elm and Purescript. They are both pure functional, and both are ML-inspired (strongly typed, equational, ADTs with pattern matching, etc.). Elm is a fair bit easier to get started with, but has a substantially weaker type system and fewer useful functional features. Purescript is a fair bit more difficult to get started with, but has a substantially more powerful type system and lots of useful features like effect types.

Personally, I greatly prefer ML style languages to lisp style languages. I get fed up with all the parentheses in lisps.
That's not at all what he's saying. He's saying that, when you segment off the institutionally subjugated part of your population--the part of the population who has historically been denied economic opportunities, educational opportunities, and legal rights--you are going to have two populations that have very different growth curves.

And, historically and into the present, there are cultural incentives (racist-ass racism) and economic incentives (risk aversion) to make that happen.
Spy on everyone on the globe - including journalists and democracy activists, innocent people => Senate doesn't care

Spy on Senate => "How dare you breach our privacy"
Trust me, they do matter. I've been likened to a <X-race> movie star on multiple occasions and I had ridiculously easy times getting jobs I had no business getting.

I'm not great looking, but I'm tall and I carry myself well.

The next phase of my life is going to involve taking advantage of this before it's too late.
...No. Clojure is lisp, but it's a weird little language, and most of us lispers schemers aren't really totally happy with it. We're used to more flexability, less functionalism, and less opinionation. Plus, Clojure's equality and conses don't work at all the way a lisper would expect, and the conses are way less useful.

There's a reason there will never be a universal language.
Scheme without special forms: a metacircular adventure
Edward Snowden attacks Russia over human rights and hacking
They're only looking at companies with 200+ employees in their data (which is the right thing to do given what "being an executive" means to most people).
"Stanford scholar translates humorous medieval love songs to English" seems to be the real story.
Clairvoyance.
Dell Software's Toad Query Optimizer (for Oracle and SQL Server) has an engine that does exactly that. It takes your SQL, tries rewriting it a bunch of different ways, throws in different compiler hints, and measures the response time/reads/CPU/etc for each execution, then gives you a set of graphs and recommendations.

I wanna say it was around $1500/seat last time I looked at it. It's worth every penny if you have to write a lot of complex queries. I've bought it for just one senior member of a dev team, and everybody brings their worst queries to that person for tuning.

Here's the trick, though: after it optimizes a query for you, keep your original query around. You're not going to want to try to edit the query that Toad produces - it can be horrifically complex. Instead, edit your original query, then run it through Toad again.
Nasty, ugly, closed.

Prefer: normative, specified, open. Gimme Physical Web, please. Which has a mdns protocol- it's kind of funky tbh, but at least your not enjoindering yourself and your users into a silo.
OFF-TOPIC: Why Lisp was so popular in Boston ?
Chain Boats
As I recall, when US demanded that Afghanistan (then ruled by Taliban) extradite Bin Laden, they didn't refuse outright. What they did was demand some evidence that he was responsible, which is a fairly routine and reasonable demand for any kind of extradition request (I mean, would you want US to extradite you to Afghanistan just because they asked, on their word alone that you're a criminal?). They also suggested extradition to a third country, where he could get an impartial trial - again, given the emotions at the time, not really unreasonable.

US response? "We know he's guilty", and we don't care to prove it to anyone else.

And yet, even after US started bombing them, Taliban was still offering extradition deals. All the way up until the ground invasion.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2001/oct/14/afghanistan.te...

We know that Bin Laden was guilty in retrospect, of course. But he didn't admit it back then, and otherwise, there was nothing particularly unusual or vexing that Taliban was asking for. Whether they would have actually given him up or not if their demands were met is also unclear, but IMO, given the prospect of a large region-destabilizing war (which many people back then were warning way in advance what would happen), it was definitely worth a try. You can always invade if things don't work out.
Cap’n Proto
Agreed. https://www.lucidchart.com/techblog/2015/08/31/the-worst-mis...
To-ma-to
What's the benefit of paying via RadPad? It seems to be increasing the number of middle men (1. Credit card agency, 2. RadPad), and middleman's commission is often not commensurate to the service provided.
When you have ads on your hobby site, do you ever stop to think about how your content affects ad
traffic and revenue, or do you never ever think about the banners that you run? Genuinely curious.
Discussion from yesterday: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12464129
> European countries there are laws that force you to do it

Got any references for me to lookup? I wasn't aware of any such laws.