skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For most of my career I worked at companies with full size cubicles and was okay with it. My current employer started with an open office structure. We are a fairly small group of developers so things were not so noisy and it was easier to communicate. But then I am getting old now and taking daily medicines for chronic issues. It was hard getting the privacy to take my medicines. We've now switched to full cubicles with the front at half height so this is a better blend of openness and privacy.
This probably works great if you have evenly-sized, relatively stable teams. The place I just left has teams that ranged from just me to the entire eight-persob company, and the teams could change on a month-to-month basis. In fact, it wasn't unusual to be working on two or three projects simultaneously.
> If they're not legally binding, what incentive do Internet platforms have to follow them?

Third-party injunctions of the type at issue here (third-party in that the internet platform is not a party to the case) are usually followed by platforms to remove or deindex content because the existence of the third-party injunction provides more basis than a simple request to suspect that a direct lawsuit against the search company would also result in a direct injunction (which would be obligatory, in any case.)
Goood, I'd really like to try it out. I'm tired of opening the browser go to my fork and create a branch to make a MR/PR for the project I'm working out.

I will really try it out. Thanks!
Isn't the argument against copyrights very similar, if not the same, to the argument for the state to own historic artifacts?

I'd argue that the state should own historic artifacts so that they can be held in common. That way no one individual can claim ownership, retain the right to destroy it if they wish, and prevent others from viewing/studying it.

Of course the state isn't going to let me or you handle it, but they'll obviously give access to research institutions and whatnot who will publish their findings.
Hobby Lobby dude might not do the same and as a private owner, he retains the right not to.
> IIRC, onedrive for business originally used sharepoint on the backend

Yep, it's still sharepoint on the backend.
Except there are decades of misinformation that have already happened -- that fact completely undermines whatever point you are trying to make about the innocence of these lobbying efforts by big Soda.
They have, sort of. https://hub.github.com
Sure, more government funding would be nice, but no, the idea described is not really like government science funding at all.
Paul Ryan Says He Will No Longer Defend Donald Trump
Team sized rooms sound good but what happens with a few more people are added and there is no room to easily expand?
> If someone had a genetic disease that was somehow overcome with, say, genetic modification in some future time would her future eggs also carry the updated genetics?

The answer is almost certainly yes, if the cells used to create the gametes had their DNA modified.

The really interesting question is whether the epigenetic code changes in these cells. The discovery of epigenetics had huge implications in human development. If women are born with all of the eggs they will ever have, that would mean children are affected by the decisions made by their grandmother. If grandma lived through a famine, her grandchild might be predisposed to obesity due to epigenetic factors, regardless of what mom does.
I mean... isn't that the primary risk?
And that possibility is worth more than letting people get work done? I mean, if people don't get enough work done, you're never going to get to the point where you need to shuffle things around.
Ask HN: Is anything like TotalSpaces possible again with macOS?
> That's why we have them... we literally can't afford to give everyone (or anyone for that matter) a private office.

You know, if a prospective employer was straight up with me about that, I'd give it serious consideration. I can understand that not every company can afford an endless supply of private offices in urban areas (although obviously this is not the case with companies like FB).

What bugs me the most about the open office fetish is how it causes productivity to plummet for most developers, at the same time the leadership is spouting off on how great it is for productivity. I mean, as that goofy reality judge said, don't piss on my shoes and tell me it's raining.
Sure, greed is a factor, but most people are greedy, while still managing to appreciate the risks of being caught.
I don't buy that for a second. With what gets spent on salaries, the cost of offices is a drop in the bucket.
There's a high end pizza place in my city. They buy their flour, but they grow their own arugula. They didn't build their own building from scratch, but they did build their own brick ovens from scratch.
I agree with your general sentiment, but disagree with your wording. From what I understand HL, and many others, are not exercising their religious freedom but rather imposing their religion on others.

For example, if you are against an action like prevention on religious reasons you should of course be free to not use them yourself. Enforcing those standard on others, including your employees, is not exercising your own religious freedom.
Also, of those 185, 48 were 70-80 years old, and 51 were 80 years and older, so in total over half were over 70 (compared to only 17 who were under 20 years old)

It's a fairly safe bet most of those over 70's weren't going so fast that hitting a car or the ground hit much harder than a hit or a fall while walking would.

E-bikes may be changing that; that is being studied and may lead to changes in helmet laws. I think it is more likely it will lead to changes in road design and to recommendations to certain groups to wear a helmet.
Your argument is just they should be owned by X vs Y. You are not arguing that these should belong to a humanity, but rather a specific state. Thus, no they are not similar arguments.
our justice system has been hacked.

you are all cowards. rise up. revolt.

you won't. you're all idiots.
There is no shortage of iPhones, yet they are expensive.
Transaction verification is identical to Bitcoin, modulo joinsplit verification (which is benchmarked at ~0.035 seconds on a Intel quad-core Xeon E3-1225 v2 3.2GHz).
Nobel for Exploring the Central Contention of Economics – Incentives Matter
Most of the cases (probably all) featured at some point usage of third party USB-C cable/charger that could have damaged the battery.
Developing a custom bot vs. Using a bot creation platform
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And what do you propose to replace them?
That does seem a likely consequence. It can be argued that this stifles free discussion and argument, but with so many social sites out there, these conversations move elsewhere. However, it does decentralize the conversation more so than before.
Cool to see a keyboard without a big spacebar. I've thought that that would be a good way to put multiple additional modifier keys on your thumbs, for things like controlling the arrow keys from the homerow without overloading the standard modifiers.

I even purchased the [Japanese version of my daily keyboard][1] to try this out. Haven't planned the functions or made the switch yet though.

[1]: http://i.imgur.com/9LaxboJ.jpg
The article makes it sound like almost all of this is due to Richart Ruddie. In which case, the answer to your question is, they aren't. One person is, and now they've been found out.
The costs of PR vs paid advertising are going to depend on the case and how interesting the story is. As a couple of bits of anecdote, we used to be in the games business and getting a page in a newspaper through PR was like 1/2 to 1/4 as much as paying for the same space as an ad (that was in the old days pre Google).

Also PG in The Submarine implies he got value from PR for Viaweb:

>Our startup spent its entire marketing budget on PR: at a time when we were assembling our own computers to save money, we were paying a PR firm $16,000 a month. And they were worth it. PR is the news equivalent of search engine optimization; instead of buying ads, which readers ignore, you get yourself inserted directly into the stories. [1]

>Our PR firm was one of the best in the business. In 18 months, they got press hits in over 60 different publications.
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Facebook is based in the Bay Area.
and the company pays for them

(former FB employee)
I've met quite a few SEO folks that have exactly this mindset. They just hop from one short-sighted arbitrage opportunity to another.
git is definitely not easy to learn, especially to those who are new to version control. You need to know at least a dozen terms (repo commit push pull fetch clone stage stash fork pull-request etc.) before you can even get a basic understanding of what git is.
'Gig' economy all right for some as up to 30% work this way
I use hub[0] to accomplish some of the same things. `hub fork` creates a fork and sets up a new remote. After pushing to my fork, `hub pull-request` creates a pull request.

[0] https://github.com/github/hub
What Will Break People’s Addictions to Their Phones?
This is awful for things like screencasts, I agree with jhasse that it should be implemented by the browser if implemented at all. We shouldn't fix what really isn't broken.
To give my own anecdatum, from the pictures I've been able to find of Facebook's open office, it looks overwhelming to me. I would definitely be stressed there, to say the least.
How about until such a time that society can provide a safe means of cycling, we let cyclists decide how they are most capable of staying alive. Riding a slow bicycle and stopping at every intersection is incredibly unsafe in many American cities.

Yeah, a fixed gear can be an encumberence to a poser, but to someone qualified, it can also be a means of greater control.
I've had this and private offices... what happens is that difficult conversations can't take place except outside of the office (unless there is another space to go). Need to have a 1-1? Everyone else hears it. No meta conversations can take place unless someone is willing to go out for some coffee. The team banter ends up being trivial, and can be incredibly distracting if you need to buckle down to get something done.
quick snippet:
'Tristan Harris, a former product philosopher at Google' .. 'is rallying product designers to adopt a “Hippocratic oath” for software that, he explains, would check the practice of “exposing people’s psychological vulnerabilities” and restore “agency” to users. “There needs to be new ratings, new criteria, new design standards, new certification standards,” he says. “There is a way to design based not on addiction.”'
And bazillions of other locations : https://www.facebook.com/careers/locations/
> All of which makes me wonder why these SEO/"reputation management" companies even bother with this, given all the risks.

The companies all seem to be fronts for the same individual. Its not unheard of for one individual or a small group to come up with a moneymaking scam that involves exploiting the legal system when they believe that they have constructed enough cutouts (e.g., separate front companies) to protect themselves from liability (and maybe even identification.)

Consider, e.g., the case of Prenda Law. [0]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prenda_Law
Cool but 'repo' is a really hard name to search.

There's already a tool by this name and they have the same problem.

https://code.google.com/p/git-repo/
It continues to astound me how little we actually seem to know about anatomy, especially women's anatomy (hold the jokes, folks).
I can't help worry it will run head first into Campbell's law.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Campbell's_law
http://benchmarksgame.alioth.debian.org/play.html#languagex
I read this sentiment often in these discussions. It isn't true for me, however. I can't not pay attention to conversations or noises around me. Sometimes I can't even focus on someone talking directly to me in those kind of environments.
> Open offices are horrible for productivity imo.

Individual productivity or team productivity? If you are optimizing for individual productivity - you could be hitting a local maxima...

I do say the above in half-jest: I would love to see any research done in this area. When I was a new joiner, it was convenient to swivel around/walk across the room and talk to someone. Sure, it sucks now that I'm an old hand and noobs keep taking me out of the zone. In addition, it is sometimes beneficial to listen in on ambient conversations (while waiting for compilation or taking a break), sometimes I even chip in when I have a contribution (roughly once a month). I'd like to think this saves my colleagues time. However, I work in a medium sized room (which houses 18 desks), so YMMV.
Ask HN: Selling a Personal Project with $15k Profits
It's a one-man project, and I have been working on it for 2 + years. Profitable, at $15k a month. Semi-passive. 15 hrs / week. I am interested in selling. Revenue isn't falling. Personal reasons.

I can find tons of information on HN for FEInternational. I'm in talks with them, but would like to explore other options, in case they aren't interested.

Does anyone here have any experience with Flippa Dealflow, or Quite Light Brokerage? Any other recommendations? All brokers out there seem to have done tens of million of dollars in deals.
I imagine most Linux developers will be comfortable on the command line or using Magit; it's Mac- & Windows-using developers who are more likely to be less comfortable with those tools.
Is the team actually more cohesive than if they're in cubes or offices? I've heard this argument, but I've never seen anything to back it up.
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All I can say is, I hope you don't mind if I go ahead and build the cornucopia machine?

I don't give a wet slap about ideology, left or right or anything else, but I do think everyone should have as much chocolate as they want. Bathe in it, why not?

If no one stops me there will be floating castles and highways to the stars. ;-P
But how much did the other campaign lie as well?

Did anyone here really tell the truth 100%? Heck, if the referendum was held again tomorrow, what if the exit side won by a larger percentage of the votes?

How many referendums would it take for the result to be 'democractic'? Enough til the side you want wins? Enough til everyone tells exactly the truth, makes no personal attacks/dubious claims and everything is as 'fair' as it could be?

I'd rather just one referendum, and people learn to live with the consequences, regardless of how much they personally like them.
> kicked out from their former position and are now forced to take work that normally would have been done by salaried employees.

Based on what data?
Why DRBD when something like `sheepdog/ceph` is available?

The latter offer much better scalability and features.
We appreciate both the cleverness here and your detailed explanation. But could you please not do this anymore? It isn't malicious, but it's unhealthy for HN's ecosystem. For example, when an author submits his or her own work, that can add a lot of value to the community—but your bot pre-empts that, as it indeed did in this case.

There are many more reasons why this isn't a good thing for HN. For example, it's better for submissions from popular sites to be distributed across a wide range of accounts. That gives more users a chance to feel like they're making important contributions, and gives the community (and authors) a clearer sense of the audience.

There are lots of ways to write software to interact with HN, and lots of users with the ability to do it, so we really depend on the good will of the community only to do that when it serves the whole.
Just a thought: some times, when you start to feel the side effects, it's too late to correct them, specially if it's organ failure. Please read the side effects.
I really enjoy how the author broke down both the problem and the solution, explaining why the existing solutions are inadequate. I often see articles about new products or new programming languages, and their features, but they often forget to mention what problem prompted the solution. Why was a new language invented to solve this problem? Why were the existing solutions limiting?

Bravo to the author here for making all that information clear and up-front.
The studies discuss the rate of accidents, not the sum difference, meaning that even if there were more or less bicyclists on the road, the probability of them being injured with a helmet on is still less.
I'm a developer who recently moved from a large open space to a small quiet room with just a handful of people. To me it feels like a big downgrade. I loved the constant chatter in the open space

I'm going to guess that there's some individual variation in preference for quiet / noise. I'm the kind of person who can't really get deep work done, like writing proposals or novels, in noisy, busy environments. I look at all the people, listen to the sounds, and generally can't get into a state of flow.

That being said, I've met lots of writers who say they can't work in quiet rooms because they need some stimulation or they go nuts. Lev Grossman, for example, has talked about writing most of the Magicians trilogy (the first one is good! https://jakeseliger.com/2009/08/28/the-magicians-lev-grossma...) in coffee shops.

I suspect that on average most people would be better served by quiet focus, but that a fair number would not be.

If this is true—anyone doing industrial organization research may have a research topic here—I don't know how it would be implement organizationally, especially because offices and layouts are almost instantly going to be linked up with status and hierarchy issues, and most people will want the higher status option, regardless of whether it fits them well or not.
Not surprised. I freelanced for something like 5 years before finally getting a 9–5 job (not that it pays much more but it's a stable income).
If the employer provides super comfortable noise-cancelling headphones I would agree.

Personally, listening to music all day gives me a headache and podcasts are too distracting. And I don't need these headphones for anything else (otherwise, I'd already have a pair!)

I wonder what would come of it if I requested some.
My personal anecdote: The main reason I never consider interviewing at Facebook is because of their office layout. I politely decline their requests to chat. And that's totally their choice to make. Maybe it works for them, but I know it doesn't work for me.
When I looked into it, webtorrent still requires a centralized server to at the very least set up the peer to peer connection. The problem is that there isnt a way to avoid this with WebRTC. It also serves content to the initial peer.

How is this serverless? Am I missing something?
I would like to host this service myself, it should not need too many resources right? Is there an opensource lastpass that someone here is using ?
"and being able to easily start a design discussion with 4 or 5 engineers when necessary is extremely valuable"

I honestly do not understand this statement. Are you trying to say that if you were in cubes, you couldn't do that? You couldn't ask people to come over and talk something out? And are you stating that your design discussion is more important than whatever they're working on?
Ah, I didn't see that button. Looks like it doesn't show up unless you hover over the code which I didn't do. The author really should have mentioned that.
not much, $30. :) but now reading what I was writing makes it look like I paid thousands haha
Discussion from 4 months ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11832237
Any context on the why of those blocks? I've heard some of the news of the situation in Turkey lately, but the article does not talks about why would they block those services now...
Requiring developers to move is what scares me away...
We can't know much about what we haven't bothered to seriously study for very long.
No longer able to edit my comment:

Apparently iPhone 7(+) does not have the antennas for 4x4 MIMO / 256 QAM which the Samsung S7 does provide for.
http://cellularinsights.com/samsung-galaxy-s7-the-first-4x4-...

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12678124

LG V20 which should be shipping by end of Oct does support AWS-3 (Band 66)
http://cellularinsights.com/lg-v20-the-first-aws-3-capable-s...

These issues are important to extend signal and to make better use of spectrum in areas with large buildings and high population density.
That's true for subscription SaaS, but it's not necessarily true for other business models.
This. I just can't seem to get a Ruby app to work in the first try.
You chose to install a plugin that modifies documents you see in your browser. You certainly have that right. But it's not anyone else's fault if that plugin modifies documents you see in your browser.
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A new model for customer support: Customer Reliability Engineering
you are both to the point. It is "I might need it sometime, but not now" and it doesn't cost a fortune but it is a pain to download and move around a big bucket of files I don't really need at the moment.
Ah, I thought you were making some special argument about stars orbiting with very tilted orbits or something like that.

Yes, the orbits within the inner part of a galaxy don't follow a Keplerian curve. However, at large radii most of the visible matter is well inside the orbit and very little is outside (galaxies are quite centrally concentrated), so the rotation curve should approach the Keplerian limit as you go to larger and larger radii. The fact that it doesn't is one of the primary pieces of evidence for dark matter in galaxies (though not the only one).

(I'm not sure why you linked to that slide, since it's not calculating the field in the plane of the ring, nor is it dealing with a continuous charge distribution. Regardless, you'll note that E_x goes to 1/x^2 for x >> a, which is a "Keplerian" limit.)
ACA addresses healthcare INSURANCE costs, not actual healthcare costs.
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My side project is http://codeposters.io. Revenue is hit or miss. I'll occasionally get big bumps in traffic. Conversion rate sits at almost exactly 1%.
Why: Even 10 years ago some routers/set-top boxes ran on mmuless SoCs(Coldfire, lexra LX4180), and stayed on uclinux even after switching to new processors with mmu.

http://paparisa.unpatti.ac.id/linux_journal_archive_1994_200...
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They have an open boot loader because Google sells them, and they have the best Android experience for the same reason. The open boot loader doesn't enable that experience.

In fact, I think that somewhat proves my point, it's no coincidence the hardware Google has the most influence over has the best experience.

And it's no coincidence they gave up on just influencing the phones and went as far as manufacturing a phone with the Pixel, all in chase of the perfect experience
Mars-bound astronauts face chronic dementia risk
I will leave that up here and on some other places. Maybe someone need it for some simple cgcv tasks or whatever.

I really don't want to publish it. Some websites are already down and not reachable anymore and there is no way for the creator of the websites to take down anything of that... Some of these things hunt me and I hope they don't bite me one day.

But thanks for the input.
Product Hunt for libraries and resources
https://padlock.io was mentioned in another post. From first view it seems padlock + padlock-cloud could fit your needs.
IMHO, hub works best if you

alias git=hub

in your shellrc.