skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm confused: https://www.gchq.gov.uk/
Disclaimer. I am the author of Hugo and former exec at Docker. I don't speak for Docker and I've been gone for over a year so the following is at best a guess.

From my reading of their blog post I see that their primary motivation for the change was first to consolidate all of their documentation into a single repo, instead of spread across all of their various projects. As they have grown as an organization and now have a large number of projects this approach has a lot of strengths and makes a lot of sense. Any SSG could work in this new formation, but the change gave them an opportunity to make a change. Additionally Github provides a lot of Jekyll features out of the box that help with managing these documentation sites.

I believe it is not a question of performance between Hugo and Jekyll, but a question of Docker's specific workflow. As Github already runs Jekyll server side all the contributors need to do is upload the source file and then Github does the rest. In contrast, Hugo based docs would have to be built locally and then uploaded as completed html. There are easy ways to set up services through github hooks that do the exact same thing as Jekyll already does but that requires additional setting up.

Since Github is doing all the work it is easier on the contributors since all they need to do is `git push`. This also enables people to edit right in the github edit screen and not bother with setting up anything client side. The total time to process the site is likely much longer on Jekyll but the time that their contributors spend is much less as they aren't building the site locally.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but this blog post doesn't actually seem to answer the question. I'm curious if Facebook really is having difficulty recruiting developers due to this specific issue and if the 40-50% pay offering really has anything to do with that.
This article is terrible. Author is clearly in over his head. The most important thing for startups is not unit economics but balancing resources for both product and marketing/growth.

With a startup you tackle challenges from highest risk to lowest risk. This ignorant author is missing much higher risks and using observation bias to confirm his beliefs.
The morning-after pill has two methods of action, IIRC - preventing ovulation, and making the womb inhospitable for implantation. In the latter case conception occurs.
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Cool note about speed, but I was hoping to read more about the patterns she sees in the value people are hoping to create. For example, there are a lot of "let's build a marketplace" ideas. There are relatively few "magical technology" ideas. And I bet there are plenty of ideas that are well-meaning but address problems that people don't realize they have yet (like privacy and digital autonomy). Oh well, maybe next post.
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Something is wrong with the SSL cert on https://sekao.net/nightlight/
How to Protect Your Idea and End Product When Outsourcing Software Development
http://www.jamisbuck.org/mazes/ was a good resource when I was looking into maze algorithms.

He had (has?) a lot of interesting blog posts on mazes as well.
Installing Gentoo on a MacBook Pro with full disk encryption
This is factually false, unless there's some 'entry level' below analyst, and if you're excluding the bulge brackets (and oh man the boutiques) from consideration.
Open offices were developed by people who don't have to really concentrate for their job. They're awful for developers.
OP should talk to https://twitter.com/adereth (see: http://adereth.github.io/blog/2014/04/09/3d-printing-with-cl...) and have pure fun together.

ps: https://twitter.com/adereth/status/784870134502465536
>"people who push the view that any medical practice that
>comes from the natural/traditional/alternative medicine
>world is by-definition false and harmful snake-oil"

I don't see prominent people in medicine saying this at all. They don't mind if you pull the medicine out of your ass, as long as it's efficacy and safety is tested with some rigor before advocating it.

>people who, having exhausted all the options offered by
>mainstream medicine, seek an alternative

This practice is dangerous and has resulted in many negative outcomes. This is navigating through a minefield of unsupported claims, no quality evidence, anecdotes, and people trying to scam you. Very difficult without professional guidance.

>"Almost all startups fail too..."

False equivalence. Most failed startup don't kill people. Besides, no one said alt medicines shouldn't get a shot. The promising leads will continued to be followed. It just has had an extremely low hit rate.
Yet there are still people defending the "open office meme".
I'd say more than that, yet I will leave it to you to decide :)
On a side topic, why isn't there a sort of escrow for research groups where they can receive money and return results without knowing who is funding them? Or does such a thing exist? That might be a great way for a person to tell how much credibility a study has, besides the actual methodologies used.
What a nightmare for the takedown-request teams at the online companies! Abuse of the court system is going to be very expensive and time-consuming for them to assess.

Contempt of court or perjury prosecutions of the originators of some of these fraudulent lawsuits might serve as a deterrent. A little jail time goes a long way.
I'm aware of sample size determination, but minimum sample sizes typically assume random sampling over the target population. All their sampling methodology slide says is that it was an online survey of adults who have done some paid work in the last 12 months, and they did some weighting to match BLS stats. We have no idea how they found the participants or controlled for bias in the selection process.
If you are deciding between feeding your family or getting a phone, by all means, feed your family.

All I'm saying is if you have a little disposable income ($1 / day) then for many people a better phone is worth the price difference. I think it's especially true when you think about how many hours every day people use their phones. I can get by just fine with a 4-year old PC, but having to use a 4-year old phone would suck.
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So you think their should be no more soda in the world?

I understand the health costs of sugary drinks, but personally I want to live in a world where I can have one if and when I want to. I don't drink a lot of soda (maybe one a week), but there are certain situations where I find them really enjoyable. I don't want them to disappear.

I think the quality of life will go down if we get rid of all junk food in the world. I know we do a poor job of eating and drinking in moderation, but I don't think the solution is to just have it not be available.
I always thought open offices became popular because it was literally the cheapest set up for facilities. For startups it worked because all you had to buy was desks. Somehow that got spun in to 'open offices are so sexy!'

Open offices are horrible for productivity imo. Moved to a job with an office and it is so. much. better.
>TortoiseGit is by far the best Git GUI on Windows or anywhere else

I disagree. GitExtensions is by far the best Windows UI for Git.
I suppose people who listen to music on their phone at work might want to charge the phone while listening.

I dunno.
> Are you really that often in that situation though?

Yeah, my phone is a business tool, and I'm on the phone frequently. Its useless if I can't be on it on wired headphones while it recharges from long phone calls.
In US a lot of paper forms use yy-mm-dd. America has crazy units and standards.
Current Location: Princeton NJ

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: Yes. Wherever the right opportunity is, including to Bay area.

Technologies: Have written code mostly in Java, a bit in C/C++. Cloudera Certified Hadoop Developer (though no production Hadoop experience), aware of Spark & other big data technologies. Eager to work in Erlang / Go / Py / Scala, Machine Learning.

LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/vj2016

Résumé/CV: 15 years of experience in different roles (developer, manager, architect, product owner) in different domains (finance, telecom, manufacturing).

Have been a clean coder, done TDD & pair programming.

Successful in Management roles. Servant Manager. Teams were highly motivated, performing and savvy.

Looking for position at startup's / fast-paced environments. If a role is cross-functional, awesome. But that's not a condition.

For detailed resume, please email.

Email: write.to.vivekj (at) gmail

Will need H1 transfer. (H1 valid for 3 more years).
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We need a job site that lists companies that provide your own office. I would only apply there.
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The fun angle on that is that legislating helmet use makes people bike less, which is what really lowers bike accidents.
I don't like SCSS too, but calm down, you can see compiled CSS version with the right dropdown

This trick with radio input is old, but good to know
Can someone provide an archive.org or some sort of mirror for me to read the article? Forbes now require you to disable ad blockers, but then auto play video with audio :(
Nice to see, I also agree that Minecraft was at its best around this time, the land generation was crazy and interesting, and not so many bells and whistles. If Mojang had not added anything to it, but only polished it at that point, I would have been happy.

I believe I bought Minecraft at beta 1.71 or so, and a second copy shortly after (when it was only $10), one of the best games I have played all-time.

How is this compared to MineTest? MineTest is a bit weird, as they have the same goals, but rely too much on mods and addons, while ignoring the core functionality of the game first.
My mistake, I though the comment was wrt mail.
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Congratulations for taking the extra effort to offer a native experience.
I smell shenanigans.
Is there anyone here who likes open offices more than a floorplan divised into smaller rooms? I ask because I've worked in an open office setting as a developer for years (the place is otherwise nice) and thoroughly despise it as a workspace. Yet some people don't seem to mind it. I don't mind serendipity. The problem is I serendiptously overhear everyones discussion which is incredibly disruptive for deep work.

Factories have huge machines, whih create added value. They have a good reason for loud noises and need for ear protection.

Offices, on the other hand, are places where people come to create added value by mostly by thinking (if they are programmers).

Are there people who enjoy the bustle of open office while trying to untangle a decade old piece of C++ spaghetti? Whose work output it actually improves?

I'm trying to figure out if the open offices are bad mostly for everyone or just for someone like me.
It's the same author, so I'm assuming that this is his spiritual continuation of Nightcode with a huge update.

EDIT: They are going to remain separate, here's what he wrote on the project site:

> Nightcode remains easier for beginners, because it's a standalone application with Leiningen and Boot built in, so they don't need to use the command line. Nightlight must be added to your project, but provides more power, so it may be more suitable for intermediate and advanced users.
As the moderator of a Reddit sub focused on comp sci careers, I don't think the open office is an issue for junior level developers. The worship of what we in that sub call the big 4 (some combo of Google, Facebook, Apple (or Microsoft), Amazon) is pretty much what you hear from every college senior, and I've never heard anyone even mention this as a negative.

Of course these are mostly people who haven't had much experience working in office environments except possibly an internship or part-time work. Facebook might face some challenges recruiting experienced devs who know what kind of environment suits them, but anecdotally I don't see it at the junior level.
I find that home is the most productive place for a developer. (At least for me)

Open spaces do have a lot of distractions.
So how is your process really any better than Google's? They will also tell you exactly what to study and give you reference links + time to study it.
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> many of these taxpayers do not have access to the traditional social safety net, such as unemployment insurance, or access to health care they can afford.

1) Doesn't the availability of freelance work act as a safety rope for people who lose their full-time work or find it hard to get due to schedule constraints and/or criminal convictions?

2) The ACA was supposed to make health care affordable for freelancers. Is it in fact failing to achieve that for most people? I remember feeling like the cost of procedures was on a silver plan too far uncertain and moved to the UK partly for that reason.
This Is Why You Shouldn't Interrupt a Programmer:

http://heeris.id.au/2013/this-is-why-you-shouldnt-interrupt-...
Which is the right way to do it and exactly how ever email client does. Do you want to see previews? Have the device make the request. Do you not want to see previews? The device shouldn't make those requests.
1) Dutch car drivers all have been bicyclist before they get their driver license

This is very important with regards to understanding and predicting how others behave. It's very hard for people to appreciate how different the POV can be in a different situation. I experienced this once when I herniated a disk in my lower back. Before I had to live with such a condition, I had been annoyed at how oddly and slowly some elderly people moved when boarding the bus. After having to deal with the pain, I understood the motivation behind waiting until the bus was fully stopped before moving, and why some people would methodically move from hand-hold to hand-hold: because to move more quickly would result in Pain!

In the US, I see lots of drivers who seem to struggle with even understanding other car drivers. It's no wonder that bicycle riders feel cars are a-holes to them. It's because cars don't understand what they are doing and what it's like to be on the receiving end of such behavior.
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Interesting. When I was studying Group algebra and machine organization, I felt there was a strong intersection between these two schools, and I think P is addressing that.
Star wars works as pure fantasy. You could replace the Death Star for example with a floating castle without issue.

PS: You can see the direct connection by playing The Hidden Fortress before watching Star Wars.
SmartGit is a good, paid, cross-platform client that just happens to run on Linux because it is written in Java. That is very different than developing a whole separate code base for a non-existent Linux market.
An open office wouldn't be so bad if library-like codes of silence were enforced.
I find myself thinking a recent story of an middle eastern human rights activist who's iPhone was attempted hacked via a sms url. He avoided it by not tapping the url. I do wonder if this preview "feature" will help automate future attacks.

It seems that whenever we try to make software helpful we produce more problems.
This sounds a lot like how many large tech firms operate. I'm not saying that you are wrong, but that it's easy to point out "big" whatevery and forget where our dollar bills come from. Silicon Valley is by no means clean of business practices that include misinformation and "disruptive" anti-competitive practices. Can we really blame Big Soda forever?
There have been zero-days in the past that only require loading a website, right? So loading links automatically should be a massive concern for iOS security. Back in August, when zero-days used by the NSO Group were discovered, it was only because activist Ahmed Mansoor didn't click on a link in a text message.
https://citizenlab.org/2016/08/million-dollar-dissident-ipho...
Step 1. Claim parent argument is, instead, some strawman.

Step 2. Argue against strawman.
>But that fund, USV 2004, has been one of the very best venture capital funds ever put together. The numbers are public because many (most) of our investors are public pension funds who have freedom of information act (FOIA) obligations to report the performance of the funds they invest in. At that time (early 2000s), the big VCs in the bay area were kicking out FOIA obligated limited partners out of their funds. That was a huge win for us and we got a bunch of those FOIA obligated LPs into our fund.

To contrast, Sequoia Capital is a famous example of a VC that doesn't allow LPs with FOIA obligations.

Wow, I looked at Fred's linked pdf from the Oregon Public Employees Retirement Fund and saw some amazing IRRs:

+ Union Square Ventures 2004 fund +67.0%

+ Union Square Ventures 2008 fund +22.2%

+ Union Square Ventures Opportunity Fund (2010) +63.8%

+ Union Square Ventures 2012 fund +27.2%

The Oregon table doesn't have the funds' total sizes. Fred volunteered that info in a different comment:

https://www.cbinsights.com/blog/union-square-ventures-teardo...
I'm using let's encrypt, which seems to not work on chrome for android.
AWS Lambda vs. EC2 Latency (API Gateway is very slow)
A league of fish catching nations, (who knows, maybe they will call themselves the Organization of Fish Exporting Countries, or OFEC) will form and they will control fish catching operations.
Disclaimer: I am the creator of Hugo. Trying to provide an impartial perspective here for the readers.

Everyone has different needs and tastes so no tool works for everyone. Here's how I see Hugo's strengths and weaknesses. I'd love to know what other people see are Hugo's strengths and weaknesses.

Hugo's key differentiators:
1. Ease of install
2. Speed (critical for large sites)
3. Integrated live-reload while editing in near realtime
4. Multilingual capabilities
5. Flexible
6. Very strong community
7. Very good & comprehensive documentation (but not perfect...yet)

Hugo struggles with:
1. Not integrated with Github like Jekyll (though webhooks solve this to a large degree)
2. No plugin support
3. Media & Asset processing not tightly integrated

There are many solutions that work around Hugo's limitations, some which are quite elegant, but at the end of the day they are workarounds and require external tooling.

We would love to address these weaknesses in upcoming releases as best we can. If you are interested in helping we would love to have help.
People go to cafes to work. It is not closed cubicles there. And I think they are able to concentrate more. I know for one that I can.
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Or alternative TL/DR:

Economist has read about the concept of the outside world.
Healthcare is still incredibly expensive for freelancers. ACA hasn't lowered costs the way it was intended to, but it has required that people who previously went without insurance (because they couldn't afford it) purchase it.

Depending on your political persuasion, this is either because 1) ACA didn't go far enough and was de-fanged before birth or 2) it was a bad idea and we should have gone in a different direction.
I think some of it may also come with the amount of guidance and mentoring those people require.

Early in your career, the best thing for you to do is to acquire knowledge -- not raw output. The open office allows for knowledge sharing and eavesdropping in ways closed offices do not. However, as you progress you require less 1:1 time with people and can work independently given a set of goals and general architecture. This requires less face time and more coding time.
I discovered this one, recently:

> Excel stores dates as sequential serial numbers so that they can be used in calculations. By default, January 1, 1900 is serial number 1, and January 1, 2008 is serial number 39448 because it is 39,447 days after January 1, 1900.

That's from the Microsoft's documentation of Excel[1]. Note this part: "because [Jan 1, 2008] is 39,447 days after January 1, 1900"

In [3]: (datetime.datetime(2008, 1, 1) - datetime.datetime(1900, 1, 1)).days
Out[3]: 39446

Off by one, Microsoft. And yes, Excel does the same thing — i.e., the docs match the product.

If you're wondering why, it's b/c Excel incorrectly thinks that 1900 is a leap year. (Also, this is why a lot of Window's clocks track time since 1901, as it makes leap year calculations simpler… for now.)

[1]: https://support.office.com/en-us/article/DATEVALUE-function-...
So what companies have gold standard developer offices?
Anyone used GitKraken? https://www.gitkraken.com/

The interface looks good but not tested since it's an Electron app and I'm pushing my RAM most of the time anyhow (I'm looking at you, Slack).

Interactive rebase, as another commenter has noted, is a feature I need.
OK, so just limit it to iMessage users like a lot of other iMessage features.
SmartGit is an awesome, paid cross-platform Git client.
Written in Java, which probably means that it cost them relatively little money to support Linux, and maybe they wouldn't have done it otherwise?
OH God I miss this University
> Use or legislation of helmets while driving a car would almost certainly reduce head injuries

Hence the legal requirement to wear seatbelts.
Any experience how many users you get from the front page? I guess there are a lot more clicks than comments, so it could've been 10k-100k?

Should of course still be no problem for any server that serves cached content, but somehow that number of requests brings down a fair amount of frontpage posts..
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Hi all,

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If anybody needs one, please let me know.

They are available at my door (Budapest, Hungary), no shipping, no warranty.

(I might have some install cd, documentation, keyboard and mouse as well, even a SCSI CD drive)
This is a very important aspect of the study. They did not do a true randomized survey as participants were self-selecting (online surveys have this inherently -- well, mostly).
It's a good idea to always disclose your involvement with that company when posting here about it.
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It all sounds good but it has a 5.7" screen, which kills it for me. It must be super hard to build a good, small phone or something.
http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/fog0000000043.html #8

joel used to (still does?) host a job board that used Joel Test as a factor. Maybe it died when StackOverflow launched.
> As an anecdatum, I am disinterested in Facebook because of that large open office.

Me too.
Healthcare is getting more expensive faster than inflation. ACA did lower costs when you account for this long term trend. But, not if you compare costs now vs 5 years ago.
You think if this technology becomes widely adopted it will only be used on people you dislike? Or by organizations or governments you support? Would you be "safe" if it were used on you? In all circumstances?
I agree that it's important to do your research, but Amazon does us no favors here. I didn't know about this potential leakage until I needed to use the metadata system in AWS and then I realized the potential for abuse. Honestly, this should probably be an enabled option and it should be off by default.

The fact is that Amazon provides a commodity service and it's not a standard thing that most people expect to have an internal HTTP service that exposes potentially sensitive information to non-root users.

I actually disagree with the OP where he says they should use Xen Store for metadata. If I were Amazon, there is no way I would want to commit to using an option that is specific to one hypervisor technology. What if Amazon wants to switch to KVM?