skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Has anyone worked in a place that used transparent office partitions to kill the noise while keeping some light around?

Like these: https://www.alibaba.com/showroom/transparent-office-partitio...

Or has anyone been able to actually choose such things because they had enough power in their organisation?

They would still enable lots of people to be packed in but noise could be cut substantially.
There are degrees of wrongness - it's not a black-and-white thing. Suppose two people are arguing over what causes robberies in downtown Chicago: person A blames drug use, while person B thinks it's poverty. The actual truth is some sort of mix of both, along with other factors not mentioned.
TV Commercials vs. Online Ads: Understanding the Rules of Attention
Working in Arch firms, I have had conversations with business owners about ambient noise and I've never met one who cared - once the conversation moves to estimates.

Yes, cost is the major driving force, Lead time/schedule isn't really an issue... outside of coordinating power, lan, HVAC, and server racks. The ADA, IBC, NFPA, and life-safety codes require slightly larger spaces than you might expect in an office setting (e.g. 36" doors and 60" wide hallways typ.) When you compare how many people 'fit' into the open space vs walls, you might be a bit underwhelmed as an owner.

Basically, doors are only for those who need closed-door conversations or security.
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Here here. I really don't get the fascination with aeropress on HN. Perhaps I am not yet at the ultimate level of coffee snobbery, but whenever I have had aeropress coffee i am always disappointed with it. Espresso all the way.

I secretly suspect that it is because the aeropress users have never owned/used an decent espresso machine, but I could be easily missing the nuances of alternative coffee extraction techniques.
Sorry, I think there's a semantic confusion here. By "retraining", I was also referring to vocational education and trade schools in general, not just a specific US government program. It sounds like you're not anti-retraining (as I was using the word), you just want it to be reformed and brought more under federal control.
Shodan finds confidential Europol terrorist dossiers
I am a road enthusiast. I have driven on almost every single major road in CA Nevada and especially the deserted "no one goes there" type roads. I also take interest in history of roads.

California has been sitting ducks on some really important road proposals or last so many years despite the deaths they have been causing. My suspicion is that politicians want to push trains and other larger projects where they might get kickbacks instead of upgrading existing roads.

Here are some observations:

1. Highway 1 seems to be under repair all the year for last 3 years.
2. Highway 152 is the only major road that connects SJ with I-5. despite this it is one lane for a large part. It has very high fatality and traffic jam rate. Decades have passed since government planned to broaden it. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California_State_Route_152]
3. Panoche road. Not sure why this road exists. But since it does then making it an expressway could have helped create an alternative to 152 reducing traffic and accidents.
4. Then there is Route 130 that connections bay area to I-5. Several times it was proposed that this route be widened as an alternative to 152 but it never went ahead. I once saw a car fall several feet below the road just because he got spooked to see me coming in opposite direction. It is that desolated.
But what actually caused the interference? Never been blueballed so had by and article.
>Frenzy is an app for making lightning-fast plans with friends.

So, another chat app? I assume there is some fancy tech behind the scenes?

Edit: These apps don't even have reviews, do they?

https://itunes.apple.com/ca/app/wyd-what-you-doing/id1106177...

https://itunes.apple.com/ca/app/frenzy-plan-less.-party-more...

What's going on with this?
I think that your assumption is that the genius of Shakespeare's plays can be statistically reproduced through sufficiently-clever organisation. That is not obviously true to me.

Some things are just art, capable of being truly understood only by a creature with a head and heart, arms & legs, love & hate, emotions, experiences ­— in short, a man.
One could argue, especially considering some of the disclosure situations surrounding Project Zero that have occurred, that it exists more to shame competitors than improve the world. :) To my knowledge, only like once have I heard the words "Project Zero" in relation to a flaw in Google software.

But as Google definitely does do security testing on competitors' products such as Windows, it definitely goes to show that Google would be more than happy to test for security flaws in Firefox. And regardless of Google's motives, finding security flaws does, in the end, make a more secure Internet for everybody.
Parasites in our support business
Insurance itself isn't a consumer-friendly product without regulation. It's too easy to make a lot of sales and just disappear when the going gets tough. One bad player can run all the good ones out of business by out-"competing" them. I wouldn't be surprised if there are similar games to play in the insurance broker business but I'm not sure how it's done.
Macchiato: ClojureScript micro-framework on top of Node.js
So this looks very cool. Great job... but...

It would be pretty simple to wrap this up and automate it easily using a Terraform file. All it requires is an S3 resource for the ZIP, a Lambda resource using the S3 resource for the code, and finally an API Gateway resource to tie it all together.

Thoughts?
When the first offender will be asked to put the money down, he will laugh it off, everyone will look at each other, crack some jokes, and the kitty will just become a paperweight.

If you could actually coordinate well enough in the office to enforce such a rule, you wouldn't need the kitty - a gentlemen's agreement would be enough.
Code Sprints, Contractors, and Commits: PyPy in 2016
It's important to distinguish performance (making the most out of a single computer) from scalability (making an overall system that continues to perform well when you throw lots of hardware at it). Data-sharing is essential for performance. It's anathema to scalability, not least because different processes in different datacenters aren't going to be able to share data without explicit messages between them anyway.

Node.js (and PHP, for that matter) often don't get enough credit for their scalability in the large. Perhaps this is because the surrounding distributed-systems ecosystem hasn't grown up around them yet the way it has around, say, Erlang or Java or even C++, but architecturally they're pretty sound if you want to build distributed systems that scale across many computers.
Maybe if the Left really went all-in on stories like this and presented the illusion of consensus and controversy, instead of scrambling to correct each other and themselves, then maybe they'd have a better answer to the Trump phenomenon. You don't see Drudge calling out Breitbart like this.

Why should the truth get in the way of getting votes and creating a liberal Trump anyway? Why not? What else should powerful Democrats take away from this year? Push a Bill Maher or Michael Moore in 2020, on the campaign promise of forgiving the debt of all citizens or something, and putting Trump in jail as a Russian spy. Mean none of it.

I can only half-heartedly say that we can stop those already trying to make this a reality. That's the world we live in now.
Has there ever been an acquisition announcement that didn't include the word "excited"?
Amazon Launchpad – Showcasing Startup Products on Amazon
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Having a secure browser doesn't protect you from people thinking that your browser is insecure and blaming you for unrelated security failures. Like, have you read /r/talesfromtechsupport or done any user-facing tech support?
Remote US only?
Wikipedia does: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Periodic_table

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:18_column_periodic_table,...
This is awesome, and sad, just like the Valley.
Agree on not wanting to listen to music all day. I listen to music for pleasure and not work, I can't listen to my music as I find myself drifting into the music and not work. The only think I've found that works for a reasonable period is an app called white noise that I play a storm with thunder rolling through it.
> We spend 6-8 hours each week shopping around trying to save money on just groceries

Curious, How much money are you saving in exchange for that effort?
NZ Police Crime Data Tool Uses Flash, Crashes on Day 1
How do you use C++ for web development and why ?
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Every other day at work I joke I will build myself one out of pizza boxes. Honestly, I'd have done that long ago, if I wasn't worried about management disapproving.
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The Science of Insecurity, Meredith L. Patterson and Sergey
95% trade means what ? Is it by the cost of shipments size ?
It's not supported in IE 6 on any OS, or any IE version on Windows XP or before (has to be supported by both the browser and the underlying network stack). Also not supported on Android < 3.x.
The OnePlus drama with MicroMax killed them. No one would want to do business with a company that did what they did and treated their first client.

“Without Cyanogen, OnePlus would have sold like one device in international markets,” … “Essentially they built their brand on the back of Cyanogen.” – Kirt McMaster

I don't know about you but I would never do business with someone who said that about anyone. Some team effort.
Sorry to be so OT, but at first glance I read this as "Fox News Officially Added to the Periodic Table of Elements" and was left both impressed and bewildered.
No, I think you have it right. I have lived in NYC and now live in SF, and a sensible comparison would be Manhattan to San Francisco, or the 5 Boroughs, northern Jersey and a chuck of CT to roughly San Jose up to SF. We can argue about including Marin.

(I generally look at urban regions that are larger entities than official borders by transit. If there are large daily people flows from area A to B, A and B are part of that region, no matter what the tax borders say.)
This is pretty much solely in retaliation for the incredibly annoying "Get Chrome" behavior Google has been engaging in heavily for years. Beyond privacy issues, just avoiding these incessant banners makes it worth avoiding Google websites.
What the people who designed this website need is a job at McDonald's.
There's only two good things that ESPN broadcasts:

* Live Sports
* "30 for 30" documentaries

Aside from these it's mostly noise - sports commentary and sports news. Which, not incidentally, are the cheapest forms of programming on the channel. Quality programming will almost always find an audience in the Internet era. ESPN has a lot of low-quality filler that viewers simply don't want to pay for.
Old-timers please correct me if I'm wrong, but modern-style full-coverage tests of code weren't trivial to write or add to fortran projects on dec10's...
This can be prototyped pretty quickly using Leaflet to serve the zoom-able tile map and topojson to reduce the size of the overlay data (in this case, train tracks and stations). I haven't tried topojson for a map of the lower 48, but I was getting a 80% reduction in data file size when using it on parcel data. This way, instead of rolling your own tile layer with the data which is a little bit of an involved process, you can just load a topojson file with the data and draw it as a vector layer.

I'm sure there are limitations that make this much more difficult than I'm expressing due to the volume of traffic that hits washingtonpost.com - I'm more remarking on this so if other people are looking to do data visualizations like this they know there is a good dynamic option out there they can try.

http://leafletjs.com/
https://github.com/topojson/topojson
I think that "Don't run several pieces of years-old third-party software with multiple publicly-known code execution vulnerabilities as root/SYSTEM on possibly malicious input" is a bare minimum requirement to demand of a piece of software whose entire purpose is to analyze untrusted data to prevent malicious code from executing on our machines.

If it's unrealistic to ask that of AV software, then I'm not sure how this works out to be an argument for AV.
> Also although we won't be using it, the entire source code for the human brain has to be strictly less than 700 MB, because the fully sequenced human genome which obviously encodes the full human mind is less than 700 MB uncompressed.

There's also the training set consisting of all sensory and chemical inputs from conception on. I think it's fair to say that the former inputs are only sensible to an organism with the same sensory organs, and the latter inputs are only sensible to an organism with the same physical structure & organs as we have.

I don't think a silicon neural net with the neurons of a human being would be the same thing after two dozen years of training as a human being after 24.

You're also assuming that there's nothing more to a mind than its neurons.
Company: asp.net mvc

Home: Play Framework or Spring Boot
I'm not a mod, just curious. I'm confused. You have two links there. Which one is the one you don't like? The direct one or the medium post? Can you edit the medium post? Can you put a redirect in your server to the other link?

Usually more traffic is good. I don't understand how is this hurting your site. I read the linked article and I don't understand what you mean with "I actually don't allow people to get weird URLs anymore.".

Anyway, if you want to contact the mods, it's better to write a message to hn@ycombinator.com
To non-editors, you'll usually just send the rendered PDF file.
Ripple: like Lisp but in RPN and with RDF data structures
Quantum Gravity’s Time Problem
Wait, for real? I thought they were just in probability 'clouds' and that they didn't have any momentum.
For me, the compiler takes input program in language A and spits out the same program in language B. An interpreter goes (more or less) line by line and executes what it reads.

In theory, compilation is reversible, execution is not.
What kind of systems do you guys use for time tracking, priority organization, and achieving goals/finding meaning? I've flittered around with various systems, but never settled on anything. (Planning out my week in advance, time tracking from 15 minute intervals to morning intervals with what I have during the day, to do lists organized by urgent+important // important // urgent // neither, etc. It can be overwhelming, but I strongly suspect a system that makes me cognizant of my behavior, decisions, and where I am adding/finding the most value is superior to having no system at all.
Wouldn't a proper polyglot pass a formal recognizer?
Check out the book Willpower Instinct:

https://www.amazon.com/Willpower-Instinct-Self-Control-Works...
obligatory: https://ourincrediblejourney.tumblr.com/
JaVers: Object auditing and diff framework for Java
Yeah but the difference between working class $50K per year, and professional $500K per year, is tiny in comparison to the difference between millionaire and billionaire.

A billionaire can buy a new Mercedes Benz every day, and burn it to the ground in a pile of $100 bills at the end of that day, and not run out of money their entire life. So...
But how often do people travel abroad? And Uber covers only major, well–known cities in select countries, a far cry from any place on the world.
Sidebar Transitions: Transition effects for off-canvas views
I find it sad what is happening to the journalism industry as it is 'disrupted' by the internet.

Umm, have you actually read a copy of _Self_ magazine? My wife gets them before plane flights. It's the print equivalent to the listicle. Keep in mind that the print "journalism" you see at the checkout stand and at airports is just targeted advertising. The articles are there simply to draw the target demographic.

The industry may not have been perfect, but on its best days it uncovered important stories, and backed it up with fact checking and an attempt at being fair and balanced.

Which doesn't describe _Self_ magazine at all. Now, if CN was shuttering, say, _The New Yorker_ then we'd have reason to express dismay. But as I read it, CN is getting rid of the crap that we could probably all do just fine without.
Apache NiFi 1.1.0 Release
I've fallen into the busy trap pretty often lately.

Busy to me - paradoxically - is correlated with not getting shit done. It's one thing to have a lot to do, and get 90% of the tasks done, and another to have a lot to do, and get 10% of the tasks done, with the other 90% rolling over onto the next day.

It's the roll-over that's really the stressor for me, when I feel most "busy", and that creates a self-fulfilling prophecy for the next day, when you have that much more to do.
Each of their apps have 10-50K users. Based on the number of reviews on each, I'd say they're probably on the higher end of that. But let's say they have 100K combined users...how does a company like that even get on Twitter's acquisition radar? I doubt it's for very much - probably more of an acqui-hire situation - but even those can be in the low seven figures. It's interesting that they're doing acqui-hires in the wake of layoffs.

I guess it really is all in who you know.
As a result of their fight, the FBI folded, rescinding the NSL and unsealing associated court records rather than risk a ruling that their surveillance orders were illegal.

This part angers me the most. So basically it was a bluff. Either that or if this was serious than FBI is reckless and incompetent. Because someone decided: "oh crap this is getting some publicity, we didn't want it because we didn't want him to be tipped off, but now since we have to defend ourselves and judge might be on their side, let us just forget about tipping him off." So then if he really make some terrorist related decision based of knowing they after him, who am I supposed to blame as a law abiding citizen who pays his taxes and demands FBI to be serious??

I will await for the day when one judge will say: "well wait a second this might be criminal I want to see what you guys really up to, now its too late you can't withdraw".
U.S. Senate Testimony on Artificial Intelligence (Greg Brockman, OpenAI) [pdf]
This is like the complete opposite of an "incredible journey". So much so that I feel like it should be explicitly mentioned.

Instead of being acquired and shut down, their being acquired will put them back in business and allow their users to keep using the product!
Fixing Typography Inside of 2-D CSS Transforms
I think in everyday usage, the most common thing that distinguishes the two is that a compiler saves its output in some standard format that some other piece of software is expected to understand.

So for example, something like Babel for JS is considered a compiler, because its output is JavaScript, which is a standardized language.

On the other hand, Python is not usually considered a compiler, even though it writes .pyc files to disk, because its output is bytecode that only Python itself is expected to understand.

Even this is a little bit grey though, because we would say that Python contains a bytecode compiler as one of its components, but I don't think that most people would say that the Python binary is a compiler.