skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The classic example here is using concrete or asphalt for roads. Building a four-lane highway in concrete costs something like a million dollars per mile, all told. Building a four-lane highway with asphalt costs something like half as much. But the problem is that the asphalt highway will wear out much more quickly and will require you to go in every year and patch potholes, whereas the concrete highway will be much less susceptible to potholes and won't need to be torn up and repaved every 5-7 years. So by spending the extra money to build in concrete today, you're saving yourself extra expenses later on.

Of course, asphalt is cheaper and easier to put down, so there is always the temptation to go ahead and build the asphalt road now and take credit for it in front of voters while leaving the problem of maintaining those roads for the next person in office.
I wonder if companies would consider segregated music and quiet open offices.
Since the rich don't pay taxes, and the poor (unemployed) get only money from the state, there is no redistribution from the rich to the poor. There is redistribution from the middle class to the poor, right?
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You can use class="col" for automatic columns. E.g. col col col-6 would be like col-xs-3 col-xs-3 col-xs-6 in BS3.
> in fact, when I am in urban traffic and not alone, discussions of other drivers' motivations and likely behavior do come up.

Sure, after they do something seemingly stupid that you don't understand. Inference follows observation, not the other way around, and autonomous vehicles are observing all the time with reaction times much faster than a human's. Even if an autonomous vehicle weren't able to understand high-level goals, it understands and detects vectors much better than humans do, which is all that's really needed to create and adapt a plan that avoids collisions.

> I am very confident that people weigh the presumed motives and purpose of other drivers in their predictions of future outcomes

And I'm very confident that even if this were true, it's largely irrelevant to being a good driver.
This reminds me of a lot of Stack Overflow's commitment to private offices, which I read awhile back. They too have an interesting take on the anti-open office idea. https://stackoverflow.blog/2015/01/why-we-still-believe-in-p...
Could you elaborate on why you believe transparency is the cure?
Talk about honesty - “I tried Echo in the beginning and wrote it off. I had too many distractions at that time. I wasn’t playing at the level I should have been playing at in all frankness.”
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There's an alternate universe where these kinds of problems are entirely dealt with through nuisance and noise laws and that kind of thing: the bar is permitted wherever people want to build it, however, the local authorities come down hard on people being a PITA. So if it's a wine bar where middle aged people sip quietly and chat about business, it's not going to bother anyone. The rowdy biker bar probably won't last long in a residential area.
I would assume so. I'd think that this would be treated the same as government backed student loans. Bankruptcy and foreclosure don't mean anything... the loans are here to stay.

That just highlights another problem. Big money using the government as its muscle... but that's another rant for another time.
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Thinking of going travelling for 5+ months later this year. Backpacking around the world — but still want the ability to work on (mainly web-dev) projects.

Anyone have experience with a good machine to do this with?

Requirements:

* OS and specs capable of running Atom Editor & Chrome for React.js development

* Good battery life

* Portability, portability, portability (thin, lightweight)

* HiDPI screen

* Cheap enough to order a replacement without feeling sorry for myself (< $500)

* BONUS — SIM/Networking?
> the American oligarchs ousted noncompliant professional politicians and assumed direct power through Donald Trump and his cabinet.

This strikes me as an extremely odd reading of the election results. The establishment (which oligarchs are almost by definition part of) was by and large very much anti-Trump.
http://tattoocoder.com/aspnet-slack-sign-up/ is one Slack which has been suggested to me which is frequented by the ".NET crew". Booyah.
> Android was released as open source almost 10 years ago, and you still can't run it on any semi open hardware

Android 5.1.1 runs on Minnowboard MAX (I'd assume Minnowboard Turbot, too):

> https://01.org/android-ia/downloads/android-5.1.1-lollipop-m...

(see also http://wiki.minnowboard.org/Android)

The Minnowboard (MAX, Turbot) is open hardware:

> http://wiki.minnowboard.org/About_Us
It is definitely sold. It is believed the E5 2670 v1 Xeons crashing below $100, heck at one point below $65 on eBay was due to Facebook liquidating some servers.
You're completely right, the thing is that I'm not sure about that as the amount of people that will land on the page will depend on the success of the marketing/crowdfunding campaign.

Also, the type of application is an easy concept for booking (via online form) vacation experiences, so it has terms and conditions, explanations of our service, cities in which we're offering it and not much more
If you've been a victim of episodic economic collapse since Reagan started deregulation, you think its collapsing (well, dysfunctional anyway). If you've saved money and kept your job, then everything is hunky-dory I guess.

A system that serves a fraction of the population is broken from some points of view. Its indeed 'collapsed' when it stops serving millions of people.
A agree with it.

I think a more subtle way to go about this would be to say:

> We donate x% of our profits to Exodus Road. To find out more about who they are, and what this means to us, click HERE
I want to avoid open offices where people sit on long benches shoulder to shoulder or just have a bunch of desks jammed together. A guy I know who works at Dell recently got moved from a cube to one of those, he's posted pictures of his workspace, and just looking at those pictures set off my claustrophobia badly.

The cubes at my company are huge. If company policy here didn't forbid photography, I'd show you. I'd guess they're about 6 feet by 6 feet. I have plenty of space to stretch out and more desk than I really need. The cubes are even designed to be able to support a visitor sitting on a bench without crowding out the occupant (it's nice for having design discussions with my coworkers... we can both have a conversation in one cube without being nose-to-nose).
Weirdly Vancouver-centric. If Vancouver is collapsing, maybe Milwaukee can replace it.
I carry the Jansport Night Owl. Jansport isn't a fancy company anymore but their bags are still "buy it for life" and very good quality. In particular this bag has really nice pockets for my laptop and ipad and I've taken it on weeklong trips to conferences as my only luggage (ymmv, I am able to get by on very little).

Link:
http://www.jansport.com/shop/en/jansport-us/night-owl-t70g
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Headphones don't damage your hearing, headphones at high volume damage hearing. If you're using noise cancelling (or just closed ear in most environments), you can listen to your audio at a reasonable volume, if you're listening at high volume to drown out other noise that could be dangerous.
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capitalism in most of the world is less than 200 years old. Before that we had feudalism.

Most progressives want to amend capitalism with some socialism; social democracy exists or did exist in much of Europe, and is largely under pressure by the race to the bottom caused by globalization. And of course ever-more powerful multi-national corporations.
I think it works if I use the web link first, before trying the direct approach.
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I'd look at Chromebooks. No suggestions for specific models, sorry.
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No prob! I can't claim to be a HN veteran (/me glares at @tqbf), but if I hear people are having issues, happy to help.
I doubt that many of my co-workers would endure Dark Funeral or the like that gets blasted at my home. It's for their sake I insist on music on headphones only.
I agree...

"he was pulled over by an agent from the California department of alcoholic beverage control, who was driving an unmarked vehicle. The agent said Schwab had cut her off and was driving erratically"

Pulled over by an alcohol beverage control agent whom he had cut off. Oy.
Yes Trump was not very establishment. I have to think in the really high circles he was known more as a flashy con-man.
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Just a side remark: there are a lot of boring jobs where looking at the screen isn't allowed, but voice communications is possible(and maybe using earphone buttons).

For them a voice-based social network sounds like a great idea.
Beautiful piece. Cheers to all the parents out there who send their kids into life with love.
I've always found georgism to be an interesting political idea but idk if I'm actually in favor of it. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georgism

Check out this book by Henry George himself https://www.amazon.com/Social-Problems-Henry-George-ebook/dp...
Hey everyone, Chris Nagele here from Wildbit. For some background, I wrote about our reasons for moving to a private office plan. In short, it's more than putting on some headphones.

http://wildbit.com/blog/2015/03/06/wildbit-hq-ending-the-ope...

And a tour of the office itself:

http://wildbit.com/blog/2015/08/05/wildbit-office-tour
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In this case it's interesting considering the back story.
Event though dry walls are cheap, you cannot just install them as you can do with cubicles. You'd have to change ventilation to work for all rooms, have proper lights for every cubicle, adhere to fire restrictions (probably alarms in every small room) and will likely need to use more space per employee.

Cubicles or open plan is by far the cheapest way to set up an office since you only have one room that you need to set up. And that's the main reason people use it, it's just cheaper. If you look at flexible working spaces, desks in closed rooms often cost twice of what you pay for a desk in an open floor layout. I don't think there's a way to set up closed offices at even close the price of open offices.

And I must admit as much as I don't like open offices, sitting in a tiny private office of the size you have to yourself in an open office would probably lead to anxiety.
> That Apple could not retain him speaks volumes of the company they've become. They're a conglomerate at the intersection of tech and fashion.

Well said. Apple would have made the strides it did in its developer platform had it not been for Lattner. It does seem that the company has different priorities than it did when he was hired
Your comment doesn't resonate with me.

Have you worked in an early- or mid-stage startup in NYC or the Bay Area in the past... 10 years?

> No offense, but that sounds like some kind of boys club, not professional working environment

That's a strange value judgment; I'm not really sure what to think about it. At the end of the day, the company is still growing and meeting its goals. It is also still facilitating the development of open source software.

So something is working.

> Staying up late = no respect for private life (unless you've signed for it)

Reelio is one of those clients that excited me to show up early and stay late.

They also welcomed my wife and our baby to join whenever they wanted.

Hardly disrespect for private life.

> loud arbitrary music = forced culture implications (why do I have to listen to the music you like?)

Well, sure - this doesn't work in the middle of the day when the entire company is there.

But at 1AM when it's just a half dozen developers?

Have you never had the experience of hearing new music at someone else's recommendation in a teamwork setting? It's a beautiful feeling.
>"coming up with all sorts of bullshit reason, to rationalize a decision which is really about trying to save money"

Yep, the general line is "it fosters openness and collaboration"
Apple's approach in Safari is to only show the hostname in the address bar, unless the address bar has focus. This works pretty well in general (for non-power-users). Unfortunately, for a data URL, it just shows as much of the URL as fits. This may well include the phony “https://account.google.com” part of the URL and thus still mislead naive users.
I was for a land value tax (because people with more wealth in the form of land would pay more taxes in theory) but after watching the video I am now against it. It hinges on the definition of improving land, and from an environmental standpoint human improvement of land is an externality that as often as not creates negative value through exhaustion of resources, waste and unsustainability. Also IMHO there is far too much investment in construction, when buildings are already sitting idle. As we keep moving forward with tech and automation, this spending will become more superfluous.

It's becoming more clear to me that we should be thinking about proportions, not arithmetic. Money is a construct, so hard numbers like the size of the money supply and debt are meaningless. It makes more sense to imagine the median global income as being a unit of 1 (per day, per year, it doesn't matter) and then measure individual assets and debts against that. Americans get a score of 5 ($50k median household income), 5 billion people in the world get a score of 1 or less as they earn under $10,000 per year. Millionaires ($100k per year or more) get a score of 10, billionaires get a score of 10,000, etc.

Yes yes there are taxes and expenses but the orders of magnitude remain the same. Dealing at the abstraction level allows seeing patterns that aren't normally visible. The biggest anomaly is the level of work people are willing to maintain while getting paid substantially less than a small minority. The other one is why is so much work nonproductive, for example why do people pay half a billion dollars for a TODO website when 3% of the population can grow all the world's food? It's like there is so much wealth in a few hands that it doesn't know where to go except to try to expand itself. Wouldn't it make more sense to invest that money to automate the other industries to get to a 3% level and let the other 97% of the population work in research or health or space travel, anything really? Solving problems once and for all so that we can have both money and time (actual wealth) rather than having to choose one (phantom wealth). For real solutions to these seemingly intractable problems I highly recommend looking into modern monetary theory (MMT):

http://neweconomicperspectives.org/2013/03/what-is-modern-mo...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modern_Monetary_Theory

http://heteconomist.com/modern-monetary-theory-is-relevant-t...
These are great suggestions.
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Any benefit of re-using them is lost. Also if the company is growing, new ones get bought all the time, so old ones aren't re-used anyway.

5-10 years after the initial deployment, the same models are no longer available and the new cubicle system isn't compatible with the old one so they're stuck with the now obsolete setup and are forced to either work with it or scrap it and start over.
>> Making the tax agency also the debt collector for this type of loan is quite ingenious, but also evil.

Hey, it worked for student loans right? I have no idea how all this is going to play out, but it won't be pretty.
Is someone building 4x4' drywall "offices" somewhere?
Yes, getting automatically signed out is a normal thing. And of course, the user wouldn't suspect that it was the attachment that caused that. So yes, I see it now how this is a legitimate concern.
I started a new job where I work in an open office. I don't really mind it. We do have more open conversations about work and that's a good thing. These are similar to hallway conversations I've had in other places.

When I want to crank I put headphones on and get some music going. I've always done that though even when I had an office so it's not new for me.

My biggest peeve with the open office is that I have no room for storage. If you work in HW there are these junk piles because there's no place to put anything. I still use books as reference and there's no place to put them. I'm not a neat freak but I can't stand the clutter.
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In my experience, open offices are ok when they are treated like libraries, where quietness is enforced. "Shared area for solitary work only" describes this very well. In some rare teams, there can be oubursts of goofiness at predictable afternoon times without it affecting productivity, but it takes the right team for that to happen, otherwise it's just a source of frustration.
Four of the top five comments do not answer the question in any way.
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One doesn't actually have to listen to anything through the headphones.
I've used noise cancelling without music in the past.

I also have a set of earbud rubber thingies that have been stoppered with hot glue and a short piece of hollow lolly stick.
Those fit better (don't feel itchy after long periods) and provide more isolation than the squishy yellow ear protectors.
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Do you mean that Warren "tax me harder" Buffet's much-publicized income tax of slightly less than $2M per year is not much relatively to his net worth of tens of billions, about half of which is taxpayers' money from bailouts? I guess you have a point. Still, I can't believe he completely evades the capital gains tax.

Anyway, I never looked very deeply into it, but I'm pretty sure that single-digit millionaires pay plenty of taxes, and I find it fair to call them "rich." I do agree that taxing income much more heavily than capital gains, property, etc. doesn't sound like a great idea.
I hear you. I prefer floor plans that cater to the mood of the team, rather than setting out some one-size-fits-all-every-day notion of productivity.

Thus, it's nice to have open space, but also cozy, comfortable environs for solo- or small-team work.

W+K in Portland accomplishes this masterfully.
That's why good managers will tell their employee to go home when they're ill. There are companies that have strict policies for that, to avoid exactly this problem. Even though it's a problem that probably mostly affects flexible working space. If you don't share your desk with anyone else, you should usually be >3ft away from other people, lowering the risk for contagion.
I would strongly suggest you check out rr - Mozilla's Record and Replay framework https://github.com/mozilla/rr . Don't let the name confuse you - it's not specific at all to Firefox. It can record a process's execution and replay it in gdb, and lets you step and continue backwards. This last point is super powerful - let's say you see that some variable has an unexpected value. You can set a watchpoint on it, then reverse-continue and gdb will stop at the point it was changed. It has been invaluable in finding some tricky bugs. Apart from that, you can also use it to explore the execution of a program, since you can freely step backwards and forwards in time. You also get a deterministic thread execution sequence each time. That might be either good or bad, depending on what you want.
That's correct, of course without having the app installed there is no option other than SMS or a hardware token.

I remember that configuring this is tricky, but I did eventually get user self enrollment configured with push being the default. Happy to dig more into my config, if you're curious: gabe@untapt.com
The rich do pay taxes, just a smaller portion of their income as compared to your average taxpayer. But that smaller portion is leaps and bounds larger than the bigger portion paid by the average taxpayer.

I seem to recall some graph indicating that even though they pay 4-5x (or higher) lower percentage of their money in taxes, the higher amounts mean they shoulder most of the tax burdon.

I don't think the percentage difference is ultimately beneficial to society, but it's not correct to say they pay nothing.
This just shows significant parts of the government are rotten to the core. It's an issue most likely to affect people who are unable to afford good representation.

Let's be honest: courts in most western countries are only really accessible to upper middle class and/or wealthier people. If you do not have proper representation, you will probably lose in cases like these.

The fact that some random smuck is given this much power is shocking.
The blog post you linked should be the story URL. I don't see any mention on the current story URL of a switch to flexbox being the default.
C is FAR less obscure than most of the languages you mention, ignoring things newbies generally don't need to worry about like standards, compiler implementations, memory alignment, virtual memory, etc.

I was able to learn C reasonably well as a child precisely because of how straightforward it is. You can reserve a block of memory. You can free it. You can get the address of a value. You can get the value from an address. It works in an extremely straightforward way, unlike most languages. To a child, programming in C feels like the computer is doing exactly what it was told to do and nothing else. It feels like you understand what is going on, even though your understanding is a very simplified model of what is actually going on.

Modern languages like C#, Javascript, Ruby... They are much harder to understand than C. The first time I saw a closure, I was completely dumbfounded. This doesn't make sense, a function is accessing a local variable of another function that has since been popped off the stack! What sorcery is this?? Even today things often confuse me, when I saw C# async/await for the first time I just couldn't understand how it can possibly work until I spent some time reading about it and I had been programming for decades by then including a decade in C#.
If the company own the hardware and is a capital expense, then it depends on the accounting policy. Most will depreciate over 3 years I think.
This describes my experience many years ago. I woke up early and groggily read my through my emails. One of which was an angry message from an ebay buyer about a package not having arrived on time. I clicked and logged in and got an error message. Examining the email it was certainly phishing. Changed password immediately.

I believe this may have been before ebay took phishing seriously by included your real name in the emails etc.
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On mobile, scrolling to the top of a Wikipedia page can be 20 screens or more. After that it's a lot of working going back to where you were. Many news sites are similar.
Glen, i think you are fine. The title is the important part. https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html