skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Have you tried to hire anyone to do remote work, even freelance work? Most people fail miserably if you don't give them structure(and being on-site is a type of structure).

Have you tried to hire anyone at all? Recruitment is hard. Period.

Failure to track production/results is completely unrelated to where your employee works, as well as failure to produce is only related to the employee. If he/she does not know where he/she best produces, the recruitment is bad to begin with.
If you're "Social startup of the year" it doesn't matter if one post appear to some followers 100ms later than they should be.

That's latency, not correctness. I think even "social startup of the year" cares that the post shows up at all, is attributed to the correct author, isn't corrupted somewhere and so on. Data correctness/consistency is about making sure that the data isn't in an inconsistent state.
>I need people around me, I like being able to get up and communicate with colleagues. Yes, it can get annoying, but the pros outweigh the cons for me.

Yeah, just not for them.

[Edit] Now, some might be OK with it, but I don't see how one-sided convenience ("to get up and communicate") can be used as an argument, when the issue clearly involves two sides (and, even more so, the rights of the distracted side seem to me more important than the one wishing to communicate something that can't be bothered to use IM, email, slack and another 200 options).
Not sure if it's a bug, but a common search for '1080p' returns no results (and takes around 10 seconds): https://www.skytorrents.in/search/all/ed/1/?q=1080p
Webpack 2.2 released
>I also enjoy working in an open office. For me it makes so easy to just pass by and say hello to start a conversation.

And kill the other's focus and "zone" concentration for up to 30 minutes...
" If we were to start walling up the place - half our workers would have to go."

They would have to go to another office space? Companies move all the time.

Floorspace adapts to company operations. Not the other way around - unless something is terribly broken.
Well, for what this anecdote is worth: I was bullied bullied growing up, and I had tachycardia[0]. Both stopped around the time I went to college. I can count the number of times I've had it since on one hand (before it was multiple times per week), and it was always during periods I was suffering from extremely high socially induced stress. Severe heartbreak, the loss of someone very close to me, things like that. Since I've picked up mindfulness and become a more balanced, calm person I've not had it at all.

I know that there are many diseases one can have growing up that might just "go away" when you get older, and we usually blame it on hormonal imbalances, and your body growing up and figuring things out. I wonder we're underestimating how the many anxieties that teenagers suffer from might cause or amplify these issues.

[0] Since you're in the medical profession, I'm sure you know what tachycardia is, but for others: it's when the heart rhythm becomes so fast that the heart muscles can't keep up, and are no longer pumping blood properly. Luckily my form of tachycardia is regular and fairly harmless on its own. Anyway, in my case it would trigger when startled, usually when I was doing some kind of "inconsistent" physical exertion (by which I mean that it never happened when running or cycling, even if I pushed myself to my physical limit). So it seems to require a mix of social and physical stress, plus something unexpected happening (I guess the adrenaline triggers it?)
Is it just me, or does it look like the typical example of short term hack that will blow up in your face pretty quickly, and turn your life in a constant stream of low-level tinkering ?

I suppose people at instagram didn't just stop there, but are also planning for more long term solution to optimizing their stack ( aka migration to a more performant language).
How exactly could've you made out these figures as civilians and not enemy combatants? From POV of the camera, you already have seen one of them with an RPG, and the opposing force doesn't really use uniforms either.

Don't fall for a logical fallacy, and try to view the situatiom from the lens of the information that they actually had, not the hindsight.
Nice app indeed, but... 100+ MB for a notepad? We really, really need a lighter alternative to Electron.
This unfortunately reminded me of Ian Murdock's (Debian founder) final tweets before he died under mysterious circumstances: http://archive.is/vBS6N

I just hope the author does not take his life, his thoughts are barely coherent and this entire gist is disturbing.
If well being is a factor of productivity, then it is _by definition_ relevant. I don't see your point.

Also, I see plenty of comments on these threads from people who do like working in open offices.

The "selection bias" you experience is likely just related to the fact that open offices are what is very much in vogue right now, and mostly people who doesn't like it chime in. Likewise if single offices where in vogue we would hear from the people who do like to work in open offices currently.
Original iPhones no longer work on AT&T
Tesla Model S racer can do 0-62mph in 2.1 seconds
On a large screen the file list is too small in my opinion. The "Found related results" section takes up 80% of the screen space in comparison.
+1. The main reason I didn't jump on to Postgress decades ago was because the tooling was really bad. Third party tools for MySQL were streets ahead, even back then.

End result is that I jumped on the MySQL bandwagon, and even all the negative posts against it now and the lauding of Postgres in here all the time cannot make me change tracks. I just have too much data and IP invested in it now.
https://choosealicense.com/
Bad Behavior Database Aims to Stop Rogue Traders Before They Act
Why do we get fat?
RethinkDB themselves pivoted away from this

I believe the storage backend remained largely the same (ie current RethinkDB, IIRC, is still optimised for SSD). Maybe I'm mistaken.
The same way a university is what a faculty becomes when it loses interest in its student, a brand is what an open source project becomes when it loses interests in its community.
> Java beat Electron to write-once-run-anywhere
No , not on web.
Please don't be sorry! I'm genuinely surprised that several people experience a different association with the acronym with relation to technology and open sourcing 'things' especially in the HN space. I grew up with CDs, however as I mentioned in another comment I haven't used or had the means to use optical media in over a decade nor do I see optical media present at work or with friends so it's quite interesting to me, I'm not convinced that I'm in some sort of 'bubble' but more that perhaps that it could be something like a generational association. If you don't mind me asking, in the name of science - what age bracket do you fall under? I'm 30 or there abouts and for me I think optical media became something irrelevant or perhaps irreverent in my technical / cultural experiences in around the time of 2006-2008 and continuous delivery / integration became a valuable focus of product delivery and technical engineering at around 2010 and something that I've been experienced since around 2011ish.
There has been a very long and public design process involved in this [1]. Some of the final contenders were not what I would have expected to see even considered [2].

I think it is good that Mozilla stuck to a geeky expression.

[1] https://blog.mozilla.org/opendesign/
[2] https://blog.mozilla.org/opendesign/now-for-the-fun-part/
Cochrane reviews frequntly say "the available evidence is poor, more research is needed", and "we found X relavent papers, but had to exclude Y which were low quality."
That's sort of the way these things go.

First, Tesla, AES and others deploy to the most expensive power markets (islands mostly, or anywhere diesel is the primary generation technology for electricity; but also locations where expensive natural gas peaker plants are used). Then, more batteries are made. As more are made, they get cheaper. This allows for even more batteries to be installed.

My prediction is you'll see the demise of any sort of combustion fuel for electrical grid generation in the next 10-15 years. Batteries (tens of GWs of production are coming online; the scale is truly massive) will simply keep getting cheaper at the same time solar and wind do.

Nuclear is probably going to die too unfortunately; its too costly and doesn't get paid for its zero carbon footprint (the solution there would be to use targeted EV credits to increase the uptake of electric vehicles in certain markets, shifting dollars from petrol consumption to night time nuclear consumption; I can get power for $0.01/kwh between midnight at 6am from ComEd in Northern Illinois from their merchant nuclear fleet, which is the ideal time to charge your EV).
To rephrase a game reviewer, it seems there is a stupid epidemic in Mozilla.

I don't understand the point of "branding" Mozilla. Why waste time and money on changing pictures, when I doubt this will change anything? It sounds a lot like rebranding Yahoo.
This is genuinely interesting to me, see my comment here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13425660
I believe the British NHS system takes really good care of pregnant women and kids. We lived 6 months in the UK when my wife was expecting our second child, and we got free checkups with the local doctor, free ultrasounds etc., no questions asked, even though we were citizens of another European country and were not paying any taxes in Britain nor were we members of UK social security. (I was being paid in our home country, which is legally OK for short term stays).
Good ideas but as an outsider that wanted to use it this was my takeout:

If I look at google trends [0] mongodb starts trending July 2009 (It exists earlier but it is the time that rises) rethinkdb equivalent is March 2015 and it never rises so steeply. That is six years.

With all the people I've talked nobody new rethinkdb it and it was not a problem of re-educating them on its merits. So what was needed was marketing, success stories and competitors' failure stories.

People did not know it existed. Maybe in the cognitively saturated NoSQL market we more. Gone are the days we could predict developers' needs on our hunches or our interpretations of the feedback we are given from early adopters because they are a biased sample.

Worse: we might need people in marketing and, god forbid, some MBAs.

[0]: https://www.google.com/trends/explore?date=all&q=rethinkdb,m...
Mozilla is feeling very corporate these days. Can you remember the time when we all chipped in so that they could get a full page advert for Firefox in the New York Times?

I think it would help if they had less money, so that they would focus more on their core product - a web browser.
It's easy to be critical, but from a branding, identity and especially aesthetic perspective, this is not very good.

That said, it doesn't matter very much - if the product is robust with good APIs + they are making the other strategic decisions they need to given their small market share, they will do ok.

That said, an exceptional consumer focused branding initiative could actually help them quite a lot.
Solid lesson. Thank you for sharing.
As Australia drives on the opposite side to the USA - the general thing to do is slow cars move to the left and most overtaking is done in the "fast" / right lane(s).

In practise though, people go slow in the right lanes and are not considerate of other drives. Some even think they have the right to prevent others from speeding and deliberately do 5-10km/h under the limit.

The thing is, by not following the practise you cause other impatient drives (rightly or wrongly) to weave in and out of lanes passing on both sides which increases chances of an accident - due to the increase number of lane changes.
hey, just a thought, but at some point if this gets too popular you will probably get a message from the UK TV company SKY who wont be super happy about your name.
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Electron is horrible and I hate the fact that it seems to be gaining in popularity. It's a typical example of developers thinking of themselves first and their users second.
It has come to the point where I am treating Electron based apps as malware. I won't install them and I will not recommend them to anyone.
In my opinion, you got it backwards. Fewer than 0.1% of software engineers are working on the "social startup of the year", whereas the other 99.9% of developers are working on software where consistency and correctness matter more than availability.

And for most of those developers, atomicity guarantees (the A from ACID) are very important, because without transactions if that one operation fails, before it can be repeated as you say, the system also has to rewind the previous operations that succeeded in order to leave the data in a consistent state and implementing this rewind by yourself is extremely challenging (take a look at the Command pattern sometime for a possible strategy).

Or in other words, most developers need atomic guarantees / transactions as well and if the DB doesn't support transactions with the needed granularity for your app, it's easier to change the DB than implementing it yourself, which is why RDBMSs are still more popular than NoSQL systems, because they are more general purpose and made the right compromises for a majority of use-cases.
I thought this was common knowledge. The desire to eat has been around for many thousands of years, and for the vast majority of that time it's been much safer to have extra fat on your body, than risk dying in a time when food was more scarce. Since technology allowed food to become available and calorie dense at a rate that evolution couldn't keep up with, people trend into being fatter.

The process whereby fat people die earlier now is evolution selecting people who have a better emotional attunement with the abundance of food that we have now. It's similar how to without self driving cars, a few thousand years from now, there'd be more people who were fearful of cars, because the selection pressure of automotive deaths over time influences survival and replication.

Typed as I pedal on a bike for my 3750th mile in 150 days. I'd like to see what a beach body feels like :)
I got halfway through a dissenting reply, and then I realized you are probably right.
A far far better answer:

"Go and Rust are different languages with different goals."
AFAIK this isn't going to affect the Firefox brand nor the Firefox UI. Coincidentally however there is a visual refresh planned for Firefox: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1325171
We actually use localforage as a backing store to "persist" parts of the redux store automatically.

The app itself is a freight logistics tracking and scanning app which is meant to download and store a few hundred MB of carton data and be able to scan and process it offline and sync back to a server when online again.

With redux-persist and localforage it's been effortless to enable this. Parts of our store are whitelisted and are persisted to localforage every 300ms or so. When the app is loaded the next time it pulls the data from localforage and "rehydrates" the store with it so it's like we never left the page in question.
I donwloaded the client for Mac and can't find a way to export the notes.
Or the favicon that looks like it was lifted straight from on old version of their website.
I think Rust is the second best thing to come out of Mozilla and seemingly pretty far from what could be considered a core product (at least at conception time)
hehe. clever.
Another advantage is that pedestrians can just walk wherever they want and cars will safely avoid them. Much more freedom for everyone.
> Perhaps at some point the ground will stop shifting.

Doubtful. Machines will build the ground instead, and what they build on top of it will be incomprehensible to us; at least we'll get to observe in awe.
The angst and passive aggression in that post is off the charts - near-manic levels. Based on this alone I'd say the author is "not a good fit" for my reading preferences, can't imagine what working with them would be like.
The best advice I've received(which is a combination of journal science and self-experiment) is to moderate it when pairing with carbs - so perhaps lay off the butter cookies or cheeseburgers and fries, but don't be too worried about having a frankfurter with some condiments or a fried egg by itself. The saturated fat acts as an accelerator to the carbs, making it hit your system harder. When consumed apart, they don't have the same interaction.

(of course, once you start looking at how restaurants use saturated fat, it's easy to see that this advice is violated constantly.)
Here's a nice video that explains the concept quite well I think:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4oqfodY2Lz0 (Title: Why you shouldn't drive slowly in the left lane)
This SaaS product probably broke the record for the longest time in Beta
Before Obamacare the US government was spending double (per capita) what the UK gov was.

The US could spend less than it was spending and still have free care for all, and still have private insurance for those who want it.
Going short has been possible for many years.
https://put.io/ ?
Any self-respecting BTC bear isn't going to short on an unregulated platform run by people heavily invested in BTC being a success and expect to see their margin again or get paid out on their contract if they're right. I mean, it's not as if exchanges have a good track record of not losing/stealing customers' money when BTC is doing well.
"...showing up on-site to regularly inspect"

There has been quite a lot of material written about the behaviour instigated by the knowledge of being observed.

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

It seems to me to be a bit more complicated matter than just slackers suddenly jumping into attention.

"Most people can't work remotely, even if they say they want to."

Actual data would be nice to back that up. Cognitive bias is a constant hindrance when trying to figure out things like these based just on anecdotes and personal experience.
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If the nipple is unrecognisable then why ban it? If you strive to ban it you should also strive to ban all close ups of unrecognisable patches of skin that come from butt or genitals while letting through similar patches that came from somewhere else.
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It's not about the GPL. Historically, RMS has opposed any effort to make intermediate outputs of GCC available (e.g. the AST, type information, or even having a stable plugin API). On the basis that it would then be used to build closed-source products that use GCC as a service, rather than those products contributing to GCC. It might have been prompted by earlier efforts by Apple to make an Objective-C compiler built on GCC that isn't GPL-licensed, which obviously ran foul of the GPL. Ironically, that's why Apple invested in clang and why today we have the rich clang/llvm ecosystem.
That might actually be the computer making the sound:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8862689
> they don't seem to be terribly useful for most real world workloads

It seems to me like there are mainly two kinds of cost-limited database workloads - complicated operations on datasets that fit in RAM, or simple operations on datasets that need to be distributed. For the former you're better off writing custom software, and for the latter you're I/O rather than CPU limited... Maybe SSDs or low-power-high-memory ARM servers could change that equation
I've heard the limiting factor to racing these is that the batteries overheat, so unless they upped the cooling system to those batteries, I don't know how they plan to not go into limp mode.
I don't see how this compares to Yahoo, as Mozilla hasn't been a very strong brand to start with (as opposed to Firefox). I think the idea is to try to better establish it as a geeky brand next to the more consumer-oriented Firefox.

Also, in case you're referring to the Yahoo -> Altaba rebrand rather than a former Yahoo logo change: Mozilla is keeping its name. This is just about the logo.
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This is blazing fast, congrats!
However, I am concerned by the use of IN domain.
Indian govtt frequently asks ISPs to block sites to avoid piracy.
How do you plan to avoid getting blocked?
"Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants."

Given what the author says in the article regarding processed foods (and I'd disclose that I agree with his summation) I have to wonder about the whole fad for Soylent. It seems to me a technofix beloved by food haters, but some part of me suspects that, in the fullness of time, we'll find out that it is an incredibly bad idea.
Yes, I used GTK2 which is cross platform (GTK3 isn't). Would work fine on Win32 (the only windows worth supporting), OSX and multiple linuxes. Won't work on android or iOS, but IME that usually sacrifices the dektop app anyway. This case would have been fine though if it were possible, the app was responsive enough to work on a nokia 6110.

The biggest takeaway though is how simple it was to build. If all platforms where that simple then having seperate UI code for each platform really wouldn't be that big a deal.

At the moment I'm somewhat hopefully the libui project (https://github.com/andlabs/libui) will be successful though. It's learned the lessons from previous attempts.
Ask HN: Is Bitcoin alt. witho POW and open to every gov's unilateral action posible?
I have difficult or impossible technical requirements and I would like a genius and practical mathematician and programmer to suggest an approach. You must understand my requirements and then come up with the closest workable alternative.

I have the following problems with bitcoin:

1) The proof of work paradigm wastes resources. The proof of work is literally proof, that you have burned resources in some direct way.

2) It is lawless, not subject to seizure by any authority through any direct, programmed interface.

I would like to address these issues. Requirements:

1. I would like proposed version not to rely on proof of work, to stop wastage.

2, I would like every country to be allowed to change any account to which its users give their citizenship. I would like users to be able to specify their citizenships when starting.

e.g. U.S. citizen specifies he or she is subject to U.S. seizure and oversight; dual citizen of the U.S> and Canada would be able to specify these two countries, so that either the United States or Canada would be able to directly modify their account.

3. (optional) I believe it would be better for account balances not to be public; it should be visible to the countries of citizenship.

4. The owner of one account should be allowed at their option to add identity information to the account which is visible only to their countries.

5. I believe that some countries are incompetent: after they fuck up and accidentally leak their private key, it must be possible to roll back all actions taken from the time of their fuckup.

Please propose an outline for a scheme that meets some of these mathematical requirements. How can it be run?

I'd like to hear ingenuous mathematical proposals that meet the above requirements. If you have no solution or are not ingenious enough, please do not respond with low-quality comments. Thank you.
Good point. Rust is a good product and wouldn't have happened without them trying different things.