skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Would it even be legal to delete existing data sets? Surely it belongs to the US public, as it was collected using taxpayer money?

(A more likely scenario would be that the programs collecting data the new administration doesn't like gets the budget axe, creating a hole in the data series for posterity to wonder at. ("Say, ma, how come we have climate records from 1870-2017 and then again from 2021 onwards?")
My (non-expert) understanding is that, in general, the source code is going to be much more verbose than the machine-code output of a compiler.

Considering that source code is written in a human-readable language and syntax, and machine code only needs to contain enough information for a CPU to decode, it would seem to follow that the source code should be a less efficient method for describing the program.
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Wow! Is it possible you could do some write-up on what was behind switching from Go to C for you? Also, whether you evaluated Rust in the meantime? Or just a short HN reply with a summary? From the readme I assume some performance arguments, but how did you predict that C will be faster, what were the pain points with Go in Heka?
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Working in an open office this is actually the biggest distractor: colleagues coming over to talk. Often about things of no relevance to what we are working on. Other times, they could have sent me an IM or email. Instead they get up, and walk over to me. Damn dinosaurs.

Then there are the people who are extremely talkative and as a bonus happen to have very shrill voices, a couple of these are seated about 30 meters from my desk, and they still distract and annoy me; wearing headphones and listening to something--anything else--is a must in an open office.

I'm sure there actually are surveys/research findings that point to a positive, but most don't, as far as employee happiness and productivity goes.
Exactly. Please don't do this.
One of my colleagues constantly taps my headphones during webmeetings when they want to hang out. Drives me bonkers.

Maybe it's half that we don't have societal etiquette around open offices.
Zim has support for embedded images, but not Web clipping.
I'm sure you'll right. The MPAA will get this taken down as soon as they are aware of it. Which is a shame because it's a very nice looking and functional website.

Aside: the MPAA can do this, of course, because they give lots of money to politicians. If Trump really wants to "drain the swamp" he could be more pro-freedom on file sharing and copyright. Many Trump supporters feel Holywood supports the Democrats, so it's not like he will lose much support over this. A Republican staffer suggested something similar a while ago ( https://politics.slashdot.org/story/12/11/16/2354259/gop-bri... ) but was shot down.
not if the link itself is unique for each user trivial to implement,
this is how email campaigns track what you clicked in a email ( email after all do not server js)
Bottomline is, always protect the downside. Startups do offer a shot at becoming rich, but they are more likely to fail than not, so in the event of the business going down you still want to show something for the years spent.

Basically: make sure to get a fair salary down the road, or at least make sure you learn something that you otherwise couldn't (and makes it easier to find a better paying job in the worst-worst case scenario).
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It seems they are very react heavy, but they also render server side for when js is disabled. I'd imagine the backend isn't an overly complex app so it made sense to just use JS everywhere
It should be obvious that a company should cater to individual needs, but they rarely do. E.g. open offices are extremely tiring for most introverts, there should be quiet zones/rooms where these people could go to focus/recharge. Ideally they should be offered private space.

There should be strict rules on what is accepted behavior and volumes (of talking) in an open office. Distracting behavior should be reported immediately and corrected.
Whatsapp Insecurity – Signal Protocol is not the issue
The Whatsapp Insecurity is much simpler (and nobody talks about it!?

On your iPhone Whatsapp asks you to save all your conversations in an iCloud Backup (default setting) which is cleary available to government institutions. Even if you decide not to save your conversations in the iCloud Backup, your insecure friends do it for you!

Why is nobody talking about that? And why is there a Signal Protocol when the issue is right before that?
At first sight, the :// symbol made me think it was an alternate form of the :( emoticon.
Fwiw https://gocd.io/ handles pipelines (or graphs of multiple piplines) with several git repos just fine. That's on-premise, but not hard to run on your own.

There's Snap CI, which is by ThoughtWorks (just as Go CD), and that's in the cloud. I don't know if they use the same code base, but it might be worth investigating if they can deal with multiple repos in a sensible way.
I'm unable to find any academic or journal or industry research papers about these supposed dangers of meditation. I'd like to read them if they are out there.

I have found some blogs on the subject and a couple vague articles on news websites, but that doesn't really mean anything if I can't see real studies on it.
The data that should sway people like Zuckerberg is the data that shows that open offices have beneficial effects that often outweigh the drawbacks for companies smaller than 8-12 people, or for teams of 4-8. Above that threshold, the data shows that the drawbacks exceed the benefits.
I get bad reactions from mindfulness meditation. I am not the only one: Do a quick google search about it. Yes, it is uncommon comparatively, but this doesn't mean it doesn't happen. I'm not sure why this is surprising to you: After all, people often use meditation for spiritual experiences, to go into altered states of conciousness, and other such things (much like psychedelics). And if they can help anxiety or depression - much like medications can - they can certainly harm things as well.

Medical professionals probably do say good things about it. But lets look at this closer: They probably say good things about medications too - because most people react well to it. This doesn't mean that it doesn't cause problems in a few people, nor that you will hear about it.

For me, it makes it so I'm angry. I'm unhappy with everyday life. I'm frustrated all the time and I dread the sessions. I've found some meditation styles that don't pick up the mindfulness and kept them up for a few months: but basically, I was sitting there being bored once a day and didn't have anything to show at the end for the work I had done. So I quit. I would certainly never do a retreat because I think I could be that person.

LSD (when I was younger) and other hallucinogens (now that I can vacation in Amsterdam) have, however, helped a great deal. More than meditation. You see, it seems to me that for meditation to work, you have to know how to produce some of these feelings - or at least recognize them in real time. You have to understand how to do what the stuff says. You have to be able to not beat yourself up for failing (which is difficult if you have perfectionist tendencies or some fear of failure). The other is more ... forced positive feelings, plus some altered thinking. Suddenly I remember what this is all like, and can take it to my daily life.
> The Stanford Review, Stanford’s Independent Newspaper

This article is not really news, it's a speculative opinion piece and should be labeled as such. Unfortunately, we see this kind of "soft news" article every day in leading newspapers such as the NYT, so smaller publications like Stanford Review think it must be considered journalism and do the same thing.
Rebranding, when done correctly, can be a great way to regroup and focus on what's important about your business. You really need to stop looking at it as just a new design, and look at what philosophy it exudes. This constant visual reminder of what the company's mission is resonates downward much better than a mission statement, and how clients/customers interact with you.

This is of course if your rebrand was a success, and that's a very very difficult task dependent on all sorts of internal factors, that even the largest companies get wrong (see Gap, Uber, Pepsi). Don't listen to me though:

https://design.google.com/articles/evolving-the-google-ident...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pnv5iKB2hl4
Ulysses is interesting, but what justifies its high purchase cost (the Mac app costs over 60 CAD)?
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The biggest mistake of any open office is putting tech people in the same room as sales, or in my case: tech people in the same room as support (phones). Way to go management.
So was there ever an actual time when 802.16 was considered to be even in the same game as LTE? The people I know who were messing with it were specialized in underserved areas, where the cell size was a plus. Mobile was an afterthought.

Where LTE was the DNA of a handset protocol stack that has been pressed into service as a MAN, 802.16 was the other way 'round.

And no, I have no idea what Sprint was thinking.
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And yet the UK has the third lowest crash rate in the world compared with population and the second lowest crash compared per distance driven.[0]

Also, your facts are wrong. You are required to practice on your highway skills and you will almost certainly go on a highway (if location permits) during your test. I'm almost happy we don't train our newer drivers on the motorway, honestly, I'm not sure I would trust them not to mess up even with an instructor joining them. We do have debates about whether to let newer drivers go on the motorway [1], but people bring up the point that they're normally incredibly busy and a single mistake could kill 5+ cars travelling at 70mph.

Also, you say we can't call the outer lane the "fast" lane? It is fast when compared to the other lanes, but this doesn't mean we need to drive without care or attention! I think you don't understand that "fast" is a relative term and does not mean you can break the speed limit.

A couple of other points:

- You can't undertake normally, only in specific circumstances such as in queues or in separated traffic situations (like one-way traffic). You are NOT allowed to undertake on a motorway.

- "Many UK people even deliberately obstruct other road users" has never happened to me in my life but, I've heard others talk about doing it to others when they're not being considerate to others (for example when two lanes go to one, and a car thinks they can speed down the fast lane to overtake everyone and just bully their way into the left lane).

- "Pure bliss by comparison", really? Italy is notoriously bad at driving, Spain and other places also have similar problems with them. Generalising the entire continent to be perfect doesn't work.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_traffic-r...
[1] http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-38464776
The favicon is almost identical to MSDN’s. https://msdn.microsoft.com/favicon.ico

Which, now that I think of it, has an identical name to MDN anyway. Oh well.
same here, i cannot imagine what else i would use instead of rethinkdb + horizon.
>One of my colleagues constantly taps my headphones during webmeetings when they want to hang out.

Nothing that some clever electricity trap on the headphone exterior can't fix.
Come to Miami. There is zero lane discipline.
I think the basic problem here is a lot of technology is heavily hyped and in use but 'not in use'. People are learning about them, trying them, even trying or using them in small internal deployments but are not buying them or supporting them in any way.

Those who take them into production are startups who are themselves trying to succeed or large companies who have tons of engineering talent who can create the product if need be but since its open source and available they use the open source version but they don't value it. Think the recent article where Github, forget supporting Redis has not even reached out to the developer once to thank him.

The demands of the community are high touch, even one or two weeks without commits and people start getting restive and raise 'alarms' on github and here. If there is potential value that you are still figuring out how to capture and a lot of attention you could end up expending time dealing with the politics of a fork. On the other end purchase decisions of most companies brings a whole new sets of requirements from internal processes, approvals, policies to decision makers and most open source companies do not have the resources or experience initially to manage the expensive and high touch sales and marketing process that most companies buying technology require.

If you have funding the pressure is even higher. There is a missing piece of how to translate support and usage of open source software for commerical reasons into some sort of revenue even minimal without friction. I think there should be a spotlight on companies using open source and their support and contribution back, and not just acquiring projects or hiring their developers which is an 'influence play'.
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Not being nitpicky but it was announced months ago.
I believe there's already a system like this, that uses Turing-complete rules described in natural language to regulate the behavior of a network of independent agents (both human and computer).

They're called "banks", regulated with "laws" and "lawyers".

But seriously, some of these requirements appear to make an implementation exceptionally challenging - in particular, if value is allowed to leave the system by transforming into other currencies or tangible items then #5 essentially requires lawyers. #2 and #3 together also seem to imply that a state-level actor could create arbitrary balances in secret.

I would like a genius and practical mathematician and programmer to suggest an approach.

Wouldn't we all. And for free on HN, too!
It's not called the bible for nothing.

Anecdotally:

Going into college, my only coding experience was in HTML and a month of fiddling with BASIC ten years earlier.

I picked this (required reading) up a month ahead of my first CS class and read the first few chapters on my own. Even though I didn't have a computer to compile on, it gave me a huge advantage going in compared to others who had never programmed before. (Though not nearly as much as those who had taken classes in high school.)

Edited to add:

It will give you a good introduction to the language, but to an older standard. I haven't written C since college. My possibly wildly incorrect understanding is that code written to this standard will compile and run as intended on more modern compilers and systems, but the book won't introduce you to more modern features and conventions.
>You missed the point of the comment you are replying to. They were not saying open offices are better, they are saying people like Mark Z need data.

Then the comment I was replying to missed TFA, because it gives pointers to research on the issue.
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Am I missing something? They're not using it as the main icon in the header of their main website and rather only as a little one in their footer.[0] Is this not meant to be a big change from the status quo (which I thought was just fine and not stagnant)?

[0]: https://www.mozilla.org/
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Positioning is very much like IBM's Watson brand.
I'm genuinely surprised about this too. 5 minutes ago I would have been certain CD = "Continuous Delivery" with any group of developers, even more so HN. It makes me wonder what other assumptions I'm making or things I'm taking for granted.
The parent was asking whether the "Copy Link Address" (Chrome) or similar is other browsers is trackable though, not the more general copy to clipboard.

I don't think that one is.
I also factor in inflation to this estimation. "The company thinks I'm worth less this year than last year, I think I'm worth more, lets see what the market says"

Thus far the market has always agreed with me.
I happen to disagree with you despite perceiving the video itself much the same. I don't consider myself to be someone to whom peppy tribal drumbeat, bright neon colors, and fairly generic messages alluding to multiculturality and betterment of humankind appeal, but I can sympathize with their ambition of being known and perceived as an organization that champions causes with broader implications than just technical details.

The :// is a nice nod to nerddom and a tribute to its origins, but the rest of it tries to punch it out of its box of 'we write code and set standards and stuff' that increasingly hasn't been the whole story.

They need something that appeals to a broad, diverse group of people who may be tech-savvy but not have a background in tech, and whose lifestyles and futures are at stake in the power struggle for the open web. I think this is a rather good effort that works and is notably much, much better than any of the other options that were under consideration in their open process.
Out of curiosity, are you running an Nvidia card? (This may apply to radeons as well, but I don't have any experience)... For the NVidia drivers at least, there is an option to select which graphics card to use on a per-application basis. Normally the drivers default to auto-selecting what it thinks is best, but you can override that in cases like this.
I hope that we will soon see open-source versions of these functionalities, because I don't like the idea of using an external service for reasons including privacy, reliability and latency.
> Most people drive in the middle lane regardless of whether they are overtaking or not.

This is not true. A small, highly annoying, minority drive in the middle lane regardless. Most people drive reasonably.

My least favourite thing is in these new 50mph limits on the motorway, where people will sit in the fast lane doing exactly 50, holding others up. They wouldn't do it on a regular section of motorway with a 70 limit, why do it in a 50?
No. Confounding variables are NOT fixed by using larger sample sizes.
International law and the rules of engagement requires you to positively identify enemy combatant as well as not engage enemy combatant that are incapacitated. There's nothing in the video indicating that they person getting picked up by the van or that the people picking him up has weapons.

(from the transcript [0])

05:30 There's one guy moving down there but he's uh, he's wounded.
...
06:01	He's getting up.
06:02	Maybe he has a weapon down in his hand?
06:04	No, I haven't seen one yet.
...
06:33	Come on, buddy.
06:38	All you gotta do is pick up a weapon.
...
06:54	This is Two-Six roger. I'll pop flares [drop flares]. We also have one individual moving. We're looking for weapons. If we see a weapon, we're gonna engage.
...
07:18	Bushmaster; Crazyhorse. We have individuals going to the scene, looks like possibly uh picking up bodies and weapons.
....
07:36	Picking up the wounded?
07:38	Yeah, we're trying to get permission to engage.
...
07:59	Roger. We have a black SUV-uh Bongo truck [van] picking up the bodies. Request permission to engage.

There's nothing unclear here or anything to be misunderstood. If they had seen weapons they would have engaged already instead of asking for permission. It's just that the crew of the helicopter really wants to shoot them and that they, the US military nor the US public don't really give a shit if they are civilian as long as they can get away with it, which they can.

[0] https://collateralmurder.wikileaks.org/en/transcript.html
Well, technically anyone with a pet mouse is doing the experiment "Does a dose of ~0ppm of cyanide/arsenic/etc. kill mice?" :)
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>there was some very chilling revelations in those emails.

The most chilling part was that having your pizza restaurant mentioned in the emails can lead to lunatics showing up with guns to threaten your staff.
> And you think you could use that free time to sort through thousands of pages of classified documents without your fellow soldiers or your superiors knowing?

Most of the military intelligence Soldiers I deployed with brought their own personal laptops.

You really underestimate how much free alone time is available to you when you are deployed. Remember that Manning was also kind of a black sheep at the time. Spending hours alone on a laptop would not have been seen as out of the ordinary at all.
Yes! This exactly! You can have at most a dozen people round a kitchen table. You can't put the whole company around the same table. The social dynamics simply don't scale that way.

I too have had great experiences doing productive new work in small open offices up to 6 people. I'm currently not enjoying my open office of >100 people. I'd be quite happy with a team-sized office with a door and decent internal sound damping.
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Yes and yes - Right click raises an event, and copy specifically raises an event.

If in doubt: If it happens over or in a browser window, it is probably trackable from JavaScript.

See: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/Events/copy
As always, for all these small languages (MicroPython comes to mind, but even "real-world" languages such as Lua) - unless they grow a debugger, they'll always be silly toy languages nobody can use for serious work.

I'd settle for a gdb backend, really. But printf-debugging is unacceptable.
Haha, I had exactly this...
+1 for the feature
Yup any db should do.
Text select and copy raises the respective events in supported browsers. See https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/Events/copy for the copy event.
Ask HN: I am going to setup an engineering team. What should I know/prepare for?
I used to be an accountant in practice (equivalent of a CPA in India). Became a web developer by accident 2 years ago. Currently building a web application for the accounting industry that automates a lot of reporting tasks. So far it has gone well and I feel like I should be adding more people to my team to handle the increasing workload.

My stack is Rails/Postgres on Heroku at the moment. And some C# for some small windows tools we have built.
I did a lot of googling on this subject and made a to-do list of things to prepare for this. - I found the Joel test which I will soon be passing.

I was hoping you guys could help me with some advice based on your personal experiences regarding: 1. What I should expect/prepare for 2. What questions should I be asking, that I am probably not. 3. Anything else that you think I should do.

I think what I am asking boils down to: "What are some things you wish you knew before you set up your engineering org?"

Thanks in advance.