skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, it certainly depends on the nature of the work. If you work pretty much entirely independently (and remote work often can be like this, especially freelance), then working hours become less important - if your arrangement is that the software will be deployed by 9am Friday and all the features implemented and testable by that point, and that's your sole responsibility, no one is going to be bothered if you worked 4pm to midnight every day to do it.

I once worked with a very senior creative who was exceptional at his job. We all worked in an office together - this was a few years before the current remote phenomenon had quite the momentum behind it that it now has. He came in at midday, on a good day, and normally stayed late into the evening (I think he enjoyed having a little red wine whilst he was working, which probably slightly stretched the boundaries of acceptability in that office). His work was exceptional - on-brief but always extremely innovative. But, you know, when you actually wanted to schedule a meeting with him to discuss a project, it was always bloody hard work - he collaborated very well with the other members of his team who enjoyed staying late in the evening, but he was a constant thorn in the side of the project managers who often wanted to talk to him in the morning when he was never there.

So, yes - it depends.
Shoutout to Michael. His tenacity and discipline amazes me. He posts some great stuff on his Twitter: https://twitter.com/FogleBird
Some people like the social aspect of their work. I work best when I am alone at home as well but sometimes feel very socially isolated.
Not to mention the exhorbitant wait times to get permanent residency for Indians(and Chinese). As things stand, with an approved petition for 2011 or later it will be well over a decade before they can get a green card.
Significantly more actionable of a braindump than many prior answers I've seen, thank you for the motivation and direction to push harder on this :)
Thanks for the comment, just started using his js cards.
Anders Hejlsberg - Delphi/C#/TypeScript

Jeff Atwood - Coding Horror

Joel Spolsky - StackOverflow
<<This is a constitutional crisis.

I have faith our process will "manage" this.

But I find myself VERY upset reading your comment as well as many other reactions to exe. order

How much more can I take? I see signs "whatever it takes to remove trump" that has so much negativity behind it. "Trump" is now a word like being "gay" was growing up.

This is quite unhealthy for me.

I compare it to second hand smoke before the surgeon generals report.
Apple gets rid of tool that let you check whether iPhones were stolen
I live in a bikeable medium-sized city (Salt Lake), so it's a ten-minute bike ride or 20-minute bus ride for me. I really like the atmosphere of being downtown, especially all the food options.
another minor nitpick-- Arthur Anderson had just recently spun off its consulting division as Accenture before the Enron scandal hit, not in reaction to it. It was a move that had been planned for some time. And I'm sure they thanked their lucky stars they completed the spin-off before Enron; Accenture was safely insulated from the fallout that absolutely killed Arthur Anderson.
Scott Hanselman(dotnet and random h/w hacks) -http://www.hanselman.com/

Rob Connery(dotnet,elixir,postgres) - http://rob.conery.io/
If "cheap labor" from H1-Bs can do your job, you need to get better at your job.
Prominent in the eye of the electorate. Your typical American has no idea Indonesia is majority-Muslim. "Unstable" does match that since they show up in the news a lot. But countries not on the list such as Saudi Arabia have several confirmed islamic terrorists and yet aren't on the list.
memory assigned by UC++ then handed to .NET process can not be freed by .NET

Pretty sure that can be solved by implementing IDisposable and having Dispose call back into C++ to free resources. Probably if you add a managed C++ layer in between this is sort of built-in.

Oh and like skc says: the validation you're after does work as well, though I admit it takes some time to figure out exactly how to do it.
Better living through online security and encryption
How would a gap buffer handle distributed editing operations like search-and-replace, or multi-cursor typing? The data structure seems optimized for editing in one place at a time.
Even better is that you can bookmark a whole tree of tabs. And reopen later.
How user-generated content boosts the voice of protesters
These are beautiful pictures. Thanks for posting.

What I find interesting of them, is how little has changed. This could practically be taken now, perhaps replacing those kids with some programmers...

One thing people may not realize, one of the most beutiful areas of SF, the waterfront by the ferry building, used to have a huge multi-level highway.

Now it's one of the best looking areas of the City.
Yes, you missed that dozens of these stories have been spending significant time on HN's front page, including the story you mentioned: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13514802, which has 500 points and 300 comments.

People tend to form conclusions about HN more by the strength of their passion on a topic than by the actual data. In other words, there's usually sample bias at work. There's a lot more politics on HN right now than there usually is, which is appropriate since it reflects what's going on right now. But obviously we're not going to let the politics dominate, because that would kill the site.

I wrote more about this here if anyone's interested: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13516969.
Fifty Shades of Gray Code
I was under the impression that Snap and Flatpak were similar in that they made it possible to run containerized, sandboxed apps without needing root privileges. Am I wrong?
If you're going to downvote, have the courage to say that you want American wage rates depressed and for Americans to be displaced from jobs. Generally, people who care for others don't want them to lose their jobs or have depressed wages from immigrants.
Steve Yegge http://steve-yegge.blogspot.com/

Wil Shipley https://blog.wilshipley.com/

Yossi Kreinin http://yosefk.com/

All three brilliant, with good sense of humor and having good "vision thing"
Your post reads as if you chose digital streaming as an alternative to theaters. As such, streaming is ridiculously cheap - especially if you have multiple people watching.
I think of my time as a finite resource that requires allocation. I have big buckets into which I divide these roughly like the following.

Professional Work

> Short-term revenue (freelance/consulting) hourly/day rate

> Long-term deferred at-risk revenue (my own product-like projects and equity based compensation arrangements)

> Charity (this could include favors to friends, work donated or deeply discounted to a non profit org that you support and open source contributions) in this category you are working for intangibles like the common good, reputation and the satisfaction of having contributed to something bigger than your own direct interests.

Personal Life

> Interpersonal relationships (family, friends, neighbors etc.)

> Faith community or causes that you support (direct participation - may have little or nothing to do with your professional skills)

> Personal development - exercise, learning etc.

> Leisure/Entertainment

When friends approach you with their great idea - you can explain you only have so much time and it is not prudent to put too much of it in the deferred at-risk revenue bucket. If they are willing to move it to the short-term revenue bucket you can consider them as a client but your at-risk bucket is already full. If you feel like they are a good enough friend that you might just do it as a favor then do it as an investment in your friendship but limit your time to something comparable to helping your friend build a new deck on his house ...the kind of time investment that is appropriate among friends. However, if you do this as a favor be clear about what you are doing, where the limit is and that you are not committing to long-term support.

Hope this is helpful in some way.
I think you should be able to download a calculator app without admin approval when the application is self contained.
> My solution to that problem is to write software with tools which make refactoring cheap and it's kind of working for me.

Relevant link posted a couple of days ago, to optimize for deletion rather than refactoring: https://vimeo.com/108441214.
Author here. Though IBM hasn't officially confirmed this themselves as they have stopped calling out the number of employees in each of their countries, but there have been several pieces out there corroborating the size of its Indian workforce exceed their US ones (and these articles are more than 4 yrs old when IBM US workforce was still large and the recent layoffs hadn't happened): http://nypost.com/2013/10/05/ibm-now-employs-more-workers-in... http://www.computerworld.com/article/2493565/it-careers/in-a...

IBM, Accenture and CG make a large amount of their revenue from IT outsourcing [1] where their largest competitors are TCS, Infosys etc. They can't win the cost game without having a significant presence in India and getting some of their employees client side.

[1] http://revenuesandprofits.com/how-ibm-makes-money/
According to you, context matters for murder and surgery as well. Yet there is a clear and unambiguous definition of those terms.

I have no idea what you are trying to argue in your second line. Is that an attempt at a strange ad-hominem attack?
If you're assuming that I'd espouse lying, how are the "lies of omission" that you imply any different? The Right Thing To Say does not involve lying. It involves being careful; not oversharing.

"Tell the truth in as few words as possible." Exactly this. No need to ramble on about your detailed itinerary. For example: You're here for "education." Will you be the teacher or the learner? You'll be sharing your experience in programming just as you will listen to others sharing the same. It's a "conference" - we will confer on the topic of the event.
I haven been using Startpage for quite a while now ad my default search engine. Google results + privacy, great! On iOS you can set DDG as the default search engine, make a shortcut maybe for "!sp" and search on SP!
The site could be a little quicker and some results nowadays only seem to appear only on Google but it's still great.
The article reads more like an anti-union piece than anything else. Yet, Hollywood has been making TV shows in Vancouver for the last 20 years to avoid this union overhead, so it's not really news to anyone paying attention.

Lord of the Rings was famously filmed in New Zealand and brought accents to our movies. Now you'd be hard pressed to watch a recent film without a couple accents.

Post-production is pretty much all that's left in Los Angeles.

Edit: Sorry, in my quick commenting, I meant to imply that accents are more a symbol that Hollywood films its big blockbusters outside the US now. In re-thinking it, it was a bad form.
Just for perspective here, I'm currently an H1-B holder at a "unicorn" tech company.

I did not have multiple H1-B applications, I was educated in the US, and I got very very lucky in getting the lottery. I'm paid the same as my coworkers on my team, I do not have to work longer hours than them, and for all intents and purposes I am treated equally by my peers or management (not skipped on promotions, raises etc).

So to speak, I work in the category of companies that do not abuse the H1-B system, and uses it to find the right candidates (We've been looking for someone to add to our team for 1 year at this point, and we can't find anyone, american or not).

That said, even though I might benefit from this, I am still worried personally as the devil will be in the details, and these things have a tendency to have unintended consequences. Furthermore, I'm in the very early stages of postulating for a green card, and what the future of that process may entail also keeps me up at night. I really hope I will not have to pack up my things and be forced to leave at any moment.
Commandline Challenge
I've seen it happen several times (my employer may be unusually prone to hiring jr devs as qa automation).

I agree that if you can hold out for a dev job, do that and save a year or two getting to the same place. If you really can't get a dev job and need the income, get a QA Automation job and start migrating early by asking to fix small bugs yourself, or work on the automation tooling.

At a smaller company, working on the build system and QA automation tooling might be more interesting and get more attention than what you would do as a jr software dev.
Creating an object behind the airtight hatchway isn’t a security vulnerability
Apart from snaps run on a plethora of distributions. Arch, Fedora, Debian, Ubuntu... even OpenWRT. I'm not sure how you can call that vendor lock-in
Who cares about Hollywood? In the last few years I've seen a handful of movies in the theaters: Frozen (I have a 4-year old), that documentary about Anthony Wiener (not Hollywood), and Fantastic Beasts. Almost all my consumption has been Netflix, Amazon, and HBO original content. These companies are hitting it out of the park when it comes to good storytelling.

(Which, incidentally, is a good illustration of the good side of copyright. Not being able to just be a cheap distribution outlet for existing Hollywood content forced Netflix and Amazon to start making their own content. And the movie/TV industry is far better for that.)
> Center of the Tech World

A bit of a stretch considering there's the rest of the Bay Area
> CLI- as opposed to what ? What other option is there that is easier and safer to implement ?

A library, with an exposed pubic API that a compiler will, y'know, refuse to compile against when the expected arguments to a call you depend on are completely changed?

Depending on blind CLI calls that silently fail is about the least safe option possible.
Asher from strong.ai
It's $225 a month for a reserved desk which is essentially a less closed-off cubicle with a lockable file cabinet. This was comparable to other coworking locations in my city (Salt Lake).
According to Wikipedia, no credible evidence for the "self-hating, closeted gay" narrative has been found by the FBI.

The killer was upset about the US presence in Iraq/Syria and had been preparing the attack for some time, possibly helped by his wife (arrested and charged with helping him). Both were Muslims.

Sources:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2016_Orlando_nightclub_shootin...

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/16/us/politics/noor-salman-a...
NET Data Security: Hope Is Not a Strategy
> Mostly the former, plenty of evidence exists in the public domain.

Perhaps, but when you make such statements, the burden of proof is on you.

> My point is that a government can have a public position, even actively fight for it

I'm sure that there probably are ISIS apologists among Saudis - I'd argue that they are few in number - but it's nonetheless important to make the distinction between the government and regular citizens. Furthermore, you seem to be ignoring the fact that such activity is outright illegal, so it's not as if the government is OK with Saudi ISIS supporters.
I was HNIJ@MIT-MC (and later, rms.g.hnij@mit-oz). I used to be able to google for those addresses and pull up my now-embarrassing questions I posted on various mailing lists as a teenager.
AWS S3 vs. Azure vs. Google storage market share
Regardless of whether or not Jethro Tull is a perfect example, the larger point about rule of law is absolutely correct. Any catchphrase or byword can be co-opted, none more so than 'freedom.' Rule of law is a much better way to think about this, so thank you.

It's also generically true that having a good legal system is a prerequisite for a stable economy and good growth, not just innovation. I recall an article in, I think, the Economist that contrated mango farming in Haiti from the Dominican Republic -- same climate, same island, huge difference in productivity. Because in DR, farmers believed they would benefit from their hard work. In Haiti, unclear land title and corrupt courts meant a productive mango orchard could be confiscated by those in power, so the farmers had no incentive to invest in their own farms' productivity. Subsistence farming becomes the norm, and everyone loses.

Not sure why both examples that spring to mind are agricultural, but there you go.
Yes, we agree with you that users should know that p2p is happening and that they can opt out. We work with our customers to notify users and to give them the appropriate opt-in or opt-our mechanisms.
I get your point that blockbuster had rent, tax, utilities, and employees' salaries to pay. but its worth pointing out that blockbuster also went bankrupt. not sure if that supports your point or detracts from it.
The most amazing thing from that time for me was the first time I heard Defender, let alone saw it. The sound of those Williams games is as memorable as the visuals and gameplay.
A mistake on that article... the 32K RAM expansion is a separate card, not part of the floppy controller. They were almost always sold together, however.
Love your list, here are a few other hardware people that put out great stuff:

- Charles Lohr http://cnlohr.net/ mixed bag of art and hardware

- Jeroen Domburg (SpriteTM) of http://spritesmods.com now at Espressif, an adept magician.
I really hoped that coworking spaces could help with the isolation I feel from working remotely. But they really haven't helped all that much. The challenge is that you're just going to a slightly more comfortable working space than a coffee shop to be around other people working with headphones in. You're not working with them, just around them.

It sort of makes the isolation feel worse for me.
It always cracks me up when I read H1B suggestions from people who weren't themselves H1Bs. They always focus on the intake, or on "gaming", or wage thresholds, or whatever the hell else their particular side of the aisle told them to worry about.

Yet this problem is in a dire need of a free market based solution. Let me explain.

H1B, for those who don't know, is the indentured servitude visa. While you can theoretically move between jobs, your next job has to match the one you had before nearly exactly, and you have to find it _before_ you leave your current job. Once you leave or lose the job you're currently on H1B for, you have to GTFO of the country in _two weeks_. I.e. if your employer finds out you're looking, and they fire you (which they can), you will have no recourse whatsoever. Same with them firing you if you ask for a raise or promo: GTFO.

You're in this limbo state until you get your green card, a lengthy process which for me took 7 years, and for someone from India or China would take even longer.

Companies abuse this power quite heavily by either not promoting/giving raises to H1Bs (because what are they gonna do, quit?) or hiring vastly more experienced workers into entry level jobs, or a combination of the two.

Here's what should be done to fix this:

1. Make the grace period between jobs at least 6 months. If people are abused, they should be free to leave their job without leaving the country, and find their next job over a reasonable period of time.

2. Make it possible for an H1B to move to another job more freely. Any job in the same industry should be acceptable. To make things fair to employers, require repayment of visa related fees if employee moves within the first year.

This alone would fix most of the problems you see on the ground today, including the problem of underemployment of fresh grads. Because movement of H1Bs will be unrestricted, they'll command "market rate". That Eastern European double PhD you hired for your entry level position will be able to move to a job that pays commensurate with her expertise, freeing up the entry level position for a fresh grad. The system will just be much more healthy overall.

However, this will never happen. All those tech CEOs who currently go on ad nauseam about helping people, all of them, without exception, want cheap fresh meat that's not going anywhere. And for as long as H1B existed, they were getting exactly that.
It was restored to the website after some blog software bug
> I would love to catch movies as they are released but I have to wait until they're available on the streaming service.

To be fair, the wait time used to be at least months, and then you still had to drive somewhere and hope they had something worth watching among their paltry selection. Things have gotten much better (yay progress!), but it has mostly been on the technology side. I also don't balk at the price so much, mostly because I am willing to go with SD (I don't judge the quality of movies by their resolution), and figure in inflation. Also, I am picky about what I watch, but that wouldn't change if the price came down . . .

I like movies too, but I haven't been to a theater in years. I mostly have my own adventures now instead of living vicariously through others', but it's more than that. I feel that Hollywood has lost it's way, and it's partly due to pandering. One of my all time favorite articles is about the decline of movie quality:

http://www.gq.com/story/the-day-the-movies-died-mark-harris

That was written in 2011. Now the article here talks about inefficiency, but I feel that if you aren't making good product, it doesn't matter how efficient you are.
It's not though. You don't "default" but your currency has to be well managed to a certain degree. The Dollar exists as it does because of its status as a reserve currency and because of how the Yuan is pinned relative to it.

You could break it. It's not immune to the hyperinflation that's hit other currencies.

Historically, the only other proposed option was the EU and much as been made about unsustainable financial policy there (many allege these issues are overblown to help discredit the notion of a strong Euro, but that's neither here nor there). But now we're starting to talk about creating to-order currencies with arbitrary properties, guaranteed supply limits and curiously popular ownership policies.

While governments will never give up the power to mint their own currency, it's not unimaginable that in 10 years some some countries will seriously consider participating in a digital reserve.
Since we are talking books - You could give The Mass Psychology of Fascism by Wilhelm Reich a read: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mass_Psychology_of_Fascism

It was banned and burnt by the Nazi's in the 1930's but significantly it was one of several books of the authors which was burnt by the US Govt. in 1956!
Can someone explain this part: "Tor .onion access
seamless, native in-browser magic". Does this mean I can access a .onion site with a VPN? Because that would be very weird.
We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13519723 and marked it off-topic.
What was good about the arcades back at that time was the real world social aspect of it, somewhere to hang out that didn't involve substance abuse ; )
Didn't know that - really interesting! Always had the assumption they were an Enron crisis relict.
The VAST majority of startups never make $37,000 in a year. I wouldn't be so quick to look down my nose at someone who has indeed been successful at taking "nothing" and making it into "something" and getting someone else to give them money for it.
>But, that's not required behaviour by the standard, I could make nullptr internally be any mess of values I like.

But compiler writers usually aren't trying to go out of their way to trip you up.

Can you provide an example of a compiler where nullptr doesn't have a 0 bit pattern ?