skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There's no mention of the bare fact that:

* Cubicles are 'furniture' and therefore receive advantageous tax treatment (accelerated depreciation, increasing profits),

* Walls, not so much.
"When realtors' business model gets disrupted, sellers will not end up getting the same prices for their houses as they do currently, or get to keep the 6% that now goes to agents"

It's not clear to me that that is true. All economics tells us is that in the current system, sales clear, which means that buyers are fine buying at the current prices and sellers are fine selling at the current prices less commission.

If the commission were to suddenly disappear, it is not clear if the buyer, the seller, or some mix would retain that money. You're suggesting that the buyer would retain all the money without evidence, whereas basic logic would suggest that the seller has more economic power (because housing prices generally appreciate faster than inflation), particularly in hot real estate markets.
If you want to accuse me of "misrepresenting" things, you should have your facts right. The study I was quoting that finding from was conducted by Texas A&M at the behest of the Chicago Tribune. The study you're quoting from was conducted by Northwestern University for the Chicago Department of Transportation.
My constraint isn't just money, it's also time. Here are my ideas: https://github.com/jjasonbell/Ideas/blob/master/Ideas.pdf

I think if you forced me to choose now, I'd probably do the third one: "Sabbaticals for non-Academics". I haven't gone through this list for a while though.

Since I am the audience for the list, it's probably weird to read, but I think you can see the gist for any of them. Hopefully there is nothing too personal/embarrassing.
The most obvious and effective sounding way to divide offices is per-team. That way groups of people working on the same thing can talk easily.

My current company has every dev and most managers in the same room. 7 scrum teams, over 60 people in one room. It's madness and I can't fucking stand the noise.

You get written up for talking "excessively" during work hours because 3/4 the company can hear you when you try to collaborate. Peer programming is impossible.

I have no idea why idiotic management consultants are promoting whats basically a sweatshop environment.

The stupidest part of this is that my company just cut the walls down to a few feet. You can clearly see that the dividers between each team used to be full height walls. What a tragedy
Imagine how many more "high-performance"[0] employees you'd have if it were quiet.

[0] Really? That's what they're called now?

Also:

"This article was published inadvertently."
http://choosejarvis.com -- social media scheduling tool with content recommendations powered by buzzsumo. 1k MRR steady for the past 6 months or so. Written in PHP. Very stable. would sell in a heartbeat for 50k and would consider lower offers.
Ah, well actually I like that as well, but that's probably just because I'm a paternalistic liberal... ;)
https://iconverticons.com/
https://iconverticons.com/online/

~3000 DAU

Things are going well, mostly don't have time to maintain the offline OS specific apps right now.

Willing to share revenue numbers if seriously interested.
I miss that, i worked evenings when the recession had just hit. plenty of room to think while you stack shelves on autopilot.
The fact you want to dilute the impact of religious sectarianism shows your inherent dishonesty on these matters.

Your previous goalpost was "asking people if they're a Catholic or not before transacting business."

Moving the goalposts isn't "inherent dishonesty"?

We do things like insurance mandates as a compromise between having a sprawling public bureaucracy versus a series of small and possibly more efficient private bureaucracies (as this point I'm not convinced of this benefit myself).

And similarly, we could ban gay sex because it spreads AIDS. Don't like it? Move.

Notice how your argument can be applied to defend any law apart from laws against emigration?

Me misspeaking: Personally I quite enjoy sectarianism - I like the transactional society, where even a Nazi can peacefully purchase a Pepe-as-Hitler cake without getting sucker punched by a cowardly masked thug.

...Because that's where sectarianism leads...And those Nazis do deserve a swift kick...

Entertaining how you simultaneously criticize me for (accidentally - I meant to say "enjoy the absence of sectarianism") saying I support sectarianism, then engage in it a couple of sentences later.
I also have a Surface Pro and never had any trouble with the pen. I "upgraded" to a Cintiq Pro, and have to say that it's a downgrade in many ways. The screen resolution is worse, the parallax is worse. The pen is better, but honestly neither of them feel that great.
Airbnb Rolls Out Its New Millennial-Friendly Brand in China
As the former head of a customer support department, I can tell you that the most important aspect of communication with a customer is empathy. Even more than expertise, if you can demonstrate that you care about their problem and will get to the bottom of it, the encounter will most likely result in customer retention.
New Ways to Go Live: Now from Your Computer
Ask HN: Is Product Hunt just a launchpad for new YC startups?
From Student Side Project to Startup
I always thought Dolby's plan to steal from people was to Blind them with Science
I appreciate the question. I totally agree that bitbucket is the main competition in the free git hosting space.

My best answer to that is that Repo0 is only limited by the amount of storage you have on your Google drive account. I have 1TB of space on Google Drive which is a lot more than you can store on bitbucket. There is also no limit on number of users, teams or sharing.

A different answer is that with Repo0 your data is not walled off on a server. You can see the data, download it and see when the app makes changes to it.
This has potential... but without a lower price point and the ability to run some free testing against it I think user growth will be severely constrained.
Anyone have a better guess than "Foxconn" as to who this guy was impersonating?
The key point is that it's about data friction. If you already have uploaded all of your photos to google cloud, then any new tool or capability google comes up with using a CNN, will be immediately applicable without you having to do anything.
Who can I email about a possible acquisition?
> if your game is already running at 60fps, there's no point in replacing list.sort()[0]

If the game runs on a device with a battery then reducing that load is a reason. You already implied that though.

I suspect hard to quantify improvements in quality is not what you are trying to rail against. If the software is going to be used widely or for long duration hard to quantify improvements can easily save millions in the long run.

There are over-engineering efforts where people try to shoehorn in bad design strategies, over-abstract an already well abstracted or refactor well working code to be more "testable" when it is already tested. All of those should be opposed, but how do you draw the line be over-engineering and hard to quantify quality increases?
That's quite a bold statement from an armchair UX designer. They obviously have reasoning and supporting data, maybe you're in the minority of users who've found that useful?
> Seriously?

Yes, seriously. Artists are great. I'm not an artist. Unity bores me; it sounds more fun to homebrew an engine and build on top of that.
Looks like standard electronics manufacturing; nothing state-of-the-art. It's still interesting that they chose to design and manufacture it all in-house.
more like .3
Heutagogy 0.1 – The Assistant for Your Lifelong Learning
I really could have used this for my last side project. Moving JSON blobs between Python and Redis is pretty error-prone, especially if those blobs contain nested structures.
>Would it be allowed in the US to drive a vehicle on public roads that is not able to start on it's own?

The stalling was infrequent, not constant. I'm sure a lot of things are technically illegal, but it would depend on the state.

>Because your explanation sounds awfully like "Very sorry, office – I'm kinda in a hurry because I want to get rid of this body in the back before it starts smelling".

What? I'm starting to regret even sharing this story. :)

If it makes you feel any better, it was a small town, so the mechanic and local cops were friends. Seeing as I would've literally been pulled over outside of the mechanic's garage, and that common sense was in my favor anyways, I'm sticking with the 98% probability of getting off.
This question is so fundamentally bullshit that a new, stronger form of the word fundamental is required to truly describe it. Of course the universe is a simulation. There are either more fundamental processes occurring which explain the behavior of our observations, or it is the identity simulation. Newtonian laws are simulated with quantum laws, atoms are simulated with quarks, time is simulated by statistical relationships, and chemical interactions within the rules of the other abstractions are sufficient to simulate our observations.

If you believe that this question is about whether or not there is some anthropomorphic supervisor of the simulation, then THAT is the hypothesis you should be putting forward, not that the universe is a simulation, which is meaningless.
My company's HQ is in New York, and I'm located in SF (along with two others). All the reporters did a team lunch via video chat. It wasn't as good as being there in person, but it was fun to have some facetime to joke around with people I normally only talk to on Slack.
> ...so when standing we will towering over every one...

Because everyone likes to be the CoA.

> The best part is our 5 person IT team will be right next to 25 people who work phones for customer service.

Time to polish that resume.
What I learned from being a web developer for 17 years
Fair enough, I incorrectly assumed you were citing the one released last week, not 3 years ago. Either way, increased collisions (or one type of collision) doesn't necessarily mean decreased safety.
The tread is 0.65mm thick.
For most customers, current bandwidth is fine usually(and even in the countries with highest monthly download, the average is 10GB/month), so this is less interesting.

But this network has a an order-of-magnitude larger theoretical cell capacity and since most costs are infrastructure costs, cost-per-GB for carriers should be 5x-9x lower. And there are other innovations around the corner , which together with this promise something like 25x-50x cell capacity improvement. And

So bandwidth is becoming abundant. The only question: will prices reflect that?
This Startup Is Like Snapchat for Enterprise
I wonder if the founder of Lexmark started the company with the big idea, "Hey, let's apply the razor/blade business model to printers!" If so, then "abandoning the approach" is impossible, and the approach will only be abandoned with company failure.

And you know, I have to say it: it's unethical, immoral, but it's not illegal to have a nefarious business plan, and I'm glad. To me, the larger issue is that the justice system has itself become a weapon to punish competitors, particularly through the use of IP claims. Punishment occurs long before conviction, when the cost of defending yourself can mean a significant and ongoing expense. A justice system that ignores reality, including economic reality, cannot be just.
I have stopped ordering a physical product from the U.S. more than once when presented with UPS as the shipping handler.
The distinction here is that livestreaming from desktop is now available for users, when livestreaming via desktop was previously only available for Pages.

I strongly recommend using OBS (https://obsproject.com) if you intend on streaming, especially if you are not on a Windows computer.
Everyone Knows Tech Workers Are Mostly White Men–Except Tech Workers
you can always get in on the action by building a more efficient and simpler model

Except the big 5 have hoovered up a good portion of the ML talent from the universities and are themselves leading the pack in iterative improvement on ML capabilities.

If you are trying to bootstrap a ML company with the trickle of raw data that the big 5 puts out, you're not going to ever get to their size.

This is not about being able to create a 300k/yr company off the back of some table scraps. It's about major companies having too much influence over one market.
Humans do use sunlight to manufacture vitamin D and adjust sleep cycles so this is hardly baseless.
Gig workers worry they won't be able to afford health insurance under new plan
I complain for both, so I believe you're double counting.
I haven't watched that much Gary Vee but from what I've seen he is at times informative & entertaining but mostly cringe worthy. He is a little too high on his own supply for me.
> It broke down to me figuring out where most of the new medicines are developed and it was something like 98%+ of medicines are developed by universities with public funds.

Do you have a reference for this?
Ugh. While i have not tried MS own Surface line, i have a 8" Windows tablet here, and it is basically a mess.

MS has basically taken their Phone patform and bolted it onto desktop Windows. Thus you either have painfully limited phone apps (that you need a MS account just to download even when free) or you have the Win32 UI stuff that is a mess on touch screens (small widgets, easy to accidentally drag-n-drop, ever-present close button near the screen edge, etc etc etc).

The Surface line may work a bit better because they have a pen to use, but at that point you are basically emulating a mouse via different means to get around the worst of the Win32 UI issues.
Here's a (totally off-topic) question: is it "a panini" or "a panino"? It's one sandwich, but two pieces of bread.
http://draftutility.com/ - Daily Fantasy sports research utility that uses visual guides to accurately estimate performances. It also helps simulate lineups that optimize salary cap usage and projected score.
Which 'decent engines' will draw this every time?
Terror attacks in London
Same reason companies only hire 10X employees. It is spelled n.a.r.r.o.w.m.i.n.d.e.d.n.e.s.s.
Research Debt
You might like the talk Thirteen ways of looking at a Turtle (https://youtu.be/AG3KuqDbmhM). Scott Wlaschin (https://fsharpforfunandprofit.com) solves the same problem 13 different ways and demonstrates a number of techniques.
Remember when browsers were supposed to untether you from the OS? How is operating system support at all involved for a web-based application?
The space, though, is more narrow than that. Victim 2, for example, is specifically a social media company. Can't be that many social media companies, headquartered in the US, running their own metal, with more than one multi-million dollar invoice for it in a 2 year period.

How many could that be? I can only think of 3 or 4 contenders.
I was fortunate to participate in a bug fix driven by MS (for the Tedious sql adapter for node), and it was impressive. The issue was noticed by someone who worked on Azure (not Azure SQL), who upstreamed the report to appropriate people in the SQL teams who then dug in and found that there was something that wasn't being set right in the tedious adapter.

It wasn't an MS product, or supported, and they still took the time to help. I'd be surprised if one didn't find similar responsiveness from at least some of the o365 developers. More often than not, something is "unsupported" not because it doesn't or shouldn't work, but because it doesn't have the dedicated testing resources and in case there is an edge case bug that would be excessively costly to fix (ex: dealing with stupid flexbox issues with the current version of Safari on mac).

In any case, it doesn't matter, the response was a bad, canned response that doesn't take into account the troubleshooting the person reporting it already did.
This article's premise is ludicrous. Microsoft bought LinkedIn because the company is a valuable business asset that will complement Microsoft's CRM software. More explanation of the value prop here: https://stratechery.com/2016/microsoft-and-apple-double-down...
These two lists made a lot more sense to me than the "most popular technologies" category. Which I think should be worded "Most common languages for questions" or something along those lines.

But like others have said, I need to double check that I'm not living in a bubble while the rest of the technical world openly and not-ironically loves javascript.
You don't.

It is sufficient to handle every one you can imagine, and every one a reasonable amount of testing can encounter.
Can someone explain Paxos to layman. What is it even supposed to do?
All hail the "new" Microsoft, still using the old anticompetitive tricks from the DOS era.
Functional Web Dev with Elixir, OTP, and Phoenix: Rethink the Modern Web App
Totally. I was advising a friend about whether to apply to YC, and there was a concern about whether his app had enough downloads to get accepted. Stepping back, that seems like a really strange thing to be worrying about. It's refreshing to see Tetra in the batch.

I wonder, does YC still fund founders with no ideas? Or take them up on the secondary idea, which may imply abandoning any progress on the primary idea?
Why I quit Google and built an app that teaches personal finance to kids
Having consumed a lot of GV's content, I disagree with your comment. Whilst I do not agree with working unhealthy hours and working on minimum sleep, GV doesn't explicitly advise people to do that. He preaches that if you're unhappy doing what you're currently doing, you have to work hard to change that, rather than sitting on "ideas" and never doing anything about them and living with "what if".

Gary himself may work long hours on minimum sleep but he has always said he is wired differently to many people and that sort of lifestyle isn't sustainable for most.

However, I do agree that the list is interesting, there's some good content I haven't come across before which is always nice to find; thanks OP!
It can always be passed on. The 'tech team' may say 'wontfix' because it's unsupported, but it's very clearly a bug that could bite them on 'supported' systems in the future as user-agent sniffing is notoriously unreliable.
UA "detection" is an unworkable mess (i.e. a bad idea) when it's trying to differentiate between different consumer web browsers. But UA detection works just fine when it's only trying to differentiate between browsers as a whole, and things that are not browsers—like web spiders, or curl(1), or your native client app.

I have a feeling that this is the latter case. The detection code was likely written to give a higher QOS priority to direct browser access, and a lower QOS priority to the native OneDrive sync service built into Windows (because it happens in the background.) But in doing so, they probably made the check ask the wrong question—"is this a browser" instead of "is this our client"—and thus wrote the check with a browser whitelist pattern (that was never tested outside of UA strings from browsers on Windows), rather than a blacklist pattern (their one sync-service UA.)
Some startup terms that make you wanna kill yourself
You can register with the Data & Marketing Association to opt out of most junk mail:

https://www.usa.gov/telemarketing#item-35222
Red Hat releases the last of the RHEL 6.x line
Still love coding (and still going to be doing it at 56, no choice), but coding at work lost appeal for me -- rat-racing in Agile teams, with every keystroke accounted for in JIra, and no place for a smallest independent idea to try.

No wonder there is less and less experienced people on those teams, and the tech landshaft adapts accordingly -- people just don't know anymore how to employ experienced developers. Big old companies are not built that way anymore (am employed by one, multi-national, tried several geos, all the same), and young companies... you know it all, young folks are just smarter.

Sorry to sound pessimistic (I am not really, for many reasons, one of them being, I cannnot afford to retire).

Side projects, yes. Becoming wilder and wilder with every year, rarely reaching the end. Just for staying sane as someone here mentioned.
Behold the "new" Microsoft, same as the old Microsoft.
It keeps growing

> 36 people found this helpful

Also:

> Solved my problem (12)
Gary Vaynerchuck is very good at marketing himself.
Article has been removed. The original source (https://hackernoon.com/58-of-high-performance-employees-say-...) appears to be a PR piece.
The A.I. Crunching Numbers Hidden in Health Records
I like the new version better. Now it sounds like a QZ staff writer who's disgruntled about their noisy open office.
So you get a preview of the mail electronically... but you still have to physically sort through it and throw away the junk mail?
It is the "new" Microsoft, in terms of PR. Kind of like AT&T's "Gigabit to the press release." Tons of positive press for the announcement, but nothing real behind it.
Even if your app is the only app accessing the database, the code in your app can be changed. When you change the validation criteria, do you reread every row from the database and revalidate it?

When validation criteria are changed on an SQL server, it revalidates all the rows - either immediately, or at the end of the transaction. With the DB doing the validation, the default is that all rows are valid.

Also, do you ever side-step your database abstraction layer to send SQL directly? If you ever insert/update/delete rows that way, perhaps for performance reasons, now you have an extra place in your app to make sure the relevant validations are kept up-to-date.

https://robots.thoughtbot.com/validation-database-constraint...

Relatedly, this article suggests that your app should only be validating user input - so there should be no app validation of fields not set by end users - whilst the database itself should validate what your app gives it.
You've never had an Asian friend? There are more haplotypical variations worldwide than just black hair vs. caucasian hair.
The spin machine is always on at NASA. It's not that the wheel is failing it's "nearing a wheel-wear milestone." Still it's impressive what they have achieved.
I just turned 54 and started learning to code at 53. Okay, learning to code again because I haven't done anything since 1985 and FORTRAN77.

It's interesting because my employer (a multinational telco HQ'd in Canada) is keen to give me real work coding as soon as I want it. So with that, and my real purpose (building my next application myself) I'm really engaged and having a lot of fun.
I'm not sure it's an entirely apt comparison to put inefficient assembly programmers up against efficient C programmers. It may be much more difficult to get a skilled assembly programmer than it is to get a skilled C programmer, and the expectations of the assembly programmer may indeed be higher on a day-to-day basis, but saying C is faster than assembly because "Coder X" can write faster code in C doesn't really work for me.
My career sounds similar to yours, just not quite as long, and as someone who's been introduced to an "open office" just this week (and we're not talking low-walled cubicles, but no-walled desks) I hate it, and it's definitely affecting my productivity. Maybe I'll get used to it, but the only improvement I can see is that other teams we work closely with are nearby... but this has nothing to do with an open office and everything to do with the arrangement of teams relative to each other. I've been hiding in the machine room. I may find myself doing that a lot more.