skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I think what people miss most often is that this is NOT a "one solution fits all" kind of thing.

Yes. There's a lot of hate for open offices, and I'm among the haters. But someone I have great respect for technically recently asked why, since they loved open office plans and that's what they currently used and it seemed perfect. Who's right? Both.

Also, there's a wide range within any given solution. My current job has an open plan, but my teammates and I moved to the other side of the floor and the difference is like night and day. Everyone around us are heads down techies, and it's more than quiet enough. Before we moved we were near people who spent significant time on phones or in video conferences. And they were event driven, resulting in them having not very busy times where they'd all just sit and chat. So same company, same floor, same job, but a very different experience. Luckily we had the option to choose a location and move ourselves with very little hassle. Not everyone has that option.
And then they released new laptops in late 2015 with no USB-C ports. And 2 iterations of phones.
anecdotally most people I know who have gone through bootcamp have had major issues getting hired and the ones that did were hired into support/saleseng rather than software engineering.
I tried to browse to the article using the link on the headline and was presented with an odd message:

Bad Request

Your browser sent a request that this server could not understand.

Request header field is missing ':' separator.
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; WOW64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chro
Apache/2.4.7 (Ubuntu) Server at sdtimes.com Port 80

A better link is: http://sdtimes.com/red-hat-releases-ansible-2-3-network-auto...

Looks like the poster is trying some special tracking that is breaking on Chrome on Mint.
Hey,

I didn't see a contact email on your profile but here are a couple projects that could use some help:

https://github.com/ArthurHub/HTML-Renderer (looking for contributors actually)

https://github.com/bricelam/ImageResizer

https://github.com/Tyrrrz/LightBulb

https://github.com/Mikescher/AlephNote

There are also frameworks/toolkits like ReactiveUI, MahApps, etc. that could also use some help, if you want to contribute there.
apparently not; apparently so.
You're right! It's a great discriminator! Actual damage done as a standard makes things exceptionally clear.

Assuming, of course, one has an objective way to determine when damage has been done. It's perhaps possible that this isn't always as easy as it sounds.
> The base Synology NAS models fit the bill - everything from blogs to office software is available from the get go.

Their package system (for 3rd parties) seems to still be a mess: https://github.com/SynoCommunity/spksrc/issues/2216
Your Columbo novel is probably awful. (No offense.) But there's someone out there who would have written a great one.
What you are saying points out problems with contracts, audits, HR. Audits are supposed to meaningful. They aren't supposed to be a waste of time that exists to check off a box. HR is supposed to add value, not subtract. Counterparties should ask for things in contracts that actually benefit them.

From a certain point of view you are right -- an IT manager should cooperate with other facets of the business in order to help the organization succeed, not obstruct because he thinks their requirements are dumb. But from a larger point of view, either organizational or super-organizational, dumb requirements shouldn't exist. To the extent that they do CEOs, industry groups, and/or governments should be modifying them to keep them relevant.
That's exactly what makes the problem so interesting.

The user experience of WeChat is clearly great, but that level of centralization really wouldn't fly over here.
I totally agree with you, but the parent said "The airline assaulted its own customers beating them till they had to be carried out on a stretcher" when

a) the police department assaulted the customer, not United staff (although they did call the PD in the first place)

b) "beating them till they had to be carried out on a stretcher" obviously implies he was beaten until he couldn't walk, which is an allegation that hasn't been substantiated at this point.

I totally agree that United colossally fucked up here, but the statement the parent made that I quoted earlier is patently false. I'm all for being righteously outraged, but can we please stick to factual statements while we're doing it?
Not sure if intentional but Google ran a TV campaign here which featured Incognito Mode as the ideal way to buy "Surprise Gifts" for your partner.

"Surprise Gifts" mode pretty much immediately became a euphemism for "I'm going to watch porn" here.
Mostly because it caused a huge list of error messages that I found difficult to get rid of. Some of it libraries, IIRC, and some of it my own code. Perhaps for some this would encourage them to one-by-one squash these messages, but in my case it made me go for what was familiar and not written in angry and red letters. I found it easier to introduce TypeScript from an opt-in perspective.
"illegally" doesn't just mean criminal.
Why Kickstarter Decided to Radically Transform Its Business Model
Don't Google and Facebook know about your entire life already?
Seven years ago I cofounded a genuine alternative platform to Google Ads (Publir). The company is doing remarkably well and we have many happy publishers (and users). Happy to answer questions here or via PM.
Bitbucket Cloud gets a new navigation experience
Same here, but adding the GitGutter plugin!
Yes, this is a normal assumption, but then 6-figure sounds like s/he is seriously underpaid for a contractor. Assuming when people say 6-figure they mean something just above 100,000. Nobody says "I make 6-figure", if earns let say 250,000.
Not the OP, but I definitely would not be ok with that. Making me wonder if such a person would be my friend in the first place because we'd clash pretty badly over that. If I found out I would probably try real hard to convince them of the error of their ways (according to me, at least) and if that was unsuccessful I'd stop being their friend.
Alabama senate votes to allow church to form own police force
I once tried to use OpenCL when I was still a student. The only Linux support for my Intel GPU I could find aborted various calls with "not implemented".

I am sure their Windows driver actually worked. However that still meant that for my hardware OpenCL was about as portable as CUDA. Just with a Windows lock-in instead of a NVIDIA lock-in.

Edit: Just to note this was a few years ago. I have no idea what the current state is.
Oh, I know, it's a sick loop. I guess the only way to play is to have two versions of your resume, one with the certs and one without.
United Passenger “Removal”: A Reporting and Management Failure
I care less about whether he is full gentlemen and more about whether I can be promoted into leadership position if he is decision maker. If there is ambigous situation between me and college being given responsibility, will I have disadvantage?

That is I think where that theor breaks. Sex jokes making dude can still be more fair then respectful gentleman wit bias.
Yeah, until I read the comments, the context of that letter was not clear to me at all, as BDSM was only referred to in passing.

I only have a vague familiarity with the Gorean subculture. The modern subculture seems largely to be an extension of BDSM oriented role-play. The main negative I've heard is that Goreans sometimes take themselves way too seriously, ala a deep Star Wars or Star Trek nerd. I don't think I've ever heard them described as "abusive to women".

Even just adding "Gorean" within the letter would've helped me understand better. In literary circles, the books (after the first couple at least) do not have a great reputation, and they definitely have been criticized as sexist / misogynist (in addition to being simply bad pornographic writing). So it's easier to see how this sort of controversy can pop up.
I don't see how "easier to work with" implies "broken".
What's the truth? Most websites require you to fill a captcha, confirm your mobile number, or simply block you if you happen to use the service from a Tor exit. That's something you can check yourself, go to the big sites (Alexa top for example), and see it. Even Hacker News shows you a captcha if you register from Tor.

Do you believe those sites are in some kind of major plot to bother Tor users, or they simply are fed up with the abuse coming from Tor? Ockham's razor.
Pitfalls of AI/ML, VR, and Biotechnology
Not everyone is good at having the discipline to get work done at home and to separate home and work while they're at home. Also, people with young children are naturally going to have a big problem. Lots of people who try it complain that their spouses and kids won't leave them alone at home, thinking that popping in isn't a big deal even though it interrupts their focus. And not everyone can afford a home that gives them extra space for a home office. Most people in Silicon Valley can't seem to afford anything bigger than a telephone booth. Don't forget that many people have roommates too.

There's a reason that coworking or small office spaces are so popular these days: for $500/month in many places, you get your own little office with a door that shuts where you can concentrate on your work, or a quiet cubicle among other people with similar situations. If everyone was able to make working at home work for them, these places would not exist.
Who thought "Google Plus" was a good idea for a name? It even sounds ridiculous to say.
Self destructing cookies are ones that are destroyed at session end or when the browser is closed.

It stops the Visit Foo, Foo sets a cookie, You go visit Bar, then Fizz, Fizz has a tracker from Foo which gets the cookie problem (at least partially).

Where it gets interesting is when Foo, Bar, Fizz and Buzz all have trackers in some form or another and co-operate.

Privacy is pretty much dead at this point without extreme effort.
I built a tool to aggregate Airbnb, Booking.com, Priceline, Agoda and some other sites you left out. It's http://AllTheRooms.com, and it's the only accommodations search engine that includes everything from Airbnb plus all online hotels and hostels.
Making decisions and thinking what's good for the ecosystem are two different things. I can still buy nVidia for my company, and think and say at the same time that it's bad.

Of course, while it's the cheap consumer garbage ^W^W pro-gaming hardware, the prices are okay, since these are kept in check by AMD. Once we get to the relabelled consumer garbage ^W^W^W professional compute hardware, you pay for it. Dearly. Why? No one that keeps them in check through competition.
There's only one comment that says simply "this happens in the US too", and it's unclear whether it's trying to excuse the Russian authorities or simply pointing out that authoritarianism is not limited to Russia (Russian/Russia seems, perhaps accidentally, heavily emphasised in the subject).

The other posts that refer the US are in response to comments stating/implying that it's a specifically Russian thing, pointing out that no, similar things occur in the US.

They're not trying to say one evil (Russian) is negated by another (American), but that both sides do evil.
>. As well, one could well argue that the cosmic battle between the Light and Dark sides of the Force in Star Wars has, quite ostensibly, Zoroastrianism written all over it.

. . . Or Christianity, or Hindu epics like Ramayana, or the Buddhist struggle for enlightenment and non-violence against our darker natures.

>, as well as the inspiration for the legend of Azor Ahai – a demigod who triumphs over darkness – in George RR Martin’s Game of Thrones, as many of its fans discovered last year.

I don't think Gerote RR Martin has ever gone on record about that, this is just speculation

>The idea of a single god was not the only essentially Zoroastrian tenet to find its way into other major faiths, most notably the ‘big three’: Judaism, Christianity and Islam.

Jewish Monotheism was most strongly advocated by the Prophet Isiah. While this was done in Babylon, it was done prior to the birth of Zarathustra.

Also the mention of Renaissance figures mentioning Zoroastrianism, while accurate, doesn't seem to be some much an influence of Zoroastrianism itself, but rather a fascination for Eastern culture that existed at the time coupled with a superficial understanding of Zoroastrianism.

EDIT: Downvoters and contrarians, you seem to have the wrong date for Zarthustra's birth was around 628 BCE to 555 BCE not more than 3000 ago like some people are suggesting for some reason. Also, even if you argue the birth date, his religion wasn't popular in Iran until it was adopted by Darius in the mid 6th Century, so really it doesn't get you anything.

See:

https://www.britannica.com/biography/Zarathustra
Hi. I keep a big list of links to high-quality tutorials and articles on React, Redux, and related topics, at https://github.com/markerikson/react-redux-links . Specifically intended to be a great starting point for anyone trying to learn the ecosystem, as well as a solid source of good info on more advanced topics.

In particular, I have a category of articles for "Redux Side Effects" [0], which includes discussion of thunks and sagas, as well as comparisons between various side effect approaches. One particularly good article is "What is the right way to do async operations in Redux?" [1]. I also wrote a blog post responding to various concerns about use of thunks and sagas [2].

[0] https://github.com/markerikson/react-redux-links/blob/master...

[1] https://decembersoft.com/posts/what-is-the-right-way-to-do-a...

[2] http://blog.isquaredsoftware.com/2017/01/idiomatic-redux-tho...
I have yet to see the benefits of point-free programming. Don't get me wrong it's fun, but in my opinion it makes reasoning about programs much harder. I am a huge fan of functional programming nevertheless.

The opinion that a point-free style is "beautiful code" seems pretty esotheric to me.
This made me smile. It's like a cuter version of rubber duck debugging (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rubber_duck_debugging)
I really can't shake the feeling that a lot of the minimalism drive is just exceptionally clever advertising that promotes consumption for a group whose income is small enough that they won't fall prey to the normal consumerism memes.
I recently watched the Ali Wong comedy special on Netflix and she really crystallized the major benefit of working from home that I could never put my finger on. Pooping in your own bathroom. I am 100% serious and not being glib at all. I want to poop at home and not in a bathroom I share with 100 people that can watch me coming and going and might try to chat with me while I wash my hands.
This is the best software I've ever used
We're not that far from achieving that, from a tech point of view. Augmented reality with something like the Hololens could hide these things away, image recognition has become good enough to deal with most real world ads panels/posters. The main showstopper is size of equipment and battery life.

The day AR allows me to use a headset untethered to a desktop computer with enough battery life to last a day will be the last day I ever have to watch an ad in the real world.
Wow, that's a disaster. Hopefully it was a wake-up call to the Shoutcast administrators to not depend on 10+ year old software that doesn't follow actual standards.
How often do messages get deleted?
Blighty's £1.2bn space industry could lend itself to tourism
Quite a few Linux devs are on G+: Linus, Greg Kroah-Hartman, David Airlie, Lennart Pöttering, ...
I haven't heard of this. On what grounds did they ask for this?
Overbooking and so on: some people might not know or remember, but on ancient times it was kind of 2 separated processes: buying the ticket was one thing, booking a specific flight was another. You could change your initial choice of flight (perhaps paying some fee, not the whole ticket again). Doing a no-show wouldn't make you loose your ticket (perhaps you would, again, pay some fee). Even the need to check-in is a consequence of that time.

Without that, things would be straightforward: buy the ticket, board the plane, loose the ticket if you don't.

With the ticket being a different thing from a "reserved seat in a specific flight", you end up with overbooking (selling more tickets than the flight can handle because usually someone will loose the flight, or will change it to another day). You end up with companies that don't want to lose the last seat in exchange of a small fee (it's better to sell another full ticket, no?).

Perhaps prices would go up a bit. Perhaps people would be more pissed off when they loose the flight. I don't know.

I just know that it began as a model that made sense at the time, and small changes added-up so that we are in this situation, now.
I've seen ads on my work machine for things I'd searched for at home. My work machine is signed into my work Google Apps account (and never my home account; though I have used that in another Chrome profile) and home my home account.

So, even if you're not connecting logged-out users, it seems to me that you might be connecting different logged-in users accounts.

I don't mind; I'd rather have targeted ads than not; though it does seem a bit creepy and often it's useless - I'm sick of seeing ads for stuff I already bought; you're losing cash there!
Just as society gained from Disney's being allowed to use the stories and characters of Sleeping Beauty or The Little Mermaid, we would similarly gain from new artists being able to give us new takes on Disney stories and characters.

Or mashups - perhaps your Columbo novel could feature Mickey Mouse...
You're absolutely right! You'll definitely find few who categorically state that kink shaming doesn't exist or doesn't cause harm to individuals.

At the same time, it's possible you'll find some who may struggle with the idea of a cis-het white male being kink shamed as something to that should be a source of active and ongoing concern.
My React/Redux links list has a section of articles on static typing, which includes comparisons between Flow and TypeScript: https://github.com/markerikson/react-redux-links/blob/master... .
Seriously? I imagine >95% of consumers would adopt tor quickly if browsing performance was comparable to standard browsing (hell it would be packaged with firefox). The general public hates being tracked and having their privacy invaded. Just look at the political mess created when congress gave ISP's the right to sell user browsing data at the end of last month.
Which way was the association, more CPUs -> faster CPU-GPU transfer, or slower? By "physical CPUs" I assume you mean cores in a single socket, but in pre-Haswell multi-socket systems, the uncore clock speed was tied to the core clock speed, so idle CPUs that enter a low power state can actually cause horrible performance because cache coherence snoop signals have to wait for the low-power/slow CPUs to respond. See https://software.intel.com/en-us/forums/intel-moderncode-for...
The Haskell style guide says not to over-use them, and to write a type-signature on the line before.

https://github.com/tibbe/haskell-style-guide/blob/master/has...
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12300157

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12251162

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12235789
>Eich was actually outed from a donor list that was leaked

There was no "leak" or "outing." Campaign contributions are public information. I just pulled up his donation (to Prop 8 and a Lt Gov campaign) here.

http://dbsearch.ss.ca.gov/ContributorSearch.aspx

I'd link directly but the form uses POST so there's no unique URL for his contributions.
In the Land of Invented Languages by Arika Okrent is great.
Depends on where the contracting is done. "Highly paid" is relative.
> and that you know is not your kid

I don't expect any reasonable answer to this, but...

There are two sets of photos, both exactly alike, yet one of those sets was created by capturing photons while the other was created by computers. Both were created by pointing a machine at your kid during a trip, and subsequently giving you a digital image. How to you tell those apart?

How do you know it's your kid on your kid's photos anyway?
The natural alternation between night and day would be enough to get early human cultures to start thinking along these lines.
Parcel bods Hermes become latest London drone delivery droogs
"do not track" in Firefox or Chrome.

Completely ignored pretty much everywhere...
>Having a 1-2 certifications on a specific domain means that we speak the "same language" regarding our work.

Or it means they can drop the same jargon and have maybe a passable understanding about the ideas that jargon is meant to convey.

Often people with extremely narrowly focused bases on knowledge (as indicated by having BAs, MAs, and a giant rap-sheet full of certs all in the same topic) have wound up being thoroughly incapable of actually applying any of their knowledge to the benefit of the team they're on because they just don't know how to get what's in their heads into the heads of people who weren't steeped in the same language as they were.
BuildZoom is hiring all roles
Holy shit. This is a thing?
Try sending a sensitive keyword.
I'd add the MatDesign XAML toolkit, which is a powerhouse:

https://github.com/ButchersBoy/MaterialDesignInXamlToolkit
<strike>None for netcat (it's a bare-wire tool, and doesn't support HTTP/1.1 either)</strike>

sorry, I must have misread "socat" as "netcat". Since socat's HTTP integration is an HTTP proxy on port 8080 it should be transparent due to using "CONNECT" for https.

curl offers --http2 and uses ALPN where available as explained here: https://curl.haxx.se/docs/http2.html
I run into this issue on my resume. Do i throw random skills i spent 4 months learning for some project and never used again? I feel like overloading these things devalues the skills i actually AM exceptionally competent at, as opposed to just capable.
There is also a latency penalty for accessing PCIe devices that are attached to a foreign root complex.

This is exacerbated if the QPI links are already busy.
For a good, pragmatic introduction that may clear this up for you: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cy7jBYr3Zvc

tldw; point-free style can lead to readable, generic code -- but any dogmatic adherence to a particular style can have the opposite effect. Use it when it makes your code more readable, avoid it otherwise.
>The general public hates being tracked and having their privacy invaded. Just look at the political mess created when congress gave ISP's the right to sell user browsing data at the end of last month.

You gotta be kidding me. If that were the case nobody would ever use Facebook, or browse the web without an ad blocker and blocking 3rd party cookies. I also like privacy but we have to understand that nobody really cares about that. Maybe it's because they are not educated and don't know what the risks are, but whatever the reason, privacy is ignored by most people.
>I almost never have to reboot my Mac because something broke

I find that hard to believe. I have a crapbook pro they gave me for work and I have to reboot it every few days because it becomes unresponsive.
I had to get the CEH when I was hired on by a security consulting firm back in Northern Virginia.

I now do not include this cert on my CV for (perhaps irrational) fear that someone in some HR department may think "Oh, no! This guys is a hacker!" Sadly, the word has a negative connotation, because the word "cracker" or "bad actor" never bubbled up past the IT security world.

I also do not include my military service dates, as they reliably peg my age. Most men join at 17 or 18, so they would immediately know my age.

I'm debating whether to include any certifications at all, just include my degree.
"editor.autoClosingBrackets": false

Unfortunately, that also turns off all bracket matching.