skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Personally, it's gone like this:

Year Workspace Door? Locks? Key? Window?
1 1/4 cubicle no no no yes
2 pair office yes no no yes!
3-4 home yes yes yes yes
5-6 office yes no no no
7 5/8 cubicle no no no yes!
8 1/4 cubicle no no no no
9 office yes yes no no
10 3/4 cubicle no no no yes
11-12 full cubicle no no no no
13-14 office yes yes no no
15-17 office yes yes no no

Locations are 1-4 Chicago, IL; 5-8 Madison, WI; 9-17 near-South military-industrial complex, USA

It seems as though companies that require security clearance placed higher value on doors, locks, and the dangers of overheard conversation. They have always had at least 3 standard-height cubicle walls per employee. Although windows are apparently a security risk.

But no one seems to care about whether employees can lock up their own workspaces upon leaving work. My offices of late have always had locks, but no one ever bothers giving me the key. To anything. Not the door, not the desk, not the cabinets. That's why I can now pop the lock on office furniture with just a paper clip and a binder clip. I'd only leave anything valuable in my workspace if I had a key to the door lock, and as you can see from the table above...
Self-Proclaimed ‘Nuclear Bot’ Author Weighs U.S. Job Offer
The buddhists have the wrong idea. Their attitude is that suffering is inevitable and so we should just accept it. (They go on to say that when you accept suffering it stops being suffering. Yeah, right. Tell that to the kids in Syria who were gassed by Assad a few days ago.)

I'm not talking about accepting suffering, I'm talking about eliminating it, or at least striving to eliminate it even if complete eliminate is not actually possible (c.f. Sisyphus) or desirable. It might be that the optimal level of suffering is not zero, or that the optimal level is lower than the lowest attainable level. But it is clear that both of those are significantly lower than what have now. I don't think any reasonable person can look at what is going on in Syria or South Sudan or Bangladesh and not believe that we can do better without violating the laws of physics.
Hyperbole like this makes it difficult to take his arguments seriously, even if he makes some good points about the changing nature of work.

Really, barbaric? Having set work hours in a steady job with regular pay in a safe workplace with benefits usually included, including paid vacation?

It's such a dramatic leap forward from the way most humans in history--and many still today--have had to scrimp for survival, working long hours in the fields, barely achieving subsistence, sharecropping for feudal lords or tyrannical landlords.

Sure, work is changing, and many people are lucky to be able to detach from such schedules with exciting and unknown results for the future workplace. But those of us fortunate enough to have had access to 9-to-5 jobs would be tone deaf to act like it's such a traumatic experience, when so many people in the world would be so grateful to have such an opportunity.
How do you expect to achieve that, given the technical differences?
Mumbai is not in Africa though?
I could also sneak into movie theaters to see all my movies for free. It's not stealing, right? I haven't deprived them of a physical product? There's no marginal cost to them to show the movie to one extra person, right? They lose no revenue because I wasn't going to pay to see the movie anyway, right? And movies are terrible right now, aren't they? Everything's a sequel or reboot, there are no more original ideas, right? And the way they show ads before movies now, they have no right to do that after I've already paid for a ticket, do they? And people are always talking in theaters and they never do anything about it, right? And they turn up the air conditioning too high...

I'd really have to be a sucker to pay for movie tickets given all those reasons not to, right? I think I'll still do it, though.
I don't know. Nuance?
I would never had thought a normal, well reared person would Google anybody just because they can. I think the net-natives think nothing of it and probably dont think it's wrong.

My comment demonstrated my discovery that I am not surprised it was from a young person.
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Until they white-list websites, you know, for your safety. Good citizens only use government-approved and microsoft-approved sites anyways.
Interesting read.

I was born 1980 so I straddle the web when it hit mass market adoption.

The differences are indeed marked, my father did the same job for 20 years, I can't imagine that now.
The Android APK is around 30-31 MB

https://www.apkmirror.com/apk/twitter-inc/
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Strictly typed, lazy evaluator?
Do you plan to create a charge-on-reply option, or to stick with charge-on-delivery? I'm curious as to the rationale behind that choice.
This seems pretty obvious. Is this considered newsworthy in part because the recently popular media refrain has been "Uber is bad"?

So now articles that point out the good that ride-hailing apps do are considered interesting?
https://paperspace.com is great. Takes about 2 minutes to go from no account to running a VM with all of the ML frameworks and drivers installed. The K80 on AWS/GCP is three years old and is just not built for Deep Learning. Paperspace has newer, more modern GPUs and I heard they are adding more cards soon (forget where I saw that).
> I've not seen much as far as long-term damage from use

Isn't addiction the biggest problem, requiring increasingly higher doses to achieve the same effect?
It's a dolphinfish (actually quite an ugly fish and visually very distinct from a mammalian dolphin).
I'd say Berlin definitely has a cyberpunk aura at night, with its post-industrial setting, electronic music scene and hacker/tech/anarchist vibe
It's true that publishers of "real" newspapers sometimes exert this sort of influence, which is unfortunate.

But those publishers aren't subject to the First Amendment, because they're not government-run.

In the case of a school newspaper, however, the school is run by the state, and so First Amendment issues definitely do come into play.
Yes. As in, 1.44 megabytes. For a four-paragraph article.
The current imbalances aren't in the laborers' favor. Why should we pass laws that increase the corporation's leverage over workers when the current structure skews heavily in the corporation's favor?
Really, barbaric? Having set work hours in a steady job with regular pay in a safe workplace with benefits usually included, including paid vacation?

I don't think it's hard to see that as barbaric. Think of it as "I am forced to be away from my loved ones for most of the daylight hours and most days of the year excluding these permitted 'holiday' periods".
You can make sure that the author wrote this post by copy-pasting [this signature](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/staltz/staltz.github.io/ma...) <-- 404: Not Found.
Now I am not so sure on who the author is anymore...
From a design standpoint, implementing all the business logic to be accessible from the terminal makes sense : it separates the presentation layer from the core application : it facilitates developing a command based interface : a command based interface provides a strong foundation for a robust API : it makes it clear what the interface is an interface to.

However, I think there are probably iterations on very minimal browser interfaces that can be used to put the app in front of people very early on to get user feedback about the core functionality and to test out the abstractions...or to put it another way, don't build everything and then see if some people might use it.

Relevant: http://www.themacro.com/articles/2016/01/minimum-viable-prod...

Good luck.
I work on software banks use to look for fraud or money laundering. Fraud always made sense, since there was a feedback loop with the end customer to confirm transactions were legit or not. We could adjust our algorithms from there.

I don't think the same exists for BSA. The main incentive for banks is to avoid fines for not reporting suspicious activity and the Fed doesn't let the bank (or us) know whether the suspicious activity submitted turned out to be legal or not. I would love to reduce the number of false positives from our system, but have no way to build a proper training set. Sounds like the IRS doesn't know what it should really be targeting either.
Maru OS. It installs a debian system along-side Android, not sure if it's alternative enough though.

http://maruos.com/
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It isn't technically the same game, they cannot match 1:1 in features and gaming experience, given the differences between Wii and Switch.
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I've been prototyping simple desktop GUI tools on top of dask/pandas and PyQt that let you lazily load large CSVs (and other types supported by pandas) and interactively filter based on smart histograms (the per column histograms are fully interactive and provide crossfiltering across the attributes):

http://imgur.com/a/vfAmV

The idea is to map a lot of the basic functionality of dataframes onto simple GUI interactions (for example, changing column types, stacking and unstacking columns, pivoting) and couple that with an ipython console for more complicated data manipulation. And then maybe even adding adding Tableau like charting functionality:

http://imgur.com/a/z8d1w

For quick throwaway exploration/analysis. It can easily handle about a million rows just using generic pandas and a bit of memory. There's lots of cool database techniques that can also be used on small local data (for example, compressed bitmaps using EWAHBool for interactive filtering).
This article was a difficult read for me due to all the hand waving and "in the future so and so will happen." That said, I have a lot of respect for Mr. Coupland. Microserfs is still one of the best books I've ever read, and really hits home in so many ways.
It's not about being able to balance on a bike, it's about reaction time, coordination, and judgement.
For spaceX they just had one failure out of 8. If they have none in 2017 and they can keep up the cadence then it will be a solid blow to rest of the industry.

I feel it's a lot easier to make SpaceX's rockets safer than ULA's rockets cheaper and reusable.

Once spacex finds their sweet spot in design, they can shooting them up like crazy.

I am really looking forward to the moon mission. Last time it happened, I wasn't even born :(
I really, really miss that brief, beautiful period when the internet was ONLY stuff like this, and you just kind of wandered around.
"Forced" doesn't seem like exactly the right word.
What a load of shit. All the more clear as I'm traveling in a 3rd world country where people actually have to deal with difficult working conditions. I see people in their mid 70's doing long days of physical labor on a farm for dollars a day. Ask them how barbaric the 9-5 desk job is.

As the other commenter mentioned, hyperbole like this only ever damages a cause.

I think there are probably better ways to do work and as we move towards the connected future I think many of them will increase in popularity, but that's due to an increase in options from our already very open ended lives, not some struggle against imagined barbarity.
Uber hopes to keep fares at their current level by replacing human drivers with autonomous vehicles.
Or you shut your PC down when you leave the house and then want to access your network from your phone.
Your logic doesn't make sense. I never said it was the onyl reason they don't or even that it was a BIG reason, just that it's one possible reason that may be a small percentage of the entire reason why it wouldn't make business sense.

So to answer your question - because those businesses have looked at the financials and decided that the lost potential sales due to people who use emulators are worth the effort do develop games. Nintendo has decided differently. It's possible that the other publishers weren't simultaneously pushing a hardware platform which also comes into play.

I never said emulation prevents all people from paying for virtual consoles. I simply was pointing out that it diminishes the value. For example, if Nintendo released virtual console on PC today, I wouldn't buy it when I've already got emulators and raspberry pi's running arcades. If there was no way for me to technically play emulated games and VC was released on PC - I'd buy it immediately.

So there ya go. One lost potential sale, how many more?
It's about freedom to run your own software, it is not cost or "works fine". Webrtc has a dependency on and is controlled by a 3rd party. You can't talk to someone in the next room via webrtc without some party running the server and providing a service to you. If they decide to lock you out you can't use sockets anymore.

With real sockets you can just send a multicast message to find all devices on the local network and talk to them directly.
Make backups. How is this any different than saving photos just in case you spill water on your laptop keyboard?
The storage requirements are tremendous, though, right?

If I want to have access to everything that's been shared with me, I have to store it all. In the case of images, the storage burden can get large quickly.
Actually we learned in our high school journalism classes that these protections are federal and based off of court cases. Part of our high-school journalism curriculum was learning the court cases that protected our rights as high-school journalists from school administration interference.

Of course, a school intent on interfering with a newspaper is probably not going to make that part of the curriculum.
They earned the title so you should show respect by properly addressing them. Go ahead and call a judge "Mr(s)" or an officer "dude" and see how far it gets you. Whether you like them or not, it's up to you do decide for sure, but have some manners, it will help you out in life.
Thats if you make decisions based on revenue, conversions, etc and not based on criteria that is most beneficial to the user. You need a little of both for a sustainable business.
Not sure why this was donvoted. From a bird's eye view, the whole system looks remarkably similar to Usenet, especially in the old times of UUCP, back when systems were mostly offline and had relatively short timespans to exchange information (via dial-up connection or similar).

What's different now is that we have pleny of disk space, and more than enough computing power to perform proper cryptography.
There's a huge caveat that's imperative to note:

It's safer to drive only for the driver, as the driver usually survives car accidents and is less likely to drunkenly wander into traffic or get mugged, for example. For others, it's much more dangerous if a drunk person drives (such a person will hit pedestrians, other cars, etc).
LinageOS + OpenGapps for a minimal Google Play Services installation (the "nano" flavour). Just make sure to buy a device that has a large userbase and good LinageOS community support [1]. I am using a $170 Xiaomi Redmi Note 3 with LineageOS and could not be happier with it.

[1] check out https://stats.lineageos.org/ for popular devices and also check the devices subforum on the XDA forums
I also read the article on chrome with uBlock Origin and found no such thing? How strange.
At first blush, I was aghast at the idea of no weekends. Then I realized I am essentially on-call 24/7, even on vacations, as I'm the primary infrastructure person at my company. Yet, because it's well designed and managed, I do tend to have that free time.

The problem becomes when you don't have that free time because of constant work issues. I can't say a future without 100% free time is such a great place.
Google might have helped out to promote the PWA technology which they are pushing hard.
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I didn't necessarily have anywhere specifically in Africa in mind but I was not thinking about South Africa. Tho if SA is included, definitely something like what Neil Blomkamp made SA look like in District 9, Chappie, et al, is sort-of cyberpunk to me. Love his aesthetic in those movies. Tho that's not exactly what I was going for here.
Dan Carlin's Hardcore History

http://www.dancarlin.com/hardcore-history-series/

Engaging storytelling on some of the selected historic periods or events. Sometimes a little biased but well worth listening to.

In Our Time

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b006qykl

It can be hit or miss. But if you find a topic that matches with your interests it is usually very well covered.

The Ezra Klein Show

http://www.vox.com/ezra-klein-show-podcast

I like this guy and he usually has interesting guests.

Penn's Sunday School

http://pennsundayschool.com

Podcast of Penn Jillette (of Penn & Teller) usually pretty random but fun to listen to if you like magic, are an atheist or if you have libertarian views. Quality of episodes varies a lot.
All it takes is just one person in the first spot in her listing of jobs on her resume to fail to properly vet her. Once you start having job experience, people don't look as hard at your resume. Nobody wants to do all the legwork verifying transcripts and calling up references, they just assume someone else down the line did the work. The resume looks impressive but she's not claiming a Harvard doctorate so it doesn't sound totally incredible. I laugh that they can't even find records of her getting a bachelor's. That's when you know someone at her first job was either very lazy to not even verify her or she got in because she knew someone and they didn't bother to check anything.
Apparently when that happens with an "Acceptable Ad" you're supposed to report it so they can remove it from their whitelist: https://adblockplus.org/acceptable-ads#false-positives

The only beef I really have with the Acceptable Ads program is that, since it doesn't discriminate based on ad content, only ad format, occasionally it will let through an ad where the presentation isn't annoying, but the content is. (E.g. A small static image ad that wouldn't normally be obtrusive, except it features a picture of a half-naked woman and the type of clickbaity text you'd expect to see on the cover of a tabloid.)
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Is this perhaps a signal that it might be a good time for others to start selling Amazon stock?

I know if I were Bezos I would sell when I thought the stock was overpriced. I wonder if this is an indication that

Bezos and his team were brilliant for selling a bunch of convertible debt right before the 2000 crash. And let's not forget Bezos got his start at the quant fund DE Shaw.
Not that I'm one to disagree, because day jobs are fucking bullshit, but...

I worry that as advanced technology continues to unfurl evermore convenience into our lives, how spoiled will we become?
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Which says a lot about the company. In most industries, stealing from your former employer would get you fired immediately. Especially if it draws the company itself in a lawsuit. Usually the first action is to suspend the employee and cut all access to demonstrate that you don't support the behaviour. The way Uber acts looks a lot like they want to profit from the stolen files.
Thanks for mentioning. Should be fixed now. I recently migrated from gh-pages to netlify.
That's getting really picky. It's almost identical.
If you don't like the way The Outline looks, that's your opinion, but we made it that way ON PURPOSE.

It's not just how it looks (utterly horrid on desktop, IMO), but its ostensible (anti-)usability too...

[FWIW, it freaking crashed my old iPad (not just Safari, but the whole OS), and lost all my tabs. But who cares about users right?]
To each their own. Sure my coworkers complain about this or that annoyance in WebStorm or whatever that they can't customize or fix, but then they never lost the better half of a day to ~/.vimrc so...

I can see it both ways. I'll choose customization, but I wouldn't fault someone for expecting a good out-of-box setup.
Depends what you want. A/B testing tends to lead to bland mediocrity. At the end of the day there is definitely something to be said a strong design statement that somebody is willing stand up for, even if it is a noble failure, when compared to the design by committee non-entity that A/B testing often leads to.
We don't pay them well so we get what we pay for. The exceptions are those that love to teach and love students. You can't run an organization via exceptions however. It's really a shame we don't value education more.
The people who thrive in an automated workplace
My translation: Ubuntu is running out of money, maybe already feeling the heat from the decision to provide Linux subsystem in W10, disincentivizing developers from switching to stand-alone Ubuntu, therefore they need to cut things not projecting bringing profit soon.
Most people don't have lawyers to call. The last 1/3 of his story was about him calling lawyers trying to find one who would talk to him.

If someone told me to call my lawyer I wouldn't know what to do. I don't have a lawyer. I don't know people who "have lawyers" or can recommend one. I met a lawyer once, I think, when I bought my previous house. I'd probably search online for "Lawyers in San Francisco" and pick one at random.
How about this: you buy a physical device at Wal-Mart for $29.99, plug it in, hook it up to your wifi and leave it plugged into an outlet. It's got Mastodon or GNU Social on it and could look like this, but branded: http://thegadgetflow.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/SmartPlu...
What gets me is the audacity of making a suspicious activity that may be an indication of a crime, the crime itself. It's as if they outlawed having a suspiciously high power bill, or looking over your shoulder a lot while you browse items in a store.
I even think the visual aesthetic needs revising. It was written about in an age before it existed, in an aspirational sense. Now we've achieve the forms of the aspirations, but we've missed out on the substance that was supposed to come with them. Our cities are marvels, but they lack richness in many ways. A richness that the infinite nets of cyberpunk promised us we'd be able to plug into. So I think a return to something more organic, to pick up some things we might have left behind in our headlong rush, might be needed, to actually get to where we were going.
I think his ego gets in the way of his argument. I was thinking about how melodramatic he sounded about all of this, and then I got to the picture of him standing cruciform under a spotlight, and all I could do was roll my eyes.
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Isn't the rule prohibiting "UWP games and apps that "pose a safety risk or result in discomfort, injury or any other harm" to users." kinda broad (meaning especially the "discomfort" part)?

Seeing as "discomfort" was not specified in any way, it COULD mean the horror game you potentially want to release on the Windows Store could be denied a listing, because it could cause some players/people psychological "discomfort".

To be clear, I would be mostly fine with this rule if "discomfort" was specified as "physical discomfort".
I’m not sure what the author thinks “the web” is. For me, sites like Mic, Teen Vogue, CNN constitute a minor part of “the web”. Their being equated with “the web” seems like a much more serious problem than their visual design could ever be. In light of that, it’s interesting to note how the article frames the problem:

> Stopping the publication of bad articles is probably too much to ask, but must so many websites look awful?
But the value that the customer can extract from the game is almost the same whether they got the Wii or Switch version. It doesn't make sense to charge double the price for two different licenses when the value gained by being able to use either console is small.