skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is why I actually like cubicles. you are physically close to your team, if your space is organized well you are on a common isle with people you work with, but you still have at least a little bit of isolation in your personal workspace.

I DO NOT understand why cubes get so much hate.
If you voluntarily breathe the deadly gas in your environment and die did you commit suicide?
That is the crux of the issue, isn't it? Actual productivity does not matter that much on a grand scale, the perceived productivity and therefore sales is what matters.
Wait, that's a thing? (Quickly Googling...) OMG, that's a thing.

People in the office are still using old-school typewriters for certain official documents, so I expect I can get away with it. If I can't concentrate due to existing office noise, I may as well have some fun. Thanks!
U.S. top court tightens patent suit rules in blow to ‘patent trolls’
Application Development with Python for Heterogeneous Processor-Based FPGAs
Github is, w/r/t your company, outsourced. Think whether you want to have your code residing out of your network and out of your control. You can run a Gitlab instance locally - the most practical risk of "serverless" computing being "we can't do normal devel flow, network is down". (No idea about Atlassian)
Because it makes me happier.
Regardless of possible misuse, the technology (apparently) exists. We can't just ignore it and hope that it will go away.

Besides, it has numerous benefits too. I feel like the argument against it is an example of the slippery slope fallacy[1].

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slippery_slope
CEOs also typically believe they are the only resource that isn't replaceable or outsource-able. But, if they're good at what they do, and the buck truly stops with them... I'm fine with that level of responsibility vs benefit. This is mostly because I imagine the CEO doing a bunch of jobs that I do not _want_ to do.

I like popping on my headphones and going to town... but I'll admit, distractions often overcome even my headphones. That's where working from home comes in.
If you put yourself on a very long term trajectory, say 500 years, don't you think the only way to make a dent on the situation is space? I mean, what else would you do as a species? How else would you make sure humanity has a bright future?
Like I said, mandate factual reporting standards and the news agencies will do the research for the people. That's their purpose after all.

Studies have shown that moderate positions need evangelists just as much as extreme positions, as people tend to cluster around the positions with evangelists. Mandating factual standards ensures evangelists at least have justifiable reasons for their positions.
Is there a HN facility where I could just block these pay-walled articles? I have nothing against someone trying to make a buck, but there is insignificant chance that I will 'subscribe' or login to read a wsj article. I just want to save me some time and wsj some bandwidth.

OK maybe I just need to learn to look at the link.
I'm not sure it is ok under those circumstances.

Lawrence Lessig suddenly changed his focus from copyright law to corruption after many years. He had an epiphany of sorts - he's been right for decades, but it doesn't matter. Why? Because corporations can openly hand out cash to congress.

So, he focused on corruption, but exactly as you've defined it to be ok. He explicitly said he isn't talking about lobbying behind closed doors. He's talking about the fact that Disney can walk into congress with a pile of cash, completely open about what it wants to do: we're giving you cash so for the first time ever, nothing new will enter the public domain for the next 20 years (or perhaps more, in 20 years, there will be a knock on your door, and we'll be there, with a pile of cash, to make that 40 years instead of 20).[1]

Is it really not corruption if it's in the open? This seems like almost total capitulation to corruption and corporate rule.

[1] probably clear, but I should emphasize, this is what I interpreted Lessig's argument to be. Read his words for his opinion.
some very interesting photos from way back then: http://www.whizzpast.com/photos-19th-century-bathing-machine...
I think it's only an upgrade for shitty REST-like protocol for APIs. The next after GraphQL will be something like executing your own code in sandboxed environment on the server, with strong constrains etc.
Anyhow, I don't like centralized approaches. Easier access to Github data will encourage to create apps based on a global variable which is the Github. I'd rather want them to release installable libraries that communicate with other parts of the system. Sort of.
Anything specific you liked about Elixir more than Go?
As long as there are users, it will be necessary (or desirable, at the very very least) to design experiences for them. The assumption you make is that "talking to a humanlike intelligence is so natural as to be trivial." But salespeople, for instance, still need to be trained in how best to talk to their customers, what to say, what not to say, etc..
Sad truth is that coding and problem solving and getting your hands dirty is low status work. I've had managers that new the application they were responsible for, and could speak coherently about technical things.

I've had managers who couldn't demo the apps that their team worked on.

Which one is better to work for as an engineer? The technically savvy one. Which one has higher stature and seems to be more highly regarded by his superiors? The non technical one.

In other words, that "lazy shitty manager" is probably playing the game better.
I thought Academics jealousy hoarded ideas, carefully ensuring that they weren't stolen by competing researchers — especially in the same department.
A Brief Rant on the Future of Interaction Design
I am distracted by your loud keyboard. Frequently, I find myself wishing that you had a quiet keyboard like everyone else in the office. I am particularly irritated by the noise of your keyboard each morning when you write long emails or posts. When you are coding and there are frequent long breaks when you are thinking, it is not quite as distracting, but I still don't like it.

I agree with you that open office plans are the problem, but your keyboard makes that problem worse.
(I don't know why you were flagged, FWIW, but I vouched you out. I think you're wrong, but I don't think this should be flagged.)
I just meant the characterization was lame. How do you like Finland being a 3rd world country given the negative connotations that have since been assigned to the term? You may just say "that doesn't fit" like I did when I learned that Finland is a 3rd world country.
Have you tried it yourself or maybe you know someone who have? Honestly, I think that this development is highly impractical due to very high entrance ticket price for someone not belonging to UW PLSE group ;-)
I don't care what "entrepreneurs" do.

Their citizenry doesn't have large swaths living like third world workers / peasants at the mercy of their corporate overlords and sudden illness and such, and that's enough for me.
Why the smugness? In particular, Norway's GDP per capita is notably higher than that of the US in both PPP and nominal measures. And both countries outrank the US in terms of the so-called "quality of life" or "where-to-be-born" index.
Except that's for military applications. If that thing crashes in a field in a war zone no one cares. If it crashes into a high rise and kills hundreds of office workers, then people will care.

Unmanned heavy flight in populated civilian areas isn't a solved problem and probably one that will never be solved. People won't want the risk. Saving $1 on shipping isn't worth it.
I feel like the bigger story here is that Second Life is still around...
> "Once we finish signing the paperwork, everyone else is worthless." It is true.

I think that's a fairly myopic, though unsurprising, point of view from the sales perspective. There's tons of work that goes into making a viable product that gets the paperwork to be signed. Programmers, teams, etc. are just as (ir)replaceable as sales staff; when you have the right combination, everything works well. Handshakes and signatures are the final step of making a deal, not the defining ones. From a bare financial point of view, once the paper's signed, you can change your company all you want, but unless the product/service continues to be well-made and add value to the customer, the money's not going to keep flowing. Engineering talent is not exactly fungible.
The Future of Passwords: Your Body
The "downside" of private offices is that management doesn't know what you are doing in there. Lots of glass is an attempt to keep people connected and restrict the net surfing, game playing and time wasting that management fears will happen with private offices.

I think it's a reasonable trade-off. It attempts to give the best of both worlds, incorporating one advantage of open office spaces is there is more team motivation because it's more obvious if you are slacking.
Is Python that much bigger than Perl?

And from your list, Go doesn't really belong there, it outputs statically linked binaries. You can just plonk them anywhere.
JD.com thinks this will be an efficient way of maintaining a transportation network in the future. I'm not convinced, mostly because it seems like the fuel cost would be much greater. Feel free to let me know if I'm wrong though.
Markets are rational, but rationality is not simple.
> It seems to me that our social norms – including women foremost expected to get an education and a career – are inevitable moving our societies in the direction of artificially creating babies, if we want to survive longer term

This isn't really a technological question but a socioeconomic one. Gestation is hard enough, but the much longer work of child-rearing: who pays for that?

Similarly with artificial generation: who is going to pay for it? The very rich who've already exhausted conventional infertility treatment?

The fully artificial person raises a possibility from cyberpunk dystopia: corporate-owned persons. After all, if someone is built out of artificial DNA and has no direct link to human parentage, could they be made liable for their own existence? Kind of like college loans, only starting from birth.
CPUs and GPUs – There’s enough room for everyone
As a type II diabetic I would love it if Apple got in the continuous monitoring field; namely because it will help the field as a whole get better. It is largely dominated by one company with an invasive method.

As an aside to the article Type II is caused by diverse reasons; not just weight. Weight is deffinately a factor; but there are other genetic and physiological factors that contribute to how well your body uses/produces insulin. The article doesn't help mitigate this by referring to Type II as a "Lifestyle" i.e. Shaming disease.

Diabetics have a enough to deal with then to be rudely told it's their fault and they simply have to 'exercise'. A little compassion goes a long way.
The Order of Lenin: ‘Find Some Truly Hard People’
Only for Mac or PC? Clearly not aimed at me
Do you know if that's specific category?
Also works in vi mode (I think the default for bash is emacs mode - for editing commands, that is):

Run:

set -o vi

once after you log in (for ksh / bash and compatible shells only, maybe, not sure about csh), or (better) put that line in your .bashrc or similar startup file, so it runs each time you log in. (I used to use "ksh -o vi" earlier, before I knew about "set -o vi" or before it existed, but in that case, it has to be the last line in your startup file, otherwise the other lines below will not run until you exit that (sub)shell.)

Then, when typing a command at the command line, just press ESC then v ; it does the same as what you said.

You can also do ESC :q! (in the editor, if it is vi) to quit without running the command you just edited, or save the command to another file for editing later at leisure, then quit without running it right now.

In fact, "set -o vi" also enables limited editing in vi mode right on the command-line, after you press ESC - you can use the command-mode commands of vi (h, l, b, w, f, F, and more) to move around, change characters or words, can also overwrite or append or insert text, etc.

You can even use / and ? and n and N to search backward and forwards in the commmand history to find (by substring) a previous command, to edit it. Once you find the right commmand, just press v.

Great for productivity.
This is probably controversial around these parts, but I love Atlassian products. Jira used to be awful years ago, but it's now genuinely fantastic to use. It also has excellent integrations.
I recently got to use `join`. However, without reading documentation on outer joins. I went ahead and wrote my own version:

join -t$'\t' <(cat c <(comm -13 <(cut -f1 c) <(cut -f1 d) | sed -e 's/$/\t/') | sort -k1,1) <(cat d <(comm -23 <(cut -f1 c) <(cut -f1 d) | sed -e 's/$/\t/') | sort -k1,1)

Then I stumbled on an easier version with using just join

join -a1 -a2 -o auto f1 f2

There are really too many unexplored things on the linux command line for a typical dev.
One more benefit: polished concrete is way easier to deep clean.
It looks like Article 1 Section 2 has what you're looking for, specifically "The Number of Representatives shall not exceed one for every thirty Thousand, but each State shall have at Least one Representative" [1]

Wikipedia also seems to provide a good summary of the issue. [2]

[1] https://www.archives.gov/founding-docs/constitution-transcri...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_congressional_ap...
What regime forces you to use paid code coverage tooling? What percentage is $72 of your annual per-developer budget?
The Economics of Microservices: Phil Calçado Recommends Avoiding ‘Microliths’
I think it's the previous CEO of Steelcase.

But also note that the Steelcase CEO's quotes are shaped to help sell their office pod systems. He's really not going to share his personal preferences, he's going to push their product.
Good question. The answer is a qualified yes. zenAud.io supports on/off triggering via command tracks, which can learn midi CCs or the like. You can then route the trigger to transport position (you just type in the bar you want to jump to), allowing to jump anywhere you like in the song. zenAud.io handles these jumps fine. So basically you could set up a an intro to a song, and once you've got all your "base" loops, you can use automation to trigger a jump to the "scenes" of your song.

You can use the same facility to automate jumping to another song if you're performing a full set. In this case, you don't want to trigger it manually so you use scripted automation (basically automation that is drawn rather than captured via some MIDI device).

I say a qualified yes because there are a couple of features that would make this better. I intend on implementing them within the next month. First among which is ability to overdub rather than simply record. Second, I want you to be able to specify a quantisation value for the trigger. So instead of triggering immediately (requiring good timing), it would jump at the end of the current bar or at the end of the region in question.

Hope that answers your question. By the way, there's more detail in this comment thread on YouTube where I discuss this exact topic with another (potential) user.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l7cxTCf0FbU
I assume you are referring to GitLab, so yes. GitLab and Bitbucket are both actively releasing new features and have sizable paid user bases. GitHub is the market leader, no question, but it not nearly a monopoly.
Markets != people, last I checked. If you're talking about the efficiency or rationality of a market, you're talking about some statistical measure of the market. If you're talking about one guy making a bad choice of flooring material, that's just one idiot.
It's not if you take future into account. Mars and space exploration have a future, Earth who knows? At this point staying on 1 planet it's a bit of a gamble
I could do my 8 hour job in 4 hours, but I have to work 40 hours a week, because that's the minimum expected from me. This wasted time is the main reason why I'm working on starting my own company this year.
Why organize one's society solely around the interests of entrepreneurs, or those who prefer a particular form of government?
Working remotely is probably the most-likely trend to supplant open offices. It doesn't cost the company any hard cash (like real offices would), and any productivity differences are nearly invisible, as they are with open offices.
I worked at Sun Microsystems for a while and their private office layout was really nice. I can't ballpark the exact size but the office could hold 3 gigantic CRT monitors, 2 desk phones, and had space for 2 visitors.

I feel that a 2 person private office is quite optimal, since we are talking about teams. It's easier to pair program or discuss and even maintain silence when required. Office designers will have to pay attention to acoustics and ensure that there is not much echoing or significant noise transmission across walls or glass panels.
Universal API for Realtime was not so “universal”, so we forked it
China's theft of IBM's intellectual property
But ice pushed down under the water will increase the water level. If you melt it, the water level will be lower.
no it isn't.

unless your invoices are so large that paying with a wire transfer is better, most companies want to pay with credit card or ach.
I suspect they sign up to the IWF lists for filtering.
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The median salary for a lawyer in SF is about 200k a year. Try finding a lawyer who will work for cheap. Plenty of people are denied essential legal services because they can't afford a lawyer.

Sure, the regulatory capture of the legal market does extend to areas beyond the standard law school market.
Legislators are driven by extreme positions because of the perception that these positions represent enough voter sentiment to influence elections. In fact most constituents are more centrist, which factual reporting standards would highlight.
The 1st column is the lines unique to the 1st file, the 2nd column is the lines unique to the 2nd file, and the 3rd one is the lines that are not unique. -1, -2, -3 allow to disable those columns. Pretty easy to remember.

Ah, HN downvoting neutral comments again and I don't like it, but I have a policy of not upvoting anything out of pity.
I used to work out of an open-floor co-working space. I just moved to a new space that's 2x the price, just because it comes with an enclosed office.

I'm so glad I did it. If I can get just a few more hours of productivity each month then the upgrade pays for itself.
A BEAUTIFUL WOMWN AND ME BEING PREJUDICE
http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/gadgets-and-tech/fea...
Planet Money: Small Change
In Sweden there is two requirements that distinguish a electric bike from a electric moped. A electric bike can only assist the rider, and the speed is limited to 15.5 mph. Any vehicle with a motor above that speed require a driver license and registration plate.

28 mph seems way to high for cycling roads, and as a owner of a electric bike I would too get annoyed if someone passed me at those speed.
I was a team lead/solutions architect.

> Did your team-members enjoy you turning around and
interrupting them?

I don't think it's fair to call all conversations "interruptions" and my co-workers were all very conscious of causing any unwanted interruptions.

> Is it really that hard to get up and walk to another office so you don't disturb 8 other people with a question they don't care about?

It wasn't, and I often did walk around as I regularly needed to interact with other teams. 99% of people had headphones on through all parts of the day.

As a side note, this workplace was comprised of mostly men and women under the age of 35 with quite a few right out of college. We regularly got comments from the interns
that we hired that they chose to work their because of the open environment. Age may play a factor here I suppose.
Couple that with recent articles about ancestry services owning the rights to reuse your DNA.
To the extent that salespeople are relevant and using ML nothing UX wise has changed. Same rules still apply.

My assumption is that many of the benefits of ML can't be used by humans but have to be used by other machines to create a final "useful to human" output.
Not always true. SF is both a city and a county, for example. Also, different states do it differently. Colorado has many cities that span county lines. Yes, going across the street in the same city means you now are under different laws. This isn't all that different than, say, a school district and it's tax base. We do also have regional systems, like the Mississippi/Colorado river watershed districts that help manage and maintain water usage in those areas. These inter-state issues have been cropping up for a long time (Bleeding Kansas, for an extreme example) and we mostly manage them pretty well and pretty silently. Turns out, the constitution actually does work alright.
When I was at Shell we were in the Houston medical center (near it, really) so Shell built a hospital and jammed their people into it in case they ever needed to sell the building. The company didn't bother buying real desks: we used full sized party tables and two people sat in a space designed to be a private hospital room. It was so tight I had to get up and leave to let my office mate in or out. I'd still rather sit there over a dog bone or trader desk setup you find today.

As one of the old farts who started when even the lowliest peon had an office the fact CEOs are discovering forcing people to do their work in a large, loud, noisy space doesn't work isn't terribly surprising. Nor does the fact that 30+ years later almost everyone above a certain level still gets an office even in the cube farm environments. At Shell you could instantly tell the rank of a person by the size of their office. Fast forward to today and you must be an ED to rank an office where I work now. It's a status symbol.
This econtalk episode featured an interesting comparison between US rural poverty and 3rd world countries. http://www.econtalk.org/archives/2016/10/chris_arnade_on.htm...
It's amusing there is so much misinformation on rural America on HN. You'd think it was mostly 3rd world by reading most of the comments on this post. I come from ND, which is an extremely sparsely populated state. However, don't let the rural nature fool you - per capita tax revenue was one of the highest in the nation. It's filled with rich farmers making more than many engineers here on HN. Most of the income comes from Oil & Farming but that excess money is being invested in developing a growing technology scene.

I regularly visit CA/SF as I have clients there. It's a beautiful place, but many things about living in ND are much more attractive.