skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The WSJ article said Apple prototyped one work area, and then multiplied it across the available space.

"Hav­ing set­tled on an over­all shape, the team then broke it down into smaller parts. “One of the ad­van­tages of this ring is the rep­e­ti­tion of a num­ber of seg-ments,” says Ive. “We could put enor­mous care and at­ten­tion to de­tail into what is es­sen­tially a slice that is then re­peated. So there’s tremen­dous prag­ma­tism in the build­ing.” The ring would be made up of pods—units of work­space—built around a cen­tral area, like a spoke point­ing to­ward the cen­ter of the ring, and a row of cus­tomizable seat­ing within each site: 80 pods per floor, 320 in to­tal, but only one to pro­to­type and get right."
I agree with you about a package manager being a good OS feature, but this is unnecessary snark when the two most popular operating systems don't come with a package manager (of this sort, at least).
> HBO doesn't feel like "extra" because it's always been an optional add-on that costs more.

Disney Channel used to be a premium, ad-free channel.
True, but this mob rule rests on the authoritarian mindset of the individuals, and their ability to coerce centralized authorities to use/abuse their power.
Not if we can lock them both in there then forget about them.
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Except that when interest is 2%, you can borrow a fuckton of money with no consequences, but at 15% you're pretty limited by your ability to repay FAST. That's one of the reasons there have been so many corporate mergers, leading to massive centralization of wealth... when the interest rate is lower than the profit rate of the company you're buying, there's plenty of incentive to buy your competitors rather than trying to outdo them.
Hey man, "chapeau" for trying to explain how many of us feel. It is interesting to see that many people think they know more than you about greek crisis just because they have read some articles on the news. Also impressed that Gianis' PR worked so well outside Greece. He proved a clever dude for his own sake
Global hangouts outage?
sure doesn't seem to be working for me (and lots of other people). and since gvoice is linked to hangouts, well, I'm in the shadows. finally.
I worked from home for 10 years, and I thought it was pretty good. Then my company changed policy and I had to find a satellite office to commute to.

I’ve been back in an office for about six months now, and even with the noise and potential for distraction, I find I get more done there.

Could just be the change that I am benefiting from. 10 years is a long time for anything.
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Brazil checking in. People still pay for steam games despite the cost. It is often cheaper than the currency-converted USD price, and otherwise you don't have multiplayer. Piracy is down by orders of magnitude from 10 years ago.
There are always exceptions, I don't think this invalidates the parent comment in any way.
> but it can do a lot of damage if any number of things go wrong.

You can argue the current anti-intellectual attitude of a large part of the population is a immune reaction to the political power intellectuals had when their opinion was sought by politicians.

You can also argue white supremacism is an immune reaction to what some white populations incorrectly perceive as a threat to their historic prosperity.
no, all of these diversity programs make the assumption that women want to do and can do everything a man wants to do and can do, and they strive to make workplaces half female and half male based on that assumption alone. if want to find people who align with the "men are the same as women" thing, just go to a public area and suggest that women dont like tech as much as men -- they will show themselves rapidly. just say that women arent as X as men and they will show themselves, as i have experienced many, many times, both directly and as a witness. i have tons of liberal friends who full on reject the notion that men are usually stronger than women, just based on muscle and bone mass and density. bill nye recently made rounds on the internet with his video trying to explain that chromosomes dont determine gender, and it went beyond what you identify as -- he claimed that sometimes both chromosomes types are found in the same person. he was suggesting that gender is a construct because thats the popular mantra. if you think that gender and gender differences are handled well in mainstream culture today then you havent looked hard enough.
People should be driving in that kind of weather. They should not be driving over, or at the speed limit in it, though.
You can improve upon this by giving everyone VR headsets to shut out visual noise. You'll still need to come into the office though. Face time is important.
https://status451.com/2017/08/06/judging-things-by-their-sid...
We are all responsible for evaluating the reasonableness of claims of being hurt by someone. Otherwise dishonest or mentally unwell people hold us all hostage to their arbitrary claims.
It is the same formula... they just have a lot more filler bodies. These large team sizes are at companies that decided to fix the issue of finding good people by throwing money at the problem. If you hire enough people you're bound to get a few competent ones.
investing in high efficiency gasoline engines is a much better bet. the world will be running on gasoline for decades at least. even if europe (doubtful) or US (very doubtful) pull out of gasoline there will still be billions of potential customers around the world.
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The use of "malice" here seems ambiguous, and I'm having trouble finding an interpretation that makes sense to me. If you say that X does A out of malice, I can see it meaning

(1) X does A, and X expects that X doing A will have an outcome that is morally bad from X's point of view

(2) X does A, and if an arbitrary other person Y did A, X would expect it to have an outcome that is morally bad from X's point of view

(3) X does A, and you (the commenter) expect A to have an outcome that X would find morally bad

(4) X does A, and you (the commenter) expect A to have an outcome that you (the commenter) would find morally bad

(any others I missed?)

(1) seems like a strict definition of malice that is actually extremely rare in the wild (and I don't think anyone here has accused Gizmodo of), whereas (4) is catch-all but seems nearly indistinguishable from "Gizmodo did a bad thing" which is not a very ironic thing to say. (3) sounds more like an accusation of stupidity than of malice. (2) seems pretty close, but one might want to label it "hypocrisy" and it's not clear that it applies here - after all, it's not like the 10-something media outlets in the list who did roughly the same thing were visibly appalled at each other.

Maybe the interpretation should actually be something like

(2') X does A, and if an arbitrary other person Y did a thing A' that (you, the commenter? X?) deem(s) similar to A, then X would expect an outcome that X deems morally bad

(and natural candidates for A' would be right-wing "fake news" or HBD-style cherrypicking in the class of what the perpetrator themselves would perceive as "artistic embellishment and hyperbole to get across an essentially true and important point" but opposed parties would perceive as "intentional misleading"), but then the accusation of malice completely hinges on getting X themselves to agree that A and A' are actually similar. As far as I can tell, rejecting equivocation between extraordinary measures for the Good Cause and extraordinary measures for the Evil Cause is known to be fairly standard for the Social Justice movement, so it's unlikely that the comments in question would expect X to agree, and hence unlikely that the comments in question are implicitly accusing Gizmodo of acting out of malice.
I don't think it's about paying that high a cost, I think it's about having to chase it all over the place. I'd pay double or maybe triple for Netflix, as long as it meant I could get most or all of the streaming content I wanted in one place. This is one reason why Steam is so popular.
Well, if it helps you any, I've always identified right, but...

Maybe the current environment is broken for everyone who isn't crazy?
"Nonetheless, many states do have laws that forbid employers from restricting some employee speech and political activity. And according to a 2012 paper by noted free speech scholar Eugene Volokh, California has such a law—and it's among the nation's strongest. The paper gives examples of how "political activities or affiliations" described in the law are broadly defined, and cites an influential court ruling from 1979:

“[P]olitical activities,” the California Supreme Court has stated, “cannot be narrowly confined to partisan activity,” but instead cover any activities involving the “espousal of a candidate or a cause,” including participating in broad social movements such as the gay rights movement."

http://fortune.com/2017/08/08/google-memo-legal/

California's protections are his best chance.

Link to Volokh paper: http://www2.law.ucla.edu/volokh/empspeech.pdf
Hi there - a few corrections:

1) We're not a pharmacy benefit manager; we just list prices and available discounts.

2) We're constantly looking for new prices and lower discounts. While prices don't generally change as much as mentioned above, they do sometimes change. I believe we're familiar with this case, and this was the removal of a price by one pharmacy benefit manager. We're sorry it went up, but it was only because this price has been adjusted by the pharmacy benefit manager, not because we're up to anything evil.
Agreed. For around £8/month I would probably get Disney's streaming service but only if it actually has all of Disney's content available to watch. If they do something stupid like only 5 Disney classics at a time then sorry but they can fuck off.
Noob question, what's the advantage of using a language library over using your programming language favorite http client?
If Disney streams only feature film content, it will go nowhere. No parent will pay $10-$20 month to access the same 50 to 100 films over and over.

Translation: I'm not a parent... or at least, I'm not a typical one
Not really... IMO whats far more hilarious is to see an editor written in Java handily beat the newer editors like Atom, Code, etc.
"Jason Cole: “If you have someone saying, ‘I’m bored’ and you don’t do something about it, expect them to leave for a place where they won’t be bored.”"

Ah, if it were only that easy. You fight your way through a half-dozen interviews, get an offer, negotiate until you just want to lay down and die, make it through the six-month ramp-up for the new environment, and then you're bored again. Lather, rinse, repeat, until you realize that laying on the sofa in your underoos is more satisfying than the bestest employer.
Open office spaces is something that will be laughed at in the future.
This is one of those situations where you have to exercise your logical reasoning skills. Why the hell would there be an innate gendered preference for a toy that represents something that's existed for only about a hundred years? Indeed, a 2013 study shows that both girls and boys prefer dolls at 5 months: http://www.sciencealert.com/boys-prefer-dolls-to-trucks.

And even if there was a gender difference in terms of preferring trucks to dolls, what would that really be measuring? Again, a five month old couldn't possibly have an association between trucks and building things. You could just as easily be measuring the degree to which infants have an affinity for faces. You can't get from that to a preference for/against CS without a whole lot of handwaving. Which is ultimately the big problem. You're pointing to biological differences and saying that must explain observed occupational differences, without providing any theory of causation. It's an argument that doesn't just have little explanatory power, what explanatory power it does have is based on gendered characterizations. (E.g. hypothesizing women prefer teaching because it's a "nurturing" profession, while ignoring societies that don't view it as a nurturing profession at all, where teaching is male dominated).

As to math preferences, you're comparing tenure track professors, while I was referring to undergraduate degree holders (hence "math majors"). Women earn over 40% of math/stat undergraduate degrees: https://www.aps.org/programs/education/statistics/womenmajor....
Everyone is saying that they are open to discuss this, but as soon as someone says what they think about the paper they are met with dismissal. People interpret his large focus on the biological traits of women, by presenting those traits as the primary cause of the gender gap and without showing causality between those traits and the gender gap as disrespectful. Because it suggests that women are primarily at fault. That he inserted a few disclaimers and tries to avoid responsibility by saying things like "possible" doesn't really make things better but further the feeling that he didn't really care to what degree it was true.
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Yes, I stated that only while it was being reported by the press and I didn't have better information. I mean, come on. As soon as I found out he didn't, I retracted right here in this thread. If that's not enough for you, then that's too freakin' bad. If you think I'm going to apologise for commenting based on the information currently available, you're going to wait forever.
Relative to every other steaming service they have a huge library, I'm not sure what you mean.
> After all do I really need Netflix? I don't watch if for months at a time, and only keep it out of laziness.

I put my elderly mother on my netflix account with her own profile and she couldn't be happier. I saved her a bunch of money that she'd otherwise be spending on cable and as a bonus she's not watching 24hr news that's making her afraid all day. For something that I occasionally will use but she always uses, $10/mo is _cheap_.

Now if I could only nudge her towards some of the Korean soap operas that they have now...
> It's like if I point out that there are fewer Asians playing professional basketball because Asians tend to be shorter.

Let me stop you right there and black swan you for a moment before the argument deteriorates into an alt-right "Freedom of speech" argument.

-Do you contest there are female (software) engineers, or at least one female software engineer, in the highest echelons that are completely technically on par with their male counterparts?

-Can you prove that these female engineers (or even this single female engineer) has a "man brain" that allows her to be on par with her male counterparts?

If you cannot do that, the rest of any argument is bupkis. Until then, females should be assumed to be equivalent regarding that task.

Any large employer that does not attempt to correct this potential disparity to add to their workforce is stealing from its shareholders--to put it in conservative terms, and consequently, correcting any mistakes with regards to this equality objective is fully legitimate.

The manifesto explained nothing, but postulated that "guys like things and girls are emotional and that's why they make worse engineers, which makes the hiring process unfair" which doesn't follow, at all.

Maybe he just got fired for being terrible at logic and science; not a great trait in an engineer.
I've had two different earplugs. I don't remember the first brand, it was close to 20 years ago by now. The second pair is a discontinued Skullcandy. They work well enough but they're not really noise cancelling... more like noise blocking. They're wearing out though. Last week I pulled one out of my ear and it left the rubber piece in my ear. That wasn't fun to fish out.

I bought a pair of Bose QC35 on Sunday. Over-the-ear headphones. Their active powered noise cancelling feature works well enough for ambient noise such as the air system, but not so much for voices.

If there's an over-the-ear pair of headphones with active noise-cancelling feature that blocks _all_ noise instead of just ambient noise and has great sound reproduction, that would be peachy.
He explicitly didn't apply the generalizations in this way. This is a lie invented by a half dozen or more media outlets.
Dunno about corn ethanol, but agave worked:
http://www.roadandtrack.com/car-culture/a33239/that-time-the...
I love my Chromecast, but isn't this discussion about accessing content?

If the content owners don't let you access their content (or they make it a burden to access it by requiring a subscription for another service) it doesn't matter if you have a device that can output an HDMI signal.
Neither you are literally paying people to waste electricity. Invest in a company that actually makes something people use
I quit when I get sick of what ever hierarchy I've been implanted in refuses to flatten after consistent attempts (overt or subvert) by myself to instigate positive change. My life is governed by a set of rules inspired from daoism and taijiquan. First and foremost is "Make good change"(The secret trick is to smile, from you heart). If the authoritarianism is standing in the way of this, it's time to move on.
That's not true. I just got some great answers to my questions. You seem to be the one insisting this is some kind of a tribal thing and it's just not.
I can't imagine it was anything other than Disney looking at the numbers and saying "we're generating this revenue for the streaming companies, but only taking this much in profit; if we run or own distribution we can overcharge more, give shorter rentals, block content when we want to push things in other distribution channels .. and the only cost will be more money for the customer paying for redundant distribution means, more money from the customer to pay for our increased profit, and more inconvenience".

I imagine at that point the meeting chairman said "fuck the customers, show me the money" whilst chugging a glass of bolli and sucking on a fat cigar.

... But I may be getting a little imaginative there.
> I can't imagine that a lot of people want to spend the collective hundreds of dollars to sign up for all the streaming services.

Don't you like to have many options to choose from? You don't "have to" sign up for all of them, it's your choice.

> It's almost asking to drive people to torrents.

I am a Netflix subscriber but there are a couple of shows that I watch and are on competing streaming services, however I didn't want to subscribe to all of them. So I rented them on Google Play and/or iTunes.

I know it sounds incredible but there are ways to consume content without breaking the law.
cleverly sarcastic!
Agreed, communication overhead starts to suck productivity out and areas start siloing off. I think anywhere between 3-5 is a sweet spot.
I wonder if anyone will make a claim about necessary workplace accommodations under the Americans with Disabilities Act for ADD/ADHD. I already take medication which makes it almost OK for me to share an office - a recent change for me after 20 years. But I'm still freaked out by someone literally 3 feet away from me. My social anxiety and borderline asperger's really make me seize up until I can be alone in the late afternoon / evening.

When I had my own office, I was able to do things like coordinate health care, talk to my wife, and eventually the divorce lawyers, but with the knowledge that I could close my door and have privacy - now I have to escape to a staircase to have a private conversation.

Plus, I'm terribly annoying to be around. From my mechanical clicky keyboard to a desk overflowing with artifacts and fidgets of various ilk, sharing a workspace means subjecting everyone else to my idiosyncrasies, mumblings and offensive body oder.
I wouldn't be so quick to think of it as sarcasm.

"Ask IT for headphones" and "find a quiet spot in one of the lounges" are almost direct quotes from the CEO of the company I work for. In the few years I've been working here I have seen the CEO at his reserved seat in our open office area once, and the CFO twice. Not one other C-suite have I seen at their reserved seat in the open office area to do work.
Considering that distribution in future is all going to be digital, this makes sense at many levels for Disney.

If you see the changing landscape, other big studios already have distribution (NBC has Comcast, Time Warner is trying to merge with AT&T). Viacom, CBS and Fox will all make some moves soon. I expect traditional TV to fully transition to digital ecosystems by 2020 as publishing & music did before.

The competition for a user's time and attention watching video now cuts across verticals from the likes of NYT/WSJ/WaPo to Vox/AOL/Yahoo to Facebook/Snapchat/Instagram to Youtube/Netflix/Hulu to streaming services from TV Networks & Cable Companies. There will be a lot of consolidation in the process.

Disclaimer: I work for a Disney subsidiary
That sounds horrible.

Also extroverted vs assertive, I would lean towards engineers are assertive but not extroverted. There is a whole lot more to extroverted that isn't included in speaking your mind, and that speaks directly to why open floor plans can be horrible for many introverted people.

* A person working without headphones on, signifies that it's ok to tap them on the shoulder to ask them a question.
* A person working WITH headphones on, signifies that it's ok to tap them on the shoulder to ask them a question.

This is sarcasm right? right? please tell me its sarcasm!
http://downdetector.com/status/google-hangouts shows many users reporting it. https://www.google.com/appsstatus#hl=en&v=status doesn't list anything (yet, currently).
To me, a debate about pricing is totally separate from the arguments about the availability of options to buy content. You can

1) Buy individual episodes

2) Buy individual season

3) Buy individual channels (FX, HBO, with ESPN and Disney coming soon and more and more networks offering this option)

4) Buy bundles of content (cable, Netflix, Hulu, etc.)

Availability windows also seem to be designed to match consumers demands, you'll pay more to get copies of episodes right away vs waiting a season or two to buy them.

Again, I think it's fair to find the prices to be greater than what each individual is willing to pay, but I don't think the actual options are lacking in the same way they were 3 years ago.
I'm actually sort of impressed how well JEdit performed. Other than micro its one of the only not written in a C/C++ language (the critical components... I realize emacs, code, atom, sublime all have their extension languages).
I read the letter. It has some very good points - many of which feminists have been pointing out for ages, to the surprise of nobody who's actually been listening to feminists. It also has some terrible points, and uses a severe misunderstanding of gender to attack women who work for or intend to work for Google. The decent points it does make are mostly an aside to the main point, which is that the author has a very strong belief that diversity programs are inherently bad and that women are biologically weak engineers.
I totally agree. It's clear that the people in charge are concerned only with their bottom line and margins.
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You pretty much need something other then a PC due to DRM. For example google movies will not give you 5.1 audio or 1080p on a PC but will on the Chromecast. An xbox one S will play most things, but not google content. Functionality may be restricted by country.

DVDs are only 480p, you really need something higher quality on a new TV. I have noticed that HBO streaming looks better to me then cable.