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You nailed it.

In the company's mind, everyone in the office is there to focus on exactly the task at hand all the time. In reality, it comes in spurts and each person has those at different times. When people are in there unfocused, they just distract the people who are focused.
For one thing, I'm guessing you didn't do all your work there, only specific things for short time periods. If you worked in that environment all day every day, the fun would wear off eventually. Also, as people relax, they'll get noisier.
Americans are not allowed to invest in it (yet).
Option A: This crisis is so important that we don't have time to wait for science stuff like falsification.

Option B: This crisis is known to serious scientists, and everyone who doesn't agree is a knuckle-dragging moron.

You can only pick one of those options...
Disney movies are $20/movie mostly.
I started reading up on NEO but found it more confusing than the rest! It certainly seems to have made a few early investors some $$$ on Reddit, however.
What do you think Juniors are for?
IMO, it is all in the execution. Open offices can be terrible, but they also can be good, just like private offices.

There's a huge difference between a few dozen desks in a bare concrete hall without any dividers between desks or a few dozen desks in a room with sound-dampening dividers between desks and lots of sound proofing on the walls and ceilings.

I work in an open office, and barely hear it when people three meters away make a phone call.
I've heard a friend complain about having to subscribe to Amazon Prime, Apple Music and some other service because each had their own "exclusive artist"...
The next step up would presumably be a 3D-scanning method like IRENE: http://irene.lbl.gov/
Ah, that makes sense then, thanks for the swift reply.
That's extremely cool. With decent headphones (ATH-M50x), there is a noticeable difference between the styli, so probably worth the extra work for archival.
they screwed up my award winning office design.
common section down the middle with individual offices on opposite walls, large enough for pair programming, one end of the alcove has windows above shelves, other end has multimedia.
offices to be used as small conference rooms and manager offices, without windows, are in a perpendicular central hallway. i designed this over 10 years ago and a virtually identical design was used for my company's buildout the following year. no one is assigned to the common central table. offices can have the door open or closed depending on the occupant need/desire to be heads down or passively participate with others. each alcove houses a functional team
I recently watched the movie Office Space.

Oh, such a wonderful working environment. To have the privacy and isolation from distractions and interruptions that a cubicle gives. What I wouldn't give to work in such a great office space.
The problem that HN faces is the fact that as social news aggregators become larger and larger the quality and type of user changes. To enforce this we have flagging and removal of content.
The problem with this aggregators is enforcement and policing doesn't scale. Also, as the aggregator becomes larger people want to discuss more and more topics.

Personally I would rather have a HN that doesn't have politically charged topics. Although some of those topics are relevant to the community if we start letting more and more political topics then we can have factions of users and once that starts HN won't be fun to read anymore.

Reddit attempted to solve this through subreddits but that didn't work. Slashdot used moderation. Digg died because they released a new version. I suppose either the censorship or the flagging and removal of political topics and otherwise will be the thing that eliminates HN.

I think that any social news aggregator has a shelf life and you can't keep it from degrading to either something you hate and or something that doesn't serve the people who run the site.
He's basically saying the same thing that got Larry Summers axed as president of Harvard.

[...] stomped Harvard University President Lawrence Summers for
mentioning at a January 14 academic conference the entirely reasonable
theory that innate male-female differences might possibly help explain
why so many mathematics, engineering, and hard-science faculties
remain so heavily male.

At least this guy is in good company.

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2005/02/why-fem...
I find it interesting that one of the reasons GO refuses to provide a way of identifying a routine's unique context is to prevent abusing that as a way of having a session key attached to it... and then the standard libraries go and make a ctx variable to do EXACTLY that.

I think a solution would probably relate to looking at client connections.
This depends on very closely with how precisely you account for inflation.

Accounting for inflation is not scientific. Its a social science. A median household can afford more of and better quality things today than the past, but some measures of inflation will not account for this correctly.
Working in open office plans is simply awful.

Personally I believe remote work, for any tech-enabled employer, makes the most sense. The impact on infrastructure by removing commuting alone could maybe help save the planet. And our collective sanity.

Wouldn't it be nice to have ISPs that can provide an infrastructure that could actually support that? I think so.

The hideous effects of cluster-fucking hundreds of thousands of people daily just needs to stop. Tech companies are guilty. They're huge and, humbly opined, are idiots for making it worse and not really needing to. Top that off with an open floor destination and.. damn, work is beat.
Time to dig out that torrent downloader on my NAS, it seems.

Why can't the movie industry learn from the success of Spotify? No one is pirating music any more because Spotify has everything and their dog without geo restriction (at least as far as I am aware), and those who want to buy music can buy unprotected stuff from Apple Music... only the movie industry is bent on total control and profit extraction.
i don't get it. Can you explain?
How long would it take you to break even with installing Plex, buying the worthwhile Disney movies on DVD, and ripping them at $20/mo? 2 years? They have the same problem with ESPN. I want 15-30 minutes a day of MLB scores and highlights and don't want to pay $30/mo for it, even if it includes a channel for every college sport, the ESPPies, and original programming.
Depends what you mean by "make sense". If you mean save money on office space per square ft, probably not. If you mean fit into Jony Ive's elite design sensibility, also probably not.
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So limit contributions to active valid accounts (minimum membership time / minimum karma level etc), again from a software point of view that's beyond simple. Whether it's the right thing or not for HN is another matter.
Praise and recognition for stepping up to the plate and taking one for the team.

It might not work for everyone or every team, but it sometimes works for me.
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I use hckrnews myself and don't see this happening. Would you mind identifying which threads you think have been incorrectly flagged?
I'm interested to see what will happen to HBO Now subscriptions after next summer. Will it be sticky enough?
Really? You can't really believe that that's true...
Not sure if the answer is obvious here but I don't know much about finance, does 'spread' here mean the difference in the asset price from purchase/sale time (whether by market change or artificial markup) or the brokering fees involved? or both?
Glad you understand the problem. This is what futures are good for. Write an XMLHttpRequest adapter that returns a future, have an easy time composing or aborting operations.
Some kind of surprising comments in this thread. I think many people (obviously not everyone here judging by what I'm reading) would happily pay for a Disney-only service, maybe upwards of $20-$30 per month. Why? Its the mecca for family entertainment. They have Pixar, Disney Animation, Star Wars and Marvel, plus all of their Disney television content from years past. Its a quality brand people trust. Much different than Warner Bros, Paramount, Universal or any of the other major studios. Netflix and Amazon are still establishing their video content brands and I know they don't come close to Disney's reputation for family content.

Its a very logical move from my viewpoint (I don't even have a family). If other studios follow suit they will likely perish from lack of brand loyalty and/or poor execution.

I hear everyone on the desire for convergence. But we don't want convergence without competition. The problem with a Spotify model for video content is that if Netflix becomes the de facto video provider and Amazon or some other provider can't capture a sizable portion of the market, then we don't have room for other competitors.

The current model for movie theaters is one born out of anti-trust lawsuits. Its not a perfect model, but it allows for some competition on things beyond just the movie you are watching. Theaters compete on ticket prices, food options, seating and convenience (by offering multiple films). This would be a suitable model for convergence, but unfortunately it also means legislation to get providers there. And does it apply to the numerous self-starts on youtube or elsewhere? I'm digressing, but my point is that I'd rather not have just one service to rule them all.
> So yes, I believe in an all seeing all knowing AI god that will guide and optimize our behaviors. That is not a sarcastic comment.

We already use much less powerful things, words and images, mostly to manipulate. Plenty don't hesitate to trying to make people feel bad or unpopular for not having a product they don't actually need, and your susceptibility doesn't matter, that they also don't blink doing it to a mentally handicapped or psychologically unstable person is. But sure, just give marketing more power and at some point it will wrap around to being all nice and fluffy... I'm also not being sarcastic when I say you can live in that world over my dead body. It's not enough for you to want it, you need to want it more than I don't want it, and I doubt anxiety or fear of embarrassment is going to be enough motivation, not by orders of magnitude.
> reasonable positions are disputed by arguments, not power play.

"Women, on average, have more neuroticism (higher anxiety, lower stress tolerance)." isn't a reasonable position at Google, or any other big company. If for no other reason, to protect the company from being sued for gender discrimination.

Neither are any of the following statements reasonable:

"Blacks on average are... [insert some negative]".

"Jews on average are... [insert some negative]".

If an employee can't figure that out, you should fire them with zero hesitation. Open dialogue at a place of employment has many limits, and it will never be the top priority. If you say something that offends enough other employees, you're going to get fired, and that's not going to change no matter who you work for.
People forget that Disney owns a lot of must-see content:

For example, here is the list of top grossing movies of 2016 http://www.imdb.com/list/ls074920894/

Disney had the following films

1. Captain America: Civil War

2. Rogue One

3. Finding Dory

4. Zootopia

5. The Jungle Book

11. Doctor Strange

12. Moana

19. Alice Through the Looking Glass

For 2017 so far (http://www.the-numbers.com/box-office-records/domestic/all-m...)

Disney has

1. Beauty and the Beast

3. Guardians of the Galaxy V2

11. Pirates of the Caribbean

13. Cars 3

They own the Marvel franchise, the Star Wars, as well as some of the most loved children's movies in history. They also have a ton of children's TV programs.

If Disney really had a subscription service with all their movies and TV shows, I would choose them over Netflix.
> to extort the Germans

Come on...
> The word "neurotic" was the single thing that got this blown up.

The funny thing is that it's a scientific term, part of the most useful personality model in psychology: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Five_personality_traits
In reality nobody knows, it's very a very complex question that has been barely explored in court.

In practice everybody acts under the assumption that the GPL affects all code that is statically linked together, but nothing else. Some people extend the interpretation to dynamic linking, but consensus is that the GPL does not affect code interoperating over other interfaces like web APIs.
Regarding ESPN, its first party content (not live sports broadcasts) was high quality, delivering both journalism and personality based entertainment to its audience. That quality has dramatically decreased in the last 10-15 years.

TV broadcasts necessitate a one size fits all content strategy where you strike a balance between the degree of content fit with individual users, with the size of the audience you can appeal to. Streaming services have turned things on its head, where stronger niche appeal with inherently smaller audience sizes is winning the day. ESPN needs to address this audience targeting problem if it's going to be successful in the non-live-event segment of sports entertainment.
Of course you meant people ;)

But it's not like this thread is full of people saying the exact same thing who haven't declared they are women.
This sounds suspiciously like a motte and bailey argument. The motte is that hiring processes have biases so we need to introduce artificial biases to make the process fair. That's quite reasonable (if it's actually true). But what's actually going on in practice is people are unhappy with the gender distribution of the outcome of the hiring process, so they're trying to tweak the process to get equality of outcome. To do so, they're necessarily sacrificing equality of opportunity and simultaneously making bad business decisions by not hiring their estimation of the best according to their interview process.

You're right, hiring in tech has gender bias, but right now that bias leans in women's favor at every step. Other commenters have posted research on this point, but I'll add my anonymous, unverifiable anecdotes to the pile. When I was on hiring committees at my old company, I watched us hire women who performed less well on our technical interviews than men we rejected, for the explicit reason of hiring more women. But I'm savvier than Damore, so I knew when to keep my opinions to myself about it.

And still there's fewer women in tech. There has to be other explanations.
I'm happy about German regulations. This would not fly for long in any company with a Betriebsrat ("work council" is apparently the English word) once noise levels get broken.
I'll never understand the fascination with firms repeatedly going for the open office plan. I remember seeing pictures from the early 20th century where such offices existed full of people typing away. I don't know how they handled the noise or the fact they couldn't isolate themselves to do their work whether it was repetitive or novel in nature. It just seems like firms think of labor as a singular mechanical process and not as something that's done in an irregular and discoordinated fashion (as I've seen in my personal experience from working in factories and currently working in software development). I really think managerial practices need to update with the facts instead of forcing the facts to fit with their expectations.
"When"? We're pretty much already there now.

Thank God I'm getting old and will be exiting the workplace (relatively) soon. Repeating lies out of fear for your job is corrosive to the soul.
yes, like an expended channel reference. This way you can open up this reference to handle channel management/cancellations.
Most of the recently flagged submissions were related to the diversity memo. I don't mind if fluff articles from dailydot are removed. But then when a verbatim copy of the memo was posted, and even that was flagged. I highly doubt that was flagged because it would have low quality discussions. People just abuse the flagging system to hide content that they don't agree with.
Maybe, but they put out good content that I personally think is worth the price of admission.
Can't do what exactly?

The author not only clearly stated this, he even included a picture to make it clear:
https://diversitymemo.com/population-overlap.png

Does it really deserve a reaction of "You can't do that here"?
Why is that funny to you? What do you mean by "legitimate"?
#1 is my current method of dealing with all the content out there. I keep a list of movies/shows on each platform that I'm interested in watching. When the size of the list grows to a critical mass for a given platform, I'll subscribe for a month or two and binge them all.

I wonder if companies like HBO plan for this type of usage and schedule their shows to start and end at times that would necessitate paying for an extra month of service.
Running your own (successful) business is always going to net you more money than being salaried. It's the payoff for taking the risk. A company pays a salary based on how hard it is to replace you, not your value generation, whereas your own company nets you $all_the_things.
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In the last 24 hours you'll find plenty of those about the Google affair, most likely shut down by Googlers flagging those links to shut down any discussion. Hard to tell without knowing who the flaggers are, which is one reason I don't like flagging.
Thanks for mentioning the movie. I just watched it.
If you are doing manual memory management in modern C++, you are doing it wrong in most cases.
I really love the vim-mode-plus on atom. It is excellent in many ways (especially how it interacts with Atom's multi-cursor support): https://atom.io/packages/vim-mode-plus
Is it? If he has a pattern of making statements deemed by HR demeaning to women (or whatever the problem was) as was told "don't keep doing that or else you're fired" this could easily be seen as violating that agreement.
The "it's cheaper" argument for open-plan offices only really works when the company hasn't spent $5bn+ on the building. They could probably have quadrupled the floor space for the same price.
I don't know the degree of complexity or technical ambition of the project you were a part of, but it's not unusual for a 23 year old guy to write most of the Ethereum app. In fact, that's probably the reason why most ICOs are a scam, there's an insanely low barrier to building a proof of concept. The boilerplate is like 15 lines.

When it's so easy that any 20 year old backend dev can issue a token, you should already know that no ETH-based app should be worth more than the same business model applied to a fiat currency.
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I think the people signing worse quarterbacks than him are pointlessly making their teams worse. I didn't take a position on the Google firing above; I just pointed out that your employer can hold you accountable for things you say without violating your First Amendment rights.

http://review.chicagobooth.edu/magazine/winter-2014/how-gary...
The VIM plugin in VSCode is atrocious. I use VIM a lot so I'll be going back to ATOM after today's non-sense. FYI, Ive been using VSCode for several weeks. I also like the settings UI better and the packages and themes UI better in ATOM.
Expecting countries to match salaries an ocean apart is...unwise. Countries have very different economic situations.
That's what the managers have decided...while sitting in their closed-door office meetings.
I find it hard to believe you really read the original piece (https://diversitymemo.com/) and still consider he deserved being fired.
No, I think they just expect firefighters will lay down their lives defending their property, and installing a fire rated roof because you live in a fire zone is "burdensome".

(by abandoned, I meant the firefighters abandon the doomed houses that do not have defensible space)
yup. same for me. Having a search that centralizes all subscriptions you currently have really makes it easy to access that content. I remember the Wii U was supposed to have something similar, it never worked for me. The roku search on the other hand, works just fine. Even the voice search is not that bad.
I was under the impression that when John Gruber quotes a 'rumour', it's because someone at Apple has personally given him complete, direct, but off-the-record information. He seems very well-connected.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_long_tailpipe#Criticism

The biggest nail in the coffin of the long tailpipe fallacy is that you can drive an EV farther on the power needed to refine a gallon of gas than you can drive a ICE car on that same gallon. So, even if you built a gasoline engine that had absolutely no emissions, and oil bubbled up into crude lakes right next to every refinery, EVs would still be more efficient.
I’m firing Google over the firing of the author of that controversial memo
Ah in that sense. Oh golly, you're right. Well best we don't discuss that then, who knows what kind of subversive stuff might be said.
88mph, probably the largest angel fund in Africa in recent times, did this successfully in Kenya, Nigeria and South Africa. Results are yet to be determined

(disclaimer: I am an investee of 88mph)
Basically there is Rewe Dortmund (with stores across NRW) and Rewe anywhere else (including NRW). The latter requires credit card acceptance for all Rewe-branded stores. If a store does not have that, an email to Cologne usually changes it.
I agree with this. Most families in the western world would pay upwards of $30 to be able to show Disneys back catalog to their kids. Unlimited nostalgia. But I hope they don't pull a typical Disney and portion out their content by arbitrary restrictions. Families will pay either way regardless though.
Pretty much what I would do. Netflix has such a large catalog, that I don't bother cancelling during periods when I'm not even using the service. If the content I'm interested in is spread through various services, I'll simply sign up, watch what I wanted to watch, then cancel. One month's subscription is enough for me to catch up on a season's worth of some series I like.

This however creates the incentive for providers to start enforcing long term contracts for the regular price, or a much higher price for a monthly plan, in which case DVDs will be relevant again for me.
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>If every studio thinks I'm going to pay them $10+ a month to stream their content, they are going to be very mistaken

One of the biggest misconceptions about the post-tv-cable world is that people actually thought they could cut their TV bill from $50-$100/mo to $10/mo.
The default being quiet, and respect for others doing focused work and trying your best to not distract them, was certainly a key ingredient.
Welltory packs a lot of science into its app to measure your stress levels
Paraphrasing Tolstoi, every accident is different in its own way. I see that approach as unscalable as current antivirus companies.
Making a blacklist of every possible accident condition is as foolish as making a blacklist of every possible harmful Turing-complete program.
It's ok to copy information. Just makes it more available/searchable, for one.
> If every studio thinks I'm going to pay them $10+ a month to stream their content, they are going to be very mistaken.

https://geekalabama.files.wordpress.com/2014/09/500x1000px-l...

That is what Media companies like Disney want. People always blamed the Cable companies for it but in reality it was the big Media companies pushing Cable and Cable not caring. :\

> Netflix, however, I'll keep paying for gladly because of the library size. For the streaming price, it is well worth the value.

To a point yes. However, the balkanizing of streaming services is growing at an alarming rate.