skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Don't know of anything public. At my company, we have ~5' slices of long communal tables. The figure I got from one of our facilities people two years ago was that these cost $20,000/year each. I'm sure the market is up since then, but I don't know how far.

I think you could fit about four of these workstations into one of our conference rooms. So giving people private offices the size of our conference rooms (any smaller would probably be a code violation, and at least inhumane) would cost about $60k/head extra. Maybe less, since some fixed costs like bathrooms and kitchens wouldn't necessarily grow.

Regardless of how the fixed costs play out, it looks like each 3-5 offices could buy a whole additional programmer. We chose the extra headcount rather than the offices.
Did I miss it or did this article not mention online social networks even once?
If only it had died before it was forced upon all M$ employees. Can't stand the random chit chat from people around me, missing private offices :(
The title and the tone of the OP are a bit inflammatory for my taste, but the data and graphs from the research paper are eye-opening: most economic growth in the US over the past three decades has indeed gone to the top 1%, and particularly to the top 0.01%, leaving everyone else behind.[1]

Here's the money shot: https://cdn.vox-cdn.com/uploads/chorus_asset/file/9013427/Sc...

However, rather than debate the causes of this divergence, or accuse "the rich" of anything, we should instead be coming up with WORKABLE SOLUTIONS for increasing the income -- and therefore the spending power -- of the masses in a sustainable manner.

I imagine a tremendous amount of pent-up consumer demand would be unleashed, because THE MORE THE MASSES EARN, THE MORE THEY SPEND ON PRODUCTS AND SERVICES, including those created by entrepreneurs.

[1] Here's the paper: http://gabriel-zucman.eu/files/PSZ2017.pdf
Different strokes for different folks - my thought to that is pretty much that I don't really care what the result will be on the grand scheme, but more specifically isolated nodes and how they will interact with my model/data etc.

Having the ability to see exactly what's in scope right next to the markup to me is invaluable - one of my biggest dislikes in templating languages is swapping between files that define the data in the scope and the template to use said data.
Show HN: Tiny python library for extracting inconsistent format phone numbers
The constant battle between rigidity and chaos.
For development I take screen real estate over PPI. The idea is to run it at native resolution while being very readable, and to be able to work on multiple documents side by side.

(And for coding you actually need height more than width, if you think of a typical layout of a code file)
It's not curve but you can see it as an ultra wide screen which is also very high.
The Michelson Language
Yup bail. And burn any bridges. You were told a flat out lie. There’s no universe in which entry level software engineer means phone tech support.
I would love to see a desktop OS with the Capabilities Security model that Sandstorm uses.
HERE WE GO AGAIN
Technically we would, but not at the cost of such discrepancy, as it usually had a violent ending in the past. Costing lives and entire countries social stabilities.
Except that they've tracked that, and it doesn't. There was a nice recent natural experiment in Seattle, and the effect was negligible.

Do you have any empirical evidence otherwise?
"I was quickly assured this was a bad name for the role and that it primarily was a development role."

And then: "No you will not actually be doing any coding."

Sounds like they blatantly lied to you to get you to accept the job.

"Should I stick it out at in hopes of moving into a developer role or should I begin looking for another job?"

What makes you think they'll suddenly start being honest with you, or start caring about what you really want to do?

I'd start looking for another job.
Ask HN: Recommendations for workflow management software
I am currently looking for a solution (and considering creating our own) for managing workflow processes in our real estate company.

We start with a list of properties that have automated valuations and then it begins a journey through 6 different departments including "Offers", "Closings", "Remodeling", etc.

Each department has a workflow that is essentially a series of "if this then that" type tasks. Most are very simple like "Check if the property has a lien." The choice of task after this depends on the answer to the question.

Other considerations are integrations to third party applications like Quickbooks and Calendars.

I am new to this industry, so any suggestions would be welcomed. I'm actually quite excited by the prospects of building a system from scratch but for the company's sake, I don't want to reinvent the wheel if there is an existing solution that meets our needs.
Why stop there? Just make it 100$ and hour and everyone will be rich!

Oh wait, arbitrary wage increases don't really work out in real life.

https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/seattles-minimum-wage-h...

Seattle's socialist member of the city council fired the Unversity of Washington team after the results came out and hired an anti-capitalist professor from berkeley to ensure the study finds the right results.

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2017/06/29/seattle-commissio...
I think the article gave that as an example of what the system should enable, rather than a prerequisite for launch. The system wide message bus and semantic shortcuts features should make it really easy for developers of advanced peripherals to plug into the system.

For example, a Kinect would be a lot more useful in ideal OS. You could bind gestures to window manager commands, for example.
They probably have a culture of deception at this place and the risk is that they will continue to lie and mislead you.
You can't licitly work for a foreign company from Japan without a work-capable visa, though Japan won't work too hard to detect and penalize this given that you're keeping your nose clean. I'd strongly recommend keeping it legal; it starts to matter a lot more as you put down roots and get asked "So what were you doing last N years?" by various authorities.
That is, like, totally bogus behavior on their part. I'd say bail and find a mondo righteous job.
Just replied. (I have also just added an email address to my profile).
> The country’s exceptionally thin safety net prompts residents—especially those with less-steady employment—to view partnership in more economic terms.

Huh? This is literally the opposite of reality.

It's the poorer countries with low GDPs per capita that have thin public safety nets, and where strong marriage and family ties are a must, economically speaking.

Here in The West, we're so rich that we'll redistribute our money (tax dollars) and allow you to become a single mother.

Furthermore, name me another part of the world with fat homeless people.

Marriage is not "transactional" in the country with one of the richest countries on Earth. With a GDP per capita of 57,466.79 USD (2016), marriage is optional, and economically independent women don't need to settle with mid-tier men, especially not during the "fun years" (e.g. 18 - 30).

Remember, 80% of men are below average:
https://theblog.okcupid.com/your-looks-and-your-inbox-8715c0...
A decline in cooperation is probably a natural consequence of prosperity. Groups with more prosperous, empowered individuals see a decline in mutual cooperation over time, simply because it's not as necessary for their members to stick together.

Meanwhile, groups with fewer prosperous members tend toward the opposite behavior. They realize that the only way to compete with the "in group" is to gang up on them... or at least, that's what they tell themselves.

It hardly seems necessary to point to US electoral politics as a case in point.
The real value of a lot of products and services is more adjustable than your statement would lead someone to believe. Reality is absolutely not an efficient marketplace that immediately culls jobs and workers the moment a certain price of labor threshold is reached.
It's kind of like we never satisfactorily resolved the end of slavery, we had to amend the Constitution in the 1960's because of states scamming African Americans of their right to vote because the post Civil War amendments did not outright prevent weasels from making it hard to vote for people of the wrong skin tone. We might have been further along now if Woodrow Wilson hadn't helped resurrect the KKK and started bringing racial discrimination and segregation into the federal government, the latter development took close to 50 years to roll back.
The Tesla Model 3 reminds me of the times the electronics failed in my first car
No problem. It was a slice of my life, sort of an interesting slice, I always wanted to write it up so thank you for asking. Maybe some day my kids will google me as luckydude and find this story. That would be cool.
It looks like he's still a student, so this is just the type of learning experience that breaks those bad habits. Hopefully his methodology will be a bit more refined after all this.
this runs parallel to a lot of my thoughts. one thing that you don't quite address, and which i believe has derailed all efforts to do stuff like this, is the challenge of getting a large group of developers to agree on a single set of data formats. it is only once you nail that, that doing many of the composition/copy/paste things become possible. some of these formats are easy: jpeg, png, utf-8. when it comes to something like: the meta data schema for a song? a recipe? that's a can of worms and flamewars.

to some extent you've got the DBFS thing that everything shares but that's only of use for sharing so far as you can get easy agreement about what fieldnames should he available for a kind of thing.

you've also got security concerns. if everything shares the same database, any random bit of code can ship that data off to a russian data mining op. or corrupt your song database. or encrypt everything and ransom it. you kind of address this by puttin a layer of indirection here, and having security and access managed via the message bus, but this needs a UI, and i don't think apple, android, or facebook has really mastered the ui for permissions.
> use Webpack's aliases

You are contradicting yourself there. There is really no difference in clarity between an automatic path resolver and using aliases.

> I like Vue's idea of separation computed/methods/data blocks more than mixing all together

It's really a matter of taste.
For Powershell, I made a few functions to automate the process. I have:

* New-ModuleFile to create a new module file.

* Insert-TextIntoFile gives a way to specify New-Function, New-Parameter, and any other Powershell function or Cmdlet parenthetically, so adding a function to a module file is a one-liner. I use the alias "instxt".

* New-Function provides the function punctuation and my closing flags.

* New-FunctionStatement (alias NFS) helps lay out any conditional function, including placing punctuation (brackets) and closing flags.

- Instead of typing all the brackets and parenthesis and variable names, I can type "nfs if text -scriptblock '$text' -else '"No Text"'"

* New-Parameter helps you specify Parameters and their numerous variables, such as Type, Mandatory, Position in the arguments list, Validate-Set List, and From Pipeline.

- Pipeline is a Powershell way of chaining Foreach in an ad-hoc fashion.

* Get-History returns previous commands as objects; these go nicely into "instxt".

- A common workflow is to create the function in the "instxt" statement, and have New-Parameter and Get-History as arguments.

- This way, a previously-tested function can be dropped straight into a module as a new function, with parameters already set up. From there, the module can be simply reloaded, and that function used as any loaded function.

The agility this gives is almost indescribable, and I wish I had a better way to demonstrate. Suggestions?
And even less so if "inflation" has been redefined specifically to be lower, in order to reduce the amount of real money that needs to go into social security.
They should just change their name to Umbrella Corp.
http://residentevil.wikia.com/wiki/Umbrella_Corporation
The whole idea of marriage is to be a coercive force that pushes people away from a defect-defect equilibrium in the Prisoner's Dilemma of relationships.
Most adult rapes are unreported too. Doesn't meant it doesn't happen.
I overclock my 4k display from 60 to 65Hz. The difference is noticeable.
My first step on a non-GNU system back when I had to use those was to install the GNU utilities and add them to the beginning of my PATH. I suppose if I had to support them primarily I'd have gone the portability route, but fortunately I was always worrying about them secondarily instead.
I wouldn't say that innovation in Desktop is dead, but most of it seems to be driven by features or design patterns copied from mobile or tablet. Take for examples Windows 8 and Windows 10, Windows 8 was all about moving to an OS that could run on a whole host of devices, while Windows 10 was all about fixing up all the errors made in this transition.
I like powerline but it really is slow as molasses -- even after I disabled a bunch of the (useless) default stuff. powerline-daemon was supposed to help but, if it did, it wasn't really noticeable.
I would say that if they have to mislead you from the start that there will be little you can expect from this relationship moving forward. You will not trust anything that your boss or this company promises moving forward so I would suggest you start looking elsewhere.
You are making mistake thinking that person is something whole. Person could want a high paid job but at the same time couldn't stop drinking. Or not drinking but eating garlic every morning, or hating math or someting else. Mind easily can hold any number of inconsistent ideas. It is the reason why sometimes people needs psychologist help.

Moreover preferences is something that person could change. For example one can stop smoking, drinking, or start to love math. But not everyone is able to do it. It needs some psychological traits that not everyone possesses.

You seems to believe that person have free will from birth and have ability to consciously choose which preferences she would have as an adult. if you are than it is the second your mistake. If person nurtered in white supremacy environment from birth to twenty, it would be very hard for him to change his views later. It would be very hard to society to change his view later. Because as I said, not everyone is capable to change himself.

I do not know when person becomes able to think himself about his preferences and choose them consciously. Is it age of 12, 18, 21? I don't know, really. But I'm sure that at age of 12-16 when the love or hate to math can be nurtured, person is not ready to manage strategically his/her personality traits. No one at that age is ready.

And notice, than I didn't even tried for now to talk about how girls average attitude to math affects society in a way to make society more unequal for girls who like math. One of the reasons why I'm afraid to touch this topic is my bad English, it is hard to me to think such an ideas in English. I'm more stupid when I think in English. Therefore I need to think such a controversial ideas in one language and than translate to other. It is a pain and translation inevitable lose something. The other reason: before we start to discuss society we need to find some common understanding what person is.

> I say that as a leftist who understands what is economic inequality

If you was a PhD in social sciences I might want to get two days pause to rethink all my understaning of inequality and personality before continuing to argue. If you was a PhD in STEM I might just ignore that, because it didn't matter when we speak about society. But "leftist" or "democrat" or any other political attachment is not an evidence of deeper than average understanding. Even other way round: people who have political attachment tends to be believers and to have faith. Therefore there are more likelyhood that their views is not better then average.
>I think the author wants a bunch of really specific personal workflow ideas/concepts they have to be the standard, which is typically what these rants are.

This one in particular:

>Why can I dock and undock tabs in my web browser or in my file manager, but I can't dock a tab between the two apps?

I mean, you can. It's called the taskbar.
If a face-to-face conversation is important, one of us will spend two minutes finding a good time and booking a meeting. If it's an emergency, my team has a pagerduty rotation. Showing up at my desk is not the best way to do anything.
Your thought experiment doesn't go far enough. The issue is not merely that men entered the previously female-dominated programming profession, it is that they now dominate it overwhelmingly.

Consider that if as you believe men are more motivated to seek higher-paying positions, that would actually incentivize them to throw up obstacles to female competition. If the teaching profession suddenly shifted to mostly-male upon raising salaries, it would be correct to examine if sexism was at work. If we found marketing campaigns like "are you the man to command a classroom", "aptitude" tests that discriminated against women, and male-dominated professional societies acting as gatekeepers (to use some historical examples from our industry), they could very well lead to a significant gender imbalance.

A much more plausible explanation, at least, than women magically becoming disinterested in teaching because they have an aversion to making lots of money...
What does OP mean when they say "an io game"? They reference a few games that have .io domains, but the domain has nothing at all to do with the technology or style of game (or even whether it is a game at all), so I'm a little confused.
We've recently moved into new offices in Frankfurt/Germany and being the CTO of our 40 Person Startup gave me an in-depth look at all the calculations involved. It's simply horrible how expensive it would be to give private offices even to >3 people in our company.

I've fought tooth and nail to keep everyone in small team offices(< 5 people) and even sacrificed my own STO to gain an extra room for this, allowing our company to make the best possible use of the new (relatively lavish) space.

We've got two small rooms set aside as flex-desks(complete with 2 4K Monitors & Gigabit Ethernet via a TB3 Dock) to give everyone the possibility to work in a 1 person office when its critical, but that combined with our lax home-office rules is more of a best we can do approach than a real solution to the office plan/distraction problem.

The problem stems from there being simply no officespaces available that have a default layout that permits many small rooms while retaining quick access to group/meeting and social areas. This seems to be a result of different design goals of other professions that need to maximise for the most amount of butts in seat per square meter, without factoring in the losses that distractions can cause.

If you want to redraw the floorplan, you have to sign rental contracts upwards of 5 years, something no sensible startup would do and even if, the whole investment is relatively large and needs a lot of focus from the company management to ensure its worthwhile. The expensive part is not the additional room the company would need to rent for each employee, it's the amount of empty space(hallways and large rooms) a company would need to rent to have more small rooms available up front.
> Lisp on the other hand won't teach you anything. How hard is this to understand?

Difficult when the definitive compsci course, Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs starts, and ends, with Lisp.

> S-Expressions are MUCH older - it's "Polish Notation" invented by Jan Łukasiewicz in 1924

No. Polish notation, as described by Łukasiewicz, is:

> I came upon the idea of a parenthesis-free notation in 1924

Polish notation has a strict set of precedence rules, and no parentheses. At all.

S-Expressions contain Polish notation, but is a superset that allows you to specify arguments in a less painful precedence than Polish notation, and with variadic arguments, which is not possible in Polish notation.

> that notation is practically useless for programming languages but they're good for ASTs.

Several decades of computer science disagree with you.
As a data point, Thailand has long had an investor visa program that grants anybody who invests 10 million baht (~US$300k) in property etc the right to live in Thailand. The main catch is that working in Thailand is explicitly not permitted.

http://www.companyvauban.com/en/guide/legal/investment-visa....
SONY Neural Network Console
Thanks!

The main code base also gained localization support since your fork :)
> You can't have things work together because nobody wants to share their secret sauce. Everyone is trying to 'be the best' and get an edge on the rest, but in a way that nobody really profits from it from a technical standpoint.

I feel like enterprise customers could provide some demand for IdealOS for this reason. BigCorps have lots of data and application silos, as well as lots of knowledge workers who are expected to synthesize all that data. There are a lot of smart people who are power users but not devs. (i.e., macro jockies). Something like IdealOS could really increase productivity in these places.

Of course you have to deal with all the usual enterprise headaches, mostly security and backwards compatibility. But then they'd pay a premium.
China’s Bitmain dominates Bitcoin mining. Now it wants to cash in on A.I
>It's the poorer countries with low GDPs per capita that have thin public safety nets, and where strong marriage and family ties are a must, economically speaking. Here in The West, we're so rich that we'll redistribute our money (tax dollars) and allow you to become a single mother.

That was then, this is now, as they say.

In the west safety nets might not be as thin as in the "poorer countries" but they have been getting increasingly thinner. And being a "single mother" is the last thing (economically speaking) anyone would wish for in today's climate.

So you're both right. Marriage is even more transactional in the poorer countries, but the article is about how it's becoming more transactional in the US too, which is indeed a thing.

>Marriage is not "transactional" in the country with one of the richest countries on Earth.

That doesn't matter for those who can't find a job, or that are an illness away from being homeless and with no savings -- which are millions.
Usually a free to play multiplayer HTML5 Canvas Game.
People who buy this garbage have no perspective of how much the federal government taxes and spends. Everything discussed here is insignificant in the scope of the federal agencies spending $11 billion a day. Personal incomes are less than their rounding errors.
Easier said than done, especially integrating over the lifetime of a years-long project with many ever-changing dependencies :-)
Viewstamped Replication Revisited – Liskov and Cowling (2012) [pdf]
From "Russians Engineer a Brilliant Slot Machine Cheat—And Casinos Have No Fix" [0]:

> Finally, the St. Petersburg team transmits a list of timing markers to a custom app on the operative’s phone; those markers cause the handset to vibrate roughly 0.25 seconds before the operative should press the spin button.

> "The normal reaction time for a human is about a quarter of a second, which is why they do that,” says Allison, who is also the founder of the annual World Game Protection Conference.

[0]: https://www.wired.com/2017/02/russians-engineer-brilliant-sl...