skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Just a personal observation: when I first moved into a giant-open plan office in 2015 in a big German company, I got significantly more sick. It was horror. Also, bathrooms were unusually crowded, probably helping spread diseases. Since then, it seems my body got a bit used to it and I am sick less often. But is is still more than the times before.

What might also increase days that people are not there: at least in our office we actively encourage people not to come back from sickness soon. We urge them to stay at home to avoid spreading disease further. While I personally might come back to a single office after 2-3 days, as I can't that easily infect other people in my private office, I stay away for a week more often now.
It's based on "VErtical Search PlAtform". A bit of a contrived acronym perhaps ... it's been known as Vespa internally in Oath/Yahoo for a long time.
And people win the lottery all the time. That doesn't disprove that you are unlikely to reach the front page.
As ARM-VPS are available, proper vitualization does work on both x86 and arm. It means that VT can be implemented on mobile (not sure for somewhat custom iphone chips though). The fact that it isn't yet implemented is no stopper. If all three mobile OSes said "there is your industrial-grade isolated vm, do anything you want and note the time/battery/memory restrictions" then problem would be solved. It should not even be that complex as real "virtualbox", because we don't need to emulate an entire PC, only ui-related parts of it.

>how do you deploy VM

Clone OS-provided vm, put binary into its address space from cache and/or network, run. It connects to host system and other vms via sockets/shm and does its job, sharing real hardware in host-defined, predictable way. Virtual private servers do that everyday.

Edit: interesting link I found searching for arm virtualization: https://gizmodo.com/5890453/can-vmware-put-a-virtual-machine...
Exactly, some of this is semantics. To me, a skimmer duplicated card isn't identity theft. Taking my identifying information and opening new credit is.

Again, this whole industry needs to change. We could cut massive amounts of the estimated $200B loss in the US with just simple things like mandatory chip+pin, 2FA or CCV for online purchases, your credit is always frozen and only unfrozen for a 24 hour period at your specific request (requiring MFA). It is so silly when I have to type in my 5 digit zip at the gas pump (something someone could easily find online or by asking for ID) even though my card has a chip.
Elon Musk Gets Schooled in EV Twitter Fight with Daimler
Seems ok for me (iOS 10 in Reeder's embedded browser)
Debugging support for ES6 Modules (finally) in Chrome 61
There technical difficulties at the start but it has long been sorted out.

See https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2015/07/the-s...
Where are you from? I'm guessing that how you interpret the title might depend on your native language/dialect.

Judging by the names of the authors, I'm guessing they're mostly Danish, or at least Scandinavian. As a native speaker of another Scandinavian language (Swedish), I understood the title as it was intended, but I'm not sure if the phrase "sickness absence" is the best way of expressing "absence due to sickness" to a native English speaker.
Hasn't Twitter given us enough characters already?!
I think you are being needlessly inflammatory. The list of 3 items against C++ makes it pretty clear they do have experienced C++ developers.
I don't have passion, I'm just good at what I do.
Long sick leaves are usually for serious stuff that's non-transmissible, whereas short sick leave is usually for exactly the kind of stuff that's easier to transmit in an open office.
I'm working full remote. My sickness absence is almost 0%, only a few days last year due to a flu.
Plus a heavier body can better balance a heavy telephoto lens.
The Mughal empire mistreating Indians has a slightly different relevance to Westerners than some Western empire doing the same.

Not knowing about Mughal is ignorance, while not learning about the bad sides of our own history is (often: culturally imposed) revisionism.
I would think they aren't all that correlated. Look at apple, Steve job treated some of his engineers like crap and they were successful. Its nice to have a good place to work, but I don't think it ensures success.
Most infections clear themselves up after a couple of days.
Thanks for elaborating. It sounds to me though that the solution is modifying your tail lights to be more apparent, rather than running all the red lights.

I will also concede that motorcyclists are generally much better on the road than "analog" bikes, at least when they aren't in a group and their loud-ass bikes aren't waking me up at 1 AM.
Thanks, will have a look at tabulator. I appreciate a list of validators you published on FD site, can help at least a bit when working with non-techies to vet their data before submission.
Support, not definite evidence. It could be that both short and long sick leaves are affected. Compared to that, it supports "not actually getting sick more often".
Looking for sources for a book I'm writing
I'm writing a book based on a story I did in the NYT about my ex husband, who was a law firm partner and, sadly, an IV drug addict. He died two years ago. I'm looking for professionals who are struggling with the same issues--substance abuse and addiction, and possibly mental health issues at the same time, to share their stories for a book I'm writing for Random House.
Experience tells us that this idea doesn't work so well in practice without a compiler yelling if you don't do it.
Canon 5d IV here. I tend not to notice a significant issue with battery life when I have the GPS on (always). I do notice if use the live view mode though.
Now that you wrote it, I feel like I was idealizing the online potential by thinking "you can get online to the right people", but that only helps if you can then meet them in person. Otherwise it's just online contact, which at scale may not be that awesome.
I think what <pjmlp> is saying is that (1) these languages are too widely adopted to fail -- somebody is bound to take the ball and continue dribbling it even if the worst happens (company abandons language) and (2) to have a widely adopted language means you have to be a member of a number of committees -- because without standards you wouldn't become a widely adopted language in the first place.

In short, we're quite safe in terms of if C#, Swift and Go will live on. They will.
Hey now, the GP32 and the GP2X were pretty successful in their niche: open handheld for gaming. Problem is, smartphones killed em for the most part.

I still want a Dingoo A320 but they don’t make them anymore. Only Android based stuff.
I don't think mrweasel's comment was proposing national ID as a solution to "identity theft". It was just positing that solutions must exist other than keeping identifying information secret.
For some sites only 1-2% of traffic is on weekends. But weekends are the only time many people have to research and select complicated health plan offerings.
Maybe it's related to why you felt the need to use a throwaway account to post your comment.
You mean "obedience" in general or "obedience to the current Chinese government"?
Root cause: bad sickness/time off/work from home policies.
haproxy tends to be lighter weight and higher performance. Also, haproxy gives (as this article mentions) a lot more information regarding status information, which can be used to monitor and manage the applications being load balanced.

Also note that Willy Tarreau has been a Linux kernel guy for eons and does a lot of upstream kernel patches, some of which haproxy benefit from. Most recent example: https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/3979ad7e82dfe3fb94a...

Willy also was the long term maintainer of the 2.4 Linux kernel (yes... 2.4), and does a lot of maintenance with the long term 2.6 release. So many embedded companies rely on his trees for their devices it isn't even funny.
I just had a problem with T-Mobile who has owed me a refund for several months. Finally in exasperation after spending hours on the phone I went to the t-mobile subreddit and asked for help getting someone on the phone who could help. Their answer? (aside from being downvoted to oblivion); register a twitter or facebook account to get support.

Fuck that. I filed in small claims.
It's a valid complaint. The site's technical issues have been fixed for a long time. As the article says:

given the administration’s previous efforts to sabotage the insurance markets, it’s not paranoid to view this maintenance schedule as a plan to keep down enrollment

We're all technical folks here. What possible reason could there be to close the site every Sunday morning for 12 hours? In what situation would that ever be the best answer for users?
I gave the steps so that someone can script it. Python and lxml takes 30 minutes to script something like this with no prior knowledge. It isn't particularly difficult, even if it is slightly time consuming.
Anybody else annoyed by all the fixed HTML elements on that page? Here is all I can see on my 14" screen (maximized browser window): https://i.imgur.com/u9L81nY.png
And higher stress levels from working in open offices.
Very true.

In the same lane of thought, I am in love with Go when it comes to microservices, network libraries/bridges and CLI tools but it's very ill-suited for web development. So I shrugged it off and only do web dev with Elixir.

Conversely, Elixir is awesome for a multitude of things but it absolutely can't compete with Go in its strong areas.

Language wars are pointless.
I thought barcodes are already the mark of the beast.

https://www.wired.com/2012/12/upc-mark-of-the-beast/
This confused me as well. The chart leaves much to be desired if the quote is accurate.
On pro cameras, at least, although they have plastic outsides it's pretty strong plastic, and the actual chassis of the camera is cast alloy (usually magnesium-aluminium).

A nikon D3/D4/D5 will withstand a huge amount of abuse - at least as much as my more obviously metal pre-digital SLRs did. Another issue to be aware of is when using large, heavy lenses, a lot of stress gets put on the mount point and that most modern pro-orientated DSLRs are actually stronger than their old film equivalents in this regard, as the engineering has improved over time.

Re: arca-swiss plates - the reason camera companies don't do this is because of the licensing fee (source: I've talked to a bunch of them, and this is always their reply). I'm sure Thom is aware of this, but the licensing fee is not insignificant, and with extreme pressure to control costs it's not surprising that companies very rarely do this. Of course I personally would be very happy to see them included, but I know there are a bunch of people that don't use them, and would resent the extra cost to include them.
> Imagine an idiot (any idiot) blurting out bileful rubbish.
> Give him 1000 words to make his case, and suddenly he's

... now blurting out 1000 words of bileful rubbish instead of 100.
Voyance Pure
Utilizing the parts of the mind that are normally untapped, a real psychic can feel, see, hear or otherwise sense the energies that exist in the "cosmic consciousness". Psychics like http://www.martine-voyance.com/ are simply using their "mind power" and to tap into an intrinsic, psychic talent, one that many of us could develop if given the proper training.
Redbooth raising price of Pro plan, reducing workspaces on FREE plan
Disclaimer: We are not using Redbooth.

This arrived in our inbox today [I was unable to find any information regarding the price hike on redbooth.com]:

Changes to Your FREE Plan

On October 11th we are adding subtasks to the free plan, which makes it much easier to break tasks down into components so you can finish them faster. We’re also reducing the maximum number of workspaces in the free plan from 5 to 2. The workspaces you already have will remain, but if you archive one, you won’t be able to create another workspace until your total active workspaces drops below 2.

Pricing

Additionally, on October 11th, we’ll be raising the price of the Pro plan to $9 per user per month (annual payment) and $12 per user per month (monthly payments). Since you are a valued Redbooth user, we wanted to give you the opportunity to upgrade to Pro at the current price, just $5 per user per month (billed annually) or $6.25 per user per month (billed monthly). If you upgrade before October 11th, all seats you add in the future will be at the current (lower) price!
On the other hand you could use E4X in CouchDB views, which was almost like JSX, but native.
I'm working in an open plan office. My sickness absence last year was zero.

That's anecdotes for ya.
Yea, over the years my best shots have been shot using a heavy tripod. There are times when I don't want to lug around that Manfretto tripod--a tripod that looks like you could mount a machine gun on it.

I've tried monopods, but my best shots are all taken with a tripod.
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Your point would have been even stronger had you provided said alternative source.
The author seems to have a lot of issues with spelling.

Everyone is different. I know an electrical engineer who grew up with dyslexia. So everyone finds their own solutions.

Personally I very rarely spell things wrong in cli.
it supports the TLS ALPN extension which means
tcp (haproxy) <-> backend server or nginx <-> backend server over h2
That doesn't really say much about their skill. All Norvig says is that people who are good at competitive programming are used to quickly solving problems and move around, and that probably isn't good when it comes to real world engineering. I don't think that attests to their quality in writing code, more about the environment they are used to working in. If there actually was a net loss in hiring such candidates, the major companies would stop using that as the filtering criteria to begin with.
Salesforce rolls out data sharing platform on Marketing Cloud
You seem to be claiming:

> "This is little more than an attempt to sanitize information so that all that remains is the pre-approved 'least problematic' truth (fact-checked, of course)."

is equivalent to:

> politicians being fact-checked by independent organizations.

Which is fascinating.
In general, when somebody asks for your obedience and you comply, they proceed with adding conditions.

First it's "no outright porn" then "no naming of private parts" then "no blurring of line between good and evil".

You can imagine their conditions as an area, and your meaningful life as an area, and the Venn diagram of those two stops intersecting. You can't write "Crime and Punishment" without blurring line between good and evil. You can't write about any problems you are having. So now you are writing something banal, bland and unconvincing (as most of communist art is)
Quantum Computing Explained with a Deck of Cards – IEEE Rebooting Computing
VMware's private cloud control panel software requires flash (or at least the version I was subjected to did)

No charts. No fancy graphics. It's all basic crud stuff. And it's all in flash.
There is a Firebase API used by most HN apps. I recommend the Materialistic app if you are on Android.
Easier said than done! I can't imagine trying to find three of the same old car and expect each one to have the same critical parts that aren't already rusted out/failed. Where I am in the NE, road-salt destroys everything.

To add to that, $5K might work in southern states, but I haven't had much luck finding something relatively new for $5K that didn't have serious rust issues as well.
Yeah, I went with familiarity/simplicity in that example.

My point was similar C/C++ don't have a safe subset.
> Twitter's played a major hand in the damage to people's attention spans and ability to interpret communications effectively.

That, right there, is going to need a hefty wallop of [citation needed].
Critical Success Factors of Agile Projects
Uber’s external affairs head Dave Clark to depart – Recode
That is somewhat debatable I suppose. The freedom (if you want to quote RMS) absolutely includes the so called viral provisions of licenses such as the GPL. RMS is quoted as saying proprietary software should be illegal.

As a software engineer myself, I find that sort of demagoguery a bit tiring, and consider a license with less mandatory stipulations as more "free" (admittedly under a different definition than the FSF) than one that has required stipulations. As a result of this, there are many people like the parent, and myself, who could really care less about Free Software but find open source development as one of the most effective software development methodologies. Is all OSS I release also Free Software? Sure! Can someone relicense something I publish with a MIT/Apache license as proprietary software without releasing the code? Sure! My definition is more free = less restrictions, and more restrictions = less free. By that definition, the GPL is a less free (as in freedom for the users / consumers) than the MIT / Apache / BSD.
Indeed this may even help understand why the case of exactly 2 people in an office results in higher absences (50%) than the 3-6 case (36%): You develop a more personal relation with that other person and they're usually not too much of an annoyance, so out of respect for them you stay home when sick.

When you are in a more crowded office this mechanism doesn't kick in because, frankly, you likely hate them at least a bit, and that would explain the lower %.

Finally when packed in a chicken farm scenario, all these mechanisms go out of the window and the sheer amount of germs, noise, distraction and stress you're exposed to trumps every other factor, hence the highest reported (62%) value.
Screw Upwork, i ditched them a long time ago
This doesn't necessarily mean a 'bad culture' -

a) the concept of 'tough love' is applicable

b) were engineers allowed and challenged to innovate? or did their work effort primarily consist of navigating red tape and beurocracy to the point that all creativity was crushed?

etc.

see also: dilbert.
Planned maintenance at varying times, on varying dates, might be reasonable. Planned maintenance every Sunday (i.e., the weekend day that the largest number of people have off, and which would be the hardest off time to staff up for for planned maintenance), a little less so.
Playbuzz raises $35M from Disney and a bunch of other investors
That doesn't work, Twitter is swamped with very talkative persons.
Sunday mornings tend to be a convenient time for churches to do things like help people navigate the exchange.

I'm not sure how much churches have done in past years though. Some information about how the site has been used during the announced downtimes in previous years would be a courageous act of journalism. Maybe some hero will tweet it so that all the online journalists can toss something up.
to their "credit", this doesn't actually mean anything given the msft ability to misuse language consistently to make it sound more magical like
Why the hell do grocery store refrigerators require a web GUI? The most complicated computer in the whole system should maybe be an 8-bit microcontroller.

For massive industrial-scale refrigeration and storage, it might also make sense to add, say, a serial port.
Being a sucker for MOOCs, this is pretty exciting.

The search algorithm doesn't seem to work right, though.
Also, a bit more information would be nice, i.e. when the next offering starts, if it's paid or free, etc.
I'm seeing a lot of percentages and no source data here.
This guy is an asshole.
So, there _is_ a difference. But it's _not_ true that open source (as defined by OSI) says "nothing" about the rights it gives users. It says something. "free software" says something else/more (which may or may not be a good thing, that's a value judgement). "free software" is indeed an (intentionally) confusing name meant to discredit "open source".
Nextcloud releases end-to-end encryption design and poc
Bitcoin vs. Ether: A comparison chart
Thank you. It only took me a couple of years in East Asia to start feeling frustrated by the lack of nuanced, instant and effortless communication provided by stickers when I message over Signal. I, too, have many friends who would otherwise consider Signal and instead stick with LINE and Messenger for this reason.
They both have the same performance for HTTP(S) traffic, both software are the same in their algorithms and performance critical aspects. The limit is set by the harware, they will either saturate the NIC or the CPU.

HAProxy has a status page to see how many requests are processed and going where. nginx doesn't.
We use nginx-vts (https://github.com/vozlt/nginx-module-vts) to get metrics out of our nginx servers, and then we send them over to our Riemann stack with a Collectd module: https://github.com/bobthemighty/collectd-vts

The vts module has been updated in recent months to support more granular reporting of request times, but it's had everything we need for a while.

It exposes metrics either as an html page or a json api.
CNBC charts aren’t too bad. Lots of other crap on the site though.
Didn't fox news successfully fight a lawsuit by arguing they had no obligation not to lie?
Maybe free bad press is how they plan to get the word out.
You really shouldn't share this here per the ToS. Also, the financial Times and Bloomberg machines are vehicles for expensive facts.
If your goal is to build anticipation or excitement in advance of the conference you're doing a mighty fine job!
Getting more sick ==> More resistance against diseases? That's always something i'm wondering.
The reports of crime dropped.
Fox news displays plenty of "fake" (by any definition) news.

They said the city of Birmingham in the UK was a place "where non-Muslims just simply don't go".

Here's a sampling of 50 pretty obvious lies:

http://www.politifact.com/punditfact/article/2015/feb/26/50-...

An aside, I've literally read a story about a guy who writes "fake news" just for cash, and one of the headlines he made up for clicks, is the exact same as something that was actually said on Fox news:

"Says Colorado food stamp recipients can use ATMs to get cash to buy marijuana."

Here's an NPR story about the fake news creator, when he mentions this:

http://www.npr.org/sections/alltechconsidered/2016/11/23/503...

Ironically the last bit of Fox News I actually watched was a "fact-check" segment.

In it, the first lady's claim that slaves had built the white house was "fact-checked". By which they meant they didn't actually contradict the fact (because it was true) but minimized it as much as possible, including throwing in the unsupported lie that the slaves were "well treated".

We actually have documentary evidence written by the first lady that was in the white house at the time, that the slaves she saw building the white house were in fact poorly treated.

But even if they were, why would you bring this up? Well-treated slaves are still slaves.
Tinder is like GNU social, no actual conversations. Fake news