skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>Yes, it probably is. Is it hacking?

Yes, it's hacking. It utilizing something (shoe heels) in a way that was not intended by the people who designed it to solve a problem.

Putting a router into a shoe that has storage isn't hacking. Changing the shoe to make it possible is.

>My problem is that people [...] think her work is more interesting that it actually is.

Ah, my apologies then. Of course, there is an objective, intrinsic metric that measures how interesting something is, and you clearly are someone with the ability to compute it, unlike the unwashed masses, who are all wrong, and are definitely guilty of the sin of finding something more interesting than you do.

It is especially daunting since never in the history of humanity, and especially on Hackernews, has interest in something been connected to the person who made it in any way.
So will the workers get shorter days, or more paid time off? :)
I asked[1] awhile back if HN readers could recommend tech companies without open offices, and got no replies.

From the traction this article is getting, it sounds like there's interest, so I'm going to plead one more time for leads on companies that respect their employees right to work in peace.

1: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15503008
I think that's the point.

Didn't the governor of Oregon tell people from other parts of the country not to move to Oregon in the 70s? Everyone wants their own private paradise without having to share.
MarrNet: 3D Shape Reconstruction via 2.5D Sketches
Or maybe he/she was a person who was always treated as an outcast for not drinking when society( in the US) constantly advertises that in order to have a good time, it involves/should involve alcohol.

Did you ever think of that before you shot from the hip?

("Alcohol ads typically associate a brand with cool, sexy people and a fun activity.")[https://www.consumer.ftc.gov/articles/0391-alcohol-advertisi...]
Michael Pollan (the author of Omnivore's Dilemma) also built his own writing cabin and wrote an article (and eventually a book too) about out it:

http://michaelpollan.com/articles-archive/building-a-room-of...
I suppose that depends partially on how closely things that unnerve the parents are correlated with things that will traumatize the children, or influence them to emulate undesirable behaviors.

And I don't think a parent's discomfort is sufficient, either. There were things that I watched as a child, with my parents' knowledge, that I still consider to have caused me trauma.
Book Review: Seeing Like a State
I just read today that in vivo confocal microscopy was used clinically in human patients. Do dermatologists do this, or is someone else operating the device? I've only used them in mice, very neat!
The EU is going in the right direction with this, re: the right to data portability in the GDPR. Only way Facebook is going to implement this functionality is when they are forced to.
Right?! "Sure I won't think about this for a year, then I'll remember it 30 days before I need to have it fixed, it'll be great".
As long as we don't have developers that are willing to build only luxury, bought by speculators and remaining vacant. Please answer this.
"So here I am a decade later still working remotely."

Do you feel there's any discrepancy in how far you've progressed in your company in those ten years compared to your colleagues who work in the office?

At some companies you're likely to be passed over for promotions if you work remotely.
The world is poorly designed. But copying nature helps
The incident was far from minor IMO. I think .io has had 6+ hours of downtime (full or partial/non-trivial) this year, long enough to push the annual availability down to 99.93% from what I recall from memory of reading post-mortems.

That was enough to spur us to begin planning to move production traffic off our .io domain as well.
I'm going to replace SRO hotel with single-bedroom condominium in this case, as I'm not familiar with any modern cities that still allow the construction of SRO hotels... If that's the factor on which your argument hinges, we can talk about micro-housing and "apodments" separately...

In every other instance, new luxury housing in a constrained market allows wealth individuals living in mid-range housing to move up. That frees mid-range housing for middle-class individuals to move out of their low-end units. Those low-end units are now free for the individuals displaced by the luxury construction.

This is the cycle that the article is highlighting in action. The key here is not the number of people demanding low-income housing - that level stays fixed, whether they lived in the old demo'd building or not. The determining factor is available units of supply, which is stable once the middle- and upper-income people vacate their lower-end units. This is an observable phenomenon, as highlighted by the original article and all of the crosslinks therein.
What you're saying is it's a walled garden, an app store. Well then it sucks because of all the problems with those, including but not limited to not being very open for developers to get into without jumping through hoops and therefor having limited application choices based on whatever the package repository maintainer decided to do or not do.

All packages including their dependencies is the right way to do it (AppBundles, AppDirs, PortableApps, whatever you want to call that methodology). It's 2017, you can't tell me that sharing a 400k libsomebullshit.so between the 2 applications that use it is worth all this added complexity.

Bonus: It's easy as hell for developers to deploy this way. Of course, it does require a defined and stable base system to rely on, and we know how much the Linux community loathes that concept.

Still, kudos to AppImage for at least trying to do the right thing.
Peopleware debunked the myth that open office plans raise employee productivity. It should be required reading for all startup office managers. If there is a common struggle amongst employees with noise, demand a quiet room/area and a headphones subsidy.
For those who are interested, Joel Spolsky wrote about this a long time ago.

https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2006/07/30/private-offices-re...
I really hope this is the future of games, it helps people be more social and get outside of their homes and connect over something very nerdy. I remember being out at 2am and following a huge crowd for catching a Lapras. It was definitely something different and a lot more social than being in front of a computer.
When did we stop calling it "the peter principle" ?
You're assuming they actually look at their traffic stats after all this time!
Scalable Funding of Bitcoin Micropayment Channel Networks [pdf]
That picture of the Facebook offices in the article looks terrible. If anyone here works there is that the new office? Also is that how it's supposed to look or is it unfinished?
>I never understood why ccTLDs of some third-world countries became popular for hosting production code.

I trust and support my brothers in Grenada.
Very cool! Can't wait to try this with BEGAN! I am curious if this could model some probabilistic decision making as well outside usual image/video application, like with complicated/unknown (inverse) reinforcement learning policies.
The cost of bitcoin is not even comparable to Hollywood or sports or any of the things you mentioned. Bitcoin is entirely based on energy and those things are not. You buy a $5 movie ticket and most of that money is going to actors, visual effects artists, and all the other names you see on the credits. You buy $5 worth of bitcoin and you have bought almost $5 worth of electricity.

Gwern estimates folding@home kills about 2 people every year just in the direct cost of air pollution (to say nothing of the effects of climate change.) https://www.gwern.net/Charity-is-not-about-helping Bitcoin is orders of magnitude bigger than folding@home. It's a complete massacre.
Linear Systems over Join-Blank Algebras (2017) [pdf]
They really are utterly incompetent, I don't understand how they can mess something like Pokemon Go up unless Nintendo is asking them not to make the game too much like the normal one.

I feel like an intern could add better (not necessarily more) features in a single summer than Niantic has added over the entire release.
There's no protection from being a moron. Is drinking a glass of wine a day moronic? Maybe. Is drinking wine like it was water moronic. Yup.
I've used mongoose in the past to embed http servers to C++ programs. Would be interesting to see how this performs in comparison.

https://github.com/cesanta/mongoose

Here's me attempting to optimize REST routing by using Google's re2 regex library to reduce the list of possible regexes that might match a given URL:

https://github.com/nurettin/pwned/blob/master/server/server....

FilteredRE2

https://github.com/google/re2/blob/master/re2/filtered_re2.h
No; I work in on the Turner side of Adult Swim Digital... but I do get to talk to / see some of those guys pretty often.
I see what you mean - those rules don't help with writing code.
Is there no good way to collectively apply some reverse pressure back towards the job market?

I often wonder as I see this, and even worse trends spreading.
Ingress was a total flop, PoGo made money solely off the fact that it was a freemium pokemon game. I don't think it means they're doing a good job just because Nintendo allowed them to use their IP
And for Bayesian GAN, you have a model that generates those two models that are pitted against each other.
I think it's good advice to go with a remix of a solid distro that's emphasizing "out of the box" experience. I haven't tried Antergos myself, but sounds approximately like the target market for Korora which is a Fedora remix, and includes more obscure things like non-free (i.e. proprietary) software, browser plugins, and drivers.

There are some things I have to use Windows or macOS for because the proprietary software only exists on one of those platforms, but day to day I'm using Fedora. I'm sick of the entire macOS and Windows ecosystems. About the only thing making sense for sticking with macoS at least, is that it's the only way to develop macOS and iOS apps. Lock in.
“I am writing to share some alarming signs of Bitcoin price manipulation.”
!pip install <>
A few things I can think of:

1. don't use the same password on your accounts

2. avoid public Wifis. If you do use public Wifis, VPN.

3. use 2FA whenever possible

4. use strong passwords, nothing identifiable to you (no birthdates, no pet names, etc)

But in the end, if the service you signed up for doesn't employ security best practices or saves your password in plaintext, there's nothing really you can do.
For an opensource solution that uses Tesseract, check out ocrmypdf: https://github.com/jbarlow83/OCRmyPDF
The risk isn't a function of developer count alone; for example, a simple and polished feature-complete library with one developer is lower risk than a beta version of a huge complex distributed system with 100 developers.
Low doses of alcohol are a very effective anxiolytic medicine for many people.

I don’t drink too much, but when I’m extremely stressed out (e.g. when enraged, extremely scared, in shock, etc. to the point of being unable to use higher brain function, being ready to fight or flee, etc.), one drink goes incredibly far toward taking the edge off, reducing both mental and physical symptoms of anxiety, and bringing out calm, rational thinking.

Alcohol also helps a lot of people with social awkwardness/fears, which is why so many social meeting places (especially places where strangers meet) serve alcohol. It serves a real useful function there, helping people to be more trusting and open.

Obviously when people drink more than they can handle, it also can have severe negative side effects, and can cause people to have emotional breakdowns, lose their inhibitions to the point of idiocy, lose their basic coordination, suffer memory loss, etc. But the same is true for many medicines/foods/drugs.

Many problematic uses of alcohol are related to people’s other severe emotional problems (post-traumatic stress, ongoing abuse at home or work, working through the death of someone close or a bad breakup, extreme loneliness, depression, etc.). If self-medicating with large doses of alcohol was not an option, it’s not clear what alternatives they would turn to or whether those would be preferable. The real lesson IMO is that we need much better social support and mental healthcare in this country.
FYI: Evidently emacs on termux is the way to go, now that Chromebooks have been updated to run Android apps. https://termux.com/
Swerving seems like it will almost be more dangerous than slamming on the brakes. Never swerve is probably a better heuristic for when to swerve than the one that most human drivers are employing.
I'm not sure exactly how big the per-employee pay cut would have to be in the bay area (or elsewhere) to offset the increase in square footage costs, but I expect that it's monumental.

Which is one of my pet peeves about open offices: how much it's phrased as "about collaboration". If open offices and private/pair/hub&spoke had identical costs, how many CEOs would choose to sit in the chaos? I expect the number is not the 80% that it is today.

And to your point... 80% is a BIG number. Offices are slow moving things, and today, there are contractors building offices for use in the coming decade according to the whims of the day. Big lofty spaces with exposed ceilings and no damn walls.

Much as I hate to say it, this is unlikely to improve on a time scale smaller than 5 years.
Cool, sexy, and fun summarizes the goal of basically all advertising. I don’t think alcohol is unique here.
We have an early leader for the IgNobel prize.

(even though quite fascinating)
Well there are no guarantees in life; except that if you do it long enough, you die. So no, I can't guarantee that someone won't kill you with a gun... but I also can't guarantee that they won't drive a car into the sidewalk where you're standing, fly a plane into the building you're in, release Sarin gas on your subway car, etc.

What we can do though, as a society, is try to maximize personal Freedom while acknowledging that no system is perfect. We can certainly make sure that your right to be armed, in order to protect yourself in many situations, is respected. We can also ensure that The People are armed as a final, last-ditch check on unrestrained exercise of power by the State.

In the end though, bad things sometimes happen. And I don't see the justification for running rough-shod over people's rights, in an attempt to prevent some potential, may-never-be-realized, harmful scenario.
> Some large fraction of the adult population consumes alcohol on a fairly regular basis so I imagine society would collapse if it was as harmful on a per capita basis as something like cocaine or heroin.

That's a rather dishonest comparison to make. Alcohol consumption is very well recorded and tracked due to its legal nature, the same can't be said about cocaine, heroin and pretty much all the other illegal drugs.

For all we know addiction to illegal harder drugs might be far more widespread than most of us would ever like to admit. Especially considering the supposedly recent "opiate epidemic", where the line between "legal prescription use" and "illegal addiction use" doesn't really exist, it's rather fluid.
I have pingdom monitors on my .io domains, to my memory and according to Pingdom there was only one extended outage (Sept 20th) due to domain DNS. I'm growing so weary of people (mostly a developer complex) complaining about everything and expecting perfection from technology products or even worse open source projects.
feature imo. it doesn't seem inherently wrong that the long term residents should have more say than people who may just be passing through. that said, the degree of difference could still be very inappropriate.
Can you post some sources on why the person you mentioned is "posting straight up propaganda" because if it were not safe then why would the FDA clear the a study on lsd?
>https://www.cbsnews.com/news/psychedelic-therapy-tried-by-pa...

That was in Feb.2017
Discussion Paper on Distributed Ledger Technology [pdf]
No one has seen fit to build much luxury housing in Cleveland, OH lately, but what exists already (at rock-bottom prices) doesn't seem to be attracting much population from outside...

Induced demand is definitely a thing for roads, but that demand is from fixed supply of people. In the roads case, it is counter-intuitive specifically because it causes the same number of people to drive more, on average.

That dynamic simply doesn't hold for luxury goods in general or luxury housing in particular. There are effectively no replicable instances of more luxury good = more buyers unless price falls or supply was previously constrained.
Lip-Syncing App Musical.ly Is Acquired for as Much as $1B
Every now and then i see article like this. It is common sense and majority of the engineers are complaining about open offices. BUT i don't see any news or changes happening in creating "focus friendly" work environment. When is it going to start?
Miiskin tries to develop such a recognition algorithm [0]. To get the training sets they offer a app which allows you to take pictures, periodically reminds you and keep track of moles. The pictures are uploaded outside EU and linked with PII like email, sex & year of birth. Including possible pictures of your face, breasts and genitals [1].

I don't want to pay with my personal data. Is such an app recommended and are there open source alternatives?

[0] with the purpose of enabling our Image Pattern Processing system in 3.12 http://miiskin.com/legals/

[1] https://youtu.be/pTzk7rfcc-I
I don't see it as any more social to be honest. I live in Hong Kong, and people walking on their phones was already bad enough before games like Pokemon Go came out. It's not fun when you have to weave around people walking at a snail's pace on their phone, or have to bump shoulders with every other person because they don't see you until you're on top of their feet. My personal favourite is when people genuinely stand at traffic lights for 5 minutes because they don't realise the lights have even turned green.
We didn't. The Peter Principle refers to a completely different phenomenon-- "Rise to the level of your own incompetence."
Who's gonna invent an ultrasonic contraceptive?
Our API for doing this is quite simple:

POST https://api.cloudflare.com/client/v4/zones/:zone_id/custom_hostnames
{
"hostname":"app.example.com",
"ssl": {
"method":"http",
"type":"dv"
}
}

In addition to "http" (described in this thread) we also support "cname" and "email" methods for validation. Some of our customers prefer these other methods as it lets us issue the certificates before /their/ customer points the CNAME over.

Once we receive the call we generate multiple certificates for each hostname: one SHA-2/ECDSA that's presented to modern browsers and one SHA-2/RSA that we serve to legacy ones that don't support ECC. (Let's Encrypt doesn't do SHA-2/ECDSA signing yet but plans to sometime next year.)

We also support uploading your own custom certificates for those that, e.g. see value in Extended Validation (EV):

POST https://api.cloudflare.com/client/v4/zones/:zone_id/custom_hostnames
{
"hostname":"app.example.com",
"ssl": {
"custom_certificate": "$MYCERT",
"custom_key": "$MYKEY"
}
}

Where $MYCERT and $MYKEY are the PEM payloads with newlines removed.
At both the startup and my current employer my salary has increased and I've been promoted. I'm happy where I am professionally and my income supports my family. So I think I'm doing okay.

I've been good about finding high impact projects that I can either handle mostly on my own or with a small team. I've also been fortunate to work for good companies, and had mostly good managers and coworkers.

There are definitely some frustrations and downsides to working from home, but overall for me I prefer it and I believe I've contributed more value to the companies I've worked for than if I had been in the office every day.

I just spent a week out in CA for my current employer, who has recently converted to a full open office plan and the environment seemed very chaotic to me. I certainly didn't get as much done than when I am at home (part of this is because I wasn't using my usual work-station).

When I last worked full time in an office, we had half-height cubicles with 4 employees to a "pod" which worked okay for me at the time. But I was doing sysadmin/devops work then so I was used to constant interruptions. As a programmer now, I can't imagine getting anything done outside a quiet office.

I can't even read a book anymore if I hear voices in the background. I wonder if the ability to do so has atrophied?
Seedship
Oh, I had the same idea for a long time, but haven't ever came around making it real. Although I wanted to make it for android, not iOS.

Good luck with your app, guys.
Given this is MIT licensed instead of GPL like mongoose, it's already leaps and bounds more useful for embedding.
what's new is the subscription version in high definition. it's 10x better than it was...
Well, you have them create a DNAME that maps theirhostname.theirdomain to yourhostidorsomething.yourdomain, and then you have in your nameserver A and AAAA records for yourhostidorsomething.yourdomain and a TXT record for _acme-challenge.yourhostidorsomething.yourdomain!?

(Obviously doesn't work if they are to keep control over other subdomains of theirhostname.theirdomain, and also, I haven't tried it with DNAMEs, so I don't know whether their implementation is buggy.)
The downvotes are ill-informed, maybe its the tone. Yes more productivity should decrease labor demand ATBE, but labor economics literature typically emphasizes that standards of living can only increase in the long run if productivity increases. That implies real income gains generally.

But that discussion is irrelevant to this article — the point is that exoskeletons are cool.
Viasat gives their engineers private offices, from what I've seen.
Don't forget that modern work can only get done by at minimum 5 people collaborating while staring at the same screen. They also need headphones on.

That changes once you are VP. Then you need an office with window to do work.
In Amazon’s game engine, voice actors can now be replaced with robots
Just looking at the software entries and when I see "still can't X effectively" I'm left thinking, "And neither can anyone else".

One of the most interesting things I've discovered as I've gotten older is that I sometimes have a great success and then I think, "Awesome! This is the way to do it!" Then I try to duplicate that success and... it doesn't work. Now I'm left wondering whether my previous success was because of my actions or in spite of my actions (or not related at all).

So frequently we read from people who are really good at promoting themselves and they say "This is the new super sauce!" They really are convinced themselves, but that's mostly overconfidence. It's worse when the thing they discover makes tons of sense, but doesn't really work the way you might imagine it would.

It's an exciting time to be a programmer because there is still so much to discover. It's also a stressful time because everyone sucks badly at this stuff. Those who think they've got it figured out usually (in my experience) have either very low expectations or very poor observations skills ;-)
Cynical hypothesis: if your company has an open office, your productivity as an employee isn't actually a factor in the company's predicted bottom line. The company exists as a talent pool to be acquihired, and the work exists as an ongoing advertisement for that talent pool.

If bootstrapped companies had a lower rate of open-office architecture than venture-backed companies, I'd take this as pretty good supporting evidence.
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