skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Being able to dress down comfortably is one of the benefits of remote work.

How comfortable are we talking? Like shirtless? I don't know of anyone expecting people to be office dressed when working at home. If that's the case, then yeah I fully agree with your point.

> For me the dead air in a crunch time call, the need to split my attention, etc. would just increase the stress.

I think there was some confusion about my original statement. I was not talking about being on a video call during crunch time, but that seeing your co-workers on a regular basis helps you know them better and thus have more empathy and understanding when a problem time arises. The point is to build a bond with co-workers similar to when working in a office so that the same work product can be created.

> I think communicating effectively via text as well as comprehending meta cues in received messages may be a learned skill.

I agree, which is why most of my teams communication is over chat and email. My original point was if a meeting is required then it should be video whenever possible. This includes daily stand ups. I have found anecdotally that having regular video chats improves chat and email communication.
I personally experienced this recently. I spent 2009-2014 unemployed. Anything I purchased was a painful life choice. Now that I’ve been employed for years, that feeling persists mostly. Much of what I earn is soaked up by financial obligations to financial institutions. That includes rent, utilities, and insurances. Insurance is even taken out of my pay before I’m paid! I lump utilizes into that as they’re often finances with bonds and amount to an obligation I simply cannot do without. Add to that the opportunity cost of working 80 hrs per paycheck. I’m simply on the wrong side of the finance industry.
Why not place a hidden battery powered camera pointed at your laptop and secretly record what goes on in the room when you're away?
The page you link talks about agreements for the New gTLDs, and as far as I know the contract for .com has not been amended to match this, so it does not apply to France.com. The trademark angle of course isn't changed by that.
No, you said that "courts," as if the Supreme Court had ruled. We have federal laws, state laws and federal judges making decisions based on state laws. Also even if a Federal Appeals court in a circuit rules one way is not binding on all.
Well this is just fucking gorgeous.
Games like Nethack and ADOM were what I'd call wiki games. The only way you can really enjoy and win them is by reading documentation.
https://social.technet.microsoft.com/wiki/contents/articles/...

> If Microsoft, it its sole discretion, identifies a DV Server Authentication certificate is being used to promote malware or unwanted software, Microsoft will contact the responsible CA and request that it revoke the certificate. The CA must either revoke the certificate within a commercially-reasonable timeframe, or it must request an exception from Microsoft within two (2) business days of receiving Microsoft’s request. Microsoft may either grant or deny the exception at its sole discretion. In the event that Microsoft does not grant the exception, the CA must revoke the certificate within a commercially-reasonable timeframe not to exceed two (2) business days.
Investors Sometimes Overlook What's in Plain Sight
I understood the first part but that isn't the same as socialising losses. This isn't the same as bailing out a failing bank because it's too big to fail.
Or to put a more fine point on it, if I’m writing SaaS-style web applications, which as most do are CRUD implementations, where do FP languages and concepts help me out? That’s the question I haven’t seen addressed well in the beginner materials, despite the presence of langs and frameworks like Elixir, Phoenix, Clojure(script), F#, etc.
Wait a sec, “France” is a trademark?
I make less today than my entry level junior engineer salary 20 years ago after adjusting for inflation and cost of living. All ships do not necessarily rise.

Wage and salary suppression is a real thing and will eventually bring our society to the breaking point. We are just beginning to feel the first tremors.
This is actually something many authors aim for. Few readers need all the details, but some do, and this makes it obvious where to dig. It’s harder than it looks to pull off, without sounding stilted... perhaps because it’s the opposite of storytelling, where you build up to a punchline.
Better than Inbox, anyway.
It is said it was a computer error that helped it win against Kasparov.

https://www.theverge.com/2014/10/24/7056493/how-a-computer-e...
In this case this is a library and the information that it is written in Go is indeed useful: you can easily use it from Go code, not so much from other langauges.
An associate was writing lua nginx stuff and needed to refer to the c to find some event names or something. He noticed how nice it was and told me to take a look because the quality impressed him so much, so I read it for fun.

Also, I have seen so many problems arise from the fact that code is easier to write than to read, so I consciously make an effort to not avoid reading code, and I’m sure that leaked over here.
They may not all list it as a hard requirement, but a school like MIT sloan says on their site applicants have an average of 5 years of work experience [1]. You can maybe get accepted with less than 4 but you would need relevant other life experience. (I'm pretty sure HBS listed 4 years when I applied decades ago, but I cannot find a reference)

[1] http://mitsloan.mit.edu/career-development-office/employment...
That is not as far fetched as you make it seem
BitLocker stores your encryption keys on a Microsoft server [1] and is a closed-source software, therefore by definition it cannot be trusted for encrypting anything important. (It is wrong even if your adversary is not a state, because that way you are getting used to a false sense of security that you don't actually have.)

[1] https://theintercept.com/2015/12/28/recently-bought-a-window...
I'm late to the game but wanted to provide some context for the discussion. The dominant EMR in hospitals is Epic - can't find a cite but the ballpark is that more than 80% of academic medical centers have adopted (ie, paid through the nose for) Epic.

As a clinician, I find Epic to be horribly clunky - it definitely detracts from time with patients and impairs collaboration among clinicians by 'hiding' important details in multiple sections/submenus. It's like a Frankenstein's monster of Windows 3.1 and Atari 2600 Basic.

As a researcher, the very restrictive agreements that Epic insists upon have a profound impact on our ability to a) make good use of health records data for research and b) develop extensions to Epic, for things like decision support and risk stratification. (In the latter case, they essentially 'own' anything that touches their code.)

BUT - like the old saying goes, no one ever got fired for buying IBM.

Moral of the story: Hooray for OpenEMR, VistA, and all the open platforms! This round was lost to Epic, but hopefully the next round we can do better.

(edit: - academic medical centers in the US. Rest of world, you can do better!)
Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup is also a good alternative, something that doesn't need so much game mechanics knowledge and is more intuitive.
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Can you predict it? If not, it’s a random event.
I think a set of programmers seems like a common economic interest. At 10,000, that’s enough that it won't only be telecommuting at some point. You would likely need a fair amount of additional labor.

The alternative is finding a struggling city with good bones that is willing to take a chance, but that can introduce all sorts of hostilities.
Social capital
What i find annoying is that no Linux distro comes with sane settings by default, you always have to tweak it until it works properly. It took me a few months to get Xubuntu figured out(and few years to properly customize): it involved lots of google searching and that is most pleasant expirience of them all(other distros can't hold a candle to Ubuntu quality).
Its as if distro developers never used their own product(i suspect they run it through some VM on a Mac).
Here are major things I had to do:
1.Make /tmp load in ram via tmpfs (much faster)
2.Disable swap entirely, convert it to a file partition.(swap is slow ugly cludge that is useless with 8GB ram).
3.Disable hibernate and suspend. (i don't want it to write to SSD).
4.Remove several CPU hungry services that serve zero purpose such as tumbler, whoopsie,browsed,update-notifier.
5.Fix the window manager to disable several annoying quirks: such as entering zoom mode ocassionally.
The overall feeling is that Linux distros are packed with rarely used features turned on, and needed things requiring installing (like e.g. paprefs(pulseaudio)).
The difference between what i have now and default setup is growing more distant every day as i fix and customize more stuff. This also ensures I will stay on Ubuntu 16.04 for the foreseeable future as i don't want to repeat similar "customization/usability" work i've done on one machine again.
Doesn't the brain thrive on cholesterol? I thought I read this somewhere. Also, the study mentions that your brain training tasks should be something you enjoy, so not sure about the math books route.
The story of pineapple
Conductive Paint Transforms Walls into Sensors, Interactive Surfaces
If you find NetHack a bit too intense...

They should rename it Kobayashi Maru!

I read endless spoilers and how-tos and couldn't even get close to the Quest without cheats.
On one hand, that is ahead of the state-of-the-art; on the other hand, that advance was foreseen. Scary as hell, but no paradigm-breaking sorcery.
As for me I just take good old piracetam every day (for more than 10 years already, huge doses occasionally) and feel great. Sadly it is not and will never be approved by FDA as no corporation is interested in funding credible research. Emoxypine is another substance that can be good do take regularly (though in recommended doses only, it is not nearly as dosage-flexible as piracetam AFAIK) if your brain fails to get the amounts of oxygen it needs.
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Another perspective: the developer doing the overriding doesn't in fact have more information; they don't know the future plans of the developer of the class they're overriding, and they don't know about the usage models of other descendants of the class and how they'll affect evolution into the future. The more "power" they use, the more likely they'll be left behind on a version bump.

Implementation inheritance means accepting an extremely tight coupling to the ancestor, and overriding is the main mechanism of coupling. Coupling means correlated changes, and when the developers of the ancestor and descendant are in different organizations, it means versioning risk. This is an argument for very careful selection of methods available for overriding, and strictly limiting the choices of the descendant, funneling them into designed-for usage modes.

Versioning is single biggest reason why C# elected to make methods non-virtual by default, where Java makes them virtual by default. Breaking all the clients of your code because of an implementation design change isn't very desireable, thus limiting the surface area for coupling is usually a good idea.

If ancestors and descendants are in the same repository so upgrades of definition site and use site can be coordinated, or the probability of design change in the ancestor is low, then these concerns are more relaxed. But they're valid in many situations.
Still, I'd expect the scales to be vastly different. Computer chips are getting ever more pervasive, while not every household / office / factory has nuclear weapons and ICBMs.
IIRC that's because Mozilla sources their HSTS Preload List from Chromium
"Stores keys on someone's server" cannot be trusted, no matter what the copyright status is of the code running on the server.

Code licensing or copyright status isn't a form of security.

The issue isn't just that the remote server's code is impervious to scrutiny. A locally installed program that you can reverse engineer isn't automatically trustworthy because it is open-source, or even copylefted. Someone actually has to reverse engineer the binary and prove that it matches the source code. Many users of free software trust upstream binaries. (Even if they compile their own programs, they trust compiler binaries at some point.)
No, she most certainly did not discover the DNA. The DNA (which was not named like that) had been around since Friedrich Miescher's work in the 19th century.

Your statement is at least[#] as ignorant as saying that J.J. Thompson discovered electricity since he discovered the electron. Of course, the electricity had been discovered long before that.

[#] What I have in mind here is that even the statement that she discovered the molecular structure of the DNA is not strictly speaking accurate.
And what about all the blackbox IP that get added after you design your functionality. There could be absolutely anything in that test logic added by the vendor, anything in that random 'process measurement' cell added by the fab. I don't see how the verification required is remotely possible.
The difference is that you don't get blocked by the third party before you even try to start.

You are correct that the law is still there, but it's the difference between innocent until proven guilty and guilty until proven innocent.
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People started worrying about their own situation. And in some cases they lost their houses and had to move out. This would be highly embarrassing, so they probably avoided friends who would ask questions about what happened.
Ask HN: How to get started in computational genomics?
I have discovered this genomics blog on Indo-European genetic research.

http://eurogenes.blogspot.com.au/?m=1

The conclusions are interesting, but the technical terms confound me. Given that datasets are now routinely published, how does a layman with scientific training get started to interpet this research at a low level?
Infinitesimal odds: scientist finds her child’s illness is from gene she studies
I was in the same situation as you for the majority of life. After removing all caffeine consumption in January, I consistently sleep from 10PM-6AM without the use of an alarm. No other significant changes were made to my daily habits (same exercise / nutritional regiment as always).

The quality of my sleep has improved greatly and I actually feel rested / awake in the morning. 8AM-12PM is now my most productive time and I am still in disbelief that I have switched over.
Yeah, I think as soon as he heard any sort of rumblings from those French entities, he would have been smart to transfer away from web.com to a real/first-party registrar. Potentially they would have been less likely to just hand over the domain.
> between Mountain View and SF

You conveniently left off Sunnyvale. ;)

When I read the article I thought it was describing Sunnyvale — with a once-large downtown, replaced by a mall (now failing) while the sliver of a downtown remaining is a popular spot for evening meals, walks.

I haven't been in the area recently but I believe they were planning on razing the mall and putting back a downtown.
> How would you audit the chip manufacturer to ensure that they're using the design you approved?

would pki be of some help here ? where final tapeout is signed with your and their keys as well for example.
The World is built on Probability
We don't have a time machine. Everything consumed today is produced today (disregarding short term storing in warehouses, that only goes so far). I don't buy the argument "but... future generations!" Future generations have to deal with whatever their situation is at their future time. They don't have to send anything back through time to us. If they are so impressed by abstract numbers in computers that their economy crashes and they become unable to feed themselves something else is wrong - it's not the fault of those abstract numbers, and I would think they are either pretty stupid (unlikely, unless heavy metal poisoning becomes a global phenomenon and global IQ relative to today goes the path shown in "Idiocracy"), or their system of a society is extremely dysfunctional.

Money is an idea, nothing more. It is incredibly flexible, humans can do with it whatever they want, whenever they want. Did you notice, looking at history, that whenever there was a crisis humans discovered that "money" is not an obstacle? For example, financing wars (WWII especially), or the recent crisis.
I wrote some guidelines (with a specific focus on .NET) recently: http://faithlife.codes/blog/2017/10/mysql_best_practices_for...
Loss of bees is just the tip of the iceberg ... insects generally have largely vanished even from the countryside here in upstate New York ... in NYC going back to the Nile Virus scare from 20 years ago the city has been performing routine aerial insect spraying so today there is a noticeable lack of any insects, no mosquitoes no flies no butterflies ... problem is this total drop off of insects has also happened hundreds of miles from the city ... as a child I used to see tons of flying insects on any country hike however today I see a tiny fraction of those insect species ... this is hard evidence
Mostly due to increases in the cost of services and housing since we decided not to build more homes.
If I was given all the inputs to the system then yes. If it's known that increasing the energy in the system will lead to such events then yes. I may not predict it will occur at this date/time but one can know that such events will occur when enough energy is put in.

Besides, it's not possible to prove any given event is truly random. There may always be underlying explanatory causes that are not known.
It hasn’t passed certification by your IT departments employer
Integrity in the face of adversity
Inheritance and Encapsulation in SELF [pdf]
I'm pretty disappointed by all the armchair lawyering in this thread that isn't defending the individual/citizen in this case.

.gov, .fr, etc were created for a reason. Trademark law is intended to protect people from intentionally misleading branding.

These two items taken together should make it obvious that France.gov is the only name the government of France 'should' be entitled to. If you are willing to say that France.com should be available to the French government... then it's a slippery slope. Are you going to give them to right to take down critical websites with titles like Francesucks.com or Francegenocide.com.

These lawsuits have played out before between private individuals like Madonna et al.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cybersquatting

Why should a government be privileged to seize any .com that they deem to be in their interest? There is no evidence that France.com was not being used in a nefarious or misleading way.... in fact it sounds like the government had at least unofficially endorsed the site's usage and contributed. It was being used for a bonafide business.

I really think anyone defending a government's 'right' to seize this domain name is forgetting the underlying liberal democratic principles of the internet. Rights are for people, not governments. I don't see how France acting in this way serves its people constructively.

EDIT: It seems like all people care to comment on is the fact that they (and I) already know that .gov is for the US government, while other countries have their own TLDs.

Let me play Devil's Advocate for a moment to hopefully make you think more critically about this decision.

What if you owned a famous China (dishware, cups, etc) company and registered China.com back in 1994. Do you think China should be allowed to take that domain?

Or another, what if a new country were formed that were suddenly the same name as a pre-existing multinational corporation.... Government wins? Always?
“...cloud providers owning your digital properties.”

Not entirely the case. If your domain name represents a registered trademark, I think you’ll find the courts on your side should someone attempt to commandere your domain name.
Isn't convincing yourself you're not old based on your music tastes the first thing old people do
Why do you need an add-on for facebook or google containers? Don't you just open a container, login to facebook, open a different container, log into google, and don't log into either in any other container?
And there are plenty of places in the US where the salary/cost of living makes more sense.
Brain is made of it, so the anti-statin story goes.

Math is fun.
Another article said that he sold the discs for a quarter and that he mislabeled them
as Dell recovery disks.
You don't even need such extreme cases. Companies that are insanely successful are generally not the ones that innovate the most and rarely are they founded by inventors. Not only is Tim Berners-Lee not rich but Netscape failed too. Meanwhile the largest success story of the web is Facebook, a company that uses it to strip mine personal data and manipulate our attention.

Our system rewards value extraction (rent, financial hacks) far more than value creation.
> Dell e.g. has 100 different models each year -- each representing a small sliver of the overall units sold. So if a problem surfaces with one, it doesn't matter as much to as many customers.

So Dell does a much better job at mitigating failure. Sounds like Apple has a lot to learn here.

> Plus, other companies don't push the envelope and move to new technologies as fast, or use as specialized parts. They just throw some off the shelve components as is in their branded box -- with Apple half of the box components is custom.

Specialized parts are a liability, not an asset. How do you replace a broken component that only Apple makes, which they refuse to sell separately?
I'm a volunteer that has been contributing to OpenEMR for more than a decade and the last year, which is well represented by this 5.0.1 release, has been by far the funnest and most exciting yet. It's a great community that is open to volunteers of all types; come check us out.
Ask HN: When is secrecy important? Do “Loose lips sink ships”?
Is it important to keep secret your new project/ product roadmap/ algorithms ideas/ data sources / business insights/ books you read/ insights / grand ideas you have while showering ?

When is it fine to share these ideas? With whom? When shall you keep your mouth shut ?

Any wisdom in this?
.gov is only available to the United States government. There's no way for France to get france.gov.
I don't know, seems like the coming of malls in general was dystopian.
Why do they have to be "unique to Gmail"? The parent's argument was that email is the same thing for 30+ years.

Several mail programs have added integrated calendars and notifications, email snoozing, labels, classification into buckets, context, and so on -- including basics like search.

And of course there are the apps and plugins -- e.g. Asana within Gmail and the like.