skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
“My atypical career: from rock to startup financing”
Another gem from this blog:
http://javlaskitsystem.se/2012/09/the-doctor-that-rocks-the-...
Here's my experience of POS, contrasted with my experience of the previous system.

- Write down words as customer orders on duplicate orderpad thing. One copy to kitchen, one to us.

- Write down words as customer orders. Get back to bar and start using POS system. Faff around trying to get it to add custom requests. Get moaned at by other person who also needs to put an order through. Click wrong thing, get annoyed. Fix it. Check a final time that it's consistent with my notepad. Send.

There are lots of things POS improved if I'm honest, but none of it was an improvement for the waiting staff in my experience. Things are obviously much better now - but the reason everyone hated the machine (even ignoring the freezes/crashes) was because it made a previously simple task have 15 extra time-consuming steps.
Klout is gangsta
As a separate comment, since it's a bit of a digression- the Green Revolution has not been all good. High yield agriculture has an -I believe- uncontroversial effect on the environment, including habitat loss and reduced crop biodiversity, but apparently also carbon emissions (because it relies on fossil fuels). There's a discussion of the environmental impacts on wikipedia:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Green_Revolution#Environmental...

This includes an ominous note about reliance on non-renewable resources:

Dependence on non-renewable resources

Most high intensity agricultural production is highly reliant on non-renewable resources. Agricultural machinery and transport, as well as the production of pesticides and nitrates all depend on fossil fuels.[73] Moreover, the essential mineral nutrient phosphorus is often a limiting factor in crop cultivation, while phosphorus mines are rapidly being depleted worldwide.[74] The failure to depart from these non-sustainable agricultural production methods could potentially lead to a large scale collapse of the current system of intensive food production within this century.

In other words, the Green Revolution may not be much more sustainable than the Industrial Revolution and may prove to be just as harmful further down the line, exactly because it allowed us to feed an additional 5 billion mouths or so. I guess the argument is that it doesn't really scale that well.
I failed.

After 20 attempts, I was still a failure

I was about to give up

But one thing changed everything

I was watching a documentary on lions, and I came to know something interesting.

Lions fail 8 times out of 10

They fail a lot and one mistake may make them lose their life and reign.

But do they give up? Do they cry and complain?

No!!

They Fail - Learn - Evolve

And that's why they are called King of Animals

It was an important learning for me.

I will fail, but I must learn and evolve from them and never give up on my dreams. And thats keeps me going

As someone has rightly said, “If size really mattered, the elephant would be king of the jungle.”
It is selection bias, but the study shows more work being done. If people who self-selected for working from home would do so to try to avoid working, then why there would be positive result (and more work done)?
I honestly don't know where to look at. I just read the article.
Not really true, it’s easy to make the case that work must be done on site. Company policy prevents source code from leaving, or network resources are not available outside the office or something.
> hackers don't work in noisy, open spaces; they work in rooms with doors.

> They work in cosy, neighborhoody places with people around

Which is it?

That article did not age well.
Man changed address of UPS headquarters to his own apartment
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Whoops, a bit dated abbreviation. Sorry. I usually spell things out as I appreciate this can be annoying.

Configuration Management. The f was often shown as lowercase, as Cf is short for Configuration (don't look for a middle word :) No one knows why.
Energy is still required to transmit those (e-mail) bits.
I don't know about you, but when I finish the stuff I have tasked for the [time period], I immediately start building tools that scratch itches I've had. Some of these have gone on to be rather impactful where I've worked, and I'd never have built them if my time were tightly managed.
> Like one would say, what about the effects of water vapor on climate change?

Is that a skeptics' thing? The answer is, water vapour is yet another positive feedback.
https://www.nasa.gov/topics/earth/features/vapor_warming.htm...
Why would anyone set more than the minimum?
Precisely. What you suggest here would be a good start - if they took notes, even one evening would pick up probably 20-30 significant UI issues.

Next, get the most attractive member of the waitstaff to go through the same process with your prototype. Ideally offer minimal prompting. Ask them at each step what they expected to see. Take notes. Repeat for the rest of the waitstaff, if possible.

The designer of a UI being able to do everything they need with it quickly and easily is the first step. The intended user being able do so with minimal training is a much later, much more important step.
I road some wooden escalators in Budapest many years ago. It was a wonderful experience. An absolute delight. The wooden 'clanking' sounds where especially memorable.
I’m not sure what the longer play is or how it ties into Apple building in C# or Swift on Windows, neither of which are a prerequisite to iMessage on Windows.
The journalist made a mistake. The paper says:

> After a lottery draw, those employees with even-numbered birthdays were selected to work from home, and those with odd-numbered birthdates stayed in
the office to act as the control group.
It's worthwhile to distinguish between decision-makers and information-gatherers. FAANG interviewers have notoriously little decision-making power, though if you're given a time slot with your potential hiring manager, this approach might be worth a shot.
There is also gender equality. Women find it much easier to work from home!
Exactly, readability by other engineers + compiler optimizations is usually better than some bithacking that may or may not help in terms of speed and definitely doesn't help with understanding. (In this case maybe simple enough, but still).
Cycling down the tunnel is not allowed, unless <5km/h. It's incredibly annoying to be overtaken by cyclists in such a narrow space. In fact, anyone doing this should probably try cycling next to a moving train for comparison.

There's a sign in the tunnel that says something like "cyclists are tolerated, but only at walking speed". I frequently get into arguments wich douchebags who ignore this rule and ring their bells like antisocial nutcases at pedestrians in the tunnel. You know, the way drivers do when cyclists aren't moving fast enough for their tastes.
According to the paper, the random selection was done on participants who expressed interest.

> Approximately half of the employees (503) were interested, particularly those who had less education and tenure, their own rooms, and faced longer commutes. Of these, 249 were qualified to take part in the experiment by virtue of having at least six months’ tenure, broadband access, and a private room at home in which they could work. After a lottery draw, those em- ployees with even-numbered birthdays were selected to work from home, and those with odd-numbered birthdates stayed in the office to act as the control group.
That pdf whitepaper won’t actually explain how to use it. It will describe the synergy of the experience of using it, give three real world customer stories of how it is used (without actually explaining how), and then end with a link to a documentation site that redirects to a login screen that it will take two weeks to get past because your account rep can’t get the right team on the line to approve your account for access.
This is so awful. I once got randomly selected to be a survey participant by a government agency while I was building a path. It was on the effect on my life of an earthquake thousands of kilometres away (there wasn’t any). They claimed I was legally obliged to participate or would be prosecuted. ID was produced etc. He sat and fired random questions at me while I broke concrete with a sledgehammer for an hour. I’d give the shotest possible answer, because I was breathless and the time between swings wasn’t long. Then they did follow up calls once every week for a year at the same time each week. These were were never answered and the messages were not returned.
I have no idea why your story reminded me of this, but it triggered the same rage centre.
Social people enjoy both chatting in the morning and having company during the day.
Which brings us to: knowing when to use bit hacks is as important as knowing how to implement them. And you usually want to know about compilers for that.
Addendum: Google logged me out of some services and I had to re-login with 2FA. It seems that Google is doing something about this, but what exactly?
They just announced that they HAD been buying 75 million shares. The SEC would freak the fuck out if BRK tried to buy up that much apple in one day. As would the market. In reality they have been buying it in small chunks over the last several months.
Do you live in a 1-room home?
What damage will be caused by people using their phones less for fear of getting cancer?

Unlike athermal levels of non-ionizing radiation, bullshit is never truly harmless.
> makes communication harder, and more opaque.

This is true is obvious situations, but also false in some interesting ways.

While physical proximity helps for communication within a team for instance, it also makes it harder to know what happens in other teams, as they also communicate offline.

That means for instance that if you want an idea of the status of a team you'd have to physically go there (are they super busy ? is half of the team off for the day? are they under stress or not ?). If the team is in another building there will be enough enough friction that you won't bother except if it's important.

In contrast, having more people remote would allow to peek into their room and see their exchanges.

You'd also catch some issues or insight on stuff that they wouldn't be discussing with other teams otherwise for instance.

Basically, there is a lot of indirect advantages to have people chat by text instead of direct communication. Does it completely offset the other shortcomings ? I don't know, but it's still a pretty nice effect I think.
Also, "probable carcinogen" doesn't mean what most people think it means[1]:

> Group 2A: "Probably carcinogenic to humans" There is strong evidence that it can cause cancer in humans, but at present it is not conclusive.

> Group 2A: "The agent (mixture) is probably carcinogenic to humans . The exposure circumstance entails exposures that are probably carcinogenic to humans."

> "This category is used when there is limited evidence of carcinogenicity in humans and sufficient evidence of carcinogenicity in experimental animals. In some cases, an agent (mixture) may be classified in this category when there is inadequate evidence of carcinogenicity in humans and sufficient evidence of carcinogenicity in experimental animals and strong evidence that the carcinogenesis is mediated by a mechanism that also operates in humans. Exceptionally, an agent, mixture or exposure circumstance may be classified in this category solely on the basis of limited evidence of carcinogenicity in humans."

Here's other stuff classified as 2A[2]:

* acrylamide

* indoor emissions from household combustion of wood

* occupational exposure as a hairdresser or barber

* consumption of red meat

* drinking very hot beverages at above 65°C

Note that even category 1 contains agents ranging from asbestos and plutonium to "alcoholic beverages" and "the consumption of processed meat".

The categories merely indicate the confidence level that an agent is carcinogenic at all, not "how" carcinogenic it is. The phrase "probable carcinogen" doesn't indicate anything about how likely you are to get cancer from it, just that there is a certain level of confidence that the agent can cause cancer under certain conditions and in certain quantities.

[1]: http://ec.europa.eu/health/scientific_committees/opinions_la...

[2]: http://monographs.iarc.fr/ENG/Classification/Classifications...
That's not a valid design decision. Car seats too small? Lose weight.

Look, I realise now it's a site from 1994, I'm just astounded by the number of people that seem to think this design is still acceptable by today's standards and that I'm some sort of new-age hipster for suggesting otherwise.
My cynical thought on the matter was more along the lines of "any booking that doesn't go into the system is probably easier not to report on your taxes"...
A good excuse for fried food but research sauce options beforehand.
As a Python developer who recently wrote a pure Python ECDSA/bitcoin library, these are very helpful. However performance is not always better. For example I had this function:

def point_mul(p, d):
n = p
q = None

for i in range(256):
if d & (1 << i):
if q is None:
q = n
else:
q = point_add(q, n)

n = point_add(n, n)
return q

but when i changed the loop to this :

for i in reversed(format(d, 'b')):
if i == '1':

I found out it performed much better.
This is part of the reason why people believe in conspiracy theories. This issue should be absolutely clear - either there is a harmful level of pesticides in our food or not. Any ambiguity should be investigated by the police as a public endangerment crime. There should be zero room four doubt in cases like this.
It requires specialised education to guide free play into a constructive activity. There's a big difference between "Here's a lump of clay. Smash it with your fist until you're bored." and "Here's a lump of clay. Let's try and mold it into something together, like a flower, or a bowl."
Microsoft Says It's Willing to Work with Apple to Integrate iMessage in Windows
The paper mentioned how randomization (a lottery draw on odd/even birth dates) was done among employees who expressed interest. So it is a randomized experiment.
We use ahrefs and Similarweb for SEO.
> Which is it?

The statements are not contradicting each other. The first statement is on the in-building level and the second one is on the out-of-building level.
If you think the term "organic" is silly: in German the word that's used means "biological".
Could the points outlined in the article be the reason why Minecraft is so popular with kids? It seems to offer freedom that is similar to what free play does.
I had work from home. Never again in my life. Going to the office helped me to split the time in my day and mark when work and when I can rest. Also, when stressed a coworker can help much more easier than from home. My home is my home, my office is my office. Never mix these places.
>Sometimes they come in late and leave early, sometimes they work from home and I can tell by what they produce they spent half the day doing something else.

Honest question.

You say you manage 20 people. How are your able to judge for 20 people at least weekly if the work they did was in line with your expectations?

I feel like I basically have to read and understand every line written by each developer on my team in order to really get a grasp at whether they're productive or not.

Sometimes people produce very little code but maybe that little code solves a very hard to find bug.

It's something I'm really struggling with as a manager:

My boss asks me if the people on my team are worth their money and I am really not sure how to answer this.
HN is not Reddit.
Interesting discovery: The facebook-like clickjacking doesn't work on Firefox when I have Facebook in its own tab-container (even though I'm logged in, just in that container, not the one I clicked on).

I'm not sure what the minimal repro is here, but if it's the containerization working as intended, that'd be awesome.
Why wouldn't it be? Yes, I certainly can reduce the width of my browser, but that's not the point. Bad design should not put the burden on the user to fix it.
Modern employers provide better lunch. Family time isn't necessarily quality time.
https://github.com/konradit/pebble-taskwarrior
> but, I don't like Java, and I don't like Android's development experience

Android now has Kotlin officially supported. Kotlin is easier to learn than Java IMO.
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This study was about call-center agents, not professionals working on complex team projects.
Something like KDE Connect.
> Usually, it's the boundary between “defintiely DUI [or DWI, where these are distinguished] by BAC” and “quite probably DUI by being under the influence, for which BAC may be supporting evidence”.

0.08 is the legal boundary for per se influence of alcohol. If you aren’t at 0.08, you must be provably impaired by alcohol which is a different legal test. (0.07 could be supporting evidence, but so could the fact that you were at a bar, even if a BAC test was never administered.)

To my understanding, very few DUIs are prosecuted for alcohol DUI with BAC below .08. Even fewer are prosecuted successfully. The BAC of .08 is enshrined in law as the point of “intoxication”, making it difficult to prove the “influence” of alcohol below that level.

> That's inaccurate.

It’s exactly as accurate as saying you have not broken the law driving at 0.01. You might be guilty of DUI at any BAC theoretically, if you demonstrate impairment.
Rick and Morty is getting 70 new episodes
One only needs to google the name "Upwork" to find out whether they indeed "guarantee payment".

They don't. Not by a long shot.
Oh yes. I was living around London at the time, and very well remember being stranded at some station when all trains were halted, shortly after I had gotten on board at King's Cross.

As for mobile phones, I actually believe there were some at the time. They started appearing sometime during the latter years of the eighties, to begin with as rather expensive status symbols, conspicuously flashed by the yuppie mob.

Tangential: Being stranded on the tube was not necessarily a waste of time. Not too long before, I was in a stationary train in a tunnel near Liverpool Street Station, in muted light for the better part of an hour. A woman in her eighties (who said: "I don't like old people") told me fascinating stories about the bombing of London that she had experienced. Only gradually did I realize we were talking about bombings of the first world war. Zeppeliners. Never heard of that before, and found it hard to credit, but of course, everything checked out when I looked it up.
> The most important change is that content processes — which render Web pages and execute JavaScript — are no longer allowed to directly connect to the Internet, or connect to most local services accessed with Unix-domain sockets (for example, PulseAudio).

Finally, some process isolation! That's something to celebrate!

Being able to wrap Firefox in an unprivileged chroot makes for a really nice addition to its security.
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Yeah, 100% agreed. Engineering and CS are way more creative than any business school will ever understand. Obviously this article wasn't written by someone who knows what he's talking about.

The risk profile might be a fair point. If you look at engineering and CS salaries though, it's logical to take less risks. Because the low risk option pays a lot more than in other fields. This makes any higher risk option inherently less attractive.
According to an update on the OP post Google apparently now silently blocked the OP webpage, so the exploit doesn't work in this case - but will still work for any other malicious page. Not cool Google.
Check your API performance while developing with k6
Does Clean Laundry Have Germs?
POC back end service in Haskell
Why rely on a million different copy pasted implementations if one good implementation is possible?
Yeah, now they blocked OP webpage according to an update on the blog. So, the demo doesn't work but it will work for any other malicious page.
Quite a sketchy move from Google... Hope OP will eventually get a big bounty paid out.
except it is true that for whatever you want to call agile there are plenty projects agile values' simply won't and can't work.

i.e. hardware drivers. kernels. libraries built to spec. software upgrades. most products that aren't built on commissions too.
Would be good to preload the icons for the buttons. That was very confusing for about 5 seconds..
Elixir newbie here. If I remember correctly IO is implemented as a process, which means that different write requests are processed sequentially in the order they arrive to the process. The following link has more information: http://erlang.org/doc/apps/stdlib/io_protocol.html
Portugal has the same, though it's optional. And you can login with your national ID card, which is a smartcard. And for bills, you can pay them through the site.

Yes, it's absolutely a snowflake as well, but considering the low amount of messages, I'm not sure that's much of a problem.
>The Wikipedia section that the parent post links to straight up says that the only research that found no links was sponsored by Monsanto.

By my count the section lists 7 studies, 3 show no links and 4 show links.
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what is FAANG?
Ask HN: Which books have made you introspect?
Hi all,
Nearly an year ago, I faced a life-shattering crisis that completely wrecked my world view. Since then I have rebuilt up from scratch, and I have found that a lot of the things that I used to believe were false. Books such as Man's Search for Meaning have been very pivotal in that regard. What books could you recommend for the same?
Developer excluded from conference for his political views on Twitter
Microsoft says that to text from Windows 10 with Your Phone app you need Android
One day you’ll have the misfortune of seeing someones email inbox or browser set up (more toolbars? Yes please!) and the pain is going to be real.
Bounty deserved, yes. Fixed? No, they only blocked his address, anyone else can still grab your info on their sites.
None of those articles made pole position. Only articles with ‘Hackers’ in the subject line, that’s plural, make pole position when amplifying that people’s personal data is under attack.
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Why doesn't the browser simply disable cookies for the iframe?
If there are shared computers in a workplace, it’s amazing how many people set up their personal email on the machines mail client. It’s mystifying how some of them do it and it seems to be accidental.
Facebook, Apple, Amazon, Netflix and Google
So now none can use this service, because I am getting a warning message "The client origin is not permitted to use this API." even though I added API restrictions...
Generating SQL syntax railroad diagrams using Tcl/Tk
How Can You Customize Your Event App to Fit Your Conference Theme? – NVOLV
Please don’t take this as a put down or anything. I’m sure much of the meaning in Indian literature is culturally inaccessible to me as well. The problem is 100% symmetrical, one just needs to be aware of it.
They mock vegans and eat 4lbs of steak a day: meet 'carnivore dieters'
There are people who prefer the office, there are people who prefer the home. Surely not forcing everyone either way is the right approach?