skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Companies that don't have the "everyone with an office" culture are not going to accept. Even if they did you sure as hell wouldn't want to be the single snowflake there with the private office.

Companies that do have that culture are so so rare that I don't think you could find a job that matches all your other requirements (location, pay, culture, role).

And I also think most of those companies that have offices tend to be "stuck in the past". Meaning, they still haven't adopted the open office fad yet or are soon going to do it when the next bean counter comes in.

This is quit different from companies that have offices because they are "ahead and over the open office fad".
Itertools (Rust)
I agree. They do a great job with investigative journalism. I highly recommend them as well.

They have a donation page if anyone is interested in helping https://theintercept.com/donate/
It is the same thing that allowed someone to decide to grow high priced export crops instead of feeding their neighbours. And the same thing that allows them to trade their crops for money.

The country of Ethiopia is not one collective organization but made up of individuals. The enclosure of resources for individuals allow independent trade and returns, meaning that gains are not distributed across society but held by the individual.

It is the same system everywhere.

Why are schools underfunded? Why are homeless shelters underfunded? Why are food banks underfunded?

Productivity is best held in individual hands. Taxation is the best mechanism to distribute wealth. However the taxes go through political hands and is thus corruptible.
All the site looks like an ad. It is interesting, but does not take in consideration factors like the damage that blue light can cause to children's eyes: https://vu.ca/en/journal/blue-light-a-danger-to-your-childre...
Not an answer, a dismissal, of that question is in the article. Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence. It is an extraordinary claim to say that disadvantaging many is for the common good.
Not OP, but considering that what is considered varies greatly between country, usually based on what is rare (think fat in Africa vs skinny in the US) and that we don't have a general agreement on what is objectively beautiful it is safe to say that it is indeed a social construct.
> It is the state of current affairs that it hardly raises more than a yawn.

Do you mean here (roughly US, given posting time and time zones), internationally or domestically?

Certainly, internationally, I would think it should not be a great revelation. We all know / should have known, long before Snowden, that all countries with a decent GDP are doing international spying. Those with a poor GDP still spend great sums to do domestic spying. I don't think the [non]-novelty of it is a fair criticism.

Because, like you say, it is an interesting article. Kudos to The Intercept for a good piece. They could have taken a trivial approach but they didn't.

My criticism is, I wonder how the Japanese feel about it. It's too bad The Intercept didn't gauge that for us. Certainly the Japanese have a different standard for privacy than we (US) do, and different consideration of government.
The relevant regulator not the courts. Also in this case there was no harm done and certainly the plaintiffs can't prove any.

Google acknowledged the bug that was fixed back in early 2012!! this lawsuit is a money grab, most of them are.
Counter-propaganda, iow.

> "Polygraph.info is a fact-checking website produced by Voice of America (VOA)​ and Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty."
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Bitcoin is an energy hog: New numbers suggest how big a problem it is
Happens about once a decade or so. Look at fashion trends; look at the women being portrayed as desirable in music videos. Hell, look at the different genres of music videos.

The type of women Sir Mixalot was singing about have an entirely different type of beauty from the kind that appear in goth and punk videos.
There is a great BBC documentary that talks about this war on the brain called "Century of the Self" [0]. It's four hours long, but the first hour covers the gist of it. It goes into the want vs need and how businesses have been taught to utilize this part of our mind.

[0] - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eJ3RzGoQC4s
There's only one right answer to this question and it's: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ZcmTl_1ER8

I'm only kinda joking but otherwise seriously check this out https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TqOVpiXfq0o
I would not short TSLA no matter what. It is very difficult to short a stock and win. Possibly buy long expiration put options "lotto tickets" because there are so many ways Musk can game this and win for a lot longer than you imagine.
Mind your wants because somebody wants your mind.
That’s 74% overweight, not obese.
Amazon Studios Names NBC Vet Vernon Sanders Co-Head of TV
I, too like more data privacy, but think for a second about this: who can afford more regulation? The giant corporations like FB, Google etc. The small alternatives will suffer.

EDIT: take a look at that slide, google invested 40 human years for assessment alone
https://twitter.com/winfriedveil/status/995951301132537857?s...
> Yes, the fact that workers face a monopsony (and one which can and does exempt itself from generally-applicable workplace laws) is why public sector unions are even more critical to avoid abusive employment conditions than private sector unions.

Source? Last I checked the public sector is covered by OSHA.

What rules apply to the private sector that don't apply to the public sector?

[1]: https://www.osha.gov/OshDoc/data_General_Facts/federal-emplo...
All the partitioning tools for postgres allow it.

You can say that it should aim for ~100GB per partition, partitioned by time, and it'll aromatically add or remove partitions.

You can go even further with the time scale extension for postgres.
I have to say that I have yet to see significance practical problems that functional programming solves better than procedural or OOP. I've had debates over this many times, and almost every example is a case of a bad framework and/or a bad language (such as Java's "stiff" OOP model). FP is a language band-aid, not a solution. There may be a few edge cases, but why complicate the 99% for the 1%? I'd be happy to debate more scenarios. Bring it on!
I read that they were burner keys.

With people discussing reverse-engineering the pixelated images to access the keys, the merits of masks, security, etc it seemed like a lesson worth sharing for everyone's benefit here that an email wouldn't have accomplished.
from a random paper from 1995

https://academic.oup.com/jnci/article/89/13/939/2526258

<< A total of 704 cases of childhood ALL were identified. Among 0-4 year olds, the relative risks (RRs) of ALL for birth order positions 1, 2, 3, and 4+ were 1.00 (reference), 0.85 (95% confidence interval [CI] = 0.68-1.07), 0.91 (95% CI = 0.66-1.25), and 0.57 (95% CI = 0.30-1.06), respectively ( P for trend = .09).>>

<<Children born second or later in the birth order had an increased risk of AML (RR = 1.53; 95% CI = 1.01-2.32) compared with firstborns. >>
i really don't like tipping
i pay for my food and that's all it's not like he gave me a ride to the beach and bought me wine or something
it's just a lazy way for the boss to save more money
One would expect a competitive advantage, then, in funding research to try something else. Exclusively following the current best results just means equivalency, and provides no competitive edge.
> it is monstrous that food exports are happening in the context of local starvation

This is only absurd if you consider the nation-state to be the fundamental unit of mutual aid.

If you consider a different division of population - the corporation, or the city-state, or the tribe, or the individual, for example - it makes perfect sense. Even before "monstrous" capitalism, you'd get plenty of situations where one tribe would actively pillage the farms of a neighboring tribe - food "exports" and local starvation.

You might argue that this is monstrous as well, and I'd even agree with you, but that's an argument against being shitty to your fellow human beings, and not specifically against capitalism. Capitalism is just yet another definition of "tribe", where the corporation that employs you is the tribe that you owe allegiance to, damn all the other tribes.
It is extremely depressing seeing the likes of Google, Facebook, Microsoft etc have already headed down this direction.

Over my 20 or so years in IT, it's devolved into scummy rent-seeking and a consumer hostile VC hot mess.
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Seems like a net loss for workers of all kinds.
You're talking about fashion, not beauty. When I see 70s-era pictures of a beautiful girl (in bell-bottoms, with flowers in her ridiculously-tapered hair) I think her fashion looks silly, but I have no trouble recognizing the physical aspects of her face that made her attractive over timelines of at least centuries.
http://www.paulgraham.com/yahoo.html

Yes, Paul Graham is opinionated, for good or bad.
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Why would it be absorbed any better the second time around?

(This thread is making me feel queasy.)
Was McCarthy even thinking of macros when he locked onto code as data? Or was he thinking code generation in pursuit of AI?Asking, do not know. I know macros are a great example of code=data, but I once had a ball using the AllegroStore CLOS database and a homebrewed DB synch layer to handle remote distribution and update of forms and the code to validate them in a clinical drug trial management context, where forms and their validation code are forever changing. Basically, an intractable software maintenance problem just disappeared. That's always fun. http://smuglispweeny.blogspot.com/2008/03/my-biggest-lisp-pr...
Not sure about the speed benchmark, but Stencil's build process could be improved. It takes more than 1s to build on file changes. Definitely not ideal for development.

Vue.js PWA, on the other hand, rebuild quite fast.

With that said, I really like Ionic PWA and the component approach. Will wait for the stable release.
Google and Facebook will now directly control most Internet advertising. All those intermediary organizations that live under a rock, passing tracking data around, have a big problem - they have no connection to the user. So they can't ask for permission to do anything. They have no way to do so.

Google has made some big changes in how they deal with third parties in the advertising chain.[1][2] Third party trackers are being cut off, and advertisers are being encouraged to dump them and switch to Google Ads DataHub.

Google is frantically trying to get user consent for tracking, popping up a deceptive message on every Google search result page. That popup asks you to "log in" to Google. They just assume everyone has a Google account. Without that permission, Google can only serve you "non-personalized ads".

[1] http://www.thedrum.com/news/2018/05/01/publishers-hit-out-go...
[2] https://adexchanger.com/platforms/google-sharply-limits-doub...
The big players are flagrantly disregarding this stuff and have been for a long time. This seems to me like an opportunity for smaller players to be better, and to build in privacy from the ground up.
I read through most of the content, and the quality of reporting was top-notch. The browser wars article, the reporting on the state of online privacy, the discussion of IPOs... all of it turned out to be the major important topics of the early web. Great post, OP!
People eat at McD's because they want a burger and a quart of carbonated sugar water for five bucks and don't give a shit about their health, not because they are poor.

The bulk of their customers have kitchens and could make better meals choices.
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What about making personal information owned by that person and adding a UK-style Data Protection Act to allow people to demand their data from you and correct or delete it if it's wrong?

If it's in the public interest for the government to bring criminal charges against copyright violators, it's in the public interest to do the same for people who copy personal information without consent.
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There is a lot of open fields in that route and there are lot of above grade and under grade crossings. No need to slow for traffic.

Brightline covers a few cities with one long strip of a suburb the entire route. Except in length the comparison isn't remotely fair.
It's quite true that they make money on every ride - what I meant is that we get "cheap" rides while they try to win a "winner-takes-all" monopoly, because they can afford to "invest" in expanding, with heavy losses (4.5B in 2017).

It's also true that it's not sure they will ever reach profitability. Therefore, my comment.
Going into an era of launch vehicle re-usability with SpaceX seemingly so technologically far ahead (still the only party to retro-propulsively land an orbital launch vehicle), part of me feels that this dominance is entirely deserved for having the vision and taking the risk to develop cost effective reusability, and Ariane has enjoyed a cushy position for too long. Another part of me feels that Europe needs a serious competitor to American space-launch to retain independent capability.
> Define rote: mechanical or habitual repetition of something to be learned. This is not something that is part of every day life at all.

I can understand that. It was already clear that you are not the type to give time to learn about rather elaborate tools that have higher learning curves than the average. That's ok. It may not be a part of YOUR everyday life. But not everybody is living your life.

The difference between you and me is that you are implying that vim is pointless and wrong. I'm saying that everybody should go with whatever works best for them and that every approach has their benefits.

Also, attacking my operating system has nothing to do with this discussion. Not a very effective rhetorical method.
The we is the supreme court.
I have yet to see compelling evidence that separates the effects of "clean environments" and "environments with lots of cleaning agents used".

Are there any studies which investigate, for example, the difference between mechanical cleaning of an environment with a pressure washer and deionised water, vs chemical cleaning with household cleaners?
> Specifically, Google used a bit of JavaScript code – the workaround – to bypass Safari’s default blocking of third-party cookies

IMHO this clearly breaks their "Don't be evil" principle.
>they have hired “programmers with quantum computers to fight this stuff,”

Wow, either he's talking out his ass or he's been scammed hard. I'm leaning heavily towards the former given the overall shady feel of the business.

I think it's obvious that they knowingly tolerate these fake profiles, if not actively create them. To give the impression that their site has a lot of users.
Not only that, but 2 cars over 2 years; and, measuring depreciation as a cost. Also, comparing the maintenance cost of owning a BMW to riding in an uberpool. I don't know about your locality, but most of my rideshare vehicles are budget sedans or hatchbacks, or hybrids -- much cheaper than 11k a year in maintenance.

Would he have stuck with 2 cars for 10 years, or 2 cars for a year each? 10 years of uber vs 2 cars over 10 years will definitely shift the savings number in favor of car ownership compared to 2 years.
I'm not sure how eating one's own feces would affect the microbiome but Coprophagia is not unusual for many different species. Without a ruminant's multi-chambered digestive system (see: cattle, deer), animals like rabbits actually have to eat once digested food in order to extract the full nutrients from hard to digest grass and plant matter.
I guess we could speculate that she wasn't bad looking at all, but not drop dead gorgeous, either.

But I think it's true that in general, personality can make a huge difference for both men and women. A captivating, engaging personality, combined with intelligence is a powerful thing.
At least in Canada, to be labeled as a professional engineer, even if it's a computer engineer, there are mandatory codes of ethics you have to follow. I had an ethics class during my time at college for their computer engineering technologist, and you definitely do get taught these things. In Ontario, we have a group called OACETT, if you want to label yourself as a certified engineer, you have to be a part of this organization and vow to follow certain codes of ethics. The only problem is, software developers don't count, and many people who are hired to write code, myself included, are never required to have this certification. I wish we were treated more like electrical engineers, structural engineers, etc, but for some reason code still isn't considered to be a safety risk to humans like a bridge or wiring in a house is.
relevant, as always: https://xkcd.com/1102/
For those of you who use SciHub: do you take any special precautions against malware?

PDFs are a convenient vector for viruses, trojans, etc. And the users downloading these papers tend to work for academic/research institutions that could be ripe targets for hacking & IP theft.
I've recently discovered post-rock as well and it's perfect. It's so boring that my mind tunes it out, which is what I'm looking for.

I've spent so much time trying to find good electronic music that doesn't have any vocals at all, and it's frustrating. Post-rock is great for letting your subconcious drift away while you work.
Sure it may increase your page visit count but it'll make people more leery of following you as you just tricked them for a page view.
> If he were talking about politics,

You seem to be operating under the assumption that science is apolitical. As someone who's worked in science, I can assure you that it is not. Many non-scientists listen to popularizers like Neil deGrasse-Tyson and come to believe in a very idealized model of how science operates when the de facto "nature of science" is more akin to what Thomas Kuhn describes in "The Structure of Scientific Revolutions". I really wish that NDT were a bit more forthcoming about his own experiences in science, seeing as how he barely made it through the grad school gauntlet himself. Ditto for Carl Sagan, who made a powerful enemy in Harold Urey (I can't find a link right now, but iirc Urey basically gave Carl a bomb of a recommendation letter that cost him a tenured position Harvard and compelled him to "settle" for Cornell).

In my personal experience (as well as the experience of many, many others if you dig deep enough into this), some scientists can be very egotistical to a point where they take a challenge to their theories as a personal affront, and will employ insanely Machiavellian tactics to suppress dissenting opinions (i.e., senior researchers are the ones who hold the purse when the NIH makes funding decisions).
dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17119938
Thank you! I badly misread the title of that graph. Edited my faulty percentage.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:USObesityRate1960-2004....
Wonder how this immune system 'priming' benefit is weighed against risks of, e.g. anti-vaxers contacting infants who are too young to receive immunizations, or the risks that many illnesses pose for high fevers.

Are there trade-offs or is there a clear answer?
#1 seems a bit weird. You could theoretically have the DB automatically create new buckets for a hash partition, but hash partitions shouldn't have hot spots unless you hash on a bad column, and creating new buckets will require all existing rows to be moved.

For other types of partitions, partition hotspots would be the fault of the DBA partitioning on a bad column. The DB could theoretically half partition ranges if a range partition is very large, but there are other things that are more important.

#2 is a nice performance feature which has been talked about before, but do any DB's actually have this yet? I suspect that it is quite tricky, and won't be universally beneficial.

Is #3 really a problem? I certainly wouldn't expect schema changes to perform well, and increasing complexity just to help in this area would seem silly.
> It's not that hard to find places that have garage parking arrangements

Yes, there are such places. If you are willing to fork out an additional $300 (minimum) for the parking spot.
This, a thousand times this.
Iran/Iraq/Syria has an on-going conflict about dams and use of their vital river. Can't for the life of me remember the name of the river though.
Yes, and one of them is a BMW that was only three years old at the start of his data collection.
https://kiva.org lets you invest in local people by providing microlending services, but you aren't going to make a return on your investment if that's your motivation.
It only takes one or two unethical engineers to implement it, even if most of engineers don't want to.
This is right up there with making your favicon the secure lock icon.
you didn't really answer my question, and it also seems like the claim that there was no harm done is a bit specious, enough users to form a class certainly seem to feel harmed.
The essential and influential backers for Congress is industry. Congress is not really responsible or beholden to its replaceable selectorate. I don't think people hold enough influence to hire the lobbying to see this change.

Another comment mentioned how California is considering arbitration in legislation. With their massive engineering and startup culture, I think employees there as a bloc have a tremendous influence for very specific employee rights (also why there is so much legislation against non-competes there as well). That doesn't really exist in the rest of the country.

You can't really just "vote the bums out" when all politics depends on various degrees of corruption, no matter how democratic the country. I mean really, you need more of the people to hold more of the income; therefore less income inequality for all. That way you move more of the replaceables into the influentials.
> It can be true that at the same time that Ethiopian farmers sell produce to Europe.

It is mentioned multiple times in the movie, and in these comments, that it is not Ethiopian farmers those who trade with anyone. Foreign corporations on incognito or behind domestic providers are those who suck money out of a poor country presumably without or with astonishingly weak trade legislature. More strikingly, doing so at the cost of famine of the blatantly low paid workers while violating not only ethics but also human rights of those exploited humans.

If those corporations were so savvy investors they would make profit at home under well ordered trade system.
Things about DevOps and business I wish I had known earlier in life
> If what Uber is doing is illegal, why are they allowed to continue operating?

Because the set of things that are wrong is a subset of the things that are illegal.

Uber also has a documented history of doing actual illegal things. It even went so far as to build technology specifically to avoid law enforcement authorities:

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/03/technology/uber-greyball-...
Looks like absolutely must have for any serious Internet entrepreneurship.