skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Many, many stories in magazines and newspapers start with a PR pitch. There's nothing especially noteworthy about it. It's how lots of stories get started.

To your broader point, I expect both extreme butt-in-seats and extreme remote are one of those characteristics you can map to successful and unsuccessful companies and you can probably find just about any pattern you want to find. (And of course most companies are some sort of blended model depending on company and function.)
> Hacking is putting something together quickly, just enough so that it barely works.

That's one definition of a hack. The word famously has many different meanings depending on context. http://catb.org/jargon/html/meaning-of-hack.html
Maybe a middle ground that could work is Ghost? I use their hosted service and it works well.
If you believe they actually had a reason for their actions and are trying to apply their rules consistently, that question is the best way to get everyone on the same page and reach full understanding of the situation. It's only irrelevant if you assume from the beginning that enforcement is completely arbitrary and capricious.
It's funny that the UK is one of the most expensive places in the world to catch a train, and when we do we're bombarded with advertising the entire time.

Actually, perhaps "funny" isn't the right word...
NY Dem announces bill to block Amazon deal, redirect subsidies to debt relief
> It's like the whole web has turned in to this pool of mud and no-one realises what it was like before.

Every website is trying to reinvent the wheel. Foolish! I hate the grid/huge amount of white space layout that is so pervasive now. Websites that have their information in a nice and clean, condensed list view are unicorns now. Condensed lists are literally the best layout to convey information in a given space, take a look at how outlook or apple mail gives you the exact same information in their super condensed list views as they do in the 'mobile friendly' expanded view, except they give you much more information at a time without having to endlessly scroll. It would be acceptable if I was literally using my elbow to tap on a touchscreen, but I'm using a mouse and keyboard and I can comfortably click on something 10 pixels wide.

Take a look at any of the half dozen or so food delivery service websites. On my 13" screen on grubhub, I can see 5 search results at a time. 5! Each result takes up 1 full inch of screen real estate when it could be one single line of text. If it was single spaced, that would be 40 lines and therefore 40 results I could view at a time. But because the modern web is designed to be accommodating for a 500lb gorilla to poke at a touchscreen, I have to deal with only being able to see 1/8 the information that I could potentially see.
Vim in the Future
Does anyone else believes that social publishing should be operated by a non-profit foundation - in an open-source sort of way both for the use of tech (be that Ghost, Hugo, or whatnot) and for the social review/promotion/editing apparatus?
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So we're in agreement this is a non-story? "GitLab's Secret To Saving On Office Space Expenses (EDIT: And Wages)" would've been a truthful (albeit less sensational) headline.
I have taken it a step further.

I started with Blogger (blogspot), then Medium, then Jekyll, then Hugo. Even with self hosted Jekyll/Hugo, I never felt comfortable about the tooling dictating how my directory structure should be.

Now I have my own static site generator written in Python. It is based on https://github.com/sunainapai/makesite that was posted to HN sometime back.

What I like about generating my blog with pure Python is that I can control every aspect of my blog just the way I want it.
disclosure: i dont work in software, im an engine mechanic whos learning python.

ive worked for small shops from the ground up, starting with mostly off the shelf hand tools and paper records, and moving into automated and well run repair businesses. The key i think is to find a company that realizes when they are squandering your potential and takes action before you're gone.

I went from brakes to suspension in 3 months and from there with consistent demonstration of talent, became the shop lead, then master mechanic, after 4 years. Im not so much a guy who twists oil filters anymore, but I'll still walk the floor and see whos doing what. I'll check our ticket queue to see what hasnt moved, or if parts in the crib need stocking. In my line of work we call it 'old timers.' guys who know and have the experience to guide, but dont necessarily care to leave the comfort of a comfy chair very often. Not a manager, but the first line of defense against having to talk to one.

I go out to fleets and take part in bids for maintenance jobs, not because Im a good mechanic, but because I know which mechanics I work with that are good for certain things. Im also known for bringing in a bucket or two of fried chicken for lunch on the weekends. I still have a workbench in the repair area, but my coworkers mostly leave weird parts I might enjoy or tricky problems to solve that nobody else has figured out.
Not to mention the idea that you might Bork your router during installation and have no internet therefore no way to install the old fw version.
Reason cannot give us ethics. Ethics is based upon subjective human experience.
Already happened. ~ clubs.
> The old guard was focused on elan and napoleonic era stuff

Still, the napoleonic era stuff was already a bit outdated after Napoleon III lost against Germany in 1870.
So... HN's consensus is that The Media Lies and there was no Russian hacking of the election last time?

Am I reading that right?

I mean, it's not an indefensible position. But it seems weird that we default to this. There's an awful lot of smoke to just assume there's no fire.
I would obtain a full copy of the copyright laws, ask your lawyer to put them on legal paperhead in a PDF, then attach them in full to your email.
I posted about this in another thread. In order to delete all advertising from TfL services (~5% of revenue) my bus fare would go from 1.50 to 1.58.

Of course, immediately after that, someone brought up the fact that they can't afford 8 pence. I figure they must have spent it all on hair loss products from the advertising.
Your battery was wearing out. The camera draws a lot of power and if a degraded battery can't output enough then a protection circuit will shut down the device below a voltage threshold.
Grab a subway map of Queens.

The good thing about NYC is that no one needs to drive to work.
Loyalty can only exist between individuals.

Never be loyal to a company because a company will never be loyal to you.
If my memory serves me right, yes. Some of the early employees did work/live together for 2-3 months during Y Combinator if I remember correctly, but apart from that everybody has always been remote.

Source: early-ish/current employee (#28 I believe, not exactly prestigious).
NovoNutrients: making food from CO2
Interesting to see the Virginia state ("commonwealth") "incentives". At the state level, the original VA pitch was out near Dulles (the currently state-owned CIT land). Pitches for Arlington et al. were done by the county as far as I know. Presumably once Amazon zeroed in on the Arlington area the state was willing to go along.

(Apple has supposedly been in talks with the state about the CIT land as well, just in a less public fashion than Amazon, so I assume something is still going to go in there soon, whether Apple or something else.)
I think the main avenue for exploration in Medium are the article recommendations at the bottom of the page, above the comments.

I personally rarely click on them, but I can imagine some titles can be hard to resist. That make interaction-driven recommendations, which are becoming the dominant way of content exploration, a bit of a dark pattern.

Perhaps we're only an inch away from 'article autoplay'.
If anyone in your building turns the valve on their radiator off (because their space is overheated) then the water will condense and when they open it again the entire system will hammer, forever, until the building engineer drains it.

Theoretically, I don't think this is correct. And in practice, I'm sure it's not always true. That is, I've tuned up a steam system using Holoway's advice, and there was no problem with turning individual radiators on or off.

In normal operation, the steam is condensing in the radiator, and then draining back to the boiler by gravity. Opening the valve after a period of nonoperation is not significantly different than the rush of condensation one gets at system start up when the radiator is cold. If the pipes are layed out correctly, when the valve is opened the water will drain back to the boiler with no outside action required.

What is true is that the standard "one pipe" steam radiators work poorly when the user decides they want half the heat, and turns the steam valve halfway. In this case, the higher speed of the incoming steam through the smaller opening prevents the water from flowing out, and the radiator works poorly. The correct approach to variable heat on one-pipe steam systems is an adjustable exit air valve. Still, this should also "fix itself" quickly as soon as the shut-off valve is fully opened.
It requires a small amount of context and history - and virtually no judgement.

You may not like the Chinese or foreign governments, but hacker news isn't a place to express that bigotry.
Five US tech giants spend combined $115bn on buying back stock
Google Services Unreachable After Traffic Hijacking
The "See also" links at the end of Medium posts, and the weekly "interesting for you" mail list were rather relevant to me, that is, often had links I was willing to click, and under those, sometimes were articles I was willing to read.

I stopped doing both, though: you can't read too much for free, but more than half of the content was not worth reading (for me), except maybe for quick skimming. There definitely are articles on Medium that are gems (again, from my POV), but I hope them to be brought to me by social networks anyway.

For authors, though, Medium must be pretty valuable, bringing relevant readers, and maybe some ad revenue. It does have a discovery feature which may be not brilliantly great, but is still quite OK, especially if you have time to spend on lighter reading.
10 seconds???

Maybe on my macbook pro but that's far from a universal experience. Even my iPhone takes longer than that ...
Good point, that would be tough to measure.
I interviewed with them when they were at 40 remote employees (as far as I can recall). Sadly, I lacked the chops they were looking for. But I was thoroughly impressed with how passionately they spoke about their remote culture. I've been remote now for 10 years with 3 different companies, and I'll never go back to an office unless my family is in dire straights. I hope this article gets play, and I hope to see many more like it in the future. Working remotely is still undervalued and niche, and I'd like to see more companies get up to speed and become open to it.
> Wouldn't you call two new offices that are smaller than the headquarters "satellite offices"?

They could be divisional HQs, as in Alexa HQ'd in NYC and AWS in DC.
I'm pretty sure they are high-definition. On my last A380 flight the exterior video looked at least 720P.
That we can influence and direct the electrical energy that flows through our fascial planes via intense meditative practices.
Ask HN: Is Netlify dashboard down?
Logged in and can't access any of my websites on netlify right now! I tried disabling ad blocker but seems like its on their end. Can anybody else confirm?
They make money from sending emails to lists. Very different business model to Gmail or the like.
Show HN: Emojifs – Create Animated GIFs from Emojis
From what I remember (and I may be thinking of the wrong book) "Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind" by Yuval Noah Harari goes into this theory in great detail. It argues the case that chickens are the most successful animals on the planet when it comes to reproducing and passing on their genes despite being very low on the food chain.
The 7 and the G are not as important if the Amazon people live in many parts of Queens instead of Manhattan or hipster parts of Brooklyn. As I'm sure many will, since it's currently one of the cheaper areas of the city (Astoria and LIC aside).

LGA would be a quick cab or Uber ride for most people, well within Amazon employee affordability range.

JFK would be comparatively quick by cab/Uber or yeah about 60 minutes by transit. That's par for the course for major metro area airports, certainly including Amazon's hometown of Seattle.
So what happens if a company buys back all its own stock, does it then go private, and if so who owns it? Surely the company cannot own itself.
> "If the racists think the candidate is a racist, the candidate is probably a racist"

I honestly think ideas like this are one of the most problematic beliefs in the current political discourse. This type of thinking only means we look less and less at the merits of someone's arguments and more and more at the tribe they associate with, or even worse the tribe that chooses to associate with them.

We have absolutely no control over these associations. If some nutjob chooses to support my cause does that somehow means my arguments are less valid?
ASL’s VoliroX MAV Offers Omnidirectionality and High Hover Efficiency
Just have your narrow width as your second browser size. One double click on the tab bar in firefox and you are there. I have a big monitor too but I kinda hate full screen browser windows just because no website is really made for it. Either the line width gets out of control, or it just wraps anyway and I have two huge swaths of blank space on each side of the content.
As an instrument-rated pilot, I reject your brazen assertion that radio work is "by far the hardest part of flying a plane." Are you speaking from personal experience, or do you have some data to back up this claim?

From an instrument proficiency point of view, I'm much more worried about efficiently understanding the information on the approach plate, maintaining situational awareness with respect to the approach path, adhering to minimums, and so on. Missed something that a controller said? "Say again." There's a reason it's aviate, navigate, and communicate--in that order.
For real? For me, the Medium domain signals a high likelihood that the piece is poorly written and entirely unedited.
Consider reading Herman Hesse (Siddhartha) or Jiddu Krishnamurti (Think on These Things), and questioning your belief of an omnipotent god deciding things for you, as you mention in your blog.

Begin making decisions for yourself and following your own will. Don't be afraid of getting help from your parents or friends. You are a valuable individual in the world with a finite life. You are loved. Enjoy your life and do your best to make a living without harming others, but do what it takes to survive comfortably.
There are over a billion Muslims in the world. Many of them can and do live peaceably in liberal, secularized societies--but not all, as evidenced by the Boston Marathon bombings, the Fort Hood shooting, the Pulse Nightclub shooting, and the San Bernadino shooting.

The United States faces less Islamist terrorism than Europe or the Middle East, not only because the US has a much smaller Muslim population and significant barriers to immigration, but also because American Muslims (with certain noted exceptions) tend to be more likely to accept liberalized values than Muslims elsewhere in the world.
I hate how Google's tools keep pushing deferred CSS. It kind of breaks how CSS is supposed to work. They want you to manually pick out the CSS that is relevant to the top of the page, and put it directly into your HTML. How on earth is that maintainable or scaleable? Or secure?[0] You easily run the risk of sending redundant bytes if the same styles are still in your external CSS. I tried that little script they suggested, and not only got FOUC'ed up the ass, the page took longer to load. (bbbbbut it's asynchronous, that's what makes it SO FAST!) Nope, that didn't last long. Not going to do it, Goog.

[0] I have a strict Content Security Policy that forbids inline JS and CSS, and am considering using a require-sri-for declaration. https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTTP/CSP
You can of course still write software outside app stores and provide best of both. Not every computer in this world is a walled garden.
So my follow up was/is - is this remote setup in fact their "secret sauce"? Seems like being a part of Y Combinator did more for their initial success.
http://www.lulu.com/create/books

I've done all my books through Lulu - including doing a couple of projects for clients (schools) who did a 'make a book' project with the kids writing the stories, etc... their service has always been pretty good. The site is a bit clunky, but works. I've done a couple of one-offs for my own use as well.

And looks like they do hardcover (although I've never tried it).
Noone reads my blog anyway, but I also import my posts into Medium so people can read it there if they choose. Medium sets the canonical URL to the hosted version on my own site so SEO shouldn't take a hit.
Up until the advent of inexpensive heat pumps, using electricity for space heating wasn't very practical. There were some electrically-heated (using resistance-coils baseboards) in the 50s and 60s, I guess when they thought electricity would be "too cheap to meter" soon enough, but it requires electrical distribution infrastructure well above what you'd otherwise need for housekeeping loads.

The big reason for centralized steam rather than small boilers in each building was fuel. Penn State (and many other colleges / institutions in the northeast) was originally heated with coal. There was a rail spur that ran to the campus power plant for delivering it. Delivering coal to each building would have been a lot of effort, and negates the efficiency of a large boiler compared to small ones. So you create the steam in one place and then distribute the steam. (Also there used to be fairly strict rules on having a licensed "operating engineer" at each boiler when it was operating.)

With natural gas now being the dominant fuel, it's almost certainly more efficient to distribute the gas and then generate the steam (or hot water, much more common today) near the point of use, with a high-efficiency boiler/heater.
Hello, Community Advocate from GitLab here. Thanks wjohnsto for sharing a link to our Handbook.

I'd love to share our "All Remote" page as well. https://about.gitlab.com/company/culture/all-remote/.

There you can read how remote work is changing the workforce, how it changes the organization, advantages for employees and organizations and what did we learn about remote working.

Additionally, our blog page is the great place to learn about our culture and remote working at GitLab https://about.gitlab.com/blog/.

Here's the list of our blog posts I would recommend. This may be a really interesting read for you:

[1] https://about.gitlab.com/2018/10/18/the-case-for-all-remote-...

[2] https://about.gitlab.com/2018/05/17/eliminating-distractions...

[3] https://about.gitlab.com/2018/04/27/remote-future-how-remote...

[4] https://about.gitlab.com/2018/04/17/remote-work-facilitates-...

[5] https://about.gitlab.com/2018/03/16/remote-work-done-right/
Ditto, I went to NCSU and they have an extensive steam heating system. I believe chilled water is also used for cooling. We (semi-)famously have an extensive underground tunnel network across campus that people have broken into and explored.
> The American Civil War and Boer Wars were exceptions, but discounted because they weren't European wars

Russo-Japanese War as well. More recent than the US Civil War and gave some early examples as to what WWI would look like, but generally considered to be irrelevant since it wasn't a European War and was generally localized to the far, far east.
Hi All!

I'm calling this one of my ugliest MVPs I've ever launched, sorry. I really launched this as a way for me to easily take a script coded by Pieter Levels and shared on Twitter (https://twitter.com/levelsio/status/1060282680338636801) to create GIFs from Emojis and make an easy to use form for myself.
This entire competition was an obvious sham to try to equivocate really desperate cities willing to give basically anything to have a major tech company headquarters, to the inevitable choice amazon was going to make of california or the coastal northeast, so they could extract maximum concessions.

Its disgusting this worked as well as it did, $48k/job in tax concessions from NYC and $22k/job from VA, expect to see a lot more of this in the future. Hopefully governments wake up and realize its a race to the bottom that advantages megacorps to such a point that having them is barely worth it, while at the same time hurting local businesses.

EDIT: the tax deductions are one time, not per year, i mixed that up.
This space is nowadays occupied by Raspberry Pi. Cheap hackable hobby platform.

wrt your kids, programming just isn't for everybody [0]

[0] https://blog.codinghorror.com/separating-programming-sheep-f...
I agree 100% that being remote has nothing to do with success.

However that link points to Github taking $350M, and they had been around for a few years before they took their first VC $. Until September, Gitlab had been pretty light on the funding, relatively speaking. (about $150M total, and that's after a $100M round in September)

https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/gitlab-com#section-f...
Its even worse than that, it is used to justify censorship of speech that interferes with profits
Not to mention that for two of the topics mentioned (vaccines and GMO foods), and notably the topic for which a quote of so-called "conspiratorial argument" was provided in the article, there's not just the issue of the scientific consensus but also of how the corresponding technology is applied in the real world.

The highlighted argument about profit-seeking by companies is clearly a valid concern when it comes to how technologies are actually applied. It's why we have regulation and independent oversight bodies. (It's also unfair and misleading to call it a conspiratorial argument in the first place -- it's simply pointing out that an actor has financial interests and may therefore be biased, there's no conspiracy involved.)

Maybe you'd want survey respondents to perfectly separate the concerns of applications vs. scientific consensus, but to be honest I think that's an unfair expectation.
Thanks. I did read the article and noticed the examples that you referred to.

To clarify: I just don't see where the evidence for any of these claims is accessible. Four of the six references don't appear to be available on-line. Of the two that are, one is a brief summary that leads to a paywalled FT article that I can't read, and the other is a ~200 pdf economics textbook.

I'm happy to accept that a price differential changes when a constant is added to both prices. But I do question whether people in the real world will switch to a different type of coffee bean because the differential goes from x2 to x1.6. And I wanted to know more about the real-world circumstances in which it had been observed.

I might be pursuaded that the market for illegal drugs/alcohol could exhibit this effect, but it would be interesting to know how how, given that illegal products are probably going to be subject to other effects not shared by legal products, biases and selectivities were compensated for.

Edit: Made first paragraph clearer.
I remember reading that they pay developers based on where they are located so for example developer from SF would get 140k while developer from Minsk would get 50k. Is it still true?