skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We don't need to rely on anecdotes. There are plenty of studies on open offices and how they affect productivity. For example:

>...The design of the research was simple but incredibly clever. Study two Fortune 500 companies planning to make a switch to open-plan offices and compare how employees interact both before and after the new office design.

>To do this, Harvard researchers Ethan Bernstein and Stephen Turban had 150 participating employees wear a gizmo called a sociometric badge. For three weeks before and after the redesign it recorded wearers' movement, location, posture and, via infrared and sound sensors, their every conversation with colleagues. The researchers also reviewed the number of text messages and emails subjects sent during the test period.

>The results have just been published in the journal Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B. What did they show? In short, as walls came down, so did the number of interactions among co-workers. Simultaneously, the number of emails and text messages shot up.

>"Overall, face-to-face time decreased by around 70 percent across the participating employees, on average, with email use increasing by between 22 percent and 50 percent (depending on the estimation method used)," says the British Psychological Society Research Digest blog, summing up the results.

https://www.inc.com/jessica-stillman/new-harvard-study-you-o...

>..A study published in the Journal of Environmental Psychology of more than 40,000 workers in 300 US office buildings: "...Enclosed private offices clearly outperformed open-plan layouts in most aspects of IEQ (Indoor Environmental Quality), particularly in acoustics, privacy and the proxemics issues. Benefits of enhanced 'ease of interaction' were smaller than the penalties of increased noise level and decreased privacy resulting from open-plan office configuration."

https://www.inc.com/geoffrey-james/science-just-proved-that-...

An article in the New Yorker summarizes some research on open offices. Besides the effects on productivity, there are also health effects. For example:

>...In a recent study of more than twenty-four hundred employees in Denmark, Jan Pejtersen and his colleagues found that as the number of people working in a single room went up, the number of employees who took sick leave increased apace.

>...In laboratory settings, noise has been repeatedly tied to reduced cognitive performance. The psychologist Nick Perham, who studies the effect of sound on how we think, has found that office commotion impairs workers’ ability to recall information, and even to do basic arithmetic. Listening to music to block out the office intrusion doesn’t help: even that, Perham found, impairs our mental acuity. Exposure to noise in an office may also take a toll on the health of employees. In a study by the Cornell University psychologists Gary Evans and Dana Johnson, clerical workers who were exposed to open-office noise for three hours had increased levels of epinephrine—a hormone that we often call adrenaline, associated with the so-called fight-or-flight response.

https://www.newyorker.com/business/currency/the-open-office-...
That would likely depend heavily on whether the BP is calling for black nation separatism.
Can't help being reminded of that talk by Gary Bernhardt: “The Birth & Death of JavaScript”[0] — exploring a hypothetical future where JS takes over everything without (most) anyone using it of their own volition.

0: https://www.destroyallsoftware.com/talks/the-birth-and-death...
arewefastyet.com still exists but it only includes Chrome and Firefox, not Safari.
My issue with streaming is I don't want to have to pay for more mobile data (primary use for me is in the car - can any of these services cache 2 hours worth of stuff for offline use?) and a lot of what I listen to isn't going to be on a streaming service like spotify - fandom music, soundcloud remixes, video game soundtracks (probably some on those services but not all), vaporwaves from youtube. I also still find FM radio a decent experience.
$0.00099 per GB in Virginia and Oregon. That's a quarter of the cost of glacier!

I'm curious how they're able to achieve that. They released to all regions at once (including GovCloud!), so that suggests its not new hardware or a significant change in software.
Would you be similarly comfortable with ISPs or cell service providers censoring views they disagree with?
Sure it is.

Tax is withheld at source and the only thing that offsets it other US taxes. This is substantially better than current situation that allows transfer pricing to move profits to a lower tax jurisdiction.
What model of Thinkpad? How is the touchpad? The MBP touchpad quality is the main thing I don't want to lose.
That doesn't follow. If the DST rules change, then, effectively, any event whose local time stays the same has actually moved. The sun will be in a different spot of the sky when that meeting is held than it would have been.

All the dates stored in UTC which move due to a DST rule change have to be traversed and updated, as do any dependent countdown timers. That doesn't mean it wasn't "correct" to store them that way.

"Correct" means that we handle all the cases in our specifications and design, and they are translated to code without mistakes.

People like countdown timers. If there is going to be a countdown timer to an event whose time is uncertain, that countdown timer has to update itself when the exact time is pinned down. Until then, it should probably use the shorter countdown so that it errs on the side of too early. It has to be updated whether the time is stored as local time or as UTC. The behavior of the countdown timer cannot depend on how the time is stored in some database.
Is this the book you are referring to ? - https://sovietbookbugs.files.wordpress.com/2014/09/rassian-c...
What many people don't realise is that the Soviets also made significant investments in "high" culture in western Europe. I distinctly remember a very important independent film distributor in Belgium got at least partly financed initially by the USSR. They did modestly well and were able to survive the collapse of the USSR until well past the year 2000.

Edit: The distributor was called Progrès films, founded in 1950 by the communist party of Belgium. It worked until 2002, after which other independent cinema projects like cinéart and cinélibre took over.
"Free speech" comes up so fast in this conversation it stifles any other aspects, like what counts as "public". We have to figure out exactly what it means that Facebook is a massive platform with billions of users centrally controlled by a corporation and how that affects us, and free speech issues are only one aspect.

I find it so strange how people on the left and right swap argument styles on the issue of free speech, though. As pointed out by Freddie DeBoer, people on the left want to strictly define free speech as government intervention and criticism, contradicting their usual tendency to interpret law more broadly. Then the right, contradicting their own approach to law interpretation, want a more expansive interpretation of free speech to include things like corporate censorship on platforms that aren't necessarily "public" as we'd traditionally understand it, but have public-y qualities nonetheless.

Anyway, good riddance to white supremacy, but this is a transparent bid by Facebook for PR repair. Their public image was trashed by the 2016 election on several fronts, and this hardly rectifies it. It seems like cynical bullshit to me.

EDIT: It also makes me think of Freddie DeBoer's essay "Planet of Cops": https://medium.com/@jesse.singal/planet-of-cops-50889004904d
I think your attitude is still extremely mild. It doesn't matter if we believe ourselves to be neutral, there are groups that consider themselves our opponents, and will work against everything we stand for. And, unless we decide to fight back or at least stop helping them to promote their agenda (which is often incompatible with values widely shared among secular / educated communities), they will prevail in some manner. See also: 2016 U.S. election.
No, and until a decade ago there wasn't anybody trying to push that falsehood. Fascism involves heavy government control of everything.

"All within the state, nothing outside the state, nothing against the state."

-- Benito Mussolini

That is anything but right wing.
I thought it was implemented as an extension, rather than a separate product? I'd say that's still "Postgres"
Built in breathaliser is a horrible idea.

(1) It's an unnecessary limitation on personal freedom.

(2) It's a burden to people with lung issues.

(2a) It introduces the possibility or infectious disease spread, because people share cars and are less likely to clean the breathaliser frequently enough to prevent bacterial buildup.

(3) These things are garbage and often don't work the first time, especially in the cold.
I'll skip over over your answering "where does it end" with where we start, but more importantly:

This is a game, because it initially masquerades as using the definition of "harm" any reasonable person would use, while simultaneously working the other end to redefine and vastly expand the concept of "harm".

We're now supposed to recognize unpersoning, microaggressing, belittling, twitter-mentioning as harm, and it's naivete bordering on manipulative to try to and make the case that our understanding of harm will not continue to expand
Please stop with the ideological riler-uppers. They don't actually inform us of anything and instead lead us down a generic, predictable, reflexive road. We don't want that! We want specific, informative, and thoughtful. You can be outraged and still contribute something more substantive than rage.
Ursula K. Le Guin’s “The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas” in Map Form
Maybe we could crowdfund a PR agency to package up an easy-to-publish news story on this phenomenon, per [0]? Bring more attention to the phenomenon in a way that's visible to actual Apple shareholders.

[0] http://www.paulgraham.com/submarine.html
Not true, it's actually the exact opposite. See my other comment https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19503994
Title II's definition of public accommodation is limited to "any inn, hotel, motel, or other establishment which provides lodging to transient guests"
> seen the definition of white supremacy slide from "people who espouse views that whites are better than nonwhites"

And even there it is debatable - does saying "people with pale skin are better at producing vitamin D in low-light conditions than people with dark skin" make me a white supremacist?
Arrogance is about overreaching your station. What that means to people depends on how much and why they value those boundaries and violations.

What should be the emotional response to that? Does arrogance arouse anger?
Are you continuously under pressure/stress? Lack of positive feedback? This might be symptoms. If that's the case you need time off.
And what if the event is an airplane flight that starts and ends in different time zones?
What is it about nazis and white supremacists that causes everyone to boot them from their platform? From cloudflare to microsoft to twitter and now facebook, why is everyone so hostile to them? They just can't catch a break, if this keeps up they'll only be able to host content on platforms that are supportive of the message or they'll be forced to build their own platforms and since so many people are hostile to them already nobody will use their platform except people with similar beliefs (e.g. voat). Should these companies really be allowed to just ban them simply because they regard their ideologies as repugnant?

edit: I'll note here that the above should be read as tongue-in-cheek sarcasm, but I do think the question is worthwhile when considered in earnest by those who support nazi speech on private platforms.
That's what I've seen. I've been involved with efforts to do something that an actual RDBMS is designed for with Mongo, Cassandra, Couchbase, Redis and even ElasticSearch - in every case we ended up re-creating so much of the functionality that is built into an RDBMS that the effort took much longer than it would have taken if we'd used MySQL or Postgres, in addition to being much slower (not to say anything of how proprietary and locked in the solution ended up being). There are good use cases for all of these products, and when used the way they were designed to be used, they're great; they're just not used that way very often (that I've seen).
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If they were regularly being implicated in terrorist attacks, yes.
> Paper voting, for one.

The election official's budget may simply not be able to afford that.
Bogotá, Colombia bans cars every Sunday–and people love it
McDonald's U-turns on minimum wage
Good to see some positive news about React Native. 2018 seemed to be mostly negative.
You've identified four areas where it excels. Only a few billion more areas to go. And sure, we can now have algorithms that can categorize dogs based on collections of pixels better than humans can. Get back to me when they've figured out double entry accounting, splitting atoms, building bridges and spaceships, or improve upon TCP-IP.
Please don't post conspiracy theories.
Here you go :) https://mirtitles.org/2018/11/11/misha-stack/
May be write something not in the internet yet but soon will be and check limitations of lang
This is a great counterpoint to people complaining about how little they make from Spotify.

One thing that stuck out to me:

> Because you can only submit one song, it’s best to space out releases. That way you can have ten singles considered by Spotify editors— rather than one single from an album for an entire year.

I've wondered why so many artists were releasing a ton of singles on Spotify. This seems like a gameable system.
"White nationalism" is just a rebranded, softer term for "white supremacy". The word "nationalism" itself doens't mean just nationalism, it means literal Nazi ideologies that might not be present in other forms of nationalism.

I'm personally a fan of them taking a more fine-comb approach to banning certain forms of expression on the platform, rather than just saying blanket "The idea of nationalism is banned".
Free speech means freedom from censorship. And from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Censorship

> Censorship is the suppression of speech, public communication, or other information, on the basis that such material is considered objectionable, harmful, sensitive, or "inconvenient". Censorship can be conducted by a government, private institutions, and corporations.

From Merriam-Webster (https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/censorship), where there is no mention of 'censorship' being a government-specific concept:

> the institution, system, or practice of censoring

From Oxford (https://en.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/censorship), where again there is no mention of 'censorship' being a government-specific concept:

> The suppression or prohibition of any parts of books, films, news, etc. that are considered obscene, politically unacceptable, or a threat to security.
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Luckily, the author outlines the fact that many of Spotify's playlists are curated by humans and when you submit an album to Spotify, you highlight a single track for a human to listen to. It is very possible to catch the ear of a human at Spotify and be placed on playlists, which is a spark that ignites more listenership.
That paper's methodology doesn't attempt to distinguish between increases in total amount of trafficking vs increases in destination of trafficking victims. As an argument against legalization, it's pretty weak.
Why shouldn't anyone be able to record a photograph of whoever (or whatever) they can see in a public place?

If you don't want strangers to see you, don't go out in public.
Yes, well said. That's a fair point.
If I think about my response to an announcement that said, "This kind of content is being banned because it reduces our shareholder value." I can't argue with that.
I think, "Sure, you're running a businesses. It's a business decision. Good on ya."
It's the moralist explanation that confuses me, and your comment helped me see the real decision free of the spin and justification that cam with it.
That's an interesting perspective!

How do patents interact with it? If facebook got a patent on some new VR technology that allowed face to face interaction at a distance, and didn't license it out, would that turn the relevant portion of facebook into public infrastructure? What if they licensed it out but only to other people who also won't serve people saying <x>?
> Similarly, in SSH, if a remote host's key changes, it doesn't "just work," it gets downright belligerent:

Funny enough, I have ranted to friends/coworkers about sysadmins completely replacing machines and not telling anyone. How do I know it happens? BECAUSE OF THIS EXACT WARNING.
No, it is your redefinition that is the new one. And the right-wing is not standing on consistent principles when they try to self-servingly redefine freedom as the individual's freedom to appropriate a company's private property only for the case of popular social networks and nothing else.
For what it's worth, I've seen Stoicism mentioned on HN way more than any other philosophy, except possibly libertarianism. The most frequently mentioned philosophy book is definitely Meditations.

I don't think the author is off-base for claiming it's a thing in SV.
It's a centuries old debate initially had out by Hobbes and Rousseau.

Hobbes' famous phrase from Leviathan "bellum omnium contra omnus" (the war of all against all) describes absolute freedom as being problematic indeed. Rosseau provides an answer in The Social Contract to say you can't have a war of all against all, you instead need the state to be responsible for being able to imprison people and collect taxes on them and this alleviates (generally speaking, to a large degree) the problems absolute freedom present.
Facebook bans white nationalism and separatism on its platforms
f# is multiparadigm and can do same low level as c#. you can not to allocate if do not want so.
oh theres places to get all the shows streamed for free, and getting even the pirating the most obscure music is easier than ever

piracy is currently the most convenient way to consume content now that all the streaming services/labels want to fragment their libraries
I think you're right. Every time you censor something you create market pressures for a way to host content that's more difficult to be taken down or traced back to a source.

It's why I think censorship is self defeating, it will eventually lead to a populace being competent enough with certain tools to side step the censor, and you can't walk that back.
The new touchpad and touchbar could also be used on a new design which allows enough for a high-quality keyboard. I've never been struck by the weight or size reductions but the low-end keyboard feel is constantly noticeable.
How about ATT, Verizon, Tmobile/Sprint if they banned certain content from private text messages? On one side, nearly everybody will agree to allow anti spam measures, denying certain unwanted annoying people speech. On the other end, many would object to disallowing private messages based on morality scores of the content.
s/explicitly/implicitly ?

I mean this was the approach they were taking to White supremacist material until now, which was why people were giving them a hard time.
Your example of the Daily Stormer is interesting, because it illustrates two ways in which the Internet as it is set up today allows corporate censorship. The first is the one you describe: hosting companies and domain registrars can refuse to do business with you based on content. The second is one you don't mention: ISPs can (and virtually all of them do) prevent you from hosting content on your own servers at your own IP address. This wasn't the case in the early days of the web: most early websites were hosted on personal machines in people's homes or offices, connected to the Internet with their own personal or small business connections.

A truly libertarian Internet would still have the first issue, because of freedom of contract. But it wouldn't have the second, because having an IP address reachable from anywhere on the Internet and hosting any content you chose would be a basic right. (One could argue that having a DNS routable name for your IP address should be part of that right too, but the absolute requirement is the IP address: anyone can reach you with that even if there is no domain name corresponding to it.)
This is a nuanced topic, but I think the subsequent cases you mentioned all make sense and are consistent with the proposition that certain social media sites actually should obey the "company town" precedent.

Malls aren't and have never been the primary space used for public social discourse and commentary. Today, such discourse increasingly happens online, and it's increasingly true that sites like Facebook and Twitter actually are the primary space for public discourse.

It's really never before happened in history where a private company has become the mediator and facilitator of discourse involving millions of people simultaneously. Previous forms of media had extremely restricted participation roles in comparison. Newspapers, TV, and radio can all only publish a relatively tiny amount of content, so the idea that millions of people could simultaneously publish content to those platforms was never viable; they were only capable of pushing out content from a few folks to many, but they were never many-to-many. This almost infinitely scalable many-to-many communication property of modern social media makes it feel much more like a public space than newspapers, TV, and radio ever did.
No, that is simply research they've done. They haven't implemented it AFAIK. https://www.businessinsider.com/how-spotify-discover-weekly-...
Brexit is good for Britain, but bad for the EU. The only chaos is in parliament which is betraying the British electorate by going against their vote to leave and trying to remain at all cost. They will meet their maker at the next general election and any decisions they're making now will be overturned anyway.

The world actually enjoys watching Donald Trump because they see the USA as a world leader, and look up to it as an example. If the USA is doing great, then other countries can do great too! Making America Great Again is making the world great.

On the other hand, you have "progressive" dominated cities like San Francisco which have become cesspits, and the world is definitely not thinking "I wish we were more like that!" Quite the opposite - the real jokers are the democrats fighting for the title of the most degenerate.
> influenced elections

In fairness to Google and Facebook, etc. TV networks have always been super biased and had far more reach than internet platforms - and it was actually conservatives who shut down (with good reason) the "fairness doctrine" that would have forced them to carry content they didn't necessarily agree with.
I'm still such a fence sitter on this. I am fairly close to a free speech absolutist, but I agree with others that FB is a private platform and isn't obligated to provide bandwidth to anyone.

Another concern of mine though is that just banning this stuff atrophies our ability to effectively debate it.
fatigue, acne, headache, declines in sex drive sound like side effective women also suffer when they're on the pill