skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thanks, I listened to this excerpt. In my opinion this focus on "be open" is just blather that manifests from peoples desire to be in control. The course doesn't really say how an open floor plan relates to being open, or how to precisely define being open. It's one of those autonomous statements that people come up with to justify their desires. It's like 'be green'. Also, WTF is visibility. Is there business value in being able to see people typing at a computer. This is blind stupidity brought on by bad motives.

So the seating arrangement is not for engineer productivity, nor is the benefit of higher openness and visibility for engineers. How exactly is this better for the company? maybe for a few middle managers who themselves who aren't qualified to be engineers but want to get credit for the work being done. To me, it seems like it's only to prevent engineer led projects from getting wings before the non-engineers have set themselves up to take the credit.
FreeBSD...has been my primary desktop OS for about 7 years now. Overall very stable with occasional problems.
For the last 5 years, the wonderful Arch Linux. Currently with XFCE.
>>I believe the US way to be better

> I don't.

I was speaking about the technical interview instead of a more relaxing one we have in France.

I think rejecting candidate with a single formal sentence isn't what it should be, of course. Companies should be able to say what went wrong, but noone will for the legal issues raised in the comments below. Why should they take risks?
Okay - as a person that recently made the transition:

Flask,Jinja2 + bootstrap + learn python functools.wraps

Flask just makes the dispatch and routing. Jinja templates are very close to smarty. You can make a site runing in a second. Also a benefit of using flask is that you have ready WSGI app that you can put on gevent or tornado.

If some of your output is prematurely truncated if you are behind HAProxy - check tornado keep alive settings. (not relevant but took me 2 days to figure it out)
I read it here http://www.semana.com/mundo/articulo/no-papel-higienico-porq... which supposedly is a reputed Colombian magazine, but trying to find the exact part in the video I couldn't find it. So maybe it was just a gross misleading misinterpretation by the magazine. Venezuela gives plenty of material to criticize so it beats me why a journalist has to recur to lies...
And how this contradicts what I said? For me it reads "They are incompetent but I suppose all big companies are like that"
Dual booting Windows 8 and OS X
And don't buy the 35-hour workweek for a second. As a developer, especially a lead, the hours can be very similar to the USA.
I find OSX is a very powerful Unix with a very usable window manager. I spend almost all my time in iTerm anyway.

Plus the machines themselves are the best damn laptops I've ever used.
It depends a lot on what you do for work, I bet. I'm in sort of a similar situation as you--Windows at work, Linux at home, but I also have a mac. I run a pretty bare-bones setup on my Linux desktop (#!: an OS for those who got frustrated trying to learn Arch and still like APT). The lack of extra stuff makes me less prone to messing around, so it's great as a GSD system and when I want to dedicate my CPU and memory to the primary task instead of to the overhead of a bulky GUI and other features. Having a CUDA-capable GPU is nice, too, instead of having to use an emulator. If you do technical or scientific computing, Linux may be a good bet. The vagueness of my advice is because I'm only involved in a small subset of the technical computing world, but a lot of the statistical programmers in the FOSS world use Macs or Linux boxes (Debian-derivatives are very popular in the R community).

OS X probably has a bigger advantage for front-end and mobile dev, though.

If your decision is based purely on aesthetics, given enough time, I'm sure you can find a GUI for Linux that you like more than OSX. While OSX gives you a GUI with no fuss, the customizability of a lot of desktop environments for Linux means you can tune it to exactly what you want, whether you want more graphical flare, or less (for the OpenBox folks out there--represent!).
“Why are you using Node.js rather than PHP?”
OS X, but strongly considering a jump back to Linux (I ran Linux for about 15 years).
Why are sites like this still hijacking the back button on users browsers?

(Go to the link, then click back, and again to see what I mean).
Does anyone know if Go will generate AVX instructions?
>On your left is a woman you don’t know, but she’s a friend of a friend of your cousin Irving’s roommate’s niece. Her name is Tina, a physics professor at the local university, and she likes extreme skiing, origami and baking. Tomorrow she’ll be giving a presentation. You can view her slides and video now, if you’d like, and scan her bio. You don’t. You think it’s interesting that her favorite author is Jane Austen and thirty-seven people “liked” a post she penned on the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle. She’s sipping what the computer deduces to be a green apple martini and your Google-powered submicro-computer advertises a selection of snacks to go with it, as well as a choice of vodkas and mixers, which you can order at the blink of an eye. Maybe later.

That sounds amazing! I would probably filter it to give me specific results because I'm not as interested in some of those things than others.
I changed from Windows/Linux to OS X. It's much better now.
I have currently been using windows but today I switched to Ubuntu. I had previously used it but only in dual boot or a VM.
Oh, and I have a Win 7 partition on the drive, too, but it's rarely booted.
Interesting. How do they track it? Is it based on physical network drop or another method? Or is it just "Go into this room. If you can't find them, call out their name and admit you're a moron?"
Exactly, the US has DHS, FBI, CIA and a dozen other agencies.

Letting anything through should simply result in the leaders going to the electric chair.
I'm running Xubuntu. The combo of Xfce/Ubuntu gives you the flexibility of Linux, but without inflicting on you the constant changes you see in other DEs/WMs. It just works and gets out of your way.
I guess you don't realize that we believe the Right to Keep and Bear Arms is a civil right? And in our view, no right is under greater attack than it (even after all the IRS abuse that has recently come to light)? And that therefore we're rather busy protecting it from people like you?

And we're most certainly interested in other civil rights, ranging from freedom of speech (Citizens United, McCain hates us with a passion and were were one of the groups he and Feingold aimed to silence), to the abuses of SWAT raids. Read our stuff and you'll find your opinion to be ill founded.
Once I was renting an office of my own. Recently, I have moved to work from local library. I consider it 100% improvement in working conditions.
I'm a little cautious with BackBlaze now (looking at switching to Arq [0]). I have about 700GB with them but a while ago my backup metadata became corrupted in the storage on their side. I worked through it with them to try to diagnose the issue. I even went the extreme length of buying a whole new mac mini in the hopes it would fix it. N such luck, so I had to reupload the full 700GB to them again. It's not an isolated case either - happened to a friend of mine too.

More recently we'd been trying to get to the bottom of some unusably slow macs (mountain lion). Turns out that the BackBlaze filelist service (that watches for changes to files) is very poorly behaved. Initially we discovered that it fights with apple's mds. Even once we'd fixed that (by stopping mds from watching a load of folders) it still ignores the scheduled backup times so it runs all day. BackBlaze support acknowledged the issue but the only workaround we've found is to have a cron job unload the BackBlaze daemon during the day to stop it destroying performance.

[0] http://www.haystacksoftware.com/arq/
That's not exactly rocket science these days (see bup). What you're paying for with tarsnap is making it totally rock solid and as usual the last 90% of the work is also 90% of the cost.
There are people that want to collaborate with other people of the same skill level. But the majority of people that want to collaborate just don't know what they are doing and can't do their jobs. If people want a more social and collaborative job, maybe they shouldn't choose software developer as a career.
Agreed, or get a better metric like time on site that actually involves pinging like Chartbeat or GoSquared do.
I got loads out of the first couple of lessons here: http://www.trydesignlab.com/

It's like Codecademy but for design.
I'm a European who for a long time had a hard time understanding liberal American gun laws. Then one day by chance I constructed something similar to the argument you sketch. I've looked at the (gun) issue differently ever since.

It also opened my eyes to the simple arguments "I like shooting guns" and "it's not the government's business", which I had dismissed so easily it's scary. I like to think the experience improved my ability to seriously consider opposing arguments.
Yep. Beyond that, realize that some parts of design like dealing with visual hierarchy ( http://hackdesign.org/lesson/19/ ) can come very easily to engineers. Other parts like color theory or font design might feel less natural. Find a hook that you enjoy playing with and grow from that.
I've been jumping between the big three every other year now over the last decade (OSX when I was into MacBookPros, Linux or Win when I was into other hardware vendors).

They all have their own unique little annoying-quirks and favourable strengths. I've found that when your environment is say, Sublime Text + a browser + a command line, the outer OS matters surprisingly little.
I boot into Windows on my primary desktop and use it most of the time, but I've been turning to a Linux Mint virtual machine for more and more of my programming projects. It just seems a lot easier to get up and running quickly in a Unix environment. I also recently purchased an Android tablet and will probably carry it around instead of a full laptop for doing remote server work and such.
This is one of the lessons from Peopleware. It's not so much noise in the background but noise unrelated to the job duties. Being in a room of developers usually has less impact than having marketing, sales, etc. collocated as well.
Last year I was able to read my 1980 era 8" floppies to recover some files. Every byte read without error.
I have been prone to cerumen (earwax) buildup my entire adult life, regardless of whether I wore in-ear, sealed, open-air phones, or nothing at all. In my early twenties, a doctor showed me how to remove it using a small piece of alcohol-moistened cotton plucked from a cotton ball twisted onto a flat toothpick. He said commercial cotton swabs were too large and the cotton was packed too hard for the task. While his advice goes against the prime directive to never put any object in your ear canal, I have never hurt myself. A gentle self-cleansing in the outer canal every two weeks keeps things clear. Without this, I'd be in the doctor's office getting flushed 3 or 4 times a year. I wouldn't advise anyone to do this without a doctor's recommendation and training.
It could be quite effective if most Email providers use open rates as a quality indicator.
"Money is freedom". I think we can all more or less agree with this. But what I don't hear very often is: "Should it be?"

I think it is very obvious that no, it shouldn't. Implicit in the statement that money == freedom is !money == !freedom. Without money you are not free.

I want to be very clear here: This. Is. Wrong.

Do I have a solution? No. Not a palatable one. But I urge you to at least think about it. There are not enough people of means giving this fundamental question any thought.

The world will go on regardless of whether or not we end this immoral game of money. But I am willing to bet that the future will look back at us and be disgusted and sickened.

Can't we at least try?
Perhaps you're right and the board game is crap. From the presentations I have watched, I think the challenge is more about ideas than it is about building a complete game. And presenting those ideas carefully.... that is marketing.

However, Chain World is a simple extrapolation of Minecraft. You can evaluate whether that is "utter crap" pretty easily. Plus he's made at least 10 other games, many of which are publicly available for free.

Personally, I found his latest game, The Castle Doctrine, to be amazing: http://jere.in/1
Check out my website. I just gathered 100 tech companies to contribute in June. I have the drive, sales mentality and creative/journalistic ability to publish technology. So, I can get the business, just need someone to help make it more of a technical platform. If this inspires you, let me know. To put this in perspective, Svbtle has 200 contributors and has been around since 2010 (?). I secured half of their contributor base in May alone. Happy to share details. You'll prob like my content, too - all tech experts and startups.

Either way, you know what is best for you.
ArchLinux with Gnome 3
OSX. But I'm desperate to get back to Linux.
Better yet, why Windows?
In my experience, exactly the opposite can happen and open-plan offices can discourage a lot of that cross-talk and casual discussion. The last two I've worked in had an almost library-like atmosphere.

In a quiet environment, people tend to be discouraged from being the only ones talking and being listened in on, and instead scurry off into the meeting rooms or manager offices. Others put on the headphones and go totally 'heads-down'. Communications end up being more closed and 'formal'.
> I'm slightly disappointed he didn't strike it rich because he's been active in the field for quite some time

I appreciate your comment but I'm not disappointed. If being rich means working 20 hours a day for 5 years will little luck of success in the end (like any startups), I'm not willing to pay the price.

I've traveled months per year the recent years, spent a year in Asia, rided 22,000 kilometers in India on Enfield (and about to go again for 4 months) and so more much I can't list here. I feel very lucky of my current position.

However I have to say the feeling I had when living in San Francisco is as following. If I had spent as much time and dedication on my projects while living in San Francisco instead of Paris, I would have had 100 times more in return than what I've had in France. On a money level, as well as on a professional level. Might be too late now.
Ferraris aren't very common as bank robbery getaway vehicles either. My point was that it should be possible to come up with some sort of regulatory regime that reasonably covers the entire range of uses - from personal safety to collection of exotica.

This isn't possible if one side's position is 'I get to have whatever I want, because'. You can't buy a thing that plugs into your wall socket that isn't UL certified, what exactly, is so uniquely special about firearms, of all things.
only if you treat symbols as a foreign language
Lenses go liquid
Colin - I dig what you're doing, but every time I go to the Tarsnap website, I'm turned off from using it for all of the reasons that have been discussed here ad nauseum since 2009. I'd love to see you succeed more; I think you deserve it, and I wish you'd just grab it.

see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=820705 and https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1639277, e.g.
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Ubuntu 13.04 with MATE, but most of my work is done on virtual machines (all sorts of Windows and Linux) and on servers I ssh to (mostly Linux).
More generally, at least some of us have taken note of the lessons learned from around a quarter billion disarmed people being killed by their own governments in the 20th century (and rather obviously most of that was done by the Only Ones you enshrine, the police and military with I suppose some paramilitaries in the middle).

Good luck convincing us to willingly give up another inch on this issue.
I'm mostly doing java, eclipse rcp, python and web stack work so Linux would be fine.

But occasionally I need to work with color-calibrated monitors for photo processing and I have yet to try out if Linux and ICC get along fine and if there's a chance to hook my Spyder calibrator without booting to Win or Mac. Also need to check if CR2 raw files in Gimp is something that I can build my workflow on.

Additionally, with linux I'll miss some music creation with a DAW and a bunch of VST plugins. That forces me to keep multibooting to Windows when choosing Linux.

With OS X it would be a single env.
I started with Ubuntu Linux then made the switch to Mint for a while and switched back just within the past month. After a few weeks of dealing with constant error popups on Ubuntu 13.04 I decided to permanently switch to Mint. May switch to Debian or OpenSuse just to see what they are like.
You make a good point; an office is a complex system with many factors affecting workers. However, I do think the findings about increased sickness in open plan offices are very plausible. Communicable diseases, like colds or flu, would be a whole lot easier to spread when there's someone coughing or sneezing in your immediate vicinity over an extended period of time.
I think they're probably more intended to keep the five year olds from shooting their sisters.
So your choice is dumb, then? Meaning they understand only "their mission" and nothing else.

I mean, sure, an organization with Mission X can go about that mission in variety of ways. It's like the sci-fi movies about a God-like-AI "solving" society's problems. Stop crime in New York City? Easy, just encase every resident in three inches of plastic? Makes sense "from their point of view".

And the fact is that the deaths and mayhem from terrorism haven't exceed deaths and mayhem from many other sources. Thus preempting everything to fight terrorism is not actually logical for us as a society and has not, so far, been particularly positive in its effects.
OS X for work (they gave me the Mac), but I spend most of my time in a Linux shell or IDE. I used to split my time between Ubuntu and Windows for development.

I prefer the dev environment of OSX and Linux to Windows and the UIs of Linux and Windows to OSX.
Muslim? Baptist? If there's one thing that SF always got right, is getting rid of religion, projecting a future of increasing secularism/agnosticism. Star Trek is a good example, Gene Roddenberry was an atheist and he made ST as much agnostic/atheistic as he could get away with.
So Far, There Are Only 3 Big Winners in the Smartphone Market
Nothing more than what might stop a German scholar from nailing 95 theses to a church door.
The difference is, Europe see developers as commodities. They don't care, they don't need them as much as they do in San Francisco.

San Francisco see developers as the only way to achieve their project they just raised 10 millions for. You're gold to them, they accept to pay a higher price.

In Europe most young developers want to be Product Manager (or any Manager positions), most developers in SF don't care about this, they want to have fun. The reason could be you get paid super well in SF, and not in Europe :)
Seems like you need an invite for designlab.
Yeah, and many people from modern society would struggle if plonked into the middle of the African savannah. People come to depend physically and mentally on the support structures of modern society, and that's OK. Life's terms change constantly, and are only meaningful in the contemporary context. In the story, augmented reality is life on life's terms.
As the quarter billion disarmed people killed by their own governments in the 20th century, plus all the combatants killed in two "World Wars" and many many others show, there is no single better instrumentality for "efficiently" killing people than governments. In more than a few cases, and most of the deaths, this is by design (Communists and Nazis).
> If your decision is based purely on aesthetics, given enough time, I'm sure you can find a GUI for Linux that you like more than OSX.

People choose OS X because of its design though, not because of its aesthetics. "You can't put lipstick on a pig" and all that. The trouble with Linux is that there's no consistency in UIs between various apps, and skinning just makes things even less consistent.

I'm in your scientific computing category, and I'm using OS X as my main machine right now--my only complaints are the occasional missing package from Homebrew. I suspect I might prefer Ubuntu in that regard.
Linux at home, Windows and Windows Server at internship. Makes me remember everything I disliked about server administration. Let's just say the commandline is really my thing.

Edit: Oh and I got an Android phone that also runs Debian. Perhaps it's interesting to add iOS, Windows Phone and Android to the list? You can vote multiple options anyway.
I can vouch for them. The lessons are easy and the material is indepth. It covers from typography all the way to UX design. They keep adding more lessons. Which reminds me I need to catch up.
This is not true. The NYC DA has made a fuss over gravity assisted knives:

http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/suit_sticks_it_to_manhatt...

I also think there is a restriction that pertains to open carry versus concealed (even if concealed means a spyderco clipit hanging inside your pocket).
The question is: even if sending music (purchased by you) to a mate is legal, doing the same thing, but for a stranger, could be illegal. Like in Germany, where you are allowed to share copyright-protected content with only 7 close people.

Also, if any musical content appears to be pirated (you can expect everything), what implicates from it?
I would imagine any tech-savvy player would, after getting the USB stick, immediately copy it somewhere else. It would be almost like a "branch" of religion that spawns at certain points; the USB stick would be Catholicism, the main branch, warped to the point of being indistinguishable to the original, but the copies could be like smaller sects or nondenominational churches.
Facebook is Not the Problem
If it increases the productivity of a $100,000 per year employee by 10% (i.e., you could get the equivalent of an additional $100,000 employee for free for every ten employees you had), it could actually be very cost effective.
You are basically making the case that more information is bad. You also assume that humans will not augment themselves to become more rational with this data - which may or may not be true.

My take is that the more that is laid bare, the easier it will be for all of us to finally become completely truthful and finally eliminate once and for all the different masks we wear allowing us to all be where we are most comfortable.

So right now there is some person who is secretly leading a double life with a separate family and is also secretly into Pokemon and loves listening to Justin Beiber. No one knows about this because they hide their music in a hidden folder, go to sporting events and take a visit to Argentina once a month to visit the second family while ostensibly on "business."

This person would be mocked, disgraced and the like for their thoughts and behaviors by different disparate groups.

If instead this was all made open to everyone there would be a social demand that would likely end up synching that persons interests and desires with their actions.

I am ok with ending social mores and hangups.
You can also use tools like DomainTools.com to look at historical registration data, their data may be private now but could have been exposed previously.
Linux for my desktop (where all the apps I use live inside a tmux session) and OSX for my laptop.
What is a general opinion about hackintoshes?