skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It sounds like you don't use (or "abuse") the facilities to the point where the owners are bothered. The problem probably stems from people who behave differently than you.
We're interested in providing plotly to companies that can't have their data leave their servers (for ip reasons) but otherwise we're keeping plotly online.

Just curious, for what reasons would you prefer an offline version?
Exactly. A contributing cause of AF447 was a lack of high altitude flying experience and training on emergencies there, since the training regime is traditionally focused on the more accident-prone takeoff and landing phases.
Agreed. I was a telecommuter for two years and regularly worked from my local coffee shop for 2-3 hours a day, usually mid-morning or mid-afternoon when it wasn't terribly crowded. I spent around $150 a month on coffee, on average. Like you, I also brought friends regularly.

If my coffee shop had pulled something like this, they would have lost a regular, paying customer. I kind of resent the "hobo" label.
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>But now if they need to remove the wifi to keep their customer's flowing and happy why did they need it in the first place?

There's this concept of "moderation" and things going over some limit etc.

That they added something (free wi-fi) to lure customers, does not mean they also want people taking it's use to an extreme (forgetting about the coffee, etc).

Similarly, that I needed a friend and made friends with some guy doesn't mean I would appreciate seeing him 24/7 around my place.
This is so true. Not many students who are used to getting straight 'A's are okay with getting that 'B-' in organic chemistry after working their asses off studying. Its just a fact. Learning basic science takes dedication and discipline. The inspiring words of Michio Kaku do not make free-body diagrams any less mind numbing.
http://ycombinator.com/rfs7.html (in case you'd like to know)
Personally I think it's a case of her jimmies being rustled.

She's complaining about the flat structure because she cannot cocere coders to get interested and join her project. Maybe that's because they're all chasing the big bucks and prestige or maybe it's because they're paranoid, but maybe it's just because she's not a gamer, working on an unproven prototype that doesn't seem to have any gameplay, in a gaming company filled with people who care about actual games.

Of course it couldn't be that she actually doesn't get valve and doesn't fit in, the problem NEEDS to be with the organisation, not the person who admitted to constantly complaining they couldn't hire someone cheap to do their grunt work.

No disrespect, I'm sure she's extremely talented but it really does sound like she fit the culture and I think valve were pretty cool to let her export the project and continue working on it.

P.S. I have a bias point of view. I was a pretty hardcore gamer and I really don't believe her project is at all interesting. Sometime in the future, maybe. But more likely in a venue like laser tag, probably not for a pc gamer. Thus I don't think it was fair of her to complain until she actually proved her concept.
This doesn't surprise me. I recently read a thread (could have been on HN but I'm not positive) and I was surprised at the number of people that think it's fine to spend a few dollars on a cup of coffee and then take up a seat and use the free wifi for 8 hours. Most coffee shops (excluding the higher priced places like Starbucks) rely on a high turnover of customers to make a decent profit. There is quite a high markup on coffee but as it's usually so cheap ($1-3) they need to serve a lot of customers. In my experience coffee shops also tend to be quite small and finding a seat is difficult. When I see a place like this I usually go somewhere else. I can understand why they get annoyed at 'laptop hobos'. If you're going to take over a seat in the coffee shop for a day at least buy something every couple of hours.
Most of those "creative solutions" are made by people who, to be frank, really have no idea what they're talking about.

If I get into a car accident, or if my intestine ruptures, do you think I want the person on the other end of 911 to have to deal with which ambulance provider I picked out or which ER I have on my list of approved locations? No. I want the closest ambulance to take me to the closest ER, and I want the first doctor available to take a look at me. Then, if need be, I want the first ER room open.
Some of these comments are very out of date. Android hasn't had a stop the world garbage collector that caused 200-300ms delays since before Android 2.3. It's true I had to avoid dereferencing anything in the game loop back before then, but I don't know anyone who codes like that anymore on Android and I know hundreds of developers...
Hah, I like the part how students have a hard time accepting that even if they work hard, they won't do well.

Where I went to school, the classes were curved to a B-. So generally speaking, if you consider say a A- or above to be doing "well", most people were not doing well by a large margin. The truth is though that it's when you are sitting just below average, but not so far below that you're genuinely lost, but still genuinely struggling that you are probably at your optimal challenge level.
Bug in the doc. :-) just ran on the device and got the expected:

f(a) = m*a
f(20) => 20m
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It is debatable wether "papers," properly read in the context of "persons" and "houses," is referring to communications rather than information storage. In any case, you can't ignore two other things: 1) the word "their"; and 3) the historically broad powers of subpoenas in the common law judicial system.

If you send a letter to someone, is it your paper, or is it their paper? This is really crucial, because the types of communication at issue aren't like postal letter that might have qualified as a "paper" under the 4th. Postal letters are sent sealed to the recipient. They are not copied or stored or archived by any intermediary, or even seen by any intermediary. But all of these things happen to your Facebook posts and gchats and gmails. And some of the things that are at issue, like Verizon's call detail records, are never even in your possession at any point nor are they generated by you! They are some third party's observations of your activities. How do you say that is your "paper" rather than Verizon's?

Also, historically, the protections that exist with respect to third parties' information about you are dramatically less than the protections that exist with regards to information in your possession. The government needs a warrant with probable cause to rifle through your office looking for tax documents, but can get your accountant to give up any information he has about your finances with a simple subpoena. This was as true in the founder's time as it is today.

I can get on board with the idea that "papers" encompasses digital documents in your personal possession. Maybe even direct digital transfers between computers. But documents stored and archived by third parties that look through those documents to target advertising to you? I think you've left the orbit of the 4th amendment at that point.

Also, even "papers and effects" doesn't give you enough mileage to attack other sorts of surveillance: drone cameras recording your comings and goings in public, aggregation and indexing of your public forum posts, etc. That's what I really mean when I say the 4th amendment doesn't say anything about "monitoring."
How man years has it taken to get photoshop where it is today? Javascript and internet speeds have only recently gotten fast enough to compete. Give it another 5-10 years and then we'll see real competition for large desktop apps.
I've experienced a flat-like organization and I have to say, it was easily one of the worst experiences of my career.

The company was setup like a collection of startups. You would pitch your ideas to executive management who would green light hiring and what not. You'd also borrow or entice engineers over to your group. When I joined, it sounded very interesting, but it was a complete nightmare.

The executive management would green light things, but they'd green light 10x more than could be done by the engineering staff. The hiring queue was so long that you'd be lucky to see engineers hired for your project for 6 months. That meant stealing engineers from other groups which encouraged serious protectionism by doing things like say, loading down your group with busy work to keep your empire intact.

It was a political nightmare because no one was really in charge, so everyone claimed ownership. You had review processes for every single step of development by whatever group claimed ownership over something you touched regardless of how trivial.

The executive management rarely stuck their necks out making decisions. You had to prove something was better with data. The fact that data was easily manipulated didn't bother anyone, as long as they didn't have to take any blame.

The thing is, the company itself is wildly successful and could be held up as a model for flat organizations if you didn't look too closely. But really, it is in spite of their organization rather than because of it.
I am yet to know any developer that desired to really code for Symbian and enjoy all the issues related to the Symbian C++ dialect.
I'm not quite, sure. But here's why GNU grep is fast [1]

1. http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-current/2010-Augu...
I absolutely love Soulver, but I think it's trying to achieve a subtly different aim. Soulver is a lot more focused, and definitely more a calculator (albeit one re-designed for the modern era) than a text editor.

What I'd really like to see is something like this, but with in-line typesetting. Similar to the Markdown editors where when the line is active and you're editing it you see the raw text, but when you move off to another line you see the typeset mathematics. Because at the moment, it's just so much quicker and easier to think with pen and paper when you can actually write and read correct notation, rather than a monospaced-ASCII-fascimile...
How can you thank the moderator?

The new title "Retired Senior Microsoft Manager Dies In Phuket" while strictly factual, removes any context relevant to recent news.
This was 2012.
Does this mean Firefox will be able to play MP3s now?
'Serious' is a strong word but I have this problem all the time.

2 of my favorite coffee shops (Filter and Peregrine in DC) are really small and constantly full of people working on laptops. I love the coffee but don't take guests or coworkers there because there are never open tables to sit and chat. I know other people who avoid them entirely because having sitting space is more important to them than the coffee itself.

People who stay for more than, say, an hour or two hurt turnover which is critical for smaller coffee shops that also serve food or snacks, whereas places like SBux make most of their money on people getting a quick morning fix, and can also afford bigger spaces.

I'd prefer if things bifurcated, big national chains that can afford the room offer wifi, smaller local places kill it to keep turnover up. I can see how it's a lose-lose for coffee shops having to choose one group or another. Some places turn it off after, say, 3pm which is a nice compromise.
Seems to me to be basic iterated Prisoner's Dilemma theory: you defect, and you better expect to get tit-for-tatted until you stop. And lieing about it will only make it worse.
Fascinating to think that the organizational methods I saw on Youtube videos of OWS decision making groups last year is an echo of a response to Leninism. Any recommendations to sources on this connection in case I want to follow up?
I'd be careful about rushing to judgement on this. I'd rate both sources as equally credible and the issue here is pretty complex. Both parties have commercial incentives.
Interesting story, would be curious to hear anyone's flip-story, who quit the startup/programming treadmill to do something different?
I don't see this as trying to quiet dissent nearly so much as trying to inject some understanding into the fast-and-loose news coverage that seems to always follow big disasters like this. He's basically arguing that people wait for the investigation results, rather than getting caught up in wild speculation - that it would be very bad if people soaked up all the misinformation that the news was spitting.

Otherwise, I agree with your comment, and that it is great that the airline industry has focused so intently on removing every single failure mode they spot.
Not sure if this is the primary reason, but:

"Look for specified patterns in the tracked files in the work tree"

http://git-scm.com/docs/git-grep

Presumably, this would exclude a lot of assets or libraries that aren't part of your branch/repo, don't know what the OP's setup was (are those 11K+ files all tracked?).
Visit San Francisco's 'Coffee Bar' in the Mission to see a place the eeks out every drop of profit with many kinds of seating and various rules over time for some areas. Always packed and people learn the rules quickly. Lots a good nudging going on.
Amazing, literally within seconds of replying, I get a downvote.
What's with this trend of adding some kind of menu overlay on the top of your page that allows text to scroll underneath?

You read a page, then scroll forward a page, and 4 lines of text at the top are obscured. You then have to scroll back up individual lines and try to figure out where you were.

Am I the only one hating on this design trend?
Yeah, I should do that.
Bike lanes also don't help when bikers weave in and out of it.
Interesting, what would you suggest?
Could almost make a case for a "tragedy of the commons" situation here. Common resources of seats and wifi. Most people treat them reasonably using the seats for social interaction and the internet for meeting resources perhaps, but some people having no reason not to leech onto it and over use it then causing the aforementioned problems ruining it forever one with blanket bans and plug power slots.

As per usual moderation is probably the key. Around here lots of places give out wifi for 2 hour per drink. At least they keep you buying if you are going to sit and take up space and wifi. Seemed pretty fair to me. Most casual cases and meetings are well with in 2 hours so more cases are covered and the hobos get the boot or are forced to pay.
thanks! It was a lot of fun to work on and write up.
Obviously there are two sides to this coin, and that calls for two solutions. Some coffee shops can certainly adopt this and similar policies to cater to customers that would prefer not to be around people tapping away on their keyboards, while other coffee shops can become the new haven for those people.

I think it's a fair solution, and it reminds me of how some restaurants will adopt policies to ban children from the premises for similar reasons.
So, because her former employer gives her certain benefits, she's not entitled to feel bitter? That logic reminds me of people who think that presents 'make up' for abuse and/or neglect.
A lot of people don't understand that WiFi service at coffee shops is provided as a courtesy, and as a result they tend to take it for granted. I know people who, after buying their first drink (the absolute cheapest one on the menu) sit at a table for hours at a time and use the Internet. Fundamentally, I think this behavior is unethical and I'm fully behind coffee shop owners who take measures to discourage it.

The best one I've seen is the method where your receipt includes a WiFi code that is good for two hours after activation. That is plenty of time to get work done, and afterward if you want to continue working then you go buy another drink.
I no longer frequent coffee shops that are (nearly) 100% occupied by "laptop squatters," as it means no seating for those of us who want to sit and chat for 10-15 minutes over coffee. </anecdotal>
Well, it wasn't your standard controlled flight into terrain, but since one of the pilots was pulling back on his hand stick for the entire time.... (e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air_France_Flight_447#Sullenbe...).
There's a lot of discussion around this interview, and unfortunately much of it tries to paint her as a trouble-making whiner. A lot of her complaints match what I would expect from an attempt of a non-hierarchal organization: cliques, lack of ability to get man-power for essential but non-popular work, and inability to consider points of views that don't match with the larger group. The potential downsides of open allocation systems are swept under the rug as bitterness, and nothing of value is gained.

What I wonder is, are the issues she encountered fixable? She recommends a small layer of management, but that seems like it would erode away at the system they are trying to harbor. Since the issue seemed to be specific to the challenges of the hardware division, maybe they could have just split and applied the fixes only to the hardware portion.
Basically, I can guarantee that killing cookies would lead to 0% adoption of HTTP 2.0 forever, due to the same inertia that is holding Python 3 or IPv6 back. Doesn't matter if there's a better mechanism included that does the same job.
I think this might also be something technology could solve.

Hosted wifi networks always seem awful, If there was some way to super easily enforce a bandwidth and per-device time limit to discourage squatters without making the network impossible to use, that would be great.
I have a similar ratio, but I would welcome a time limit. Web I go its usually just to hang out for a bit, read a book, and maybe comment about the passing customers on Twitter. But if it is one of those one or two in ten times I plan to stay and there are people at every comfy chair with laptop plugged in, I'll leave without buying anything. So I guess we have opposite philosophies there. I don't think it would at all affect my patronage when I want a coffee to go.
The Grove on Fillmore St in SF has a goodbye to wifi sign near the entrance that I just noticed a couple of weeks ago, which I thought was pretty interesting. I, personally don't mind the wifi'ers at Starbucks or Panera, but my main comment is that the seating plans of these shops are not setup for solo workers. One visit to Starbucks had a slew of wifi workers sitting at 2-person tables. I couldn't help but think that the shop was a 1/2 occupancy just due to the seating plan.

It's definitely an interesting problem. Everyone has laptops, and coffee shops seemingly are not hurting for patrons anymore.
I'm getting older, and I've seen about 40 companies between places where I've worked, those I've advised, and places where I have some insider detail.

I think that open allocation in terms of project mobility is the right way to go. I also think that flat structures are rarely truly that, and that they're certainly not resistant to fast growth (more than 20% per year).

There's a paradox inherent in the fact that if there's no management at all, informal psuedomanagement appears and that's worse (because it's unstable and must compete to hold ground). What you want is minimalist, benevolent management that operates in the joint interest of the company and its people, but that seems to require a relatively rare lack of ego. You need a cultural shift to a maker's culture where people who build things are held in highest esteem, and the long-term builders/individual contributors have as much influence and credibility as management.

It's pretty rare that one can do away with management outright, though. Someone has to protect the good.
WiFi is a decreasingly relevant weapon as more people have more devices with faster 4G connectivity. They'll need to start outright bans.
An Orbitz for healthcare procedures is sorely needed. Does one exist?
What if retailers/banks gave you a separate account login that can only be used to read data? There wouldn't be nearly as much risk in giving this out to third parties.
China’s Tianhe-2 Doubles World’s Top Supercomputing Speed
By audio watermarking, do you mean corrupting the audio with periods of silence/tone/noise that repeat, or do you mean a forensic watermark for audio fingerprinting purposes?
I despise this UI trend, if I really want to read a page I will jump into Chome's Inspector and fix the CSS. Otherwise I navigate away.
All of the comments on the msn page, seem very self-righteous.

If only there was a way to monitor bandwidth per attached wifi device and slowly limit it for devices attached for a very long time. Why can't they do something like this using a $50 WRT54G and the Tomato firmware? Just turn the QoS setting on and put everyone in a very low bandwidth class. You don't need a perfect solution (like giving 50MB per coffee).
Udacity should add more info about the courses...

Advanced Operating Systems
http://www.cc.gatech.edu/~rama/CS6210-External/
papers!
http://www.cc.gatech.edu/~rama/CS6210-External/class-schedul...

High Performance Computer Architecture (2010, diff. prof.)
http://www.cc.gatech.edu/~hyesoon/fall10/overview.html

Software Development Process
http://measure.cc.gt.atl.ga.us/classes/cs6300/

Computer Networks (diff prof)
http://www.cc.gatech.edu/~ammar/6250-Spring2012/

Machine Learning
http://www.cc.gatech.edu/classes/AY2007/cs7641_spring/
If I were to guess, I would think grep has to traverse the directory tree while git knows all the file names already.
Amend "most" with many. A quick scan of wikipedia suggests there are about 20 states that require a permit to purchase or registration of ownership. Federal law also restricts ownership by convicted felons in all 50 states which is essentially the same thing - regulation by any other name.
[Paper] 3D Printing of Free Standing Liquid Metal Microstructures
Amazon Elastic Transcoder provides the video duration for transcoded jobs through the API and the AWS Management Console. See https://forums.aws.amazon.com/ann.jspa?annID=1958 for more info.
I'll definitely place a Perl (and other language modules) on the API page! I think the best way to go about this is to write a REST api as @zhemao suggested. Feel free to email me at chris[at]plot.ly :)
Yeah, I work at a ~400 bed not-for-profit hospital. One of the culture shocks when I started working here was learning that we have an entire department whose sole job is figuring out what billing codes to send insurance companies so that the hospital gets paid for its services.

From everything I've seen, it's a very difficult job, and any mistake -- or not even a mistake per se, just coding something in a way that disagrees with the particular quirks of a given insurance company -- can have a drastic impact on whether and how much we actually get paid for a particular line item on a bill.
ParEcon is an attempt at what you mention: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Participatory_economics

This is a more problem than networks vs hierarchies since both face this problem. All companies that succeed by definition start with a successful social structure, but as a companies increases the number of employees the social structure has trouble scaling. Clausewitz discusses a simple example of this with an army, as the army grows the number of links in the chain from a commander to a unit increases. He proposes a number of solutions (increase the unit size, increase the branching degree, split the army, etc) but in typical Clausewitzian fashion admits there is an inherent trade off between size and effectiveness.

Valve maybe choosing to stay small to avoid scaling beyond their effective structure. This is a counter-intuitive strategy in the world of bigger is better, but I'm interested in seeing how it plays out.
I am not an MD, but...

The time it takes for most cancers to develop far enough to be picked up by these sorts of diagnosis techniques is far, far longer than the few months which had elapsed between the Fukushima event and his diagnosis.
git grep -E '\brout|outer\b'