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> I'd prefer the reverse: offices as the default (two people per office okay, as long as there's space) with open space (with portable white boards, bean bag chairs, desks) in the middle for ad-hoc design/discussions.

I've worked in environments like that. Unfortunately, the open space looks like "not working" to people and is highly visible. Since no one wants to be publicly seen as not working, they just ended up being a very nicely decorated and inviting ghost town.
I have a friend who is, at this very moment, phone screening potential dates for her boss.
No thank you; I like Emacs as a text editor, and if I need a word processor, there are alternatives out there. No need to make Emacs even more complex.
The suspect was a white male.

The male gaze.

Protip: the male in the story became the robot. And critiques of language usage is the first step to oppression.
The Greeks could not 'apt-get uninstall --purge' the Trojan Horse. QED.
… Or maybe they’re doing web-site registration completely right
> The ideal office that we'd all love to work in - that perfect 4-6 person bullpen with private offices surrounding

Not all of us. My (and I assume many others) ideal office is a room with a door, with my computer hooked up to 2-3 monitors and a bunch of other things I find useful to my work. Moving out of the open space to a side room... losing my monitors, taking the time to setup my keyboard and mouse, etc. That is far from ideal for me.
"That’s what work is: It is a vacillation between collaboration and solitary exploration."

It's weird that the author notes that, but then proposes that the solution to focusing on one half of the vacillation is to just focus on the other half instead. Surely the ideal is to support both.

If I could I would run an experiment like this:

1. Have a large number of small, quiet office-like spaces.
2. Have a big open plan area.
3. Have a fixed schedule during the day where for a certain number of hours, everyone is required to be in the open plan area.

You can still hack there if you want, but you're expected to be there, and you understand that during that time you're free to interrupt and be interrupted.

The reason for making the open space mandatory is so that people actually go there. If it's optional, then it looks like people only go to the open spaces to not do "real" work. Since no one wants to be seen slacking, the open space just ends up unused.
> This seems like an odd comparison since one doesn't really buy Sage licenses.

True in a deep sense. In principle one could collect all the open-source components that make up Sage and recreate it independently. Sage resembles gluons more than it resembles protons and neutrons -- it holds together things created by others.
Open office layouts always remind me of factories and conveyors. I don't like these short dividers as well, they aren't conductive for productivity at all.
The confined animals don't need them to survive either, it is just cheaper and easier to treat every animal than it is to only treat the sick ones.
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42Floors - Riddle me this?
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Why doesn't 42Floors include Dogpatch in their neighborhood pull downs? The Mission is the new Marina; Potrero Hill is new Mission; Dog Patch is about to be the new South Park. Per Curbed and other respectable blogs on the topic of urban regeneration, Dogpatch is exploding, if not exploded. Over 2600 new housing units (sold out) and regeneration of the Illinois Street/20-23rd/Pier 70 for mixed use space.

I'm a promoter of 42Floors but disappointed they aren't leading the customer to where they should be looking. Kudos for their Showroom product. Nice nod to Pinterest like content display. Could use better curation. I offered to help (mix of staging, interior sourcing, product management and CRE chutzpah). Seems perfect right? I was loosely 'if I don't code, piss off'. Big disappointment. I think twice now before referring 42Floors on to the many people I know looking for space. But I still refer them. I'm a sucker for a good idea executed even better.

Caveat: my first HN submission. I read the Guidelines and checked this meets the 'Intellectual Curiosity' criteria. Debatable? Bring it on.
How many more times is this "open plan is the best!" "open plan is terrible!" cycle going to continue to receive your clicks? This has been an ongoing topic literally all year! These sites are playing the community like a piano, and the comment threads all read exactly the same: anecdotes.

I'm guilty of participating, too, but no more. My assumption will now be that any article with a headline that presents an absolute for a subject that is a matter of preference is garbage. It's all part of growing up, I guess.
http://www.halliburton.com/public/projects/pubsdata/Hydrauli...
Jury Orders Samsung to Pay Apple $290 Million [breaking]
I get it's a piece of history, but how do you monetize this? Convert it to paid software? Streaming service subscription?
Hacker News Nation Episode #2: "Somebody has a Gun"
We have CloudFlare set up, but we only plan to turn it on to mitigate DoS attacks and help out if we run into non-malicious severe load.
So I have been wanting a HDMI dongle or similar solution and this sounds promising. I was hoping Chromecast would have delivered something closer to this but alas it focused too much on entertainment content (and tab casting barely works for me).

I know it is a WIP, but this would have been much more attractive/awesome if they managed to power without separate USB and add wifi AC support. That would have made it a serious competitor even if at a higher price point.
PayPal founder opens first East Coast office in NYC
Bitcoin Payments - University of Nicosia Digital Currency Initiative
Spotify Raises $250 Million, Valued Above $4 Billion
Post author here. Definitely agree that clients should take time to educate themselves. That's actually the point of the post and the point of reviewing the bill. We can't all start off knowing everything.

Hopefully being able to forecast legal expense is part of that learning process. In this case, the client was able to separate the one-time from the ongoing legal spend.

Reviewing your bill is great way to make better decisions in the future. The point in the post about investor-driven costs is a good example of something they can do differently the next time around. Hopefully it's also something that startup founders reading the post can be proactive about.

The post was not meant to be anti-lawyer in any way. I know much of the commentary around law firms turns out that way. But it's certainly not my intent.
So you have invested 2+ hours writing a cv and a cover letter, and another 4 to 5 getting ready for, going to and finally attending one or more interviews, and you balk at investing another 4 hours on a project, where your abilities can really shine over the competition?
This is how we've had our offices in previous companies, and the new office we're building will have this layout as well. It works great. You get privacy or you get sunlight :)
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I'm more curious about this which is mentioned on the page: https://github.com/hcatlin/libsass/ has anyone got it working with rails? Faster SASS compilation would make life much better (especially when bootstrap or compass are involved).
I think I would have to agree with your opinion about banding together in common ideology, but I'm not sure about the stronger part (what that means to me).

What I mean by that is that I haven't (nor do I think I will ever fully) decide(d) if that becoming stronger is to exert that influence over other ways of thinking/being or to become stronger so that me as the individual can live and move about the earth as freely as I choose understanding the danger that I may present upon myself and that upon other human beings trying to do the same or something else. So I guess whether the division in ourselves can be removed or not, It will ultimately come down to the individual or small group of people to make it so either way. And that's where I am now: working on something with a friend (maybe people more in the future) that will help explore what that means to me.
Spotify raises $250m valuing the company at $4 billion
Thank you for the link! :)
Explaining Tesla's stunning stock price
I think tech is definitely a candidate's market but the corollary is that the tech market attracts a lot of candidates who can't perform. Real programming exercises are perhaps the only way to weed them out.
thanks! we're hoping to add TS for Beta.
I'm glad it's been reformed (I think it came to light during the ELF scandal). But yes, my overall point is it's just a matter of pot calling kettle black.
Well done! I've also been trying to improve Ruby's documentation with DevDocs:
http://devdocs.io/ruby/
I Switched to Android for a Week and Almost Didn't Switch Back
I am surprised they finally did not choose the dark themed design that was posted here. Maybe I had the wrong impresion that it was the most liked so far, or that the all the other designs were going this wsy. Instead the winner is more of a serious "keep thing tidy" one..
I start one month ago a project with less or more the same concept!
But this seems more powerful, and already done! :)

Btw if you are interested checkout:
http://www.ideabile.com/tirebouchon/doc/?file=index.php ( Is just a small preview)
What would you say the tradeoffs are for that ease of implementation?
That doesn’t seem relevant at all to me. I honestly fail to see the connection. I would agree that human-computer matches are probably be quite boring and don’t have a chance to be successful as entertainment but that doesn’t imply anything for human-human (or even computer-computer) matches.

Human competition is about humans competing against each other. Machines, computers or animals being better than humans doesn’t really figure into it.
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Show HN: An elegant Ruby on Rails solution for development progress.
I'm simply curious, that's all.
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Flask makes this really nice. When in Debug mode, if an exception happens, you get an interactive stack trace, and you can easily jump into console in each level.
So a ~$930mm final judgement. Now for another 5years of appeals
curl --silent https://bitpay.com/api/rates | jq '.[0].rate'

Is what I use to get the current BitPay rate in USD
Rewriting your test suite in Clojure in 24 hours
> I suppose for people that already use VS this is good

Yeah, instead of introduction Node this way, they should have specified this was an introducing to node.js Tools for Visual Studio.
I've seen Programming teachers requiring emacs for a course while not using anything it has to offer, not even as a programmable editor, and even displaying signs of anti-abstraction (no regularity in actions for a sequence of identical text modification tasks).
A short note on using Object Oriented models in Unity
I launched an app the week before BS 3.0 launched and had to spend several days upgrading.
> Heh. Open layouts were a response to the cubicle system which isolated people

And cubes were a response to open layouts which were noisy and provided no privacy. Shit's cyclical.
Did you actually read it? I linked to it specifically because of the methane claim. I found it linked to by the NY Times. The PDF quotes county officials who found no link between the methane and fracking. The methane was determined to be organic. People have claimed that methane was reported in the water decades before fracking started.
For Emacs users on Windows, I've found Eshell (M-x eshell)[0] to be much preferable to the normal command window for most tasks.

[0]: http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_mono/eshell.ht...
This makes no sense. First, getting technical details wrong has nothing to do with vilifying hackers. Some journalists get technical details wrong. Some journalists vilify hackers. These are independent facts and linking them is terribly unsound logic.

Second, if you're a journalist, you are pretty much guaranteed not to be an expert in the fields you report on, because you're a journalist, and not a networking engineer, or a software developer, or a doctor, or a lawyer, or a professional in whatever other field you might be reporting on. Journalists have an obligation to report factually and correctly to the best of their ability, but they are not infallible.

Also, the technically incorrect piece of this article seems pretty minor. I don't understand why some people are getting so worked up about it.
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Video Games - Designing for monetization from day one
Curious - Why did you choose to use cocos2d-iphone vs SpriteKit?
I sometimes feel like I'm really missing out by not getting chess. It's such a rich source of metaphor.
More money than you think is hiding in those sofas literally
...and I want it to work the other way. I want to be able to enter English terms, and have pages from other languages returned.

I have no idea how that would work, but it's frustrating finding my www experience stuck in a UK/US bubble.

As for Google, does /ncr (no country redirect) still work?
Good old Hacker News
We've got the same problem. Won a Startup Weekend and have a big team (6). We've debated a number of options here but everyone seems very committed so far, so right now we're working away on it and giving it a few months of breathing room to see if people naturally fall off or lose interest. I'd suspect after a little time you'll start to see who's really dedicated to the project and who isn't. Otherwise, it'll be time for an awkward team conversation about how to proceed.

I would argue that some people whose roles might seem more relevant post-launch may actually be really helpful during the development stage too. If you're looking to customer validate throughout the development process then a talented non-technical person could be super helpful in pounding the pavement, getting feedback, setting up meetings and building relationships for you. So I think it's more about having a small team of the RIGHT people rather than a small team based solely on their presumed job titles.
Normally I wouldn't comment on someone downvoting me. However I'm going to presume there is a very high probability that it's due to my analogy with the goto statement, something which most programmers seem to view as inherently evil thanks either to received dogma or to a misunderstanding of the context of Dijkstra's original paper on the subject. The point of my post was that there is a time and place for everything -- print statements in the context of this thread -- and I used gotos as an additional analogy/example. So in case anyone sees this and wonders why I would actually consciously choose to use a goto statement, please see the following goto entry in CERT's Secure Coding Standard [1] for a concise but thorough explanation.

https://www.securecoding.cert.org/confluence/display/seccode...
An other nice option is small shared offices, 2-6 people in a room, ideally working on related things (not necessarily together). Avoids the noise and discomfort of an open office, but also avoids the complete isolation and frustration of singles.
You should be careful with YARD -- we've found a number of bugs in it that lead to broken/missing documentation. The ruby standard library, for example, is missing huge chunks of its documentation if you use YARD instead of RDoc.

I very much wanted YARD to be a drop-in replacement for RDoc, but it's not quite there yet.
I like Web API a lot and would have no problems using it more. I've never messed around with SignalR, I had already started playing with Node at that point.

As I mentioned, but didn't elaborate on, in my first post I had an urgent need to fix a production problem as quickly as possible. But the service giving us the problems was opaque, and encumbered by these massive 100+ project .NET solutions that had grown unwieldy for rapid development.

Being able to kick VS+TFS and their ceremony to the curb and hack out a solution with Node and Sublime Text was liberating. But it wasn't really VS I had a problem with, it was paying the price for years of technical debt. That's why I'm excited, I still think VS is a great IDE for my .NET work.

One other final reason I wanted to use Node was because I felt for someone that considered himself to be a "web developer" I was abnormally shitty at javascript and wanted to know it better :)
No, they should be figuring out how to conserve energy, extract it from sustainable resources, or at the very least developing high density urban real estate.
Neat, but not what I was expecting.

I was hoping it'd be the type of dongle that I could plug one end into an HDMI out and one end into an HDMI in and have "wireless HDMI."

This is not that.
We don't, but that's an interesting idea...I'm an emacs user, too.
I'm getting a 400 error on upgrading the websocket connection.
PowerVR isn't fully documented, is it?
Microsoft's definitely giving NodeJS some credibility to enterprise shops
The official commentary and analysis, imo, was not very good though.

I was watching this feed live to see the players, but for audio I was over at http://www.twitch.tv/chessnetwork . Jerry from chessnetwork did a wonderful job of breaking it all down as it was happening. In general, his Chess YouTube channel over here http://www.youtube.com/chessnetwork is awesome.
> Personally, however, I'd prefer the reverse: offices as the default

This is essentially what I have now. We have four people in two very large rooms connected by an open internal corridor. There's chairs in each room, and a large table in one of the rooms. It's a very productive setup.
It also really does not work for people with ear problems (I am one, I can't wear headphones or earplugs for more than 10mn at a time anymore, it starts hurting like the blazes and I have to remove them for a few hours)
I've been in such an office, and I loved it. Some people, like me, spent most of their time in the main open space. Others camped out all day in a private office. Most moved between the two.

From a design perspective:

- Glass walls are nice. This office was a group space surrounded by smaller rooms (which had the windows). The offices were glass on the interior wall (facing the group space), which allowed light in, but opaque on the walls between offices, allowing for privacy.

- Variety was important. Iirc, we had like 4-6 offices that would fit 2 people at desks, 3 that would fit 4 or 5 people around a table, and 1 that fit about 12 around a small conference table. This was for a 25-person company, and seemed to provide about the right amount of space.
- We ended up soundproofing a few rooms because people would use them for calls or loud music playing and it'd disturb the neighboring offices.
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I want bluetooth for displays (and high def audio and devices, etc...). I just want to walk into a room and have my phone, computer, tablet, etc. find my printer, display, mouse, and all other useful devices.

This level of convenience requires either an up-front pairing process with each individual device, or a gaping security hole that anybody with a high-gain antenna can exploit (imagine mischievous teenagers driving around neighborhoods with small kids and beaming illicit videos onto unprotected wireless TVs).
I've worked at a 100% remote company for the last 9 years - we generally prefer chat rooms.

Email, IM, chat have 1 big thing going for them: documentation. I can pull up the chat logs of every decision we've ever made in the company. Want to remember why we did something 8 years ago - is that a bug or a feature? We can find out if it is, and why.
Not sure what you mean by high demand, it has certainly has had strategic value, but the grand total of companies that would be interested in the search box are Google, Microsoft and Yahoo.

I wouldn't be looking forward to the next set of negotiations if I had Microsoft and Yahoo as my fallback positions.
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I think the original amount was cut to $600 million so the total would be $890 million. I don't think Apple is too concerned about the size of the judgement either way.

EDIT: I stand corrected!
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Why should I accept bitcoin as a payment method?
I seriously can't believe how much money Apple has been able to troll out of those rounded corners and that end-of-list overscroll effect.

And now, to top it off, iOS 7 is built on the holo-principles of Android. It's almost like Apple is doing it merely to taunt its foreign competitors, saying very, very clearly: "Sorry guys. I'm untouchable".

Utterly disgusting.

At least their attempts to outright ban products have been less successful as of late. There's some hope for a civilized world.
Sirius XM is valued at $22 billion; I am not very bullish on their business model long-term. I would say Spotify has a brighter future.
Samsung has to pay $290 million to Apple in re-trial
Looks really promising! Would like to see this work for Gitlab also.
This has bothered me for a while. I want linkedin to output a PDF resume without all of the cruft.
This format sucks, I can't click on jsfiddle links or even copy them.
$20k/month coming in from a lifestyle business sounds less stressful than being CEO of a startup with a billion dollar valuation.

It is also a lot more likely.
> In fact, it can be argued that when the salaries of mid-level employees are low compared to industry norms

Read my post again: revenue / employee, not salary / revenue.

> One can read all sorts of user-level script code, but no source code at all.

What? Probably half of the Wolfram Language is written in the Wolfram Language. How is top-level code not source code?

> it explains why Mathematica cannot be used in serious mathematical work, work meant for technical and scientific publication and peer review.

You keep saying that... I think the truth is more subtle. A tool like Mathematica might play a crucial role in some result, but the proof or result itself doesn't a priori need to rest on any black box software at all to be reproducible.

A nice family of examples would be the class of NP problems, for which the discovery might have been difficult, and achieved via proprietary tools, but the verification is possible via open-source tools or with direct human insight.

And that's not even considering physics, biochemistry, engineering, and astronomy, where many of the tools you use will always be expensive and built by industry, and have no impact on peer review. Especially if they are a means to visualizing data to generate hypotheses, or processing or wrangling data into a tractable form.
You were responding to someone who was being derogatory towards Société Générale. How is this 'Anti-French'? Isn't your objection here pretty ironic considering the topic at hand?
Google is an advertising company that owns and develops a spectacular search engine and a few other great products as loss leaders.

Mozilla is a non-profit foundation that sells its search box to fund a corporation that develops a free web browser.

They don't compete.
Hi fatbat,

Infact you can power it from an HDMI 1.4 + MHL port if your tv supports it!

It also comes with dual wifi cards.
Facebook chat: flat on mobile, with gradients on web, with last update.
Sadly this is exactly the kind of thing of thing that could have been built on top of RSS, before everyone gave up on it.