skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
He is missing the point of Open office plans. Frankly, the blog post comes off as a little entitled when he says "we all deserve office of our own" (paraphrasing). Really ? How about a bed to nap while we are at it (well ok google has the nap pods). The point of open office plan is to try and encourage a culture of equality (in my opinion). I love open office plan because I could be sitting next to a college graduate and an executive director at the same time. Imagine the level of access you have if you have the balls to actually utilize it. With closed doors, even if the person inside is welcoming, it just creates a senseless fear of rejection.

All this point about not being able to focus and getting disturbed all the time is hardly an issue. Most co-workers are respectful of your time whether they are in open office or closed office. The ones that are not respectful will bother you regardless of where you sit. Behind closed door ? No problem, I will give this guy an annoying phone call.

Now is there a binary answer to this ? Of course not. But claiming that Open office plans are completely useless is stretching it a little too far.
Different types of people thrive in different types of environments.
Unfortunately, I've only ever been a spectator in the design of offices, I've never played much of an active role in their organization. The best advice I can offer is to have the utmost respect for your developers, since they are your prized assets. Give them good equipment, choices, and solicit them for feedback on what they want.
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As much as Bootstrap, I imagine. Not sure if moreso or lessso though. Perhaps different use cases? It looks like developers prefer Bootstrap, not entirely sure why - perhaps something as simple as the documentation is structured better for them - or that was the initial crowd who was exposed to it.
> the DPA takes it even further by requiring that personal data "shall not be kept for longer than is necessary" ie. you are supposed to delete any personally identifying data once you're done using it for it's original purpose (or another legal use)

I think you could easily argue that "needing it for an undo feature" is still a legal use for that data. But, thanks for pointing out that "delete" is a lot more legally loaded a term than I had assumed. It makes a pretty convincing case to call things "remove" instead of "delete".
It has been my hope for many years that Wolfram would open-source Mathematica one day. I can think of no better way to ensure his legacy.
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http://www.reddit.com/r/lisp/comments/1mmm02/screenshot_of_f...

FriCAS/Axiom running on ARM board (ie. Raspberry Pi) on top of Clozure CL (on Ubuntu/GNU/Linux)
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Tubes was available for free on Amazon a few weeks ago and I picked it up. I'm looking forward to reading it.
I don't agree and I don't understand their dichotomy. That whole paragraph is very confusing and lacks context.

Did they have good test coverage from the get go or not? If they did, why was so much support caused by failing code? If not, it's easy in hindsight to say this but there's no guarantee your tests would have caught all such support issues.
Yeahbut. Fun is frequently irrational.
To be fair, attention is a pretty precious resource these days
The Interchange plugin saved my butt on a recent project. Client wanted to have 5 different images for different sizes, it was a breeze to setup even when having to integrate it with the supersized slider.
Ionic Framework Alpha release has finally arrived
I would love to see a video of how people get on this thing.
Article points out missing features or presumed flaws in Android, but not The inverse (IOS flaws and missing features). How does this add value for anyone thinking of switching? or wanting to debate which phone is better for whom and why.

As such, it's nothing but another uninformed rant.

It's likely that most people who own an iPhone don't even know about this feature.

He owned an android phone for a week and did not even see half the features that Android has and IOS lacks. How can you adjust to a totally different UI (and begin to appreciate many of the features and differences) in such a short period of time.

This post was not worth reading.
> That being said, being french, the level of defiance and incomprehension the people in charge in France show for the internet is beyond ridiculous, and border on dangerous.

Yes, but as the news show regularly, there's nothing specifically French towards lawmakers increasing will to control what is said and done on the internet. (The UK and the US come to mind, but there are plenty of other examples elsewhere)

I'm French myself and I am frankly appalled by our government's (and the previous ones), but let's be honest, the grass isn't much greener elsewhere. (Except perhaps in Scandinavian / northern countries?)
It's not that hard to argue. Given there are lots of things to take into account, but Jordan averaged 2.5 more ppg than lebron, and 5 ppg if you take out the wizards comeback. Jordan also won 6 out of 8 championships, (and you know, was playing baseball for the other 2 years).

Obviously ppg is not the only metric, and championships are won by teams. LeBron is probably in the argument for best all time, and by the end of his career may have a legitimate argument, but he certainly isn't just obviously way better than everyone else. He's probably top 5 though.
Not that I'm disagreeing, but what if the minority believes that all of the nominees are over-ideological candidates?
And this is precisely why I no longer share articles/links unless I've had time to read every word of them.
>> 3) This rule change would only apply to presidential appointments. The 60-vote threshold would remain in place for other bills.

However, this sets a very convenient precedent to expand the new rules for legislation should a caucus ever want it badly enough.
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You can read Wolfram's post about it here.
http://blog.wolfram.com/2013/11/21/putting-the-wolfram-langu...

Note that it includes a beta version of the new Wolfram Language!
NHTSA: Tesla Didn’t Request Investigation – We Notified Them
The AFM has no jurisdiction over me, so they won't collect. As a US citizen living in the US, I am not subject to the absurdities of French laws, or French witch hunts. All they get from me is a vow to never go to France.

This was likely the desired outcome: a chilling effect. However, there is no need to be intimidated, Mr. Shedlock can still travel freely to France without worry. There are no debtors prisons, no credit rating agencies, and assets are difficult to seize outside of a criminal conviction for violent crimes. At worst, he will receive more letters in French.
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The current situation is that the party in power doesn't get to appoint anyone. What good is power then?
This framework is so much further along than Bootstrap is, and the team at Zurb seems to iterate much faster then the Bootstrap team.
Usually "Request desktop site" means booting you back to the homepage of the desktop site.
France, as any other country, decides for itself whether or not it has jurisdiction other than if/when the jurisdiction is decided through treaties.

E.g. I'm Norwegian - Norway claims jurisdiction for certain types of crimes worldwide for Norwegian citizens (quite a few other countries do too).

Enforcability is entirely separate from jurisdiction.
Zurb's Foundation 5
"...free for anyone to use for personal purposes. (There’s also going to be a licensing mechanism for commercial uses, other Linux ARM systems, and so on.)"

http://blog.wolfram.com/2013/11/21/putting-the-wolfram-langu...
No. I just don't consider consumer crap like phones and computers magical. They're tools and fairly boring ones at that. This worship of consumer electronics and deifying the CEOs and executives involved is asinine.
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I would choose that over the alternative.
I was responding to someone who was cheerfully making anti-French statements because a US citizen was mistreated by some piece of the French government. This is no different (except in degree) from an Pakistani citizen (say) being killed by the US government, also outside its legal jurisdiction.
I assumed he was talking about Conrad, the person making this announcement.
Yes, when it deviates significantly with the historical record it implies significant obstruction.
Well, I write this from a quiet corner I escaped to from my open office area so I could have a sustained focus time.

I've worked in open office, half-cube, full cube, shared office, and sole office. Of all of those, sole office was best for concentration and shared office was best for collaboration.
Google building its own development tool using Dart
You can see some alternatives here as well, ranked based on market cap: http://coinmarketcap.com/

I think Litecoin, Peercoin, Namecoin and Primecoin all have some interesting twists, and their value will likely grow in the coming months.
thanks ambuj for submitting. i work on the team & will be around for a couple of hours in case folks have any questions. would love to hear your feedback... cheers.
> "The best advice I can offer is to have the utmost respect for your developers, since they are your prized assets."

Not just devs. Employers should have utmost respect for all their employees.
Rewriting your test suite in clojure in 24 hours
Microsoft In Talks To Buy Shoutcast And Winamp From AOL
I like this. I smuggled Node into our company to suplant a very difficult to test/debug WCF process and it's slowly been creeping out into bigger use cases. I've tried using VS for managing my Node scripts but it just wasn't a very elegant fit given VS's concept of projects and solutions so I kept falling back to Sublime. I'm excited to see if I can finally maintain just a single editor for both my .NET and Node code.
Very nice. One note though. When I look for "puts", I get OpenSSL::Buffering#puts when I'd expect Kernel#puts. "kind_of" gives me RSpec::Mocks::ArgumentMatchers#kind_of. I think you should assign proper weights.
I don't know why (maybe I'm just not good with css and html in general), but I'm always confused when looking at these grid systems. Trying to use zurb in a project now and I'm kinda lost. Any good resources other than their docs for sort of showing how to use zurb in a full project?
What's stopping the Senate from reverting back to the old rules just before the next Senate/Presidential elections?
U.S. Senate goes 'nuclear,' changes filibuster rules
The best tradeoff I've found is
1. Open-office layout two (specified) days a week; perfect for collaboration and meetings.
2. People work from home three days a week; perfect for those coding marathons.

Obviously you can still code in an open-office and you can still collaborate working from home, but it's sub-optimal. With the setup above, you're in the right environment for the right type of work most of the time, and employees love it.

Lots more about this here:
http://www.archonsystems.com/devblog/2013/09/19/open-offices...
When I was choosing a framework for a redesign for my blog (switching from Bootstrap since it was getting cumbersome), I decided to try out UIkit, since I ended up not needing any of the JavaScript plugins or super-fancy CSS effects.

However, after taking a look at Foundation 5's plugins, I will definitely try using the framework if I need to undertake a website with more ambitious functionality.
w3schools is relatively small but their stats are good:

http://www.w3schools.com/browsers/browsers_stats.asp

And there's also Google trends.
Our CPA works at a fixed cost which we agreed to after a lengthy discussion and initial upfront investigation fee for his time. We're really happy with this arrangement, and we use Xero (included with the CPA, not an extra) to make sure the work is being done and with no surprises.
Can you give me an example of a good, long piece in a news publication, written to be exciting, which also includes the gist so you don't have to click through say 10 pages?
Just a shot across the bow.

If we continue to see blanket obstructionism on legislation, I expect to see the filibuster limited there too (or made more difficult). That is when the cannonballs will start flying.
The large pharma I used to work for is still in the process of spending millions of dollars redoing all of their floors to open work space areas. Around the outside of the floors are "focus booths" which just have a small desk/phone/monitor setup for someone to work in for a few hours.

These booths are always full and occupied by folks for the entire day, since most people don't like the loud open area workspace and sit in these small offices so they can have phone calls and concentrate.
Well, I apologize for having gotten a bit carried away; of course not all comments in this thread are worthless.

That being said, I stand by my opinion that reddit-style pun threads [1] or random and unrelated politically biased ramblings [2][3] really shouldn't belong to HN discussions.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6775262

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6775363

[3] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6775474
Holy wow, that is one of the most obnoxious sites I've ever seen (and like others, I felt the same about the ad on the blog).

Leveraging our exclusive "Exit-Intent" technology, Bounce Exchange™ is leading the paradigm shift in automated customer acquisition.

I think they actually used one of those parody startup-speak generators.
We're hiring Python programmers at Khan Academy too, not just JS! I can't promise that you'll get a project-based interview but I promise we'll be friendly.
Very nice, will help Node break into the enterprise.
It's also been used (by both sides) to block all kinds of other things, from tax cuts to tax hikes, debt ceiling increases, defense authorizations, New Deal legislation, and judicial appointees. As a Senator, President Obama even voted to filibuster John Roberts appointment, who was fairly universally seen as a highly competent, qualified nominee as Chief Justice. In short, the filibuster has been used for the purpose it was designed for (a check on majority power in the Senate, which was designed to be much more conservative than the house - whether you like it or not, it's reality), as well as a tool for partisans and racists to get what they want. So basically, like every rule or regulation ever formulated.
Entirely true in some ways, but it may not matter as much as you think.

Seeing very large numbers of cases has a tendency to change political and ideological views over times. The appointees they get are vetted in various ways to at least be qualified at the law, even if they have strong ideologies.
Now, certainly, "true believers" aren't going to change, but ...

Plus, the federal judiciary doesn't pay well (relatively speaking), so unless they strongly care about deciding hundreds of random crappy cases, they often leave for greener pastures.
I see pdb++[1] getting mentioned (pip instal pdbpp), and I'll also throw in wdb[2], which is a WSGI middleware that uses jedi for code introspection.

[1] - https://bitbucket.org/antocuni/pdb/src

[2] - https://github.com/Kozea/wdb
Except it's quickly reaching the point where they don't even have a quorum of judges.

A number of circuits are having to pull judges from other circuits in order to decide cases ...
The line between criticize and insult is so fine, I can scarcely see it. It's like the line between the ocean and the beach.

Can a French person say "The president is illiterate.", as Americans have often said about their president? Could they say "The idiotic president keeps on making up words."? Harsh criticism is naturally insulting.
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The issue for me is derailment.

Your complaint - which is unrelated to the content of this article - is now the top comment.

I agree with you, but there are probably a lot of things we agree about, which are also not related to the content of this article.

And regarding whether your complaint is doing the author a favor? You know, it's probably not. You're just going to discourage him from writing, because then he doesn't have to deal with HN's abuse.
If some senators were against this, why didn't they just use the filibuster to prevent the rules from changing?
They could do that, but there is also no reason that Republicans, should they take power, would just revert back again, and potentially go farther.
I started to notice that and have since moved over to it now. The feature updates and add-ons are coming much faster with Foundation than Bootstrap IMO.
Ask HN: What are the best programming languages for growth hackers?
I'm a marketing and business person with lots of good experience in those fields. I've taught myself HTML, CSS and some Python. I love growth and data work and want to round out my skill set, so what languages or technical capabilities would be MOST useful to focus on? I know there are a ton of 'how to become a growth hacker' threads but I'm interested in your ideas on what I should be educating myself on in terms of technical ability in order to be friggin awesome at this.
Thanks.
Jet lands at wrong airport, is too big to leave
I quote this from one of those images there: "Water makes up 98% of the Earth's volume." A quick estimate on my part, while making some large assumptions (a uniform layer of 11km lying on top of a perfect sphere of radius 6356.8km), says it is 0.5% water by volume. I don't know what else you are trying to sell but I lost all interest at that point.
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Mathematica can deal with arbitrary-precision numbers (or better said, Mathematica doesn't blindly use whatever underlying number format is present, it has precise controls for this sort of thing http://reference.wolfram.com/mathematica/tutorial/ArbitraryP...)
Yes, that's always been the definition of independent record labels, nothing more.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Independent_record_label
Many mathematical concepts cannot be translated into programming, since computation is by definition discrete. For example, even a simple concept like irrational numbers cannot be completely captured by code.
lol, fuck the french :)

I say that in complete jest, but that is hilarious.
"The argument for not appointing any more appeals judges was that the caseload was light enough, that no more were needed.
"

This is of course, completely and totally false. One only needs to look at the stats to see that, depending on circuit, they end up with something like 3 new appeals per day on the low side, and 40 new appeals per day on the high side.

http://www.uscourts.gov/Viewer.aspx?doc=/uscourts/Statistics...

Given the amount of time and effort it takes to decide a single appeal, the caseload is not "light" by any stretch of the imagination.

Pendency is huge (even though very slowly decreasing on average)

These stats also don't count the time it actually takes to hear argument on cases, etc. Just the number of filings.
Nothing. These are rules of the Senate so they can be changed at will whenever they choose. Well, within the rules of the Senate that covers changing the rules of the Senate.

But since it was done, it'll be easier to repeat it in the future. Which was why most wanted to avoid doing it over the years.
Young Immigrants Write Software to Highlight Lack of Legal Status
Is Foundation better than Bootstrap? I'm genuinely curious, as they seem functionality equivalent.

Of course, one uses SASS and one uses LESS. I knew LESS, so I picked Bootstrap.

But I'm more than willing to switch.
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Seriously. Married for almost 10 years and figuring her out is at least a daily process.
Yep, that's it. Would love to just click the one from the results, then have that view. But if I have to then click the name on the right, that's fine too.
You're on to something when discussing Rob's ability as a writer. Smart money says communication is his real strength. By speaking in startup/engineer vernacular to starry eyed bored dreamers(you: hn, vice, digg, reddit consumers) he's generated millions in pre-sales and investment without delivering anything.
Why there is no chance of Apple suffering a BlackBerry-style meltdown
Solution: My guess is that with the money involved here Boeing will simply build a temporary runway and increase the length. A google maps view shows plenty of land that could be used for that.

http://goo.gl/maps/Y3gy3
What is Man?
The Old Man and the Young Man had been conversing. The Old Man had asserted that the human being is merely a machine, and nothing more. The Young Man objected, and asked him to go into particulars and furnish his reasons for his position.
First off, great post Cooksey. I'm actually a sublime and pycharm type of guy, where I use pycharm mostly for debugging purposes. I use pdb only if I'm debugging on a machine thats not mine, I need to debug something fairly quickly, or PyCharm isn't available. I definitely need to give ipdb a try.
I should also be noted, for non-Americans or extremly ill informed Americans, that the Senate is already a body that is non-democratic. Every state votes for two Senators regardless of population. So even under a majority rule, Senators representing 16.9% of the population can block an appointment. Under the de facto 60 vote rule, Senators representing only 11% of the population could do so. To put that 11% in perspective, 13% of the US population is foreign born, 15.8% are baptist, 13.2% are African-American, and around 10.1% live in either the NYC or LA metropolitan statistical areas.

There is perhaps an argument to be made about the majority not riding roughshod over the minority, but in this case the threshold for a blocking minority was just too small.
Camus2 seems to be French. You would not be at risk of making embarrassing mistakes like this if you made an effort to find actual arguments, instead of attempting to criticize the person you are imagining the commenter to be.
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I may be wrong, but I believe Senate rules are set by majority vote, and there is a mechanism available to the Majority leader to simply declare only 50 votes are needed to pass. The main reason it isn't used all the time is that the majority party generally worries about repercussions when they are a minority party.
Getting an ARM VM running Raspbian with QEMU on OS X is surprisingly easy. It's not like KVM would help with ARM anyway, so Rasbian+QEMU on OS X is basically the same as on Linux.
Also there's Ampache.

https://github.com/ampache/ampache

https://web.archive.org/web/20130302160313/http://ampache.or...

https://web.archive.org/web/20130306044144/http://ampache.or...

Within the last year the project ditched their website in favor of just using github. However, strangely they didn't migrate any the content from their website to it.
This seems useful for the profiling alone.
Foundation is without a doubt the nicest CSS framework I have ever used. It really, really helps me, as a programmer, create amazing interfaces without much effort at all. Combined with SASS and it's a winning combination.

Can't wait to start playing with version 5.
i have read literally hundreds of threads discussing
this general issue over the years, and i can say that
this comment right here has come as close to the heart
of the problem as any other one i've read in that time.

congratulations, derbasti, on your observational oxyopia.

-bowerbird
Then reality sets in and the majority (finally) exercises its constitutional powers to govern.