skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They should really be using ACH or debit transactions, to reduce the risk of chargebacks.
This is one of the bits of advice I used to give new hires in NOC and Security: "Sometime things are crazy and we may not get to eat on time or may need to eat at our desks. Don't eat at your desk when you don't have to. Get away for a few minutes for your health and sanity."

Unrelated (ish) but much more important: "Don't cook fish in the shared microwaves!" At the current place, all of the microwaves have signs exhorting everyone to "Please cover your food!".
I'm a teacher. We have open plan offices. When I need quiet (marking complex pieces of work or thinking up new ideas) I go to the quiet study area in the College library. Wifi (good speed) and staff to enforce the no talking rule.

So how about a library? Corporate space with study carrels and dead tree of a vaguely useful nature (books in mass on shelves absorb a lot of sound).
I typically use:

$ mkdir foo
$ cd !$

Not quite what you're asking for but it can certainly save some keystrokes -- especially if you're doing something like:

$ mkdir -p foo/bar/baz/whatever
A book(physical) is essentially all you need to mentally get away.
So I write compilers for a living now
Developers are meant to connect - Tech.Pro
> I don't think that story means what you think it does. It's a tale of wealth and power. Money is just one part of the equation.

You automatically take me for a fool when all I did was present the story, not my interpretation of it. Fiction can be interpreted in many different ways, independent of the author. I think the story is saying that there is more to wealth than just money; that you can't just throw money at things or people and magically get the equivalent amount of wealth.

How is it about power? Scrooge recouped his money by just working on a farm and selling the produce. If it was about power and/or assets, he would have recouped it through his businesses (of which he owns a considerable amount of), as I hinted at in my post.

> It also perpetuates the right-wing myth/prejudice that poor people are lazy and can't handle larger amounts of money than they "need", which has been proven wrong repeatedly.

Maybe it does. I think it has more to do with the fact that you can't just inject money (or redistribute it) into an economic system that is more-or-less closed (there is a more or less fixed amount of labour in the system and so on) and get the desired effect. Without some restructuring of the system, you're probably going to get a lot of undesirable effects like inflation, which might just return you to where you were (or leave you in a worse state). Scrooge had been hoarding all of that money for decades... to put it back into the system has the same effect as to print money.

If the story was motivated by some right-wing philosophies, I think it was more motivated by the simplistic model of human motivation for wealth and and incentives (everyone immediately goes on vacation when they have met a windfall). Scrooge is more motivated by money itself than wealth so he was able to buckle down and get his money back.

But I'm not an economist so my opinions might be wrong. Nonetheless I don't consider myself a "right-wing", which is a rather vague concept in this discussion since you're from Brazil and I'm from Norway.
Target is not being a very good citizen, unless there were some seriously unique aspects to these thefts:

"[T]he company still has not disclosed any details about how the attackers broke in. This lack of communication appears to have spooked many folks responsible for defending other retailers from such attacks, according to numerous interviews conducted by this reporter over the past few weeks."
Correct... my mistake, I put "+" when the original code was "*".
Curation of the Web [New Trends]
Lmao that is so true
I would suggest he looks for a Life Coach. They will help him find the source of his feeling "Stuck" and help him find some objectives that will help him find meaning and purpose!
Should be 60+ for minor highways, 75+ for interstates, and 85+++ for interstates and major highways outside of metro areas.
Does Facebook still do that? Do you remember where you read that it did at one time?
Mozilla hacker et al teaches scientists to write maintainable code
At first I thought maybe work didn't seem fulfilling, and he wanted to run his own business. Running a business can be extremely rewarding, so I thought this was his plan. However, if he's only after money, then he might just be chasing a pipe dream.

If he's making millions, he'll probably be buying exotic cars, and feel like a failure because he can't buy a yacht. Then he makes tens of millions, has his new toy yacht, but feels like a failure because he doesn't own a private jet.

With his current income, he should be able to live quite well. You said, he wants to be financially free. If that's his goal, why is he racking up $8k in monthly expenses? It seems like he wants to live a lavish lifestyle, that's always above his means.
Everyone will just re-elect the same congressmen and senators who got us here. Because theirs is different, of course.
an infinite loop
Very interesting. I'll have to try it on one of my home machines I installed windows on later.
I get a kick out of the fact that they recommend not using FFMPEG but they say that Chrome uses it.
Yep. Nothing built inter-team hostility at the last place like someone from another floor (galaxy) booking our breakfast eating spot ( near our cubes) for some meeting of theirs.

Or a week of job interviews while we were short staffed and hiring frozen ... but anyway.
raises hand, compiling C extensions on Windows has changed a lot from 1.9 to 2.0 in my experience, since there are no MSVC builds of Ruby anymore (to link against). Now I'd have to compile my pet extensions using MinGW and the compilers just aren't the same. CMIIW...
How about this? If you don't want to work in an [open office|cube farm|closed office|home office|etc], don't. You're a software developer. You have career options. Then companies can weigh the costs and benefits of these approaches (including financial costs like rent in busy cities like NY and SF, employee-retention issues, ability to call the layout a perk when recruiting, impacts of collaboration or lack thereof) and choose one that seems to fit their needs and the needs of their workforce (which presumably is something that will vary from employer to employer).

Oh sure, it's all well and good to whine about offices not being the way you like. While we're at it, I'd also like shorter work weeks and higher pay.
> Everyone gets their own private offices [...] this might be unfeasible.

OTOH, millions every year in executive bonuses is not only "feasible", but apparently preferable.
Whuh? I don't think there's any sort of logical contradiction between:

"Information, such as research papers, that has been written for the purpose of being disseminated and paid for with tax money, should not be locked up"

and

"The government ought not spy on people."

What does the first one have to do with privacy at all?
Every time I read complaints from people dissatisfied with open office layouts, my first response is inevitably, "Have you ever had a roommate?" The ability to isolate is great when you need it, but I can't help but get the notion that at least some cases are people avoiding learning how to work in close proximity to each other. Thereby using cubicles or offices as a crutch for that. If I'm right, doesn't the company benefit from people having to hash those differences out?
cf. pushd and popd
> "wear headphones if you need quiet"

Headphones provide an alternate type of noise, they don't make things quiet.
I think he is talking about a cleanup rebase, where you squash all the commits you made where you fixed a typo in your docstrings or fixed your lowerCamelCased acronym keyword.
This is cool. I wonder how many of the bugs led to code execution?

If you managed to execute code, what privileges do you have in Chrome? I hope that Chrome was using OS sandboxing for video playing. After all, if they found 1000 bugs, there are probably a few more zero day's available.

Does playing Flash video in Chrome/Firefox end up using ffmpeg? I'm not that knowledgeable about how video works, but there are probably at least two execution contexts: playing .mp4 natively in Chrome, or playing it via a Flash container.
After going from maven to rake (switching from java to ruby) it was like a breath of fresh air. Using grunt then seemed like a real step backwards. I'm really glad to see gulp and hope that it becomes the defacto build tool for javascript.
I was going to give this a shot, but 20% off a hot commodity such as Macbook Air was too much for me, so abandoned it.
You can tax bitcoin, just like you tax P2P cash transactions. Whats even better is there is a permanent record that will never go away once you start attaching identities to addresses, which exchanges contain the vast majority of, so you have plenty of time to tax these people.
> cubicles and open-floor plans are really about saving money, not about providing workers with the best environment.

It's staggering how I had to wade half-way through piles of double-think comments until someone finally spoke the truth.
Haha, the last American who uses a French service shuts off the lights, please ;) Wait, no, we're already in the dark.

You're right in saying it should be symmetrical. It goes this way:
- US person is protected from US abuses by US laws,
- French person is protected by French laws,
- We have Safe Harbour so French's people data goes freely to the US,
- French people aren't protected by US laws,
- And symmetrical.

The cross-country problem is a big one, prompting for the creation of international organizations for the protection of international citizens.
Big companies suck at giving raises. I've achieved a pretty decent average-raise-per-year by hopping every year or two (works out to about 13% per year for me), I've only been in the industry for ~4 years.

Experience is worth a tremendous amount in this industry, but you'd never realize this if you're too loyal to a single employer. Shop around, hop when it benefits you.

Most starting new-grad packages are around $100K these days in the Bay Area, and said companies would be content giving you 1% to 3% raises a year from there. To maximize your value you must change jobs.
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"Traipsing around botanical gardens with my laptop sounds divine, but what if I need (yes, need) a multi-monitor PC and wired network?"

That's what docking stations are for.

The vertically adjustable cubicle walls sound neat, though.
I cannot believe that they would make this opt-out rather than opt-in. I love most google services, but they're really starting to go too far with stuff like this.
It muddies the issue, but people acted against SOPA, which is surely what they're trying to tap into.

I doubt they'll miss a few people who don't appreciate the issues being conflated, if doing so gains them some of the anti-SOPA folks who are willing to act.

Even when it came to fighting SOPA, much of the motivated base was under-informed and dealing in half-truths, exaggerations, fallacious arguments, etc.

But it worked.
I think "inclusive" is really getting over rated by so called "efficiency experts"...My last gig had these "focus booths" occupied by a single person all day every day. They used them as their offices because they wanted to concentrate in silence.
I had Facebook installed while investigating for this article, and could not identify a similar behavior.

Google, on the other hand, did the exact same thing, but I remember explicitly agreeing to that.
indeed.

as a guy who's modeled and built economies for mmos, i can confidently say the more movement and activity in your economy, the healthier your economy is. consistent, steady growth and activity, rather than spikes (unbridled liquidity events) and valleys (accumulation stagnation), is the most desirable mode.

for a real world microcosm view, just look at the last six months of bitcoin activity. who on earth would consider that healthy?
I really like this idea. I do think creating a marketplace is a hard thing to do, especially in this space. Cragislist is the 'default' in this space, and doesn't really deserve to be. Hopefully someone can change that soon.
I once saw a cast iron pedal powered jigsaw built in the early part of the 20th century (the heyday of mechanical machines!), and the idea has stuck with me ever since. I've tried to hack together a pedal generator with an old bike frame, but to be done right, it needs to be built from scratch by someone who can weld, like these guys did. I'm impressed and tempted.
is this the same team behind yardsale?
One year on: Aaron Swartz Timeline
I hit a similar psychological patch a bit later than your friend (low. 30s). I would never tell someone to have kids if it's not what they want in life just as a punt to see if it fills a void. I will say that after having kids I found a level of meaning in life I never expected (I was never anti-kid but being a dad wasn't something I dreamt about either and I had the standard fears/reservations). It's not 100% but I have vastly less angst now that I'm not fulfilling some grand cosmic mission with my life. I've found happiness a different way.
I've done a month of exact opposite. Sometimes I didn't eat either.

Catch up on WWDC, wrote some cool hacks, update some libraries, write some tests for someone elses library, do some pull requests.

Lunch itself is a waste of time, adding co-workers that might eat slower than you where social conventions requires you to stick around (because they are kind enough to do so).

I rather just avoid that whole mess.

Besides, lunch was invented so I could watch WWDC in peace.

I am also lucky to work in a place where no one gets upset or questions it.

I actually like the company of my co-workers, but lunch is me being productive.
This sentence from the page pretty much hints at that:

> Today we face a different threat, one that undermines the Internet, and the notion that any of us live in a genuinely free society: mass surveillance.

Let's not forget that the NSA revelations are at the base of the mass surveillance outrage.
Awesome, thank you, I value your efforts. The whole world is with you and it gives credit to the American people when they care about those problems.
Peopleware has some good information on quantitative value of private offices vs alternatives:
http://www.amazon.com/Peopleware-Productive-Projects-Teams-3...

Their discovery was that people who had closed door offices were more productive. In general people with less interruptions got more done.

The book is somewhat dated, so this may have changed since, but one of the interesting things they found was that there weren't really any studies showing that open offices helped productivity for software teams. It was purely a cost saving measure by execs wrapped up in wrapping of "being collaborative".
First there is a business model to be had trying to sell car insurance to people while they're checking out someone's profile. Rather, there is a business model to be had trying to slowly change people's association with the brand trying to sell them insurance. It's not high CPC/CPM but Facebook have a lot of inventory and potentially good "demographic" data.

Second, a big part of being native is letting the right advertisers find you. This is what I mean about being patient. It may be hard to picture now, 10 years later but Google initially had the same problem. The real advertising budgets were looking to replace/augment their TV & poster campaigns. Advertisers were FMCGs (detergents, coca cola), cars, movies, etc. Local pilates instructors & 2 man shop insurance resellers didn't have advertising budgets. No one was searching for "what is the most refreshing drink?" so any ad for coca cola would be "non-ative" (BTW I really like this description here - thanks the_watcher).

BTW, buying is not a huge part of adwords. In fact, it's pretty hard to get a positive ROI on a "product" purchase campaign.

To give you an example, if you want to run a one off event that's good for parents with kids, Facebook is awesome. It would probably also work well for showing film trailers, showing stand up or theatre "trailers." etc.
Yeah, did you even click on the link and try to understand before you made your original post? Aaron Swartz, the face being used for this movement who fought back, was behind the creation of reddit. He is much more involved with these technology-related policies than 99% of those Google, Verizon, etc. policy makers.
I've heard great things about Valve's system, of desks on wheels and no set floor plan.

Idea: what about movable wall sections to complement this? Whenever you want to go heads-down, move a few partitions to your desk and block everything else out.
Without detecting that actual data is transmitted and not just some random vibration.

I don't know how exact those motors are, but I could imagine it is possible that even 2-3s of vibration could easily transmit a password.
This is what I would do when I was on Windows. The biggest (really big) downside is that the files live inside the VM and are only accessible when the VM is up and running.
Once again I am happy that ‘Segmentation fault. Core dumped.’ is a perfectly reasonable reaction to malformed user input in my field of work, which only increases my respect for those who write real-world software. Thanks! :)
You mean how shutting the a site down for a day actually showed people what would happen if SOPA passed? Wikipedia participated in the SOPA protest, wikipedias users did not, they were impacted by Wikipedia's participation.

That seems EXACTLY like changing your avatar and spamming Facebook. How does spamming Facebook or changing your avatar show the effects of the NSA's spying?

That is how it is useless. It does nothing.
You've got to admire this. Everything in that post makes complete sense and is stuff I've read time and time again. For some reason, though, I keep falling into the trap of trying to perfect everything I make before I let anyone else see it.
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Well, it also made a big difference once I moved to the Valley
Another point to consider is that eating at your desk could be a major source of illness: your phone, tablet, mouse, keyboard, etc., are all great sources for all sorts of germs.
> I get a kick out of the fact that they recommend not using FFMPEG

More specifically Google is recommending you don't use it to "process untrusted media files"
woops, yes, I stand corrected, X220 is not chiclet .-)

My T520 is so far the best non-mechanical for me. Possibly the same keyboard as in X220?
The courts, that's their job. If you can find out what court it's in and the case number, you can request the documents, they're public records.
There is one use case where Facebook likes are useful, even critical: in online brand protection. Users that actively "like" your page to receive your news have been proven to "like" the page with your company's name that has the highest number of likes (in other words: the most liked page is perceived to be the official page).
If there are other pages about your company created by third-parties, and that get enough likes to be mistaken for you, you definitely want to have more likes, to make sure to remain the page that is perceived as official, and keep using Facebook as an information channel.
What I got out of article, is that when you are one person company and do not want to do something boring, become a two* person company.

* Author calls this outsourcing, but I simply can't see that. If we buy that, we might as well buy that all other companies consist of CEO and a bunch of people he 'outsources' lower level things to.
I almost always take lunch, even when I'm very busy. Indeed, especially when I'm very busy. I always found it tremendously invigorating to get out of the office and walk around outside, particularly when I worked in Manhattan where you could totally drown yourself in the crowd and push out work thoughts.
The individuals may have been more productive; did they measure the output of the teams?

I don't think anyone disputes that people are more productive without distraction. That's not what open plans are for though: collaboration helps everyone orient around the right thing, so all that individual productivity isn't wasted pursuing the wrong stuff.
I think the growing consensus on using a dvcs is that you should work on easily separated chunks of functionality in their own branch. Commit whenever you feel like it throughout the lifecycle of working on that feature, then go back and squash all those random commits into a few easy to understand chunks, and then merge that back into master.

For example, I'm working on a simple landing page and form. Some logical points for doing a commit may be something like:

1 basic responsive layout complete for mobile
2 progress on desktop responsive layout (going home)
3 completed desktop responsive layout
4 wired up forms
5 added validation to forms
6 cleaned up duplicate css
7 adjusted css for other, crappy, browsers
8 bug fixes
9 fixed a typo
10 bug fixes & final layout issues

Now I'm done and I want to merge that to master. But what I want the commit history to look like is a group of logical steps, excluding things that will be meaningless/useless to other people when they look back at the project history. So I would squash 2 and 3, 4 and 5, and probably 6 thru 10 so that I ended up with 4 total commits 1, 2/3, 4/5, 6/7/8/9/10 that get put onto master.

So, you definitely want to try to remember to commit over the course of a feature, but the actual times you commit are a little bit less important because you should clean up your history before you move it to master. In general I try to commit discrete pieces of functionality (like a working form, or a working layout, or a tested class/method).
The traffic analysis case seems to be a lot like the way Google aggregates smartphone GPS data to do real-time traffic for Google Maps [0]
[0] http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2009/08/bright-side-of-sittin...
valverde, my startup www.frequento.com.br/parceiros works on a related topic, would love to talk to you about it.

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I had the same thought. It's a bit too close to cloaca. (But as software, it's an awesome idea!)
If the main benefit to open floor plans is to foster communication, why are you encouraging headphones?

Also, you may find it odd to know some people (myself included) typically prefer no noise while they're programming. I'll use headphones when my options are music or "loud obnoxious conference call on speakerphone" but it's hardly the best option for me.
They aren't just flat out not recommending using FFmpeg, just that you need to take appropriate measures when dealing with untrusted media sources.
The is the exact point I was making when I said it is just a marketing gimmick to get PR.
I've discussed this a few times with people and I think I disagree, sort of. People don't watch television to watch commercials but strange as it seems that ad for fairy dishwashing liquid is very natural to what TV does. TV makes culture, especially low brow culture. It decides what is popular, trend, famous, etc.

The laundry detergent on TV is the famous laundry detergent, just like the actor on TV is the famous one. Branding is really trying to turn the thing you're selling into a cultural icon.
Playing .mp4's natively uses FFmpeg, but Flash video does not. Both plugins are sandboxed in a "privilege separation" environment that they mention in the post.
The Oculus Rift 'Crystal Cove' prototype is 2014's Best of CES winner