skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I always wonder when i see reports like this at the amount of cherry picked data in the studies - and also the ability for the journalist to properly interpret it. The problem i have with this piece and so many others is that its just calls out a number of sometimes unrelated "problems", cites some studies with open offices and calls it a day. They fail to really come up with a strong conclusion or offer viable solutions.

As a designer working under an architect and having just completed an open office building for a 150+ employee financial firm[1] - i feel i have a pretty good handle on this subject. There a a couple key anecdotal design criteria that i'd like to address in relation to open offices that the report does not address.

Natural Light - Access to natural light

Artificial light - using the correct lighting for the task with the right output measured in lumens for the particular task.

Ventilation - Natural and sufficient HVAC
Acoustics - Are proper acoustic absorbent materials being used.

Planning - has the space been thought out in a thorough way - is there a meaningful program to which the open office functions in both arrangement, flow and activities.

Psychology - Has there been effort to educate the staff about the new space and general systems in place to govern how it functions.

All of these points above can be easily planned for by hiring and adhering to the advice of design professionals like architects, electrical engineers, hydraulic engineers, acoustic consultants etc. Does this happen? In my experience - the answer is generally - no. Building offices and fitting thee out is an expensive exercise and time and time again i see clients willing to cut corners and forgo professional advice at the sake of saving a few thousand dollars. It may be that the ROI in terms of employee productivity could be significantly diminished due to a insignificant saving during the build phase.

I would agree in some respects that there are limitation to open office layouts - but that its due more to the ill-conceived notion that achieving an open office work environment is as easy throwing some workstation and humans into a cavernous space and expecting it to just work.

Moreover that is why indeed planners are moving away from open office and employing the newer philosophy of ABW (activity based working)[2].

[1]http://marklawlerarchitects.com.au/commercial/hunter-street-...

[2]http://www.jll.com.au/australia/en-au/Documents/jll-au-activ...
And it would seem like a fair number think some kind of neo-imperialism. I wonder if the article was prompted by a severe backlash from their (a London based magazine) support of the non-Hindu candidate. Very bizarre article on the 'right to endorse.'
To be fair, judging by previous comments, it's likely the writer is not a native english speaker. English grammar is hard, and people make mistakes.

I for one would like HN to be an inclusive international community, and that means not jumping down people's throats just because their english is not 100%. I'd like to see any of us native english speakers try to submit something to a foreign language site...
Leaked 10.10 Screenshots
I never noticed, because I always used the keyboard to get at the start menu. Come to think of it, when I learned all the keyboard commands to manipulate windows, I only ever used the mouse in rare circumstances.
What actually happens is you don't get locked out. You merely have to reset your password via email.

(Of course there is serious business that won't let you reset a password via email, but you can reset it... the process is simply more involved.)

Why would you ever type in a password when setting up an account? If you've generated a password, you can cut and paste that. Anything "random" you type is likely to be biased.
The undetected move is the one within your track record, so cheating doesn't help much, unless you're cheating every move in every tournament. Would performance enhancing drugs be a better fit to this scenario?
First off, Congrats!

Secondly, I didn't know those things actually worked so I never bothered posting so good to see that they do.
Definitely good advice, thanks. It'll be nice to have this to remember this opportunity, for sure.
Really cool stuff! I actually wrote a [flat-file CMS](https://github.com/AntJanus/popstar-cms) in Node as well, wasn't disappointed to see that my code and Raneto's code bares a good deal of similarities!
No Microsoft Start Menu for Windows 8 until 2015
A solution to assets management in Rails
They are fake. 9to5mac received the same screenshots 3 months back. Source http://www.amongtech.com/leaked-mac-osx-10-10-screenshots-ar...
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On second thought, I might agree with you. I have added a note to that article to clarify.
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SharedHashMap(Java) vs. Redis
Congrats! I'm a former Kaggle employee and it is an incredible place to work.
I'm far more productive in a team environment.

As others have mentioned this is where the definition of open breaks down. Team environments are great. Many open office advocates are small companies who, because of their size, are really advocating team environments.

Now grow that same company to 100s of people and see if the open office still works. What I have seen is that even the biggest open office advocates start putting up walls (even if movable) and segmenting once again into a teams.

TLDR; Team != Open
Show HN: Feedback on our new multiplayer game API?
This is a two man team and we're in full-on development of a new platform to assist in multiplayer games. We're looking to launch in about a month or two with an OpenID server accessible to customers (or they can use provider like Facebook/Twitter) and a couple cool multiplayer features. After we launch development will continue until we have a well-rounded API.<p>We're primarily targeting HTML5+JS developers but the system will work with any language that can make RESTful API calls. We know there's some stiff competition out there but we're looking for feedback and what features may make you swing towards our pay-for model?
I think there is a difference between a designer and a UX designer. I meet both kind regularly. The designer is still print-focused and can't wrap his/her head around the fact it's no longer possible to force how something should look. They think 'the look' is what design is about. Often they work from their ivory tower and their idea of communicating is 'sending the PSD'. This kind of designer (and agency) is going the way of the dodo but they still exist.
Disabling paste makes sense when setting your password.

If presented with two input fields for password & confirm your password, the lazy among us will type the desired new password in the first input box, then copy the contents and paste into the second... if you type it incorrectly in the first box you then have to reset it before you can log in again.
It's a huge pain in the ass to hire an american (compared to an EU resident), so it's not worth it unless they bring something awesome to the table.
Can you give an example of communication that does not have an incentive to profit?
There is, and I've used it yeaaaars ago. It's called Cain & Abel and you can find it at http://www.oxid.it/cain.html

It has a bunch more features, but with a few clicks you can arp spoof your entire network and start logging passwords.
MQTT: An Implementer's Perspective
as much as I love grainy, portrait pictures of LCDs, aren't we w/i a few hours of a proper look anyway?
I am wary of anyone who describes themselves primarily by words that end in -ist or -ism. Often those who do find themselves in a "finger pointing to the moon" scenario: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LH1GFaw09hk
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FDA launches openFDA to provide easy access to valuable FDA public data
> I wonder how dependent all this is on culture and expectations.

The actions people take depend on these things. The results of those actions typically do not.

> So is every Japanese company just leaving productivity lying on the floor by insisting on open offices?

Yes.
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Well done and congratulations!
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It's about time that facebook will take privacy seriously!
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Whilst I agree with your sentiments, a 2 word comment really is useless, not matter how great their English might be... rather than a "that's amazing!" type comment, a simple upvote on the original article would suffice, kind of like discouraging "Me too!" comments on Stackoverflow, it doesn't add much to the discussion.

Although having said that, my initial thought was the OP had hit return too early and not realised...
"Back in the old days" we had huge cubes with plenty of desk space and cabinets. One time, way before all this "collab-friendly" stuff hit, some guys put masking tape on the floor of a fellow coworkers cube, with corners outlining a fairly small rectangle. When he came back and saw the tapes, he's like "What is this? Why is this tape on the floor?"

"Oh, some guys from floor support were doing that, something about the new cubicles."

"WHAT!! Where the hell am I going to put my books! This isn't enough space, blah blah blah". He was a hot head and immediately flew off the handle, much to our pleasure. Well, a year or two later, we did actually go to smaller cubes, and then a few more years later to the "open" floor plan (un-ergonomic tables with no kind of adjustments). People way to close to each other. While it does come in handy when we are discussing problems and bringing new people up to speed, I definitely think the negatives outweigh the positives.
Sometimes I just don't want to be around people!
Hope the dream continues when you actually start working. :)
I agree with this sentiment.

Here's some UX for you - the user owes you nothing.

Sure have an optional form or field for cancellations but 5 minutes? How is this beneficial for anyone?

So, it's a free product - they will just never cancel their account and you will have inactive users sitting there. Who is this good for?

So it's a paid product - they will cancel their account and tell everyone about the ridiculously long winded process they had to go through to cancel it.
As the article mentions, the battery is likely a Zamboni pile, which has an extremely high internal resistance (i.e. can only supply very low currents) but is made for high voltage, electrostatic applications like this bell. That's why it lasted so long - modern battery chemistries have much lower internal resistance, and self-discharge would mean it being completely depleted in much less time. The battery in this bell has such high internal resistance that the self-discharge is many orders of magnitude less.

The characteristics of these batteries are different enough that you'll find lots of claims of "perpetual motion" on the Internet from people who have made them and found how long they can last when powering low-current loads like LEDs!
I did consider simply building a KB with other static site generators, but I wanted something specifically designed for Knowledgebases and easy to setup and use.
Do you not use the internet? Between the Tesla conspiracy theorirsts "OMG Tesla discovered free energy thus Westinghouse had him killed" and the constant rebadging of "cold fusion" I think these disclaimers are warranted.
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Do you think there is a marketplace for an application to do this?

I don't now enough about the details, but as someone looking to get into freelancing, I would be interested in some kind of "contract builder".
My radio theory is a bit limited, but couldn't those countries just point high powered transmitters at the satellites as the pass and drown out the customer transmitters?
That's exactly why people are angry at Facebook for lying to them about privacy.
> A private office for me would totally kill any social interaction I have with anyone.

Perhaps a better working environment would allow your day to be spent more efficiently and leave you with spare time and energy to get an actual social life, instead of requiring your job to double as your social life and end up performing both functions badly?
"Paywalls break the web" is a rather strong claim.
Counterexample: The new windows 8 hot corners makes it almost impossible to use in a non-fullscreen VM or remote desktop setup. :(
There is no middle ground between my desktop settings and the crazy cat lady.
Its C-inspired programming language is also pretty primitive.

It's actually very beautiful. It's just so damned simple. Despite Plan 9's huge codebase, if you open an arbitrary source file, chances are you can read and grok it in one sitting.

It's shocking especially if you're used to the needlessly complicated modern codebases of today (particularly ones that copiously use GLib, D-Bus, etc. on Linux), but once the initial shock dies down, it's a breath of fresh air.
apt-get install emacs24-nox
MS seem hellbent on discouraging me from upgrading.

.

I don't mean to make it all about me, of course.
Thanks. I actually created a flat-file CMS in PHP called Pico (http://picocms.org) so I built on some of the lessons I learned creating Pico when building Raneto.
Many Congrats.
> There is no other view that is compatible with logic.

Exactly, the Obama Administration took the bait (then let go). Occasionally you have to remind other people and yourself that sometimes your opinion is not your opinion, but someone else's. Forget this important fact, and you risk forgetting how to think independently.

Did anyone remind Argentina about all the mines the Junta buried on the beaches 32 years ago?
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Well, Berlin is rare in that it's been a big city before, multiple times. It's got quite a bit of growing room before it has to answer hard questions. And there are a number of serious residents, not in the young, tech scene, who have pretty good ideas how to help it along and where Berlin should go.
Show HN: pggy - Postgres terminal UI written with node
Didn't find Haskell.
Although intuitionistic logic does not have the axiom

------ (LEM)
A ∨ ¬A

that is, the law of the exluded middle (LEM) can not be derived "from nothing" for all propositions, it is still an inconsistency if you can prove A ∧ ¬A to be true, since

------ (Assumption)
A ∧ ¬A
------ (Assumption) ------ (∧E2)
A ∧ ¬A ¬A
------ (∧E1) ------ (Definition of ¬)
A A ⇒ ⊥
---------------------------- (⇒E)
⊥
--------------- (⇒I, discharge assumption)
A ∧ ¬A ⇒ ⊥
--------------- (Definition of ¬)
¬(A ∧ ¬A)

In other words, assuming A ∧ ¬A holds you can prove the false proposition ⊥ (from which you can prove anything).

(Note that the De Morgan's law ¬(A ∧ ¬A) ⇒ A ∨ ¬A does not hold without the LEM, so the above proof cannot be simplified in terms of it!)
Well, I remember reading about teledesic, which this seems to be under a new name, and the idea was you would always have 3+ sats in your sky at once.
Then IMO, it should say that on your site :) and some reasonable explanation on how you landed on that number.
Superpowers Don't Get to Retire: What our tired country still owes the world
> Nicknames can be used as a first or middle name if they're a variation of your real first or last name (like Bob instead of Robert)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boz#People
If you're going to link to a comic with a joke in it, don't put the punchline in the title of the submission!
Where can i get the program ?
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My comment above. I assume yours as well. Most of the internet, actually (e.g. HN, Reddit, ...) - the owners of the website might benefit (pageviews & ads), but not the most often anonymous posters. (Of course, there are exceptions, and any post on the internet should go through a bullshit sensor, but it's a different bullshit sensor than when someone is trying to sell you something.
How about if a huge portion of the party had already both overtly stated support for what the bill does and voted in favor of bills with near identical substance (explicitly prohibiting the FCC from adopting neutrality regulations) every time the FCC has proposed net neutrality regulations?

I mean, its not yet as well-worn a thing as Republican bills to repeal the Affordable Care Act, but...
Sensors and Journalism
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Interesting that this thread has gained so much traction. I created an "Ask HN" submission this morning asking about people's experiences with the monthly "Freelancer? Seeking freelancer?" threads, which got ignored and promptly burried!

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7832404
So you are OK with women police officers dressing up as prostitutes to attract potential costumers and then arresting them on the spot ? That's extremely twisted. There's a reason why in many countries police officers HAVE to wear uniforms.
Virtual Machines Vs. Containers: A Matter Of Scope
More like: Teledesic lives.
"It's a computer that they gimped so that they could call it an appliance."

So what? Nobody was even talking about RT, but besides that - Apple does the same thing with OS X - it can run on any Intel architecture but I'm artificially limited to running it on Apple's outmoded and overpriced hardware.

Can we get back to discussing the awesome Surface Pro though? Because that's the machine that represents the future of computing, not the RT and not any Apple device that I can think of. Regarding the battery life (on the Pro) - you couldn't be more wrong. Have you actually used one for 7-8 hours? That's about what I get on my original Surface Pro and the battery life has only gotten better in the newer models.
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