skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If they're not offering a pretty major cost of living adjustment to salaries (probably in the realm of doubling salaries), this is going to really suck for those who were previously remote.

Having everyone under one roof has its advantages, but having that roof in SF comes with an overwhelming number of disadvantages, both for the company and its workers.
This isn't a start-up though. His 'data' hardly seems applicable to a company that's already the size of Reddit.
> The biggest reasons that companies buy expensive appliances is (a) data sovereignty and (b) ongoing support. The cloud e.g. AWS does have decent answers for this yet.

But they state that clients could buy 6 machines outright for just $20K if you didn't want to trust your data to AWS cloud. So while you can be negative on the cloud, but their solution seems pretty reasonable (cost and speed wise) for the use case presented -- I don't think it is "utterly stupid."
Yes. That is ridiculous. $6 for opinion? I have opinions and I'll provide them for free. Their opinion section isn't even that good. I could read White House press releases and come away with more insight.
That's what I'm worried about. I'd be acting in a data analysis/software dev role. What can I do to change the language?
We have a couple issues with Safari.
One of them is related to the layout because Safari 7 has some issues with flexbox but it's already fixed in a branch and should be merged really soon.
We also have an issue with this JS problem with Safari when creating a new project that we are reviewing.
Thanks for your feedback. Everything should be working well with Firefox and Chrome if you want to create a project right now. :)
@harryh Since I can't reply directly to you:

1. You're advocating for the OS compat shim applier to run on every call to load a DLL into the process space, not just every call to start a process. The former can be many times the latter.

2. You're suggesting the OS change third-party code (if only in memory) and said third parties will be okay with this. (App compat shims in Windows wrap the OS function by modifying the import table, not the callsites.)

3. You assume "the relevant function" is something that exists. It's perfectly valid to generate functions at runtime. The shim would have to patch all the places that generate code, all the places that generate the places that generate code, and so on.

4. (Function pointers can cross DLL boundaries.) b.dll contains a function that returns the result of getOSName(). b.dll passes this function pointer to c.dll. c.dll executes it and gets the unshimmed name.

Edit: As an example of (3), consider that c.dll is a Java JAR that contains JNI calls to getOSName(). The shim would have to patch the Java interpreter that interprets that JNI call bytecode so that it instead generates a function call to getOSNameCompat. Then it'd have to shim the Java JITter that eventually generates native code from the bytecode so that the native code calls getOSNameCompat.

And don't forget the Java interpreter and JITter aren't even in c.dll, they're in the process that's loading c.dll, so the shim isn't even limited to the same file that necessitated the shim in the first place.

And what is the Java interpreter / JITter anyway? c.dll only requires to be loaded by java.exe, but java.exe is provided by Oracle Java, OpenJDK, and any other Java vendors. Would the shim have to know how to patch each of those depending on which gets used to load c.dll, just because c.dll needs a shim?
> Most databases get by just fine with no namespacing at all.

True, but most databases are very limited components of the program(s) that use them, which do use namespacing, not the complete platform for the program.
Coyne's blog is worth subscribing to if you want to get an idea how psychology/medical studies go wrong.
Full disclosure: I am a remote worker. I love working remotely. I will (never say never but..) never work for a company that doesn't have a remote culture.

So, even with putting my bias aside, this seems like such a bad move. I am so much more productive as a remote worker than I was as a monkey sitting at a desk everyday. Not only is the quality of my work better but I'm much more efficient (I get more done in 4 hours remotely than I did in a full 8 hour day at an office). I know I'm not special, in fact I believe I'm in the majority.

Remote cultures in my opinion are the best. Mostly because:

- less meetings (hangouts is glitchy so we make the ones we do have count)

- hardly any email at all (async chat ftw)

- records records records. Remember that conversation you had about that one awesome improvement but you just can't remember what it was...oh wait it's in chat.

- minimal distractions. The only things to distract you are your cat and the internet. If someone pings you online you can leave it an answer it later, a tap on the shoulder? Not so much.

Even if you could mimic my points above at a physical office, remote working is far better for work/life balance because:

- you can earn a high wage living in a cheaper location. This is a huge benefit of working remotely.

- you can stay around your family (since you'll be home more often)

- you don't have to commute (of course some use co-working spaces but it's the freedom to choose that matters)

Why would Reddit force their remote workers to relocate to the most expensive city in the US? That seems like a huge disadvantage to their employees. A relocation package is nothing compared to being able to afford a house, or spend time with your family.

This is just sad.
Okay, I have long wanted to know this about alcoholics and alcohol relapse sufferers:

Do one-time alcoholics - functional or otherwise - who have sought treatment and then completely quit drinking for a fair number of years, ever manage to go back to moderate & responsible alcohol consumption?

or

Is it pretty much a life of teetotalism, for them, after that?

Do you know of any friends or family who have recovered and enjoy alcohol responsibly?

My experience has been that almost all such people I know, resort to drinking non-alcohol fizzy drinks, fruit juices and other replacements, but never any booze, not even non-alcoholic beer.
And you're... a bodice-ripper spinoff of TekWar?
Larry,

I thought you stepped down?
Thank you. I see that most agreements have the same sort of language about the company maintaining ownership of all work...
I found it extremely easy to become a subscriber via an online webform, but far more difficult to cancel as you have to do it via phone call with someone paid to keep you subscribing.
Used for a similar project where I have to mix providing server resources and limiting the bandwidth.
(game servers at EC2)
It's also due to the fact that there's only a few GHz of spectrum in which cheap equipment can broadcast a powerful enough signal to go any useful distance. WiFi operating in 2.4GHz and 5.8GHz are tricky but not impossible to use for anything longer-range than a single building. Much higher frequency, and you have to use pretty powerful transmitters and well-aimed highly directional antennas. Current tech allows for a few bits/s/Hz, so there's only a few gbit/s of bandwidth to be allocated between all long-range communication uses. If you want to offer gigabit speeds to households over wireless, you have to deploy a mesh network that's so dense it would be cheaper to just lay fiber.
Not likely. Many of these indicators are tangentially related to depression, they're not causative agents -- or we don't know enough to be able to make that claim.

This may seem to be a trite example, but many diseases are accompanied by a fever. But treating the fever doesn't treat the disease, and in some cases you're better of letting the fever abate on its own.
Yes definitely a first world problem that will throttle you and your family's existing social life, unsettle your children affecting their education, and probably lower your living standard substantially (cause living small hole in SF...). Yes it's a first world problem of the first order, alright.

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Terrestrial fixed wireless is commonplace in the US. Prices generally start at a few hundred dollars a month, speeds from ones to hundreds of Mbps.

There is competition to Cable and DSL for Internet access, but most operators avoid the low-margin retail space they operate in.
Ban travelers from Ebola-ravaged countries?
Yes. I'd use pulsars as a carrier. ..Simply surround a few with a bunch of micro satellites make a sort of shutter...

Of course, for a long time we were simply unaware of radio signals. Maybe we're currently unaware of foo signals.
It's not that it can't work. It's that there's a fairly solid sense that locating together is better.

I worked with Yishan at paypal and remembr even spitting floors made things noticeably worse.

And don't forget that companies are made up of more than just engineers.
As Jonathan Edwards says in his subtext work "names are too valuable to waste on talking to compilers." Making naming more of an interface concern rather than a part of the language is a great IDE and can greatly complement the way we use lots of search to write programs anyhow.
As long as you are using the private IP or public DNS name outbound traffic between EC2 instances in different AZ's in the same region is $.01/GB, inbound is free.

Pricing is different for traffic going outside the EC2 network.
I really feel for you. I have experienced bouts of insomnia when I've been really stressed. I got laid off twice last year in a three month span, and even after I found a better and steadier gig, the stress persisted for a few months. Additionally, my wife was pregnant with our first child as I was starting the new job. Over the span of a few months, I would have week long stretches where I might sleep 2 or less hours a night, sometimes not at all.

I managed to work through it without using any medication, but it was only time and learning to trust that my body knew how to do the right thing (sleep), without my mind interfering, that eventually righted the ship.
Often times, the truly revolutionary ideas (and most likely to be cited in future papers) are those that are not understood fully or perhaps even reviled, and thus likely to not be awarded any significant honor on introduction.

Einstien won his Nobel for work on the photoelectric effect, not relativity, though obviously the latter mattered more.
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Almost certainly not. Biological systems are deeply complicated intertangled nests of cause and effect; when you measure a correlation between two variables (such as being depressed and lower/higher levels of RNA X), it's not going to be a direct causal link, you're much more likely to have picked up on a distant indirect relationship. (I have an essay on this topic which you might have seen on HN before: http://gwern.net/Causality )

In this case, if you skim the depression literature, you'll find depression linked with all sorts of things - too much sleep, too little sleep, weight changes, poorer cognitive performance, high inflammation levels, bad eating habits, stimulants, etc etc. Any of these could be a good predictor of depression but changing them will not help or may harm. (If a depressed person finds modafinil helps them get through the day, a naive investigator may find modafinil correlates with depression - and take it away. Not going to help.)
They even feature firefox on their intro page ... https://sway.com/red_panda ;0)
"Quality" .. perhaps in the non-political areas. But when it comes to being objective, they are just an extension of the White House Propaganda department. Their coverage of Lois Lerner, for example has been exceedingly light. Their lack of in-depth Benghazi reporting is also ridiculous. They spend more ink writing about Goodnight Moon than they do about the Nidal Hassan terrorism case. I'm not asking the Times to agree with me.. just cover the news from a fair and balanced perspective. There is little or no diversity in that newsroom. It's all some variation of the N.E. white liberal viewpoint. It's almost like they look with disdain on any ideas that aren't following the party line. It's the US version of Pravda. Though, I do love there coverage on non-political, non-national security issues. I would pay to subscribe to the Cooking section for sure.
If you're wired (ethernet): ARP poisoning to get your traffic to route through the attacker, then listening there. Works beautifully on most if not all LANs.

Though even if it didn't, WiFi by itself would be concern enough: most if not all the internet-equipped private homes have (often badly secured) WiFi, and all public spaces (airports, schools & universities, restaurants & bars, etc.) usually use key-less captive portal WiFi APs where listening in is even easier.

So yes: traffic interception is a very legitimate worry IMHO. And as someone said below, beyond those concerns, you could also be sniffed by techs working at your ISP (and its peering partners) / Law Enforcement / etc.
How would the results distinguish between real depression and your down because your cat just died?
so I have to do tricks for hours in order to discover that the chick is twice my weight?
Like gp also said, his narration is also hypnotizing. It's pacing is like a metronome. Induces some sort of a trance.

Weeks after watching his films (for example The Cave Of The Forgotten Dreams) I would talk in his voice in my head.
dnautics commented on this thread that a gamma ray burst would suddenly convert free O2 in the atmosphere into NO, which would further react into nitric acid. Maybe this is detectable, either by the direct effects of HNO3, or by a sudden spike in nitrogen levels and the organisms that consume it.
Unless you live alone and have nothing holding you down. I would take a relo package in a heartbeat at my current company, but I'm probably in the minority with my circumstances.
Siren is great! I got in pretty early (friend is friends with the people who founded it) and it's been nice to use. Answering questions of the day usually works for matching with people, and the community also puts on some excellent events. One of them had an architect present on the history of erotic spaces, and another presentation on the influence of Leigh Bowery[0] on costume design (seriously, you start to see stuff inspired by him everywhere). It was a step outside the techie bubble which I haven't seen often.

In general I think the sex-positive nature of Siren will help it in the dating apps scene. Recognition of the asymmetry of experience between women and men on straight dating apps is implemented well, including a recommendation system between women. Fills a void between OkCupid and Tinder.

[0]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leigh_Bowery
Other way around. We had the Trinity test, Hiroshima & Nagasaki, and then we set off the rest. Unless you meant "preparations" for killing more people with our nuclear weapons, in which case you may be correct.
We need at least something like a factor of ten improvement over LTE for wireless to compete with wired. I don't know if Artemis can provide that.
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Also: try canceling your nytimes subscription online.

You can't—canceling requires a phone call with a lengthy wait on hold and a customer-retention sales pitch before they'll let you off the hook.

Sometimes I think about subscribing again, but thinking about that wasted 15 minutes of my life is enough to make me forget about it.
> reasonable enough

Sorry but _how in the fuck_ is forcing your employees and their families to relocate to the most expensive city in the US reasonable enough?

> a reasonable business maneuver is pretty out of line

How? They haven't said a word in regards to how this move is going to improve their business.
The US also had several plans for using nuclear explosions for non-military purposes:

The project team wanted to blow a path for a railway line through California’s Bristol Mountains; they wanted to use nukes to expand the Panama Canal; and they wanted to use underwater explosions to carve out a harbor in Alaska.

http://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/the-us-once-wanted-...
This source (http://businessofcollegesports.com/2011/06/01/how-profitable...) indicates that after expenses are factored in, the OSU athletic department nets $93,678.

And that doesn't work in the moral costs of supporting an athletic program. What merits it, if a man win the world but lose his soul?
Unfortunately most people are weak and have found no meaning of life outside of whining! Life is so damned short, names and labels are meaningless and irrelevant to your physical existence; they are distractions and of no purpose to our civilization. Fuck (excuse my French, but I just can't help it), even if we ban names and assign a random number to each of us, people will still whine if their ID lacks their "lucky number" or boyfriend's DOB, and so on! This civilization is going nowhere. God, please, secure-trash this universe and reboot!
Unfortunately the mere mention of "Nuclear" is a trigger word for most people, which is a tragedy considering that due to all the mistakes that were made in the past we have started to (finally) move to safer ways of using Nuclear Power.

If we were realists about Nuclear energy like other forms of energy, we should have been entering a golden age of Nuclear right about now.
Factual, ClimateCorp are using Clojure.
Reviewing SIGMOD, it appears that a lot of the citations earned are less about innovative research, and more about the everyone using the software tools they published.

And a survey paper in the field of big data analysis (survey papers are citation bate, but won't be pulling in many grants or awards).
There already is a tiered pricing model for this.

Data that goes between AZ's is charged at $0.01 / GB.

Data that flows from an EC2 instance to the Internet is charged at $0.12 / GB (for up to 10 TB / month, with discounts from there, and there's also 1 GB / month of free traffic).

Details are on http://aws.amazon.com/ec2/pricing/
Open source isnt 'the enemy' that destroys value in existing software; if your software relies on being closed source (temporarily even) to maintain its competitive edge (eg. android) thats totally up to you. It can be effective.

...but if open source destroys an existing product, honestly, that product was going the way of the dinosaurs anyway.

Morally speaking, free software unencumbered by licenses, patents and other cruft contributes far more than it harms.
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> If they're not offering a pretty major cost of living adjustment to salaries (probably in the realm of doubling salaries), this is going to really suck for those who were previously remote.

Literally no salary adjustment will make it better for many people. Your spouse has a geo-tied job? Your kids love their school (or, hell you just don't want to raise kids there full stop)? Oh, and what salary adjustment will make up for it if you live in the kind of place you can afford a half-acre back yard?
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> "Establish causes and then measure effects" is not only wrong, its non-sense.

All right, so you don't understand science. It's not fatal, and you're hardly alone.

From Aristotle, through Francis Bacon, to the present, the centerpiece of science has been the establishment of causes, explanations, not merely observations and descriptions as you're suggesting.

Observations often lead to the shaping of a theory, then confirmation of that theory -- that explanation -- through the prediction of phenomena not yet observed, and observations that confirm the predictions (or that falsify the theory).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scientific_theory

Quote: "Scientific theories are testable and make falsifiable predictions. They describe the causal elements responsible for a particular natural phenomenon, and are used to explain and predict aspects of the physical universe or specific areas of inquiry (e.g. electricity, chemistry, astronomy)."

I could provide hundreds of quotes similar to that above, but I can't repair your education in a short post. You must accept responsibility for those things you don't understand, but that you feel comfortable reciting to other people in a public show of narcissism.
This was my first thought too. Certainly the output looks like prezi in the example I viewed. The inability to link to a particular part though reminds me of monolithic flash websites in a bad way.

Hopefully the most value lies in the production interface?
I think you are missing the point. They chose to deploy on AWS because the 'modestly priced' instances they are talking about are gigantically less powerful than Oracle's 'appliances'.

The article is about software, algorithms and modern database technology. Oracle has basically been flogging the same code base for twenty odd years, and claiming they are competitive by running their ancient, single node system on more powerful nodes. It is pure BS. Using a modern, distributed, in-memory store like MemSQL on crap nodes (AWS), still beats the pants off Oracle's ancient single node POS running on a super-computer.
Your post was directly on topic. It directly addressed your feelings about Dropbox and about Condi Rice. Beats me why it got downvoted.
Goodbye South Aral sea
There are strains from the phillipines and virginia. Check Wikipedia.
You could also see this as 'citation counting' not being a very precise measure of paper quality/importance.
How many other countries have you run a company in?
(For the record, my count is 2.)
The ICE shares tracks with freight trains as well. Only the TGV has completely dedicated tracks afaik.
> What is with the backlash against remote workers all the sudden?

I don't know, but it doesn't juxtapose very will with the many SV companies insisting high-quality education can be delivered remotely while the trend seems to be demanding all the workers in one building...
Extremely well-said. I've observed different kinds of addictions in people, and I'll be damned if I'd ever think of classifying them in the same way, even if that's what a typical psychologist would do.