skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For software development, it seems like something that has no upside at all (aside from saving money on office space), and tons of downsides.

Commercial real estate is about $3/SF (per month) in San Francisco (Class A) and $4/SF in Manhattan. Open plan offices save about 75-100 SF per employee (more, if you're looking to be sadistic and impractical, but at this point, the productivity loss is obvious.) So the employer is saving, at absolute most, $5000 per employee per year. It's not worth it.

I bring this up because I just really truly don't get the occasional open office boosterism here. My current theory is that most of it comes from people who are still in the honeymoon phase of their career (like, the first few years after college when everything about the workplace still has some novelty to it).

That's basically what it is. The open-plan layout is reminiscent of college and the all-nighters in the computer lab. But work is not college. A bad grade on an assignment is much more fixable than getting fired. The stakes are higher, and that's why a certain brand of professionalism (or, more bluntly, divorcing oneself from behaviors that are acceptable for 18- to 21-year-olds) is necessary.

I say this because it seems like many/most of the people I talk to in person who like the open office idea have either literally never had a private office, or are relatively fresh out of college and get a job at Google (or a startup, or wherever), and they're still so excited about everything that even the things that are hassles (like open office plans?) seem like they're brimming with novelty.

Well, private offices make nerf-gun battles harder. And you hear less juicy gossip. And you don't have an audience for self-important rants about Lena Dunham. It might get so "boring" (in the sense of a lack of distractions) that you might be tempted to actually work to pass the time.
Are there any studies that support productivity in an open office environment? The studies referenced in this article and others seem pretty negative overall. Certainly seems to be the trend at most companies these days that I've interacted with. Is it mainly just the cheaper option per square foot?
I really enjoyed this in depth look at Reddit's history. I never realized what an early member Aaron Swartz was, and found a lot of the Conde stuff pretty revealing. The competition and eventual victory over Digg also has some nice anecdotes to take away. And I'm impressed by this kind of journalism coming from Mashable, it'd be nice to see more of this.
You clearly haven't read the article. They're not trying to shape their daughter but protect her from forces that do try to shape her.
It's often not the team who decides. I've also been told (but it's just hearsay) that you can't get the highest LEED certification for your groovy new office complex if you have individual offices, so the PR value of that is factored in as well.
Well, Facebook is building the world's largest open bullpen office, with 2800 workers in 1 room(!) I wonder what they think of this research that shows open office plans being detrimental.

http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2013/05/27/article-2331658-1A...

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2584738/Now-T...
I can see how open offices are deeply unproductive for mid to large sized companies. But for a team of < 10, I've generally found it to be pretty nice. Everyone has to learn to respect each other, but when you're constantly working closely it's convenient not to have any walls.

Does anyone else have experience with small teams working in open spaces?
But does a plus that happens once or twice a year outweigh minuses that happen multiple times per day?
The problem is probably closer to these potential noise sources not being properly isolated from the work area, of which open offices are particularly susceptible.

I've only had one work environment that didn't have some type of on-site recreation.
These issues seem to be focused on the phone-side of things. Robust and high capacity servers and load balancers have other use-cases. Unless I misunderstand, all of these Date format, the header parsing, the commends in headers, querystring headers come straight from HTTP itself. Can't blame SIP for it.

Unless you want to commit fully to TCP, then the fragmentation must be taken care of in the protocol, no way around it. Yes most networks are fine, but the protocol has to deal with the worst-case scenarios.

UDP has a lot of advantages - two most used - the retransmissions are faster and it's stateless. It allows to have a fully stateless SIP server devices, reduced chance of DoS attacks or session/fd leaks. UDP allows you to play with the queue design on the server side since you can drop messages and wait for the faster retransmissions. UDP block parsers vs TCP stream parsers have advantages in certain cases to optimize for memory on high traffic devices. UDP allows for multicast and broadcast SIP functions. There are many other little things that make UDP easier and cheaper to deal with on the server side.

The routing stuff, some of it comes from HTTP again, and then they added a bunch of extra stuff to accomodate some use-cases in federated environments and chain-systems. The source routing feature is not a problem like in IP because each server is allowed to challenge any request at any time. I've used source routing to establish sticky sessions in a cluster so I don't force replication everywhere for the same user and to create test calls that exercise specific paths in a multinode system.
I was transitioned from a full-height cubicle (in a corner, no less) to a half-height cubicle. I can see from the neck up of the person in the next cube while seated. This was done to "increase collaboration", however myself and my team are placed by a group of people from HR, so it's constantly our recruiters on the phone pre-screening candidates. We never need to interact with them. And I know they are annoyed with us as well when we're talking technical jargon. We both get on each other's nerves and constantly distract each other.

Even if you subscribe to the "open = more collaborative" idea, it only works when you're near people that you interact with daily.

I miss my full-height cubicle, in an area with only people from my department.
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> Telegram haven't done something similar.

As far as you know. Why would they publicise it if they did? How can you prove they've not been forced to?
Or another way to view it, WW2 had diverted innovation towards the war effort and the non-war items were stalled until long after the war when the opportunity to commercialise many decades of work arrived within a couple of decades.
They'll likely just get a career school designation from the State of CA like other bootcamps.
Great, we can just go ahead and file that in the garbage with the rest of the anecdotes. Notice how everyone who is happy with their diet says the same thing you just said, no matter what their diet is?
Cool commercial.. is this app being marketed to real estate professionals, do it yourself home buyers or handy man types?
I'm not sure that this actually qualifies as an ad hominem attack. In cases such as this, a lack of experience and expertise is a serious concern.

True, there may well be outliers who, with little to no previous experience in a field, are able to master and advance it - but they are outliers.

As to specific comparison with Santoshi and Bitcoin, it doesn't stand, due to the relatively poor history and documentation for LogDog and the relatively greater history and documentation for Bitcoin: There is the 2008 research paper that built upon well-known and well-examined previous work on electronic cash, anonymous payments, etc., etc., and there is the subsequent open source client. No one ever said "trust us, this is cool". Instead, they wrote detailed papers and code and released those to the world - and we made up our own minds.

LogDog is, by comparison, sui generis, a thing of itself, that has sprung into being with neither preamble nor publicized foundations.

URB may be the outlier. Or not. Given the lack of documentation, the lack of openness, and the apparent lack of expertise, we are but wise to raise the questions.

So far, URB seems responsive and engaged, and not particulary evasive. Those are good things for that particular hominid.
Google's services are free. By trying to redefine what free actually means into 'has no cost whatsoever to anyone' you ruin the word.
The trademark is in the public domain which means it can never be sold. A company such as Oracle acquiring Joyent (and thus owning NodeJS) is a very realistic possibility, if not inevitable. You don't need anyones permission to use "iojs". You may use it for a book title, conference, training course, or service without needing permission or paying anyone to use it.

iojs follows an open governance model which means that large US corporations have equal input to everyone else on the direction iojs heads. Not any more or any less.

Edit: I would like to clarify that my opinion is not in any way based on Joyent not fulfilling their duty to the public. I am a former employee at Joyent and I have nothing but respect and praise for the work they have done WRT NodeJS. I hope to see NodeJS continue to thrive under Joyent's guidance. That said, I am supportive of an open initiative that iojs is attempting to achieve. I believe there are some long term benefits to having a release that is completely sheltered from any corporate initiative. My view is not meant to be antagonistic toward Joyent nor any of the NodeJS contributors.
Lots of idealization and whatnot in that article, as well as some glaring errors and apparently completely ignoring the recent developments, such as various countries (and NASA) planning journeys to the moon, asteroids, and Mars again (although the asteroids are probably because of the promises of huge amounts of wealth to be gained there)
http://www.iij-ii.co.jp/lab/seminars/slides/iijlab-seminar-2...
I've been happy with open plan offices when the seats are far enough apart. If you open someone's door you are certainly going to interrupt them, but looking at someone's face often lets you know if this is a good time to ask them a question or not. My favorite work environment (where I stayed for 1.5 years) was open plan. My least favorite work environment (2 years) was also open plan where people were packed in.
Yet another argument work working remote. I have to admit, the Basecamp book Remote has completely sold me on remote. I've been remote for two years and never again would I want to work in any office other than my own.
My experience mirrors yours, I've yet to meet (IRL) someone who has actually experienced private (or at least semi-private two-to-an-office) offices who prefers open offices.

All of the boosters I've run into have only known open offices. Having said that, I'm sure someone will chime in here who has experienced both and prefers open offices, but I have to believe such people are in the vast minority based on my completely anecdotal data

Having done both (as I'm old enough to have started working when open offices were pretty rare), it is kind of ridiculous how much less productive (and less happy) I am in an open office and how difficult it is to find a workplace that isn't open office these days.
eg. cubicle, meaning, there is no physical door to shut that when it is shut it means Do Not Disturb.
Ask HN: What's the best way to nab a soon-to-expire domain name from a squatter?
A domain name that I am interested in is currently being squatted on by a ad-laded splash page. It's set to expire next month. I've been reading up a lot on NameJet, SnapNames, and the like, but I can't seem to find many solid resources beyond spammy-looking domain name blogs and http://www.mikeindustries.com/blog/archive/2005/03/how-to-snatch-an-expiring-domain, which was posted almost 10 years ago. Any advice on the best way to have a shot of getting the domain?
US Has More Solar Workers Than Coal Miners
The point of adding a cover letter is to stand out. If you don't, you're far more likely to end up ignored in the avalanche of resumes, especially considering how poor of a signal most resumes are.

I'd rather have a chance to actually get the job, if it's one I'd find interesting, and writing a cover letter is easy. But you're free to be ignored if it makes you feel better.
What about those half-height cubicles? That's what I've dealt with in almost every enterprise/gov position I've been in over the years in .au
The Mac app is also pretty awkward on non-Yosemite computers; a very broken UI.
Even if they did find stuff on said computer somehow, they have been taught it is lies.
I'm guessing it's related to IPv6 over Bluetooth Low Energy, which is currently working its way through the bowels of the IETF:

https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-6lo-btle

Basically, they saw what a glorious success 6LoWPAN (IPv6 over 802.15.4) has been (</sarcasm>), realized BLE/L2CAP has a fair bit in common with 802.15.4 (focus on minimizing power consumption, low data rates, crazy small per-packet payload sizes), and decided to reuse 6LoWPAN's IPv6 header compression (RFC 6282) in this IPv6-over-BLE standard.
A second password is just another form of a second factor (in 2-factor authorization)
I don't have papers on it. Just years of painful experience, but something I've noticed is that (a) people with walls at their back are generally more productive, and (b) successful or powerful people usually choose seating arrangements that give them a barrier. Visibility from behind suggests low social status and makes people feel "watched".
This is great! I added it as a custom search engine with the keyword 'py' in chrome. Just right click the search field and click 'Add as Search Engine'!
If the results are saying "Self control when hungry is lowered." then I agree completely.
Here's the unfortunate truth: a good majority of security companies out there are banking on the hope that the signals they are looking for are not known to hackers and so cannot be mimicked or evaded.

>unless your signals are something trivial a hacker could mimic

Name any security product out there, whether they make software tools or hardware appliances, and chances are there is a set of trivial signals a malicious actor can mimic to appear to be trusted by that product, or a set of trivial signals to avoid to prevent being considered malicious.

And yet those products can still provide tremendous value. There is serious value in a large team of intelligent, experienced, resourceful people spending 8-10 hours a day tracking fraud and crime patterns so they can detect suspicious activity and meticulously add to and update their signatures. Yes, if their list of signatures was published on a fraud forum, the fraudsters would see it and take advantage of it and the company would have more workload trying to detect the new pattern changes. But it's still a useful service for many people.

My only concern in OP's case is that neither he nor his company has any track record in the security industry. He's perfectly reasonable to not reveal the precise technical details of how they're detecting suspicious activity, though.
>table sugar(white death)

Why post garbage like that?

>gets in your blood very quick causing insulin spike

Just like honey and fruit and candy do.

>which is bad and bad only

There is no evidence to support that claim. The demonization of "insulin spikes" is for selling a fad diet. It is not based on science.
Google posts lots of contact information on their contact page. You would probably want to reach business development. I don't think they are willing to sell access to that index however, we (at Blekko) would. I suppose you could also try to pull it out of common crawl.
Bravo! My productivity (and motivation) is orders of magnitude higher when I can work in my house in the South of France or at my mother in law's house on the Mexican Riviera.) I will give you 10 hours a day of full productivity if you can save me from my old Jersey City-NYC commute. I don't need to play ping pong with you to build great software for you.
With all due respect, the open office educational analogy is the cafeteria study hall, with everyone walking around and gossiping and goofing off and basically getting nothing productive done other than putting on a show.

If the open office full of distractions is the ideal working environment, then when I get an emergency call from work, I assume I'll fix the emergency faster if I take my laptop to the neighborhood daycare center and sit down right in the highest chaos room. Oddly enough at home when no pretensions are necessary because there is nobody to show off to, people who have to actual work, pick a nice quiet closed door "office".

A lot of open office love comes from utterly incompetent management and its very politically incorrect to discuss this other than semi-anonymous forums like this. "I have no idea how to manage these people or how to convince them to do what I want, but at least I can see them all squashed together like sardines". If your standard of performance is low enough, mere visibility is at least better than nothing.
I have children that are not yet school aged at home. Working from home only happens after bedtime (and that's if I decide not to spend any time with my wife after the kid's bedtime).

I also work in an "open" plan (recently transitioned to it). The most productive I ever am is when I'm travelling for work. It's the only time I get privacy.

As a side anecdote: I was listening to NPR about a prisoner that was talking about how he turned his life around in prison and read an incredible amount of books. I was feeling jealous of him for a few minutes until I realized how screwed up it was. I was jealous of the free time and relative privacy that a prisoner had. I never get privacy unless I'm travelling for work. Never.
If you can see people while you are sitting, I'd consider that an open office.
Heroku allows you to deploy your stuff using your Dropbox account
Be the coffee hero
That may be because when you install it, you realize you don't have any one you know using the app. Your first action on any new social product, is to spam every action possible against one close friend to see what they all do.

I'd like to try voice calling since some of the Android reviews say the same thing about the quality, but I've yet the chance to do so..
The article says on this point:

"Conflict spurs innovation, and the Cold War played its part – we would never have got to the Moon without it. But someone has to pay for everything. The economic boom came to an end in the 1970s with the collapse of the 1944 Bretton Woods trading agreements and the oil shocks. So did the great age of innovation. Case closed, you might say.

And yet, something doesn’t quite fit. The 1970s recession was temporary: we came out of it soon enough. What’s more, in terms of Gross World Product, the world is between two and three times richer now than it was then. There is more than enough money for a new Apollo, a new Concorde and a new Green Revolution. So if rapid economic growth drove innovation in the 1950s and ’60s, why has it not done so since?"
All I can say is get used to it.

Sometimes even in open source support just ends; unless you know how to patch bugs/fix dependency drift then you may be SOL there too.

Only best defence is know what your project's dependencies are and mitigate for potential loss/change.
Java 8 has pluggable type systems, some of them (physical units) are more powerful than what can be achieved in Haskell. There's even pluggable types that enforce immutability; even Scala can't do that.
Quicksort looks significantly better in a functional style. Here's some Haskell, but it certainly doesn't use any Haskell-exclusive features:

quicksort :: Ord a => [a] -> [a]
quicksort [] = []
quicksort (p:xs) = (quicksort lesser) ++ [p] ++ (quicksort greater)
where
lesser = filter (< p) xs
greater = filter (>= p) xs
I'm not the OP, but I'm aligned with the OP in being against open offices. I'm also very cognizant of the fact that I don't have a single opinion that is universal.

But opinions aside if we look at actual studies (at least among the research I've seen, some of which is referenced in this article) far more often than not they point to open offices being an overall negative for knowledge workers.
Yeah, historically the artifact resolution has been kind of slow if you have several sub projects. However, there was just a new release of SBT that added a bunch of improvements for this[1].

[1] http://typesafe.com/blog/improved-dependency-management-with...
This is why I can't take philosophy serious anymore.

Examples like the "this statement is false" thing are just rife with equivocations and other blatant nonsense. Yes, there is such a thing as "neither true nor false", but every example for "both true and false" I've seen is based on lousy thinking and semantic games.

Also, as a JS programmer, the distinction between true/false/neither/ineffable is very familiar (i.e.: true/false/null/undefined, null denoting the absence of a value and undefined denoting the absence of a definition -- though of course in practice the distinction is rarely necessary resulting in a lot of confusion and unnecessary double checks).

It's got nothing to do with "mysticism". It's just arm chair linguistics.
I can't edit the original post. I meant to write, but didn't "ever tried to start a Hangout on a computer with a non-technical user"

I agree the phone is easier.
And would the plus have even been necessary if the environment were not highly distracting? The best way to fix a bug is to prevent it from happening.
> Why not send bacteria which may evolve or may create environment for other form of life?

We should, but there are 2 reasons we are not doings so right now.

1) We don't want to destroy our ability to determine if there was life on Mars in the past, which would be much harder to recognize as martian life if earth life was all around.

2) It is quite difficult to come up with something that could survive and reproduce on Mars.

I don't think (1) is a compelling enough reason and (2) is just another way of saying that it's hard, so I completely agree, we should do it.
Designer News: https://news.layervault.com/

Occasionally has some gems for front-end dev.
Picture doesn't work repeatedly. Same for design and other graphical element. It gets boring after the second use, annoying as hell the third and there's no fourth time. We want to experience "new" stuff. We can already seen those kind of complain with the light reuse of some stuff in video game and movies...
> I was transitioned from a full-height cubicle (in a corner, no less) to a half-height cubicle. I can see from the neck up of the person in the next cube while seated.

Wow, that's absurd.

Our company transitioned from 6 foot cube walls to 4.5ish foot cube walls, such that you can see over the cube walls if you're standing up, but not when sitting down. It works very nicely for being able to see across most of the floor, to easily find someone you're meeting with (and who is thus also standing looking around), or to collaborate with your team over cube walls. But if you're sitting down, you have walls all around you, both to muffle noise and to provide a comfortable feeling of privacy.

There are also a large number of drop-in conference rooms ("collaboration rooms"), and some one-person phone-booth rooms for fully private phonecalls.
I did the same thing. Started a network of ~10 web proxy websites when I was 14, advertised on proxy.org and some link partnerships, ended up making $50 per day on adsense before crashing down to $15 a day. Sold the network on sitepoint market (now flippa) for $1200. It was the first "real money" I made online and I never looked back. :)
Well, my router with dd-wrt just gives me a traffic diagram. I don't check it super often, admittedly. I wonder if it could be modified to signal a warning somehow?