skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Can't speak for many, but I do both things. Not facebook specifically, since I try not to do too much of it at work (with varying success), but reddit and HN and such. Taking little breaks and reading a blog post or something can be fairly relaxing, and sometimes if you're stuck you can switch gears and come back to the problem with fresh eyes.

There's also 'background processing', which happens during physical activity (had a coworker who left around 2 to go running and rock climbing, getting her most productive time in after going home at around 4 or 5pm), chatting with coworkers, getting a snack or some water, that kind of thing.

They're separate, but I (and most folks I know) do at least a little of both.
I don't know about your specific case but it's typically not the presence old technologies that devalue a resume; it's their presence AND the lack of new technologies that does that, because it indicates that the candidate doesn't think it's important to keep himself up to date regarding the latest developments in his profession, which is a huge red flag.

Just this week we've interviewed a lady for a development position who had a very long career and had experience with not just old technologies such as, I don't know, Delphi, but she taught herself new things as well such as ASP.NET MVC and Node. She is a mother of two yet she has managed to find time to keep her skills up-to-date. Obviously we have offered her a senior position pretty much immediately.
I don't know if I have a shitty personality, or if it comes from the fact that I live in france where there's a lot of welfare and unions, which results in workers being treated very nicely. On the other hand, U3 unemployment is at 10%.

I'm 30 and I've never been paid a salary in my entire life except for 1 month. Same for my father, and my mother is not so much better on that.

I tried being honest and tried the "reintegrate myself" option, but I have to say I'm not convinced.

If some people are ready to bite their tongue and subscribe to the obeying workforce, I would let them be, but I will never let them insult unemployed people as being lazy. But I think I belong to the portion of people who is not really actively doing something I think is productive, or is not being able to effectively progress towards that goal. I can't always stick the blame on me.

I understand that civilization and economics are something people hold dearly, like it's important for the well being of millions of people, but sometimes, you have to be honest and explore the sociology and psychology of it if you want to make real improvements. I can't honestly believe politics are completely insensitive to this. Or may they will be in 50 years.
Goldtouch has a good track record and IBM heritage, http://allthingsergo.com/blog/reviews/goldtouch-keyboard-rev...
In most universities there is a distinction between software engineering and computer science. Computer science deals more with things like writing and optimising compilers, and the interface between hardware and software, and writing an optimised sorting algorithm is a good introduction to that kind of thinking.

Software engineers (like engineers in other fields) are in the business of taking stuff made by scientists and building things out of it that businesses and consumers use (like spotify and bridges and dialysis machines). They wouldn't do much in the realm of specific algorithm design, it's mostly about research and system architecture.
>Logitech discontinued their best cable based mices, MX500 and MX518 too.

The MX518 for me at least lives on as the G400s. I used to own an MX518 and got the G400s recently and it's basically the same thing except with a better surface texture (and higher DPI? I don't really care since I always keep it on the lowest setting).

>What traditional cable based keyboards/mices and business notebooks with normal keys should one buy?

I use a ThinkPad T420 which would seem to be the last "traditional" ThinkPad. I mean it's clear it's already going in the direction of the newer laptops but this one still has the traditional keyboard while having up-to-date hardware otherwise. Hopefully by the time that becomes outdated there will be something worth buying on the market...

As for my desktop keyboard: IBM Model M, accept no substitutes.
Freebase has 2,751,750,754 entries, Wikidata has only 13,734,841.

Lydia Pintscher (Wikidata manager) admits that the Wikipedia/Wikidata notability guideline is a real problem and the process of re-using Freebase data is slow:
https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/freebase-discuss/s_B...

How cares about an API, it's all about the data dump that is available for download and used to be updated monthly.

I am not sure what your agenda is, if you are somehow related to Wikidata or Google and why this is only your eight post in 1526days on HN. But one it cannot be denied that there is evident that the demise of Freebase will hurt us all (except Google) in the long term and a lot of data won't survive/be included in Wikidata.

(I do like Wikipedia, but I noticed their notability guidelines and some admins gone wrong do hurt for example the German Wikipedia a lot, which is actually shrinking as more pages get deleted than added. Some good projects from German Wikipedia like the Toolserver which hosts the map-data and the geo-database of all cities and landmarks are great. But Wikidata with its long development history should have been done by Wikimedia itself not Wikipedia Germany. It started from SemanticWiki research project and it took way too long and is still not that good) http://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/Blutet-Wikipedia-aus-..., http://www.heise.de/newsticker/foren/S-Artikel-schrumpfen/fo...
> What are the arguments against these rules? There must be some.

I don't actually find this set terribly objectionable, at least when they're treated as guidelines rather than rules, but I'll have a go anyway.

Excessive focus on issues like this is seen as a symptom of a managerialist culture. While few developers I know would object to the ideas that everyone has something to learn, and that apprentice and journeyman coders should be supported and encouraged, there is -- sometimes justified -- suspicion that the real agenda is to commoditise developers and turn programming from a craft into a factory-floor activity. Or, to refer to another article that's on the front page this morning, to turn antiwork into work.

The kind of things that get put in place to "compensate" for ego are rules which value maintenance over re-writes, and third party components (even if they're only a tenuous fit for the problem) over in-house development. While I agree that there are biases to be aware of here, dismissing every proposal for a re-write or new internal development as egotism ends up shutting down discussions about the actual trade-offs.
I can't read any articles on Forbes. After I click through their "thought of the day", it seems to just give me an endless redirect loop. Does anyone else have the same problem?
Those best people are not best because they work hard.

They're the best because they have the privilege to work in that environment.

If success is a privilege, I would not call it success. If they're privileged, you can't call them competitive. They're competitive with their own selves, which is not how competition works.
My interpretation is that the data count for the proposed sites would not be included in the internet plan that a consumer might have taken. It might have some impact on internet pack pricing, but competition should be able to correct it. I don't see any hit on the net neutrality; as of now, it simply appears like a freemium model.
HR is an industry that could definitely be completely replaced by an algorithm + remote people + software. Anyone want to help me build this or does it already exist?
http://googleresearch.blogspot.com/2006/06/extra-extra-read-...
Our tour guide (roughly 8 years ago as well) told us it was because these homes are generational - as sons get married they keep building them up - adding new levels for the new family. So they're always a work in progress.
Any good open-source self-hosted evernote alternatives?
Hi, is there any good open source self-hosted evernote alternatives with sync and android support?
GitHub won because it's social-media
How a Traditional Industrial Manufacturer Embraced 3D Printing
I've never understood why people insist on enumerating reasons why not to use facebook.

There's already a lack of reasons to use it (unless you count funny games and cat pictures), shouldn't that be enough in itself?
Seriously, this is the stupidest thing I've ever seen. Why are people pretending this would be useful in any way at all?

I see how its a fun exercise in CSS and everything, but actually providing it as a download as if people will use this productively is stupid.
iOS Tips Keyboard Shortcuts on IPHONE and IPAD
I realize that you chose one example off the top of your head, but it seems like an incredibly rare case. The majority of developers can understand "Queries involving this column are slow, it needs an index". Slightly more sophisticated developers can use an EXPLAIN statement (or it's equivalent) to see how many rows are being scanned and apply indexes where necessary. How many hours of coursework is it worth to obtain the knowledge "finding things in a ordered tree data structure are way faster than scanning through the whole table"?

I'm not sure if I've ever run into anyone who said "The things I learned in college have turned out to be pretty much worthless in my professional career. I wasted a lot of time learning irrelevant information." It's interesting that the majority of every CS education is always valuable, to every person, with no exceptions.
An $720 billion company, printing $50+ billion per year in profit, that gets ~85% of its profit from one product line.

Should anyone be surprised if the Mac products rot? Apple is a corporation, prone to the same flaws as any other giant: losing focus, ignoring problems outside their core profit stream, allowing problems to snowball, weakening quality control, and so on.

In 2006, the year before the iPhone came out, Apple had around 17,000 employees. By the end of this year it'll be 100,000+. What company could add over 80,000 employees in nine years and not have some bad problems come out of it? I've never seen employee expansion of that scale before at a tech company, and can't think of a tech company that has ever grown like that in world history.
That seems extremely high.

Did he give you a breakdown of what cost more? Or was it just that it was nonstandard?

Did you do it?
If you can select to copy its no different than a screen reader. There's is 0 usefulness to this, and it's embarrassing that it's on the front page of hacker news right now.
Consider this example:

I run the EMEA division of a multinational, I want to justify a bigger budget and/or get a bigger bonus and so I hire a data analyst to prepare some reports showing my division in a favourable light. The reports are well received and have desired effect for the first year or two until my competitor who runs AsiaPac realises what's happening and also hires a data analyst. The situation then returns to normal, but the company now employs two more data analysts than it did a few years ago. Neither one of us will fire our data analyst for fear of looking bad, but the data analysts are in competition and so have no net benefit to the company's performance or humanity as a whole.
For what it's worth my child loves washing dishes.

There are some obvious safety measures -- the water is much cooler than I'd normally use; I make sure there are no knives in there; I take all the glasses out (he's young and a bit clumsy).

He also enjoys hoovering, and folding clothes.
At which digit of Pi can I download the code used by the author of the blog post?
I know(I think) about "Net Neutrality". There is a difference between discriminating between packets and charging more for particular traffic and providing access to some sites for free. They are not charging more for a particular kind of traffic and so I assume they are Net Neutral.

Did I miss something?
They are charging more for particular types of traffic! Anything other than a select few sites is being charged.
May the fork be with you
Is your smartphone making you dumb?
It has an Esc key! That alone is well worth getting one for my iPad.
Should we rebrand to Agile Overflow?
It's available from outside India, but not on a paid connection from within? Ridiculous, indeed...
Yes, BlockQuote can be used as a generic block container. It doesn't have attributes itself but you can put them on a header at the start. For generic inline elements you can use Code.

Markdown syntax for generic containers (Div and Span) hasn't been implemented yet but the discussion is fairly mature now:

https://github.com/jgm/pandoc/issues/168

https://github.com/jgm/pandoc/pull/1791
What if you got a brand new phone every month in share economy?
HOLD IT!

If you look at the presented site, you can see there is already a demo showcasing the technology. Furthermore, if you read their blog, you can see a long list of games already made with Superpowers. On top of that, it seems like Superpowers does nothing new - it simply brings together already proven technologies with a long track record for success. Consult the xkcd chart at http://xkcd.com/1497/ and you can see that's a very good predictor for success.

slams desk, points finger

Mister Wright, you are obviously not fit to be a prosecutor and should stick to being a defence attorney!
I deeply admire the dedication and passion these guys put in polishing and improving OpenBSD.
It'd probably inconvenience him because he wouldn't be able to borrow one from people next to him.
~3 karma/day. ~3 karma/comment. Doesn't seem like that big a deal?
Why builds break on our team? Because we have no idea how to add precommit hook to perforce intellij client so it tries to build and test the whole thing locally before pushing changes to repo.
IMO, Decentralized Decision Making is one of the fundamental characteristics of a flat organizational structure. Nowadays, at many places, 'flat structure' is being wrongly understood as 'easily approachable management'. However, such companies don't understand and don't conduct decentralized form of decision making. I would not prefer to go after literal meaning of the word 'flat', but at my organization, if I am able to conduct decentralized form of decision making in an effective manner, I would be happy to call it a 'flat organization'.
The last few sentences are a great summary:

"The prison looked like an image on an old postcard, a haunting, uniquely American symbol of state power. And a thought occurred to me: the walls of the penitentiary guarding this pacifist were taller and more impenetrable than any of the fences at Y-12."
Show HN: Remote JavaScript console written in Go
Tuning Java Servers
I have tried it; it doesn't work.

Can you point me to any video or picture of it working?
That's probably never going to happen (for any Markdown-based project).

As you probably know, TeX is a full programming language (albeit an odd one), which means that to compile (La)TeX to Markdown, Markdown needs to support all the features of TeX, which means that it has to be Turing-complete. Not to mention the fact that parsing TeX is kind of nuts too.
What has that google page turned into xD
LEDs just aren't very bright. This is an idea that people think works until they try it.
I was speaking from experience. I have it too.

Edit: and even if I wasn't it wouldn't make a difference - flitting from one grand project to the next without actually completing any of them is a clear diagnostic marker anyone can read in a book.
Switch your default search engine to Google
I've been getting this only when redirected from DDG via !g in FF (and not Chrome for example). I've this even if Google is set as my default search engine.
Scrape Logo API
Which compiler is this which can, for instance, take Netlib LAPACK and run serial Linpack as fast as OpenBLAS on recent x86_64? (Other common hotspots are available.) Enquiring HPC minds want to know.
It looks similar to a type cover for microsoft's surface. In that case typing will be quite good. I prefer it to any other laptop keyboard that I've used. Of course you can't expect it to be as good as a conventional keyboard.
Advice before quitting your job to start a startup
Consent is a slippery notion. If the choice is between a shitty job and homelessness, did you really consent to the shitty job? It's a tragedy of the commons, people do what's best for them individually while making society as a whole worse.
Make Money from Idle Computer: Pentest Power
If you can see unproductive work, then you should start competition and win the market. (Or realize, that it wasn't that unproductive).
Is anything special even required, as most services have their own encryption? Email, chat, git server... VPN seems only if you use Windows Filesharing? So sharing docs via some cloud service would get around that?
http://www.chrisseaton.com/rubytruffle/deoptimizing/
Take a book (which is "organised") and loss-lessly compress it. The compression uses that organisation to be able to save space. The compressed file is now "unorganised".
That's a bit disingenuous. By that logic, everyone exploits people, so the baseline just rises to that, making the GP's statement "I didn't exploit any more people than everyone else", which is more or less true.
Agreed on all points.

This problem has led to the proliferation of wallets. PayTM, ICICI Pocket and other virtual wallets are gaining ground super fast coz of their ease to do transfers. The whole market is heading in that direction purely because of RBI's short sighted policies.

I have a feeling that when a scandal/scam occurs on this type of a system. The ban hammer comes down on them too.
In Denver, rather I would bet that the most likely use is to monitor people mailing cannabis.
>Do you object that a pin prick is bad?

That depends on the context. If it's acupuncture, for example, it can be quite good, even if the precise sensation is exactly the same as the otherwise unpleasant case of poking myself with a needle while sewing.
I agree, cameras are so commonplace that if they wanted to monitor people inside the post office, no one would blink an eye at a big fat camera pointing at the counter.
There is always a hierarchy. The only question is if its written down anywhere. And even in companies with an explicit org chart, there is often an informal one which is more powerful.
String searching is an inherently I/O or memory bound problem. Your CPU ends up waiting for bytes to arrive from memory at around 50 GB/s theoretical max, half of that in practice usually. The programming language or algorithm doesn't matter that much when memory bandwidth is saturated.

A faster implementation of a string searching algorithm could only save a few milliwatts of CPU power, it wouldn't make it faster nor require less hardware.
Edit 2: Questions 1 and 2 from the Adult ADHD Self Reporting Scale[0] (from Harvard, endorsed by the WHO) -

1. How often do you have trouble wrapping up the final details of a project, once the challenging parts have been done?
2. How often do you have difficulty getting things in order when you have to do a task that requires organization?

[0]: http://www.hcp.med.harvard.edu/ncs/ftpdir/adhd/18Q_ASRS_English.pdf
No, you are bending it. They are charging the same they were before and there is no change in that regard. They are still charging same regardless of what the packet contains. Some sites are paying to be subsidised. They are paying for a service, what's wrong? You want to compete? Get your site subsidise as well. Someone has to pay either the customer or the provider, customer doesn't have to pay more for particular traffic. Do you expect ISPs to provide all data for free?
Theoretically, you can also find all books in a random N-long number as well. Just keep on generating.
I've only got experience of one flat structured company. There, the 'flat' structure is almost entirely fantasy. The company is very hierarchical, but hierarchical on the basis of the way individuals command (and collect) influence and power. One employee described it as 'who's got the biggest dick'.

Which means that people who are naturally political end up with all the power, even if they don't make good decisions, and they aren't held accountable for their management activities, because the fantasy is that they're not managing anyone. And introverts or people with alternative ideas (especially ideas that threaten the alphas) tend to be dumped on, badly peer reviewed and fired.

Although this company receives praise inside and out for its flat structure (even the CEO is just one of the team, don't you know!) All it has done is replace professional management* with management by popularity, from what I can see.

[Edit: It has already been mentioned in other comments as an amazing example of wonderful flatness! :D It's PR is good, I'll say that!]

There is more than a little of the high school atmosphere, to be honest. Not somewhere I wanted to work (I was there as a consultant for a month).

I'm curious if it is very different elsewhere.

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* I acknowledge that 'professional management' is hardly universal, btw! No lack of realism from me on either extreme.
I think the shift has already happened. All those people who talk about the "future of work" are the ones I'd quite like to send into the future. The far future.

Work has already changed, the future is here, but it's here because people need two jobs to make rent, or because people freelance so that they can realise their personal visions, not because robots are going to steal our jobs.

The real problem is finding out what you want to do and where you fit (hence https://www.somewhere.com).
Not true at all, look up what Soviet actually means.
There's an android app called choremaster to gamify the chores a bit.
You can return it within 30 days of receiving it for a full refund. This means you can do your own review which is really all that will matter.

I am hoping that it helps greatly with special keys compared with standard keyboards. I am very curious about how it works with keyboard navigating type software such as Vim.

I pre-ordered it.
Any place you can go where you can use a good connection? You need to plan around it, but one can get along with only sometimes being connected as long as it is predictable.
I don't know what internet.org is for. But it's such a braindead move for them. I won't (and I bet a lot many Indians) switch to the shittiest network in India just for some website. I will find alternatives to the website.
Please re-examine the facts. An apology might be nice as well - these are real people after all.
If Apple got away with "reinvented" folders, then I'm pretty much OK with Microsoft "reinventing" this and anyone else reinventing any wheel they may find.

I'm not saying you are wrong per se, but at least lets try to keep our standards consistent.
People tend to overthink this. The only reason alot of people use facebook is because that's where all their friends are.
You need to provide some context for non-Indians. Not everyone knows what a PAN card is.
Uh-huh..
The Price of Hype: The Public Now Has Unrealistic Timelines for Science
WhatsApp – Voice call launched
transitions are really nice, apply those to this font and you got something