skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Is it a top down vs bottom up idea flow type of company issue?

I can see a rigid top down company not being much fun to remote at, if all ideas must come from above, therefore onsite, and you're not onsite. At a bottom up company it wouldn't be an issue because it would be your idea you're working on.

I've worked both kinds of jobs onsite, but only significant amounts of at home at a bottom up company, and I don't think it would have been as much fun at a top down company. Top down companies generally are not pleasant working environments nor very successful anyway, so its hard to discern if remote is unpleasant due to generalized failure, or if specifically even at a top down that somehow "works" remote would remain unpleasant.
‘Redirect to SMB’ vulnerability allows login theft, even in Windows 10
"An arbitrary deadline, often forcing you to interrupt your flow and then spend extra time next sprint reorienting yourself to pick up the same task again. And artificial accountability. (Did Alice overrun her time-box because she was lazy? Or because the bug was really tricky? Nobody knows! Is Bob a rockstar, or is he just really good at plausibly over-sizing small tasks? Perhaps!)"

You know at least 2 weeks in advance you have to be able to give your customers a report of your findings. If that interrupts your flow or forces you to "reorient" yourself, that sounds like you have poor planning and time management skills. If Alice is consistently missing her deadlines, or if Bob is consistently over-performing, the team needs to analyze the tasks being given to those individuals.

"That's kind of strawmanny. In no methodology should someone be allowed to wander around for months with zero feedback."

There is a difference between "go research this and report back" and "go research this for 25 hours and get back".

"I have literally never met a customer who didn't want everything right now. A good traditional PM is able to manage those customer expectations. Few developers I've met have those skills or want to be spending their time doing that."

Agile and the constant feedback cycle help to manage those expectations. It's another tool in the PM's toolbox.

Of course they all do. Another fundamental part of agile is the constant communication between customers and the team.
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Yeah, I think that's an interedting amendment to Conway's law: it's not just about the structure of the organisation/communication, but also about the feelings associated with the communication.
It can be fixed by highlighting politicians' use of the oil industry's money to fund their campaigns and calling them rude names when they do it (and equally, by saying nice things about politicians who don't...).

If it becomes politically unpalatable they will stop taking oil industry money. If the oil industry loses its seat at the policy table they will lose power, followed by money, followed by influence. It's a vicious (or virtuous) circle, depending upon how you look at it.
I am surprised things such as Cinavia[1] isn't more widely used for tracking. It is designed to cut off the audio after 20 minutes which you see on a PS3 with many Bluray Disc rips released on torrents.

For that to work obviously you need the player to implement the feature but this isn't about disabling playback but simply tracking a leak. Just tweak it audio on each early release copy and you are good to go.

The really interesting thing about Cinavia is that it survives even an audio transcode/re-encode so even converting 5.1 DTS to MP3 or similar won't kill it. It is extremely robust in that sense.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cinavia
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sad part is that some of us went to school thinking we would change the world for the best and what we do is actually hep companies sell more advertising, get more bullshit valuations, help them send dick picks that delete themselves.

I don't know what to do, i still have to feed my family, I can't imagine that i am the only one feeling this way.
It's great to have such "allies", isn't it??
One of the key effects of China's firewall has been to ensure that China has its own plethora of native internet services -- yet the latest attacks will probably ensure that no one outside of China uses those services. It seems like the perpetrators of the attack are hurting Chinese businesses more than anything else.
Fukushima robot 'dies' three hours after entering radioactive reactor zone
For at least the last 20 years, there are steganographic watermark systems in which inocuous parts of the images are used to hide coded data that stands up to even most lossy recompression.

Either HBO is using these and nobody knows yet; or they had an internal leak prior to their application; or they leaked it themselves. Under no plausible circumstances did they visibly watermark a corner and hope for the best.
Most YC companies aren't running call centers.
ISIS is fundamentally different from Al Qaeda and the sort of Wahhibist terrorism that the Saudis have historically been involved in. It is a direct threat to the Saudi government, and every other Arab government.

I'll point out that the Saudis have actively bombed ISIS. They're militarily involved in this war. It's a huge, huge deal for them.
The chances of this leak not being steganographically watermarked are close to zero. The visible watermark is added as well as the invisible watermark just for the purposes of deterring screenshots.
That's an interesting question, however it is not what I was replying to. I'm not sure your question should be pointed at me :)

In any case here's my quick answer: I hope they come off as Lego bricks.
For those interested archive.org has a much higher quality version of the recording [1] as well as a recording of the 1969 followup demo that explains in greater detail how the text editor works [2].

I really wish we could try NLS/Augment on an emulator but sadly it seems that it has been doomed by the god of copyright to forever rot in the archives of the Computer Museum.

[1] https://archive.org/details/XD300-23_68HighlightsAResearchCn...
[2] https://archive.org/details/XD301_69ASISconfPres_Reel1
Decentralize the web. Much harder to DDoS it this way and also harder to censor it.
Intent to deprecate: Insecure HTTP
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I'm very curious to see how the Apple Watch holds up in daily wear, especially the Sport version. I am having a hard time imagining an aluminum and glass watch looking nice after a couple months of daily wear on a wrist. Same goes for the leather bands: if they're like the leather iPhone cases in any color other than black, they look pretty shabby after a short time (and I love broken in leather!).
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tl;dr: "If you’re interested in the Apple Watch and are considering buying one, go to an Apple Store and try it on."
I think it's not a bad idea to remind people to add a license to their public github projects. It's probably an oversight when they publish code for others to reuse, but don't add a license.

I've had to email people before to ask what the license is.

But what exactly is the point of publishing this bot? Do you want multiple people to start running it? Will the bot create multiple automated issues per repo? That sounds like overkill.

Maybe add a note about that.
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Peak Oil won't trigger a Mad Max dystopia. It will trigger pretty much what we've been seeing lately: ongoing financial crises and instability, deflationary pressures, growing unemployment, low/zero growth, etc. Please review the link above.

You just have to look at oil production costs to know something has changed and continues to change. It's just not the 90s anymore. Many, many drillers need $80 oil to be solvent. The global economy can't afford oil that expensive. Every time it climbs up towards $100 we get a big economic slowdown and oil price crash to much lower levels.
the language has been around for quite a few years, but

"Squirrel is a high level imperative, object-oriented programming language, designed to be a light-weight scripting language that fits in the size, memory bandwidth, and real-time requirements of applications like video games."

could tell you it's smaller than ruby/python/php, and designed to be OO compared to Lua or others. There is also a list of features, I don't think the authors of the page should have a list of "we are better than X" for every value of X.
I know of an open source developer who has written some extremely complicated kernel code and credits his success to personal tDCS experiments.

I still think we need more data on this.
+1 for that study summary, that's very interesting.

As for aesthetics, the reason for right justification in the first place is that when done correctly it looks nicer. Unfortunately it's hard to do correctly.

I sincerely doubt that there's a patent on left justified text, since that's the most obvious way to display text. I hope you were just kidding.
An interesting point -- what job can't work from home? The study's author mentions in the article that "The more robotic the work, the greater the benefits, we think." Up to you if you consider pushing code robotic, I guess? :)

I work in sales and our entire team is field-based, with no concept of an office except for in the home state. It makes sense, but it does get lonely. However, there are ways to get around this. As suggested in the article and these comments, there's technology to bridge just about any problem for WFH, which is why it is on the whole a positive thing for many industries.
We could dramatize what's been going on for decades as something new and urgent and then pass tomes of legislation handing trillions to the DHS and intelligence agencies.
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> I get your complaints, but a 9-5 gig (or even an 8-7 one) would be considered a life of leisure and luxury for most of the world for pretty much all of history. In fact, the only time a life you are wishing you had has been common has been in the last 50 years or so in the developed world. I'd say we're pretty damn lucky.

I make a comment on the sad state of the system of institutions and expectations that railroads people into a constant cycle of work and debt, and your best response is that "it's better than certain points in history so be thankful"?

See, the point isn't that the 'system' we're a part of is unchangeable and eternal (although American politicians may argue otherwise, that it was delivered strait from the heavens along with a KJV Bible and the US Constitution), but that it's something that can be changed, and made better. And that a better pace of life does exist, today, it's real, some people do live it.

> That 16+ years of studying your ass off is an investment someone else made in you

It's paid forward, but if you pay taxes, raise children, etc..., it's not free; it's not 'given' to you, any more than unemployment benefits are 'given' to someone who pays into the system, or health care is 'given' to someone who pays taxes (or their health care premiums).

> If you want to get ahead, instead of thinking you need to out-compete your rivals, I would instead focus on ways to make someone's life significantly better, then figure out how to do it for 10 people, then 1000....see where I'm going with this?

You may not see it, but this 'scaling' of your business is an attempt to 'out-compete' your rivals.

Anyhow, I'm not complaining about my lot in life, you're right, it's not bad at all (no debt to speak of, good wife, we eat well and have leisure time, school was my choice and I pay for it personally), but merely questioning the direction society is going, and whether or not there's a better alternative.

You see, I'm studying economics, and a recurring theme is that consumers make personally rational decisions. In my case, it's a decision to stay here and figure out a way to pay the high cost of living, or figure out a way to pay for a lower cost of living with more leisure time. And along the way, I like to philosophise about the meaning of life, the purpose of economic systems, the financial/banking system, etc...
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The Panerai he linked to is 44mm and they have a reputation for 'wearing big' - often spotted on the wrist of Messrs Stallone and Schwarzenegger
Oops, I meant to say "a week", not "a day".
It recently occurred to me, free open source project + paid enterprise service companies are the software world equivalent of freemium games.
I don't see anyone anywhere claim that it would. It would only aid in tracing the source of the leak.
I've been having similar difficulties lately. I've been thinking about shared workspaces. Have you given them a shot?
In short, Solaris is a wasteland. Oracle seems to just be
milking the remaining corporate users until the cash cow
falls over dead.

I can't even begin to fathom how you say that given the addition of OpenStack and a large set of other components for it in Solaris 11.2. Or the new virtualization options such as Kernel Zones, etc.

Quite frankly, it's quite the opposite of what you describe. Oracle has been hiring aggressively for Solaris since the acquisition and has been making significant investments in Solaris technology, which shouldn't be surprising given their continued investment in SPARC.
I'm with you - I also think it looks terrible, design-wise, and I was somewhat disappointed when it was announced. But like so many I'll be eager to see what comes of the re-design needed for V2.0 .. so I'm in a holding pattern about purchasing one.

Writing apps for it on the other hand, I'm quite eager to do ..
Government A will more likely see their market operate in a rational way rather than irrational way.

The rational way for its market to respond will be to shift to non-carbon forms of energy generation (which are already pretty much cost competitive without subsidies anyhow).

The irrational way would simply be to stop producing and exporting goods because coal is more expensive.
"The all-female hackathon is smart. Involving men is even smarter."

So we went from coed hackathons to all-female hackathons and they think it's an improvement to make it a coed hackathon?

Talk about walking in a full circle and when you arrive where you started - claim victory that you've somehow made an improvement.
This is the answer I was looking for. Funny, I've been a long time linux user, and never knew about these internal names.

It does seem like a slight against our Ubuntu, Debain, Mac OS, Windows et al. comrades.

Without any context, "Hurr, durr, I'm a sheep" seems rude to users and administrators of every OS distribution. With this context, it seems like maybe not a very funny addition to a long running joke.
Wow such a beautiful world you live in. Unicorns, honest people, fairness and shit...

Please, wake up.
Look at the rest of the photo. It's not like the author's arm is in glorious, crisp, clear lines either. I think the photo is a misrepresentation of the screen quality. I think we are just seeing artefacts of the camera used to take the picture.
I was assuming you were talking about a standing shoulder press. (In general, standing is better than sitting for your exercises. If nothing else it uses more of your body and mind to stay balanced.)

If you are standing, you've got no choice but to keep your centre of gravity over your feet. Once the weight is heavy enough, the bar will largely determine your centre of gravity.

If you are sitting, then, yes, you have the option of doing an incline press. That's where you lean back a bit. A mix between a shoulder press and a bench press.
May I suggest the War of Art. It's actually a great book.

http://www.amazon.com/The-War-Art-Through-Creative/dp/193689...
Maybe we'd show video chat in color and other derivative ideas while not wearing a lab coat? Maybe show people making money off of derivative ideas? Maybe bring back some good derivative ideas like that chording keyboard?

Edit: Things haven't changed that much really.
I tried both on in one of the dev labs a few weeks ago. I expected the 38 would be the one I'd go for since I have slight wrists, but it just didn't look or feel right. A little too feminine. (I have a fairly androgynous fashion sense, and have no problem buying something in a women's size if it looks right -- but this just didn't for me.) Obviously your mileage may vary.
There are similar approaches for software. See "Advanced Security Now" [1].

[1] - http://arxiv.org/abs/1006.2356
>It was a massive, humiliating failure.

I don't think you actually got out of the building and spoke with people. It is intimidating, but completely necessary. Always talk to customers. Then talk to them again. Then talk with them again.

Consider this: I actually own a shirt with Pi on it where the symbol is made up of the digits, I come from a math/phys background, I wear T-shirts often, and I still don't want this shirt.
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Still waiting for some clever chap to cut the opening out as well. The dream would be to have one version of the opening and a mencoder script to put the pieces back together. It would shave a few dozens megabytes on each file off.
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Yep - not always the case for me, and it changes quite frequently. Sometimes i'll have a heavy week sometimes not

its also worth considering that wfh also provides low pressure environment - slow and steady wins the race.
there are many such headlines on HN. "XXX in Y lines of code". I can't see in what respect the number of lines of code matters. Regardless of what the scripting language actually does, I'd rather have more lines of readable and maintainable code, than less lines of obfuscated code.
I meant more in terms of they don't break the standards they implement, they just add more on, but yeah mechanically its a misnomer.
The rounded rectangle design is nauseatingly ugly. There's a reason we cant find many examples of rounded rectangles throughout history - they re not beautiful. It looked OK on iphones which are useful items, but for a luxury item like this its almost a dealbreaker.
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I'm curious what you mean by "decentralize" here, because the web to me is the prime example of a successful decentralized system.
Reminds me of what Dodge did about 20 years ago. They decided to try creating a car using only women - from design to engineering to construction to manufacture, the car was 100% created by female employees of Dodge - with the goal that the end result would be one that female customers would be excited to buy and drive.

The result was the Neon (Dodge Neon / Plymouth Neon ... either way, it was the same car) and by most accounts was an absolute success at achieving that goal. It may sound silly or sexist, but it worked, and the car was very popular (and made Dodge a lot of money).

The fact that it wouldn't appeal to men was not a problem for Dodge. Guy Kawasaki has often advised, "don't be afraid to polarize," which means if you offer a product that has a very strong flavor then yes some people won't like it, but the people who do like it will like it so much the product will be quite successful.
I know people who work from home and get a lot done, but the general feeling when you get the 'WFH' email in the morning is that the person is taking the day off :\ it's hard for the people taking advantage of it not to create a stigma that effects everyone. Especially to management.
What is wrong with that sentence? TFA focuses far too much on the coding aspects of Scrum by asking "what does the senior dev do?", my point is all the things a senior dev does are fit to be tasks or stories in Scrum. It's outgrown being developer focused, and even more literally writing code is a small subset of "software development".

Points don't have to track time intervals to give you a sense of progress. Averages are a powerful thing, hopefully management is focused on long term graphs not getting het up about the number of hours difference between your tasks for two similarly pointed stories.

Oh and Scrum makes no requirement re using story points - it only requires that backlog items be estimated. We estimate tasks in hours and stories in points for instance, Scrum doesn't care. All our Product Owner shows to the stakeholders is a burnup with just numbers on the x axis.
There's a big difference between WFH and remote - in our office we encourage everyone to consider WFH and do it whenever it's appropriate, but you still need to be able to come in.
Still works for me.

Also, the author seems to know nothing of steganography so HBO haven't had anything of consequence discovered by them.
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Edit the frame length.
You needed a globe.

https://sites.google.com/site/forgottenemployee/
One would have to think that simple weight sensors may prevent such automated mishaps.
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Pretty devastating review. I don't know about the sizing but if the screen really looks that bad this is a bait and switch. Where are all the "screen images simulated" disclaimers? I bet only a tiny fraction of buyers see the watch in person before they buy it. Seems like there might be a lot of disappointed owners.
It connects directly to the reddit's websocket... What you saw was the app not handling onclose/onerror... Which I'll get around to implementing one day.
Story about a large enterprise:
I have worked for a startup and I can honestly say that working from home can be very productive.

However, I work for a large enterprise now. The problem is most of the team doesn't really have much to do most of the time. To show off, people either

1) spend minimum 8 hours or more in office or
2) Blabber all the time about how challenging and demanding their work is. I am looking at you, the sysadmin, who takes 3 weeks to create a server.

If I work from home, or use my free time in office for working out/ my own learning, they get frustrated. They pass passive aggressive comments like showing me the clock when I come in or go out.

The only criteria for them to show their work is the hours, and they never lose a chance to make sure that they remind me and the manager about that- like how they had to do something on weekends or how they have a meeting after 6 p.m.
I tried to ignore all this. but it's hard. Those kind of people are the majority. So here is what I did:

Since I don't get to utilize my time properly, I decided to make sure that I at least piss them off more:
I have always been an early morning person. I now come to work before anyone else. At least I enjoy the look on their faces. They have nothing to bitch about now :)
There are a lot of options below 40mm. I wear a 35.5mm Stowa Antea.
That's what the origional poster was saying. See there are 3 peaks that we care about. The first is Peak American Supply, the next is Peak Traditional Worldwide supply, and the third is Peak worldwide non traditional supply.

I think he was implying that the transition to shale is an indication that we are moving to unconventional sources, thus indicating we've peaked on traditional sources.
>Tesla's hype machine notwithstanding.

The Nissan Leaf demonstrates the real future of electric vehicles, not Tesla.

>The notion that $150 oil's modest pinching of SUV drivers' wallets will magically make all of the above go away is lunacy.

Running your car on electricity is already way cheaper than gasoline and has been for some time. The only thing needed to get most people to switch is a slightly cheaper and hardier battery. A more expensive electric car is often still cheaper in the long run.

The Saudis can see this, which is why they're worried, and that is the main reason why oil is so cheap right now and will remain so, possibly indefinitely.