skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I am working in Vienna (Austria) and I am not sure whether the company's time-keeping scheme represents the majority of companies in Vienna or it is a manifestation of an ultra-lean mid-size company.

I've worked in consulting and, sure, you need to track project time, but I am now working in an R&D role and it seems so unnatural to clock-on and clock-off. We receive a 30min lunch break, during which we need to clock off. We need to have an average of 40 hours logged per week during the course of a calendar month. By Austrian law, an employee must take a 30min break after six hours’ work.

IT and software receive dual 24" but R&D (also programming-intensive), along with project managers, HR, etc. receive one 24". So I and the rest of the R&D team are constantly thrashing the Ubuntu Ctrl+Alt+Numpad 4/8/6/2 command to sprawl four windows onto one screen. I think it was a poor decision not to group R&D with software in terms of monitor requirements.
Yelling at clouds doesn't make them go away. The word "free" meaning "no cost" has been around a lot longer than GNU has.

Re-defining what "free" means is an uphill battle, and not everyone agrees with this effort.
Well, there's a slight distinction there. CSS animations are faster than jQuery which is important to remember. You can get the same boost from CSS Animations and even better performance if you're using GSAP (Green Sock Animation Platform) which uses Javascript to give the same benefits you see in CSS animations.

Here's the two articles:

https://css-tricks.com/myth-busting-css-animations-vs-javasc... - this article was written by the author of GSAP

http://davidwalsh.name/css-js-animation

The basic point of the article:

The results confirm what is widely reported on the web - CSS animations are significantly faster than jQuery. However, on most devices and browsers I tested, the JavaScript-based GSAP performed even better than CSS animations (by a wide margin in some cases, like on the Microsoft Surface RT GSAP was probably at least 5 times faster than the CSS transitions created by Zepto, and on the iPad 3 iOS7 transforms were significantly faster when animated with GSAP instead of CSS transitions)
OK, so if my TLS temination host gets rooted.... I guess the assummption is that host is hardened and less likely to be exploited since it's just doing one well-defined thing?

My ignorance may be showing, how would I copmpletely isolate the private keys from the public-facing service? I suppose using an accelerator card would do it?
First and only! Plans were developed for an autonomous landing of the American Shuttle to be used in the event of a mishap following Columbia, but were never used.
Feel free to reach out at hello(at)datafocusllc(dot)com
Does that actually help? If the attacker is running arbitrary code as the webserver, they can use the webserver's access to the service to MITM anyone trying to connect to you.
How odd. I just switched fonts entirely (though still from Google Fonts). If anyone has a sense of what’s going on here, I’d love to fix it properly.
Yes. this. I also have no interest in supporting the business if their principals are as described in this article - basically saying "whatever, we know we can still make money, let's charge as much as we can." Plus, like I said in my original comment, JetBlue seriously lets you snack for free waay better than any other airline I've flown (all major ones).
Is Ellen Pao just too radical for Silicon Valley’s unequal terrain?
Great news that Google has started this library. This will help MD implementors like me.

"That said, the large, diverse number of implementations available are often quite liberal with their interpretation of the spec (not their fault!) and their opinions don’t always reflect what the Material Design team would consider ‘correct’."

Nevertheless I found a number of deviations from the design specs:

- Disabled buttons should not have a z level
- FAB ripples should originate from the center
- Icon buttons should have a touch area of at least 40px
- The same goes for slider knobs (at least 30px, already small)

On the website:

- The scrollable tabs on the site are scrolled just a couple of pixels per arrow click, instead of scrolled per tab
- Scroll areas should have -webkit-overflow-scrolling: touch, the current site is not scrollable on Mobile Safari

Author of Polythene for Mithril, https://github.com/ArthurClemens/Polythene
Is there a video online for the talk you gave? Some basic searches didn't yield anything but your slides.
ZStack 0.7 is released
Perhaps. However, currently, people are forced to work. You need a job in order to pay for a roof over your head and food in your stomach.
Chomsky: Greece Faces “Savage Response” for Taking on Austerity “Class War”
Anti-Airbnb ad accuses company of making the rich richer
Developers are not always rich people
I really struggled through university, and have been lucky to find employment. But with debts of over $50k and living in a UK city to be close to work is slowly bankrupting me. I am loosing. I am loosing my health, and slowly my will to live. I am now sitting outside a cafe using my phone on free WiFi as I have had my telephone lines disconnected and am building up rent arrears.

I wonder how many people are in this situation? And how it makes you feel? Where can I turn to get help??
Why your brand-new plane doesn't have a seat-back TV (2014)
That part is true. Orbiters would routinely come back with broken or missing tiles. Fortunately it was robust enough to withstand a few missing.
Ask HN: London startups – are you in Old Street area?
No/Yes would be helpful :)

I've got the impression that many companies are moving out of the area due to redevelopment reducing available space and driving prices too high. Curious about other perspectives.
Just an FYI, before you listen to what he spews: McInnes is a white nationalist, homophobe, transphobe and misogynist. This mediamatters post summarizes some of the outrageous things he's said or done: http://mediamatters.org/blog/2014/06/05/meet-the-hipster-rac...

You can understand why Vice would want to erase this dude from their history. I don't think they should be allowed to shrug it off, but I'm also glad that they try.
The rights of the parents end where the rights of the child are concerned. No person in a society lives in isolation and sometimes society has to protect a person from harmful influence by their supposed wardens.

It's okay to have consensual sex. If kids aren't properly educated about sex (and the consequences having sex can bring, from biological to social), they can't have consensual sex -- but that doesn't mean they won't have sex at all.

So no, sex education does not infringe on religious rights. And making condoms available to teenagers who intend on having sex doesn't either.

We're not talking about teachers throwing condoms at their students yelling "Fornicate! All of you! With each other! All the time!". We're talking about making condoms available to teenagers who ask for them and letting them know they don't have to expect any invasions of their privacy as a consequence (because doing so would discourage them from asking, thus encouraging unsafe sex).

Again: kids are going to have sex. Uneducated kids are going to have more dangerous sex. Educated kids are going to have safer sex.

Nobody has the right to deny the kid's independent decision whether to have sex or not. But this goes both ways: not only can't teachers tell a kid whether to have sex or not, but neither can the parents.

It's ridiculous that the people who fight against abortion because it infringes upon the rights of the unborn child are often the same people who then raise moral panic about children having sex and try to deny them the right to sex education (and access to things like condoms for when they decide to have sex). Especially if you consider that access to condoms and education also has a positive effect on when those kids decide to have sex, with whom and in what kind of situations -- i.e. if you properly educate kids about sex, they may even come to the realization that they are not actually ready yet and that it's okay to say "no" to horny peers.
Yeah that is correct, I was more thinking of commercial flights rather than sailplanes/gliders
Defuse the bomb. The cost is too damned high, if you care as deeply as you say. It's your decision ultimately, but you came to HN for some sort of external validation of your feelings. Bad move #1. Leave it at that and learn from the experience. Now GBTW and build an awesome product.
Personally, I think this is a really interesting idea. Sadly, I came across an article which initially focused on stats for recreational athletes and it eventually fizzled out. Can't remember where I read it and not saying that this idea will also fizzle out but it seems hard to get something going for recreational athletes if there's a smaller chance of monetizing.
It's not just there. I was searching for London, Reading, Cambridge, Guildford etc, then also for any major city in western Europe.

United Kingdom, England, Britain...

The map is loads better :-)
Reading a false story is dangerous -- the mind tends to remember the story, and forget the "It's a myth" part over time.

This is also why "Myth vs Facts" or sarcastic "How to do X Very Wrong" articles are bad style -- they undermine the goal. Better to write using language that affirms the truth, not multiple negations.
UI Fail: How Our User Interfaces Help to Ruin Lives
I've been using Visual Studio 2013 + Node Tools + Web Essentials to do all my Web and Node.js projects. Nothing beats it in my opinion. Being able to walk through Javascript easily without a bunch of complicated configs is super nice.

VS Code seems to do much less right now. I wonder if it will ever be as useful to me as the full IDE.
Here's the problem: you think someone else will do it anyway thus damage is certain, so you can at least be the first to profit from it. And guess what, your competitors probably think the same thing. And you'll all rush to delivering morally dubious products. Because hey, if someone will defect anyway, it's best I defect fist.

I am increasingly convinced that the very point of morality is to steer society away from stupid coordination failures like this.
> This amazes me: what makes them think that they aren't a trusted source of news for their audience?

High-quality, prestigious yellow journalism. Remember the Maine!
You are getting some hard advice/comments from HN'ers.

So, you might feel like you are "in love" with her, but are you really just in love with, perhaps, her work ethic, devotion to the startup, the fact you are probably spending a lot of time with her, etc?

Maybe you just haven't found these traits in the right girl yet? I think you really want a girl in your life that has these traits.

Don't cheat on your best friend with his girlfriend. It is bad for the friendship, bad for the company and you don't know what hole this might leave the guy with. You may effect his trust level in everyone for a long time to come. I myself could not live with having done that.
Rich Salz suggests this is unlikely to affect most users.

https://twitter.com/RichSalz/status/618145532763054080
I think that's stretching the meaning of the philosophy quite a bit.
Uppity in that I am an important employee and deserve fruit when fruit has been provided. I am Australian and this term came to mind, but after just reading about it's racial connotations I may be using it in the wrong context.
The 5 Style Commandments to a Flawless Airport Look
Depends on how much lock in your product has. Often an early releaser ends up creating a market and then a competitor comes in and releases a much more polished product and everyone jumps ship.
The first time you hear it, it sounds surprising. Then someone explains about revenue and it makes sense. So then you want to share the cleverness.

Of course, it's actually a pretty shallow analysis, unsupported by the company's history and inconsistent with some of the company's current behavior. How useful is it really to consider Google as being in the same equivalence class as TBWA\CHIAT\DAY? Well never mind, the meme is sticky!
Meet the On-Demand Workers Who Say They’re Living the Sharing Economy Dream
We needed a way to organize the data generated by go test -bench and write it to a database to track system performance over time. For this reason, we created the command line tool, gobenchdb.
I actually think he has a much firmer idea of what bigotry is than you do. I'm actually astounded that you would flaunt your ignorance of the word.
Amazon-prime-day
I didn't flesh out my thought process but I'm thinking that there has to be some real reason to go with this over Uber or Lyft.

Obviously, no one should restructure their life around the availability of this kind of service. I'm just saying that this feels like bandwagoning to me. I can't be the only one thinking that this isn't going to last long. Uber and Lyft will be in that business until they close up shop or are regulated out of a market.

If you're going to try a non-traditional taxi-type service, why go with Google over one of the existing players?
You lost me - Amazon or KPCB?

I assume the former. Current market cap of Amazon is ~200 billion. During the IPO they raised ~55 million for a market cap of ~440 million.
wasn't the whole point of Functional Programming to avoid languages like JavaScript (or even OOP like Python, C++)?
The Endless Fall of Suge Knight
I can't think of a piece of software I wrote and feel finished, not because I abandoned them, but because I stop improving them when they are good enough for the task.

Maybe it's just me but I never feel a software is finished. You can at least refactor it or add new funcionality, improve speed/readability/reliability until the end of time. It's like writing a book. You can always rephrase, add new characters improve the story, but you have to stop writing it sometime.
Might I recommend not using the prev/next executables and instead adding another directory level to indicate search page, e.g. ytfs/search/1/video.mp4

would make it easy to reexport this file system, e.g. Over http or smb.
I almost stopped reading the piece as soon as I figured out who the author was; I initially missed the byline in the left column. I never had any problem with Derek Smart's games -- I tried BC3000 around 1999-2000 and just didn't get into it -- but I found his online antics and personality off-putting. I skipped a great deal of the chest-beating in the article to get to the actual meat.

It seems odd to be in agreement with Derek Smart, but I think he's right. Chris Roberts didn't stop at simply promising the moon; he's teasing the Oort Cloud at this point.
Hmm, I wasn't able to access it. I am not sure now.
Si vis pacem, para bellum may be a practical advice, but the outcome of it is an arms race. Which is a big problem, because that feedback loop ties up resources and manpower that could be better used elsewhere. So even if it is the most practical option now (since we don't have a single global government), we need to recognize how shitty it is and maybe figure out how to reduce its impact.
>they have sub dedicated to portraying her as Hitler, for fucks sake

Hadn't seen that one. /r/PaoYongYang is good for a few chuckles though.

>But what does someone have to do in order to be fired in that manor?

Casting aspersions as to the character of /u/chooter AKA Queen Victoria is risky, and also not in particularly good taste.

>Are we to assume that Reddit didn't understand the woman's daily duties and what affect her immediate/un-planned absence from the company would be?

I've seen corporate types make what appear to be uninformed decisions which turned out to be unwise.
The best thing about this piece is the rationality of his decision-making: didn't get a scholarship so take a year off to get better. School was getting too expensive so find a cheaper way to go. Need to pay off student loans so move back in with parents. These are excellent artistic decisions, because they allowed him to practice his craft and never take his eyes off his goal, yet didn't wed him to any particular path forward.

He treated high costs as damage and routed his career around them.

This lesson is as true in business as it is in art: always look for cheaper, more efficient, yet still effective alternatives. Productivity is output/input, and when the output (commercial success, in his case) is a very noisy function of many factors you don't control, figuring out how to minimize input costs while keeping P(success) as high as possible is the key to making good choices. He showed creativity and pragmatism as well as dedication.

Also: failure is always an option (I say this as someone who has failed more often than he has succeeded in his major life goals, although the successes have been more than worth the effort.) Hard work and talent are necessary but not sufficient conditions for success. Maybe there is no audience for the kind of art you love (I'm a formal poet, and have more-or-less made my peace with this.) So make sure you're doing it for love, not money. If the money is there, you've won the lottery, but regardless of that aspect of it, making the art you love, and putting in the hours and deliberate practice to get better at your craft, is worth it.
The troubled POLY instruction of the VAX [pdf]
> An absence of discouragement should be sufficient

In fact, discouragement has been proven time and again not to work (or worse: to result in more erratic behaviour as a consequence of the cognitive dissonance of enjoying something you've been vehemently taught to think of as evil).
Where is this data sourced from? Are you pulling it from somewhere or does it need to be manually entered by recruiters?
Apple Is Reportedly Buying Taylor Swift’s Label
> Reddit is not beholden to to their users to the degree that those users probably believe. Nor are they beholden to some imagined ethos about being a place where all speech is protected.

And yet, when those non-"beholding" users revolted, Pao apologizes to them, instead of continuing to ignore them.

> imagined ethos about being a place where all speech is protected.

"imagined" by... the Reddit administrators.

http://www.reddit.com/rules

"reddit is a pretty open platform and free speech place, but there are a few rules"
> Crop yields continue to increase

This is like judging someone's wealth by their ability to rapidly use a credit card. Monoculture has destroyed our ecosystems, caused rampant desertification, caused soil runoff, stip mined the less fortunate countries, polluted our water, increased pests overpopulation, increased disease, etc.

> If you really want to go back to the age of peasants and serfs, why don't you lead by example?

Dualistic solution-centric thinking is an issue with our times. It's time to think systemically. How can we improve existing systems? Which paradigms are appropriate to our entire context? Can we move toward an ethics driven paradigm, instead of a solution centric paradigm? There are many solutions to a problem, but some have maladaptive implications in a broader context not considered by myopic vision.

Can we start to view the world with a broader context; beyond money & a certain strain of technological progress?

Can we move beyond reductionistic metrics & take the entire situation into account?

Also, is it so bad to have more farmers? Many natural farmers don't seem to think so. Is the hustle & bustle of city life with it's stress & unemployment a good life?

Will the Pharmaceutical industry cure our Nature Deficit Disorder? What's left when you worked hard all of your life & it's your time to die?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nature_deficit_disorder

While I don't own land (it's quite expensive in the current economic system), I do support local farmers & participate in local economies to a certain extend. I'd love to increase my participation because it's the responsible thing to do.
I remain unconvinced that he's not simply a troll playing a very long con. When I read him as such, I have found him very enjoyable, but as of late, overexposure is really causing the joke to wear thin.
Thanks for the response, but I'm not sure how this is relevant: yes, this guy is a bad person. You have produced quotes in which he advocates doing evil things.

Surely you can agree that, say, defending CIA torture programs is also a bad thing. Given this, would you condone sharing a banner with torture apologia? Do you denounce authors that are published by HuffPo? I would really appreciate an answer to this question.
Summarizy saves your time
I believe demand for engineers to solve these problems will wane as the solutions become codified into various open source projects.

Think of how difficult a problem that involved terabytes of data was to solve before the advent of Hadoop and now consider how easy it is with solutions like Spark.

Overall this is a good trend. I'm not saying that $300K engineer salaries are going away; I'm saying high salaries will pursue the engineers who are solving unique and demanding problems.
In the comment thread of the OP, she clarifies the "vocal minority" as referring to the people obsessed with her.

> I assume you’re referring to the NYT quote. I want to clarify the quote's context. The reporter asked about the people who are posting and commenting really negatively about me, not about the mods and content creators. That's what I was referring to when I talked about them being a vocal minority. I do understand that the site is built on the content and voting, and I know that we and the community owe a lot to our mods and core users. —/u/ekjp, https://www.reddit.com/r/announcements/comments/3cbo4m/we_ap...
Here's how I read it... they're looking at ways to move towards rolling release for A/B testing.

Think about it like this, you're using Firefox and you get a notification... "Feature X is ready to test, would you like to try it out? Yes/No" If you select Yes, the feature is rolled out to you and other volunteers immediately (potentially without restarting, depending on the feature), and you can then feedback your experience to Mozilla on how well the new feature works out for you. The feedback from this control group then informs whether Feature X is ready for prime time.

In some ways it seems like it's a restructuring of the Firefox development channels, a mix of beta and stable releases in the same channel.
"No subreddit shut down to protest Vic being fired,” wrote prominent Reddit moderator"

Really? So it was just a coincidence that they all shutdown after she was fired. It was also plastered all over Reddit.

It wasn't very smart of the mods to do this. Instead of using strategy and gasp logic to get what you wanted, you used pure emotion.

Now the CEO and the company saw your cards and also know that you really aren't willing to negotiate before throwing the nuclear option.

I can almost guarantee that the execs of Reddit are now finding ways to take away all of your power to make sure this won't happen again. Why would they put so much power in the hands of a group of people that not only are unpredictable, but obviously can't handle the responsibility.
That's a stretch. Iowa grows more every year; our soil is in the best shape its ever been; erosion is at a low; water pollution is at a low. We can certainly make it work.
This isn't name calling. I never called the person anything. I'm just describing the situation.

Since when is "pot-smoking" a pejorative to HN? Isn't it pretty widely accepted?
My goal is to simply to become a good designer so I can design more inspired apps. This Quora answer by Karen on how to become a designer without going to design school contains a lot of useful information, if that's also your goal.

http://www.quora.com/How-do-you-get-a-job-as-a-designer-with...