skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It doesn't bother me one way or the other how workers get hired, as temps, contractors or permanents. As a worker, I see advantages and disadvantages in all.

Never the less, here it's stated that companies are taking contractors or independents internally as employees in order to have more control over service and presentation. That's something to strive for. As a consumer of good and services, one tends to prefer the one providing better services.

Yet, Japan, which is very service oriented and super customer focused to the extreme, has seen its temp workforce take over. So, it does not seem, in Japan at least that you need permanent employees to get exceptional service. Something does not jibe.
> Blame the Fed, I guess? De novo charters aren't being handed out anymore apparently

They are, though not many (I think two in the last four years); a big part of that, AFAIK, is that applications (and, perhaps more fundamentally, investors willing to supply capital for de novo banks) have dried up since the 2009 financial crisis, though several sources this year have reported signs of a potential incipient rebound in the space.
thank you, you've provided exactly what every software website, open source or not needs and often doesn't have. Good large screenshots, and a true walk through, not some wonky thing using animated paper cutouts or some other showing of benefits displacing actual features. If a realtor wants to sell a house, they can talk up benefits in the car all they want, but ultimately they need to show the nooks and crannies of the house for any traction.
How does this turnaround time compare to the typical turnaround time for desktop operating systems?
In 2011, both AT&T and Sprint were hit with a man-in-the-middle on 4G GSM & CDMA bands. https://www.reddit.com/r/netsec/comments/jeis7/full_disclosu...
Is it not possible to just make satellite behave like comets so they burn up in the atmosphere? Say that you add a rocket thruster that thrust the satellite in a downwards path so it burns up?
I'm not sure what Apple has to do with the poor software support by Android manufacturers.

I want also point out that cost is really not the issue with Android support. As an example, Samsung which has large share of the smartphone market does a very poor job of keeping their phones updated.
> Acupuncturists, chiropractors [...] did far better, with average ratings of 4.5 to 4.6.

Surprise, charlatans who promise that they'll make everything ok by poking you with needles/adjusting your spine get better reviews than the honest doctor who says "Quit smoking or you'll get emphysema".
ep·i·dem·ic
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1. a widespread occurrence of an INFECTIOUS DISEASE in a community at a particular time.
That's interesting because I'm seeing people do the exact opposite : since almost all security holes in web environments these days come not from the applications but the myriad of frameworks and unauditable layers making fun use of objects all over the place, now using C or even ASM is the only way to limit the moving parts and to ensure that your code base doesn't change between two audits.
Blender could almost replace aftereffects for a lot of us, but it does so much it would probably confuse a new user as to how you could replace AE.
Hiroshima now and then: 1945 – 2015
When Steve Jobs' ex-girlfriend asked him to pay $25M
There are many circumstances where direct linking is needed, including from outside the system (posters, business cards) - search doesn't work for that.

Even if you go for something like QR codes you want a method that doesn't rely on encoding the fixed network address of a resource (as fixed addresses are usually not as permanently static as they are initially intended).
Nice. Also THEMIS took a shot in 2001 as it was headed to Mars that captured this distance.

http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/spaceimages/details.php?id=PIA00559
I still recommend a rental car if you can afford it; walking around in the August heat is awful. Go check out the strip after dark, when it's cool enough to walk a lot without getting heatstroke.
Until our civilization collapses. Then it will get better for all except humanity.
Tutorial – How to make your own watchface
Decentralization for the web
In other words: inside the lives and minds of real-time translators (2014)
"Why are we forcing kids to wake up at 6am to go to school? That's just stupid, and flies in the face of all sorts of research."

This would only be bad if the sleep start time didn't allow for enough rest. And the sleep start time should be determined by the time one needs to wake up.

Therefore wake up "time" is irrelevant. It is the parents' responsibility to have their children sleep enough, doesn't matter the wake up time.

Also, study after study proves that daylight time is by far the best time to be awake when it comes to treating depression and therefore sleep hygiene. 6am is a good indicator in most places that we're close to sunrise.
[0] says I'm not vulnerable and I'm using Chrome 46 on Windows, so I guess it's on its way.

(Chrome 44 on Android still vulnerable.)
I'd even dare to say that it is better to shove Vi/Emacs experience into a real IDE rather than the other way around.

I really like Vim, I use it for almost everything, however when I am working on a large C++ codebase I tend to use an IDE that has full support for visual debugging, code navigation and so on. I am always amazed when some more experienced programmers than me spend valuable time grepping files and using GDB on command line.
What? No. If you can only scale that up to 10-15 lines of imperative code, you're writing imperative code completely wrong.
Depends how hard Tech Company A can push, basically.
Input Validation in Express with express-validator
I've heard talk of self driving cars at uber, but are they really "investing" in them? Self driving cars will be available for anyone to buy within 5 years -- Uber would be better off buying some of those. And so will their competitors.

I'll say this: uber will be the next groupon, zynga, webvan, ... it's laws of physics, we've seen it before -- take a simple but good profitable product with early user growth, a big market (ppl needing cabs, groceries, stuff at discount, addictive entertainment), and then completely kill it through over-investment. Then they use the money to buy the growth they need to justify their ever-higher valuations.

Market growth really looks more like a sigmoid than a hockey stick. Towards the top, near the plateau, it's possible to buy growth to feed the myth of the hockey stick. By doing this, you are incurring a sort of technical (real?) debt that is harder to pay back than people realize, particularly as margins get squeezed by inevitable competition.

In Uber's case, they will also mostly lose in court.
That's only true for firearms.
If anyone here has trouble falling asleep, I have two hacks I've recently implemented that have reduced my TTFA (time to fall asleep) from over two hours to about 15 minutes:

1. Don't look at a screen for an hour before going to bed.

2. Wear a sleep mask. If you can open your eyes and see any sliver of light or a distinguishable shape, you need something different.

The effect is complete lack of visual stimulus making it really easy to start hallucinating (an overly strong word) which is an easy ramp into deeper sleep. The lack of bright blue light beforehand does something something melatonin, and you'll feel significantly more tired before bed (the lack of stimulus will also help).
I'd go so far as to say some people actually like them. It's not a rare occurrence for someone to ask "Did you see the new Product X ad?"
Why 'Mr. Robot' Is the Most Realistic Depiction of Hacking on Television
For those of you interested in this subject, I subscribe to this quarterly newsletter and find it worthwhile:

http://orbitaldebris.jsc.nasa.gov/newsletter/newsletter.html
Yeah I'd imagine most people don't use the template as text -- one of the best parts about knockout is it's natural (HTML) feeling templates.

What do you use for routing?

I've been dreaming up a framework that's actually knockout +/- routing +/- requirejs +/- model management...
Only larger satellites have active propulsion that would be capable of doing this.
8 hours is at the top of the bell curve for general feeling of well being (low depression and high energy).
aftereffects could probably be scripted for this.
Yes, in an emergency go direct to A&E or call an ambulance. The asapglos website and app give some advice about when to got to A&E or call an ambulance.

I'm sorry you had such a terrible experience for something so serious.
I really have to try those, but I haven't seen them in my country.

I've tried several doctors (I snore and stuff), they think I have nasal polyps - one wanted to try surgery and the other wanted to try some ultrasound stuff.
It will be interesting to see where this experiment goes!

I don't think that the pure basic income track will work out very well, but I'm curious to see the outcomes of a "system of incentives and rewards".

I think you definitely need to have an action -> reward structure. It's often much more satisfying to have accomplished something rather than just been giving it.
Tesla charger prototype in action
Have they clarified that those they retain are exceptionally high performers? Or their performance could simply be exceptional in some other regard...
All our programmers are above average. LOL. Garrison Keillor maybe helping with their PR?
The Stitch Fix Tech Blog is also nice: http://multithreaded.stitchfix.com/blog/

And has recently covered GAMs, mixed effects models, word2vec, and tools like Pyxley.
If the company goes under, good luck getting a year of pay from them.

It is better than many deals, but still seems to favor the employer for the reason most laws do, which is that when a deal is between a person and a company, the law never treats them the same and the company gets what I always see to be the favorable treatment (for example, company can't go to jail).
Looks really cool, nice work.

From the video though I can see one thing which would get annoying fast: The individual adding of links to the categories. Is there a way to transfer many saved links at once?

Disclaimer: I've only watched the video, not installed.
Since very, very few of us can choose our economic conditions, calling all of these decisions choices elides what is actually at stake. Again, most of us do not choose the context in which we make our decisions.

> That's just stupid, and flies in the face of all sorts of research.

Private schools are for grooming the children of the elite to inherit their class power. Public schools are for training the children of the public to obey rules, listen to authority, and be minimally capable of participating in the wringer of wage labor.
When lab grown meat hits the super markets, I wonder how many animals will become endangered. It's happening to chickens right now. Leghorn chickens are the most productive egg layers, Road Island red and Barred Rocks I believe are fading away. I think we should start with lab grown fish.

http://www.motherearthnews.com/homesteading-and-livestock/he...
This hints at a pretty interesting analysis of whether this benefits companies.

If you fire anyone below "market average", you can reasonably expect to sustain an above-average workforce as long as you compensate well enough to retain decent employees.

If you fire anyone below "corporate average", the results are more interesting. You'll bring up the average quality of current employees, but have to backfill the missing employees.

If your hiring is just a normal distribution on average skill, the result is that you quickly reach diminishing returns. You fire the vast majority of your new hires every year, while slowly turning over a few of the old ones in favor of new superstars. If your hiring is better than average, though, you can reach far high equilibrium points. In effect, it makes sense to fire all the employees up to your hiring midpoint, trusting that you can efficiently raise your average quality by doing so. After that, you'll have to cycle through too many employees per position to see speedy improvement.

Of course, all of this is crippled by training delays and the problems you'll face when "we fired half the employees last year" gets around. Interesting theoretical model, though.
I'll believe it when I see it. As a Samsung Galaxy Note 4 owner, I'm still waiting for Android 5.1.1 on my handset.
The Itanium processor, part 9: Counted loops and loop pipelining
I have found that at least dentists often have a perverse incentive to provide unnecessary treatment. I was told I needed the wisdom teeth pulled, fell for that. Then that my front tooth that has a crown "was just about to break" needed some other expensive thing done -- except that "just about to break tooth" was fine 10 year before and is still fine 5 years later.

Then went to see another one, she zoomed on another tooth and said that one "needed urgent root canal" while previous dentist had something else "urgent" in a completely different tooth.
Want to know something freaky? Violet doesn't contain any red. I'm talking about the deep shade of blue on the rainbow. When your eyes see light with a frequency beyond blue, they start detecting phantom red. Literally, when your blue cones detect that frequency, your red cones also get activated. This effect is replicated in digital cameras, so that the pictures you take with your phone look right.
Do you think something like f-lux would help for reducing blue light and can be replacement for not seing screen at all?
DSCOVR actually is in a "halo orbit" around L1, which means it's not sitting in the plane of the Earth-Sun orbit. From the DSCOVR site[1]: "The spacecraft will be orbiting [L1] in a six-month orbit with a spacecraft-Earth-sun angle varying between 4 and 15 degrees."

As some other folks have mentioned, the Moon's orbit is tilted a total of 5.2 degrees[2] relative to the Earth-Sun plane, so DSCOVR will see quite a number of DSCOVR-Moon-Earth alignments, but never a Sun-DSCOVR-Moon-Earth alignment.

[1] http://www.nesdis.noaa.gov/DSCOVR/

[2] http://hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu/hbase/solar/solecl.html
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Ah, interesting thanks.

German has hellrot for example. (And dunkelrot, hellblau, dunkelblau, ... even blaugrün) They don't "count" as basic color terms though.

https://de.wiktionary.org/wiki/hellrot
https://de.wiktionary.org/wiki/blaugr%C3%BCn
> This is more a problem of C's strings being naked pointers to chars.

A C string is a sequence of characters, not a pointer. C strings are manipulated using `char*` pointers.
46 is not stable (the current stable release is 44, see http://googlechromereleases.blogspot.com/). Also, if you want Chrome Beta on android you can go here: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.chrome.bet...
Well, Windows updates weekly with actually critical updates being pushed as they come. Not sure what it's like on OSX and various Linux distros.
The first article says that you don't have to use EZPass if you are concerned about privacy, and the eventual automation of speeding tickets. That won't be true forever. I've run into some tolls that are EZPass ONLY. Some of them read your license plate and send you a bill if you don't have EZPass. And here in Massachusetts, on the Mass Pike, if you don't use EZPass, you will be penalized when you get your bill for road usage. The justification is that scanning your plate and then finding your address costs the government more money.
Part of the reason cars have gotten more reliable in recent decades is due to this sort of standardization and refinement.
What would you replace it with? If you replaced CAN, you still would need an in car network of some sort. It would have its own layer of security issues to worry about. Mechanics/Service centers would need an entirely new suite of diagnostic tools, this isn't just something you can quit using.
New in VS 2015: /Zc:throwingNew
stuxnet caused the centrifuge mechanisms to burn out prematurely, not explode
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How to grow an audience that's actually interested in your products
2 périodes de Sunrise commencent aujourd'hui
NAND Flash is cheap - in fact, in terms of cost per bit, it is one of the cheapest memory technologies on the market.

What I find most unfortunate is that almost everyone somehow gets so focused on the capacity of their nonvolatile storage devices that they don't think about longevity at all, and the industry feeds into this by advertising bigger, cheaper memories while downplaying the disadvantages. Meanwhile the "good stuff" is priced much higher than it should be. For example, multilevel cell technology only multiplicatively increases capacity, but exponentially decreases endurance and retention. This fact seems seldom-mentioned. 16Gbit SLC and 32Gbit 4-level (2-bit) MLC made on the same process should be the same area and price, but as of this post DRAMExchange says the SLC costs over 4x more.

I know ECC and advanced wear-leveling can help, but all this adds extra complexity to the system and introduces more points of failure (see all the SSD firmware problems for example.)
If you eliminate the "average" segment of your staff, then the "exceptional" team members become the new average, and you terminate the next average group, you eventually wind up with one - maybe two.
No doubt there is interesting data to be mined here, but I wouldn't rely on it solely. The vast majority of patients are not in a good position to evaluate the quality of care they received. The kind of things they typically judge by are often fairly superficial attributes:

* did I have a long wait time?

* was the office staff polite and helpful?

* was my physician/NP/PA polite and helpful?

* were there billing problems after the appointment?

These things do matter, but there are more important factors in play that patients are not in a position to judge:

* were standards of care followed by the provider?

* were unnecessary tests ordered or unnecessary drugs proscribed?

* were necessary tests skipped or necessary drugs not proscribed?

* if they had access to my medical history, did the provider bother to review it before seeing me

* etc, etc.

Quality of care can absolutely be evaluated, and that's happening more and more, it's just that patient satisfaction is only one small part of the whole picture.
What exactly prompted you to give me that advice?

I'm planning to treat my employees very well, if I ever have some.
Flux definitely helps me, but it is always better to just read a book an hour before bed :)
I've had around 4 dentists over the space of ~3 years since my long time one retired, and they all seem to have vastly different opinions about what dental work is necessary, preventative, unnecessary.

With my original dentist I never had any fillings.

As soon as the next dentist came in she recommended 2 fillings and then a later 3rd. Of these filings, one didn't even require anaesthetic for her to drill and complete the filling.

After this dentist left, the next had a policy of, if it isn't causing you pain, filling it is unnecessary (because you often have to drill a tooth slightly to fill it, damaging the tooth worse).

That dentist eventually moved on, and two of those earlier fillings fell out within a month of each other (really not a good time having to carefully eat around these teeth, one on each side of my mouth), and the new dentist gave me two root canals because the roots in the affected teeth had apparently died (potentially my fault, for delaying an appointment due to the timing being several weeks before I was to leave uni). Several months after these root canals had been completed, I had an abscess on one of these teeth, but it passed after a weekend of paracetamol(?). One of these root canal'd teeth then further broke, and the dentist recommended having a crown placed on the tooth, I did enquire about simply having the tooth removed because it had become so much hassle, but the dentist was really against it.

Due to my situation of being at university, and having to travel several hours down the country for each dental appointment, and the need for 4+ appointments to have 2 crowns I opted to visit a dentist local to my university. They ended up recommending removing both the root canal'd teeth (one specifically because the tooth had broken below the gum-line, so it should not be crowned/filled) and they also applied dental sealant to an unrelated tooth. This dentist also stated, if you have an abscess on a root canal'd tooth, that it has become infected, and that infection is unlikely to ever go away, it will simply come back when your immune system is weak (at the initial abscess I had been doing a 48 hr all-nighter for a large assignment deadline), so it's best to have these teeth removed.

tldr; Dentists in my own anecdotal experience can have vastly different opinions of best practise.

I'm also UK based, so dental treatment is relatively inexpensive, due to the NHS funding a large part of it.
Ask HN: APIs you wish you used but couldn't due to no programming experience?
OCaml Compiler Hacking: how to add a primitive
Each quarter Yahoo employees are rated and placed into one of five categories: misses, occasionally misses, achieves, exceeds, greatly exceeds:

http://pastebin.com/KEQjYynr

A number of my boss's reports had landed in the achieves category for all of 2014, but nonetheless received a communication from HR this past April that they were in the bottom 5% of the company for 2014 and at risk for termination if their performance did not improve. This surprised my boss and the reports.

Obviously if you're in the bottom 5% you're well below average. The question is how you can consistently be ranked in the middle category yet nonetheless be in the bottom 5%. That would seem to make the quarterly ratings a rather pointless exercise for communicating to employees what their ongoing performance is.
I've never understood the implication that a simple layout necessarily correlates to better content. Is it because sites that don't look modern evoke a sense of nostalgia for the less corporate "old" web? Is it just hipsterism? Clever marketing on Reddit's part?

It comes up on HN too, whenever someone complains about the awkward layout, there are worries that somehow making the site look better or perform better will degrade the culture.
Actually I haven't heard of any camera where it is replicated.

I used to own a purple backpack that appeared bright blue under every single digital camera I tried, including fancy ones. Combinations of red and blue will appear purple in cameras, but real purples won't.
Did you just Google this and forget to click down arrow for "more definitions"?

That should lead you to something like this: "a sudden, widespread occurrence of a particular undesirable phenomenon."

Also look up Epidemiology, which studies all manner of health based topics, sleep being one of them.
Fighting fire with fire
Lexus hoverboard is a cool reality in this skate park video
Honestly, I think it's more a function of culture in medicine. I've had many doctors, and the majority of them I could charitably call callous. It hasn't been just my experience, but those of most people I know as well.

That being said, both my current doctor and dentist were chosen partially on the basis of Yelp reviews. It's been a huge help, far nicer and far better service than I've ever had previously.
Ultimately Uber wants to corner the market on providing automated cars. Having drivers is just the stepping stone. If you are synonymous with providing rides then when automated transportation is available, everything thinks of you.
If you're in the US, I've found https://m.bedbathandbeyond.com/1/1/254570-bucky-40-blinks-ul... to be the most effective and comfortable ones.