skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
news.ycombinator, medium.com, stackoverflow for some bugs daily. Also not a website in the traditional sense, but usually browse google news as well.
You're not a parent, are you? ;)

- I seriously doubt this leave will have any bearing whatsoever on whether an employee decides to have kids. It is such a major, life changing and personal decision it is taken irrespective of incentives. Only serious constraints (no money) might negatively impact that decision. As a new parent, I was very happy to get leave from my company but I would have had kids regardless. Also I never heard of anyone having kids so they could get the 12 weeks or whatever or leave :)

- Another way to look at this is you have people that are having kids and people that are not. What can the company do to keep the former happily employed/interested in joining your company?
You just have to pay off the few people who report the results.
> But if you put on your alternate history cap, note Heisenberg and Himmer's relationship from when they were school kids, direct all the V-2 resources into the bomb, who knows? Many on both sides were legitimately worried the Germans would get the bomb in time.

Reading "The Man Called Intrepid", I saw something I had never noticed before: Germany occupied Denmark and conquered Norway before the main thrust into France. If you think of that as acquiring Niels Bohr (Denmark) and a heavy water supply (Norway), it becomes much more frightening. (Was that what Germany was thinking? I have no idea. But it's what at least a few people in England were afraid Germany was thinking.)
To be definitive, though, you need to find evidence that proves that the piece you found was present on the aircraft for the flight where it went missing. You have to have some way to say, "Ah, yes, this flaperon is a Boeing part number, with serial number #XXXXXX. Maintenance records show that this exact serial number was installed on the aircraft in question, and its configuration as found matches the configuration of record for this part on the aircraft in question." Then you know for sure to a degree that will stand up in any inquiry.
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I've always viewed benefits like this as a way for the company to incentivize and/or reward certain behavior from employees. Offering a 401(k) match is a way to encourage employees to save for retirement.

By that logic, offering family insurance benefits is a way to encourage people to have families. That's always seemed a bit weird to me because it seems inappropriate for a company to be involved in something so personal. It seems reasonable for the government to say, "we want more people to have families for the greater good" but it seems strange for companies to take it upon themselves to do that.

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Some things don't benefit you personally and are still good things.
YouTube Does Away with Its Wretched Practice of Displaying “301+” Views
Perhaps I'm just new to YC goings-on, but it seems the pace of adding new partners has increased quite a bit lately. The batch size has also grown, though seemingly somewhat slower.

I wonder how this growth affects the value accepted companies get out of participating.
Creating your first Aurelia app: From authentication to calling an API with JWTs
Was the Supreme Court decision legalizing birth control liberal or conservative?
Right, I agree. Towards the end of my comment I tried to express that there is some value in not having one. Like entirely in addition to the benefits of, what I believe is, a superior education and lack of student debt.

If you're actively involved in doing this stuff you're going to be able to find the work you want. It's easy. You just contact the people working on it and tell them what you're going to do for them.
Thanks for bringing this up! As CanioX mentioned, it'll be easiest for us to figure out what's going on with your numbers if you contact us directly at support@amplitude.com. Please don't hesitate to reach out to us regarding this.

To give a little more context around how web sessions work, the first event creates the session and each subsequent event triggered within 30 min of the previous one will be considered in the same session. The session length is calculated as the time between the first event of the session and the last.
Thats a great Microsoft analogy there! Spot on
They don't require funding agreed, but I would be more interested in evaluating my time at say even minimum wage or some dollar amount, and then evaluating the roi of these ideas vs some other idea where I invest time as well as money. Not everyone can fund, but for people who can, it would be interesting to see which has higher revenue potential.
At the risk of being cynical, you're probably right. It's a benefit that's relevant (or potentially relevant) to many young new hires who might otherwise be somewhat skeptical of going to work for Microsoft.
From the FAQ:

"Please don't delete and repost the same story, though. Accounts that do that eventually lose submission privileges."

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html

Deletion is for things that shouldn't have been posted in the first place, such as revealing something personal that you later regret. It shouldn't be routine, and using it as a device to help a story get attention is an abuse of deletion. a small number of reposts are ok if a story hasn't had attention yet, but you might need to use a slightly different URL.

Also, link shorteners are banned on HN. Please point to the original source.
By far the biggest thing I wish github would do is change the text entry beside the file names. Right now, it shows the comment of the last push of edits to that file. That's great for members of the project.

However, for non-members it would be far more useful to know what the file is. Here, enabling a one-line description would be hugely helpful.

Since GH knows if you're a member of the project it can show you the right text--description or latest update. And presumably, a button would allow you to see the other text if you needed it.
> it seems like people who choose not to have kids should receive similar benefits.

They do. In Microsofts case they recieve 12 weeks for parental leave, with mothers getting an additional 8 weeks. All Microsoft employees get that.

That some choose not to exercise those benifits does not mean they do not have them.
Yes, it's strange that people think stock market investing is purely a game of chance. The reasoning is typically "A winning strategy would be universally communicated, adopted, executed, and priced out." Which is a strange way to think.

Go is a popular strategy game. Strategies that work should be encoded into computer algorithms and "priced out". Yet computers can't beat the best human Go players. Are the best human Go players simply lucky: they have no true strategy, and it's chance when they win?

(Hint: not every strategy is easily encoded into a deterministic algorithm. Expert human insight and judgment, that finicky beast, is not yet replicable by machines.)
I use sidenotes very heavily in my book[1], which is written in Markdown[2]. Instead of putting the contents of the asides in the middle of a paragraph, I pull them out into separate <aside> tags. Inside the paragraph, I have a little <span> with a name to indicate which text the <aside> should be positioned to line up with.

There is some CSS to put the asides on the side[3] (with a ton of variations to make it play nice on mobile). Then there's a bit of JS to correctly line them up with <span> markers[4]. It was a bit more effort than I expected, and I don't like having to rely on JS, but the output is really nice, I think.

For example, take a look at this chapter[5], and try resizing your browser window or hitting it on a mobile device.

[1]: http://gameprogrammingpatterns.com/

[2]: https://github.com/munificent/game-programming-patterns/blob...

[3]: https://github.com/munificent/game-programming-patterns/blob...

[4]: https://github.com/munificent/game-programming-patterns/blob...

[5]: http://gameprogrammingpatterns.com/double-buffer.html
startuppanel.co, wsj.com, finance.yahoo.com, tech crunch, news.ycombinator.com
What appeals to you about mailing lists?

If it's reporting issues, discussion solutions, and reviewing patches, there are Issues and Pull Requests.

If it's for general discussions about the "future of the project" or bigger-picture topics, I'd use Discourse. It's a really nice way to organize discussions that are one step removed from code-related issues.

If it's for things where you need quick or real time feedback, there's IRC, Gitter, and Slack, all great options for messaging/chat.
And that the people with the direct knowledge are now 60+ years old.
Apparently the Black Hat audience is very conservative and pro-government. And likes Keith Alexander.

I guess the author has been attending a different conference than me.
Yup, it seems like parent (as in parent comment, not human parent) has the causality wrong. This won't incentivize anyone to have kids. It will incentivize people to join or stay with the company if they plan on having kids in the future, though, and that's good for the bottom line.
> A couple of fields could be imported by integrating with existing EMR/EHR through HL7, but at this early stage I don't envision any integration and these fields will be input manually. The MVP works this way, for example (and has been used in a few hospitals).

In that case, yeah, hospitals will tend to differ very significantly; once you go beyond the HL7 world, any hope of a standardized interface goes out the window. Expect hospitals to run their own copies of your database in that case, and expect them to be very strict about what access you get.

> Does this mean you've seen off-site hosted apps using these HIPAA PAAS providers being used by hospitals "in production" (so to speak)?

I've yet to see a HIPAA-complaint PaaS vendor in use by an actual hospital, but it's worth mentioning that at least one such vendor - Catalyze - claims Blue Shield and the VA hospitals as customers.

I have, however, seen off-site EMRs in use by hospitals, particularly (as I mentioned previously) CPSI (though the hospital I worked for - which was, at the time, apparently CPSI's largest customer - eventually strongarmed them into providing support for an onsite server). Such EMRs are typically hosted on hardware owned and operated by the vendor.

Most hospital districts, multi-facility providers, etc. will opt for a single installation of an EMR throughout all their locations. Usually this will be facilitated using a provider-wide VPN, so that'll probably help your particular usecase somewhat. In most cases, this is as close as you're going to get to "off-site" once you get to larger providers, though - again - deviations from this are not entirely unheard of.

> Is this regardless of using a HIPAA-compliant PAAS, or only in the case where we don't? I'm already dreading the answer ;)

HIPAA-compliant PaaS products are pretty new, so this answer will undoubtedly change over time, but currently, such a PaaS will only flatten that expontential curve to maybe a linear one. Small hospitals and clinics will certainly be interested, since many of them dread having to manage any sort of IT infrastructure, to the point of even contracting out to their competitors in some cases (as I witnessed firsthand) instead of trying to do anything themselves. Once they've gone forward with their own IT department, however, the chances of even a HIPAA-compliant PaaS being deemed suitable starts to dwindle, and emphasis on self-hosted solutions grows stronger and stronger.
The curse of dimensionality is real and problematic, but it only applies to the real dimension of the problem, not the measured/perceived one.

Let's say you have samples with 5 dimensions. That's still not (usually) considered within the realm of the curse.

Now, let's assume that because of the way they are measured, you actually have 10,000,000 measured dimensions for each sample. Now, it starts to be a problem - especially if you don't know how that expansion happens -- it might be linear, nonlinear, with noise, etc.

Even though we are now working in 10,000,000 space, and it looks like the curse of dimensionality applies, it does not. You just have to find a reasonable way to compact everything back down to the real problem dimension, or somewhere close enough to it.

The most popular tool for this is called Random Projections, that follows from the work of Lindenstrauss and Johnson in 94. Compressive Sensing is a complementary field.
Facial Similarity Between Voters and Candidates Causes Influence (2008) [pdf]
The problem with broader indexes is that they invest in stocks that are subject to less scrutiny (small caps / mid caps) so it creates a vector for a pump and dump. I'm not saying that the S&P 500 is the be all and end all of American index investing, but I wouldn't want the S&P 500k either.
It can be used in ways that provide more type safety than C. (And people do - that's part of why not every C++ program is a crumbling ruin.) But people (including Linus) choose not to use that extra safety. They have their reasons, not all of which are stupid.

Type safety is not the only good in a programming language.
Do you think its fair for someone who is childless to ask in response to this about a leave program for people like me who don't have kids?
We were using flyway and moved to sqitch and couldn't be more happy. You can have multiple sqitch projects per database and dependencies between them. We use the 'rebase' feature of sqitch all the time. It trys to take inspiration from git where it can, and that made it easy for us to pick up.
Absolutely, I don't think that parental leave will impact someone's decision to have kids. However, giving a benefit to people who have kids without giving that same benefit to people without kids is not that different from the company saying that they want their employees to have kids. It won't actually change behavior, but it still stands out to me as a pretty opinionated stance from the employer about what behavior they want from their employees.

Parental leave is a good way to keep people with kids happy. Why shouldn't we also keep people without kids happy? Everyone deserves time to pursue passions outside of work. Some people are passionate about their families. Other people are passionate about other things. I think employers shouldn't have an opinion on which is more valid, and they should support both.
Well done. Though shouldn't the sidenotes use HTML5's <aside></aside>? How does the vertical alignment of sidenote callout and sidenote work?
* But pick a major that will pay for itself, and try not to rack up $50k in student loans.
Fascinating excerpt from the book by Tyler Cowen:

> the modern species [of maize] had to have been consciously developed by a small group of breeders who hunted through teosinte strands for plants with desired traits…"To get corn out of teosinte is so — you couldn't get a grant to do that now, because it would sound so crazy…Somebody who did that today would get a Nobel Prize!"

http://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2005/08/149...
Show HN: See which friends work close by in SF
The degree doesn't just open doors, it forces you to learn and be exposed to some things you wouldn't have otherwise.

Sure, we can say taking a Film Study class is a waste of time, but I can tell you from experience that years later, you will look at things in film a little different than before. Would I have sat down on my own and studied film techniques, types of lighting, angles, etc...? Probably not. Does it apply to my career? Well, not directly, other than making the mind think about things a little different.

Without those CS classes forcing you to learn Binary Trees, Shortest Path, Circular Queue, Algorithmic Proofs, etc... how many would sit down on their own and learn them? Probably very few. Will it apply directly to a job? Maybe. It really depends on what type of job you have. Simply "programming" or "developing", then probably not. Engineering a system, then those Priority Queue's probably come in handy.

A lot of arguments settle on the basis that [1]University doesn't teach you anything you couldn't learn already, and/or [2]it doesn't teach job skills.

1) Of course it teaches things you could learn on your own... but would you? It's unlikely.

2) Of course it doesn't teach job skills, University is not a Trade School.

The big take away from University is that it's an experience that enriches your life. It's unlikely you will notice it immediately, but it will impact your life in a positive manner. University shows commitment, and accomplishment.
"Anyone interested should file public comments with the FCC in ET Docket No. 15-170 by August 16: http://apps.fcc.gov/ecfs/proceeding/view?name=15-170"

How did you derive this date? It does not say it anywhere on that page.

The only thing I could find is that it says "Comment Date:
(30 days after date of publication in the Federal Register)"

It seems like the date will be 30 days from tomorrow based on this: https://www.federalregister.gov/articles/2015/08/06/2015-184...
Sort of. The Spaniards didn't "whoop" the Aztecs. They allied themselves with nearly a fifth of a million Tlaxcallan warriors.
Bad Client Syndrome
I think that sounds backwards. People decide whether they want to have babies and seek out an employer whose environment works well with that life choice. So if you as an employer see parents as typically older (therefore more experienced) and more stable than non-parents, you would provide benefits that would be attractive to those people. I am not saying this is necessarily the case for parents vs non-parents, just that some employers might see things this way and act accordingly.

On another note, I don't think it's a good idea to pretend like this is simply another in an endless variety of choices people make about their lives that can be incented one way or the other. When people have kids it tends to alter the way they see the purpose of their whole life. It's not "oh sweet, I can get a tax credit if I buy a Prius".
I agree.

It looks like sidenotes are floated right and given negative right margin. (https://github.com/daveliepmann/tufte-css/blob/master/tufte....)
One way that has served me as being a pretty good metric of what's what when it comes to forks looking at the number of stars the parent and child repos have. If a fork has started to usurp it's parent, it generally has a fair deal of its own stars.
6% refers to 6% of salary, not 6% of deferrals. 401k contributions are measured in terms of percentage of pre-tax salary contributed, and the match is based on that.

Under the old scheme, you had to contribute at least 6% of your pre-tax salary to get the maximum match, which was 50% of whatever that value was. In other words, the maximum match was 3% of your salary, and you had to be contributing at least 6% of your salary to get that. Now, anything you contribute gets matched at 50%, regardless of what your salary is.
Agreed, I do as well. After a point though, it becomes inefficient to bang at a problem repeatedly.
We've been helping to kill that dream when we pushed for net neutrality. We played right into it. Getting to the circus on time (i.e. watching king of thrones after torrenting it) was so important we had to hand over the Internet to the FCC.

We no longer route around the damage. We intend damage.
Perhaps attendees there as spies now outnumber actual enthusiasts. Perhaps they can now spy on each other and leave the rest of us alone.
Youtube spent several years fighting a lawsuit against Viacom until they settled last year. If whoever you're giving advice to doesn't have Google's cash to defend themselves, don't tell them to copy Youtube's actions.
This used to be kept in paper log books. Now these records are computerized.
That's so strange. If you're going to park your tiny home somewhere, why not make it the size of a regular car, like the VW Westfalia camper van?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volkswagen_Westfalia_Campers
Very nice! Coincidently, I've been researching Meteor this past week for a new website as an alternative to my current Laravel stack. Meteor is very exciting and I'm drawn to the Isomorphic JS concept. However, I decided to hold off for now after learning more about the issues with search engine crawling, large initial downloads and difficulty in deployment. Most of these concerns are on the Meteor roadmap, so I am eagerly awaiting future updates.

Meteor is definitely enticing, with it's upcoming Galaxy deployment tool and React/Angular support. It's a very exciting, albeit, fast-faced time for webdev.
> The rental and housing market is disgusting. I wouldn't consider it except for my wife.

There you go. It is not in our nature to optimize for efficient use of money. There are other desires that will outwit this including the desire to reproduce, the desire to fit in socially, the desire for space and boundaries, the desire for inertia.

I used to think about living in a camper van to 'protest' against ridiculous house prices and paying rent. I never quite wanted to do it, and mainly because of what other people would say. Of course some people have the guts to be daring and different :-)
It's tough to try to put forward a truly balanced narrative because there is still a lot of racist anti-native american sentiment and consequently a lot of counter compensation against that. In truth the indigenous pre-Columbian Americans were much like people anywhere in pre-modern times. Constantly at war, constantly struggling, with a few bright spots here and there. So much of the narrative of western history focuses on the bright spots and treats the atrocities, conflicts, and struggles as exceptions, but they are both part of the whole.
Nobody knows. Microsoft's own release makes no sense. You (and your employer, combined) cannot contribute more than $18,000 tax-free per year. It's either 100% match of $9,000 on your $9,000 to make $18,000, or it's 50% match of your $12,000 to make $18,000. It can't be both things that the press release says it is.

My best guess is that they meant to say they now match 100%, but we won't know for sure until they correct the press release.
Really been enjoying these podcasts. Very cool to hear these first-hand stories
This was super fun to make - hope you enjoy :) Literally a couple minutes after we posted it on fb - one of our friends commented that he worked in the building literally right behind us (I see you Minqi :)!
As a fresh-out-of-college male who had no plans to start a family any time soon, I noticed a distinct quality-of-life change when my coworkers generally had families vs. when they didn't (there were some clear shifts in demographics shortly after I started my first job, arising from, essentially, chance). There was much less of a norm of being in the office past 6 or reachable in evenings/weekends, and much more of a norm of getting in at 10 (probably right after dropping off the kids for work). There was no desire to have work-provided dinner, because my coworkers wanted dinner with their families. There is probably also a less-tangible change, that people with families don't define their self-worth by their work quite as much. This trickled down into when meetings were scheduled, what expectations there were for last-minute work ahead of deadlines, whether the company did supposedly-informal events on evenings and weekends, etc., and as a result, it meant that my work-life balance was good.

I'm now skeptical of workplaces where everyone else is like me, with no family that wants them home by dinner. I don't actually think these policies will successfully incentivize anyone to start or not start families, but even if you wanted to be that cynical, there's a clear advantage in work-life balance for everyone to encourage a sizable fraction of your employees to have families. A sabbatical for single people wouldn't accomplish the same long-term effect. (I'd be specifically worried that the "hobby" would be good for the company, since I can see myself easily falling into that trap.)