skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sometimes because they choose to (select education or clerical fields). You want to tell them they're wrong? Its a free country.
For those who want to play with it and don't have access to MATLAB, I've spent some minutes and ported to Python:

https://github.com/andersonfreitas/pst/blob/master/PST.ipynb
IIUC most of the shared pages would be common when the process is forked, I doubt there would be enough duplicate content created after the fork to be worth it.
It would make the law more complicated, but I think the property tax should be recalculated annually based on your property value but it should also be capped to a percentage of income. You could set a floor of the existing prop-13 tax rate. And ideally only the land value is taxed, not the structure on top of it.
Do they improve? This is a fascinating data set to have. Other questions I have is do the clueless improve? Do the bright, but inexperienced improve? Can you tell what candidates to contact again after a year and invite back for a new interview?
A few problems with the article's flow and coherence. First off, the article conflates, "rate of dementia," with, "total incidence of dementia," which is like confusing gallons of gas with miles per gallon. Secondly, the article conflates, "dementia," with "Alzheimers," but - those are highly correlated since Alzheimer's is the overwhelming cause of dementia, so we'll let that one slide. The article starts off with a paragraph that states effectively that, "They have been predicting there will be tons of dementia for years, but now they are wrong!" Well Stephen Feller (author of the article), no, there is a clearly demonstrated increase in the incidence of dementia that will occur in the United States due to the baby boom population, which will increase the incidence of dementia per total US population (call that IncDem/USPop), and no one argues against that, in fact you even later state that in your article. What this study shows, as your article states, is that among predominantly white populations, in an above average income town (Framingham, MA), there has been a decrease in dementia controlled by age-related factors, (call that LocalDem/FramPop). So Dr. Sudha Seshadri, referenced in the story, likely knows many of the mechanisms of why this happens, it's not like researchers are totally clueless, which the article seems to open to interpretation by using the article title modifier, "...Researchers Unsure Why." No, they are pretty sure of some of the reasons why LocalDem/FramPop is decreasing: basically, Framingham, being a somewhat higher than average income town, has more exposure to healthcare education and practices, particularly to alzheimer's reducing drugs such as Donenzepil, which delays symptoms of Alzheimer's for an average of around 5 years if adhered to properly. There are other health and psychological factors which tend to trace diet and well-being...so a poor southern town, one can pretty easily imagine, might not have had such a considerable decrease in their LocalDem/FramPop as Framingham, Mass over the last 40 years. Also, just because one town had a lower LocalDem/FramPop does not mean that there is a total decrease in the rate of increase of IncDem/USPop, in fact that rate could be accelerating due to our poor diets and expensive healthcare access. So perhaps a better title for the article could have been, "Can a Mass. Town's Lower Dementia Rate Point to a Better Path for the Looming US Dementia Problem?"

When someone writes a new article on the above improved analysis, you can credit me and link back here. What we get with articles that have a lack of rigor, like what Stephen Feller wrote, are people in the comments section saying, "Well maybe it's because people smoke more weed," even though they may well have read the whole article, the title and flow frames the discussion up incorrectly.
The article is very cool. It made me remember that I saw it somewhere, and that's the candle problem TED talk: https://www.ted.com/talks/dan_pink_on_motivation I had a good time watching it.
"Heck, the man page is a whole 70 bytes bigger than the source code. This is very, very different from, say, Django. I'm not advocating for... "

Alright, alright haha. Yeah, I did download the code. It was small and seemed understandable. Seemed as there's no telling what assumptions its built against. I've seen code meant to prevent compiler issues, OS issues, timing channels... all sorts of things you wouldn't know just reading the code itself & might have even scrapped. So, I'm still about code coming with a detailed statement of what it does with what environmental assumptions.

On other hand, this could be so plain that the environment or tools don't matter. Maybe.

"And Suckless? Yeah, they're basically the definition of "doesn't care about adoption at all"."

Their page hints at targeting a demographic of pro's tired of bloated BS. I wasn't sure how much they cared. There's some clarification.
What then would you tax? Yachts and jewelry? At what rate? Do you think you could run any society on what could be collected on taxes on non-essential consumption?
E-cigs shut down hundreds of immune system genes regular cigs don’t
I noticed that about the man page. That's rare haha.
http://www.housingworks.org/donate/drop-off-donations/

Your local library is also a good choice too.
> VAT is insidious because it is hidden in the overall cost of goods and services

Erm, what? The VAT is clearly labelled on every product and not at all hidden. In fact, if you grab any receipt in Europe you will see the different VAT rates very clearly on the receipt. That's important anyways because in some cases you can claim it back (for instance company expenditures).
Calling this free Internet is really giving Facebook too much credit. It was free access to a select few websites.
That assumption is the cart before the horse. The statistic implies these folks used to come from every walk of life. Including homeowners. I don't know why we'd every jump to the conclusion they were low class renters.

Anyway, this is what a good survey would answer. But we get self-reporting and dubious statistics.
Death is a gift. We are not built to live forever and we should never wish it so. I encourage us all to focus on increasing the quality of all of our lives and not the quantity of our days.

"The hate of men will pass, and dictators die, and the power they took from the people will return to the people; and so long as men die, liberty will never perish."
- Charlie Chapman "The Dictator"
I use this script https://gitlab.com/Khaine/DNS-Unbound-Blocklist-Downloader to pull data from a bunch of different places and load into unbound
I am a huge curmudgeon when I read these types of articles. I tend to think back to Moral Mazes and I have no faith or hope that executives will do healthy things in these situations.

But I actually liked a couple of the major points in this. And it's really rare for me to not just basically be Lumpy Space Princess about these things.

The points I most liked:

-- Keep it internal -- They didn't mention this in the article, but it's not uncommon for firms to blow unreasonable amounts of money on external consulting firms, who typically come in with no consideration whatsoever for the existing employees or the way things work.

Often these firms are value-destructive, and the fact that a company would choose them usually means there's some type of internal power struggle that can only be resolved through the use of meaningless external credential, status symbols, and prestige. When someone is using BCG or McKinsey, you can bet it's not because they need quality, evidence-based outcomes, but because the BCG/McKinsey/FancyBrand stamp of approval cannot be overridden by their internal rival. It's a good sign for this firm that they did it by talking with their existing employees rather than hiring external advisers (at least it seems that way in the article).

-- Anticlimax -- this is a great way to put it. By the time the dust settles, anyone who didn't want to leave the company should be completely and utterly unsurprised, bored even, by how it has turned out. This doesn't mean everyone has to like it, but no one should come to work after the re-org and have significant feelings of "why is it working like this?" or "this isn't what we talked about..." The aforemocked consulting type dummies often take a rip-the-bandaid approach that I will never understand. It leaves almost everyone surprised, like one of George Sr.'s mass layoff days.
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As an established middle-aged software developer with a family living in Burnaby who cannot move now because of custody issues, I'm going to give you the same advice I give to all of the engineering co-ops I work with. You should move out of the
Vancouver area as soon as you get your degree.

I don't think that you're ever going to have a problem finding 1 bedroom accommodations in Vancouver because that's what developers predominantly build. Eventually you'll probably want to get married and have kids, and then you'll realize that the GVRD has nothing for you.

The detached home market now largely belongs to rich Chinese immigrants who made their millions outside the country; you'll never be able to compete with these folks working in the Canadian economy and paying Canadian taxes. That will largely rule out Vancouver, Burnaby, and by the time you graduate, New West, Coquitlam, Poco, and Port Moody. This isn't even a matter of stretching anymore - this market is completely isolated from CHMC policy now because the prices are beyond what Canadian home buyers could ever leverage.

Developers have little incentive to build 3 bedroom family-friendly condos, so you'll have a hard time finding those, too. I wanted to buy one recently and it was going to cost about $700000. My current 2 bedroom would sell for about $400k, but I don't think that I want to stretch that far on a single income, even though it would mean I could get my kids their own rooms.

And really, is Vancouver so great? The mountains are nice, and the downtown is nice if you're young. But it's a trap for the young - through well-intentioned tolerance and bad public policy we've created a city that is hostile to young families. Live anywhere else in North America and you'll enjoy a more favourable cost of living and/or a better lifestyle.

I'd leave in a minute if I could.
Don't they tax luxury items at a higher rate? The appeal of a VAT is that you can incent economic expansion in one are over another, ie... Better baby food over swankier yachts.
Software development is very different from building physical structures.

"How much is it going to cost to build my house?"

"Give me the blueprints and tell me your finishes."

[Waits on client to provide specs...]
When training competitively, you want to provide a stimulus to the systems you're improving. Any stimulus will require a recovery period, so ideally you only provide the stimuli that affects the systems you need to improve, to minimize recovery time and maximize improvements.

I'm a powerlifter, so that's the perspective that I take. The systems I care about are peak strength across multi-joint compound movements, so I focus on high weight, low reps. Strongman competitions take strength endurance, they emphasize moderate weight, higher rep exercises.

For endurance athletes, systems include respiratory efficiency, VO2max, glycogen storage, among others. Some of those are best trained at low intensity, high volume. Some of those are best trained for at high intensity, low volume. None of those are best trained for at moderate intensity.

When you've reached the level of adaptation where you need to manage your effort/recovery cycle, it becomes important to avoid training efforts that don't optimize for the systems you wish to improve; there's a real recovery cost for little gain. What jedbrown is saying absolutely makes sense. It's also of lesser benefit to anyone who isn't training competitively.
Unfortunately, any mention of creating a lean UI based on HTML5 creates a huge debate, nee a holy war, in the Firefox community because this is deemed to reduce the ability to extend the Firefox UI through extensions. Please refer to [1] for a protracted argument on why WebExtensions (or similar framework) are a step-back/inferior because they don't allow for extending the Firefox UI the way XUL-based extensions do. There are a number of power-users and vocal community members who believe that Firefox must have XUL-based extensions otherwise it becomes an inferior clone of Chrome (bollocks if you ask me).

[1] http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic.php?f=23&t=2956625
Chained Transitions – D3.js
The argument being laid out is that electronic surveillance, in whole, has played a very minimal (close to zero) role in law enforcement. None of the NSA programs can be attributed for stopping some plot on their own[1] - the few they did lay claim to already had mountains of other kinds of evidence collected through regular law enforcement means.

Coming back to the encryption debate - if we cannot stop plots and crimes from taking place that were orchestrated over clear-text communications[2][3][4] - then there is practically zero hope of success by forcing everyone to not encrypt communications.

To say that better - if we can't stop crimes that are communicated in clear-text, then having the ability to decrypt messages does not change our probability of success.

Yes, encrypting all the things will provide some level of convenience for the "bad guys", but it also provides immense levels of security for the "good guys", as well as us regular people. Going back 15 years - we did not have capabilities to intercept and decrypt mass communications - yet we still caught the "bad guys". September 11th happened, and now we're all still whipped into a frenzy thinking somehow if we could just backdoor encryption, we would have prevented that attack (which is absurdly false).

The big point I'm making - backdooring/weakening/banning of encryption makes nobody more safe. Maybe we catch one or two plotters before they do something - but we also expose all citizens to online attacks on their identity, finances, privacy, and more.

[1] http://www.nbcnews.com/news/other/nsa-program-stopped-no-ter...

[2] https://theintercept.com/2015/11/18/signs-point-to-unencrypt...

[3] https://www.privateinternetaccess.com/blog/2015/11/after-par...

[4] http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2015/11/paris-police-find...
The only problem I find with this decision is when I make an improvement/fix a bug on a dependency, and the project is either inactive or the authors don't give a crap about your work.

True, but I think a temporary fork, which will eventually be merged back in, is still better than your own code with its own bugs.
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I don't know what to say or how to not sound like a dick.

I'm sure you know the stock phrases. If you don't, "Thanks for taking the time to speak with us, but we've decided to move on with another candidate. Good luck with your job search" is perfectly adequate. If it's been a few weeks, and you feel you need to apologize for the delay -- then of course do so. Really, it does help.

About the only "dick move" is sending no response at all. People don't need lengthy explanations and reinforcement of their positive traits. They just need an answer (yes or no) and, perchance, some acknowledgement of the fact that they're human beings, and have made a significant investment of their time and energy in talking with you.

It still amazes me how many companies don't get this.

That said, big companies have professionals whose job it is to make sure this doesn't happen.

I think what happens in big companies is that everyone assumes someone has the responsibility to do this, but no one ever does.
I really hate this decision--and I love Google Photos and own Lightroom. Picasso has been one of my favorite products for years. It is simple and just works. But because it's not online, Google now hated it.

Once upon a time there was a company who claimed their motto was "don't be evil." I really wish they wouldn't have changed.
Hey there - would love to hear what you guys think about the post :) - Michael
My RHR averages between 52 to 55 bpm. I always heard that unless you are an elite athlete, your HR should not be below 60 bpm. So I brought it up with my doctor and he told me to not worry about it. I wonder if there are other markers which would indicate if further testing is needed or not.
> how do you know it would take less 'effort' to get the heart rate up for out of shape people?

It's a staple of sports medicine. Fit people start out with a lower heart rate, and unfit people's heart rate rises much more rapidly with exercise. Get the two to climb a set of stairs - the fit person won't notice it, the unfit person will be slightly out of breath and have a noticeably higher heart rate (in some cases, may now even be able to feel their own pulse).

To reach beats-per-minute X, a fit person starts lower and has a longer ramp-up.
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No. I'd be wondering "where (if at all) did this person work for the last year, and why are they so eager to come back here?"

Most people get bonged and move on. If you weren't a fit 12 months ago, the odds (and personal bias, let's be honest) are really against you.
> time and again people have shown that their economic calculations have a time horizon well short of a single human lifespan.

I don't disagree with that either, but I think that has historically been largely due to our erroneous belief that we had a negligible effect on the world at most, which is thinking that is thankfully coming to and end. I don't doubt there was a time in the past where we believed we couldn't affect the ocean, and prior to that a river or the soil in an area. That isn't a good track record to hoping we understand it earlier next time (if our species is lucky, in some number of decades or centuries the discussion will be about our effects on the solar system, not our planet), but it does point towards eventually getting the idea and taking steps to fix the problem behavior, even if it's not always adhered to or a perfect solution.
Ive always offered to give detailed feedback to my candidates that didn't pass a technical screen. I'd say about 80% of them were eager to hear it, and were grateful to get information that could help them get better at coding, or at least interviewing. It leaves people with a good impression of the company, and you get the satisfaction of knowing you helped someone. You aren't going to get sued for telling someone which type of sorting algorithm is most efficient for x sized data set.
Maybe ask if it's worthwhile applying in the future?

Google recommended I did, then phoned me a little over a year after that rejection. Presumably I didn't do too badly on their tests up to that point.
Of course, that won't help the folks who don't want to own a car and do want to live in SF and be part of the urban scene but there are probably a lot more opportunities for adding housing south of SF--where most of the tech employment is anyway.
What's the reason behind not allowing issues to be deleted?
It's rude for sure, but from what I've seen (And I don't necessarily agree), the company feels there's no upside. The relationship is already in a negative space and it's unlikely an explanation will make things better.
If you are like me and drink a lot of water each day, you will get really really tired of measuring it and keeping track of it. Making it automatic is important - it eliminates the psychological component of trying to beat your numbers. A product like this is not just about tracking calories but also how much you are drinking.
Indiana also put a 2% cap on property tax into the constitution. Indy has some really nice Gilded Age mansions under $2 mil.
Ah, the fun (irony here). Before user-end computing can regain a semblance of sensibility we will need to move towards guaranteed secure sandbox environments for apps that allow historical re-use of earlier versions.

What is happening at the moment is that IMMENSE quantities of skill development and time is continually flushed away everytime Google/Microsoft/Take-your-pick-software-company decides to retire or dramatically rewrite an app. The situation is even wilder in the closed gardens (Android/IOS) and cloud/web-only where perfectly fine software disappears overnight and then.. that's it. Wake up, we're throwing our mental resources down the drain on a completely unprecedented scale because no systemic solution to this issue exists!!
Neither my permanent residency in Canada nor my card are permanent. I have to submit an application to renew every 5 years, and it will be denied if I've been out of the country too long.
Meanwhile, people like me would love to be able to live in Bronxville or Scarsdale for the school systems.

It makes no sense to live there when you have no school age children since you can move a few blocks away in one of the surrounding towns and still have the quality of life.
In case anyone bothers to look at this, the post was flagged by regular users, not HN moderators, and the [dead] comment was by yet another michaelochurch sock puppet, as was the submission to begin with.
My Windows phone with OneDrive integration does this really nicely, minus the gallery feature (though there's probably a solution for that online or something, I just haven't looked.) I really like the fact that I can take pictures of stuff on the shop floor, walk back to my work PC, and the photos are already synced.
> Once upon a time there was a company who claimed their motto was "don't be evil." I really wish they wouldn't have changed.

Woah, that's some intense hyperbole. Whatever else Google has done, it's not "evil" to stop providing updates to a product that helps people organise their photos.
Please stop doing this. My argument isn't that bulk electronic surveillance has been valuable for law enforcement. I don't think it is. I don't think most law enforcement agencies do either, because relative to the enormous amount of foreign SIGINT work the US does, it does virtually no evidence collection for domestic cases through dragnet surveillance.

My issue is that universal default unbreakable encryption doesn't just break dragnet surveillance, but also breaks discovery and evidence recovery done under a warrant in routine investigations. It is in fact hard to break dragnet surveillance without harming routine law enforcement, and I think people should be clearer about that tradeoff.

It also isn't my contention that harming routine investigations means that crypto should be backdoored. Despite what you said upthread, I'm going to hazard that I've done more work to help foil attempts to break crypto than you have. My bona fides here are established, no matter how you choose to misread my comments. It really bothers me when people erroneously suggest that I support crypto backdoors. It doesn't help that the first thing I wrote on this very thread said exactly that.
http://xkcd.com/1053/
What's the difference?

"How much is it going to cost to build this application?"

"Give me your specifications for the app."

[Waits on client to provide specs...]
http://www.nickbostrom.com/fable/dragon.html
Yes, Amazon and Microsoft HQ are both in the Seattle area. Google has 2 locations here in Fremont and Kirkland. $200K+ for senior engineers sounds about right from people I've known who went to those companies.

Housing is getting expensive, but you can still buy a small 3br for about $400K in my neighborhood just south of Bellevue, so saving $100K does sound plausible.