skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You might try reading this https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parental_leave for some background. The short answer is that family leave is good for companies, especially companies that are innovative and employ a lot of knowledge workers.
Python runs fine on my surface. What are you talking about?
What's the book? Would like to read it. Thanks.
So why do you think that other employees will become less productive when they get their Appalachian Trail leave?
I was one of the people who first contributed to GitLab voluntarily, its been quite awesome :)

Another great example of a company like this is Sentry[1], which is fully open source, although I'm not sure if they've hired anyone from the community so far.

[1]: https://sentry.io/welcome/
Alphabet is much more diversified than Msft ever was.
Slavery is in Civ 4.
Because it's not meant to rank children against each other. It's meant to tell the parents and students how they are doing compared to the standard. If they have not met the goal, then something needs to change. If they have met the goal or exceeded it, there's not much to worry about.

It's not like kids really learn much in elementary school anyways. Which is itself a problem, but a different one.
No escape key? 2007 called and wants its "you can't do serious email on a phone without a phyciscal keyboard" line bad.

Seriously. You didn't learn the lesson the iPhone taught the world a decade ago?

Also you you obviously don't understand the difference in CPU and GPU capabilities between the Air and the Pro.

So you're just ignorant of technology, aren't you?
The top 14 comments are negative. Five of them are about Microsoft's announcement yesterday. It's almost as if MSFT is paying for these comments.
I'm sure they would be asked why they continue Nest/Fiber if the losses were detailed.
Here's a video of said calls:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CuVFcizDwqw
Exactly had the same question.
That's the theory. Practically, almost all humans don't give a shit about the 5-year consequences of their actions even though they will most likely leave at least another 50 years.
> building web properties

This phrase gave me pause (why not just say "making wesbites"?), but I think I have a handle on what it implies.

"Making websites" is what you do when your main deliverable is content. Maybe you throw in some javascript for a little aesthetic kick or some nice features, but if a user comes to your website with javascript disabled, your goal is to still get the content to them.

"Building web properties" is what you do when your main deliverable is non-content: ad clicks, tracking, etc. Whatever content you offer on the site is just a honeypot. If a user comes to your website with javascript disabled, your goal is to intentionally turn them away because they've refused the delivery of your non-content.
It comes from reverence for naturalism. It's similar in that sense to other movements, like anti-GMO, anti-vax, etc.

Tell people you want to cure cancer and you're a hero. Tell people you want to cure age-related decline and eventually death and you're a weirdo extremist.
> Are you're saying that sites will try to falsify who I'm visiting by redirecting my traffic?

By pretending to be you. Capturing your visit and replaying it. Tweaking details. Redirecting. Performing unseen requests in the background. Most notably, trying to override the tracking code by side-injecting their own to capture your identifying tokens (which is why you need an extension).

There are countermeasures to all the attacks and to some as yet unanticipated, but it takes a single integrated protocol that cryptographically verifies and compounds in each step from the request to the response.

And that's what I did.
Sure but if you've maintained your 20-something health until 75, why choose to die? That's just suicide...
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I am working for Red Hat on OpenShift for the past two years almost and it has been more like 3, working with the Kubernetes community.
It taught me that I can become very wealthy with a draconian surveillance infrastructure and spy network :)
Thanks for the response, agreed.
Agreed. I have a late-2008 aluminum Macbook (non-pro, "collector's edition"). The Magsafe adapter was one of my favorite things about it. There were countless times when it saved that laptop from falling off of a table, or saved me from tripping. I've had the same charger since I bought the thing back in January of 2009, and it still works fine, no fraying or other injuries whatsoever.
I bet you learned the 'new math' of addition and multiplication algorithms before long division. (e.g. for multiplication you construct a new set of numbers to add to get the final result.) But we probably should skip much of the arithmetic curriculum. We can move on to more interesting problems more quickly, or study different algorithms if that is the goal.
All these "OMG the latest Apple hardware sucks" posts, while annoying, do have a pretty simple picture to paint:

All the low hanging fruit is gone in the consumer electronics world. There isn't anything obvious that I would fix about my 4 year old rMBP. It is still fast, it does the job that I need it to do. The iPhone 7, while nice, isn't that much better in any measurable way than the iPhone 6.

So what do you do when you are a company that made its fortune by constantly innovating yet all the obvious ways to innovate are gone? You make the best incremental improvements you know how to (smaller and thinner, take any pain point you can find and try and fix it). Hopefully there is a skunk works team at Apple working on the craziest stuff they can think of and trying to figure out something that will actually be innovative, but that isn't going to come quickly, it isn't going to be easy and it isn't necessarily going to happen at all.
I never said they would be less productive--I had no real opinion about allowing employees to go hike the Appalachian trail.

I don't think employers offer Appalachian trail leave, simply because they're not mandated to. They are mandated to offer leave via FMLA. Maybe REI offers it.
So long as increased longevity also comes with better geriatric health overall, I'm very much on board. A life worth living is not just avoiding death, it's also being able to physically and mentally function properly as well.
Intrinsic inline-sizes have been handled just fine in Servo from day one with a parallel bottom-up traversal. This is well-known; the technique goes back to the Meyerovich paper.
That self-esteem thing reminds me of this: http://www.smbc-comics.com/index.php?id=3978
Glad to have individuals in our world we can plausibly compare to Pharaohs. That's justifiable.
If it is actually good (ie, you stand by it, proudly!) then put it on Amazon KDP and link to that high up before your landing page (which is your website it appears).

You can even drive traffic right to it, ie from FB ads to the amazon link... and if you have positive reviews then it should sell if you target the right people.

And drop the price also in line with the rest.
In reality it depends so much on the context. People are primed for learning right after finishing a task.

Is my friend just giving coding a go or are they trying to get a dev job?

Is my friend trying to show me what they have built or asking for help improving the quality of their code?

Etc etc.

Likewise is this a 14 year old athlete trying to compete at the state level? Or a 14 year old trying out football because his friends play?
How feasible would it be to compile the dtrace language itself to an eBPF backend?
Unrelated but the Bloomberg web design lately has been fantastic.
While your dragging your finger across the touchpad to click on that thing you need to click on... everyone with a touchscreen is already on to the next task.
Not if he wants to keep travelling easy!

(It can be done, but it's more limiting and exhausting in general. Just back from three weeks in Europe with two kids under five.)
I'm unsure if anyone who thinks "there's just not enough time" is the kind of person who would sit around because of their immortality.
Really? Is there a citation for this? Is it something he's continuing to do?
> I have concluded that academic research careers are for rich people only.

100% correct. There is a lot of artifitial barriers with the only purpose of deter the poor, introverted, physically disabled, unable to lie convincingly, or coming from incorrect countries to pass.

Maybe we should warn young people to not spending too much time doing science until reaching 50 years old or so. Science, as we understand it currently, is not much different to doing drugs. Will slurp all your money with some glimpses of a promised paradise, isolate you from friends and family, will boost your stress levels, increase your probability of having cancer and will damage your health. Your opportunities of having children or a good life will be seriously handicapped. I wonder why is not forbidden still.
They appealed to us before, that's the point. Things have changed over the last 5-6 years.
Seems like writing is sufficiently easy using different colored laser pulses, but the article doesn't mention how feasible it is to actually read the data once it's been stored.
In many cases it's not precisely "make companies support parents", at least not directly. In many social-democratic countries, companies are required to accommodate the parental leave, in the sense of allowing the absence, but the pay during leave is funded by the government, via taxes, not expected to be covered by the company on its payroll. It's considered part of the social security system in those cases, like old-age pension, free schooling, and other such universal, state-funded benefits.
Yes, the changes were more or less cosmetic. Funny thing is that latest, more pronounced changes came from Endless Legend (multi tile cities are the most visible to me)

I wish they would get off their asses in the AI department. It is pretty lacking and playing with humans is obviously a massive drag (difference of skill levels, sheer amount of time for a single game)

I play on prince and usually steamroll everything. When I try king the AI cheats so hard at the start it's just a massive turnoff for me...
If that were true, these companies would have no reason to fear opening up. After all, each of their employees made conscious decisions to be underpaid, so why would they leave?
Apple under Steve Jobs didn't innovate... they advertised.
For comparison, my 27" Wacom Cintiq cost me $2500, which is just a screen with a stylus and the Studio blows it out of the water in every measurable way.
> are there different groups of HN readers with different attitudes towards psychology?

yes
Those numbers are rather suspicious when Microsoft is not getting meaningful revenue from bing.
Growing up (1996-2006), I remember every software industry article was either excited about what Microsoft would do next in some space or terrified that Microsoft would step in and destroy some business. Due to this, there are now a generation of people with an atavistic fear of Microsoft.

See also embrace, extend and extinguish:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embrace,_extend_and_extinguish
I love Civilization and am enjoying this article. However one thing jumped out at me:

> What can be fairly read into the game? Civilization players have noted certain telling omissions in its historical arc. Slavery, the single-most important economic institution of recent millennia, is entirely absent in the series. There are no Dark Ages and no Black Deaths.

"Dark Ages" is a somewhat dated way to refer to the Middle Ages. From the Wikipedia article (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark_Ages_(historiography)):

"[Many] modern scholars who study the era tend to avoid the term ["Dark Ages"] altogether for its negative connotations, finding it misleading and inaccurate for any part of the Middle Ages"

Just thought it was interesting that someone stepping forward to correct the record appears to have some historical blind spots of their own.
The Geek Keep: New tool detects malicious websites before they cause harm
Ask HN: Reviews of Azure Data Lake?
My team is considering using Azure Data Lake as our distributed file system. It's pretty new, but I'm guessing some people have already tried to get up and running. What are your experiences with it? Thanks in advance.
That's great and all if you like the president. Enjoy when its president Palin, Trump, Cruz, or Bachmann for example.
No theyre not. Google earns 90% of it's revenue from essentially the same intent based advertising model across platforms.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panspermia

After many sessions, my past-life-regression therapist and I agreed that I was once a very powerful and influential tardigrade on a glorious faraway planet and that given the prognosis of humanity, I may be once again, but there's more competition this time.
There are often licensing issues (e.g. with third-party libraries) that make it more trouble than it's worth for those companies.

Not to mention proprietary tools required for building, pipeline, etc. -- that is, IF they still can locate the source and IF it's even possible to build it other than in the special "build machine" they used to use.
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It's well-proven in mice but the quantities of blood needed are gargantuan and make a transfusion-based approach extremely difficult. The most effective mouse models have used parabiosis -- not a palatable or moral technique for humans. However, there's ongoing research to isolate and synthesize the chemical factors responsible for the effect -- which may provide a viable therapy.

(Source: my girlfriend worked in a lab studying young blood.)
My best guess that kinda, sorta matches your description: Children of Time by Adrian Tchaikovsky

(I liked that one)
Not nearly enough RAM
It doesn't seem like this is a problem with self-esteem. The problem is that American schools don't have good educational standards or trained teachers. In the countries that rank ahead of us in the international assessments, even elementary school teachers need to have education degrees. That is not the case in most American school districts (just need a teaching certificate). Teaching is also a more highly respected profession in other countries.

It's pretty much expected in the US that kids don't really learn much of anything in school until they get to 8th grade. I certainly think we could introduce more advanced math concepts at earlier grades instead of taking five years to cover basic arithmetic.

That's not to say that I would like us to adopt a system like that of China or South Korea, in which students are drilled from morning to night on mostly rote tasks and then pitted against each other in a gladiatorial competition called the National College Entrance Examination. If there was a better way of squashing children's natural curiosity and love of learning, I can't really envision it.
It'll take several years of litigation for anyone determined enough to get a straight answer to that question.
Ask HN: What's the point of distinguishing lambda, block and proc in Ruby?
(I would have asked on #ruby but it's more interesting to hear from people with wider spectrum of language preferences)
(3) is sort of what happened for me.

I got hired by a company that uses a big project. Several years later I had the opportunity to move to a team that does upstream open source work, and did.
All we know is that the planet needs plastic... etc.

All due respect to Mr Carlin, the guy was insightful and funny, but a solution he did not provide.

He made a lot of money out of pointing out what was wrong with the setup, a solution to the shithole we're in was not part of his schtick.

I love the man and will point people at his skit on 'save the whales' but nothing he's done or said changes shit.

He would be the first to admit that btw.

We're royally fucked.
It's no worse than the current situation, where most projectors only take VGA. If you have a MacBook Air or older MacBook Pro, you already had to carry a Mini-DispalyPort adapter regardless.

If you own a projector, you're used to keeping adapters around for different computers. If you give presentations frequently, you're used to keeping adapters in your travel bag for different projectors.
Thankfully death comes along and sorts through the wants from the willing. It has a nice way of making space for a newer generation of thinkers. Old prejudices die, new thinkers arrive.

There's nothing wrong with your thinking. In my humble opinion it shows your personal desires without much concern for everyone else. I guess this is the rub I get from most people that extol the Silicon Valley dream of extending the lives*

*of those that will inevitably be able to pay for it.
Russia unveils its new class of RS-28 'Satan 2' nuclear missiles
I dunno. Constraints give us meaning. They're what force us to make choices, and it's choices and opportunity costs that let us define who we are at people. If we lived forever, we wouldn't have to make any hard choices - we'd just do it all. And paradoxically, being able to do it all means that none of it means anything.

It's like playing a game with all the cheats on. Sure, they let you "win" super easily, but because it was super easy, it stops being fun.
Best Blogging platform with payment?
I've been thinking for a while about starting my own mostly tech-related blog (tech reviews/rants/howto's/etc).

While I doubt it will end up being a massive success, I would like end up getting paid if it is, and I would feel a bit funny about putting articles up for free on someone's platform and them ending up getting paid for my work.

What in people's opinion is the best platform to start such a site?
That's a twist on the kind of quarter-by-quarter thinking that leads companies like Twitter to optimize for the short term (protect the MAUs!) and neglect the work that has to be done for long term growth and value.

Not disagreeing with the point that being employed in a cost center of a struggling company has risk. You always would prefer to be at the competitive edge if you can, and in a role that aligns with the company's main mission. I just suspect that in this case, the recent abandonment of Twitter buyout offers due to the abuse problem has now made curtailing abuse a top priority, and a much more important part of the company's ability to deliver value.

Another example would be a company whistling past the graveyard with respect to security, seeing security as a non-revenue-generating cost center. All it takes to wake up the board to its importance is a major breach that affects the market cap. (Or take quality control in companies that deal with life-and-death systems.)
Isn't Nest part of Google and not "Other Bets"? I recall the Nest engineers being assigned to the new Google hardware division headed by Rick Osterloh.
The non-touchbar version will probably last longer because in addition to having one less draining device, its battery apparently also has around 10% more watt-hours.
The MS Surface Book has a MagSafe look-alike.
Chrome dev tools. Ctrl + Shift + i. Check out the docs, they are great.

- Conditional breakpoints!

- Avoid "Pause On Caught Exceptions" if you are working with date libraries... unless you blackbox them.

- Using the profiler to identify unknown bugs is effective sometimes. This can be initially overwhelming.

- Ctrl+p for fuzzy finding loaded resources.

- Get comfortable with Continue, Step Over, Step In and Step Out.

- $0-4 in the console store the value of the last selected nodes in the inspector. e.g $($0) would provide you with a jQuery wrapped node

- "Long Resume"

I also recommend you enable capturing async stacktraces and the setting which disables cache when the tools are open.
http://lesswrong.com/lw/6vq/on_the_unpopularity_of_cryonics_...
There are so many major brand websites that are so awful that I want to grab anyone who admits to working there and yell 'have you tried using your own damn product lately because it sucks' but I'd rather not be returned to prison for my unique form of UI feedback.
Any efforts underway to turn those de facto standards into actual standards as Servo encounters them?
I don't try to underpay employees, ever. I try to make sure I never lose an team member because of a dumb comp issue.

However, open salaries would be problematic for me, because I've made some bad bets on new hires who are overpaid compared to what they deliver, but where it's not reasonable to fire them either. Imagine, for a moment, a team with 100 engineers, 96 of whom I think are paid fairly. But 4 of them are, in my opinion, overpaid by 25% or 30%.

I could fire those four, but that would cost me more than freezing their pay until they level up, or a lot of time passes. so instead, I keep them on, and hope their peers don't find out what they make, because they might come to the wrong conclusion.
>Raising the children is supporting them, and helping them get over the fear of performing publicly (or whatever). It's not their job to be the technical coach of whatever they want to learn.

Would you apply the same to, say, mathematics? Or chemistry? Or programming? Do you think the parents should not give their kids feedback on these subjects, and instead leave it to the teacher (aka technical coach)?
Oh, if it only were that simple.

Create a class of longer living humans and you double down on the problem we have today.

Half the number of the species on top of the food chain, then I'll take you seriously.
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Have you heard of System Restore? You know, the utility that was supposed to put things back the way they were should the system ever get messed up? Oh but it doesn't work against malware.

Security is more than being impervious to every conceivable attack. Just being able to restore an infected system would have made their platform "reasonable". But they didn't.

Also, windows defender was YEARS too late. Which was why I specified the 10 year window.
Kinda academic after Brexit
"We live in a culture of casual certitude. This has always been the case, no matter how often that certainty has failed. Though no generation believes there’s nothing left to learn, every generation unconsciously assumes that what has already been defined and accepted is (probably) pretty close to how reality will be viewed in perpetuity. And then, of course, time passes. Ideas shift. Opinions invert. What once seemed reasonable eventually becomes absurd, replaced by modern perspectives that feel even more irrefutable and secure—until, of course, they don’t."

http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/27068734-but-what-if-we-r...
The CEO of Sentry said recently in a changelog episode[1] this did not happen so far.

[1] https://changelog.com/rfc/8
If you agree that there has historically been a disparity between the genders and you agree that there is currently an gender disparity in the workplace, it is not much of jump to believe that elevating women could help to correct that problem.

I see a lot of comments on posts like these claiming that it is sexist or just reproducing the problem to give women visibility or an advantage in the workplace. Usually these comments are supported by anecdotal evidence. I think these comments are supporting the status quo. Given the mountains of evidence showing gender disparity today in hiring, salary, etc, as well as the historical fact of women's position vs men over the last few thousand years, shouldn't we be leaning in the direction of trying things out?
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- Killed Macbook Air.

No, only the 11 inch one has been discontinued. The $1000 13 inch Air is still on sale[1], and so popular that I would predict it won't be killed off until the cheapest pro becomes sustantially cheaper than $1500.

[1] http://www.apple.com/shop/buy-mac/macbook-air