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I don't think anyone in this thread argued that it was their duty to do anything. Everything we've talked about employers doing in this thread has been optional for the the employer. So you haven't said anything that anyone appears to disagree with.

But I wouldn't say it was regulating. Can you see a difference between being allowed to eat and drink whatever you want, and requiring that your employer provide whatever you want to eat and drink?

If your local shop doesn't happen to sell your favourite drink they aren't regulating you are they? That's just not what that word means.
Reminded me the Das Keyboard Q5 which is better than Apple's TouchBar imho.

http://www.daskeyboard.com/p/5q-cloud-connected-rgb-mechanic...
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Do you have an article or other links from which we can learn more about the reasons? A summary of the long answer would be helpful too.

Since the demand for such cities is quite high--a large number of middle class voters would like to live in one--would a mobilization of political will enable us to change to situation somewhat, at least over the medium to long term?
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I feel like this is something I'd like to do in the future -- and a way to increase income and be my own boss.

What are the pros/cons?
I don't think that's quite right or at least incomplete. I think that when developing software that runs on many, many platforms different platforms will have different interactions with the software which can sometimes result in bugs.

Sometimes the fault will be with the platforms, e.g. when the bug results from POSIX noncompliance, and sometimes the platform will interact with the program in a valid but unusual way, that isn't covered by the program and thus results in a bug.
Yes, I am a recovering addict who sometimes reads HN while taking my morning shit. Your perceptions are correct, I am as much reminding myself the epistemological dangers of engaging in social media.

It was a mistake to reengage with this toxic and ignorant community.

However, I still use the internet, just in a restricted manner. I find that removing frictionless sources of information makes for a much more pleasant experience. I use a Chrome plugin called Shut Up that removes all comments. I pay for subscriptions to a number of news sources that hire editors and fact checkers. I redirect all social media sites to 127.0.0.1. I wrote a custom script for YouTube that hides related content.

YouTube, wikipedia, and an RSS reader seem to not trigger the depression I was suffering when I was reading HN, Twitter, Facebook and Reddit.

The election was the final straw as I saw many people fully captured by the illusions of their ever shrinking ideological bubbles which are most definitely caused by social media.

If you twerps dared speak to me the way you talk in these forums I would most definitely start a physical altercation. I can't say I'm ashamed of the asswhoopings I've laid on loose and arrogant lips in the past.

Fortunately for me people have an awareness of the physical repercussions of their actions in meatspace. Reality is what is experienced outside of the world of symbols on a screen!

But yes, again, thank you for reminding me why I need to finally remove the last connection to this hideous forum and trade my smartphone and the $1400/year price tag for a dumb brick and my personal salvation!
It's a well known C pattern that you should never trust a user supplied format string, E.g. printf(arg) vs printf("%s", arg). The same applies here
Or perhaps there are also heuristics in place to determine which strategy to follow, ie. heuristics to see whether executing JS would be worth it, would yield additional content. So, say, when crawling documentation, where JS doesn't give any of that (eg. Sphinx' JS search), it could decide - nah, not doing JS, not worth it.

I'd expect that there are also other heuristics and different strategies for crawling to better handle eg. content presented by one of the popular CMSes.
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It definitely could be used to make a type of "shop" software, for like autobody shops, who seem to prefer that "old fashioned" look, as it has a database-type feel to it, but you are missing responsive design. Wouldn't be too hard to add a few media queries to deal with phones & tablets.
Just do a leap minute every 60 theoretical leap seconds and reduce the number of times these problems occur by 60 (and they always do because fallible humans programming machines).
Isn't that true anyway due to bias? I believe taller men or women with bigger chests make bigger paychecks all else equal. I think in a geek world all paychecks would be determine by work ethic and brain power, but I don't think that's how the world works.
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I suppose it can't hurt, but recruiters don't really impact recruitment processes, in a lot of cases.

The biggest problem with my company's recruitment process is their hiring process.

You can get all the applicants not he world. Of you can't hire them, or won't, what good is it?

External recruiters, are like black box testers for your hiring process.

Feel free to drop me a line of you'd like to discuss.
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>I'm not overweight, so maybe I don't have the right perspective on this, but how terrible could "having a doctor tell you that you're overweight" be? Like, the only context I can understand this quote is that "Have someone tell you you're overweight" is some sort of grievous injury, and not just trivially inconvenient."

In my experience? It's a drain, and a good way to encourage me not to go see the doctor. Because it's every time I go to the doctor for literally my entire life. I have never not gotten a 10 minute lecture, including when I was on a varsity swim team.

Beyond that, it's a lecture that comes even when it's not the problem. In the not so recent past, we discussed my weight for 15 minutes...and the active pertussis infection I had for 5. If you have a chronic condition, you're almost certainly going to have your doctor tie it to your weight.

And here's the thing - fat people know we're fat.
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> You may learn pretty quickly how these algorithms work and implemented but it may take years of practice to earn ability to recognize them.

This is false. Just as you can learn pretty quickly how the algorithms work, you can also pretty quickly learn how to recognize which one to use for a given problem - it's basic pattern recognition. The problem for most people isn't that they can't develop this pattern recognition skill, it's that they don't realize they need to (and instead focus on just learning how the algorithms work).

A lot of the time when people say that you can't just "memorize" your way to passing a given test, they're just referring to situations where developing pattern recognition skills instead (or as well) will be more than sufficient. You can get pretty far in life by combining rapid memorization skills with the ability to rapidly develop pattern recognition for a new training set. The more types of inputs/outputs you can map between (muscular, visual, aural, etc.), the better.
Ok, do you have an email I could contact you at?

This alt isn't strongly linked to my IRL identity (yet) and I'd like to keep it that way. I'm a bit busy so I'd rather not make another email account for this occasion.
I may have missed something about the original Lavabit affair, but my take-away was always "He's proven to be the rare individual willing to take a significant hit for his principles".

If they now added whatever the state-of-the-art is for a service such as this, wouldn't that create quite a compelling service?
I was responding to "having amness" in sleep. I think a dream where you are a different person with different memories is a counterexample to that.
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There are very few reasons to nest comprehensions. When the need to go lazy arise and you end up with a long code, use a generator. "yield" is much more readable.
I found the switch back to a single monitor to be pretty painless once I became used to using shortcuts like CMD + ` for switching windows.

Two is definitely better, but for me it wasn't worth the hassle.
Eating less costs less. Burpees are free.

There is an entire subreddit dedicated to eating cheap and healthy: https://www.reddit.com/r/EatCheapAndHealthy/

You don't need a gym, even to get into seriously good shape https://www.reddit.com/r/bodyweightfitness/

There is no fixed pie here, there only question is if you want it or not.
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Plus trusting the extension, the browser, the OS and the HW.
I'm fairly certain cock.li is nowhere near the "tech community". I don't know where you're getting that connection from.

(also, I don't appreciate you strawmanning my comment.)

If it's not your sense of humor, you're welcome to not visit the site. In fact, for the conversation at hand, you didn't at all need to do that because the quote made sense without doing so.

You're taking this comment thread greatly off topic. That's the reason for the downvotes. Not misogyny or something. Claiming otherwise makes your remark sound almost stereotypical.
Then what were you trying to say? It looks like you were trying to draw equivalence between crude workplace humor in your line of work and the tech communities's acceptance of misoginistic rape jokes. That is what the thread was about and that is the context I placed your reply in.
> I think of these programs actually affect employee health then they are worth a cost

That may be so. But there are multiple costs: lost work due to completing these mandates, potential indignation over privacy concerns resulting in excess turnover, and other second order effects. My experience with the financial management teams at multiple companies leads me to believe that none of these, beyond the first order cost reduction ("ooh, lower insurance costs!") are being considered.

It would not be that time consuming to complete an analysis of this. Depends strongly on your labour costs. But it should be considered. One could imagine this increasing the overhead of most large companies by a few percent, depending on how much the insurance reduction is.
Google's announcement when they started parsing javascript: https://webmasters.googleblog.com/2014/05/understanding-web-...
That might be true if a woman works as a waitress (and attracts customers to come more often) but I doubt that is important for a software developer.
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> Most of the time, things are the way they are because someone made them that way - you're not discovering new land that nobody has seen before - and that someone probably had a reason.

This is so important when reading others code or re-designing a system. It is easy to be mentally lazy and just think that the prior system was designed poorly when in fact it is covering many cases you simply have not come across yet.
The Myriad is an ASIC: http://www.movidius.com/technology

Myriad was Ireland-founded but is currently based in San Mateo.

They really meant "machine learning company" not "neural network". But the other two facts are correct.
The important question to ask is: What does he or she do with their free time? Do they work on side projects? Do they do freelance work? Are they always interested in learning new things? That will let you know everything you need to know.
I recently had a discussion with a very senior developer about a project he'd been asked to do. It's a 6+ month effort and he's just getting started. The project is to be delivered to a customer, but the customer has not been engaged and does not know we are working on it.

I asked the dev how he'd feel if he completed the project and the customer said, 'Nah, not interested, thanks anyway.'

His response: 'As long as I get a paycheck, who cares.'

Not sure exactly why, but that just doesn't sit well with me.
While maybe literally true, "risk that you cannot understand" is a little overthreatening. Are you implying extrajudicial financial ruin, torture, murder? I doubt it, so what?
... can always use raw sockets, with the correct set of root-ish privileges or capabilities.
The problem is that companies doing crowdfunding still have too much leverage. They set the valuation, the terms, etc. A 3rd party should set the valuation and it should likely be at a discount to traditional VCs.
I recently put a little browser for themes for the hyper.app terminal online (https://hyperthemes.matthi.coffee). It was just something I used to try out Elm, and there's no reason to believe Google would regard it as anything different than a generic new site.

If you look at Google's cached version, you can see that the JS is executed (although it fails trying to download the actual data): https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:hN5yCk...

Edit: as has been pointed out below, the cached version is just the same as the original and the JS gets executed on your end. This doesn't show weather Google also executes it during its crawl.
I have encountered a few situations where time complexity matters during the normal course of work. The most notable one for me was where I did two DB queries to fetch a list of elements in one and another of the same length and related to the first one - to create a list of objects from the first list, I iterated on it, and it had to do another iteration inside to find the element in the second list. It turned out this approach showed some performance problems on larger datasets, so another coworker took a look at optimizing it - he ended up grouping the second list by id in one iteration so that it eliminated the need to iterate again inside the loop, transforming it from time complexity O(n^2) to O(n).

These situations don't come up too often, but when they do, it becomes important to at least be able to solve them in some fashion in a non-high pressure situation.
Agreed with the livewell points scheme. It seems a classic case of starting out with something simple and then make it overly complicated.

I don't envy anyone who has to try to make people healthy, but looking at where we are heading it seems very necessary unless the government has to step in and impose calorie rations on overweight people.
> Why would you risk centuries of your lifetime just for a little thrill?

Why would you risk decades of your lifetime just for a little thrill?

I don't some people do for some reasons that are completely beyond my understanding.
Firstly, if it is illegal to tell the CISO about the NSL, it may also be illegal to tell some details to an attorney. At least, by going to an attorney, you're already taking some legal risk, in addition to incurring the extralegal wrath of the FBI.

Secondly, the FBI can serve an NSL to the CEO, a separate one to the CISO, and so on down the chain to the tech people whose job would be to fulfill the order. They can choose to serve one or some or all of these orders, and they can order some served people to cooperate and others to keep silent or lie to one another. It's not feasible to expect all of these people, some of whom are not officers of the company, to consult lawyers.
>Is he paying $50 more for not participating, or getting a $50 discount for participating?

What's the difference?
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So you are using a paper of small sample size, which doesn't even contradict the conclusion, as your main evidence to disprove a conclusion you disagree with? That seems like a logical fallacy.
My employer/provider (Blue Cross) offered a $100 discount on insurance premiums in return for me taking a vial of my own blood and mailing it off to them for testing.

Although I am in (mostly) good physical shape, I found it beyond creepy and refused to do it. But I worry about them increasing the discount in the future. It'll be harder to say no when it's $1000, or $2000. And let's be real: it's not a discount, it's a penalty for when you don't do what you're told.

And given how my insurance doesn't even cover a 30-minute ER visit without sending me a bill in the mail for $1700, it's hardly even worth having insurance at all. At least at my age.
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That isn't any different than what gets sent out of a "normal" email provider. VC has just been willing to post the law enforcement subpoenas so we can actually see what is going on in the background.
Less cognitive dissonance.
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Wait, it's phrased as a pay cut, but those who lose out see it as a bonus for those who benefit? That would be surprising. Did you mix up "former" and "latter"?
When you put it like that, it does sound very unpleasant.
"Truly innocent people are inclined to think the best of others."

Live on a reservation or in a banana republic for a while and you'll disabused of this notion.
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> Specifically, a number n is interesting if there is some predicate P(x) which is true only for n.

Well, if you read the "every number is interesting" "proof", this clearly doesn't capture the proof's criteria of interestingness.

I see it as analogous to Berry's paradox - the proof isn't "wrong" per se, but the relevant notion of interestingness is not well defined
Is he paying $50 more for not participating, or getting a $50 discount for participating?

This is just semantics. In either case, it costs money to not participate.

Marketers like to frame things as the latter, as behavioral economics tells us you get better participation by using the latter words.

But we should draw a distinction between marketing and the bottom line. The bottom line is there's a $50 cost.
That was neat. Thanks for posting it.
I think lot of people see being overweight is a moral failure and want to punish people for it. That's all there is to it, no matter how cleverly worded it can be about "being healthy" and "subsidizing" and "choices".
Your absurd story doesn't make me a Snowden apologist
"After all, science is just a process mainly for avoiding lying to yourself about reality."

perfect. thank you!
I got talked into a NYE hackathon, and we built a way to see a Dribbble users top shots for 2016.

Inspired by the best of nine sites for Intagram, we thought it was be interesting to see what was popular in the design community with a tool like this.
My employer gives me and my wife $50 total monthly deduction from our insurance payment for not smoking.

Of course if they find out you got sick from smoking, your coverage will be denied.

My worry is what if they try to use this as a way to avoid covering catastrophically expensive illness where the underlying cause might be ambiguous and subject to interpretation.
> If it's the latter (Anthem insurance doesn't change their premiums, but now rewards people for using preventative medicine), then how could anyone object? It really is a win-win, and people who don't want to participate are no worse off.

I would object. What would stop them actually rising the bonus or the costs for the rest in the future? You've justified it in so many ways. It's the grand health initiative! Let's make America healthy again!

Easy to sell and all that sweet data can be used for other good causes.

Meanwhile the discussion over overpriced medicines disappears. You can (must?) even push the prices for medicines, therapies, etc. leading to the fact that the insurances best customers, people who can't do anything about their sickness (anymore) will be burdened even more. Enforcing the "sick and out" narrative in this sick system.

> What this actually means: The trying-to-be-healthy population are no longer subsidizing the not-trying-to-be-healthy population. I don't know if this is a bad outcome

It is. It's like taxes but we lost that viewpoint (US maybe never even had it but we did in Germany) because of privatization.

There are other ways to educate people on how to be healthy and what the benefits are. Starting doing it at school SERIOUSLY would be a step. Marking obviously unhealthy food as such is another. Misleading advertisements is a big one. And so on. It can be done but I don't believe there is a really strong lobby for that out there. Or not strong enough.
> I have been told I write better code than my CS grad peers but I have no clue about these algorithms and data structures.

For a programer in the industry, the ability to write simple "legible" code is very important. An ideal interview process should spend some time evaluating those skills of a candidate - but this is very very hard to measure.

But good familiarity with the basics of CS is also important to be able to perform many of these jobs. Here is a good blog post about this form of interview and the rationale behind it:
http://www.goodmath.org/blog/2015/11/19/technical-interviews...
Seconded!

Being "healthy" is the realization of two interacting random processes: things that are in your control and things that are not. The tricky part is that the division between these categories is really fuzzy and markedly different for everyone.

The link between cause and effect is also likely less simple than wellness models predict. Started running? You might feel good now but not realize that you're exacerbating the arthritis your genetics predisposes you to in 20 years. Stopped smoking? Awesome! But why did your employer put you in a state of constant chronic stress for 10 years resulting in elevated cortisol that resulted in a stroke?

The path between cause and effect is very difficult if not practically impossible to trace out for populations. So although wellness programs are not as sinister as some believe, they definitely are not as nice or positive as they present themselves, either.
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Not enough data yet. As court orders are served against entities, in this case a company, but agreements/contracts can also be made with an entity, a company has some unique properties many living organic entities do not posses, namely the ability to die, go bankrupt, cease to exist and then after a period of time come back to life again.
Maybe Lavabit is a phoenix?
That $45/day vs. $5/month comparison ignores the set up and maintenance costs of your personal instance. You would also have to train models, keep them up to date, etc. If you are happy trading your dev time that way, fine, but the value proposition of APIs are clear.
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No, not directly, but indirectly people would be afraid of further radical policy changes by China. Investors would move their money out of China. Or at least, that's what I'd do.
You're arguing from a different definition under which nobody but Adobe ever had the possibility to "kill" flash. I doubt there's much disagreement that Apple's refusal of flash on iOS was the most significant factor in its demise. Without it, Adobe would to this day happily rake in the cash.

It's also a good reminder of the positive influence Apple has often had. Remember that "no flash" was the "no Esc" of its time, and that they had to go all-out to defend it (http://www.apple.com/hotnews/thoughts-on-flash/). 6 years later, it stands as one of the rare cases where a proprietary technology was replaced by an open standard.
If Metaknowledge becomes a widely-used technique, will people be able to game it?

For instance, if you have a resturant review site, and someone logs into rate their own place highly, can they get more weight by going to a couple of other reviews and rating it as the crowd did?