skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In the US, at least, the employee/contractor difference is based on a number of factors, but one important factor is the level of control over the person doing the work. If you're setting their working hours, or deciding which jobs they'll take or how they'll do them, or setting their wage/pricing for them, etc., those are things which point toward the "they are an employee" side of the spectrum.
Is the Internet of Things Dead?
When at the end of most meetings people go off and work on your half baked ideas. And I'm only being half facetious.
It's the GNOME style of development: as soon as a bug appears which takes effort to fix, mark it EWONTFIX, declare it to be a symptom of the inherent brokenness of the current stack, then burn the whole thing to the ground and start over. Don't even let that which was burned fertilize new growth; it is tainted and must be purged entirely.
The problem with unions is that over time they devolve into yet-another-powerstructure whose main goal seems to be self preservation rather than to protect those workers rights leading to all kinds of abuses and nonsense regulations that in fact harm those workers.
That might be a consequence of people in the US being encouraged to identify as consumers rather than citizens over the last twenty+ years. Identifying as taxpayers rather than citizens laid the groundwork for it a generation earlier.
Very valid points, especially about the type of people using the product, they're usually not tech savvy enough to do so, or care about it enough to do so.

Yeah having the IP live on the server instead of the extension itself should be enough to keep things safe.

Interesting about SalesLoft, didn't know they started out as a chrome extension :D
Yeah, would be cool :)
While users don't care, the bank (internal) security policy auditors do and a lot of them have EV cert listed as a requirement.
It's obvious that the article is spreading fear. It's full of terrifying stories.

Why is that in Bloomberg's interest? Great question. That's what I'm wondering.
Hiding comments by specific users?
That's probably true; but rural areas had alcohol problems before they had drug ones.
True but anyone who's done any "traditional" production engineering courses knows that for piece work you slow down when the time and motion guy comes round.

Let alone the Spanish practices my ex colleague who was from Red Clydside (makes Malcom Tucker look like a mummys boy) told me about "and the tea boy got a grand in a brown envelope"
It's hard to generate realistic data which can't be easily rejected with basic statistical techniques, and that also runs into the other problem that most large ISPs have or are introducing monthly quotas and traffic shaping. Most people wouldn't run a service like this and the ones who do would likely stop as soon as it interfered with their actual usage.
Hmm, does Electron really == "native" ??
You basically have to make a white list. It's not an easy thing to do and I don't know any way to do it dynamically.

Sometimes, the only way to make a whitelist is to see what's not working and add it to the list.
Can anyone comment why so many positions are temporary and contract nowadays?

How did such a shift happen whereby full-time permanent jobs became a luxury?
It is necessary to note, however, that the great filter does not necessarily occur when a civilization achieves some arbitrary technological level.

In fact, it could be at the point of single cell --> multi-cellular organisms or at the point of sexual dimorphism or developing general intelligence and ability to use tools, etc.

I guess it's also possible there are multiple Great Filters...
> "Is everyone really going to open a separate application, unlock the vault every time they want to use it (due to timeout), Ctrl+F for the URL, and then Ctrl+C out the username and password every time they want to visit a site? Also, is everyone going to create a correlated entry every time they make a new account?"

This is not how pass or KeePass work. I recommend you try them out and see if they're really that hard to use (hint: they're not).

If you really like browser integration, I also sometimes recommend using the built-in Chrome or Firefox password managers with good master passwords. They're actually easier to use than LastPass and its insecure ilk.
With a name like "Postman", one might expect this has something to do with mail, or messaging. The blog post gives no clue as to what it's for. It's apparently a test tool for testing HTTP-based APIs. [1] (HTTP "POST", get it?)

Not to be confused with Postman Corporation, which is a "computer repair shop" near CIA headquarters.

[1] https://www.getpostman.com/
Just adding one more link with a negative relationship between Political Unrest and Profits makes this much more interesting!

https://goo.gl/lL7EvY
There is another approach worth considering. The German research group Fraunhofer has come up with a good idea to enhance the spectroscopic capabilities of commodity smartphone cameras by shining light from the display onto the object being scanned. You can read about it here: http://www.iff.fraunhofer.de/en/press/2017/app-reveals-const...

The healthtech company I work for has expressed interest to CP about using the SCiO phone for a project. If that doesn't work out, we might replicate this work by Fraunhofer. We're already looking into it. And since it's not core to our business, if we do, we'll open source it too.
Interactive Map of Reddit and Subreddit Similarity Calculator (2016)
Yes, it is not 'just' from a Kantian perspective, where the suffering of one is always bad, but this is just from a utilitarian perspective, that the ends justify the means. Indeed, that percentage of people are kicked out for a proportional percent who are accepted, but after some time, there is proportional equality. Some must suffer in the short term for the benefit of many in the long term.
That depends on whether you have a bunker in New Zealand or not.
Because then you're increasing the cognitive overhead for the reader and the time commitment overhead for the writer.

But yeah, if the author wanted to make a part 3 it might be interesting to see his implementation for something like (a simplified subset of) Java bytecode.
Manufacturing is dangerous everywhere. In Europe it is safest the US is also quite safe. China is much worse, and India is a catastrophe. By doing metal work in the US and not in China or India, you are saving lives. Fewer Americans will die then Chinese or Indians would have. The woman who died, according to the article, "and entered the screened-off area around the robot to clear the fault herself." She actually went into an area that was marked as unsafe. Of course, there is a simple fix for this, which is implemented in many good factories, you can have a gate which you have to open to get into that area, and by opening the gate you flip a dead switch which must be manually turned and pressed again in order to restart the robot. Either that, or there are mats which either turn the machine off or mats which you must be standing on for the machine to stay on.

I am, however, wary of safty regulations that, for example, make it so that there has to be a shield with a saftey switch on stamping machines. Here is a video of how they work https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S_WITEHwjqI you can imagine how an unsheilded one is dangerous, but to open the polycarbonate casing for each part and close it again before stamping is far slower.

I think that instead, there should be tabular fines for companies. If an employee loses their finger in a press, then they get fined $200,000 no mater what tech was used. That leaves it up to the company to figure out a good way to prevent injuries.
The title is misleading. Please use the orignal one.
"Native"
And xe said in turn, which you completely overlooked, that at least one survey didn't bear out your claim about usage at all. Rather than ignore that inconvenient point, you could have countered with what data you actually have on text editor downloads.

You also appear to be falling into the developers are not users trap.
Maybe not Postman but at least you don't need an account: https://rest.secapps.com/ - https://httpview.secapps.com/ - #disclosure I am the author and we are making some substantial changes to make our tools available without registration
Seeing the headline I shrugged and thought to myself, "oh, I bet it's rapamycin again." That and a few other old cancer drugs routinely get studied for antiaging effects- which is cool, but somewhat less than directly applicable because of the side-effects associated with what is essentially chemo.

But here the drug is apparently a peptide, so it's presumably somewhat more benign (at least relative, mind you, to chemo.) Also easily synthesizable! I wonder if an amino acid sequence can be patented?
I'm sorry, that was not my intent. I was trying to find another video from the same conference but I may have to upload it myself. To make up for it, here is a link to the interesting/informative YouTube channel of Paul Beckwith, a climate scientist at the University of Ottawa: https://www.youtube.com/user/PaulHBeckwith/videos
More than two-thirds of cancer mutations are due to random DNA copying errors
These 'native' wrapped apps on desktop and mobile are always less in some way than a real native app. I know there is a cost benefit argument, but I personally avoid them.
But we don't really support our veterans.
New Architecture Design for Distributed Caching Fleet
That's a good point, and you're right of course. In fact I take some hopeful comfort in the notion that while the leap from organic molecules to single-cells might not have been too big, there are some indication that going to multicellular life was a leap that took quite some time. We still have reasons to hope, but we're doing almost all that we can to extinguish that hope.
It's a fairly well known tool if you're a consumer/producer of APIs for web/mobile dev. May be that's why?
BoA could absolutely do all the things you just mentioned, but all of them are more difficult than simply replacing their certificate using Comodo or some other trusted root CA.

That depends on the design of the site and their business policies. I agree though - for any sensible organization switching certs is going to be easier. But if that was really the case here, why were they asking Symantec for special favours?
Care to amplify that comment a bit for those of us in the cheap seats?
I also bought one during the crowdfunding campaign, and am pretty deeply disappointed at the difference between advertised and actual capabilities.
Thanks - this is an unusually coherent and detailed reply on this subject.
This has already been done on many long-haul routes. Fiber to the home is tougher. You can lay a tube past all the houses, but connecting to it means putting in an access box, a tube to the house, and somewhere nearby, a concentrator.
KeePass also has a handy feature that bypasses the clipboard and sends {username}{tab}{password}{enter} keystrokes directly to the browser window. The keystrokes can also be customized per web page.
And they've always had poverty problems. The underlying point is that I'm sure we cannot boil down substance abuse problems to simple boredom.
Do you have any research to back that up? How much could someone save on a car if American car makers had Asian carmakers labor costs? I think American car manufacturers have bigger problems with their products.
Tax Hero
Yeah, how dare them offer a service both riders and drivers were happy using and helped hundreds of thousands poor make more money. Wilful adults entering mutually beneficial agreements? Government can't allow that insanity. Quick! Let's regulate it to death to make sure it sucks as much as what we had before. Make sure to justify it on taxes, people will buy the narrative and blame it on the evil corporation and not on the innocent incorruptible government.
> 1. Cabs won't take credit cards by claiming "the machine is broken" when it's not, presumably so that they can avoid reporting tips or fees, or they might just skim your card.

I find more cabs don't use that excuse now since Uber has been breathing down their necks. Also, since you mention Toronto, there's the Beck Taxi iOS app. With it you can pick the pickup location, destination, hop in the cab, and when leaving the driver declares that the trip is over which charges one's PayPal account. It's not as cheap but if someone wants to use cabs over Uber based on principle then there other convenient options.
I had the pleasure of emailing the creator of Paw when he was looking at applying to YC. It's a great app and I recommend it.
I've been on the native app for a while and was very glad to switch. The pseudo-standalone Chrome app had some very weird and obnoxious behavior when navigating between applications and windows on MacOS.
I see this argument against electron again and again. Sure, sometimes its overkill - I've seen tray notification apps built with it - but sometimes, it's not. Sure it's not as efficient as something written in .Net, but its a great, hassle free way to go cross platform.

People don't complain that web IDEs are bloated and slow because they need a web browser
And the average auto worker probably thinks well its not like a "snake" in a steel rolling mill or a marsh gas explosion in a deep mine.

A snake is where a red hot slab of steal comes off the rollers and flails around the factory floor.
That and the browser notifications request for every other blog online is starting to really tick me off.
> I don't see any particular reason to subscribe to pragmatism

Reason #1: it works. I've never needed a reason #2.
One Hackernews asks some Hackernews to ask the internet to make a satire about a satire of some Hackernews. Hackernews becomes Stackoverflow.
Do you think maybe grieving families have different priorities than selling off assets right away? Or maybe they're trying to sort out among themselves who is in charge of making payments? Or maybe they can't afford payments because the breadwinner passed away?

I'm not trying to judge what you do or what situations you're a part of, but it doesn't sound much different than the "vultures on the court house steps" to me.
> that feels like either an exaggeration or someone working on a potato.

Haha, no. It depends on what you use Emacs for. Remember the old joke about Emacs being a great OS? The reality is that Emacs is a great computing environment for almost anything that deals with text and even for some completely unrelated things. If you want a cross-platform GUI then Emacs Lisp may be one of the choices available.

This caused "plugins" - Elisp applications - to flourish and over the years a lot of code was written. Long story short, I have ~640000 (not a typo) lines of Elisp in my ~/.emacs.d/ alone, not counting the built-in Elisp libraries. It takes time to load that much code, even if it's byte-compiled beforehand.
I liked paw, but postman is free. I'd consider paw at half the price because I don't spend that much time testing REST APIs, but when I do I don't mind using a better tool than httpie or curl. Postman does the job (quite well) for free.
I've been pondering a self-imposed boycott of websites with paywalls, and ads that interrupt user experience. As time goes on I am valuing my time more and more, and that five second delay mid-read (that costs me another ten to find where I was up to) when I move my cursor off the current window and end up with a pop-up, or some ad mid-article that disappears half-way resulting in a quarter screen shift in content is becoming increasingly frustrating.

Of course the flip-side is coming up with a better way. I haven't yet thought of anything glaringly obvious, but surely it involves making people happy, and not pestering them and treating them as just another set of eyes.
Very interesting. One suggestion would be the ability to collapse the side-menu and just see the live stream.
Maybe it's not "statically typed" but "strongly typed" that counts. Both Python & Ruby are strongly typed. Speaking personally, I definitely appreciate anything that helps make sure type conversions are intentional and predictable. Whether that's truly the explanation for the larger trends, I don't know, but it's a thought.
For those who haven't seen the language before, I think it's also useful to know what expression evaluation in Icon works using a recursive backtracking algorithm. This means that the most natural way of writing a string scanning parser (like the one above) more or less automatically gives you a recursive backtracking parser. Like ebiester, I too have found it to be a nice way to do certain kinds of simple string parsing.
> Not to mention network transparency when I need it

You realize that no X client draws like this nor has for 20 years right? They all use xshm to upload pixels so this "network transparency" is just buffer copying over the network. Not entirely different from a texture upload to a GPU.

> So it's a good job we're about to throw it all out and start again, eh folks?

Yes, by those of us who have been working on the same platform you claim to love, for the better part of a couple decades.
Posting this every hour is a bit needy.

https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=postlight.com
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Someone should write a webkit based ncurses! Why haven't we seen the light before !? ;)
A. EV certs are bought for a reason, the very "green bar". Customers will notice this and won't be happy about it.

B. the 9 month expiration will also make customers unhappy

Both measures will put operational pressure on Symantecs customers and eventually decrease Symantec's market share in the business.
It's not just an embedded instance of Chromium. There are APIs that bridge the gap with the operating system. One way to look at this is that the UI layer runs on HTML/CSS/Javascript. VS Code, Slack etc. are other common examples.

[Electron APIs]: https://electron.atom.io/docs/api/
With a name like "Apple", you'd think they're selling fruit!
I run a custom made freebsd pfsense box, before that it was linux with iptables.

For the iptables box, I put a second 4 port intel pro 1000 nic in my normal host, ran a VM with PCI pass through so the VM controlled the nic and used that as a router.

I think there are purpose built routers out there that will do this but it will depend on the router on how you set this up. You'd have to do research on this. Pretty sure the ubiquity routers will let you do things like this. I've done similar on open-wrt.
Really the argument gets less and less valid over time, for every one of these issues that get discovered, a patch gets made that solves the issue. The platform evolves and gets better until someone else finds an inefficiency, that seems like a pretty typical advancement to me.
We waited and waited and waited for Chrome to fix this. :/
Because the blog post is written for Postman users.
$150k/year would be a small fortune in Alabama.
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I don't know if Americans "love" congress, as much as we are just ignorant to who are what congress is. See someone from the other side, hate em, see familiar name on the ballot, vote for em.
Yes, that is exactly why it was proposed by ~derefr to

> [offer] "safe self-experimentation sites", complete with medical researchers + monitoring equipment to capture data, and nurses to help with bad reactions?

That's what this whole subthread is about.
Yep. :) Up next. (Postman founder here)
How have you managed to make an argument about embedding a web browser about GNOME?

As it were, GNOME's IDE (which I wrote) uses 0% CPU at idle.
Hey Colin! That's something we went back & forth on for a while. We're not convinced this model is the right one but seems to be the most effective duration for us to run this experiment.

The primary concern is how expectations are communicated so that all parties (fellow, employer & Segment) are all on the same page about what work is getting done, when. Definitely not saying this isn't solvable problem but for our first fellowship, we wanted to focus on running the program & supporting a handful of fellows. I'd love any suggestions you/others have around different formats for the program we could try, feel free to comment here or send me an email fouad@segment.com!
This won't help clear out methane in the short term, though.
I don't think that that's always true. I think the gold-standard for this is Slack (at least on OSX). Spotify is nice too. Both seem to combine the very best of web dev (nice presentation and service integration) while cancelling out its worst problems (like accidental browser navigation).
Haha - I'm simply stating that I'm excited to do it and not for it to be possible :P
Kind of but you can use it differently: I like writing pure modern ES6, APIs, etc. and using Babel only to compile ES5 + polyfills for old browsers. You can develop directly in most current browsers, avoid lengthy compile times, etc. and there's zero lock-in if you prefer a separate tool next year.

That's quite different from some of the dreadnaught-weight frameworks which need a huge toolchain to run Hello World. That can be worth it if you have a huge complex application which uses all of that functionality but otherwise it turns simple projects into ongoing time commitments.
I'm simply pointing out that both companies seem to think they can do what they want, due to having such large market share.

Do we know that Symantec is being malicious, or just lazy like Google's response to spam?
We do have a subscription service now called Postman Pro - does API documentation (api.getpostman.com), API Monitoring, Mock servers, Team collaboration and it has a powerful API (api.getpostman.com). More coming soon! Postman - the app will always remain free. :) (Founder here)
Maybe my math is simplistic, but a half life of 5 years gives a life expectancy of ~7 years (5 years / ln 2).

If 50x current methane levels are released over 100 years, then at steady state you have added 0.5x/year * 7 years, or 3.5x current methane levels, bringing the total to 4.5x.
Yes, the cells can be replaced. In old people, with their declining stem cell populations, that replacement will be slower and less effective. So give them lower doses over longer periods of time.

Stem cell replacement is something that should be developed for use in old people anyway; the more of that going on the better.
Is it really that crazy complicated though?

Simple browser = script src=x
Simple node = index.js

What if you want some libraries included? specify your libs in package.json and npm install.

What if you want to publish your libs? Npm publish.

What if you want to have dependency tree bundled for browser as single script? Webpack

What if you want nice types, latest features and validation for larger projects ? Typescript loader in webpack

What if you want a nice state management library? Preact /react

There's a ton of crap and different ways of doing things but I bet fundamental things are here to remain which solve a large % of use cases.

I would say things are getting simpler in some manner. You don't really need lodash and jquery nowadays. The standard js in browsers has improved quite a bit.
Such a pity that WPF was never ported to other platforms That's a UI framework that was done right in my opinion. Fast, incredibly flexible and sane.

That it's been relegated to boring internal only enterprise app development is pretty sad. I enjoyed working with it immensely.
It is a shame that this is just being discussed for use by fiber. If they are going to dig up the roads, you need to put in multiple types of conduit for use by telecom, electric, water, etc.
I can think of a few things:

- global competition, in that factory workers are competing against the pay/living-standards of those in poorer nations

- no unions

- a preparedness of employees to work for a pittance, towards unobtainable quotas, in unsafe conditions, for dangerously long periods of time.

I'm not sure work gets any more full-time than 12 hours a day, 7 days a week. "Full-time permanent" sounds like semantics and a loophole for companies to exploit.