skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Eh there's a lot of variation in those studies. Notice in this table that people who exercise regularly do successfully maintain: http://ajcn.nutrition.org/content/74/5/579/T2.expansion.html
Game looks pretty cool
The instant on feature is generally just a standby mode, which can consume a fairly substantial amount of power.

I've also found that disabling the 'instant on' feature of my TV makes it perform much better. When I used the standby mode, apps would occasionally crash or stop responding after a few hours. The only way to get them to work again was to unplug the TV.

I never have to unplug the TV now that I've disabled instant on.

That being said, I own a Samsung TV, which has the worst software of any TV I've used, except for Philips, which was worse only because the TV I owned didn't support SSH keys longer than 48-bits or something really stupid like that.

Ideally I'd be able to purchase a non-smart TV that turned on instantly, but I don't see that happening any time soon.
> "Hey engineer A, you're just as good as B, but we're going to pay you less..."

Let's face it. As an employee, you want to earn as much as you can. As a company, you want to make as much profit as you can, which means that you base your target pay on market rate (be it above or below market rate).

Market rate is set by the competition. Really it's "we're going to pay you enough that you don't leave to work for someone else", and that's it.

If an employer gives you a cost-of-living bonus for high-rent areas, the reason is that they're competing for you against other companies who do the same thing. The same applies to any pay difference based on locality, whether local or remote. It simply depends on who they're competing with for your services.

This isn't evil. It's how the market works.
I eat in an 8 hour block. It started years ago when I wanted to hit "race weight". I stopped eating anything after 8PM (usually 7PM) so I wouldn't go to bed with food on my stomach. I slept better, and I am active after eating (walk with the family around the neighborhood), which reduces storage of calories. I was already skipping breakfast most days due to convenience.
That is true for literally anything, from food, education, jobs, lifestyle, etc. Why would just health-care be so different to all those other necessities?
And if you're tired of doing that by hand, you can... write a macro that'll do that for you. In fact, those were already written, and are available in many libraries as well as featured in many books.

See e.g. Alexandria[0] for with-gensyms (automatically binding your variables to gensyms) and once-only (similar, but ensures the value will be evaluated only once).

Also note that lack of hygiene is actually a useful feature - it allows macros to capture variables from code passed to it as well as the environment they expand it. Some cool stuff can be done that way (some uncool foot-shooting too, though).

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[0] - https://common-lisp.net/project/alexandria/draft/alexandria....
Maybe you should look at glassdoor or something for a near by city and see if it's worth the move.
> School barely gave me basics in 13 years and I could of learned all of that in less than a year.

Oh the irony...
Right on. Anything can be an instrument from a 5 gallon bucket to a $100,000 concert piano. I never understood the snobbery, even among hacker crowds even, for people using certain tools to create music. Heck my C64 made music to the tune of Daisy and it was super cool. If someone wants to produce live music I am all for that.

PS Punk Rock and Indie Rock still is better then whatever else anyone else listens to :) Just jokes.
I think it's it hilarious (and true that academia often chooses poor names).
"Facebook revoked users’ ability to remain unsearchable on the site; meanwhile, its chief executive, Mark Zuckerberg, was buying up four houses surrounding his Palo Alto home to preserve his own privacy. Sean Spicer, the White House press secretary, has defended President Trump’s secretive meetings at his personal golf clubs, saying he is “entitled to a bit of privacy,”

That said, privacy is being commoditized for everyone as well with tools such as Snapchat, the Epic Privacy Browser and TOR.
For those asking what the point of this is, I'm not the poster but I found it very useful a few months ago in a sample solution to a programming class: https://github.com/Warbo/aai-2016-17/tree/master/lab01

Most of the students would waste most of their time in lab sessions adding and removing printf statements to one huge `main` function, and trawling through the resulting mess on the console.

I was quite satisfying to guide them through the process of:

- Articulating exactly what they're looking for in the console (e.g. "these numbers should add up to the same as that")

- Have them write that down in the code (e.g. `mu_assert("results add up", x + y == z);`)

- Remove the corresponding printf calls

Due to sheer amount of output from printf, many students had cobbled together elaborate nested-if-based one-char-at-a-time scanf-parser menu systems to choose which parts of the program to run with which inputs; the results being far more complicated than the actual programming assignments they'd been given! Since tests only output when they fail, all of this complication could be thrown away.

Then, the magic parts:

- Leave the tests in place, so they'll be checked every time

- Keep adding more tests to narrow down a problem more specifically

- Wrap the tests in `for (int i = 0; i < 1000000; i++) { ... }` to check far more cases than would be feasible manually

Besides driving home the idea of automation, testing across many inputs in a loop usually made debugging easier. Due to the effort of setting up, checking and tearing out printf debugging statements, many students had skipped checking trivial cases like 0 and 1, and instead were trying to wade through the output for an input like 50. Adding a loop caused those trivial cases to be checked, and the problems became obvious :)
You need to understand what your definition of success is, this may take a while to formulate and will also change over time. If you want to be more involved with business side functions then knowing different personality types and how to work with them will help you be successful.

No matter what profession you are in, there will be office politics or team dynamics to some extent. Different sets of personalities interact differently.

Focus on what you like best about writing software and try to find companies that allow you to do more of that and less BS.
People make less money in Canada, the UK, Netherlands, etc. which all have single payer. It's cheaper.

I'm not saying it's easy to get there. But it can be done by popular will.
This is pretty cool, but I fear that it could distract from the obvious issue: the vast majority of federal expenditure goes to defense and elder welfare.

The problems are simple yet nobody in the political spheres wants to acknowledge them: we spend way too much on SS/Medicare relative to taxation, and the more people off the payrolls and on the old dole, the worse off the country is, year by year.

Instead we get mislead about tax rates versus revenue, and are inundated with various "Welfare Queen"-type stories to keep us distracted from the most glaring budget problems we have.

The thing that pisses me off the most is that by the time the bill comes due and the younger generations have to pay off the debt incurred by their parents and grandparents, most of them will be too long dead to see how their collective greed bankrupted their own progeny.
While I can't comment on Travis CI, Gitlab from what I understand, used to hire a 3rd party company that would perform research (based on cost of living, taxes etc.) to gauge your salary (across different regions).

That said, what's stopping remote engineers starting to work in expensive regions (say Vancover/Toronto) and then moving to cheaper regions (Saskatchewan/Manitoba/Alberta) for example - would salaries be adjusted every time someone moves around?

In my opinion, one of the biggest benefits of working remotely would be the ability to travel the world!
Google only made it publicly visible after Microsoft publicly published this: https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/security/4022344
Vault: Thinking Differently About Secrets
We've been working on API test automation for a while and this is one of my favorite integrations so far.

The idea is that, after deploying from CI or a script, Assertible runs a series of integration/smoke tests against the app and reports the result back to GitHub via a status check.

Here's an example of a failing status check on a Go API: https://github.com/assertible/go-heroku-example/pull/5

Having immediate feedback on an actual live deployment has saved us a lot of time from manual testing.

Would love to hear your thoughts!
Why do you require scientific evidence to support opinions? What's so shocking about claiming English is "less expressive" than Latin? Care to show scientific evidence that suggests that isn't the case?

Please post your scientific references using APA format in all of your comments from now on. Anything less is a disappointment to your high standards.
Absolutely, yes, if I am the one doing the hiring. I want to know that you like technology like I do.
DigitalGlobe satellite imagery launch for OpenStreetMap
Since when is it counter-intuitive that exercise is good? I'd have thought the opposite.
I didn't say the government writes a blank check. They have a list of legitimate procedures, and fix a price for them. The administration is able to get a good price because it is in a strong bargaining position against pharmaceutical companies. However, price has historically not been a factor in deciding the medical effectiveness of a treatment. There is currently a debate on whether it should be: is it justified to cover cancer medicine costing 500.000 EUR per patient per year for life ([1], in Dutch)?

[1] http://www.mloz.be/nl/art/dure-geneesmiddelen-structurele-ma...
This is "free" as in Amazon is free to record your calls and messages and use them either as training data for AI or targeting data for advertising.
Frankly, this is bunk. If it's calories in and calories out, then there is an exact number of daily potato chips one can calculate for each person to achieve and maintain an ideal weight. You'll get just as fat on "real food".
Detecting wasted rendering time on incorrectly developed React Pure Components
It's not a lot, but 20 minutes daily walking at a good pace would be sufficient for most people to lose about 1lb / month, assuming no change in diet.
I find the auditability most interesting, I bet this could be useful for some blockchain based decentralized applications.
I'm not sure off the top of my head. Possibly. I assume you're planning something web-based, since you mention continuous scrolling? I tend to use an XMPP interface for "bot" type things, so I don't know as much about what frameworks exist for doing this stuff in a more web-centric form.
They can be revoked. Our JWTs have an ID in them. We have a revoked table. If the ID is in the revoked table, the JWT is invalid. It requires a DB hit but it is worth it for the ability to revoke them.
Mixed Content: The page at 'https://scrimba.com/casts/cast-1980' was loaded over HTTPS, but requested an insecure image 'http://i.imgur.com/k4L44Qg.png'. This content should also be served over HTTPS.

switch your imgur to https to fix the SSL for your streamcast. looks really cool though!
Well, that just got creepy. As if security wasn't an issue before.
Mascara does Not go there
> That seem initially seemed to be just tech, but no increasingly is America at large.

That doesn't seem to be the case at all, in my experience. In fact, out of all the white collar industries my friends and I are involved in, tech makes a healthy lifestyle the easiest by a loooongshot. This is part of a cultural feedback loop that also involves people's habits: probably 95% of the tech workers I know regularly exercise and are opinionated about their diet.

This may be a regional thing though; I live in the second fittest city in the country.
I'm aware of extempore; it's impressive. I actually use SuperCollider quite a lot (in vim), which is not lispy (more OO) but in a similar space. But what I want is something that can operate on music how vim operates on text, not just operating on music-written-as-text in vim!
going to college and putting money in 401k. I've dabbled in lots of other things nothings really paid off. Although, I didn't buy a house for 95K and flipped it for 125K 6 month later.
Nvidia's Metropolis platform can actually get analytics from video footage
I worked in food delivery for a few years before I was a software engineer.

- Competition is fierce. There are at least a dozen food delivery services in my metro area. They are all spending a bunch of money on search advertising and free promos.

- Drivers aren't paid for shit. I was averaging less than $6/hr on a 12 hour shift as a contractor. This was before Uber, so you had better figure out a way to pay your drivers at least as well as Uber otherwise they will just go and be Uber drivers.

- Barrier to entry is low. Any schmuck can put up a landing page with their phone number and be in the food delivery business.

There are big problems with food delivery service business models. At their core, they are just a razor-thin profit margin middleman for lazy people. Is that the business you really want to be in?
churn out as much crap as possible and see what sticks!
That would be, in its own way, even more messed-up for the economy as a whole. It would mean we're steadily replacing democratically-governed public services and market-governed businesses with VC's decisions about where to provide a "service" by throwing good money after bad.

I should be able to catch a ride somewhere without relying on the philanthropy and good-will of some rich dude.
My CS instructor once asked everyone in the class to "raise you hand if you still use an email client." My hand was the only one that went up, and a couple of people laughed and said "really?"

I think that was almost 10 years ago.
Interesting bit given how Google now makes its money:

Currently, the predominant business model for commercial search engines is advertising. The goals of the advertising business model do not always correspond to providing quality search to users. For example, in our prototype search engine one of the top results for cellular phone is "The Effect of Cellular Phone Use Upon Driver Attention", a study which explains in great detail the distractions and risk associated with conversing on a cell phone while driving. This search result came up first because of its high importance as judged by the PageRank algorithm, an approximation of citation importance on the web [Page, 98]. It is clear that a search engine which was taking money for showing cellular phone ads would have difficulty justifying the page that our system returned to its paying advertisers. For this type of reason and historical experience with other media [Bagdikian 83], we expect that advertising funded search engines will be inherently biased towards the advertisers and away from the needs of the consumers.
As someone whose career has been mostly in Java/Python/Ruby but is also comfortable with C, learning Rust has been like a step function, where each time I get stuck I correct some discrete misperception and then have an easier time. I wish I had written these down, but here is one that helped me a lot and is also a little funny:

When Rust folks talk about "move", it is not just jargon about ownership. They actually mean move to a new place in RAM. If you could do a printf("%p", foo) before and after, it would be different. So obviously if there are other pointers to that object, they aren't going to be valid anymore. Figuring this out really helped me reason about what was allowed and what wasn't. Maybe it will help out someone else too. "Oh, you mean move!" :-)
The problem is you never know if it is going to be better or worse. My experience is that it is mostly the same everywhere. What changes is the paycheck, company logo and the faces
It's just a heuristic along the lines of Occam's Razor. Competent malice is less likely than incompetence, all else being equal. Normative motivations are irrelevant.
Oops, thanks for notifying me about that!
They are beholden to school boards and parents

Yes. I don't teach K - 12 but I have taught undergrads as a grad student and adjunct, and I wish more people realized this; I wrote "Ninety-five percent of people are fine — but it’s that last five percent" (https://jakeseliger.com/2017/04/24/ninety-five-percent-of-pe...) in part to explain the problems that a tiny minority can create. For example:

Teaching, especially at the K – 12 level, really suffers from this problem. A teacher who tries to be honest and interesting risks the ire of his or her angriest, more unhinged, or most ideological students (and, even worse, their parents). Almost no teacher gets in trouble for being boring, but a teacher can get in trouble or can get in trouble for being many values of “interesting.” Even I’ve had that problem, and I’m not sure I’m that interesting an instructor, and I teach college students.
There are very few things in my life that are as productive as the gym. It helps my memory, my mental well being, my cognition and my health. I'm unsure of why you don't consider exercise to be useful. Can you explain? Below I have included a quote and link to a study that looks into exercises effects on cognition. As for people's zealousness for exercise on this site, I think its a result of people wanting to help others. For many, getting into exercise was the single best decision they felt they've made in their life. And since almost anyone can make that change, and do it for free, they're trying to spread the news. If I spend the time to recommend something as small and inconsequential as an application to someone, it seems absurd that I wouldn't recommend something like exercise. But that's just my two cents

"The evidence accumulated so far indicates that exercise is a strong promoter of cognitive health in humans. "

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3951958/
Show HN: Automatic, private time tracking for macOS
It's been a long since I used mutt regularly, but I recall that I had my mailcap setup to pipe the HTML straight to FF when I couldn't read the text version. It worked pretty well as long as images weren't embedded in the email.
When we realized physical health contributes to mental health and mental health contributes to discipline which contributes to physical health.
Or at least mostly portable. There have been breaking changes to C/C++ compilers - mandatory prototypes comes to mind. Sometime in the next 50 years, another such change is possible.
iPhones and car loans are more expensive here in Mexico.
I almost wrote C-s, but decided against it for the sake of people here who are not fluent in Emacs-speak.

Also, don't Firefox, Opera and IE use CTRL+f as well?
What about BBR sharing with BBR? Really, what is the reason this shouldn't be rolled out as the default everywhere?
On a related note, I have one of these posters on my office wall (no affiliation) https://www.timeplots.com/products/death-and-taxes-2016
Ruby gem for apple's new push notification p8 private key with jwt
This issue seems to mostly be (healthy) debate on that "can you port legacy app x to new stack y" front. It should (eventually) resolve to most people's satisfaction, but the sausage is being made in public on GitHub and that's new and frightening to some .NET veterans.

«Can / should I still use WPF? Did it secretly continue under a different name?»

You can still use WPF if you are happy with it. The Universal Windows Platform (UWP)'s .NET/XAML stack is the relatively open and acknowledged successor to WPF. It should be quite familiar to existing WPF developers and offers some nice new features and performance. Porting to UWP is still sometimes tough from WPF, but Project Centennial/the Desktop Bridge can make it a lot easier to do the transition a piece at a time.
Some states do require chargemaster transparency, e.g. https://www.oshpd.ca.gov/chargemaster/
Ahh...but what percent of malpractice payments are consumed by legal fees? Enough for many, many free lunches.

Also, if health care coverage were universal, we wouldn't need big medical settlements to cover future medical costs since those costs would already be covered.

But mistakes happen. How you deal with those mistakes is an ideological question. Do patients who suffer from those mistakes deserve large settlements to the detriment of the vastly larger amount of patients that receive quality care? The US system believes that while other countries choose to lower costs at the expense of those unlucky few.
Julia 0.6.0-rc1 new language features
Good point. Maybe things that are frequently dark - like baseboard trim?
Copy does _not_ affect compilation, only type checking. If you add Copy to a type, the generated code will not change. If you remove Copy from a type, the code will either stop compiling or be exactly the same.

The difference between a copy and a move is whether you can still use the old value, and this is checked in the type system.
AI Generates Piano Music
> This is pretty cool, but I fear that it could distract from the obvious issue: the vast majority of federal expenditure goes to defense and elder welfare.

That's what I always thought too. But the site seems to disagree? All of defense + social security is only 38%. Even if you also include all of medicare in that, you're only at 53%. Which is a majority, but not a vast one. And it probably isn't fair to really put social security in that category, because it is (sort of) self-funding (or at least, if you eliminated social security, that wouldn't just free up money to spend elsewhere).
That would be an ... interesting work environment. Probably the dev version of benevolent dictator, works great until the leader leaves, and the team is left with weaker control structures.
The egg timer seemed like an amazing idea:

set an egg timer every time I get up to talk and all eyes are on me. When the timer goes off, I am done. End of story. I can go on and on. I love to hear myself talk. I often cannot shut up. This is not really conducive to my students’ learning, however much I might enjoy it.

Many teachers feel compelled to talk because they have a captive audience, so they prattle on about their personal lives or current events instead of engaging students in the topic they're supposed to be teaching.
Both actually :-). And those aren't even all of the "composition paradigms" and they are all first class citizens in the UI.
i spent 10 years building a project studio and optimizing the workflow and patch bay so that i can be recording almost any instrument within 30 seconds or so. that was a huge breakthrough and a huge commitment!
It's a standalone app.
XKCD relevant once again: https://xkcd.com/1138/
Consider the possibility that other companies may, contrary to expectations, be willing to pay equally well. I'm not claiming this is absolutely the case, because I don't know your definition of "pays well," but at least it seems possible.
was going to say the same, seems like its a poor attempt to show how we are wasting taxpayers money on a few states hence .. we should shut down these 'wasteful' govt programs.

honestly how hard would it have been (even for beta) to show the revenue breakdown by the states also?
Isn't this self hosted, running on the windows client, so you can quickly work with small datasets that are local? Vs. Zeppelin which is hosted (or, if local, is running via docker), and would require uploading the data?

If you already have a trusted Zeppelin or Jupyter or other notebook, then this may not be needed, but if you want to keep all local, this may be a quick and easy alternative... assuming you like SQL.
Who's going to let you in the house? Also, your not paying for just you house. you also paying for the other people that waste the realtors time and money running them all around town only not to buy.