skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Glassdoor.com is about the closest to that. At least you can get a high level feel on whether the company is a dumpster fire or not.

So the trick with that idea, and I think it's a valuable one, is how to monetize it. Companies that do recruiting are paid by the companies. Who would pay the companies that work for the developer / contractor?
Regardless of the quality of the article, it's refreshing to see so many good questions and concise answers in this thread (mostly about blockchains-as-distributed-ledgers). It's been a while since I saw such nice, civil and interesting technical discussion on hn.
This sort of thinking would be more useful if it was specific to Glass. As is, it's just a general worry with most ways to make humans more productive.
How are Spectacles selling? I assume they're doing better than Glass even though I've never seen them in the wild.
Honestly the only two things I need from a workout logger are:

1) A timer - tracks rest periods (1.5 mins, 3 mins, 5 mins) and alerts when rest is over

2) set/rep tracking - I just want to know which set I am on and how many are left

everything else is icing on the cake. Would love a smart watch app that can track rests and sets/reps and upload to spreadsheet/db, which I could access from my phone or laptop once I'm home.

The biggest annoyance to me currently is having to take phone out of pocket, unlock it, tap to log.
A bit off topic, but I think it speaks to the more general issues that voters (as employees) have little say in the laws which govern their workplaces.

The notion that America is currently a functioning Democracy is still a bit up in the air for me. Americans in general have little factual policy knowledge, and for the few issues that do get fairly well covered there is a strong politicization which verges on propaganda.

More to the point - many political arguments that we see today in the national press usually has the strong cashflow backing of a few elite pocketbooks. It is likely impossible to run an apolitical cause for the public good.

If not for overwhelming politicization, is there another reason why so many US voters are basically anemic to political causes (e.g. wages, education, vacation, medical) which (in general) they could easily vote into law - but don't?

Anyway, just my opinion.

Gilens and Page[1]:

>>>What do our findings say about democracy in America? They certainly constitute troubling news for advocates of “populistic” democracy, who want governments to respond primarily or exclusively to the policy preferences of their citizens. In the United States, our findings indicate, the majority does not rule — at least not in the causal sense of actually determining policy outcomes. When a majority of citizens disagrees with economic elites and/or with organized interests, they generally lose. Moreover, because of the strong status quo bias built into the U.S. political system, even when fairly large majorities of Americans favor policy change, they generally do not get it.

Some rebuttles:

>>> Bashir and Branham/Soroka/Wlezien find that on these 185 bills, the rich got their preferred outcome 53 percent of the time and the middle class got what they wanted 47 percent of the time. The difference between the two is not statistically significant.[2]

>>> The researchers found the rich’s win rate for economic issues where there's disagreement is 57.1 percent, compared with 51.1 percent for social issues. There's a difference, but not a robust one. "The win rates for the two issue types are not statistically different from one another," Branham, Soroka, and Wlezien conclude.[2]

[1] https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/perspectives-on-poli...

[2] https://www.vox.com/2016/5/9/11502464/gilens-page-oligarchy-...
Confirm.

Sometimes though when things are really interesting but long I'll go back, upvote and then continue reading to prevent it from dropping off the page.

This is especially true if it is a story from /newest

Also with a few web sites I might upvote it first and then read it :-|
I used to camp out at various coffeeshops near my university back in mid-2000s. As poor student, I was not only trying to use free wifi but also save on power by not staying in my apartment a whole lot.

I used to rotate between various coffee shops. Many of those were independent. Starbucks was corporate evil coffeeshop where I rarely bought anything but camped out for hours.

The problem was Starbucks was the most welcoming. In some of independent coffeeshops, owners or managers would hint indirectly that I needed to buy something or they hate people on laptops.

Eventually, I would go to Starbucks by default unless I had enough money to get something more than a coffee. Hey gotta support independent coffeeshops.

Here is the funny thing now I am professional who loves coffeeshops. Starbucks is my default option still. I don't work from Starbuck anymore but easily spend about $150 there a month.

(It is kind of sad because I am sure there are independent coffeeshops that would have tolerate broke students but then those are probably near campuses and students graduate and new broke students move in. So they will never get customers for life if they are not a chain.)
Apple now allows customer support reps to respond to your App Store reviews
> "Jean Thompson, born the ten floréal year twelve (30 april 1804)". So the regular latin date is clearly mentioned on that document.

I depends a lot on the documents. A lot of historical French documents only have the Republican date written. Even at the time anyway, it would not have been difficult to find the corresponding Gregorian date, even in England probably.
Unicomp, the company formed by a staff buyout of IBM's keyboard division, offer a real mechanical in Sun "UNIX" layout: http://www.pckeyboard.com/page/product/40PSA

It's a dream to type on and has the 'right' layout. It's not cheap or quiet, but it really is the best keyboard I've ever used. I'd kill for an affordable HHKB-sized Model M from Unicomp.
Possibly by design, as the political parties and news media find it in their interest to antagonize groups against one another.
There's basically a single statement about Denmark and it merely an example that a high tax burden isn't universally harmful. A reasonable counterexample would be a country with a high tax rate that is in terrible conditions caused by it rather than pointing out that Denmark isn't perfect (which is a straw man argument in the first place).

There conflation of paying taxes and "more government" is also on display on in this comment that isn't true. You can have a large poor government or a large well funded government.

I think ultimately the article makes a good point about Canadian's attitude towards taxation and services. Canadian's understand that you get what you pay for. If you want nothing then pay nothing but that means you get poor schools, crumbling roads, and crippling healthcare bills.
Is this a USA solution only, or also applicable in UK, EU, Rest of World?
This argument has always interested me:

"Because Canadian entrepreneurs can quit their day jobs without their spouse losing access to dialysis, or their children losing access to pediatricians, such a system allows business-builders more professional freedom."

Does the data show that countries with single payer, or even individual-based (not employer) health care, have greater percentages of entrepreneurs? How about overall entrepreneurial outcomes?
I think you might be grossly underestimating the psychological impact of spending 6 months inside a place the size of an apartment with no day or night cycle, a constant feeling of weightlessness, and no ability to go outside or feel things like wind or rain.
> 1. Only use private messages when you absolutely have to

Disagree. Private messages are the analog of walking over to someone and just talking to them, and one-on-one discussion has valid purposes (e.g. discussing user stories or parts of the design before writing a spec).

> 2. NEVER EVER do this: @ username can i ask you a question? Just ask the question.

YES YES YES. This is a huge problem, esp. with colleagues from cultures where this bullshit is considered polite.

> 5. Don’t stare at your chat client all day, it’s easy to fool yourself into thinking replying to chats is the same as being productive.

I have to work on this. I have three monitors, one of which is reserved for Slack (and Outlook). Maybe I should cut that out for a while.
I've had a surprising amount of traffic using a simple referral program.
Right, but how does "market efficiency" trickle through the rest of society? I can't even find anything that quantifies market efficiency, let alone anyone who has tracked it over the years.
TBH I don't really understand what you are trying to say, but if you submit at "the start" and that is a single moment in time then participants have every incentive to wait until the last possible microsecond before that moment to determine their bids/asks.
Also only 1 req/sec on the free plan
"low tax, anti-government strongholds of NYC and DC"

Compared to the author's Ontario, Canada? Yes, they are.
This was my comment

> Perhaps Soylent/Joylent/etc is good when you're in a hurry but I wouldn't like to base my general diet on them

it was followed by this

> I'm pretty sure that Jimmy Joy (Joylent) is still better-balanced food than what you prepare in a house or buy in a restaurant.
Being able to work more had never really changed a thing in the grand scheme of all things ( Ford,.. ). Everything automated like a human is a real challenge, in my perspective
That's a good point.

Microsoft's mission statement was once "A computer on every desk, running Microsoft software". Mission accomplished in the 1990s.
I never said it was the same thing and I didn't make an argument.

If you think "true freedom" is the ability to choose between minimum wage servitude and a (substantially criminalized) panhandling lifestyle that doesn't say much for your conception of freedom.
Free or not free aside, my question is, does it matter to personal users between this free-for-personal-use license and any of those more permissive licenses like MIT, BSD, or GPL?
>I wonder for certain drugs how much of a difference 98% potency is vs 100%. Surely that 2% must matter.

Why is this a "surely"? On a scale of 100%, 2% is 2% because it's not hugely significant.
Ten Process Injection Techniques: A Technical Survey
Not any more than is absolutely required by law. I would render aid should I come upon someone of the Horse Peoples tribe who had collapsed, but that's about as far as it goes. Their ways...they are strange, their speech garbled.
Glad to see Deep Learning "coming down to earth". This is the first high profile post I've seen that spells out exactly how DL models will become reconfigurable, purpose-built tools, and what a workflow might look like. We're still a long way aways from treating them like software components.
Stop writing PHP like it's 2009
As an addendum; the bar is extremely low for developers in Canada. If you show up on time, smell nice, and put on a smile, you will be lauded with awards, compliments, raises, and time off.
At the risk of sounding silly, what advantage does this provide over buying a $20 TracFone for cash and activating it without an account on TracFone.com over a public Wi-Fi?

Or, better yet, not bothering to "activate" it, but using it only over Wi-Fi, creating a new Google account, and downloading Talkatone (or the Hangouts Messenger to create a Google Voice account connected to your new account)?
How is mispriced markets a problem? If institutional investors are buying and selling at roughly the same rate, and the mis-pricing occurs in either direction, there will be more noise, but over time it would balance out. Sometimes you'll pay 1% too much, sometimes 1% too little, but it would balance itself out in the long run.

Am I missing something here?
While non zero, the spherical shape and minimal ISS airflow generally makes this a non issue. You can use those reaction wheels to calibrate very precise adjustments over time, you can also just bump into something to get rid of excess rotation.

Note, space telescopes effectively use both approaches.
GnuPG: vital to online security but free and underfunded
Whats wrong with them making money from their efforts.
I don't want no 'wantarray'
Thanks, that was a good read.
How to Steal a Phone Number Using Signaling System 7
Extradict: Extra dictionary types for Python – starting with a versioned dict
The real world is continuous. It cannot be quantized.
It might be nice to save as well:

(1) the tweet-detail page, for the tweet that includes the link;

(2) the t.co mapping, so that the tweet-detail page's t.co link can somehow be resolved to the (archived) page to which it links.

I don't think there are any blocks against doing (1).

Unfortunately for (2), Twitter has a blanket robots.txt prohibition in place for domain t.co. Perhaps IA could be convinced to ignore that robots.txt in the public interest.

Alternatively, perhaps another site could be set up that itself accepts t.co link-paths, in the background queries t.co, and returns both an HTML page and working redirect that isn't robots.txt-blocked. LinkArchiver (and any other similar sites) could as a convention archive responses of this other site whenever they'd like to archive t.co.
Completely delusional about Hedge Fund profitability.
When working with biological systems, most of the time your acceptable error margin is between 10-25%. There are a few compounds (like fentanyl or LSD) where the dosages are so small and the compound so potent that 10-25% makes a difference but for the majority, precision isn't that critical. The ones where it does matter are tightly controlled and clinically applied by a professional with active monitoring.

The only drugs that weren't within 10% of their original concentrations, according to the study, were amphetamines and aspirin. I can't think of any uses off the top of my head for those two where even 25% would make much of a difference to outcomes - amphetamines are mostly used as general purpose stimulants or to treat ADD and aspirin is not the blood thinner of choice for life and death situations. With amphetamines especially, what you eat and small factors like blood pH can have a massive impact on their effectiveness so we're already talking 10-20% differences day by day, let alone person to person.
Writing Java game applets was what got me started in software development back in the late 90's. Game development in Java was always a huge challenge for several reasons; perceived (and real) slowness, slow startup, distribution, etc.... But putting a game in a web page anyone could play was really cool back then (to me at least). Lwjgl was always one of the marquee projects. The lack of value types[1] in Java has always been a hindrance, in particular when doing vector math calculations for physics simulations. And now all these years later, Java still doesn't have them. It's been many years since I've checked, but once there were several gifted indie game developers using Java, Notch being the biggest success story from that scene. Other than Minecraft, I've not heard of any popular games implemented in Java, has there been any?

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Valhalla_(Java_languag...
UK is mainly caving with just enough diving to clear sumps. You see people with a helmet and a single 3L cylinder. Florida and Mexico are the opposite, the scene comes out of diving, big and lots of cylinders and/or rebreather is the norm. And no helmets.
bandwidth perhaps?
I thought it it was illegal to have certain controlled substances past the prescription. So if you were prescribed a month's supply of oxycontin and got pulled over with it on your passenger seat a year later, you were breaking the law.
Even more absurd that people felt it warranted tattling to HR.

In poor taste for sure, but it was a bad joke at worst. I think people are going to be quick to call "sexism in the workplace" after all the Uber drama. Next chance to get in the spotlight.
> today is 20 Messidor, an 225

Hmm... according to my own implementation of the calendar[0] we are actually 30 Messidor, an 225. Same according to the Android app I use on my phone. Do you have a link to the source of Emacs' implementation?

[0] https://github.com/seeschloss/floreal and a graphical calendar here: http://ssz.fr/republique/

Edit thinking about it, many implementations do not really go beyond 1806 and do not count leap years (année sextiles which have six extra days instead of five) after then (as before this date, leap years were supposed to be calculated from the actual sun movements instead of regularly spaced). This might be the reason for the change.
Related soft piece on getting your first 100 users:

https://medium.com/@mobitar/how-to-get-your-first-100-users-...
What is a "more dedicated language" in this respect? Your options are C, C++, or Rust. Same usual comparisons apply, I don't think wasm is particularly different enough of a situation to have any special advantages.
Yes, it's a door, but they told the regulators it was a window. That's a bug in the spec.
> It’s important to understand that HTTP/2 requires secure connectivity. Only websites with HTTPS enabled can take advantage of HTTP/2 and its performance optimizations, like server push and header compression.

Pedantically, this is not correct. HTTP/2 does not mandate any encryption. But, all the browser vendors only support HTTP/2 with TLS. https://http2.github.io/faq/#does-http2-require-encryption
Bisq team member here, thanks everyone for the feedback so far. Happy to field further questions. Ask us anything...
Canada is far from perfect. We too have infrastructure deficits, the city I live in suffers from incompetent city planning (although recently it's gotten better), our house prices are insane, and the cost of living is very high.

That being said, the one thing I think Canada does 100x better is politics. Mainly because Canadians generally don't 'belong' to a political party or movement. Almost everyone here will vote almost any direction, depending on the issues at hand and happiness with the status quo. Identity politics is also non-existent here. This leads to a political class which is somewhat more pragmatic, less ideological, and certainly less extreme.

Also, at lower levels of government, politicians are more likely to be unaligned with any party, and at the provincial level the political parties vary by province and most aren't aligned with the federal parties.

So in general, I'd say Canada's advantage is simply that politics isn't as stratified. But again, while our country is amazing IMO, it's not perfect.
Yev, months ago I contacted sales through the form, inquiring about B2 cloud storage for a multi-tenant enterprise app. Never heard back. Can you point me to a non sales@ email address, rather someone I can discuss my inquiry with? Thanks
Infosec ethics in zero days, exploits and attribution
Chile Converted 11M Acres of Land into Protected National Parks
At present I'm using a provider in Lithuania called time4vps. Overall the service is good (assuming you are connecting from Europe) but to use their website I have to disable my ad-blocking & privacy add-ons, which I don't have to do on other providers' sites. Not sure why that is.

I'll probably try Delimiter once they start offering service in London, as they also have some similar low cost + high storage plans.
Using Seaborn Python Package for Creating Heatmap
It makes me angry, modern keyboards still have rows with half-key offset, why?

"Ortholinear" are not problematic for casual typists, and makes typing with all 10 fingers a lot easier.
The desire for privacy is not "false modesty"; given the sentence you just uttered, I'm not convinced you even know what false modesty even means. People have a hard enough time even talking to doctors about embarrassing or sensitive issues, put a camera in the room and they simply won't, privacy is a need for most human beings, it's not false, it's not fake or done out of a desire to appear a particular way, it's a psychological need. Most people are not exhibitionists, they do not like being watched, they do not like being recorded, and it's not remotely something they do for appearances, a.k.a. false modesty.
How supercomputers are uniting the US and China
I wrote an article detailing how to write a Linked List in JavaScript
AT&T, pre-Internet, had 10 major regions in the US, and switches had a fixed list of primary, secondary, and tertiary routes. The first "centralization" was simply that the priorities in the routing tables were changed every few minutes based on load. But if the central routing planner went down or was unreachable, everything still worked, just not as optimally.

What you don't want is software-defined networking where every new flow goes to Master Control for validation and routing. Some SDN systems do that, and they have a central point of failure and censorship.
Anything in windows seems to have the potential to slow down the machine a lot. I'm not sure why that is but process priorities don't seem to be well implemented.

Turning off Windows Defender makes Windows Update run much faster.
A number having high usage history does not necessarily mean it still is being used. Providing these numbers to the customer is a neat idea, but since they only provide an indicator for how it _was_ used they won't have much value. It might also be a bad PR move since users will draw conclusions from that history that might not be true.
Another facet to this is "Medication Adherence" which is defined generally as taking medication properly, but which the drug industry defines as taking all of your medication, and getting a refill for more. Speaking only as a lobbyist who has (regrettably) worked for a Pharmacy Benefit Manager in the past, there is tremendous amount of money and thought being put into how to get patients to take all of their medication. The belief is that this will lead to patients refiling that prescriptions, oh and probably help them overall, but refills are the number one priority for the drug industry.
For any unfamiliar, this is the library Minecraft was originally built on. I've used it to develop some graphically intensive programming tools myself, and have always been pleased.
> There are too many variables that affect the drug uptake far more than 2%, such as (...)

...or in case of tablets that come in 2x/4x the dose and you need to cut them in half/four pieces, the precision of your cut and amount of tablet dust that is lost.
Adjusting for the exchange rate and using my own salary as a test, my income tax in Ontario is double that of somebody living in NYC.

Also our sales tax is 13% in Ontario versus 8.875% in NYC.

From what I can tell residential property tax rates are pretty similar.
Aren't there many drugs that hospitals need to have at hand, but are rarely used? Things like antivenins, anti-rabies serums, or other agents that are only reached for in extreme cases. It may not be a high proportion compared to what hospitals are using on a daily basis, of course (but they might be proportionally more expensive, too).
Disdainful of H-1Bs, Trump expands a different foreign worker visa
All of those questions apply to air pollution.
And if 2% does matter, you'd better make sure you can measure both the dose and your weight to better than that accuracy.
Except that Denmark was named the "Happiest Country to live" in 2016, and got 2nd Happiest country to live in 2017[0].

From the article, this is based on:

-social happiness

-freedom to make life decisions

-generosity & social support

-good governance & public trust

-honesty

-health & life Expectancy

-income & income inequality

-GDP per capita

[0]United Nations World Happiness report http://worldhappiness.report/
I would consider again moving to OrientDB. I've tried it before and was dissatisfied. Indexing a small 3GB dataset of CSVs crashed badly...

Test well before you move forward.

EDIT: Also Neo4j Community is pretty good. What are your requirements?
"Socialism is an illusion"
...
" please do not try to put one system above other"

I guess then it's ok to put one below...