skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This hardly works when people scrape Twilio to find vacant numbers to spoof on caller ID.
Workers' Trash-Talk Goes Down When Leadership Diversity Goes Up
Too vague!

Since 1990, US population has increased 30% while the (inflation corrected) GDP has increased 90%. So something improved. I'm going to (arbitrarily) say it was computer literacy, since home PC ownership went from 15% of households to 85% of households in that time period.

What can you counter with to say that the improvements were from market efficiency? If we never had HFT, how much lower would the GDP be?
Pakistan :) but I know a dev from Switzerland whose rate is much higher than the US devs.. never heard him complain.

Honestly, all the devs I've spoken to at Toptal love working here, and I'm no exception. But you should really try it out.. at worst, you'll fail and you'd be exactly where you are right now.
Sure it's expensive, but we're talking about your primary input device which you use for hours every day. If your job is in front of a computer, do yourself a huge favor and get a decent keyboard, display, and chair. You also amortize that cost over a very long time--these keyboards last forever. My 20 year-old Kinesis (with a USB dongle) works just as good today as it did when I bought it.

But to your point, it's a leap that most people have to take on faith, as they probably can't find one to demo. I had the good fortune of having a coworker with one so I could try it first; a couple minutes with the Kinesis was all it took to sell me. The same's happened in my current office; now 4-5 people use them. But to the average person who can't try before they buy, it's a leap, and I'm sure that's hindered adoption significantly.

You're right on the current model's escape/function keys, looks like they're mechanical now--excellent! All of mine are older models.
The article doesn't make a point backed up by data, though. For example, the US spends much more than Canada per capita on schools yet performs worse.

http://www.cbsnews.com/news/us-education-spending-tops-globa...
> 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?

It's worth noting that the quote from the article and this question are not at all the same thing. National economies are big complicated things.

Aside from the USA, few countries without+ universal healthcare have high rates of what we in the US would consider entrepreneurial activity (e.g., excluding "self-employed" subsistence farmers and the like). But the USA is one of if not the most entrepreneurial country. Again, those two facts tell us basically nothing about the effect of health care systems on entrepreneurship. Trust me, South Sudan's lack of functional universal healthcare is not the reason they haven't usurped SV...

People try to study the actual effect by controlling for other variables. Unsurprisingly, "it's complicated" and also EXTREMELY politicized, so you can find studies on both sides of the issue.

+ But does the US "not have" universal healthcare? cf Canada/western Europe and the answer is yes, but cf other countries and medicare/medicaide and the answer is more fuzzy.
Citizenship in the 'age of uncertainty'
Yeah. I really don't get why they focused on its gargoyle feature, which (rightly so) raised serious concerns about privacy, and downplayed AR. The obvious target market, other than geeks, would have been bikers. They'd find both gargoyle and AR very useful for swarm coordination. And military, of course. Perfect for infantry. But that's probably in quiet development.
You can download my Firefox plugin to bypass the WSJ paywall (also bypasses FT paywall):
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/bypasspaywall...

And if you want the Chrome version you will need to manually download it:
http://bypasspaywalls.weebly.com/
Does anyone know what the applicant side of this looks like? I can't find anything about this on their site.
Bringing neural networks to cellphones
Do any browsers already provide a way to refuse pushed resources?
Ask HN: What are you trying to automate?
I am a UI designer in the States, and I've been working on moving to Toronto to be with my partner. I was going to keep my US job, and work remotely, but boy, it'd sure be easier with a Canadian job offer.
This is such bullshit. I applied for their private beta and never got a response.
Such a broad and unqualified statement is not plausible and reeks of fanboyism.
Obviously not. Rent a car for a week seems cheap. Can I keep it forever?
Yes. Yes historical accuracy matters! (Wars have literally been fought over the correct name and owner of this land, and launched with the false belief that what we call, "Palestine" today existed before Israel existed. This simply is not true.)
Install Linux?
I use Gmail drafts. Very effective, always there, searchable, formattable, attach docs, etc.
I think you're confusing percentage of concentration with the threshold of potency.
Cool you have tersewriter! I have to really get my act together on blogging and I think this might help.

Have you thought about the potential of your suite of products? Thoughtwriter, Tersewriter, the app you use to save things? I would probably polish them up and not charge anything for initial usage. If people want multiple whiteboards, or want to save their Tersewriter blog posts, you could charge for that.
How did you calculate the income tax in both places?

If I put $100,000 US dollars in this[1] calculator I get an income tax rate of 34% for central park west in NYC (not including the employer side of FICA, which would at another 7.5% for a total of 41%).

If I put $126,000 into this[2] calculator, I get an income tax rate of 31% of Ontario. Maybe there are other Canadian income taxes that this calculator does not account for? I'm American and don't know the details. The EI (Employment Insurance) is also taken out in America, but not usually included as an income tax.

[1] https://smartasset.com/taxes/new-york-tax-calculator#UYCGKmA...
Total income: $100,000
Federal	$17,443
FICA	$7,650
State	$5,610
Local	$3,234
Total Income Taxes $33,937

[2] https://simpletax.ca/calculator
Total income $ 126,000
Federal tax $ 22,752
Provincial tax $ 12,511
CPP/EI premiums $ 3,400
Total tax $ 38,664
Laws are merely barriers to work around, incentives guide what's going to be attempted. Making something illegal adds some negative incentive, but isn't nearly as good a solution as simply having positive incentive to do the right thing.
Twilio is a business with a full KYC process this isn't an anonymous service.
You could also charge for team collaboration on the white board or editors helping out on tersewriter. Sorry to go on and on about the suite of products when you just asked about Thoughtwriter, but I think there's potential here.
This article has some shoddy logic. For the vast majority of drugs, the actual marginal manufacturing price per pill is essentially zero. That means that when the expired pills are thrown away and new pills are manufactured, there is no true economic loss. Rather, all that potentially happens is a transfer between the consumer and the manufacturer.

If pill prices were set by some external force, this could at least be an important society-wide transfer. But in fact, in equilibrium pill prices will be affected by the expected rate at which pills expire without being consumed. Even when manufactures have a monopoly, the manufacturer-surplus maximizing price is determined by the demand curve of the consumer which takes into account the expiry rate of pills. (If 10% of pills expire before I consume them, they are worth 10% less to me in expectation.)

Yes, I'm sure there are market model where expiry dates create net economic drag, or a net value transfer between manufacturer and consumer, but it's not even clear which direction the transfer goes. Such an analysis depends on the details of the world and how they are reflected in your model, which are completely absent in this article. Most importantly, the intuition that "letting $100 pills expire for no good reason must cause $100 of damage" is completely false when the marginal cost of manufacturing is low.

(There are exceptions where the marginal manufacturing process is expensive, but the article doesn't focus on these.)
I hated it when they abandoned it, because I was so excited about the tech for so long. I think maybe the public just wasn't ready for it then. They probably still aren't now, but this could be an excellent way for them to get more comfortable with it.
Can small businesses survive on the internet?
If you can write a <script> tag that references app.ab9a9a09fe9.js, presumably you can write a HTTP header that references that same file, no?
Reading this article reminds me how tedious it is to customise Windows. All these manual steps in system dialogs, registry and so on have to be repeated every time you want to re-install Windows.

I wanted to run a command as admin on startup recently and had to create a scheduled task for this, which of course will be lost the next time I reinstall. Same for services, etc.
Mods truncate title to "Stop writing PHP" TIA
The coolest thing I ever did was bundle native libs for Linux, OSX and Windows in an applet, that let me access OpenGL in a Java applet years before WebGL was a thing. We had the technology to do real 3d-accelerated graphics in a type-safe jit-compiled language with a great IDE 15 years ago already.
Alan Lomax’s Timeless American Recordings Find a New Audience
Everyone on Hacker News is a bot except you.
I recommend meeting some people they know family, friends, old colleagues.
McAfee: “I will eat my di*k on national television” if Bitcoin doesn't hit $500K
So the answer to "Stop writing PHP like it's 2009" is to not write PHP at all, and write Hack instead?
The Rise of Design Systems
I do as well. But I end up still needing a white board to map out all the various dependencies etc in my project. Thoughtwriter doesn't seem to have the option to write freeform (not line by line) but if they add that, this could be super useful.
I find the tl;dr's quite useful. Even after reading the article I sometimes see the tl;dr and compare or at least confirm what I just learned in case I missed something.

I admit when they first appeared I felt the same way and didn't like them, but they have since saved me time now and then.
This is a really underrated statement. All the conventional wisdom says go intervals not the treadmill slug and make fun of "cardio bunnies" at the gyms. This can be highly misleading to newcomers: turns out intervals aren't fun and people just stop doing them, and exercise that you don't do doesn't count.
Python: All About Decorators
How recently have you used Lever? The job board integrations got a lot better near the end of last year
Right. There are something's that are so important that you only want a single machine running it and you want that machine to have all of the redundancy built in.

I'm not saying that distributed systems are great...I make my living off of them...I'm just saying that there are classes of business problems where the risk calculation still comes down on the side of mainframes...and probably always will.

The COBOL comment...whatever. To each their own. I think its cool. IBM embraced web services in a huge way so basically any COBOL function can be turned into a web service automatically. The number of people who know how to work on these things is pretty small and getting smaller. You sound like you are comfortable with the risk involved in a startup. I'm not. Lot's of people aren't.

I sincerely hope it works out for you though. Good luck. It sounds like you are working on something really cool.
Mark Bittman is one of the people behind Purple Carrot.
So how long until Google offers screening/scoring/vetting of applicants based on the data it has about all of us?

All voluntary of course, if you can afford to decline. This isn't far fetched. Employers have asked to access Facebook accounts before, which is extreme and will never catch on (I think).

But allowing Google to rank and match applicants to particular roles may seem harmless enough to many, and then it will become very difficult for anyone to say no.
And to add into that, dosage studies are rarely adequately done for most drugs. The dose we take is often a best guess and may be twice or more than we need, so 10% is even more inconsequential.
I mean, these are topics that have been discussed countless times over the years and in some cases decades.

It's all well and good to say we need generalizable machines, and something other than backprop, and something closer to traditional programs, but we all know this. The issue is that no one knows what this would even mean, never mind how one would go about implementing it. In the few cases we do know how, the results are horrible compared to the methods we already use.

We use the methods we do today because they work, not because we think they are the best, or because we don't understand the limitations of our models.
use case: Alexa walking me thru preparing a meal for 4. learning my tastes and diet - making recommendations when asked.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-07-13/they-re-t...
Oh. Right. And a family with kids, probably with some debt is going to get ID's (cost) and all the riddiculous paperwork (more cost), get passports (even more cost) pack up, switch countries (COOOOOST) and magically be allowed to work there even though they are not citizens?
Right.

People voluntarily work at places where you have to piss yourself because you can't have a bathroom break.

I don't even.
Disclosure: I work at Google.

This is great feedback! I'd love to hear more - if you'd like to send me some examples of what you've seen in the past with pitfalls, I'd love to share them with the team.

Thanks!
aronchick (at) google
Thanks! Glad you like it.

That app is my next priority, and it should be released in a day or two. I'm pretty excited about it, actually. It's a list that can have 100 items max, so you never get overwhelmed by the things you save. I've added way too much to every other app I've used (Gtasks, Trello, Workflowy, Asana), so this one is designed to make that impossible.

I hadn't thought to include some direction on how to compress notes, but that's the hard part! Thanks for pointing it out.

I'm glad you like the prompts. I could totally do a special prompt of the week! Cool idea.
Hey there, could you send me an email at jeff@humble.com? Sounds like there might be something weird going on.
Interpreting neurons in an LSTM network
> What would democracy, at its purest form, in a work place look like?

Exactly like corporate governance, except that instead of stockholders with voting rights weighted by size and class of their stockholdings, the people voting on the basic rules which govern the degree and manner in which routine authority is delegated to elected directors, officers, etc., are the employees each having an equal vote.

> Would employees have voters rights over every single decision that would be made?

On a fundamental level, yes but they'd probably in practice delegate much routine authority to elected representatives who would serve like a board of directors and who would in turn likely be given, and exercise, the right to delegate some of that authority to particular individual employees (directly to officers, who then delegate to subordinate managers, etc.)
Any idea whether the chemicals they decompose into are ever more harmful than the original?
We (Triplebyte) don't ask engineers where they've worked until the end of the final interview. It's the last thing we ask (after all the technical evaluation and scoring is done). We regularly find and pass great programmers who are totally self-taught (and would have been screened out by any resume screen process). We ask about previous work at the end because we want statistics on who is applying to us. This lets us compare our process to more traditional credential screens (I write about this on our blog)
Will your company pay Google Ads?
The ability to sue is the point, companies won't respect anything less.

The telco already has proof of the caller in their call records, and consequently the party with financial responsibility, but that information is not normally available without a subpoena or FBI badge. This would be an enforcement of a chain of ownership of the call, and someone who receives a call will (should) always be able to find the responsible party for DNC violations and more.

Oh, but what if the bad caller is just a person who signed up for Mechanical Turk or whatever, an independent representative? They can provide proof that they were hired and pass the responsibility up the chain to BobJonesHawaiianVacations LLC.
Can't you just say that you've lost interest and want to do something else with your life?

Worked just fine for me at my previous company- client base shrunk to almost nothing and while we could still pay the bills and our salaries, I quit the company and moved to embedded software/hardware. Probably my best decision career-wise.
The invention of automatic switchboards annihilated the jobs of thousands of switchboard operators.

The development of advanced calculators (computers) removed the need for rooms of hundreds of engineers fiddling with slide rulers.

Microsoft Excel increased accountant efficiency by ungodly amounts, which makes their lives... harder... because they have less time to think and physically rest?

Yea I hate to say it but I have no idea what you're arguing either.
I'm a big proponent of using PHP where it's appropriate, and I've found lots of good usecases for it.

But suggesting that writing good PHP implies using a different runtime and different language, why not go to a different strictly typed C-like language altogether, like Java? It's certainly maintained better.
>More importantly, this claim is neither axiomatic nor defended by the article. How precisely do these rebates harm investors?

The rebates are effectively being taken out of retail investors' money. If the rebates did not effect brokers' behavior, there would be no point in offering them. If the rebates do effect brokers' behavior, then it means brokers are willing to accept a marginally worse price for their investors in order to get the rebate.
You will have to opt in to this viz a vi linkedIn. Otherwise building profiles falls under the fair credit reporting act.
Great comment, and I couldn't agree more.
A couple more references regarding Elasticsearch as a primary datastore:

https://www.quora.com/Why-shouldnt-I-use-Elasticsearch-as-my...

https://stackoverflow.com/q/29841348/266535
It's funny to me that so many people on the "PHP is bad" bandwagon are apparently perfectly cool with writing every damned thing in Javascript.
I'll be releasing it in a day or two. :)
Most adults don't really understand how likely 5% is. You're ascribing a level of mathematical sophistication and risk assessment to children that they simply don't possess -- not even close.
In my 25 years of living in Canada, I have to disagree with this article strongly. As an immigrant, I've realized this to be true about our socio democratic experiment: Structurally marginalize those without opportunities in order to transfer wealth from the tax payers to the tax dodgers.

I find it mildly amusing to see people talking about moving to Canada. Your mileage will vary but I'd say Montreal should be the only destination. There is a stark contrast to the rest of the Anglo speaking part of Canada which is suffering from an existential crisis as it becomes another American state. Vancouver is a lost cause and you will quickly find the 50~100% pay cut you took to scrape by to do outdoorsy hipster shit isn't going to cut it.

Although I love Canada as a nation and the things it stands for, it is far from perfect like this article will have you believe.
Yeah, since Windows Vista/7, when Documents and Settings was moved to Users, the system creates new user directories with a bunch of symbolic links/junctions that don't seem to be properly created and always cause issues when copying the directory to another place or deleting the directory. I always get this problem when moving my profile directory out of the system partition.

Incidentally, it's amazing that Windows still doesn't let you specify a custom location to create the profile directory of a new user.
s/ like.*//i
I was expecting something a bit more amazing, like image recognition of what the person is seeing and overlaying holograms over and around what the person is doing to indicate information and next steps. This is why it feels like to me that MS Hololens has more potential than Google Glass.
An argument could be made that we need a new law of programming languages:

> Given enough time, all languages converge to become Java.
At least on the server there is an option, but agreed! Also, PHP is bad.
Your reasoning seems to ignore the evidence in this article; there does seem to be a business model of fraud and, even if he did lack a fundamental understanding of the stock market, I would hope we could all agree that action needs to be taken to regulate and restrict these illegal practices. Perhaps it would not be the specific terms Sanders was describing, but unfortunately he was the only viable candidate that ostensibly wanted to do so.
Swipe Left: Privacy Practices of Online Dating Apps
Why penetration testing is an important part of IT security
A world of free movement would be $78 trillion richer
Would have answered a JS post the same way..
Seems that way. Unfortunately, this kills the #1 reason to use PHP: Easy deployment on almost any web host.
This is true, but no mandate on encryption in the HTTP/2 standard was an deliberate decision, one of the very few differences between HTTP/2 and SPDY. But yes, practically, you can't use HTTP/2 without encryption nowadays.
The yearly budget of New York City is around 85 billion dollars.
what was the best solution for them? out of stock creates work backorder & potential log jam req. overtime and temp workers, but avoids the out-of-stock false positive. in the end, more happy kit owners.
Ask HN: What is the most useful HN thread you have saved?
Translate friends agreement for a project into a formal document
I'd be more exited if it looked like Google had addressed some of Steve Mann's critiques from the initial announcement, but as far as I can tell, the critique is still not addressed:

http://spectrum.ieee.org/geek-life/profiles/steve-mann-my-au... (For discussion on Glass design, look for the paragraph starting: "I have mixed feelings")

FWIW it appears Mann is working with a company on a different system for mediated reality:

https://www.metavision.com/
To be honest, I long for the Mondo2000 vision of technology and culture. It seems very quaint and interesting next to the "campus dweeb" culture of Snap, FB, etc.

I have immense nostalgia for the early days of computers, when they were sold in carpeted showrooms with brochure racks by guys who needed a haircut. Those guys were changing the world forever! That heady time continued until right around when Wired replaced M2K.
>"Marathons aren't high intensity workouts."

It sounds like you've never run one. World class athletes can run an entire marathon at a sub 5m mile pace. While they could run a single mile race in 4:05 or so, it's not even remotely a low intensity effort to run a 5 minute mile, even for the fittest people on the entire planet.

Unless you've put real effort into training, 60+ year-old competitive marathoners have done a 20 minute tempo run faster than you ever have... and repeated it 7 consecutive times without rest.

Marathons are high intensity and extended efforts.