skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
University degree is not a good metrics - who cares about English literature majors or many other degrees that are next to useless in a marketplace and only indebt their students?

I think the stats I've read about were true for major cities (even smaller ones); in some the difference was up to 30%. So having a median 8% compound interest in ~7 years (1.7x multiplier) should give some nice cushion for having kids if women wisely plan for that and don't expect to get handouts from government once they are pregnant. For countryside that seems to be a different story, but there more traditional roles still work and men are more often responsible for keeping family alive and well financially.

If we want to govern wisely, we should stop squeezing every single area where women can get some benefit and look at it holistically; men are starting to get fed up with more and more demands and society can't really function well when one half of population is always treated with more priority than the other (easier admissions/exams at universities, easier hiring process, higher income during best years, less demanding work etc.).
I built a little social network for South African Expats and Travellers
That sounds simpler than what I was imagining, but you just described a sequence to memorize.
That would be the notice period. Germany is similar, it tends to be 6 weeks to the end of the quarter, and it generally applies to both employee and employer. Though it often isn't quite as applicable to the employee...what are they going to do if you don't show up, fire you?
Regarding this part:

"they had to pay soon for Free Software. None of them ever mentions ‘Software Libre’, but they all know about ‘Software Gratuit’. "

In French, we have two word for Free: Libre is for free as in free speech and gratuit is for free as in free beer.
what do you suggest for people who cannot tolerate the taste of some tap water. The one in my area taste very metallic and makes tea/coffee brewed with it have an unpleasant flavor. I bought a brita-like water filter with great reviews on amazon, but despite that, some of the metallic flavor remains. My old home had a reverse osmosis system which tasted amazing, but I'm not going to invest in a super expensive water system for the apartment I am renting. I just want good tasting water
But which Nestle Pure Life? They're not all sourced from the same place, are they?
You still haven't stated how exactly it's infringing on our right to freedom of speech.
How I Create Automatic Annotation Tools (Quals Defense)
> just having a webserver storing access logs (default of Apache and Nginx) makes you infringing it as EU IPs are now considered personal data.

That's not true. Read the 23rd point right at the top: https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/HTML/?uri=CEL...

Here's the part of it that covers your webserver: "Whereas the mere accessibility of the controller's, processor's or an intermediary's website in the Union, of an email address or of other contact details, or the use of a language generally used in the third country where the controller is established, is insufficient to ascertain such intention, [...]".
25% of US municipal drinking water fails Safety standards: https://www.popsci.com/drinking-water-standards

Those standards are also very loose IMO letting a lot of crap though that I don't want to drink on a regular basis. So, it's really more of a mixed bag than you might think.
>do you really believe that or does your job depending on you and others, believing that?

It's not a question of believing; the job exists because there's a real need to optimize the visuals. The brain has its own API (see [1], [2]) and if you don't optimize the "visual code" to it, the interface may work, but in sub-optimal ways and causing a discomfort to the user. It's like having a C program that leaks memory. It may perform the expected task, but you wouldn't say it's "right".

Margin and padding, alignment, contrast and relative positions define the structure of the interface - in the same way that you use Layout objects behind the curtain to program where every widget is placed, you should use the visual properties of separation, visual weight and rhythm to tell the user which parts are related and what is the hierarchy of the elements. If you fail to convey the structure to the user, their mental model will be wrong and the interface will be hard to use.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gestalt_psychology#Pr%C3%A4gna...

[2] http://www.scholarpedia.org/article/Gestalt_principles
Hello Everyone. :)

Story

I started a little side project with the goal to help South African expats and travellers learn more about where they are going to and make it easier to settle in by connecting with fellow South Africans who's already there or who's also getting ready to depart.

Features

Each registered user gets a personal profile page with a bio and passport stamps of where you have travelled to. Just go to a country page where you've been and click on the stamp passport button.

Countries with some data are constantly being added. At the moment there's over 30 countries. Each country page shows users who's been there and who's currently there. I'm still trying to find a free API so the exchange rates can be updated 24/7.

Stores & Restaurants. Almost every country with a reasonable South African expat community will have a South African restaurant or shop to buy the things you miss most. This data is completely crowdsourced and users can populate the database.

Chat Room. Every user registered automatically gets an email invitation to join the South Africans Online slack group. At first I thought of adding something like a forum, but I figured something more instant is what people want today. Imagine you arrive in London alone, don't know anyone. Simply open up the Slack and ask "Who's up for a beer?". It's 2018. Nothing weird about it. Please help us populate the chat. Every country / region have its own slack channel.

More features like events/meetups/jobs and visa requirements are coming soon.

Feedback is always needed. I cannot emphasize this enough. If you found a bug, have an idea or just wanna say something, use slack or the feedback button on the bottom left to give me a shout. I only started

FAQ: A few have asked why I only have Facebook / Google login. It makes signing up easier and gets your profile picture automatically, saving you time and keeping the server's performance optimal. Does it make it your account vulnerable? No, all the data gets hashed I don't see anything. I don't store passwords or sensitive data like that. Facebook / Google sends me an authentication token that looks something like 95395ytv0n183t901y031093v1853r2 and cannot be deciphered by anyone but them. Also I cannot and will not post anything to your facebook and google accounts.

And for anyone wondering - I keep the data as open as possible: https://southafricans.online/open

Thanks so much for reading.

Have a good week! :)
Edit: I mistook this from being a government action, not a private company action. I totally agree a private company is allowed to restrict things in this way.

>Any advertiser who doesn’t pass will be prohibited from running political or issue ads.

How does this interact with the First Amendment? If I'm paying for a local TV company to run an add, wouldn't restricting my ability be in violation? What if I buy the local TV company and choose which ads are ran?

Edit: What about non-political or non-issue ads that still have a political component? For example, if I was a billionaire wanting to cause some certain political divides, I could definitely create ads that still cause great controversy. For example, spend some money developing a bullet proof school outfit, and then advertise it heavily. It is a bunch of extra work and expenditure I wouldn't do if I could just run gun control ads, but if those were banned are you going to ban any advertisements related to any merchandise that is related to political issues?
Passive in terms of time commitment and effort. I don't think there are truly passive income streams unless you have substantial capital to invest in the first place (eg: vanguards and rental property)
Can you share a specific example of this? I got lost in the parent article but was that in there?
You can use Docker fine on a CB that you put in developer now. Just install Crouton and use rkt.

But now with ChromeOS 67 no longer need to use developer to do.
Or even not a bag at all. I walk into a store, I want a bottle of Coke, and a pack of coconut biscuits. I see a Mars bar, yeah, OK, Mars bar too. I blip them through, shove them in my pockets, walk out. No problem. No bag needed.

In the old days, this is instantly suspicious but now it makes sense to people even if they aren't thinking about the environmental consequences. A bag is say 15 pence, why pay 15 pence extra for three items?
How serverless is automating more engineers
I have those skills, but let me play the skeptic here and amplify a few questions:

1. What is CRO? (I just looked it up -- conversion rate optimization). Is it spammy?

2. What is tagging? I assume it's instrumenting funnels etc. in apps. That has its own joys and sorrows, and can kind of jam up the critical path.

Some of it may be a breakdown in effort vs. reward. It's too easy to skip metrics when they're not a blocker for release, and the tentative benefits of running an experiment are less tangible than just releasing code (hence Windows 9).
We moved the Open Data Kit community from Google Groups to a Discourse forum at
https://forum.opendatakit.org and it's been awesome. Over the last year, we doubled in size (now up to 7,000 members and growing) and a lot of that growth has been enabled by Discourse.

We use the forum for exactly what you described, longer conversations that aren't necessarily tied to a closable issue. And we also use it for all our support requests. Handling support is great on Discourse because the new topic interface shows users (a lot of them non-technical) similar questions and it has great search and SEO.

I think for a small community, Google Groups would work, but my gut says Google Groups is not long for this world. Also, while mailing lists are workable for support, but I find them miserable (e.g., you can't move posts from one topic to another, you can't easily prevent duplication questions).

Anyway, I'd say try Discourse. And if you have any questions about started with Discourse or using it for open source projects, I'm glad to help! My handle is "yanokwa" on Gmail and HN and Twitter and GitHub and pretty much everywhere.

And I guess while I have HN's attention, I can give a quick blurb on Open Data Kit!

Open Data Kit (ODK) is a set of tools that replace paper forms. Our tools are mostly used by social good organizations to collect mission-critical data in difficult environments (e.g., collecting polio vaccination data on 1 million kids in Mogadishu [1], monitoring elections in emerging democracies [2], protecting forests in Indonesia [3]).

I love working on ODK because the project has a measurable positive impact on the world and we have a very kind and welcoming community. As one of the project founders, I'm a little biased, but if you are looking to get into open-source software, ODK is a great project to contribute to.

To get started, go to http://github.com/opendatakit, find a pinned repo, read the readme, and claim a "quick win" issue. Oh, and sign up on the forum http://forum.opendatakit.org and introduce yourself!

[1] http://www.emro.who.int/som/somalia-news/somalia-to-conduct-...

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O-CGzo3m4PA

[3] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f7rJCgwV3-g
Amazon's stated reason for acquiring Alexa was to use Alexa's technology to build a recommendation engine. Search was never a priority for Alexa itself. We are acquired for $100 million, so it was take the money and run.
Hi, I haven't seen enough of the ZBooks in our stores to form an opinion on them at this time.
When I visited India, the locals recommended me to always drink bottled water or else I'd get really sick.

Maybe in the US, it can be solved on a city-by-city basis. For some other countries, I think it's a much more complex problem.
Like with the National Guard?
> created and run by a third party not affiliated with the company.

Are you saying you never hired the third party, they went about and did this of their own accord without talking to you first?
It's a real shame Puerto Rico is plagued with corruption resulting in poor infrastructure.
Which we had to borrow to distinguish the two, thus LibreOffice (which is also conveniently GratuitOffice).
Now that we know that microplastics are in our water supply, what do we do to protect ourselves? Do reverse osmosis filters, etc, at home get rid of these plastics? It certainly sounds dangerous and scary but I don't know what I need to do or should do, which is frustrating.
I stated specifically outside not inside. You smell cooking from outside since kitchen's are vented. Now in NYC sometimes the vents are on top of a 25 story building and that beautiful NYC post winter stench might cover it up.

If a restaurant has a ton of items on the menu I guarantee you that most of that is just prepared food that is microwaved.

Seems like people are mad that I believe that most food in restaurants are not cooked.
If you're interested in the role of attention under capitalism, I would recommend Peter Coffin's videos:

https://www.youtube.com/user/petercoffin

Most of his stuff is focused on how attention is used to manipulate people's worldview in the "Marketplace of Ideas", but his latest video is about considering attention as labour. (Although, I thought it was a little unclear tbh)
Facebook doesn't sell data, it sells ads. It's in Facebook's interest to prevent advertisers and developers from collecting and misusing data so they buy more ads.
You can use gnu/Linux on Android with a CB. But you have to use a fake Chroot. Just go to play store and install GNUroot.

Then install the Android XSDL app for the GUI.
This brings to mind all of the absurd things that James Damore did not say in his infamous memo, but many people claim that he did. It doesn't matter if he actually said them or not; if enough people repeat that he did, then effectively, he did.
For anyone else wondering what effect microplastics actually have on the human body, it looks like the effects are still up in the air. Animal studies [0] show that microplastics can be taken up by tissue and circulation, and they are also present in the air [1]. Not sure what impact drinking bottled water would have on concentration inside the body. I couldn't find any long term studies on their effect on cancer, which is my main concern for any foreign contaminant entering the body.

Food (or drink :) for thought!

[0] https://setac.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/ieam.5...

[1] https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-319-71279-6_...
Keep in mind they only tested 11 brands from 9 countries.
> And there are people who claim performance doesn't matter, only correctness does. Hmm..

Performance is meaningless if the code is not correct.

After all, I can make the code arbitrarily fast if I'm not going to be held to any standard of correctness: It always returns "FOOBAR". Done, and very, very fast.

> Also: we chose C++, because it is fast.

That is a bit naive. C++ is a standard, so how fast is a stack of paper?
As shitty as Facebook is as a service, I don't think they should have any legal obligation to 'protect' users from their own neglect.

I don't use facebook, because I think a free-software based & decentralized social network would be the right way to do social networking, but if the rest of the people want to give away their info, fine by me.

If someone I know wants to give my info to fb, it's fine too, but he/she loses part of my trust.

I value the freedom to do whatever you want with the data you have more than the convenience of the government protecting whatever data I foolishly gave away to someone.
Woah, that would mean e-Residency in Estonia would be enough for GDPR protections, right?

https://e-resident.gov.ee

Note that becoming one involves going to your embassy in person.
I can cook a few meals, and I know a fair amount about cooking because my family are all foodies. I’m just not very motivated to add more to my repertoire, or to actually do it often, because I find the whole thing unenjoyable. I agree it’s not hard, but it’s like washing up - a chore. If I can avoid spending even half an hour doing something I hate, well, that sounds good to me!
Presumably we don't do these things because the market indicates that they aren't valuable, right? In other words, we don't do them because we don't want to do them, or at least we lack the ability to do them at a price that is better than doing it ourselves? Also, we do pay some people for some of these tasks--childcare, for example. And increasingly I think we're seeing more penetration by the market--grocery shopping and other direct-to-home services.

Lastly, can you clarify how this pertains to the conversation about the gender wage gap?
Here are the actual results:
https://orbmedia.org/stories/plus-plastic

I wish there had been more European water brands tested, as out of this list I only know Evian and San Pellegrino, and they are the two least contaminated brands, but they are also a bit more upscale than what most people drink.
There's such a thing as passive blogging and there's such a thing as profitable blogging but they're mutually exclusive. You have to write a ton, push it hard across a bunch of different platforms, re-post old content to keep it fresh, keep up with SEO and social media changes, and most of the time you're posting on all your social media outlets (combined) a dozen or more times per day.

It can be done part time and still be profitable, but it can't be done passively unless you're a genius in your fields and everyone is beating down your door to hear what you have to say (in which case you should write a book).
Ed(1) mastery is a must for a real Unix person
Telegram is amazingly smooth on Linux and Windows.
> what are they going to do if you don't show up, fire you?

They would fire you for grave offense (I'm not sure what the right word in English would be). But even firing or giving one's notice is long here, around three months.
Except it doesn't cost a lot of money for people who don't have a lot of money.

https://college.harvard.edu/financial-aid/net-price-calculat...
Yeah the company was founded 5 years ago, with the same name.
>According to them: Avoid Nestle Pure Life. San Pellegrino, Evian, and Dasani are OK.

Naah, water is usually bottled locally, they tested some brands in:

U.S., Kenya, China, Brazil, India, Indonesia, Lebanon, Mexico and Thailand

(and called it "global"), but a same brand may - even in the same country - come from a different spring or bottling plant, so you are never "safe" (nor "in danger") because of this or that brand.

Just in case the actual "paper" (actualy only a "report"):

https://orbmedia.org/sites/default/files/FinalBottledWaterRe...

And as a side note/observation, the classification of any plastic particle smaller than 5 millimeters as "microplastics" has been given (and it makes sense) in the context of marine/ocean related sciences:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microplastics

it makes (to me) little sense to call "micro" anything that can be seen by the naked eye in the context of impurities in a bottle of water.

5 mm?

Come on, they are nearly the size of marbles we played with as kids ...
According to github I've used FreeCAD for 249 designs over the last 3 years. These parts have been 3d-printed, lasercut and CNC milled. Since 0.16 came out I've been quite happy with the software, but looking forward to switching to this release. Especially improvements in Part Design workflow and the integrated CAM should make my usage much nicer.
Major thanks to all the contributors!
I am currently on mirtazapine, and this article is prompting me to look into tapering off the drug. I would much appreciate any advice you would give on the process, and any other considerations you can think of that I should be aware of.
The First Amendment is about government restriction of speech.
> It is forbidden to come to work after 9am. One day, the site manager stayed behind the main gates and fired on the spot every person who came in after 9.01am, including a number of managers and sales.

This surprised me. I thought it was extremely difficult to fire people in France.
The original problem was that Purdue Pharma misrepresented it as having less risk of addiction.
Cool one. thanks for this.
There are at least two large problems relating to this inside Northrop Grumman as I see it.

One, the apparent technical mistakes that led to the failure, assuming these separate probes are correct.

Two, the apparent ethical failure and cowardice of top Northrop Grumman management, which has as far as I can tell has sat by silently letting SpaceX be blamed.
You didn't know your neighbor was giving you their bad air all along?
Bottled water is cheap, they buy it in 5 gallon bottles. I've seen that in many countries.
Ah I remember meeting Sam in 2015 at TechShop where he was milling one of the early TurnTouch protoypes. Damn, making good hardware takes time. Congrats on the launch Sam, and best of luck with the project. It looks gorgeous!
Ask HN: Graduation Advice
Hi HN,

I hope to graduate from my studies and enter the workforce. As much as I’d like to spend time searching for the right job with an opportunity for professional growth, I lack the finances to pay even my next month’s rent. That said, finding work is no challenge at all - there are a variety of opportunities open to me from being involved in our university coop program and just developing a fairly sizable professional and social network over my degree. But while finding work itself is easy, I worry a lot about whether the opportunities available to me will help or hinder my career in the long run. Many of these opportunities are products I don’t fully believe in, either in terms of the ethical values inherent to the product, or their long term financial success.

To touch on the ethical side of things for a moment, I also worry a lot about the well, unforeseen consequences of what I might be building in my professional career. University Computer Science does a fantastic job teaching most of the purely vocational side of things, but does an absolutely reprehensible job discussing ethics in any capacity. Any kind of knowledge I have in this area is either from my reading here, or from random peripheral arts electives I’ve taken specifically to learn more about this.

I suppose what I’m asking for is advice in how to navigate my first few years and approach the workforce with the goal of building myself into something competent and successful beyond the scope of my next paycheck, and do so while constraining myself to work that I truly believe in and managing to keep food on the table.
> How does this interact with the First Amendment?

It doesn't interact with the First Amendment at all. Private corporations can make their own rules about what speech they will and will not allow. The First Amendment only deals with the government's ability to censor individuals, not a private entity's policies regarding allowable communications. Most Americans don't seem to understand this.
No, it's the length necessary before the process is finished. You give your resignation and the contract is terminated 3 months later.
Third world countries I'm familiar with use the big office-type bottles which are reusable and not as wasteful. https://i.stack.imgur.com/TfVHl.jpg
Actually under section 310, he doesn't bear liability for failures.

However SESTA and FOSTA have eroded that for "sex trafficking". I expect more exceptions to sneak in.