skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Now that I've seen this sequence play out at 3 different offices, I take this as gospel.

The desperate ineffectual cut hierarchy seems to go: free breakfast, then the free drinks/snacks, then coffee, then people.

Goldman Sachs was the funniest, they made the coffee cups 2 inches shorter to save money during a bad year.
he wholeheartedly received and used information from the Russian GRU in order to help Trump win. and he did this over the course of years.
"messenger"? more like russian asset.
No statement I've made is wrong. Obviously, growth factors are necessary when you're young and pro-cancer when you're old and have higher cancer risks. I'm just clarifying as obviously, the obvious facts are not clear to this audience!

Anyway, I keep saying - surviving and thriving are two different things. I want to thrive, not just to survive. I get tired of people giving the Inuit as an example. Yes, they survive on predominantly fatty meat (although they eat starchy roots, too, okay, "ate" as they've modernized), but I don't want to be anything like them, sorry, no offense! There are many tribes who are healthier, look better, and eat plenty of starches! Here's a recent article [1] about a tribe, which loads on starches, and looks and functions better than the Inuit. :D

Food is information. Eating high-fat may give some immediate results, but we have no idea what's the effect in long-term - nobody has such diet, sorry!

Also, cite a study claiming that carbs are not necessary for health? You're making a mistake again and again - just like fats carry other nutrients such as vitamin K, D, etc., carbs also come in concert with many others. It's 2018 and it's clear to all camps that refined foods are empty. I'm not asking you to eat refined tapioca starch, I'm telling you that you should eat sweet potatoes, yams, beans, legumes, etc. Of course, there's no perfect food and many plants have natural anti-nutrients just like meat and dairy do, but, again, we've evolved to handle lectins and others decently not to mention that many cooking practices also evolved unknowingly to reduce the toxicity.

I am surprised that nobody here argues an obvious detriment of carbs - their role in the formation of endogenous AGEs (advanced glycation endproducts), but, of course, for their formation, you need protein, too. At the same time, animal products are rich in exogenous AGEs [2].

[1]: https://www.unilad.co.uk/life/life-of-indonesian-tribe-in-re...

[2]: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3704564/
When I'm at work the cost of a beverage is not just one dollar. It is the cost of lost productivity and time in going out to fetch a coffee, which may be so high that I'll have to make do with what's on hand. Given that I spend a larger fraction of my waking hours at the office that means the refreshments available determine my quality of life to a non-trivial extent, and a fall in their quality may make me leave from this direct effect alone. Specially if I'm good enough to get other offers which are comparable professionally.
At that point, why buy an iPad Pro to work at 5 FPS only when you have an internet connection, when you could buy a laptop that works at 60 FPS all the time?

The iPad Pro hardware is incredible, and if you're remoted into another computer, you're not really using the iPad Pro's hardware.

Regardless, for non-developer tasks, I think it would be really fun to have an iPad Pro. I just wish Apple would allow it to actually be a pro-level machine for developers. Apple is the limiting factor there.
Most doctors don’t go into medical practice because they love medical billing, they do it to treat patients. As billing has increased in complexity, doctors are more often choosing to work for large hospitals with the infrastructure to deal with billing so they can focus on patients.

The hospitals often pay less than private practices, but also come with fewer headaches, so many prefer them.

If medical billing was simpler, doctors could potentially make more money, with less concentration of medical services in large providers (eg large hospitals) and more competition.

This would likely benefit everyone except for large hospitals.
I'm pretty sure orangutans have been able to do this for a while. Headline should be "We just realised that Orangutans can also talk about the past."
> Assange is not an US citizen. How can they prosecute him?

So if I go to any country I'm not a citizen of I'm free to commit crimes?

That's obviously not how it works. Not being a citizen is a nonissue
Sure there is, Adobe XD for example.

Win32 app are also store apps nowadays, specially after Desktop Bridge, MSIX containers and XAML islands got introduced.

Oh, and any signed PWA have replaced UWP Hosted Web Apps, making W10 the only mainstream OS besides ChromeOS, where Web apps enjoy the same privileges as native apps.
Insecure Database Exposed Two-Factor Code, SMS, and Reset Link in Plain Text
"CBRE’s study found that a 500-employee firm renting a 75,000 square-foot space in Toronto would face estimated one-year operating costs of $30,224,259. Only Vancouver and Montreal were cheaper. The Bay Area, meanwhile, was the most expensive market for tech companies to operate, with a total estimated cost of $59,124,612.

It’s no wonder, then, that tech titans such as Google, Amazon, and Uber continue to expand their operations in the city."

The difference in rent is about the cost of hosting a single intern for a summer... Hardly a big factor.
Do you happen to know by chance what scaling algorithm is used?
I have membership in IEEE and Computer Society just for SkillPort access (e-learning+books). Otherwise don't get any other benefits from it.
From the experience of my friends, perks like beverages and snacks vary quite from industrie to industrie. For example in design related industries (agencies etc.), there often are an abundance of snack & beverages perks, in addition to a nicely furnished office etc.

On the other hand, in industries like investing and law firms, snack perks are reduced to bascially soda, coffee and maybe a banana (and furniture is rather of practical appearance). And those I have seen from the inside tendend to be financially very healthy.

A friend of mine explains this with the pay gap: As a designer he has a much smaller salary than his lawyer and investment friends, so his agency invests in these small (and comparably cheap perks) to keep him happy anyway, despite the pay being only okayish. This logic doesn't apply to people with six-digit salaries.

So I think the variety of snacks often has little to do with financial health, more with practice. Though I agree with the author, than any changes in it (like cutting perks) propably do correlate with financial health.
My secondary phone is a Lumia 630, just got an update yesterday.

As for my Android devices, well at least they still get app updates.
Supermax in a few years. USA does not forget or forgive these things. The later moves to help Russia distribute emails that moved a US election are just the icing on the cake.
> Where is it ethical to work?

Working at Netflix, Apple, Salesforce, Oracle, or Microsoft seems to be a category more ethical than Facebook/Google, wouldn't you say? Isn't that a good place to start? At worst, those companies are mainly just screwing over other companies (though depends on if Netflix is up to something behind the scenes)
Does inappropriate adoption of a word necessarily preclude its use in its original form?

Example: "autistic".

In recent times, this word is sometimes used as an insult, which seems to me to be somewhat offensive to those with the actual syndrome. However, referring to those who do have the syndrome as medically autistic is obviously not offensive.

This is a more clear-cut example to make the point that misappropriating a word and giving it secondary connotations in certain contexts does not make the word unfit for use in all cases.
> Reasonable people could certainly debate what sort of standards those would be

Sounds reasonable to me. I would however, also ask you to consider that excessive control leading to difficulty in accessing guns for personal protection is dangerous as well. The question becomes how much power do you want to give government over this issue.

A lot of gun owners cite the concerns that they have over the emergence of a tyrannical government. With guns, these citizens can protect themselves more adequately.

You don't want a scenario where the government of the day rounds up a bunch of deplorables/undesirables and sets out to massacre them. This has happened before and I'd bet that guns in the hands of each of these individuals would have accorded them a fairer chance at defending themselves.

As far as deaths go, governments have killed more people than a few gun toting individuals who clearly have mental issues have. Governments are more dangerous.
So you need a different barometer for their financial state
Also on the infamous game:
https://youtu.be/tqG74aI9t3Q

Studying psychology intensively as a lay person can say this game is genius.
> I would quite literally live in any Chinese city before chosing Singapore. At least China would be cheaper.

No you won't. However bad you imagine Singapore's police state to be, China's is several order of magnitudes worse. Singapore doesn't block most Western social network, media and file sharing sites. Singapore doesn't ban memes from social networks because they make their leader look bad. Singapore doesn't demand foreign internet companies to host content locally so that the government can crackdown on said content if it doesn't agree with them. Singapore doesn't kidnap dissidents from neighbouring countries, or put entire minority races into concentration camps.

And major Chinese cities aren't cheaper either. Surprise - if you want Western standard of living, then you have to pay Western prices.
if the NSA position is "you dont have to hide anything if you are innocent" why the DoS are pursuing the wistleblower who expose goverment secrets? wait, I think it works only one way.
Don't worry the contents are all automatically generated from example data (Tatoeba) and the dictionary, nothing is hand crafted. I sure wouldn't trust myself writing correct Chinese sentences hehe.
I don't see any future for them, unless Google really doubles down of pushing Flutter to everyone no matter what, which I don't see happening and the Android team isn't much happy about it, just giving political correct answers when asked about Flutter.

Right now Google management seems to be more into Kotlin everywhere and PWAs.
A lot of things happened to Germany, from the outside, from the inside, a lot of the people who participated died from the war or in the aftermath, people who survived went through a lot, be it through direct trials or post-war education to children overwatched by the surrounding countries.

It's in my opinion one of the very few example of a recovery after such events.

I came across the "Black wall street" event of Tusla a while ago, and in comparison I don't get the impression that anything was really done to in reparation or even to change the course of things, almost the opposite.

To not be too personal about how shitty I feel it is, from the wikipedia:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tulsa_race_riot#Aftermath

> In the end, no one was convicted of charges for the deaths, injuries or property damage.

> A group of influential white developers persuaded the city to pass a fire ordinance that would have prohibited many blacks from rebuilding in Greenwood.

> No prosecution took place of any whites for actions committed during the riot. The city settled into an uneasy peace, and decades of virtual silence about the events began. It was not recognized in the Tulsa Tribune feature of "Fifteen Years Ago Today" or "Twenty-five Years Ago Today".

To address the "people living today are innocent" part, it's not a matter of being part of the crime or not, but wether the Tusla culture is tainted by its past or not. And to have a culture change, there needs to be recognition, reflection and rejection of past issues, with a strong will to compensate and overcome. Is there any of that?

From the outside, I'd wager Oklahoma wouldn't still have an active branch of the KKK if there was such a dramatic shift.
Good to see Facebook's message is evolving in Sheryl Sandberg's post. No longer attempting to defend the indefensible. (Edit, on a second closer reading it does still attempt to defend it, just in more finessed language. It does not acknowledge that it was smearing critics with an antisemitic trope.)

> I also want to address the issue that has been raised about a PR firm, Definers. We’re no longer working with them but at the time, they were trying to show that some of the activity against us that appeared to be grassroots also had major organizations behind them. I did not know we hired them or about the work they were doing, but I should have. I have great respect for George Soros – and the anti-Semitic conspiracy theories against him are abhorrent. - https://www.facebook.com/sheryl/posts/10160967443525177

Who was responsible for hiring them?
Both the comments I made asked you for citations, yet you have not provided any.
I have no idea if you'll read this as the censorship in the discussion thread seems to be heavy - nearly everything is gone by now.

What you call a 'pre-existing agenda' is to me nothing more than the unwillingness to close (or willingness to open) my eyes for certain phenomena. In this case I'm fairly sure you triggered on me mentioning Islam as a factor in this conflict even though in your last message you seem to trigger om my mentioning one of the other parties in the conflict in this region. Not mentioning Islam is, in my opinion, analogous to closing your eyes to a significant part of the origin of this conflict. Insisting on others not mentioning Islam - or any of the other parties involved - eventually leads to the thing you purport to disdain, the rise of a 'class of people' (viz. 'class of users') who do nothing but mention the 'forbidden' subject. History is rife with examples of the rise of extremism due to the suppression of reasonable opposition. Problems don't disappear by ignoring them, wounds don't heal by merely covering them, conflicts don't get solved by gagging the debate. Doing so eventually leads to the solution found in Venezuela to solve the number of children dying due to starvation: they essentially forbade doctors to state starvation as the cause of death [1]. That is extremism, and that is where we don't want to end up. Nor do we want to end up in a situation like that in China, or in Yemen, or Turkey or any of the other places in the world being held by or falling into the hands of extremists. The only way to avoid this is by being open to viewpoints which oppose your own and by being open to discussion.

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2017/12/17/world/america...
If that is the case, then it makes sense that they did not lose weight.

However, from a layman perspective, it seems like it would be nice to be able to collaborate the measure of increased metabolism not only through one method (doubly labeled water) but also through weight loss over time.

It's like having an inaccurate measuring stick and basing the results of a study solely on measurements made by that one stick, while at the same time making an effort to make sure that no other means of measuring exist.
So the premise of this story is this

> The financial health of a company can be inferred from the quality, variety and cost to the employee of the snacks and beverages it offers its employees.

It’s a fun thought experiment, but so obviously flawed. Plenty of failed companies offer these perks, plenty of successful companies don’t. Obviously companies going down-hill will reduce non-essential items to make payroll, and obviously companies on the decline are more likely to fail than others.

There is no insight in this article.
While we're on the subject of CPAP: is anything known about the consequences of long term usage? Won't the constant positive pressure eventually result in reduced muscle tone around the airways, or maybe weakening of the diaphragm or something?
Also, moving to a worse off situation has a much greater negative psychological impact relative to the positive impact associated with an improvement of similar magnitude in the opposite direction. (this is also my naive explanation for the global outcry and lurch to the right as inflation has caught up with stagnating wages)
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/sep/21/julian-assange...

"Russian diplomats held secret talks in London last year with people close to Julian Assange to assess whether they could help him flee the UK, the Guardian has learned.

A tentative plan was devised that would have seen the WikiLeaks founder smuggled out of Ecuador’s London embassy in a diplomatic vehicle and transported to another country.

One ultimate destination, multiple sources have said, was Russia, where Assange would not be at risk of extradition to the US. The plan was abandoned after it was deemed too risky."

Russian asset.
Yeah, they have these crazy barometers of financial health like growth, revenue, and income. But no, snacks are the obvious better indicator.
IMHO, the 'reading' gives it away. How would the doctors know it would appear in written form? Could be part of the technique of course. Still, I would change it to the more generic 'receive'.
No. It doesn't count when the other side does it. They always only do it for insincere reasons, and our side always only does it for sincere reasons.
"orangutan" if i translate to my Native Languange (i'm Indonesian), orang = human in general (could be man/woman), utan = forest, so i can say "orangutan" mean "The Human that Live in Forest"
Wear a mask?
Santa Susana Field Laboratory
At the end of the day,I think everybody knew or had an idea that how this is going to end.

Unfortunately, Assange and in effect WikiLeaks took a political and partisan position, and gave the moral footing for the authorities to that end.
I would be seriously challenged to find more than a handful of businesses in Seattle that use any of these offerings. I don't think I have ever heard of these offerings, compared to G Suite there seems to be no marketing of these offerings.

For reference, we've seen a variety of failed attempts by Amazon to expand, like Amazon Register.
>Generic advice: if you want your startup to succeed, work had and focus. Specific advice has to do with a situation. "I have trouble meeting my sales targets." Advice: "Hire a sales person." Q: "I don't know how?" Advice: "Do you have an HR network?" etc.

The second advice is only useful if you've learned (or naturally follow) the first generic kind.

If you can't sit down and wort hard when its needed (but e.g. instead expect success to come easy once you've launched your startup) or if you can't focus (but instead try to do everything at once, or you're over the place, easily distracted, etc), whichever "specific" advice you're told to meet sales targets wont make much difference.

>The hardest part is definitely not sticking to generic advice. Generic advice is contradictory, obvious or both.

It being obvious doesn't preclude it being extremely important or it being hard.

The best advice for diet can be summarized as "eat food, not too much, mostly plants". All obvious parts, all very beneficial if followed. And yet, tons of people fail to follow through, and want magic "specific advice" ("do the avocado detox", "eat 80% protein and less of 50 grams of carbs each day" etc).
The PC clone market was a side effect of a strategy mistake from IBM.

Apple, Atari, Amiga, Acorn were quite different.
Vim, or Notion.so. Notion is great software, and I'll recommend it to anyone who listens.
Shame on this article. We should be researching everything within moral limits. Everything. Research all of it so hard that there's no long any debate about whether this point or that has any standing because it's so well understood that we can just fucking move on. Regardless of the topic, if we aren't sure if it's of value - we learn as much as we can until we can allow ourselves as a species to move on. That's the only way to prove any point in the realm of curiosity that satisfies me. Articles that argue the validity of investgating an unknown for any reason other than "it would cause significant harm" don't hold any weight and should be disregarded as either being based in fear, self interest, or simple ignorance.
Somebody needed to find strings to test his/her app with, saw your repo, found it interesting and posted it here.

About the repo: nice job, I've used it a lot when testing sites/apps I did, good job on providing different formats too so it's easy to automate testing!
It seems unlikely that NZ, population 4ish million, is exploiting the drug companies. There are insurers that operate in the US alone that have a customer base that is tens of times larger than the whole New Zealand population. Why can NZ demand a better price than them?

Additionally, you say that the government risks overpaying, yet we pay less than US patients pay.
And why is paying a lot in a user pays system more desirable than paying little in a socialised system? Is it because paying our share is important? The drug companies are doing just fine and don’t seem to lack profits.
I'm not American so I don't claim to understand the politics, but it seems to me that Russia is one of the few countries capable of resisting US pressure, which makes people like Assange and Snowden gravitate towards it. The alternative would be imprisonment or death for them
> Can they really build an Xcode for iOS while sandboxing apps and refusing to expose the underlying file system?

I think that's kind of the point. Apple is going to eventually have to give certain classes of users more freedom if they want to see the iPad Pro adopted as a Pro platform.

Consistently, every single major review I read or watched for the iPad Pro berated Apple about this. The Verge, Engadget, MKBHD, and many others. Reviewers are not just letting Apple get away with this. Apple is going to have to open this up, even though some people like to believe they're never going to do that for some reason.

> most developers demand multiple monitors as well as the precision of a keyboard and mouse

iOS already has great keyboard support, and with the USB-C port on the iPad Pro, you can literally plug it into a USB-C dock and instantly have an external monitor, keyboard, and more connected, and yes, the monitor can show different content, it doesn't have to mirror the internal iPad display.

The iPad Pro's keyboard folio case is really great. I think it's actually a slightly more pleasant typing experience than what Apple's current generation Butterfly keyboards offer on their laptops.

Mouse support is another thing that reviewers have harped on Apple for. Whether they will support that at an OS-level or not is honestly more questionable than whether they're going to open up the underlying file system to advanced users, in my opinion.

> who would be the audience for XCode-on-iOS?

- Developers who like portability.

- Developers who like powerful hardware. (considering the iPad Pro is easily more powerful than the new MacBook Air and many of the MacBook Pros)

- Developers who like a great display... that 120Hz Liquid Retina display is really fantastic.

- Developers who enjoy long battery life.

- iOS Developers who want to save money. (an iPad Pro is cheaper than a MacBook, although not by as much as it should be)

Which developers wouldn't be interested in a professional-grade iPad Pro, given the list above? Unfortunately, Apple hasn't released such an iPad Pro yet, due to software limitations.
Plenty of side sleepers have sleep apnoea or snore.