skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's the welfare programs that usually get split 50/50 with employer that you must pay 100% yourself.

http://www.irs.gov/Businesses/Small-Businesses-&-Self-Employ...

Medicare which I don't use, because I buy insurance, and social security which I'll never be able to collect.
Beware to everyone setting incoming Voice calls to ring in Hangouts. YOU NEED TO DISABLE THIS FEATURE IN VOICE AT THE SAME TIME, or your phone will ring in two different apps, and continue ringing in the second one even after you answer the call in the first one (no matter whether that's the Android Phone app or Hangouts). This embarrassed me on a business call today.
This. 1000 times this.

It's ok to go to a hackathon to meet people in general and to maintain the hope that you'll make a connection with someone you find attractive.

It's not ok to try to flirt at a hackathon with someone who is doing her darnedest to be taken seriously as a professional. You have no idea how frustrating it is to have people take more and earlier note of the fact that one has two X chromosomes than of one's intellectual abilities, especially in a nominally professional setting. And that's before we even get to dealing with actual unwanted advances.
Yes. I take my watch off at home so charging it isn't a big deal. Do most people wear their watch while they sleep?
I seem to be getting downvoted, not really sure why.
Put education in the prison? Maybe attach good grades to earlier release?
Great app. Pull in wait time and you might have something.
Yes. And the efficiency of "food calories - shit calories" varies wildly between individuals and across time for individuals. The number of calories you see in a food database is calculated based on how well a few macronutrients literally burn in a lab setting. All it tells us is a way to compare input values, not usage or output.
This article is BS. I mean, its a FUD advertorial.

I say that based on my personal experience:

A nurse in the clinic checked my BP (as a routine) when I went to get checked for some eye infection. And she was shocked that it was 170/100 (normal is 120/80).

It was shocking for her (and of course me) because:
I was 25
I looked healthy and lean (not too thin).
I showed/experienced no signs of hyper tension.

My eating habits, was to go on a Frozen Prepared Food diet (for lunch and dinner) because that was the cheapest tasty food I could afford along with cereals for breakfast, for about 3 months before my BP was checked.

I dropped this diet since that day, reduced salt intake considerably. And it took about 9 months for my BP to come down to normal levels, without any medication, and with a little extra exercising.

I'd have taken this article with a pinch of salt. But, I have cut down on salt intake. So I prefer to not take it :)
Long hours, for one. Perhaps lack of job security. Likely an immature set of processes, or no process at all. You'll probably be expected to wear many hats. That is, develop, QA, maintain build systems, deal with customers, etc. A lot of this depends on how new the startup is and how many employees.

Now for the good points:

- likely very little bureaucracy

- usually very interesting projects

- the ability to pivot (change product direction) very quickly, so you won't be bored

- progressive environment

You may be offered a couple choices for compensation. For example, 1% of the company in stock & $80k or 0.5% stock and $85k.
I agree for the most part, but it would have been nice for the article to mention how much energy it takes to flip a bit, and whether or not that value varies in different circumstances.

A flipped bit can mean the difference between tons of snow falling down a mountainside or staying where it is. (Down force greater than stuck force? OK, avalanche!) Does that bit cost the same energy as the one described in the article?

If so, I deeply care how much energy that is!
I tend to operate under the assumption that killing a cyclist or pedestrian will probably make me feel pretty miserable and try to make sure I'm not in situations where that could happen. It's called defensive driving. No matter who ends up at legal fault in the end, having some guy killed by my car, is not something I'm interested in dealing with. And no cyclist has the right to put me in that kind of situation where that's a possibility.
>If you weigh 180 pounds at 20 and you eat 2700 calories a day, eventually you'll reach a point where 2700 calories is what you require to maintain your body weight

You're agreeing with the post then, that very long term it's pretty even.
> They want to feign anger and offense when motorists complain when they take their bikes onto roadways that were not intended or engineered for them and they block traffic and cause safety issues.

The part I take issue with is "were not intended" because the laws are very clear on what rights and responsibilities cyclists have when using the roads. The law gives them a right to be there.

The majority of states laws on the matter say that you have to ride as close as is practicable to the edge of the road and that cars are required to give you a three foot space when passing or overtaking or whatever you'd like to call it. And then many go on to state that when the lane is narrow enough that cars can't give you the three feet and still pass safely, you get the whole lane. In Texas and Florida if the lane is less than 14 feet wide there is no adjacent, designated bicycle lane (not the shoulder, but a designated lane) then the cyclist has the right to the whole lane.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bicycle_law_in_the_United_State...

In many states you're legally allowed to ride two abreast provided that it doesn't impede traffic so in cases with wide enough bike lanes this is OK and it's also allowed on roads where the lane is less than 14 feet wide and there is no bike lane.

http://www.biketexas.org/en/infrastructure/texas-bicycle-law...

A lot of states also have laws that specify that cyclists must pull over and let cars pass if more than say 5 of them are piled up behind a cyclist, unable to pass. That's definitely a legitimate grievance for cars as they have the right to demand the cyclist let them pass but few know about the law much less follow it.

In the first picture you linked the lane looks to be of questionable width (probably less than 14 feet) in which case what the riders are doing is not only legal but also for their own safety. Once more than 5 cars are behind them though, they all need to pull off and let everyone pass. I suspect that most of the cyclists you encounter conveniently "forget" about that part of the law, aggravating drivers.

The "take the lane" laws are on the books so that cyclists can prevent cars from passing on roads that aren't wide enough to safely permit passing. It's infuriating at times when it's a single lane road and cyclists are poking along at 20mph instead of 50mph but the law enshrines this right.

I can understand the frustration you feel when cyclists follow the law and take up a whole lane, and further when they break the law and don't allow passing. But that's what the law says so I have to respectfully disagree about the use of the word "intended"
You really shouldn't use the  character online. It's part of the "private use area", so different vendors are free to interpret it in different ways. On most systems, it looks like "□ watch".
As an American who has a decent amount of interaction with Europeans:

It's much easier to interact with Europeans of similar class to me than it is local people across class boundaries.

This is anecdotal, but as a knowledge worker and an atheist living in the American south, it just feels like there is often an "unbridgable gap" with less well-educated folk around here.

Which speaks to the fact that America is culturally balkanized. I mean, yes, "nigger" was a very popular search term right when Obama was elected... that's because there's a small, distinct group of Americans, say 5%, that are very ignorant racists.
It's so nice when you see someone think the same little random thought that you had. I definitely saw the original iPhone in that too.
He did. And that's how I learned about him and video.
They could get the much much more expensive "edition" watch which their pool-boy couldn't even dream of affording. The watch could act as the controller for a digitally connected house (HomeKit) which is something else the pool-boy probably wouldn't be able to afford.

I don't see it as that different from the iPhone today. BMW drivers and pool-boys both employ them as status symbols and neither lets the other drag that image down.
Well, if you're just going to ignore all the parts of the law that apply, then it doesn't really matter what the law says does it?
To clarify, you believe I'm subconsciously believing certain individual black women are taller than they are in reality?

If I could persuade you that I were accurately measuring every woman's height (perhaps by making observations like "she's up to my shoulder" or "she's up to my jaw"), would you be convinced I am not racist?
Google Glass will be the future of aviation avionics for sure. Your be able to perform more "looking out the window" flying with Google Glass. The iPad electronic flight bags will be history.

On a partially related topic: Can Google put the Glass tech in a stand alone wristband/display so no Bluetooth connection to phone would be required? Then we can have Goo Glass tech on the wrist, no phone to carry and privacy issues would abate. This can't be that hard. About 15-20 yrs. ago Timex made the DataLink Beepwear Pro which was a standalone pager watch functioning in the 900 MHz band.
The Galaxy Nexus had a chipset that had been orphaned by TI (due to their total withdrawal from the industry), so Google kind of got the short end of the stick with that one.
Which is why for so long people believed that salt was the cause. But in your situation salt is also a proxy for a lot of other things that were wrong with your diet. Gobs of processes carbs, no 'good' cholesterol, a lack of protein, just to get started.

Since anything that cuts processed salt considerably almost assuredly improves those other metrics, I'm not sure why you believe your anecdotal evidence is so convincing.
We're starting to get more kinds of bananas available here in the Asian groceries (who cater to just about anybody) -- 4 or 5 varieties. But I have no idea how to buy them. Half of them look bad on the shelf to my American banana buying eyes and I'm familiar enough with plantains to know that banana shaped fruits don't always taste like the bananas I grew up with.

Hell, I should just go buy some and see what they taste like.
Oh, sure, after reading your post I think I see what that post was getting it. I didn't originally.

Originally I thought the poster meant "it can't be that simple because otherwise everyone would be 500 pounds", but yes, over time it does become true.
On Hiring and Trivia Questions
There are many interesting easing functions to play with, primarily due to Robert Penner:

http://www.robertpenner.com/easing/
I haven't dabbled in Node yet; my main source of hesitation was I've been told npm doesn't cryptographically sign packages. If npm as a package manager is a selling point, I would hope this has been corrected (or had been all along).

Otherwise, enjoy your MITM trojans.
Yup. It ses Google might be revisiting their lack of interest in Google Voice, as the iOS app has just seen a significant update as well: https://neosmart.net/blog/2014/google-voice-finally-gets-som...
How Ruben Gamez dealt with churn and used it to his advantage to grow Bidsketch
From http://tierneylab.blogs.nytimes.com/2007/04/13/single-female...

For equal success with an African-American woman, a
Hispanic man needs to earn an extra $184,000; a white man
needs to earn an additional $220,000.

For equal success with a white woman, an African-American
needs to earn an additional $154,000; a Hispanic man
needs $77,000; an Asian needs $247,000.

For equal success with a Hispanic woman, an African-
American man needs to earn an additional $30,000; a white
man needs to earn an additional $59,000.

For equal success with an Asian woman, an African-
American needs no additional income; a white man needs
$24,000 less than average; a Hispanic man needs $28,000
more than average.
It's amazing to me that we don't talk more about the microbiome today. We all the various bacteria populating the gut and all the various things we eat, the bacteria change and so affect how we feel after we eat. Hopefully soon we'll understand when it's a good time for yogurt and when it's a fecal transplant!
Another german here who's lived in Stralsund, Berlin, Darmstadt, Hannover. I know exactly nobody who has a full and/or decently-salaried position and can get by with 6 hours a day. The norm is 8 hours, 30 minutes, due to the mandated lunch break.
Eventually only a data connection will be needed for mobile communication.
Show HN: Enjoy Netflix lazily while you work. Introducing LazyDay
Um, you seem to be doing exactly that, while recursive seems to have read the laws you pointed at - which do not say what you claim them to say.
The full set of high-res photos can be found here.

https://www.flickr.com/photos/jrjamesarchive/sets/
11 Helpful Tools for Every Step of Building a Mobile App
Tilt's Crowdfunding Fees
But Glass's full display makes it capable of being a standalone device (once the guts shrink enough).

Before long, a Watch can also be self-contained, technically, but remains limited by form-factor: tiny display. Unlike Glass, it must remain accessory... or so it seems.

But consider: the iPhone is primarily a consumption device. In many ways, it is predicated on many use-cases not requiring a full computer. Is it possible a Watch-size device will similarly turn out to cover many important uses? Obviously, you can use it as a phone. For music/video. To read txt messages/short emails. Casual games.

It's a real consumption device (unless Siri gets unrealistically good).
Maybe many web-site functions (i.e. the actual use of the website, not actual current website) can be delivered via Watch: lookup opening hours; store locators; product list/price/specials. Perhaps Watch versions, as we now have Mobile versions - and of course, Watch App versions).
Would I have said something like that in the context of not many white people wanting to date them? Probably.

Would I have said something like that in the context of lynching? Hell no.

Are they the same thing? I don't think so, but it's definitely worth thinking about.

Am I racist because I prefer redheads but not blond? It's a mystery what sparks things in people. Am I homophobic because I only date women? I don't think so. But that's probably worth thinking about too.

Is a dating service fundamentally racist or sexist by enabling people to shop for or against people of a certain makeup, treating people like items on a menu? I don't think so, and I don't think it's wrong to acknowledge and be comfortable with attraction.
But do you eat the big endian first? Or the little endian?
Here's an example: recently I wanted to get a route around a traffic jam. So, I tried to tell Google Now (on my Nexus 4) to "navigate to work". All of a sudden they took this feature away -- the only thing that comes up is a Google search trying to answer why this doesn't work. And nothing conclusive -- some people are having issues, others not. Android / Nexus was pretty good, but they keep on fixing it further till it's getting more and more broken.
FYI, the slides are here: https://github.com/facebook/fatal/blob/master/docs/cppcon201...

With the demo folder, seems straightforward if you know C++. E.g.

Goal
▪ Working prototype for a database that:
▪ Stores arbitrary data structures rather than
only tables
▪ Supports different operations depending on
the data type used
▪ Uses less than 400 lines of code
▪ Allows one to trivially add or remove data
types and operations
I hope they'll open source the other components or others will. Vector tiles are too cool to be bound to Mapbox.
This is not an operating system written in JS, it just reuses the NPM package manager, which is part of the Node.JS developer community. So npm-os would have been a better name, imho.
If there's a problem with the man's viewpoint, its with the viewpoint, not with the gender of the person who holds it.
Wonder why you're downvoted. I think your point is valid.
It is well known that restricting salt intake can reduce blood pressure. This is a different question: does high salt intake cause high blood pressure?
Thank you, Mr. Glazek, for the concept of hyperhell.
I put in my @student.gla.ac.uk email address and it told me this:

"It appears your email is not associated with an eligible university. If you think this is a mistake please email us at support@namecheap.com"
How about updating on their own platform first to meet their own design guidelines. I'm really disappointed by how Google hooks up to their products and then kills them! This seems like Google Voice still has a pulse, but for how much longer?
> A waitress in a restaurant does not get payed a salary, but lives solely from tips.

That's not quite true -- they make something like $2 an hour in the US and $9.55 an hour (almost minimum wage) in Ontario, Canada.
I almost died laughing.
How would an independent Scotland compare to other nations?
The Awful Reign of the Red Delicious
Yeah... Anyone who makes a valid point or say something possibly humorous gets downvoted by overly sensitive HN readers. (Like this comment inevitably will, too.)
And there will eventually be video recordings available: http://cppcon.org/cppcon-video-recording-2014/ (Can't wait!)
Should have stopped at "Eat food. Not too much." Mostly plants is fine, but so is mostly lean meat and some plants.
I am an outsider who is starting to touch javascript but I have my history in scripting and numerical sims. Is all this stuff about node.js really something revolutionary or is it hype?
No, I think cyclists should also have a dedicate right of way and transport infrastructure. At least as comprehensive as the automobile road network. Even if it costs me more in the form of higher tax dollars and yes, even if if I lose a travel lane because of it.

Why is that controversial or problematic? I don't understand the shitty entitled attitude of bikers honestly. I'm not only advocating for something that's safer, more pleasant and more convenient for them, but I'm willing to put my wallet to work and inconvenience myself to support it.

All I'm getting is flak over it and the responses to it are doing little to dissuade me of my already negative opinion of cyclists as a population.
I'm a medical student who actually read the paper this article refers to. I would be very careful trying to draw conclusions from a study like this. I don't think many people in the healthcare community would be very surprised by it.

1) All clinically treated hypertensive patients were excluded - that means if you have kidney or vascular disease (hypertension) and are being treated for it, you aren't counted here. Doctors WILL care about your salt intake if you have these conditions, as they should! It is very common to prescribe something called the DASH diet to lower sodium intake and increase potassium intake.

2) If you're healthy, it means your kidneys are healthy (simplifying). One of the purposes of the kidneys is to maintain homeostatic blood pressure by excreting a combination of salt and water. To put it simply, if you eat a huge load of NaCl, say in a dominoes pizza, your blood pressure WILL NOT be affected for a very long time. I'd guess 20 minutes or so after the salt enters your bloodstream. Which means these folks can't measure that blood pressure change by testing blood pressure yearly.

3) Either medical doctors or the press that listens to them have a nasty habit of taking treatments that often work for very sick people - morbidly obese, type 1 diabetics, bed-ridden centenarians - and applying it to normal healthy folks. I will go out on a limb and say that these unilateral recommendations are almost all BS, and should be ignored. If you're healthy: eating eggs will not affect your cholesterol, eating cheesecake will not give you diabetes, sitting in a chair will not misalign your spine. It would be prudent for you to be skeptical when you hear these claims, often on daytime television or on the internet.
"They exist in a no-mans-land between pedestrians and vehicles."

CA law calls them "devices", though operators are still "drivers". Not that that actually means anything, just trivia.
Tipping is, in fact, optional (well, except when its not actually tipping, and is instead an included service charge.)

This is independent of whether or not there are people that are paid poor wages.
I'm alarmed by the accuracy of the contents of this link.
Need a shirt
I'm going on a job interview after one week so I need an appropriate shirt. Could you tell me some good stores in North London!?
I work on slideshow creation software for funeral homes. Stories like yours are something I worry quite a bit about, since we've found that once users trust our software, they stop bothering with the preview.

We let the user choose custom zoom points but don't yet incorporate face recognition. As far as I am aware, none of our competitors have face recognition or even face detection.

Some funeral homes hire or outsource to a local videographer instead of using purpose-built software. It's possible that the videographer could have used a slideshow plugin with that feature and then combined it with the stock footage.
It would be nice if there was a watch which could do everything a smartphone can do. make calls, take photos and videos, instantly teach me how to fight like Jason Bourne on demand etc.
I don't think anyone would argue that the compiler in question is far from optimal for compiling this particular program.

However, if you are writing a general purpose compiler, you need to accommodate any program. Each of the properties (e.g. no use of getters, only one variable) that you point out about this program would take a compiler pass to establish.

I haven't thought too much about it, but some of the properties are very likely to be undecidable by static analysis for many programs.

It seems likely that using time to determine whether the program being compiled has these properties would not be efficient for most real world programs, even if it did provide enough information to choose a more optimal compilation strategy in some cases.
I applaud this article for challenging the received wisdom in libertarian communities that our prison problems are a function of drug laws -- indeed, if there's one thing this article does well, it's establishing that we cannot solve our problems solely by dealing with nonviolent crime.

That said, this article makes a large number of controversial claims that it fails to support on anything other than a rhetorical level, including:

* The moral crisis in prisons is so severe that effectively any social burden should be borne for it to be fixed.

* In time, the increased public money from eliminating prisons will turn violent felons into peaceful individuals.

* The differences between the US and UK's social situations is a function of our prisons.

Ultimately, this article's vigor outweighs its coherence; it seems to oscillate between making ontological claims and moral claims, between libertarian claims and authoritarian claims (note the advocacy for more CCTV).
Uber claims to be 20% cheaper than yellow cabs in NYC. What gives?
I get it is annoying, but traffic is annoying.

And what is in that picture is a lot less dangerous than a slow agricultural vehicle, which you should also expect on the road from time to time, and is also obviously a cycling race team going somewhere with a follow vehicle.

You shouldn't drive faster than you can see in front on a road like that anyway.