skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You're right about deficiencies, but it's more complicated than just increasing intake. For instance:

- For most people, vitamin D is lack of sunlight.

- Magnesium absorption depends on how well your intestines are working because ~50% is excreted. It's also related to diet and lifestyle (soda hinders absorption, coffee and stress increase excretion). On top of that, low intra-celullar Mg levels are not detectable with a simple blood test, so most people don't even know they are deficient until it gets severe.

- Too much vitamin A is toxic, but our body can metabolize vitamin A from carotenoids like Astaxanthin which are much better tolerated.

There are now more studies concentrating on the precursors to vitamins and absorption than the vitamins themselves.
History repeats itself, this book needs to come back in style...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Ragged-Trousered_Philanthro...
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That approach is still flawed though. In a seller's market, which I do believe the developer market currently is, the buyer is the one who has to do the marketing.

Supplying expected compensation up front is one of the best ways to market your business to developers. If I, a developer, am making $100K and you make it known that you are willing to pay $200K, I'm going to get excited and get in touch with you. If I am left to assume that you are also only offering $100K, because you "pay market rates" or haven't said otherwise, I'm not even going to waste my time getting in touch with you.

It seems like a lot of businesses feel like they are in a buyer's market, which comes with completely different rules, and then cannot figure out why it isn't working for them.
There's a bug with the city/country detection:

People with only a country as their location, e.g. “Norway” are detected as being in “Norway, United States”. :-)
> the exact location of our nuclear weapons? Top speed of our submarines? Blind spots of our radar systems?

I don't mean to sound brash or simplistic, but the simple answer is that I don't want my government to have any of those things. I'll be safer and more empowered when my government disarms, de-escalates, and makes its goings on completely transparent.

As a thought exercise: how much longer do you think the world will abide nuclear weapons? Are they just here forever?
So, anyone who knows how to use the greater-than operator is a strong hire?
"According to an important WebMD article that my friend Tony described to me, every minute you spend sitting shaves several years off your life."

I've been dead for years
wwat seems to be a troll, but I have an assistant called Puppet whose IQ is clearly below 42.

Puppet has confusified such things in three entirely different ways that I can recall right now, but I have a feeling that Antirez would direct his snark at me, not at Puppet. (IMO Puppet and the program being configured shared the blame.)

Programs such as redis should not assume that their operators have perfect insight and use only bug-free tools.
A good engineer with the right buzzwords and in the right location.
Someone asked the government for a sensitive report. The government replied that it had such a report, but while it would admit the existence, it felt the material contained in it was necessary to keep secret.

This gives the original requester a chance to address this and ask why the report is being kept secret and for a review of that, which is different than if the government had simply denied such a report existed.

This actually sounds like freedom of information happening, but it's reasonable to expect that kind of thing takes time and requires some back-and-forth to discuss what's the proper amount to keep secret or not.

So I'm curious what your actual objection is.
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The first I can imagine simply becoming the private property of individuals who desire or require access. The second I'm happy to have not exist at all. And the third I'm happy to make public and protected.
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I run most of my projects under an organization so this doesn't really work. Also stars aren't really a great measure of anything after a point. Perfect example are the json-jwt and ruby-jwt gems. The latter gets more stars because it is arguably easier for people to find even though the former is a far more complete and robust implementation of the JWT spec.
That sounds like a false dichotomy.
Actually I have been able to do this pretty easily, but its probably because I commute an hour and a half each way to work on a train. So I get 3 hours a day to work on things I want to work on.
The problem is that this 5% hit very often becomes a 1000% hit when you let the ORM in the hands of people who don't understand it and they do a thousand queries when a single one would be enough.
Same boat here, IAmA designer, PM if you need anything!
Does it happen to help with the attitude or process of cooking? It's probably the bachelor mentality in me but I honestly just hate cooking. The amount of time (purchase food, prep, cook, clean pots/pans) for a 5 minute meal when I could be, ya know, working on a side project, seems ridiculous. However, I do feel like I could eat a little more natural and better if I did cook more.
Is Android fragmentation a justified dev fear?
Don't you get the P45 after you left your old company? Which means they can only look at it after you were hired.

Also, why is it the employee's responsibility to not drive inflation? If the company is fine with paying someone X for a job, why does it matter what the person earned before?
Well that's a shame. I live not too far away from ANL, and know an amazing physicist and her husband (a developer) who work there. I wonder if they could give any insight? Probably not, but I'll see.

I contracted there a long while back to work on Cold Fusion for their environmental monitoring group. Yeah, the programming language (when it was owned by Allaire) - it's just fun to say "I worked on cold fusion at Argonne National Labs)

There's a beautiful nature preserve on site - Waterfall Glen, which my kids love to explore. If anyone lives in the area, it's worth checking out. Great running and biking paths there too.
Very cool! But your subnet "detection" seems based on a broken assumption.
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If you've spent any significant amount of time with Mesos and Marathon, you've probably found that it's buggy (Marathon at least), complicated, and hard to work with. Zookeeper is just one part of the complicated web of infrastructure you need to stand up. To top it off you end up needing to run something like Netflix' Exhibitor to have any shred of confidence that if ZK goes away the state of your cluster will be recoverable. It definitely "works", but certainly leaves something to be desired in the stability and ease of use department.
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I blame this on the "DreamWorks Effect", animators have done such a good job giving animals human traits and emotions that millinials+ really can't help but be animists.
How much is truly to protect from harm and how much is to cover up mistakes and wrongdoing?
This is exactly why we are launching the Offer Drive:

http://offerletter.io/drive.html . In short - submit your offer and equity information, get back access to a statistical pool showing where you stand.

A few notes on this subject from my perspective as the founder of http://OfferLetter.io (we provide negotiation advice and career matchmaking to developers and other techies).

Companies also oftentimes just don't know what someone is worth, and don't want to publicly publish numbers that are too high or low for fear miscalibrating expectations w.r.t. large swaths of potential candidates.

0) If a company tries to play the, "What do you make?" game, it's important to deflect, deflect, deflect and if they insist, simply state, "I expect a competitive offer to be on the order of $X"

1) Market rates are complicated. As I've written about before, the outcomes that people can see because of outsize startup exit scenarios means that their market rate can be very very high. Google doesn't publish this kind of info because they can and will match even crazy startup exit numbers, but don't broadcast this for fear of screwing up expectations.

2) At the end of the day it is contingent on the individual to define their own basis and see what places are willing to offer what compensation, and how much they are willing to budge. This is how markets work.

3) On a related note, oftentimes, companies will try and prohibit discussion of compensation by saying it's confidential, or a trade secret. Confidentiality and wage secrecy requirements in the workplace are illegal under California law. The exact statue is here: http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/codes_displaySection... As we have seen repeatedly, these kinds of requirements tend to disproportionately harm people from many kinds of non-privileged backgrounds.

And, under national labor legislation, companies cannot prohibit discussion within the workplace.
This is exactly why we are launching the Offer Drive:

http://offerletter.io/drive.html . In short - submit your offer and equity information, get back access to a statistical pool showing where you stand.

A few notes on this subject from my perspective as the founder of http://OfferLetter.io (we provide negotiation advice and career matchmaking to developers and other techies).

Companies also oftentimes just don't know what someone is worth, and don't want to publicly publish numbers that are too high or low for fear miscalibrating expectations w.r.t. large swaths of potential candidates.

1) Market rates are complicated. As I've written about before, the outcomes that people can see because of outsize startup exit scenarios means that their market rate can be very very high. Google does't publish this kind of info because they can and will match even crazy startup exit numbers, but don't broadcast this for fear of screwing up expectations.

2) At the end of the day it is contingent on the individual to define their own basis and see what places are willing to offer what compensation, and how much they are willing to budge. This is how markets work.

3) On a related note, oftentimes, companies will try and prohibit discussion of compensation by saying it's confidential, or a trade secret. Confidentiality and wage secrecy requirements in the workplace are illegal under California law. The exact statue is here: http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/codes_displaySection... As we have seen repeatedly, these kinds of requirements tend to disproportionately harm people from many kinds of non-privileged backgrounds.

And, under national labor legislation, companies cannot prohibit discussion within the workplace.
Totally disagree with the final conclusion. In a market where people (specially technical people) are in need and advertising inviting people to living on to the edge, makes Jr. Developers, Jr. Designers, Jr. Business person, think that they are more Senior than Junior. So trust me, they will apply cause they have nothing to loose.
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I assume you're talking about the Industrial Revolution, something that came rather late. At the time of Newton, and afterwards, there was no shortage of scientists of renown in catholic countries. But considering the English Reformation as the leading reason for the Industrial Revolution to happen in England and not elsewhere is far from an accepted opinion.
MathWorks tried to pull similar shit with me. When we started discussing salary while setting up an on-site the recruiter balked at the salary delta I was asking for, not the absolute number. It was one of a few reasons I ultimately declined the on-site.
I don't agree with the assertion that listing filters out candidates on the low end. I think many dillusuonal, overly ambitious, and financially desperate under qualified candidates apply hard for salaries way above their last/current salary.
I imagine there would be potential problems due to the fact that people have differing opinions about what people deserve.

For one thing, there are different but equally reasonable criteria on which to base "deserve." Maybe Bob in Engineering contributes more to company profits than Steve in janitorial, so Bob deserves to get paid more. Or maybe Steve is intensely loyal and stuck with the company through hard times and often stays late to get everything done, so Steve deserves to get paid more. Or Joe in sales hasn't been selling well this year, but his kid has cancer and he's obviously distracted and he deserves high pay because he's having such a hard time.

And of course, given a choice of criteria, people will invariably tend to choose whichever one gives them the results they like. Bob will be more likely to think the profit-based evaluation is best. Someone who's good friends with Steve will think that loyalty is more important.

Maybe it can be made to work (and it definitely can work in a smaller company), but I don't think it's as easy as you make it sound. Sometimes it's just impossible to please everybody, and if you try then you'll only succeed in displeasing everybody.
It's a real dichotomy:

The GP is replying to someone who said there should be no classified information, to which a proper refutation is to demonstrate the need for certain kinds of classified information.

Two comments above that, someone was discussing whether or not this particular instance was some of the information that should be classified, followed by the claim that there should be none, and then the GPs refutation.

Your comment is wrong, and adds nothing to the discussion.
But almost the perfect amount of words for someone who wanted to write an article about a subject and not a quick summary.
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I'm currently in my second job. That large tech company was my first. Before that I was finishing my degree.
It isn't in the US and Spain where tens of thousands of children are dying of measles.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Measles#mediaviewer/File:Measle...
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That's not what the page says at all. Please update the title.

it says they don't know when they will return:
"; we are committed to returning health information to our US customers who don’t already have this information once more tests have been through this process and we have a more comprehensive product offering.

At this time, we do not know which health reports might be available or when they might be available.
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"At this time, we do not know the timeline as to which health reports might be available in the future or when they might be available."
Listening to the audio will certainly do the trick. He runs through a lot of the big picture explanations of the problems that he was working on with the whiteboard but those aren't primary. By his own telling, all of the problem details are really just to frame the principles that he is communicating.

That being said, I watched with the video. I didn't try to only listen to the audio. So, it might be harder to follow without the visual aspect. And, he randomly pops in the principles. I can't really say that the highlights were only at the beginning or ending of lectures.
And why are you assuming that European spy agencies are less inclined to spy? The Bundestrojaner made it pretty obvious that German authorities have no qualms about it and the UK ... well, I guess I don't have to elaborate on the UK. What makes the US special is its global reach, not its particularly evil intentions.

The choice that I would like to have is a radically more transparent, pluralistic design, development and production process. We need many eyes from all kinds of different people on every single piece of hardware and software. We won't get that by having one government take action against another one. This needs to be a global initiative.
Yeah, I would say to be prepared to be let go or tender your resignation if you can't reach an agreement with your employer.

Sticking around for the original salary after renegotiating tells them either that you didn't care that much to begin with, or that you'll be taking a lot of calls and personal days in the next couple of months.
the bazaar seems healthier financially than it's ever been.

Well, it's the difference between getting paid (salary, fixed, no logical incentive to grow/improve) versus getting paid (percentages of benefit, the more benefit you create the more you make, growing non-linearly with your actual output).

All of this is really just complaining around the fact it's not easy to reap rewards proportional to the benefit of software without creating a company and all the overhead required therein.

Another great example: memcached. It's well known facebook uses memcached heavily. The creator of memcached doesn't see any benefit from their usage of his software. Modern high-growth, multi-billion dollar companies are built on top of the work of individuals they don't even attempt to compensate.

Some of these arguments also apply to modern exploitation of musicians a la spotify/steal-my-music-ify, etc.
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As a technical manager, I regularly have a similar problem. I often hire folks [in Mexico and Brazil] with minimal experience, either fresh from school or coming off their first 1-2yr job(s) out of school. As such, we pay them pretty low. If they prove their value and become key contributors, I naturally want to give them a 50-100% raise after a year or so. This always results in painful discussions with HR/Comp about why our typical "20% max salary increase" rule is stupid and inapplicable. I usually, but not always, triumph. Last year one guy got a 98.5% raise. :D Doing things like that always makes me feel really good.
It sounds like this is a difficult path to take. Especially considering the fact that, usually, system requirements may change over time.
I wonder why they didn't decide to name the loops "Inner" and "Outer" like they did for 485 in Charlotte. It makes a lot more sense.

NC has all sorts of crazy road names and designs though. My favorite is 240/26 in Asheville as you'll end up driving West and East simultaneously (26 East is 240 West and 240 East is 26 West).

That and the bridge over the French Broad which is I-240, I-26, Route 74, Route 70, Route 19, Route 23, and Patton Avenue all at the same time across 4 lanes.
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Computers aren't so much changing who we are, rather they ate allowing people to expose their unmasked selves. With computers there is no longer the need to wear a social mask. You don't have to pretend.

That's to say the nice gal at the office who when she plays video games plays a sadistic character, that character is closer to her unfiltered self. So she is less the agreeable helpful persona --that's the role she puts on in society-- due to norms and expectations, and is more that violent persona. And that violent persona is not so much a reaction to balance her social mask, but more the "real" self. We can imagine why societies evolved to manage the true selves in ways that seem hypocritical.
That's a shame. I've used portableApps and it is a nice piece of software.
It can be tough to stay motivated while working alone. If you're happy to share the success with other people you could build it with the help of the assembly.com community.
Agile stuff like this just reeks of micro-management to me. To add insult to injury I recall one presenter at an Agile conference a few years ago explain how they added a "delta" value to their velocity so they could also report on the rate of change of their rate of change... Funnily enough they stopped short of just calling it "acceleration". Ugh though.

I have yet to see this type of process and measurement add value or productivity to a project. But perhaps that's just my experience.
At least we know how many bullet points are in the documents
But I see almost nothing written in this whole thread from the perspective of the person who is making more than their coworkers (or believes that to be the case). I don't want to discuss salaries! In fact, one time earlier in my career I was in a group of coworkers who all went around and said their salaries, and mine was 2x all of them, so I kept quiet.

My point is just that I don't think it only benefits the employers.
I agree with you that it's unlikely we'll see this information any time soon, but I want to point out that I think the government did the right thing in their response: they admitted they had such a document while at the same time saying that they believed the content should be classified.

This allows the discussion to move forward in a meaningful way, as people can petition to have the classification reviewed, asked for it in other contexts, etc rather than having just been flatly rejected here without any recourse.

This is a discussion between the government and the public through the appropriate channels and following the appropriate means (at least, so far). I'm not sure what else people could want, in this context.
Really? I've found it a lot easier to manage than etcd. The fact that you manually specify all of your nodes in the config file removes a whole host of errors you can create in etcd with its fancy discovery stuff.

What's your set up? How many zookeeper nodes do you run? What problems have you run into?
> I would be great if an independent lab would certify equipment and software as spyware free.

I agree, but where would you put it such that the intelligence services of the Big-8 couldn't co-opt it? They don't always go to the owners and say "Hey, yo, mind if we put our spy stuff in your stuff?"
Why so careful to choose Droid Sans for the main font, then use Comic Sans for the substitutions? Isn't Comic Sans the property of the most lawyered-up tech company on the planet?
From a gametheory perspective you guys are defectors. If connections didn't play a role then the media would be using a meritocratic method to find products or give equal time to different products for evaluation. I wonder if this is something that society can change or if this is a fundamental part of the way that humans work.
Hell, I'll answer that question any day. No problem. And if they don't like my answer I'll find someone who does. The fact that what I'm actually worth to them depends on their operational efficiency is Not My Problem.
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