skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Why is apple refusing to support WebRTC?
I really can't understand why Apple is not supporting WebRTC? Are they really going to push Facetime over WebRTC? They seem like completely separate products.
I notice it very much when walking in my day to day life, although it also happens in car rides. As some others have expressed, it feels to me like my brain is more active and focused on the destination, whereas I'm more likely tired and docile on my way back, slipping into the rhythm of the trip. Specifically, I'm thinking of this in the context of a night out (alcohol or not), where incredibly long walks are feasible on the way back. Obviously, there are other psychological factors that influence perception at this point, but I notice the exact same effects all the time, just slightly less pronounced.

I also wonder about what I'll call the "Lifetime" effect. Consider how car rides in general or long wait times at a doctors office start to feel shorter as you grow up (infinitely long as a child, pleasantly short as an adult). Intuitively, this is because of your life experience (or lack there of) and the fraction of your life-to-date that any given wait takes up. The time lengths stay relatively constant, while they progressively eat up a shrinking percentage of your life-to-date. Perhaps this same effect could happen over the course of a day, or a couple weeks, or an hour. The initial trip consists of 100% of your experience thus far until you get there and subsequently turn around, but at that point any task necessarily takes a smaller proportion of the overall time than the initial trip felt like (and was) at the time.

Perhaps something like that would explain it as well.
Self-awareness not unique to mankind
I've used Crunch since I began contracting towards the end of 2009. So I was one of their early customers. I would say their software keeps getting better but their service as a whole has worsened as they've got bigger. That's not to say their service is bad, it's just not as good as it was when they had less than 100 customers. I've had a couple of instances in the past (around two years ago) where I've had to correct my account manager when he's told me something I've known to be wrong.

Having said that, just about everything is automated or part of their software now and I haven't had to speak to anyone there since last summer. Maybe their service hasn't gotten any worse, it's just become less personal.
Why is the BSD network stack superior, anyway? I hear it repeated a lot, and I'm just surprised Linux lags with all the attention it gets. Is it something related to kqueue vs epoll?
Fitbit and Jawbone might be fighting a war neither can win
The easy answer probably has to do with comfort and familiarity - no one wants to be in that situation where their software package isn't ported to BSD or the BSD port is lagging several version behind, or have a BSD-specific bug and have to track it down with the developers. Again, not saying these are necessarily realistic, but it's the thing that comes to mind first.
> Most of the cases that are usually cited were, upon close reading, decided based on clauses in various state constitutions.

Yes. One of the arguments against adding the Bill of Rights to the Constitution was that the states already had similar clauses. That was the reason why they're amendments and not part of the original Constitution, in fact. The argument went something like this:

"Here's your new Constitution! Please ratify it."

"Um, there's no Bill of Rights."

"Well, the states already have Bills of Rights."

"Yeah, that sounds like a loophole waiting to happen. Add a Bill of Rights or I'm not ratifying it."

"Fine, fine. I promise that if you ratify it, we'll amend it with a Bill of Rights the first chance we get."
/Nursie - companies that provide registration services save time. If you have time, you can diy registration, right. But generally they provide very convenient service. Besides, services like 9-10 Adam Street can also provide you conference rooms, club place etc., in addition to registration.
There are many companies that will help you open Ltd in the UK fast, and very few that will help you to close the once opened company.

Disclaimer: recently volunteered to help to shut down UK limited company, I wished I'd used someone else.
>Why do you think the two are the same?

I do not. I was asking a question that if we have become enlightened because of digital media why hasn't some of those best practices translated back to traditional media? Maybe they have, I don't know, I can't recall noticing. If off-black is done well it isn't noticed because it doesn't look jarring anyways so perhaps we are all reading off black books. Not really sure. It was just an inquiry.
It's strange that they're putting these measures in place when sugar is significantly more damaging to people. High fructose corn syrup would have been a much better target.
Does this mean the end of no-stir peanut butter? I hate that stuff you have to mix all the time.
nah, I figure it's not going anywhere, and a lot of the software I bought using homegrown licensing schemes I ended up not using, since it's just too much of a pain in the ass to try to hunt up the licenses and restore everything on a new computer.

edit: i do wish apple would relax the sandbox strictness a bit and other editor review criteria so it was a more attractive alternative to self-publishing.
Personally, I don't see much light at the end of the tunnel?
This greed seems cool in some circles--which I can't comprehend. It is not cool in my world. I feel morality is lacking? I don't know how to install morality. I do know this "Just because it's legal, doesn't make it moral" said by a deceased friend of mine.
>> IR35 is the only PITA IMHO of doing all this and that's easily sorted by doing the odd phone/laptop repair at the same time and invoicing it.

??

Oh, a phone/laptop repair for someone else, and invoicing them for it?

In just under three years I've taken on 5 contracts of varying lengths and billed for a small amount of casual consultancy work on the side too. I'm clearly not acting as an employee, hopefully I'm in the clear :)
Stuxnet spawn infected Kaspersky using stolen Foxconn digital certificates
> Saturated fats are exactly the fats you should not be eating.

Wide swath generalization at best, categorically untrue at worst. Keep in mind - if nothing else - there are a lot of very different and unique saturated fats.

A 2014 systematic review looking at observational studies of dietary intake of fatty acids, observational studies of measured fatty acid levels in the blood, and intervention studies of polyunsaturated fat supplementation concludes that the finding ″do not support cardiovascular guidelines that promote high consumption of long-chain omega-3 and omega-6 and polyunsaturated fatty acids and suggest reduced consumption of total saturated fatty acids.″"

http://annals.org/article.aspx?articleid=1846638

Conclusion: Current evidence does not clearly support cardiovascular guidelines that encourage high consumption of polyunsaturated fatty acids and low consumption of total saturated fats.
For that you would you also want to measure distance by road, vs the distance by flying that the current solution used.
If a release is released is in a forest is it really released?
Because the route is cached! :)
I am a loud persuasive person. I have something that works to keep myself checked and also stop people making false arguements.

I proclaim "What does the Interwebs say?" Seriously in our pockets we have the answers to any question that has one. I look it up and proclaim the actual fact, if there is one. Sometimes I proclaim, "I'm a complete idiot" (Happens on IRC the most for me) or hmm seems like we have a different answer. Then it is up to them to argue against what you looked up and it takes it off of you.

Funny thing is my kids growing up groaned when I did that to them. Now they do it all the time now that they are in their 20s.
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Do you need to re-educate yourself? Start with Paradigms and Patterns
You'd also need a hydrogen source; catalysts might be available, but you need bulk hydrogen to get anywhere.
The public advocacy groups should apologize to the public for pushing wrong advice that may have killed people.
I really wouldn't blame steak sandwiches (or similar food) for America's weight problem. The biggest cause of the problem is empty calories in the form of sugary soft drinks. Americans are fat because we drink too much soda and don't exercise enough.
An angry rebuttal: data science is Not dead
> You have oversimplified the history. After the Fourteenth Amendment arrived, there was considerable confusion about what it actually meant for state laws. And it took a long time for the very complex details to get ironed out. That is why the case I pointed to was nearly a century after the 14th amendment was passed.

I'm not disagreeing with you.

I was just placing a hard earliest point where the Bill of Rights could apply to the states, not saying that it was immediately interpreted as such as soon as it was ratified.
It depends on your market sector as well. Some agencies are better for banking contracts, others for, say, media.

I also think that it is worth forming a good relationship with a particular agent. Meet in person if you can so they can see you are someone who seems competent. And if you ever have a friend that is looking, it does no harm to refer them to a good agent you know.
The issue is you have to pay for revocation.
I was just looking at the site linked from the howto and couldn't see what they were giving me that using companies house directly didn't, for the simple case of company registration.

I haven't been through shutdown yet, so I'll take your word for it (and everyone else's!) that it's painful...
He's "cheating" by using sendmmsg() to send many messages per system call, reducing the number of context switches.
Bring back the beef tallow french fries McDonalds!

You and I and anyone else with tastebuds will appreciate it, but I pity the vegans. Fast food will be completely off-limits.
Cringely singles out the H-1B abusers to whom I and you refer, and that pay substandard wages, not Google, et al..

Also, switching employers is encumbered if there is any risk of deportation without continuous employment which "vosper" (see peer comment to yours) notes IS a growing risk as the H-1B ages. This is the "indenture" effect in question.

Lastly, H-1B workers working for the aforementioned abusing employers accept their lower wages and often poor conditions because of the hope that once in the USA they will find a Green Card sponsor. This makes the H-1B equivalent to the EB-2 when speaking of the abusing employers to which Cringely refers.
(responding to child comment)

> I have abandoned their development and support a long time ago.
> sales started to drop more and more every month and continued development

So there were obvious support and continued development costs, so I expect that the true hours you'd add to the ROI calculation are well more than 30.
Your eye already does this naturally to help you determine detail. There's a fascinating article about it here:

http://accidentalscientist.com/2014/12/why-movies-look-weird...
From an SEO standpoint, having the domain name the same as social media user names is beneficial. Google will see when your domain is "yourcompany", and so is your Twitter handle, your FB user name, Intagram, etc., especially when the social media profile links back to that domain.
Good to see recruiters getting some love on the comments here. If there remains a place for 3rd party recruiters its in the contract market. A few reasons:

Payments processing - a lot of employers will not want to deal with processing payments for contractors. Indeed, its often the main reason why they might go for contract vs permanent resource in the first place. I've seen situations where contractor and employer have discovered each other, only for the employer to then ask the contractor to 'go through agency X'. No one likes admin load and we'd all get rid of it if we can.

Reduce assessment load - job opportunities cycle much more frequently on the contract market - typically 3-6 months. This means a lot more time involved in opportunity sourcing / vetting, potentially a hugely time consuming exercise. A good recruiter will be able to filter these opportunities for you, and only get you the most suitable gigs

Reduce downtime - going without agencies entirely means relying on your own market gravity as a developer of renown to secure job opportunities. This is do-able for high profile developers, of course, especially those who live in metropolitan areas and are prominent on the open source / community / events scene. However, if you work on proprietary software, have heavy family obligations and live outside of a big city, you're probably going to find agents very useful indeed.

Salary / Rate negotations - they are going to take their 15-20%. But they may end up earning you more by negotiating hard with the end employer. Certainly an inexperienced contractor is at risk of being exploited, but that's true in whatever of the type of contract you sign. A good relationship with a trusted agent can really help you make more on your rate, especially if you are not a naturally comfortable at negotiating.

And I say all this as a maker of a tech hiring platform that doesn't allow 3rd party recruiters on it. They have their place - just a smaller one than they currently occupy.

Great article in all other areas
No one would die if Google or Facebook or Apple or, well, 99% of other companies were infiltrated for the theft of highly-valuable corporate secrets. That doesn't make it outside the purview of the FBI.
>no one is pro-over-engineering

It is when you hand them a blank check and allow more engineering ot justify writing down a bigger number.
Reading things like http://blog.erratasec.com/2013/02/custom-stack-it-goes-to-11... suggests that it's probably simply the case that the OS itself is sort of a side-issue once you need performance since you're going to be bypassing the normal network stack anyway.

At that point ease of management or package installation probably matters more to developers and it might simply come down to things like driver support and other stability/performance issues where Linux has gotten a LOT of highly-specialized attention from hardware vendors and the HPC world. Back when 10G hardware was just starting to enter the market, we bought cards which came with a Linux driver but it took awhile before that was ported to FreeBSD and longer still before the latency had been optimized as much.
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Actually, I wasn't talking about the etymology at all, just providing a nice mnemonic for educators to remember when deciding how to teach history.

I do find etymological stuff like that fascinating, though.
Learn to draw.

As you said you need more time to think about it. You need to do it during the meeting as the opportunity to argue your point may be lost afterwards. I think the best thing is to help you understand and clearly see the points you can argue and provide a good cost/benefit analysis. By drawing/sketching you make it easier for you to visualise all the points and then make a solid counter argument. You also gain some time to think about the problem.

You should be then able to articulate your position in a few short clear statements that everyone in the meeting can remember and even the note take can easily jot down an email everyone later

I would then use a whiteboard if available or even a marker and an A3 sheet will do.
Glad you like the project!

Contributing to our software is one way to help:

https://github.com/letsencrypt/boulder

https://github.com/letsencrypt/lets-encrypt-preview

Also, if you work for a company that might be interested in sponsoring us, starting that conversation is another great way to help out.
Haha, true. Computers are so mainstream now versus the 60s-90s that being a nerd (or rather, geek) is a positive benefit in the right circumstances. They provide a service that is basically the hottest commodity around these days.
I'd be curious where you're getting any kind of hype that states "I can spend almost no time".
> As far as I understand, it is important to have a contract that allows you to:

> [...]

> If the client insists on including the clauses above, be ready to move on.

These lines appear to contradict themselves, am I missing something?
Mystery Show Debunks License Plate Privacy “Myth”
I replied on the blog post. The downside is basically that if you have one giant consensus group, then to add a new replica you have to replicate that entire consensus group. This hurts load balancing and recovery times, since you can't scatter a dead node's ranges across all the other nodes in the cluster.
Thank you for this clarification - I was quite surprised when I read that "1.5 times optimum" sentence.
But that's not so unusual. We know that people like a combination of salty fatty sweet stuff, and that food manufacturers engineer products to have the right proportion of sugar, salt, and fat, while being very eatable. That's how we go from roast chicken with gravy to deep fried chicken to deep fried popcorn chicken bites in batter with sugar sauces.
There are better things to do than arguing or trying change opinion of people that are confident in their ignorance. It's like arguing on the internet.

If that's not your thing, I would try to change workplace.
I was 14 when I started experiencing Lyme symptoms. I had a fever that climbed to 104 over the course of 2 weeks, and increasingly worse joint pain/inflamation in my neck. It got so bad I couldn't even move it the small amount required to see the sides of my computer monitor. Luckily my pediatrician knew her shit; I hadn't even left the waiting room before she had diagnosed me with Lyme disease, and I started on antibiotics before I even had blood drawn to send to the lab. That's how little confidence medical providers who know the disease have in the test.

I still suffer from lingering neck pain, but I consider myself incredibly lucky.

EDIT: For the record, I never had the rash. Many people either don't get it or don't notice it
Huh? You mustn't have read my post very closely.
The gun is not a shield, it doesn't prevent you from getting shot. It can only help you if you shoot first at any sign of home invasion. Most of the time it's just a family member or intimate acquaintance: http://www.nejm.org/doi/pdf/10.1056/NEJM199310073291506
And for an app that just lets you selectively blur out bits of images. GIMP can do that in seconds, for free.

It's indicative of the state of the App Store that there are so many apps like this. The worst culprits - in my view - are 'distraction-free text editors'. I guess if the market is there for a $20 text editor that does nothing, then people are going to try to exploit it.
I recently re-watched the sequels and came to find myself puzzled by the amount of vitriol they receive. Can you explain what your objection to them were? I found them at least entertaining, and consistent with the original. They were by no means above criticism, but I certainly don't think they deserve the level of scorn you typically see.
Cbase Hackerspace turns 20 a book about its history
I've been struggling with Lyme disease and co-infections (Babesia, Erlichia) for the greater part of 8 years. I got acutely sick my freshman year of college, and was forced to drop out. I spent the next 3 years in bed with severe cognitive impairment; I was unable to concentrate enough to read, and was sleeping 14-16 hours a day. I have very few recollections of that time period.

I finally found a doctor able to diagnose the Lyme, whom I attribute my current health to. It took 1.5 - 2 years of oral antibiotics and Babesia treatment to be regain my cognitive function and start my life again. It took 2 more years to feel like I had regained the better part of my health. Finally I was considered in "remission", and waned off the treatment.

Recently, after a long period of reemerging symptoms and recurring illnesses, I needed to start treatment pulses again. My doctor did a DNA test that yielded interesting results, with specific interest in my Methylation & detox profile. I have multiple mutations in genes relating to the methylation process (MTRR, MTHFR, MAO, and VDR), which have negatively effected my immune response, antioxidant creation, and cell repair. I'm currently in the process of supplementing those specific deficiencies, which will hopefully increase the effectiveness of the treatment protocol and my ability to fully heal.

Even though I'm still in treatment, I've come a long way from when I was acutely sick. I'm trying to find ways to help others get through that process...don't hesitate to reach out if I can be of any help.
Option 4 is that if the icon links are in the wrong order Safari should also break. That would force developers to put them in the right order and not break other browsers.
Care enough to share:

1- How did you start?

2- % of Revenue are you getting from W3Counter?
How Big Data Is Providing Personalized Learning Experiences
Spurious Correlations: “Now a ridiculous book”
That's an interesting example that hadn't occurred to me while reading. Beyond the debate over destination/emotional state, I wonder if there is a limitation of how long the trip is? It seems that after a certain amount of time passes your frame of reference might not be precise enough for this effect to be noticeable.
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- Bit Packing incl. Direct Access/Update w/ zero decompression
- Fastest and most efficient SIMD Bit Packing
- Fastest SIMD-Elias Fano implementation
- Novel TurboPFor (PFor/PForDelta) with direct access or bulk decoding. More efficient than ANY other "integer compression" scheme.
- Java Critical Native Interface. Access TurboPFor incl. SIMD from Java as fast as calling from C.
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- Novel Intersections w/ skip intervals, decompress the min. #blocks
- 2000! queries /sec on GOV2 (25 MB docid) on a SINGLE core
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Yeah. I feel like the above post is gibberish now. :)

I should have said "unprocessed meat" not "raw meat" since raw is often used to described uncooked meat.

Bacon gets a bad wrap because it is often cooked in unhealthy oils and smoked. Both of which are "bad." You stick un-smoked bacon on a george forman grill and you have a darn healthy piece of meat.
I have no idea what they were doing to get the email addresses, I just know that I got an email that had all (three) of the email addresses I'd ever used in github commits in the 'To' line.

As far as recruiter emails go, it was not very good. Just a generic "we are hiring developers".
So in other words it's impossible to have two inline asterisks without a space after the first one. Oh well.
Because having a QA team allows for a very nasty blame game. It larger organizations it can get pretty nasty. The problem only grows as greater amounts of bureaucracy separates the two sides.
What's your platform?

The payments thing is important, and sometimes recruiters provide a useful buffer too - the end-client company might take their sweet time to pay, or be unreliable. Contracting through a third party provides you with a buffer and I know for a fact that I've been paid well ahead of the recruiter being paid on several occasions.
Do you remember which guide you used? I think, at this point, I am willing to spend the time to configure it. I have free hosting, I want to set up a few emails at my domain without paying anything other than hosting.
Could we do better than that?