cjCamel

That was my point? In that there’s no benefit to the child to be in someone else’s care with a bunch of other kids for the first 6 months at least, and probably quite a lot older than that.

Would like like to reword your first answer to take into account your last answer?

Also, my bad - not sure where you live but it sounds horrifying. I can't believe there is somewhere in the world where people on 6 figure salaries are the only ones with access to basic employment benefits, and those less fortunate have no government provided safety net (now that sounds morally bankrupt to me).

I'm curious as well to find out if there are any people considered to be in the middle classes? Say...two full time earners taking in less than 6 figures, for instance? Is that a rarity in your country?

>im pretty sure you will find that most paid leave is taking by people that dont need it.

Not where I'm from, no. Most of the people I know that take paid leave are families where both parents need to continue to work to cover cost of living.

> It is the sheltered people that want to get paid leave

The sheltered people in your life. Are they the ones that have mortgages?

> I think paid leave is just plain immoral. It is up to the parent to evaluate how much they care for their child vs foregone salaries.

This is delusional or dangerous thinking. Are you an ultra privileged & sheltered young man? You do realise that even if a parent chooses to work, they have to pay someone for childcare?

Disagree, within the timeframe of this topic. 0-6 months is basically all about the bond between child and parents. Sometime after that, sure, a requirement to socialise comes into play.

No-one on this thread has mentioned breast feeding. The WHO recommends exclusively breast feeding a child for 6 months, and to continue until they are at least 2 years old. I understand that this is not possible or desirable for many parents, but the choice to do so should be available.

No surprise that even the most socially responsible companies in the US are skewed towards the extreme low end of parental leave allowance relative to other countries.

US employment law doesn't incentivise long term employment full stop, so little wonder some on here find it hard to understand why it is worth paying employees to come back.

I find the move to take home tests extremely unfair. Anyone with dependents will typically need to block out most of a day of a weekend, or risk doing it in intervals through their week.

Got a decent CV? Good luck trying to juggle applying for more than 2 interesting opportunities at once.

We mostly hire full stack web devs. IMO It's impossible to really test the abilities of each candidate across the changing landscape of front end, back end, DB & devops tech within an interview process that doesn't use a vast amount of time for everyone.

Instead, we don't whiteboard or code at all in our process at the moment, and try and get it all done in a face to face hour or two by:

* Taking their experience at face value. Examples: If they have been coding for a couple of years, don't waste everyone's time with fizzbuzz. Assume they will be able to adapt to our source control system, if they have been using a different one.

* Insisting on real world examples when asking competency questions.

* Asking generic questions about code, such as "What is clean code?", "what should you take into account for password security for a web app?", and looking for their ability to communicate as much as their actual answer.

* Looking for areas of strength and weakness to compare across candidates, rather than trying to catch them out.

* Scoring highly for enthusiasm, flexibility and a willingness to learn over pure technical knowledge.

I appreciate this approach wouldn't work for all organisations but we've done really well out of it.

Also, hello from a fellow Conrad!

I don't think Apple are behind on the tech for VR/AR. They have the pretty much everything they need in place to release a mobile VR or AR device when they choose to.

They've probably already got the AR developer mindshare, and no-one is near them for mass adoption of mobile wearable tech (watch+ear buds).

I agree that it's daft! Not the title I submitted.

OP here. That isn't the title I submitted. Mine was pretty boring, but factual. Bit miffed that it has been changed to that (though I did forget the [video] tag).

The original BBC headline was "Teenager beats Tetris champion at game old than he is", which I didn't like.

I note they have now changed it to "Teenager beats man at Tetris to become world champion".

tl;dr headlines about retro computer game championships are hard.

All of the following cost money but are good:

Wes Bos (https://wesbos.com/courses/) and Scott Talinksi (https://www.leveluptutorials.com/) have some great modern JavaScript courses, most of which require understanding of coding and the basics of web dev.

For everything else Pluralsight (https://pluralsight.com) is pretty comprehensive.

Monzo are a new UK bank, and the first bank to get onto IFTTT. It's really interesting to see what automations users are creating to make automatic transfers to savings pots, based on things like sleep, exercise, social media activity.

It's been a day so far, so once they open out more features it could be quite a gamechanger.

I'm working on my Weekly Digest (needs a more catchy name!)

https://conradj.co.uk/weeklydigest

It grabs what I've read from Pocket and makes a page for each week.

It's cool because what I read is better than what I can write, and I think this is true for others. I've got loads of ideas for it, it's going to be massive, as long as HN like it.

I don't use the subscription service of 1PW, but it's impressive that they got this out so quickly after Troy Hunt released it.

I'd love to understand how they did this, especially given the additional security implications of this feature you would expect it to require reviewing, testing etc.

Anecdotal I know, but I've heard of a couple of different areas where a a medical professional recommends Vitamin D supplements to their patient.

Someone I know has been told to take vitamin D to help manage relapsing remitting multiple sclerosis[1]

Another person has been recommended vitamin D to help with conception.

Seems to pop up all over the place.

[1] https://www.mssociety.org.uk/ms-research/emerging-areas/vita...

I guess this is sarcastic? I get why you are saying this but...isn't it OK that they release it, then bulk out the docs, work on the payload size, reduce the dependencies etc?

Surely once it helps someone with an immediate need it's worth releasing even if it's not completely ready?

Twitter is experimenting with a feature that lets you compose tweetstorms [1]

[1]: https://www.theverge.com/2017/9/10/16284526/twitter-experime...

Deleting the word "social" from this article would make it more accurate. The UK Daily Mail and many many other media companies have been guilty of the same 6 things for years.

Terribly lazy opinion piece. We need to be aware that the traditional news media will be extremely effective at discrediting the entire tech industry to save their own skin.

Interestingly (and now very off topic), she hasn't even seen Frozen. She does not yet know it is a film AFAIK, and I'm in no hurry to tell her.

I believe that the concept of Frozen has been explained to her by her peer group, through the medium of hair plaits.

Three year old kids are a weird and amazing bunch.

Same. Also, anytime I get a bad recommendation I blame my daughter for wanting to listen to the Frozen soundtrack.

For anyone interested in the Raw Audio Models section of that articles, there are some fun endpoints[1][2] from the Echonest API that provide those models.

They've moved over to the Spotify API since I last had a play, but it's great that they still provide them.

You can get the audio breakdown of a track, as well as a summary of the track features including fun stuff like "danceability" and musical positiveness ("valence"). Radiohead's "Fitter, Happier" was low on both of these points if I remember correctly.

[1]: https://developer.spotify.com/web-api/get-audio-features/

[2]: https://developer.spotify.com/web-api/get-audio-analysis/

Much like all CEOs went through a phase of doing a marginal gains presentation, and some are still probably talking about how the internet is an opportunity, I suspect we'll see this kind of presentation trickle down to most orgs that like to think they are innovative.

It's a continuation of some of those mad stream of consciousness presentations we saw from "digital visionaries" a few years back.

Associated video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uU0WDWV6au8&feature=youtu.be

In Bristol, UK we're into shipping containers in a big way. We use them as restaurants and shops[1], we put startups in them[2], and Massive Attack house the homeless in them![3]

I've heard that the startups are boiling hot in the summer and freezing cold in the winter. Hopefully the homes for the homeless are better insulated.

[1] http://wappingwharf.co.uk/retail-at-cargo

[2] https://www.bristoltemplequarter.com/boxworks-the-launch

[3] http://www.bristolpost.co.uk/news/bristol-news/explore-new-s...

Age is just a number and should be meaningless in any discussion to do with employment.

Also he's 48. Travis Kalanick is 41. Would you have preferred they got someone in their 20s or 30s? Why?

>> I don't buy that Google is a

>> natural monopoly for search

Google has most of the search users, creating better data for improving its product (ad targeting and search), so it gets all of the ad budget for search. Data+ad revenue suffocates the competition of users and revenue creating a natural monopoly.

This is a frustrating article - the issue really is that Safari doesn't support Service Workers and Web App Manifests, which are the canonical way of making PWAs.

Safari should support Service Workers[1], because they allow you to safely intercept and modify navigation and resource requests, and cache resources in a very granular fashion, securely and on a different thread to your app JS. This is great for performance and offline/spotty reception.

The Web App Manifest[2] is the file that allows developers to "appify" the site, by prompting the user to add to their home screen (only once they hit a certain usage rate), show a splash screen etc. But that's a nice to have compared to Service Workers.

[1]: https://developer.mozilla.org/en/docs/Web/API/Service_Worker...

[2]: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/Manifest

I assumed not, but after reading this thread it seems this may be possible?

It's crazy that it isn't clear.

Do you mean this: https://www.troyhunt.com/password-managers-dont-have-to-be-p...?