jpdaigle

But how would you detect corruption in this case?

If you write random bytes then read them back, you have nothing to compare them to.

I'm in Gatineau, Québec and we got it too, so it even got broadcast to neighbouring provinces.

All of these seem to require a significant investment of time before the interview process gets kicked off, which is uninclusive because it biases the hiring process against candidates whose time outside of the office is consumed by taking care of their children. (Stereotypically, it’s borderline age-ism too because candidates in their 30s and 40s are much more likely to have children compared to people in their mid-twenties.)

My preferred way to handle this is to explicitly acknowledge that the meeting isn't just sync-up, it's really two meetings:

- sync up / status is 15 mins. Any implementation discussion gets put in the parking lot

- once we've gone around the table, the rest of the meeting is handling the Q&A / parking lot we parked during the status discussion. Anyone not directly concerned by it is encouraged to leave, get out and be productive!

This gets you the double benefits of interrupt coalescing (a single regular interruption instead of 2 smaller ones where one is an irregular surprise), and preserving the quickness and relevance of the stand-up, as it's really just the first 10-15 minutes of the calendar slot, after which you're good to leave.

I think I first heard about it on HN, but there's an attempt at this called (StackShare)[https://stackshare.io/]

In French, food processors are even called "robot culinaire"

Where's the line for material non-public information, vs something not obvious to most of the public, but discoverable through research?

Any engineer sufficiently motivated to do so could have examined a CPU at any time in the last ten years, and, through skill, access to publicly available information (the instruction set, cpu datasheets) and immense amounts of hard work, uncovered the Meltdown flaw, without any access to Intel's internal trade secrets.

Yes - assume you're buying 1/200th of an "average home" every month as part of a monthly basket of consumption. It's an assumption I use when comparing cost of living between cities.

Another thing I don't understand about the basket of goods approach to measuring consumer prices is how we're getting inflation figures which are so low. Since goods we buy priced in USD have gone up massively in 2-3 years due to a falling Canadian dollar (electronics, smartphones, computers, SaaS, etc.), the only way the basket stays at 2% YoY growth is if that's offset by other things falling in price.

But, anecdotally, home services, energy cost, health services, food and clothing are all more expensive now than a few years ago, the only exception I can think of off the top of my head is gasoline, which has fallen.

Edit: This StatCan paper (http://www.statcan.gc.ca/pub/62-553-x/62-553-x2015001-eng.pd...) explains CPI in detail and it seems like the basket is thorough and well-thought-out. Appendix B outlines all the components and their weights, and both homeowner costs, rents, and mortgage interest costs do factor into the shelter calculation.

I'm asking for something even more basic from ad targeting: as a Canadian, with a Canadian IP address, don't advertise products/services to me that are US-only.

You'd think the web advertising industry would at least figure out how to never show me an ad for Hulu or Blue Apron, seeing how those companies don't do business outside the US so the ROI on having me click that is zero.

The idea is great, but such a radical change it probably has no chance of being realized.

Perhaps a less disruptive change would be to maintain copyright protections the way they are, but attack this at the penalty level: basically enshrine the idea that

> "X was not available for purchase or streaming in a DRM-free format in my country at the time I got a copy of it from a torrent."

Would be a valid defense for personal use, capping penalties at 1$ or so, without opening the public-domain box and opening the field to companies instantly cropping up to snipe a 5-year-old TV show the day it goes free, and resell it.

You are thinking of Bill C-6, to repeal the changes from bill C-24. Although it passed over a year ago, it was referred to Senate Committee last December and since then, status hasn't been updated.

So "repealed" is premature, as C-6 still doesn't have any announced target date for entering in effect.

No, that demo really doesn't feel respectful of readers:

  - The headline loads, then flashes off, then reappears when a webfont finishes loading
  - A "Support quality journalism" popover jumps in front of the content I opened.
  - A fifth of the screen height is taken up with a permanent fixed-position header nav
  - When I scroll to the bottom, the page gets jumpy and scrolling lags as it tries to on-demand load a bunch of related / recommended articles

This is somewhat available on TripAdvisor if you search for the airport itself by name, e.g. https://www.tripadvisor.ca/Airport-g187337-qFRA-Frankfurt_He...

The airport itself is not gathering ratings, but the restaurants and activities inside it are, and if there's a significant children's playground, it should show up as a rateable attraction under "Things to Do".

Could be a 6 month lock-up period during which the employees who exercised and now hold stock (and thus have a huge tax liability) cannot trade (buy or sell) in the stock. So for 6 months you can be entirely at the mercy of the public markets, watching helplessly from the sidelines as the price crashes.

(And yes, the solution is to not exercise until you're able to sell.)