skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Absolutely there is. I only log in to Mint perhaps once every few weeks, but I would much rather not use it at all -- or, more correctly, I would rather them not have my credentials.

But... I have personal checking and savings accounts at the local credit union, personal checking and savings accounts at one of the large, major banks, business checking and savings accounts at the (same previously mentioned) credit union, as well as several store and major credit cards issued by various financial institutions. (I tracked my vehicle loan within Mint as well, until I decided to just go ahead and pay it off.)

The convenience of being able to see all of them, quickly, within the same "single pane of glass" apparently outweighs the fears that I have or I wouldn't use it. An attacker acquiring the credentials for most of those accounts wouldn't be too much of an issue, honestly. The one account I would worry about would be my (primary) personal checking account but, luckily, the credit union's web site/software is pretty limited with regard to what kind of transactions could be performed... and, now that I think about it, I'm not sure I can initiate any transactions via their web site. The one thing I know I can do is the "online bill pay" but I would have to physically go into one of their branches to sign up for that before it was even available.
If you're going to monologue, I'll take a blog post over a speech any day. But if we need to work out details, let's get conference chairs. If we're planning a party, online will do. Once we're hanging out, we'd better be in the same room.

So long as you get out enough, I think this is fine. When you're doing something rational, online written communication is great--you omit all those distracting interpersonal protocols and focus on the issue at hand.
An idea that doesn't require signing is tracking commits internally.

If you push a commit made by you, Github can tag that as "trusted" (since you, the GH user, are vouching for your own commits). Then anyone who pulls them into their repo (even offline) and pushes it to their GH account would still have those commits tagged, since GH could match the hash with the ones it already knew about.

For the most part, this would solve the problem, since people usually upload the commits to their own GH fork and then issue a PR.
Law and politics don't handle cultural change well. Politics could but doesn't; the law can't really -- the whole point of the law is stability.
Apple denies it plans to sell mobile services directly to consumers
It would really shock me if no OS solution exists in 2015 (solution could equal piece of crap, but there has to be one).

I don't think it would be too difficult to build the infrastructure yourself.

OpenStack is a viable route you can look at for managing "cloud" infrastructure.

Concerning the startup, well ... Somebody seems to always get shafted by a startup. If you paid them $2 for their unsucessful indiegogo, download the limited open-source stuff and move on.
It's like Scala but without all the unknown performance wrappers and confusing code, and with a highly tuned runtime with a minimal library.
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Ask HN: Linux laptop for developers with a reasonable budget?
Looking for something similar to a Macbook in hardware, and can run Ubuntu.
Thoughts on Dell XPS 13 (seems a bit pricey) or System76?
> I can imagine the result being that people end up taking less than the industry average

The industry average in the US is abysmal though. Yahoo 'doubled' theirs to 16 weeks, which is 1/3 of Canada's (and many other countries') legally mandated minimum. Taking double the industry average would still be abysmal by global standards.
In which language would that syntax be valid?

"!==" would throw an error in most languages (I think).
Two years of mobile development (iOS and Android) experience in Montreal. I make less than you do.

Surely that's a Valley thing.
> but it was LEGAL at some point to jail people for releasing truthful information about actual crimes taking place? In America? And it's still LEGAL in some states?

Isn't this still legal under the various "wiretapping" laws prohibiting the recording of conversations without all parties' consent? Those are criminal laws.
Heres an example ->

auto now = boost::chrono::steady_clock::now().time_since_epoch();

auto timeSinceEpoch = boost::chrono::duration_cast<boost::chrono::milliseconds>(now).count();

(This is from http://stackoverflow.com/questions/16700277/get-a-double-fro...).

The person writing the answer is dilligent and hence has supplied the types as a preamble. Most articles / answers / api docs dont take the effort to elaborate on return value types.
I'd expect it to work much better when there's an unlimited vacation policy from the start and the founders make a determined effort to push the culture in that direction.
This is what I think of Unlimited vacation or otherwise: There should first be a mandatory vacation time, then an unlimited option beyond this mandatory time. Plain and simple.
You've got to wonder what would happen if someone tried to take that full year off, then was fired for taking "too much" of their "unlimited (up to a year)" time off after having a child.
They will not. For instance, the ASF cannot get the push logs for all the repositories under <https://github.com/apache>.
I've been told that my accent isn't so much a sound, but a mode of speech. You can spot the Canadians in LA because they are the ones using complete sentences.

There is a certain neutrality to the western-canadian accent, much like that of Minnesota. Take the word Going or anything else ending with ing. In much of the US it is pronounced "goin", dropping the g. In the UK it has become "going-g" ... they add an extra g sound. Right in the middle are the canadians and minnesotans who pronounce the word as written.

Canadians, watch this vid to see the similarity with minnesota:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g-BCxjYoOl0
(I know this guy)
I don't get all the backlash in these comments around the "unlimited" policies. Do any of the people opposing the unlimited policies have them in place at their own company?

I've had unlimited vacation at my last two companies. I've seen it abused as my previous employer but it's worked out great at my current job. I'm not "peer pressured" by my other coworkers like everyone here seems to think I would be. As long as I get my work done on time my manager let's me take a day off here and there for a long weekend. I tend to take friday's every once in a while for a weekend vacation. I'm leaving for 2.5 weeks pretty soon for an international vacation.

It's just easier on everyone. HR doesn't have to track how many days people are taking off and my manager and I don't spend time coordinating time off either. I simply put it in my calendar with enough notice and everyone is happy.

Why does everyone seem to think unlimited vacation forces people to "conform to peer pressure" and to work harder than they normally would?
Can you get geographic data with these purchases too? What % of people who don't have local Uber service use Uber when they are travelling? It would point towards market expansion markets.
Awesome insights. Thanks :)
Indeed the article has a very orientalist tone. In comparison, the wikipedia article https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Names_of_Japan has similar content but at least the Nihon vs Nippon section discussed the actual phonetics and not just the corresponding romanizations (surely most educated people are aware that romanizations are imperfect representations that obscure the underlying phonetics)
I initially had the same complaints about moving to Swift, especially with regards to dynamically created objects.

However I have found benefit in having strict model types that my JSON data must map into — or else cause compiler errors. I far prefer to pick up problems up at compile time then learn about them at run time.
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I'd still use Mercurial if I could but every library/framework I use on a regular basis lives in a git repo so I just stopped fighting the current and learnt enough git to keep my sanity.
It's not just about number of addresses. It's also about preventing conflicts.

Let's say my company uses 10.0.0.0/16. Now let's say I set up a VPN. Half my users will be on local networks that are also 10.0.x.x. Fail.

Even worse, let's say my company has two locations and both use 10.0.0.x and now we want to link them on a common network using a VPN or virtual Ethernet bridge. Have fun renumbering one of these two sites, or setting up abominations like internal two-way SNAT/DNAT.

The reason IPv6's address space is so huge is to allow relatively stateless assignment of addresses with extremely low probability of conflicts. An IPv6 address is basically a UUID. That's going to make lots of things easier and eliminate the need for a huge number of nasty hacks.
Most schools here in the United States, and I think most schools in Britain too, do not have a "pastoral staff,"

The American schools I've seen did have such staff, but they called them guidance counselors or something like that.
I'm highly suspicious of "unlimited" anything. In practice the term usually means "there is a limit, but we won't tell you until you've almost reached it."
Isn't that the ultimate test of any system developed for a company? How does that have anything to do with the article?
I can't reproduce this bug. I tried installing Firefox and did not get Eric Rescorla, so I think he's been removed already. Kind of disappointing, I wanted an autographed copy of RFC 5246.
I'm assuming "no". If the asnwer were "yes", this headline wouldn't need to be phrased interrogatively.
A bit vague and speculative.

My suspicion has been that maybe quantum entanglement and the "spooky action at a distance" of the Einstein, Podolsky, Rosen (EPR) paradox might be a clue to better understanding of space. But now I don't have the time, background in quantum mechanics or relativity, or, likely, the smarts even to try to push that through to a result.

Back to the startup!
Couldn't agree more that a realistic minimum, with some sort of "teeth" would be a great means of preventing burnout (and other issues that arise from unhealthy work/life balance).

Company I work for (Rubicon Project), uses a different approach that is still pretty effective (in my experience, your mileage may vary) - in addition to unmetered PTO, they provide a week off for 4th of July and a week (or two, depending on how calendars fall!) for Christmas/New Year. This way, even if you take no vacation time, you still get at least 2 weeks of downtime where the company basically stops, aside from keeping the lights on functions.
If you’re looking for something that only occurs one-tenth of 1 percent of the time, running a test that’s 90 percent accurate doesn’t help you.

Also known as the false positive paradox. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/False_positive_paradox
At my previous employer, this seemed to be the case in our UK offices. 30 days a year, mandatory.
But do they all need to be on the same logical network?
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fc00::whatever isn't really harder than 10.whatever. the addresses potentially look scary and they are harder to communicate by voice, but that's pretty much the only thing against them and the price that has to be paid for having those 128 bits.
Who cares ? Almost nobody will need to talk to DoD, so I would still use this subnet as private.
Thanks for the comment! It'd definitely be interesting to see this same analysis for annual rides to see how many people fall into a similar category as you.

To quickly clarify: The growth chart only includes customers who paid for an Uber ride in that month, so any customers riding 0 times are not counted. The "Domestic Customers by Monthly Rides" graph simply takes that set of customers and breaks them down by # of rides in that month.

Bookings can grow more slowly than customers if customers are spending less on average. This is in fact the case - in July 2012, customers were spending ~$85 a month on Uber. This has dropped steadily over the last three years to ~$70 a month. This makes sense given that Uber has lowered its average price over the years, with the introduction of UberX and UberPool.
In countries where vacation time is mandated by law, restricting access during vacation time, and ordering the employee to enjoy the vacation before its expiration date is common practice.

An employee who fails to take vacation on time or goes to the job during vacation time is actually a liability to the company.
Yes indeed, it is my first job!
Despite the pay, I like it here though.
How is Scala not a Java spin on F#? It also seems similar.

I don't see how any of these comparisons diminish the languages in question.
I've put Ubuntu on many things, from beefy laptops to netbooks to part-scrapped desktops. Seldom had I needed to fix driver issues. So my advice would be to search in the opposite direction: find any laptop that fits your budget/specs and then search online if there had been any issues installing Ubuntu on it.
From personal experience as someone who's had a computer since around 8 years old (and is nearing 30), I have to say that I've learned to speak more confidently, especially in less-than-ideal situations; however, I will always be able to communicate better through text.

I've noticed this is mostly the trend with people around my age as we were raised during the era where instant messaging blew up. Nearly all of my extremely intense, extra personal conversations with my friends (who I have known since elementary/middle school) were through IM. Part of me thinks this was due to SMS costs being extremely high, but I digress.

When we hang out in person, it was only to talk about school, video games, cartoons, jokes, etc., but when it came time to air out the overstuffed emotional closet, it was always through IM. Sure, it would sometimes bleed over to the "physical" world and much more detail would come out through actual physical interaction, but the conversations would always start with text on a screen.

That said, I feel that actual speech has sort of become a facade to actual "conversation". Especially in cases where one's in an unfamiliar environment (meeting someone new, attempting to speak in a different mode of speech, etc.), we all seem to just recite a script as if it's a weird vocal handshake to show that you're a normal human being. Conversations through text removes so much of the external factors that just increase noise and I believe it's a much purer, higher quality form of conversation.

[Sorry, that became kind of ranty. This was part of an enjoyable paper I wrote during undergrad.]
Agreed. I'm a big believer in set vacation days. However I think untracked sick and personal days have merit. If you need to go to the dentist or stay home with your kid, do it. Similarly, I like core hours when you're expected to be in (crucial for meeting planning), but still have the flexibility to come in late or leave early.
> The best advice I ever got from a polygraph examiner was to never voluntarily take one. Advice given while I was strapped to his machine. Never could be sure if he was being sincere or just manipulating me.

I believe he was being sincere. If you think about it, if the best it can do is simply not provide evidence against you. The worst it can do is make you look guilty, whether you are or not. That's a pretty bad deal for you.
The inspiration for the original article was an (accomplished) A being deeply bothered by the phenomenon you have described as "an unimportant little diversion."
No, you're thinking of pokemon :)
Yes, I completely agree. I worked at a lot of companies in the UK, and it was normal to have female developers (both pretty and not so pretty). I find it very strange that the US has such an issue with this topic.
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Plus in some jurisdictions you have to track unused vacation days and either pay them out or bank them.
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Here’s what we’re looking for:

- 5+ years of professional full-stack experience. You’ve led development in large projects before. You’ve built stuff from the ground up before. You’ve used a well-known web framework before (Django/Python, Rails/Ruby, etc.).
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- Versatility: In addition to having an intimate knowledge of the whole web stack, you understand how all the pieces fit together (front-end, database, network layer, etc.) and how they will impact the performance of our platform.
- Practical experience with unit testing and functional testing.
- Experience working with various relational databases (Postgres, MySQL, etc.), non-relational databases (Redis, Cassandra, etc.), and caching systems (memcached).
- Strong opinions on technology decisions. We’re currently using React backed by Node.js, but we’re open to the right tool for the job.
- Strong architecture skills. You know how to build highly scalable, robust, and fault-tolerant services that support our unique rate-of-growth requirements.
- Prior startup experience and product intuition is a plus
I've been working on my side project startup for quite some time, depending on how exactly you define when it began. Some of the ideas date back to around 2006 or so. But that was really a different project, but it definitely influenced the current project. But none of the code from back then is still in use.

More realistically, the current project really started sometime in 2010, best as I can remember. The earliest bug in the issue tracker is dated 12 Jul 2010, and the earliest commit in the old SVN repo is dated Wed, 07 Jul 2010. And the oldest entry on the "news" page of our website is also 07-12-2010. The domain name was registered 03-apr-2005, but that's only because I thought of the name, thought "hey, that might be useful one day" and registered it and sat on it until I needed a name/domain for something. The legal entity was officially created on 6/2/2009, but even that's not completely indicative of reality, as I formed the legal entity originally with the plan to be a one man consulting company... but I never really did any consulting at the time, and later when I wanted to do a product based company, I just re-purposed the name/domain.

And that's the history of Fogbeam Labs in far too many words...

As far as finishing... well, it'll never be finished, like fashion's never finished. :-) That said, we have issued releases of our open source projects, and from a commercial standpoint we have two products that have been in "Limited Availability" status for a while. So we have something you can consider shipping, but we don't think we're anywhere near done.
I agree. My wife has "unlimited" vacation but taking even a single day raises eye-brows. A generous policy with an expectation to use the days is way better. This isn't even close to unlimited since I believe there's a 1 year window.
In all honestly this is all I've ever wanted out of a window manager.
Lutfisk does not taste much at all and can be pretty decent if prepared properly. You generally want some strong tasting condiment to it like fresh ground black pepper on it though.
GP is talking about parity between maternity and paternity leave.

Not when talking about the US, otherwise it wouldn't just be two countries, since many -if not most- countries in the world don't have any paternity leave at all (even in Western Europe - see Switzerland).
I was responding more to the grandparent's comment that the woman's quote suggests she is more interested in the social aspects of the workplace than the engineering work (versus the quote from the male engineer, which seems more obviously about technical aspects of the job). Smartness and creativity certainly are traits I would appreciate in an engineer, but hilarity is not. All three, however, are traits I would appreciate in a human. Condescension and snap character assessments aren't normally traits I appreciate in anyone, so you're right, we probably wouldn't get along.
IMHO git does it right. If signature was only at the commit level you could do a variant of replay attack.

For example you could cherry-pick all commits except security fixes and create a malicious version of the software that has all commits still signed by the original author.
I'm suspicious that they don't specify how much vacation you get so you can't "cash out" the vacation time. I too have an unspecified amount of PTO at Adobe. Recently people have been cracked-down upon because they were taking a month off every year to go visit family back in India (without doing any work whilst there).
> [Git] already has PGP signatures, there is no reason to not add verification layer.

It already does.

man 1 git-verify-commit

man 1 git-verify-tag

This is a Github problem.
Netflix employee here. I've been at a company that changed vacation policy to unlimited from 20 days [Nvidia] and now at netflix which has the freedom and responsibility culture and unlimited vacation policy quite established in the culture and it's a different experience. During the interview I asked our VP what he thinks of the unlimited vacation policy and his response was along the lines of `When I got back to [far away country] to visit family I can't just go for a week, it takes me 2 days to get there and the rest of the week to recover, and again on the way back, so I take the whole month`. Having been here 2 years now, I can tell you it is quite common to take long vacations at netflix and no one has blinked an eye or tried to make me feel guilty when I take them.

My experience at Nvidia's was more like what you describe, where my manager said that even though the vacation policy was unlimited now, he thought it would be unfair to others if I were to go over 20 days, and it was always a guilt trip taking a few days off.
> The professor replied back that he was very sorry and was forced to give him an F. The student repeated the (required) class next year.

Wow, way to prize process over people. Why not let the student drop the class and just re-take the test next time around?

Is Caltech designed to teach science, or train paper-pushers?
> A student's honor that he didn't cheat is considered good enough.

Individual students certainly can have this integrity, but the demographic as a whole is demonstrably susceptible to cheating.

It also offends basic scientific process, in that it suggests that you don't need to bother with trying to make sure your results are robust; instead it relies on someone's word. Why bother having exams, then? Just ask "Do you think you understand the course material properly"?
1) If shopkeepers buy and sell armor, for example, it makes no sense for them to refuse to buy legendary armor. Even if they're only willing to pay a price similar to their normal best equipment, that's way better than an armful of bread.

2) Scaling it to your current level/equipment is even more of a story/mechanics disconnect, and 90% of the time that should still be worth a big chunk of money, if equipment is one of the main cost centers of the game.

Giving good rewards while keeping the player poor is hard to do in a way that doesn't involve screwing them over.