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I did 75% time for six months. In my case I was approached by an old employer because they really needed the extra help. I originally asked for a contracting arrangement, but according to HR they couldn't do that, so we settled on the 75% (w/ benefits) arrangement. A few thoughts on the subject:

1. Everyone I know who has managed this schedule has done so by negotiating with their existing employer (in my case a former employer). Doing this at the interview stage seems a sub-optimal (unless you are really in demand) because they will probably just go with someone else. After you have been working for a while, you are a known quantity, and so it's easier for them to stick their neck out for you. If your current employer is not receptive, you can apply pressure by threatening to leave (worked for a buddy, but you have to be prepared to walk).
2. For this arrangement to make sense, you really need to be good at setting boundaries. I was pretty bad at that, and as such, I often put in more hours. Part of the reason they took me on was because they were having trouble finding people to handle all the workload, so I should have realized that it would be a struggle to keep the workload manageable on the 75% schedule (when I used to work full time I put in a lot more than 40/week).
3. For me personally, I would much rather have a (very) flexible schedule than a shorter work week. I don't mind cranking out 10-12 hour days if needed, but I like the option to get some of that time back, whether it be taking part or most of a day off on short notice, or coming in late to the office in order to enjoy the outdoors in the AM or do some chores.

Due to 2 and 3, I think an hourly consulting arrangement would have been much better (for me at least). If you charge enough, you will make up for the lost benefits, and because you are charging hourly, you don't have to stress too much if the workload spikes from time to time because you will get paid for those extra hours.
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Then you travel to a country where your mobile provider isn't working and all of a sudden you can't buy an airline ticket. SMS verification is also a terrible user experience.
I for one hate leaving messages.

Having a friend who recorded and remixed phone conversations back in the days might have added to that ;-)
> And hey, maybe me laughing at them will cause them to reconsider their chosen profession (but not holding my breath).

Maybe their 'chosen profession' has less in terms of freedom of choice than you think it does. There are only so many low-wage jobs available and I figure most call center operators are happy with the crappy job they've got rather than with the high moral standards one they don't or can't get.
https://rwmj.wordpress.com/2016/07/26/risc-v-on-an-fpga-pt-3...
Have just caught up with a friend who was employed to extract gas onshore in Holland. The "10s of centimetres" of subsidence they caused was not popular.
That's not fair! You are comparing European car-makers with US ones :P

Joking aside, I have to agree - once you've been inside a modern Audi/Merc/Beemer, you do have to wonder what all the fuss about Tesla is. Its not like Tesla has a monopoly on attractive electric cars: the i8 is gorgeous.
Well, the cost matrix is asymmetric. A world that caters for tall people is inconvenient, at worst, for short people; a world where spaces are made for short or medium people is unbearable or unlivable for tall people. The best is to get away from one-size-fits-all, which is why multiple urinals are often installed at different heights.
Until some stranger attempts to call you to tell you your kid cycled under bus #9 and is on the way to the hospital.
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> Nevermind Google Authenticator. Android and iOS should have a high quality TOTP app installed by default.

True, Red Hat has made FreeOTP which is available for Android and iOS and works really well.
but if TOTP is sync'd on with your google account, and you reinstall your phone... How do you do the first android login after reinstall, when you lost the TOTP ? Chicken and egg problem inbound ^^.
What a nightmare: thousands of little drones flying around our heads, causing privacy issues, unwanted noise and danger, for what? To deliver non-critical stuff in a short time? Who needs the newest Kindle or those cool tennis socks in 30 min?

Let's keep our priorities straight, if needed through drone taxes.
I may be short, but at least I can fully extend my legs on economy flights.

Beat that, tall person.
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As someone who is also learning to code and has been for about 18 months, great job :)
Porsche has nothing in common with Apple except being expensive. The value proposition of a Porsche is not generated by clever engineering but simply raw power and valuable materials. Porsche is a high-end gaming desktop.

The smart car is (or at least was, when launched) much closer: different, innovative, a bit quirky.

Prediction: The Apple car will be electric, not terribly fast, probably a two-seater.
Usually Google Site/Blog posts do not stay up for long if they are reported. It seems really uncharacteristic for Google to delete his blog out of the blue instead of after a history of post flagging/deletion and constant battling with allowed content. Was there a history of constant skirting of allowed content and a leadup to the deletion? From what I've read about the incident, there was none. Which leads me to believe that this all might be a mishap by an automatic heuristic-checking script. You bring up a good point though, Google has many many users, over a billion - so we do have to consider all these angles and collect more information about recent suspensions/deletions before we decide if there's' a cover-up of negligence. Based on the timing though, I can't shake an uncanny feeling.
To the author: good work! Stop reading here please.

To HN community: good to see that people here are humans. It's amazing how a cool pic can trigger so many comments and upvotes :)
Maybe it's the quote lacking context but you're wrongly equating lines of code with amount of functionality produced.

I agree however that adding more developers can slow things down but this is partly a result of how software is designed and work divided up.
Trump's daughter married a jew, in a jewish ceremony.

You better be able to explain how a genuine anti-semite would do that without using conspiracy theories yourself.
It's easier to make a drone that can drop off packages (which are loaded by some special process at the warehouse) than it is to make a drone that can pick up arbitrary-sized packages from a garden.
In London, Amazon is consistently able to deliver many items within one hour via courier. It's called Prime Now.

Two-hour delivery is free if you have Prime. One hour is about £5.

On the normal Amazon.co.uk Prime, they dispatch same-day and always deliver next day, usually by ~1pm.
Nice job!
One suggestion from a person who developed widgets used on lots of sites: You are appending general styles (like styling the a tag, ".container" which is a popular class name) to the containing document's body. This is bad practice, since it will alter all the links on the containing page. Consider using namespaced classes (like .github-widget-link) or build your own iframe and apply the styling there
Obesity is strongly linked to prosperity, globally. That isn't nonsense.
Sure, but the incentive is there once you start dropping valuable goods. And drone technology is improving.

I guess you'll have a 2-3 year secure-delivery-to-your-garden window.

Build a drone that tracks other drones going out of the Amazon warehouse, wait until parcel is dropped, and pick it up.

You could of course build a drone-police which shuts down all dark-drones. I hope the costs of such an infrastructure will be paid by taxes on drone delivery (or by increased price in drone delivery), and that society at large is not left covering the cost of such nonsense.
The target was the oil fields, and the goal was to deprive the U.S. Navy of materiel (in this case, fuel).
You can easily outsource car manufacturing as well.

You're also underestimating the amount of hardware design Apple did and does. They don't buy the display, cpu, touchscreen, battery or much else off the shelf.
I didn't realize that people still had anything but Unlimited Minutes plans.
TrueCaller has been great for me and I believe services like this could kill telemarketing overnight.

I haven't given them access to my contacts yet though so I end up looking up numbers in the app. Loathe to give this information to yet another vendor yet back when I joined WhatsApp I didn't even consider the privacy implication. Illustrates the heightened awareness of privacy we have now.
> often see smaller groups as outliers

Is there a name for that phenomenon? I saw a similar thing in some data that we were looking at recently, and it took a while to work out that the reason why one group's number was consistently a bit smaller than another group's number was that we were simply taking the max of a smaller group. it's obvious in retrospect, but can catch you out if you're not expecting it.

I'd like to have a name for it, a reference to send people to.
You object to consistently having plentiful nutrition from infancy on the scale of nations over large time spans being strongly linked to prosperity? That's essentially what the tall = positive statement is about.

Few things are as well established as strong correlations for prosperity. You might as well say "I reject reality and substitute my own".
I don't count that against this study -- it isn't about determining the effects of a drug or something like that. If we can show that there exists one person that can detect a single photon in a statistically significant way (vs random guessing), that still seems like a fascinating result.
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So... you don't have many friends, I take it.
> "...the verifier SHALL verify that the pre-registered telephone number being used is actually associated with a mobile network and not with a VoIP (or other software-based) service."

Now this bothers me. I deliberately use a service (RingTo, discontinued for new users) to park a handful of numbers and be able to exchange SMS and MMS with them. One of the things I do not do is give out my actual mobile number to every random web service that wants it for "2FA," primarily because that now opens me up to even more phone spam. With RingTo, I just set that number to always go to voicemail but am still able to use SMS through their app.

It is arbitrary to say "one number type is acceptable for SMS verification but another is not." I'm actually more concerned that my mobile carrier will cough up my account to an arbitrary attacker than I am about some out-of-the-way number parking service that I log into using credentials that are not able to be easily discovered (an alternate e-mail address and such). My mobile carrier is a much larger target and has scores of fallible humans working for it just waiting to be socially engineered.
If you mainly care about prediction, rather than inspecting the fitted parameters, a lot of this detail is usually overkill.

To generalize well, it's almost always a good idea to have some sort of regularization, such as penalizing the sum of the square of the parameters. The extra term in the cost function will usually make the naive "normal equations" approach work fine, and give much the same predictions as fancy pivoted QR approaches. On my machine it's also a lot faster (the ball-park is ~~10x faster for large systems).

I'm glad R has super-solid robust GLM implementations. And unless you're fitting many models, you should probably just use such a library routine. However, I wish more tutorials and textbooks would spend more time on the reasons for numerical stability, and when one should care, rather than pushing that detail off into a trail of citations.
Running compromised systems is consent. In any context outside of the very narrow scopes of law and morality, everything that can happen does, and everything that does happen is legal.
Well for one: If I am the initiator (caller) paying is totally fine, because it is me having a stated wish to reach another person and take some of their time for whatever I wana talk about.

So being the recipient, the initiator intrudes on my time. If I accept this I have (at least in old times, before caller ID) no chance of knowing, if this intrusion has a valid (and for me valuable) reason.

Even today, I have no chance of knowing beforehand, if the caller really is adding value to my day. Therefore if my time used in the call generates added value by whatever the caller tells me (or how I feel after talking to him/her).

So if this intrusion by a caller would additionally be fee-ridden, the risk of taking a call grows exponentially.
Therefore I would let go all calls to mailbox and have the person exactly state what they intend to talk about. Even family (I hate social chit-chat calls).

So probably I would not need the phone at all except for mail-checking and in case of an emergency, as after some tries no one would want to call me. The incentive to not take a phone (at least in my case) would lead to that.
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Yes, as a matter of fact, I know a woman who has been trying to be a representational painter for 10 years. The first time I saw a picture in her studio which was decent, it was her husband's first attempt at a portrait (he'd never used a paintbrush before).

You may think natural talent doesn't count; but you can only think this because you've never been exposed to a sport, game or skill where someone had 4 sigma of natural talent on you.
Yes, but they are the best sandwiches I've ever had anywhere. The Dutch treat every sandwich like a little work of art, I've had countless since visiting the Netherlands that made me wish other countries knew what they were doing!

The strong emphasis on fresh fruits and vegetables (and fresh mint tea, which is as common as water in Holland) is also really nice compared to the greasy, messy, fatty foods of the U.S. and Germany.
Looks cool. Couple of pointers:

- Use a tool like EsLint to lint your code. It will make it more readable and cleaner than it is right now. Maybe integrate your editor with Eslint and it will guide you to write cleaner code.

- You can use underscore templating to inject variables in the template and it will be much more cleaner and maintainable. http://underscorejs.org/
Go here: https://myaccount.google.com/security?pli=1

This page allows you to review your security settings. Most importantly, have a look at linked apps (I'm on a different language so I don't know the exact terminology, scroll down bit and you should see it). Revoke access to any app that you don't know / doesn't feel right.

Definitely enable 2 factor authentication on your Google account. Change your password. Review your security questions and answers as well.

Also have a look at https://security.google.com/settings/security/activity

This page shows you on which devices you've been signed in, and where they are from. If you notice anything suspicious, click the link at the top of the page.
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Cool! Can someone create the same for Hacker News profiles (to embed on my site)? :)
OK, so you don't believe human abilities are statistically distributed. This is a fashionable political statement these days. It's also been proven completely false.
On your first paragraph, that sounds like the absurdist end of the libertarian spectrum and I'd expect more moderately minded people would take some issue with that line of thinking ...

With regards to "Treat terrorism as just another crime, nothing special," I feel that the problem with terrorism, as it is called is the fact that it is coordinated and targeted. It is more like "organised crime" but it has the specific goal literally of creating terror, whereas the interests of organised crime are purely commercial and if you don't get in their way they won't get in yours.

The issue is with people going around creating terror in a coordinated way, which undermines the authority of the state, and many people's feeling of safety.

Of course that still leaves the question of how do you respond to it, but simply "accepting that the potential for crime, even mass murder, is a necessity for a free society" is similar to me to accepting that a waterfall software development model is a natural emergent phenomenon, inevitable and should thus be embraced. It's a mode of thought that never has a happy ending.

Just to yank myself back on topic again, terrorism is thought to be similar to a child who wants his way and keeps escalating negative attention seeking tactics to the point where you either acquiesce (thus reinforcing the negative behaviour), or you smack the child (at best only a temporary solution, that could lead to further escalations if not sooner, then later in life - could even put you in front of a judge).

"Smacking the child" is what the west has been trying so far.

My personal opinion is that there is no universal generalised "third option", though intricate behavioural theories abound. I would take the opinion that every child is an individual and must be dealt with, and respected as such. It may be as simple as giving them something else to occupy themselves.
Yeah, I was sarcastically pointing out the absurdity of bitching about different people on HN having different responses whilst he himself has slightly different perspectives on subtly different issues...

I don't care that his view is inconsistent, I just think the complaint of people disagreeing with him (in a comment format which encourages disagreement more than agreement) was kinda ridiculous :)
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There's a lot of room for innovation here, and there hasn't been much precedent for this historically.

You could have constitutional measures controlling the way that wars were funded. A simple example: simple outlaw any kind of deficit spending by the national government. Another: a mechanism by which the release of funds could be tied up under legislation supervised by a third party such as the judiciary. [You could have a war chest, but encode it in a law such that the money could only be released if a senior court ruled that the release satisfied self-defense criteria.]

One of the reasons that the original United States constitution (Articles of Confederation) was replaced by the current one was related to military funding. In the old system, it was difficult to raise an army for shared purpose (e.g. fighting the revolutionary war) and there was potential for states to go to war with one another. The issues raised by that period will be familiar to anyone following European integration projects. Some hard-line libertarians in the US remember the Articles of Confederation fondly, because of the limits it imposed on government power.
So much revisionism (and bad history) in this whole thread...

No, Stalinism does not represent communism as a whole and Stalin was very controversial even at that time.

"Communism did not work in practice" - by which metric ? The Soviet Union transformed itself into a world superpower from an backward agricultural undeveloped nation in just 40 years while fighting two world wars and losing almost all their male population. That in itself is a pretty amazing feat in itself. Not to take into account the countless inventions we owe to the Soviet Union today, it was a very productive place for scientists.

Ironically, it's the social policy of the Soviet Union which had the most issues since during most of its history, it was a brutal dictatorship sending opponents (and even random people) to Gulags.
I think it's the increased oxygen from being below sea level, myself.
Well, that's the exact question that Apple is trying to answer. It's funny how easy it seems to be to dismiss the genius of the iPhone. I guess it's a hallmark of good design that it seems completely obvious after you've seen it.

Regarding the car, long-range electric drive and self-driving capabilities are "obvious" improvements that would hit "revolutionary" on the scale. But those are still problems of basic science and I doubt that Apple can get there faster than all of the competition combined.
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I think the terms you're looking for are local maxima and minima.
when I was 12 I learnt html/css by making websites based off my favourite interests (sailor moon!) and that taught me html/css and I had a blog of course. Try to relate what she learns to an existing interest.
Got it. I'm a hobbyist stand-up, so this will be helpful.
In U.S. vast majority of items delivered to me were left at the front door in plain sight. They were never stolen.

I imagine the packages dropped off at the backyard will be even more secure than that.
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Anyone referring to a political figure (or any other person) as "our God Emperor" is firmly in Hurricane Neddy territory (i.e. they should self-commit to a mental institution)
Oxfam doesn't seem to agree with you, and ranks The Netherlands as having the best diet [1]. Dutch cuisine might not be very diverse (boiled potatoes, boiled veggies and some meat), but the Dutch eat a lot of food from other cuisines; pasta and rice dishes are very popular in the Netherlands.

[1] http://www.oxfam.org.uk/what-we-do/good-enough-to-eat
> 1) Religion is not really the problem.

It very much is.

Most religions promote "us vs them" attitudes that make people think that anything can be done to the "them". The religions in the US also give birth to our "domestic terrorists" but they don't get called that because 1) they are white and 2) "Well, they just kill baby killers, fags, etc. so they kinda deserve it."

I don't see calls to deport Baptists, thank you very much.

Religion needs to finally get terminated. Period.

> but rather internal rebellions and foreign interference that is probably more political/ideological than financial in nature.

Nobody would care about most of those dictators if there wasn't enough money involved to make them important. See: Africa. Nobody really cares one iota about genocide or terrorism in Africa as it has no importance.

> though blaming 'freetrade' as the cause for unemployment and/or other financial troubles is probably a bit simplistic.

The issue isn't "freetrade" per se. It's the fact that the corporations get to be transnational while the workers don't get to cross national borders anywhere near as easily. So, the corporations get the benefits while the workers get shafted.