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- Various laws and regulations that micromanage the hiring process, e.g., forcing employers to show evidence that it is "fair".

I'd definitely like to know more about this. The only big issue I see with this is not allowing IQ tests to be used.

- Various laws and regulations that make it difficult to fire a worker even if they are genuinely unproductive.

I live in an at will state(Texas), and it doesn't seem like our job market is that much better than states with more onerous firing restrictions.
Are the restrictions at the Federal level?
A web developer from Aberdeen here.

The transition from wealthy to poor in Aberdeen has been instantaneous. Everyone I know in the city has been affected—my fiancee was made redundant, my Dad (after 25 years at BP) and my best mate’s dad (after 25 years at Shell) too.

I studied CS at Robert Gordon University, which is cutting academic staff. I also worked at a design and dev shop, but that went bust in December last year.

It’s actually a really bleak time, but this outcome was avoidable.

Although my friends and family all live in Aberdeen, I feel like I can’t sustain myself there. I currently live in Wellington, NZ, which is beautiful, vibrant and diverse.
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tl;dr (too many pictures)

10" e-reader with a note-taking/drawing feature.
Supported formats: pdf, epub.
pre-order price : $379
availability date : August 2017

I wonder if highlighting and note-taking of pdfs is supported.

$379 is a bit too steep. I'm using a $150 chinese 10" tablet w/ palm rejection to read and annotate pdfs. It does the job.
Wide adoption and strong tooling would be high on my list for a large team.
Ok in the context of - critical - constrained memory I understand;

However do you agree that is more easy to solve memory (buying new hardware) than handle with race condition? kkkk

Then, Maybe we need to think about optimize our daily data structures.. I have following a few papers about this.. e.g:

http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=2658763
http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=2993251
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That's exactly what I thought! One of best designed blogs I've ever seen. It has exactly what you need and nothing more. Looking at the HTML code its also incredibly simple and elegant! What a pleasure to read
https://motherboard.vice.com/read/tor-browser-zero-day-explo...
I don't see any information other than a claim that it's "engineered for optimal (very high) performance": https://github.com/phaistos-networks/TANK/wiki/Why-Tank-and-...
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13076464
That doesn't make it any less unilateral. IMO, it makes it rather worse to have been doing this for five years. The situation would be much better if they had been working to build a broader consensus over all that time. As near as I can tell, they don't even have consensus within Linux, let alone POSIX or the ITU.
Smearing leap seconds does make sense, but it's an odd step to take unilaterally, rather than coordinating with other NTP servers and with Linux timekeeping (which currently handles leap seconds via a 61-second minute instead).
At this point it's a lot of guess on what the downsides will be. On the pages for Aurora they mention they're working on support for extensions and various PLs, but it's unclear if they're supported in the beta at this time. It's also unclear if they had to fork off in some way, if they did it will most likely lag behind what core Postgres at each new release. Of course right now it's a lot of guesswork. It should be much more clear when it gets into GA on what the trade-offs are.
I've given up subscribing because pages don't work (as in don't render anything at all) with JS disabled.
Human drivers don't run an RTOS and a deterministic bus system either. In fact, I would argue that very rarely do human drivers fail because of jitter or nondeterminism.
I think it's a bit of a stretch to say this is burying conservative news, it's more like burying conservative meme-spamming. Especially because, well, now TD is going to be able to get on the page the same way every other subreddit normally does, which seems.. almost.. fair?

Certainly if you turn your head one way it's fair.

It's not inherently discriminatory for one-of-two political camps to have behavior that breaks the intended functionality of a platform and necessitates a response. You can argue that in this case it was, and that's fine, but I disagree.

Would it appease you if r/politics or a hillary subreddit had the same treatment? It wouldn't change anything but at least it would 'feel better'?

And I'd like to point out that one reason I'm defending spez and the reddit admins on this is that I think they've been extremely open and honest about it (barring the one idiotic mistake of Spez's). I like the guy because his admin posts have none of the veneer of bullshit that literally-every-CEO's has (ie Zuckerberg's "our mission is to bring the world together" drivel). It's super candid; he answers every question, even the sensitive ones; he's very open about mistakes and changes and motivations. It's rare for a company to display it and I value it highly.

I totally agree that doing special-case stuff to a community already obsessed with conspiracy theories about censorship is maybe a bad move, but I also think it's justifiable and probably justified. And also, there are tons of worse moves, in the game of not-pissing-everyone-off, in a generally shitty situation (such as banning the whole subreddit).
The more relevant question is not do they but if they could would we want them to?
Stratix10 (the large, Intel 14nm family) was delayed, delayed, delayed, and delayed some more. Last I heard it was supposed to be in high-prio customer hands by end of 2016, but unclear if that meant "more eng samples" or the actual, final production parts. Either way Xilinx beat them to market by approx 3-6 months AFAICT.
Completely wrong. Among other things it codifies the use of general warrants by the FBI, one of the prime reasons we went to war in 1776.
It's not a CEO censoring anything, it's a subreddit of people who troll for the lulz having a minuscule example of their own tactics turned around upon them, for the fleeting amusement of somebody with admin access on the servers.
87UL and 93UL aren't much more expensive than automotive gas, since it's pretty much the same thing. It's 100+ octane leaded gas that's expensive, and it'll stay that way until general aviation gets out of its carburetor & fixed timing rut and join the modern world of direct fuel injection and FADEC.
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1) How many hours do you work in a typical week?
2) What sort of company (startup, big corp, government, etc.)? Or name of company?
Many of the underlying bits that make Citus MX possible will in time be rolled into the open source version. At the same time some of the ways we make it possible, such as by managing the streaming replication and high availability may take longer to productize and it's unclear in what form they'll evolve. For now Citus MX is available on Citus Cloud–due to the way we're able to take care of all of those things for you.
Yeah, I've been using XEmacs since it was Lucid Emacs, but I guess it's getting to be time to switch. Even SLIME no longer supports XEmacs.
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Autocompletion is one of the first things I disable in Chrome. Actually go into Advanced Settings and turn everything off that I can.
You'll have a long wait, since this change is completely orthogonal to that.

The key change is to Rule 41(b), "Authority to Issue a Warrant". It contained a list of 5 circumstances under which a magistrate just can issue a warrant. A 6th is being added:

===={ begin quote

(6)

a magistrate judge with authority in any district where activities related to a crime may have occurred has authority to issue a warrant to use remote access to search electronic storage media and to seize or copy electronically stored information located within or outside that district if:

(A) the district where the media or information is located has been concealed through technological means; or

(B) in an investigation of a violation of 18 U.S.C. § 1030(a)(5), the media are protected computers that have been damaged without authorization and are located in five or more districts.

=====} end quote

There is also a change to 41(f)(1)(C), which concerns serving a warrant. The prior version read:

===={ begin quote

The officer executing the warrant must give a copy of the warrant and a receipt for the property taken to the person from whom, or from whose premises, the property was taken or leave a copy of the warrant and receipt at the place where the officer took the property.

=====} end quote

The update adds another sentence to that:

===={ begin quote

For a warrant to use remote access to search electronic storage media and seize or copy electronically stored information, the officer must make reasonable efforts to serve a copy of the warrant on the person whose property was searched or whose information was seized or copied. Service may be accomplished by any means, including electronic means, reasonably calculated to reach that person.

=====} end quote
You can crack the fuel to go from heavier to lighter grade, and use Fischer-Tropsch process to go the other way.
Minus one year.

I had my resume up on several job sites. I got an email using the name (and a plausible email) for a real, quality software company that sent me a list of HR-type questions. I sent some answers (no PII involved), and they told me I had the job and asked for some bank account information.

That obviously set off some alarms, so I followed up with the company and found out that they were being impersonated. I would guess that someone spent 3+ hours just on hustling me - they'd clearly read my resume, which was ironically better than a lot of real interviews.
Honest question: what's so bad about others' systems running on slightly off time? I get why people care about internal consistency, and why deviations should be quite small, but this?
Where, specifically? For your reference, here is Rule 41 with the differences marked: https://www.justsecurity.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/prop...
I hear this a lot and it always pisses me off. Part of what I believe gives me value is that I can recall from memory most of what I do day to day without looking it up. I have coworkers who are good, but possess terrible memories. Most are semi impressed with I rattle off a shell script and all the flags needed to get it to work on the first try.

I think the anger comes because I see it as a cop out, and I feel I get the short end of the stick in interviews because of it.
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I was thinking more about the other way because that's the hard part, we can understand synthesized voices better than they can understand us.

Apple seems far and away the best desktop solution. For other OS's though, it's frustrating that they haven't improved on what computers of the early eighties could do. Now you've made me nostalgic though, I'll never forget the first time I heard my amiga 500 read my words.
It is based on Orbeus's technology which was acquired by Amazon. Orbeus was found by two Chinese guys in Boston University.
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In the last half decade the reef at port douglas has gone from "Straight out of finding nemo" to a ghostly wasteland (from personally diving there). It's a real shame.

There are still smaller good bits you can find, but overall it's no good at all.
On another note it makes me sad that people are so willing to justify "costs" without showing or explaining exactly what they are. Everyone needs a costs audit, yesterday.

Also how our are analogies alike? Milk is a consumable, data is information. Completely different usage pattern.

Finally, every internet service provider I've ever used that held data for some reason granted me a grace period, even if it was never officially stated. Sometimes you just have to ask nicely
If you are in the academic sector, pretty much everybody has an university program where one can get hardware/software for reduced prices or as a donation.

Personally, I started dabbling with a zynq zedboard. FPGA+Hard arm cores, many stuff on board + extension capabilities.
> In a marriage, a couple should share completely all of this information.

I disagree. Couples are allowed too be financially independent. Leave the information with your lawyer in case of death or accident? Sure. But not necessarily have joint management.
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And I will also add this - as a software developer today you are probably thinking about learning stuff like Solr, Hadoop, CoreNLP, NLTK, Spark etc., as you try to learn more about data science and related stuff.

As you do this, I personally think that you are much better off getting the JetBrains all-in-one subscription (if you can afford it) over continuing to use Visual Studio. There are a lot of things happening on the data science front which are just that much harder to do within the MS stack.

Actually I really love the C# language, and wish there were .NET ports for Solr, Hadoop and NLP libraries etc. But it just makes more sense to get into the native ecosystems for these libraries (Java, Python etc.) with the most convenient IDEs for those languages (e.g. IntelliJ, PyCharm) and not struggle with trying to get all your NuGet ducks in a row.
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Time to move from DigitalOcean finally
If that was true for AWS, their prices would be far lower pretty much across the board.

One of the most amazing feats Amazon has pulled off is to convince people that AWS is cheap. They're cheap in the way that Apple are: Only if you need a feature-set (or name recognition..) that excludes the vast majority of the competitors from consideration. If/when you truly need that, then they're the right choice. There are plenty of valid reason to pick AWS.

But they're very rarely the cheap choice.
A message for all the people on HN who think Trump is worth it because he's going to turn the country around: He's not. And he won't.
>Linux timekeeping (which currently handles leap seconds via a 61-second minute instead)

Google doesn't think so: "No commonly used operating system is able to handle a minute with 61 seconds"
> I'm 27 and a high school drop out. I've supported myself since I was 18 and own my home.

Nice, that's not easy. And if it was 50% harder to do, you might have been able to do it anyway. But there is some threshold where you would not have been able to. It might be 200%, 500%, 1000%, but there's a line somewhere.

> war, climate change, and obesity

This was more to point out how different the world is now, not provide excuses for laziness.
>> Your eye movements

Presumably they have a cunning plan to use eye movements to decide which candidates are better programmers because eye movements suffice to tell apart the expert from the novices, in programming:

http://epublications.uef.fi/pub/urn_isbn_978-952-61-1539-9/u...

(...allegedly)
I'd assume its because, at Google scale, you can dictate what "time" is considered internally.

> All Google services, including all APIs, will be synchronized on smeared time, as described above. You’ll also get smeared time for virtual machines on Compute Engine if you follow our recommended settings.
The boards used for this preview do not have enough memory bandwidth to pose even a modest threat to the latest batch of memory-hard GPU PoW algos.
It's nothing. The pictures are clear/visible when I occasionally wander from the article to one for a moment--they zoom a bit, didn't care either way. I think UX/UI pedants see the web in a different way than the users they are supposedly championing.
> I have a hard time understand what benefit Rust would give over swift

Rust is a drastically better-designed language, with substantially improved safety mechanisms, more advanced memory management (via lifetimes), generally better performance, and more powerful (generic) ADTs, to name a few things. That said, I'm not convinced it's better for the UI-centric development that Swift is targeting.
You, and the commenter voted into oblivion below, are blamers. If one perceives a loss of control around having a "free" existence, the easiest thing to do for resolve is to blame someone else for a) taking one's external controls away and/or b) "observe" someone else allowing their own control to be taken away. Option B is clearly "speaking" for another entity's intent for themselves (blaming). Case in point, making up a bunch of BULLSHIT that HN mods are cheerleaders for the government is absolutely crapola rationalization. They may themselves be cheerleaders for capitalism, but there's no truth they represent or support a more controlling government. Even arguing this point is a complete waste of time, which I hazard is the point anyway with dissonance.

Stop introducing dissonance into rational conversations. If you were being trustworthy, you'd put your name to your words.
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People who are saying the webcam monitoring is a equivalent to spyware are over-reacting. This is no different than an in-person interview.

I think if anything the logic portion is the biggest travesty here. It doesn't have to do anything with programming and it boils down to a reading comprehension test that does not bode well with non-native speakers. But I guess that is there goal.
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Funny, because I read it more as learning to cope with state. Do you want to scale for performance? You need to delicately manage state.

You can do local tricks to hide change in state. Consider, many even simple addition operations in your computer are destructive. At the end of the day, though, your application's value is in the state it manages.

There may be a panacea in there some where. However, it often seems that performance is heavily sacrificed in the name of scalability. Which is scary, because performance is the main reason my scalable phone is driving me batty.
The Sims 2 Maxis audio director [0] went all-in on beefing up Simlish to freakishly mirror English--the same phonemes, only scrambled up into gibberish. When sang with convincing emotion and inflection, it sounds quite incredible and has you nodding along without even realizing the lyrics are completely fabricated.

The Humble Brothers produced most of the Simlish tracks in the mid 00s and have an album of their impressive songs available on iTunes. "Upside" is a fine example.[1]

[0] https://www.cnet.com/news/simlish-singing-the-music-behind-t...

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ty66tLNus1E
Is it possible this has nothing to do with human activity, and naturally happens on its own? (Thinking along the lines of a forest fire)
"Cold comfort" indeed in a North Dakota blizzard. But I'm in no way criticizing the standing rock protests, what I'm saying is that it's representative of things to come. When more people realize we can live exactly the same without gasoline pollution in all its forms (fracking water injection, leaking pipelines, leaking tanks at gas stations, air pollution and greenhouse gasses), it will seem like a no brainer.
Extensive discussion, currently on front page: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13072311
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Slightly contrived example: Lets say that you were running a distributed database, and you had distributed instances across different cloud providers for increased reliability. if your database relies on high-resolution timestamps for distributed conflict resolution, then you're going to have a hard time.

Another example: Suppose that a portion of an industrial monitoring system processes remote sensor data in a cloud datacenter with smeared time, while the sensor nodes keep strict UTC time. Your SCADA system had better not have any hard-baked assumptions like "messages cannot come from the future", or you're going to have a hard time, too.

Lets say that a company's internal NTC servers include several sources for reliability and redundancy. Much like Google DNS, perhaps one of the sources is Google NTP, while another is derived from the NTP pool. How do you expect the NTP daemon to behave in this situation? It will certainly be able to observe a 500ms difference between its source timeservers.
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My buddy got doxxed and harassed by those the_donald pizzagate folks. reddit shut down the pizzagate subreddit (constantly posting personal information for the_donald fans to call/email/text to harass) but allowed the_donald to persist.
Queue John Quincy Adams: https://www.mtholyoke.edu/acad/intrel/jqadams.htm
>As the world enters what could be the twilight of the oil age

This is the point when I stopped taking the article seriously.
For my new site, what I'm doing is a full fallback - local, cdn font, served from my site, then regular font-family fallback.

Not sure if that works properly in China, if it just spins. It might never 'fail' and fall back. I'd need to test that.

Like so:
src: local('Slabo 13px'), local('Slabo13px-Regular'), url(https://fonts.gstatic.com/s/slabo13px/v3/B9U01_cNwYDvIHK04hX...) format('woff2'), url(https://fonts.gstatic.com/s/slabo13px/v3/fScGOqovO8xyProgHUR...) format('woff2'), url("/fonts/Slabo13px-Regular.ttf");
}
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Isn't a normal class room in which you take tests while required to be silent and with an instructor/TA/proctor keeping en eye on you very much akin to spying on people? (using people rather than tech, but why is that distinction important?)
its possible that aliens wrote my code for me today and I was just a host, but possible and likely are important distinctions.

When there is overwhelming consensus on man made climate change, ocean acidification, and we see bleaching that seems to be highly correlated with dissolved CO2 or ocean temps rising, its hard to imagine that this is just random chance. It could be, but it likely isn't.
Not the author (Ruud), but I've been in touch with him.

The source code for his website is free software [0], so feel free to have a look or adopt it for yourself.

Ruud uses a small static site generator he's written in Haskell, and in his own words it “includes a tiny templating engine, an html and css minifier, and an aggressive font subsetter.”

[0]: https://github.com/ruuda/blog
When I interview people, I give them a question and tell them to google whatever they want and use whatever libraries they want that will make their lives easier: I'm not asking a trick question.

Even then only about 15% of the people pass my question. I'm sure there are plenty of fair interview questions you could ask where you don't have to care about cheating, and just see if they can come up with an answer.
Luckily for us Disney shareholders we've been getting raked over the coals for a year now. Hopefully this has already been priced in. Plus, the ad revs for a captive (read: live) audience are pretty rich.
CommaAI just open sourced their code for self-driving car
I've started to leverage them with fallback, but I guess I'll see how that plays out. (For fonts - I don't use anything else from a CDN, aside from front caching with cloudflare)
> I can't stand it. It's unlimited liability for anyone that uses their service with no way to limit it.

It's not unlimited liability, most of their services have limits imposed. If you've scaled any service to thousands of machines you'll quickly find out that they stop you at 20-30 machines or so.
Then you have to contact support to get the limit increased.

Sure you can still rake up an unpleasant bill. But there are limits :)
I dunno man. I'd much rather see a well understood vetted email validation(or whatever )copied from stack overflow than some thrown together hack in production code.