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Red Hat software-defined storage takes another step forward
The same thing applies to Manpower or any temp agency.

"I call manpower, manpower sets the price, manpower charges me, and I pay manpower!"

Except in that case temp agencies are clearly employing contractors, and thus don't have to pay GST.

Not everything is black and white. If they were, the government would easily have been able to block their actions. Right now they're trying to figure out what's going on and charge them appropriately.
As a contractor, you would have to pay for taxes, healthcare, time-off, etc. out of pocket and not be entitled to certain benefits. Compensation may be higher but still be competitive after taxes and other costs. Also, it depends on the length of your contract and if full time conversion seems promising.

As a full-timer you would be payed competitively and would entitle you to benefits such as healthcare, bonuses, stock, pto, etc.

Hope that helps
I think the PHP docs are very much "paralleled".
Well, why not just make yet another one for one of those more useful languages, but not fall under the same trap of spending too much time on the parser?
It's not purely optics. It's either an increase in Uber's prices, or a decrease in their margins.

By "collecting, for itself" I meant "for itself as the seller" rather than "collecting on behalf of its contractors"
Yeah I get you. I understand the use case of "We just need to ship something for a client now", I've been there plenty myself and C-R-A solves a real problem (as well as it being useful for experienced devs etc).

But as far as learning goes, I really think it's critical to learn what the components you are using do. Otherwise, you have react, and a black box you don't understand next to it.
I dunno. SCOTUS reaffirmed the traditional rule, that to be copyrightable the elements need to be separable (as if lifting them off the clothing) and substantial (what you lift off must by itself meet the baseline requirements for copyrightability).

What SCOTUS did do was broaden the scope of the traditional rule by killing a narrow historical exception that would typically have rejected the dress' elements outright, without any serious analysis.

For the most part it's the traditional rule and how its typically applied that keeps the garment industry relatively unencumbered. This decision sucks[1] but I'm skeptical that it's particularly consequential. Their rejection of the Batmobile case last year, which in hindsight presaged this case, was arguably much more consequential.

As an side: any Ginsburg fans out there, know that she's rabidly pro-copyright. Her daughter is a famous and influential copyright scholar and author of an important legal treatise on copyright. Both of them eschew traditional, common law restrictions on copyright in favor of a more modern, abstract, and simplified conceptual approach that would on balance significantly enlarge the scope of copyrightability. Notice that in her concurring opinion in this case, Ginsburg side-stepped the separability condition applied to clothing. Her approach is more likely to induce a monumental shift that could engulf the fashion industry in an epic hell of law suits.

[1] Because brightline exclusions of copyrightability are easier and cheaper to apply by both laymen and judge alike. Even copyright proponents can appreciate how casting aside such well-established exclusions creates tremendous uncertainty and risk for everybody.
If this also applies to Chrome on mobile, good luck telling almost all Android users to switch browsers.
I'm not familiar with the greens, but have looked into the libertarians. Present Libertarian Party is an unprincipled joke; for a start, the candidate in 2016 did not support freedom of association. Right now, the party looks like a shelter for ex-Democrats that aren't progressive enough for the current climate.

Libertarianism that Ron Paul was pushing in 2008 and 2012 Republican primaries was worth considering (and I personally would love if the guy won), but notice how he had to choose one of the two major parties to get noticed, just like Trump did in the last cycle and other non-mainstream candidates did before them.
(2005) A MicroRocket Engine with a 1000:1 Thrust-To-Weight Ratio [pdf]
Hilarious. I can reproduce on my Dell Inspiron 15 5000 (core i7 running Windows 10) but it's not as pronounced as in the bug report. CPU usage bounces between 0.5% and 2.5% (which is obviously still ridiculous).

I almost want to swap back to using sublime out of protest but vscode's tighter git integration/workflow is hard to give up :(

Edit: I've always wondered why vscode couldn't be written in portable C/C++/Rust/D and then embed a V8 engine to power a javascript plugin API (a bit like sublime does with python)?
The article makes it sound very much like that, except 12 hours per day.
Fifty years ago, industrial workers in Alabama had mill jobs. Those jobs moved to China around the turn of the millenium when the US Chamber of Commerce was supporting outsourcing. Mill jobs were generally unionized -- living wages, benefits, and pensions. Kia's plant in West Point Georgia draws from the same labor pool as the Lanier mills did a decade or so earlier.
Sure but I think climate change is just one of many variables that show how our global society is fragile - the direction of my proposal would go a long way towards making it much more robust, isolation from climate change is just one problem solved by it. It becomes easy to quarantine/filter access preventing biological contamination. Even on city level you can have isolated blocks further limiting the impact of catastrophic events.

I think the "preserve the environment" is a knee-jerk driven by the same kind of instincts that sell "natural organic food" and stuff - even if we could somehow magically reign in man made climate change there's really no guarantee that the climate will remain stable or that a low probability event like a volcanic eruption won't cause a huge global crisis, etc.

Instead of hoping things remain as they are we should limit our exposure to environment risks.
Boosted trees will nearly always beat neural nets for structured data. Maybe if you have multiple billion rows, but even then..

Large numbers of features are where it gets challenging.
Not exactly a Musk fan but I think that he genuinely believes in his Mars back-up plan. Whether or not it is realistic, feasible at all or just dreaming is another matter but I don't think he's faking it or simply doing it because he's in a pissing match. He'd do it anyway.
I didn't mean to imply that they directly said that.

It's simply that they took an anecdote and came to a really general conclusion about how good one gender was.

They were talking 'as if it were inherent', as if when things were liberalised women would still be more productive than men in that particular class.

Is it true?

Probably not since any greater achievement is due to that women currently must work harder simply to be seen as equal. If the social situation is normalised, women won't simply work harder than men because they are "the productive half of the population".
I think it's great that Segment is doing this, but I wonder: Is this the best way to pay people to work on open source software?

I very rarely see high quality open source software produced by people who are unemployed, and I don't know how many people would want to give up a well-paying job for a three-month stint as an open source fellow. Taking a leave of absence from your job to do this? Maybe, but three months seems like the worst possible duration -- long enough that you have to hand everything off to someone else, but short enough that the transition time is burdensome. This might work well for independent consultants, but that's about it as far as I can see.

It seems to me that a better approach might be some sort of part-time arrangement, allowing developers to stay at their existing employers on reduced hours -- almost like an open source software version of the flexible arrangements many companies make for new parents. The open source community would benefit by having a developer who has hours dedicated to the project; the employer would benefit by (a) keeping their employee and (b) probably making use of the software in question; and Segment would benefit by spending less per developer funded.
Sounds similar to the stories of the deluge in many cultures, that supposedly wiped out all or most earlier life, once or periodically. Bible's Noah's ark, Hinduism's pralaya (IIRC, primeval flood), many others ...

If there really was such a thing, it might explain a lot of these stories.
Ethereum's Price Increase Is Good for Bitcoin
What's Bloomberg's agenda here?

An article exactly like this one, graphically describing bloody car accidents from last week, could make the case that driving comes with a heavy price.

Or an article detailing the aftermath of failed surgeries paid for by the ACA: "universal health care comes with a heavy price".

Terrifying anecdotes are provocative, but unenlightening.
Marc Andreessen's Guide to Startups (Playlist)
Can you not track defects in pre-prod?
Target p53 no thanks.
Go is bad but encouraging thorough error handling is one of its few strengths.
Depending on what exactly happens. If the composition of the atmosphere changes enough, only the simplest life forms will survive.
> Am I honestly to believe the tech industry can shoot a rocket into space and do any number of miraculous things, but can't create a solvent cab hailing service that pays workers living wages and basic benefits?

Yes, one is a technical problem, the other is a political problem. The first one we just solve by being smarter, the second one...has anyone ever successfully managed to treat private drivers as employees rather than independents?

In my opinion, basic benefits should be provided to all citizens, not just the ones with the correct employment status. Note that in Canada, it's already like this, so this isn't what we are arguing about in this context. Contracting work is much easier to stomach in Canada because retirement and health is provided by the state rather than the company (and if the USA did the same thing, it would really make labor markets much more liquid).

At the end of the day, might as well turn this into a technical problem by getting rid of the driver...oh.
Jesus are you serious? There are probably 500 separate taxi apps already in Canada.
PM invite pls :)
This is a fundamental limitation of turbines. Thus, a technological limitation for wind-power. Other technologies could have other limits.

Besides, that's a limit on collecting efficiency (how much you can collect / how much is there), not usage efficiency (how much you can use / how much you collect). You don't "destroy" the wind when your turbines don't collect it, it's still there.
My son's were recently offered a job setting up these robots and turned it down for non-safety reasons. Like it or not, robots will take 80% or more of the jobs that are returning to the USA from overseas.

The solution we should be thinking about is how to make it so that you don't have to turn off a robot for it to know a human is in range. Problem solved.
Define 'Western values'.

Turkey was well underway to becoming a very modern state, Iran ditto. All this long before we began propping up the Shah and destabilizing the region around Turkey. The meddling began roughly around the time oil became important and really took off after World War II, in part accelerated because of the cold war.

Yes, Islamic fundamentalism is the anomaly, and it would not nearly be as powerful as it is without the CIA and the Saudi's funding and arming their initial round.
Is this why we have not yet found signs of intelligent life in the universe? Every time a civilization is advanced enough to really screw up (their) planet, inevitably, they do? Fermi Paradox redux.
Even if autophagy eats cells randomly, it will reduce the proportion of senescent cells, since the removed cells will eventually be replaced by newly divided (and non-senescent) cells.
> I hate to be the one who brings Rust into a Go thread

You shouldn't feel bad for this. The Go programmers are legitimately unaware that there's a better world out there.
https://www.enpass.io/ is better, does the same, you sync the wallet across your machines and devices, also has browser integration. https://www.enpass.io/security/
To fertilize soil?
I'm not calling this out as an anti-male bias. I don't think the original poster is biased, misandrist, or anything of that nature.

They're just over generalising.

Women should be allowed to work because it is the right thing to do, because human freedom and equality is to be cherished axiomatically.

The argument that women should be allowed to work because they are "the most productive half of the population", is a non-starter----both not true, and distracting. Even if some subgroup is terribly unproductive, they should still be given equal treatment merely for being human. Productivity, intelligence, aptitude, etc. should have no bearing on what ought to be natural human rights.
Isn't this the same thing as the dispute in the UK over collecting VAT taxes?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13921048
No, Congress is removing the FCC's authority to make rules on this topic. It would take an act of congress to give it back.
I have mixed feelings about AA as well. All of these subtle boosts as you call them come from more than just being in a school, although I agree that helps a LOT more than not being in the school. There is the obvious advantage of living in a culture that values such things as education, career progress etc. The most important is probably encouraging and supportive parents.

In short, I think we need to do more than just let people from other communities simply join our prestigious institutions but to recognize that these institutions need to be changed to help these students achieve what students from other backgrounds get as well.

I know all the meritocracy crowd here will come after me with pitchforks for saying this, but I do think it is justified in putting all that effort into helping people that are born in disadvantaged families. Is it fair to the other kids who may have worked really hard but get less attention simply because of their family background? Maybe...but they were lucky to be born in a great family in the first place...

I too got very lucky by being born in a great family.... I'm eternally grateful for it having helped me to have a happy and fulfilling life. I hope others can have a shot at such a life as well.
Can tech learn from big oil?
https://www.enpass.io/security/
Same principle, really. In geopolitics if you either go to war or you decide to do some empire building if you want things to remain stable after you turn your back you end up being responsible for the aftermath. And if things go pear shaped and you turn your back they likely will come to haunt you in one way or another. These are not laws, merely extracts from observable reality, from Roman times right up to the present.

Sure it could end different but for some reason it never does.
At least these days you can download VirtualBox images for free to test on IE11. But yeah, it's a luxury if there's a Windows developer that you can have fixing all the IE11 bugs ;).
On the plus side, it would probably break the Mint / fintech scrapers for a bit...
I wish the original article contained any of this background instead of usual "they canceled the rules to protect your privacy and to defend you from hackers, because they are evil of course".

I hate when they do that - replace actual content of the legislation being talked about with genetic description like "aimed to protect you from hackers". Clearly there's a controversy between whether this protection is appropriate or not. I expect from reporting to tell me what controversy is about and let me decide which side I like, not to shove a pre-manufactured opinion down my throat. I've read the article and I still have no idea what the actual disagreement is about. But at least from the comment above I now know the background of what's going on.
Photovoltaic research in ink perovskites
You can, but the pertinent question is whether you should. Microservices help with scaling endpoints that become bottlenecks but introducing them before they become necessary suffers from many of the common problems associated with premature optimisation.
Can't tell if this was sarcasm or a serious statement.
The article notes that safety precautions are routinely ignored. It also cites statistics in addition to the anecdotes. The agenda is to show that cheap manufacturing is maybe not worth the societal cost due to an injured workforce. We're supposed to be better than that.
That may be true but you should really compare purchasing power rather than raw disposable income (I still think what you say is true, but not as exaggerated)
Honest question. Is there something better/faster than fibre that they should be laying instead? Seems like fiber is just enough to catch up, but we'd rather get ahead.
I mean, there are stats in the article - specifically some that claim that the rate of injuries is substantially higher in the south than in Ohio/Michigan for example.
> Which is still a useful purpose.

Useful for the genes in your cells. Not useful for you as an individual.
The last footnote was hurtful. 'Under proposed DOE budget, all research in renewable energy will be stopped, including research like this.'
I agree with your point, too, although I'm skeptical we can do much more than, maybe, polish the brass while the ship founders. Still, shiny brass (slightly nicer surroundings) is better than not.

I do think we need radical reforms if we want the ship to not sink, though, so I don't feel that encouraging people to vote, without urgently arguing that voting reform is necessary, is deeply meaningful.

On another current HN thread (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13939645), a Show HN about a tool for interactively modeling dynamic systems, I followed the tool's author back to their website, and found a really great interactive blog post about Building a Better Ballot [0]. I'm going to be spreading that around as much as I can; it seems to me the best tool/post for really understanding the various voting methods and some of their flaws. I hope you'll check it out and share it, if you also like it. (I'm in no way affiliated with the author or tool, for the record; just impressed by it.)

[0] http://ncase.me/ballot/
Consistency is definitely the key. Your body clock is pretty good so long as you have a routine and stick to it. I've been both a morning person and a night owl.

When I worked 12 hour shifts 0600 'til 1800, I got up at 0400. I always woke at 0359.50, and turned off the alarm just before its first beep. That's how crazy accurate the internal clock is. I'd always sleep at the same time, IIRC 2100.

Now I work normal-ish office hours I get up at 0730, work from 0900-0930 to 1730-1800. I could work earlier or later, and this means I'm a bit more lax at sleeping. Case in point, replying here at 2240 when I should be thinking about sleeping.

I think you can adapt to any cycle you like so long as you have the willpower to define the sleep and wake times, and stick to them. It only takes a couple of weeks and then it's second nature.
> I'm not aware of any system where one can create that caret without a text edit control to hold it.

Windows allows this. In a parent comment I posted a link to the API docs. All Windows requires is a window to hold the caret, it doesn't care what kind of window it is.
I might be daft but I honestly don't even understand what "build" is in the context of a language that isn't compiled. Is it copying files to an output location together with dependencies and possibly including some transformations (minify etc)?
In my experience npm scripts become way too complex on real world applications. But maybe I simply work on apps complex enough for this to become an issue. I've used grunt, gulp, webpack and npm scripts in multiple projects. Still not sure which is my favourite, probably gulp.
> The company has secured a $70 million round of debt (...) which it will use to build out more technology, to hire more people, and to build “a financially sustainable platform.”

Sounds like a bankrupt drunk getting short term loan to drink more and make themselves profitable some magical way.
In modern manufacturing, a person would be lucky to hold the same job for ten years without being laid off or replaced. Many of these people work for staffing contractors who contract with tier 1, 2, or 3 suppliers and everything is just in time. Even when things are just in time, suppliers often start an assembly line, run it until their warehouse is full and then shut the line down to reduce expenses.

In many parts of Alabama there is are millions of square feet of potential storage space in the form of obsolescent manufacturing facilities.
Yes... I agree on some level. But I don't think that's entirely fair. The marketing industry has done a very good job of seducing people into willful ignorance.

Recently my mother went to a protest against potential copper mining in the boundary waters. She was giddy to inform me that she was riding up in with her friend in his brand new shiny name brand car. I felt a kind of irony there in that. The amount of environmental and human sacrifice that goes into people buying brand new cars every 3-4 years is enormous. Its very similar to my own hypocrisy around computers and cell phones. I know full well that this thing I'm holding in my hand was born out of human blood. It's deeply embarrassingly and I struggle to face it.

People complain that stuff is expensive. We worship it. We demand it. But there are reasons why some things are expensive. It's because they take time and effort. If we live in a world where we aren't able to extend the patience these things require, why should we depend on them, much less go demanding them as basic rights?
Remember Zip Disks? These Election Departments Do
> What's the point?

Earning a paycheck. Getting passionate about coding at a company is setting yourself up for disappointment. Save the passion for your personal stuff, or start your own company.
My concern is that this will lead to increased food waste, ie. retailers rejecting perfectly edible foods that don't scan well. That's already enough of an issue with irregular shaped produce.
Haskell success story: single codebase for front-end and back-end
What I'm suggesting is that, e.g., there are more Slack, Atom, VS Code, (and those are just Electron apps) etc. and/or those apps have more features because of the speed of development and iteration afforded by these inefficient abstraction layers.

So, I can't give a specific example but am instead pointing at the diverse ecosystem of applications and rich functionality. It's logically impossible for me to prove that these apps wouldn't exist without inefficient abstraction layers. It's my supposition, and the developers who write electron apps would probably agree.
It's not called a work-life balance for nothing.
Or very, very large arrays in space!
KeePass is a fully self-hosted solution. The grandparent suggests using Dropbox et al for convenience (the vault is always encrypted, so it's not "giving away the keys"). However, you don't have to do that; I just use SFTP to copy the file off of my workstation when I need a fresh copy on my phone/laptop.
This is true, however it is a poor argument for normalising the rights of women. If women have equal social treatment, the incentive to work harder than men goes away, thus the proffered reason for allowing women equal treatment also goes away.

Women ought to have equal treatment not because of any perceived productivity benefits, but merely because gender discrimination is inherently wrong.

I am not fighting a gender war. I do not think the above poster was fighting a gender war. To be clear, I think everyone ought to be given the benefit of the doubt here.