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If they cared, they'd allow micropenny pricing. This would force competition on price instead of just time.
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If the severance falls outside of the mandatory amount by law, then this is reasonable. They are paying you not to work for a competitor for a time.
Protectionism has never made a country strong.
How far away are you from getting to the point where you can accelerate workloads such as blender? Also I see that your backend isn't in the trunk -- is there plan to push to upstream and share the details? I'd love to learn about your isa.
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What kind of legal problems would you anticipate?
They fight by making mutual agreement that they wont hire each other employees.
I've never been presented with one (and hope I never will) so this is hypothetical, but I have a hard time imagining even doing that.

A company is paying me to work for them, they're not paying to own me. When I'm off the clock, my time is my own, up to and including doing paid work for anyone else I want.

I'd make an exception if they increased my pay accordingly. But considering that they're asking for 4.2x more of my time than usual, they'd better be paying me at least 4.2x a normal full-time salary.

I do have a little experience with making changes to contracts that the other party doesn't want to change, and to that end I'd like to add two more things. First, it's likely they'll use the phrase "standard contract" and say that it just can't be changed. Second, if you've gotten that far, it's quite likely they'll change your minds if you stick to your guns. It's tempting to cave in when they say "sorry, we can't accept changes," but don't.
Did the author notify Intel about the bug they found?
> Assuming these traces were typical could lead architecture designers to optimize for cases found more rarely in commercial computing workloads.

At the time Itanium was actively being pushed by Intel I was working for a company building content creation software. Intel was very interested in us porting to Itanium and provided considerable help to that effort. One of the big reasons was that they were interested in being able to see the traces, precisely for the reason you state - most of their existing test code was not representative of typical large scale commercial software.

We got it running but never released it - the binaries were huge (3x x86) which was a big issue back then, and the performance just wasn't there.
I still can't understand how the malware authors could be so smart (or, if not smart, at least competent enough to build ransomware from scratch, make it wormable with ETERNALBLUE, and launch a massive and effective spam campaign) and yet so stupid.

They could've achieved the same sandbox detection effect by just registering the domain and pointing it at 1.1.1.1 or whatever. The non-sandboxed connections would still fail, and no one else could take the domain.
Funny, as time goes on, that story is gaining in popularity and relevance.

Went straight from SF to Contemporary in a decade.
Not gunna lie I've always wanted to be an urban postal carrier. When I was flunking high school adults would ask me what I would do if I didn't go to college. They weren't happy when I said "postal worker." I didn't do college and now I'm a programmer. I still fantasize about a low stress job like that, maybe later, when you I've socked away more money...
The 'at least they get paid' argument is the one also being used by those who order takeaway food, and those who buy blood diamonds, blood gold, and entire clothes industry alike.

Nevermind the fact these people work in terrible conditions. Nevermind the fact these people work with chemicals which are unhealthy. Nevermind the fact these people ignore traffic regulations because they need to arrive on time. Nevermind the fact these people are children who go down in dangerous mines with gas which can also implode at any time.

It is a fallacy. The real solution to the issue is far more simple: let those who desire takeaway food (or who desire diamonds, gold, or clothes) pay a fair price, so that the workers get paid a fair price.
Yes screwing some Radom punter over is quite different that triggering an attack that meets the crtiteria for a CNI attack.

All this means instead of pc plod being unable extradite the perps from eastern Europe to you get the serious players involved.
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Title has a typo. It should read $20,000, not $20,0000.
> In the end, most employers won't bother to argue the second point, and the ones that do are probably shadily taking advantage of you in other ways.

I can't say if you're right or wrong about this, but personally I'm pessimistic about the claim.
Anecdotally, I had a case where I managed to strike out the whole noncompete from the contract. And the management still came after me, because they "didn't read it" or "thought it's something else". They knew they had no standing but still went ahead to claim an implicit noncompete. So yes, in the end you are legally covered, but once someone demands a noncompete out of the blue after the compensation is negotiated, that's not an honest party and will probably get pissed off if you dispute it. Noncompetes cost money, they should be disclosed at appropriate time and people should be compensated for it.
I always wondered how CPUs could do all of this so fast. Doesn't all the branch prediction etc. have to be done by a kind of program that is "parsing" instructions on the fly and storing state about its execution? How is that implemented, and how is it faster than doing the equivalent in software?
Probaly get a pair of concrete over shoes
I would hope sandbox environments aren't connected to the internet, spreading malware to others while your doing your research.

A responsible researcher would have a fully isolated, both from the corp net, and the internet. Then will slowly being to allow connections out as they can confirm that's not how it's spreading...
First, I don't think the extension of ill-effects to low-gravity is obvious at all. (I.e., no reason to expect this is linear. The benefits of exercise on Earth have greatly diminishing returns, and I expect the same for gravity exposure.) Second, I don't see why we expect ill-effects to go from manageable to unmanageable with normal people. Astronauts on MIR weren't dropping dead before the started the rigorous exercise programs.

By all means, file this under "possible, as-yet unquantified risk". It's certainly conceivable that there is some killer disease the crops up in 1/3 gravity if you don't exercise daily. But right now I don't think we have any data that's inconsistent with the reasonable first guess that normal people will be basically fine in 1/3 gravity. (This maybe just a question of what we mean by "basically". To me, a 10% lowering of life-expectancy is acceptable and expected when colonizing another planet. The trip itself will probably be a few percent chance of death.)

On the other hand, we have fairly large, well-quantified risks for radiation exposure of long-term living on Mars, and we have no obvious way to solve it without huge concrete structures, underground tunneling, or as-yet-uninvented magnetic shields. EDIT: Actually, I retract my claim that this is a bigger worry than low gravity as I am no longer sure. The radiation exposure is less than I thought, and likely reduces life expectancy by less than 5%. https://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/files/1_NAC_HEO_SMD...
http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.... http://www.space.com/18753-mars-radiation-manned-mission.htm...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exception_that_proves_the_rule
The good thing about Apache Groovy (on the JVM) is when the big ball of mud starts forming, because its syntax is close enough to Java's, it's easy to quickly split parts off and rewrite it in Java. Only the lambda syntax and some other inconsistencies like the behavior of == are different.
> never applied the MS17-010 patch.

Until today, there was nothing to apply if your computers were running XP or 2003. Guess which Windows versions are the most popular in UK hospitals? So I think your sentence should read like "Hospitals just happened to be disproportionately affected by this attack because they were forced to trust Microsoft would never put corporate profit before social responsibility."
If you're intrigued by this SEP article I would recommend going through [1] and [2] together, since they are both grouped in similar order by schools of thought on sorites paradox. The former is a well edited collection of papers on each position, and the latter is Timothy Williamson's frequently persuasive critique of each. I'm generally disinterested in analytic philosophy of language, but find myself returning again and again to this discussion because it is a frequent analog to a vast set of related problems.

[1] https://www.amazon.com/Vagueness-Reader-Rosanna-Keefe/dp/026...
[2] https://www.amazon.com/Vagueness-Problems-Philosophy-Timothy...
Yeah, it doesn't cover much of anything TBH. When I was paying premiums out of pocket for my wife and I, I dropped and and just started paying the dentist out of pocket.
I admit I know virtually nothing about the aircraft industry, but I always wonder why Airbus doesn't do the initially planned cargo version of the A380. The only reason I can imagine is that there aren't enough customers for the cargo version, but why is this so? Isn't air cargo growing? Would an cargo A380 be too expensive? Some comments suggest the A380 has bad fuel efficiency per passenger mile, but some others suggest this is because airlines put less passenger seats in the plane than possible. Surely this can't be a problem for freight planes? What is it?
DNA analysis was used to reinvestigate the Lake Bodom muders (which happened in 1960): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lake_Bodom_murders

It's even used to investigate Jack the Ripper: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aaron_Kosminski#DNA_evidence
He didn't really stop it. He slowed it down a bit.
Just a question, why are you against RISC-V?

I quite like RISC-V and think it's elegant and simple, but maybe I'm wrong :)
Why stop there and not disallow sub-minute trades?
Why do you have to fix an unenforceable clause at all? On moral principle?

Are they gonna tell you over some barbeque, "Hey by the way Bill you know and I know that we can't TECHNICALLY enforce the clause preventing you from working in this industry for two years after leaving your position with us but we both know that it was very shitty of you to take a job in this same sector."

Who's going to say that with a straight face? Is there a moral aspect?

If there's no moral aspect, why do you have to revise unenforceable clauses? ("let sleeping dogs lie.")

I wanted to make sure the proverb I said was what I meant, this is the dictionary definition that came up: "avoid interfering in a situation that is currently causing no problems but may well do so as a result of such interference."

Doesn't that describe redlining unenforceable clauses you don't like?

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EDIT: Thanks for the replies guys. I was specifically asking about California. I think the replies give good reasons why you should redline unenforceable clauses (and this comment has been downvoted, but I'm keeping it for context for others reading the thread.)
Employer-provided healthcare got started in the US because of wage and price controls (employers were allowed to improve healthcare benefits but not increase salaries directly), and continued because it's exempt from income tax.

Some big companies may prefer it this way, but a lot of others with plenty of political clout (e.g. carmakers) don't. On the whole, that's not a major reason employer-provided healthcare is still afflicting us.
Unfortunately it has a rather severe bug that prevents it from even starting up in Ubuntu. The workaround/solution is to install a bunch of PPAs and software from them, which I didn't bother with.
If there were only 100 people on the planet, you'd only need one government. Would you call it monopoly? Internet as a whole is monolithic in nature. You are hitting the boundaries with the potential of one product delivering whatever it is supposed to deliver, in the best possible manner which satisfies everyone. If Internet could be broken down and become diverse, you'll naturally see more diversity of choices easily cohabiting.
This is quite common these days, e.g. many atheletes lost their 2008 Olympic medals due to retesting in late 2016.
This suggestion is mainly directed at newcomers to the industry, who may not have the reputation or experience to be able to credibly push back on many points of their employment agreement. Once you're in a seller's market for your level of skill (as I'm sure you are), you don't need this advice anymore and I'd encourage you not to let your employer restrict your moonlight projects. But particularly if it's your first job, you may have to make concessions - for some folks, "if you want a paycheck, sign here" is a reality.

If nothing else, it is very important that you keep the right to move up and out to a new job. That's the point you should focus on. In a realistic full-time first job, you're not going to work for a competitor at the same time, so it is fine to tell them you won't if that helps the two sides reach agreement.

Good point about not taking "this is the standard agreement" for an answer. That's not good enough. Say you understand that it's a boilerplate legal document, and you'd be more than happy to give them a couple days to double-check your proposed change with their boss, counsel, or whoever they need to. Again, be firm while giving them an avenue to save face, and wait for them to call back with a sudden change of heart.
I'm not a particularly advanced student, but I took an introductory class using Lax and then later material with an algebraist professor and her notes. I struggled with both, but I found it difficult to understand Lax's material until I was introduced to Galois/Invariant Theory and it all became much more clear.

With the notes I used in the latter class I felt I gained a very deep understanding in return for my efforts, especially because they went into Complexification and bilinear/sesquilinear forms which gave me a really strong intuition on the geometry of matrix representations both real and complex. If I remember correctly, Lax didn't really focus on those concepts

Not that Lax is a bad book but I feel like Lax's Linear Algebrs is actually a sneaky way of familiarizing the reader with formalisms they'll encounter in later, more abstract material, so maybe better for students who are already comfortable with a certain amount of abstraction so they're able to gain enough to leverage it later but not necessarily for a truly introductory class.
I had to do this in a place that wasn't California.

Also, they generally don't track you down at a barbecue. They'll try to tell the company you are jumping ship to that your employment there would be illegal, as TSG Finishing did. The future employer will then have to send back strongly worded letters clarifying California employment law. Frankly, you want to avoid that whole mess in advance.
> I don't know if anything similar exists in actual hardware.

GreenArrays GA144 has a few similarities. It's an array of tiny Forth-optimized cores, with some of them having specialized (mostly I/O) hardware. Apart from a few cores that are hardwired to boot from I/O pins, most need to be initialized via a neighbor. I don't remember where I saw this, but I remember reading that a rite of passage in GA144 programming is to write a "crawler" that loads itself into all of the cores.

> Nodes numbered in green have one or two GPIO pins. Those in blue have analog I/O. Those in orange have digital I/O with specialized purposes: 001 and 701 have high speed SERDES; 705 has four pins which may be used for an SPI bus; 217, 517 and 715 have a GPIO pin whose read line is connected to one or more analog nodes for sample synchronization; and nodes 007, 8, and 9 together control two 18-bit parallel buses and four GPIO pins that may be used to control external memory chips. These and the SPI bus are of course available for other uses if desired. All nodes are suspended after reset, prepared to execute instructions coming from any neighbor node via a comm port. Six of these are also waiting for incoming signals on their pin(s) which will be interpreted as boot frames. 001 and 701 SERDES will execute instructions received; 200 listens for high speed 1-wire protocol, 300 for 2-wire synch, 708 for RS232 framed async, and 705 can boot from an SPI flash memory device.

[1] http://www.greenarraychips.com/home/documents/index.html#arc...
I want you to dig some ditches for me. It will take you one hour per ditch to do, with some fairly strenuous work. For doing this, I will pay you the grand amount of $5 a ditch.

Would you be jumping on the chance to supplement your income after a long 8 hour day? especially if i told you that you first needed to buy a shovel out of your own pocket, even though I'd let you dig up to four ditches a day?
That sounds like another con/sob story angle, unless he was asking for help setting up a bank account.
Awesome choice! I live in Berlin and was close to suggesting Leipzig after they had asked for alternatives at the congress. Now I am actually surprised that Congress Center (or even Messe?) Leipzig agreed, given the requirements of a hacker congress. Let's hope and make sure that it will be as good as always.

Just a few notes:

* Accommodation will be cheaper (no holiday season, and Eastern Germany has lower costs of living in general). The city is currently extending their local transportation networks into surrounding small towns, so there should be more to choose from.

* The area is outside the city, but not remote. Trains from Berlin and from Leipzig-Halle Airport stopped at Messe Leipzig in the past (not sure whether this is still the case), which made the journey from Berlin even shorter than the 1h 15min it takes now. It is also a popular stop for cheap long-distance buses.

* I am personally not aware of halls that can hold thousands of people in the Congress Center itself like in Hamburg, but I am not sure as I have not been there in a while. Here is a hall overview: http://www.ccl-leipzig.de/raeume-technik/raumuebersicht/ I guess CCC would need to make use of the actual big exhibition halls as well for the really popular talks if they don't exist ( it would be quite cool if they could use just one of them ). Well, I always wanted to have a CCC cardboard stool (Papphocker).

* Leipzig has a vibrant cultural, art and alternative scene. Google "Baumwollspinnerei" or "Viktorianisches Picknick / Wave-Gotik Treffen".

* A start-up scene exists, but it is not as developed as in Berlin and Hamburg. In general the city feels less international (while still being home to some international audience e.g. due to having the trade fairs, the said creative people, a big university and three Max-Planck Institutes)).

* Architecture: The hall of the main station is the biggest one of a terminus station in Europe. Visitors tend to like the "Leipziger Passagen" that traverse the inner city. Völkerschlachtdenkmal. And (just saying ;) ) the computer science and math faculty of their university resides in a newly built landmark temple of glass and light with quite an interesting history ("Paulinum").
The article provides one example of Republicans defending the free market, but usually that's the last thing on their minds. (See e.g. how the phrase "everything is bigger in Texas" applies most of all to government.)
TIS-100 is a lot of fun. It's quite interesting what you can do on a limited architecture.

Similar posts pop up occasionally here, such as:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13566247

A couple more lists of programming games:

- http://steamcommunity.com/app/375820/discussions/0/481115363...

- https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2015/11/09/best-programming...
Ask HN: Advice on Amending Intellectual Property Clause of a Freelance Contract
Hi I am working as a freelancer/contractor in the UK and am about to sign the terms of services of a recruiter for a new contract. The current intellectual property clause in the terms of service seems to be too broad to me and the recruiter has said I can propose new wording. Here is the current wording.

"The Supplier hereby assigns to [Recruiter Company Name] all existing and future Intellectual Property Rights in the Services and the Inventions and all materials embodying these rights to the fullest extent permitted by law. Insofar as they do not vest automatically by operation of law or under this Agreement, the Supplier holds legal title in these rights and inventions on trust for [Recruiter Company Name] (or as [Recruiter Company Name] directs)."

It seems to be a standard clause that I have seen in other similar terms of service. Does anyone have any experience in how to amend this clause to make it clear that only the IP that results for the work done on client site is covered and not anything done outside of working hours?
I just love how everything about China is huge! The three gorges dam, the grand canal, the great firewall and the great wall, the nation itself, and now this. Befits a nation whose founding myth itself is centered on an engineering project.
The elephant in the room is that XP was the last version of Windows that was relatively trivial to pirate. Activation procedures got stricter from 2008 onwards.
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With 60+ countries agreed to attend the event, Its interesting to note: India refused to take part on this OBOR project. China's arch rival Japan sent a official team, but India refused to attend the submit.

China repeatedly blocked India's move to Ban terrorist Azad[1], blocked their NSG bid and their flip-flop on Arunachal. so India prefers to stay away from China-led project.

Russia is watchful about rising Chinese influence in their regions. Once they used to be major partner and China played minor role. Now the trend reversed.Russia knows that too.

[1] http://indianexpress.com/article/india/china-united-nations-...
[2]http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/outlier-china-preve...

And Chinese media, says: India and Russia tipped to be the big winners from China’s massive ‘Belt and Road' investment: http://www.scmp.com/business/article/2094224/india-and-russi...
Respectfully, why would they? The goal here is to find exploits in ME and use them to make Intel chips more end-user friendly.

When we were rooting Android devices we sat on a lot of exploits that we believed we could use to give end-users freedom. There were a handful that were bad enough to warrant disclosure [1], but we still offered them as ways for users to control their own devices with a few layers of obfuscation on top.

[1] http://www.unrevoked.com/rootwiki/doku.php/public/unrevoked1...
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I don't see how stealing IP is protectionism. Theft, sure, but not protectionism.
Don't you know, Hollywood has never pushed American propaganda before...
A lot of RFD and there rural delivery is done by local folks with a magnetic sticker on the side of the car that says postal service. In my experience it's all mothers with no other job who can pick up some extra cash while the kids are at school.

Which doesn't contradict your statement that "all rural routes i know use postal trucks", just says that conditions are different in different areas.

FWIW , where my vacation house is, the postman also delivers Amazon packages and wears no uniform while at home in Palo Alto the postman, Fedex etc all have uniforms.
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Thanks, Dharma! I probably actually TA'd the TLA+ class which your engineers attended ;)

Still hope you write a whitepaper. The AWS paper is super valuable when making the case for TLA+ use in industry.