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Hey there. Sorry to read about your situation, I hope I can help you a little bit since I'm German.
Sabbaticals are not uncommon in Germany any more, but are at will of your employer. Essentially it is just an unpaid leave and a promise that you'll still have your job.
Small companies, like your employer, which is a startup, will probably not have enough people to easily compensate while your gone and have a harder time to find a replacement for just the time in which your away.
Especially because you working overtime already, they seem to have a too much work for too less people.
A Freelancer would be easier to get, but they are much more expensive than regular employees.

But in general it depends on the company, whether they see employees are resources or as the engine running the company. If you talk to your boss, that might give you an idea whether unpaid leave is an option. And he might also recognize that the workload is too high.

There are no legal provisions for sabbaticals. Also the job center will not immediately pay an unemployment benefit if you choose to quit for your personal reasons. At least you'll not get any pay for the first three (?) months. If and what pay you'll receive afterwards depends on if you are eligible and how much contribution you have paid in the past.

There is another option: Talk to a doctor. Potential burn out is a serious topic and any good doctor should recognize the signs and prevent anything worse. You're health care provider might also be able to help you there, most likely they sponsor yoga sessions. But calling their help line for medical advise is certainly worth it. Doctors might be able to put you on sick leave, but most likey just a few days until you have serious symptoms.

A side note:
Be aware that any treatment you receive might affect your rating for occupational disablement insurances. If you don't have one (which you should as long as you're healthy!), and you choose to get one any time within the next five years, then they'll request all diagnosis from all doctors you have been seeing. Any illness / reason for which you have been seeing a doctor will most likely be excluded from the insurance.
Some psychotherapists unfortunately tend to write stuff (some standard clauses) into your file which is not true (ie. anxiety disorder because you can't sleep), but makes them get more money from the health care provider. Thus if you don't have an occupational disablement insurance and choose to visit a psychotherapist, make sure you know what diagnosis they are noting down.

Hope this helps! Best of luck!
Even if you're OK with assholes at work, there's a big difference between assholes who break the law for personal gratification (sexual harassment) vs. assholes who are supposedly advancing business goals (setting overly-aggressive deadlines and overworking employees.)

You don't want the second kind because that's not how you build a sustainable business, but that's still quite different from risking your business so that some person can get personal sexual gratification.
I find that result fairly intuitive, when you understand how measure theory came up to be.

A much more surprising result is that most irrational are normal numbers, but we know almost no normal number (morally speaking, a normal number is an irrational number where each digit is equiprobable in any base).
I'm not interested in the generic "everybody." I'm intersted in accatyyc's experience specifically. Not every company bins generic applications. It would be interesting to see if accatyyc's company can afford to do so because they have a glut of qualified applicants or if they're artificially limiting their candidate pool for some other reason.
We are not only concerned by FPGA but also CGRA (developping our own: Plasticine). For FPGA, we target Chisel. Chisel is Verilog without the boilerplate. We aim to be more high-level by generating also all the control flow.
> Why?

It's off be default.
Sorry about that, fixed! I get confused, I use Clash/Haskell more than Scala, so this is all second hand :) (IIRC, Spinal is a Chisel fork which is probably where it came from...)
Exactly. Trot out the old argument "If we didn't pay that, we couldn't find qualified candidates!" Yahoo had to hire her away from a senior leadership position at Google. She was young, sure, but she was definitely qualified.
Interesting. This is a neat approach to building a register-transfer language using some high-level bindings. Go (at a very high level) seems to have a pretty good match with the async nature of transistor-level bit-flow operations when you use channels. In theory you could map this to any language with strongly-typed async operations.

You get advantages of Go's type-checker, though you're probably limited to a very small subset of the language. Note that you won't be able to use a lot of third-party languages unless their translation is really good or the third-party package code is very simple.

Docs seem to be available here (thanks to another comment in this thread): http://docs.reconfigure.io/welcome.html

I think the approach of mapping a high-level language to a CPU is not necessarily novel, but using Go for it is.

I used a different approach to build a bit-flow graph in Java for a project in the past. Rather than map the whole language to the circuit, I created some APIs that would generate the graph and export it. It looks fairly similar to what you see here.
Times in UTC would be more helpful.
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Yahoo did need a visionary but if you look at her bio on wikipedia it tells a different story. It mentions she is known for her attention to detail and she is a usability leader. She joined google as employee #20 after school. She was involved in many important google projects over the span of her career at google overseeing core key project in many cases. Very well rounded person.

To me that sounds like the wrong person to bet my money on. The employee who plays it safe is not right person to transform a dying company that needed radical change. You need a bolder person. Someone with a burning passion or an act to grind.

If you are google employee 20 and you haven't cashed out to build something you always wanted to but didn't have the resources yet I don't think I want you leading the transformation process. I would rather have employee 21 who quit and tried something else and failed.
We'll likely ship AES-NI support this quarter!
Off the top of my head... both can be used for enjoyment (I was going to say pleasure, thinking of the pleasure a shooter might feel at getting a bulls eye, but thought people might get the wrong idea), both can be used to hurt other people (I'm fairly certain more people have been hurt via sex and human relationships in general than from firearms - though obviously we are talking about emotional pain rather than physical pain, discounting the physical pain an STD can cause), both require choice (otherwise it is rape), both can kill (thinking of diseases like HIV in the case of sex), both ideally should require education, both require protection, if your SO is a screamer both might require ear protection, etc.
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Lustig is not a joke, but I'd love to have other wise point of view on the matter.
If you learn how to read and write proofs (formal mathematical arguments), you can apply what you've learned to thinking clearly, systematically and logically about various things. For example, clear rigorous disciplined deductive thinking is extremely helpful in writing, debugging and testing computer software.
You don't have to use 'this' at all in React. I've written about it here: https://medium.com/@baronmaximilianwilleford/react-without-t...

I never use 'this', 'bind', 'apply', 'call', 'class', and only use 'new' to create React components. I find it much easier and more fun to work with React as a result. I hope other people would give it a try.
We're some New Hampshire tech bumpkins who got a hotel in Charleston SC for 15% of that. We're going to leave our phones and cameras inside, and just hang out by the pool with some cold beverages and experience the eclipse as it unfurls. Granted, it's not quite in the center, but I think it should be close enough to make the trip worth making. I suppose in a panic, we could drive about 40 miles north. Should we?
Counter-counterpoint:

I keep getting random notifications that "my card has been removed from android pay" from Chase and always have to navigate a phone tree. What's this secret shibboleet code[1] you've found?

[1]: https://www.xkcd.com/806/
Someone asked 5 days ago on HN how to parallelize gpu learning. I had never thought about the problem before, but still came up with and gave this as the most obvious way. Took me maybe 20 seconds to think of.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14510146

So the fact that someone with little experience can come up with this 'clever' technique, means either I'm really clever or it's not that clever. I'll go with the latter.
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>Sure, three million downloads is a lot, but that’s happened over more than six years.

It still remains "a lot", US$ 500,000 per year, not exactly peanuts IMHO.

EDIT:
Ah, no wait, I misread the article, he got a handful of downlads when the app was US$1, the 3 million downloads are since it was made free/freeware.
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I don't have access to the beta (yet) but friends do, and it is a legitimate product. They also have a slack channel where they're happy to answer questions.
Unfortunately this is the only avenue open to people who do not have the privilege of having a rolodex full of industry contacts who they keep regular enough contact with that it's not awkward to reach out for help.

Let's say I've worked with roughly 1,000 people throughout my 20 year career. Let's say generously 20% of them I worked with closely enough that they know who I am and have a vague sense that I'm an awesome worker. 20% of those I've actually developed a friendly relationship with beyond water cooler chit chat, where we'd trust each other enough to be willing to help with a job search. Maybe 20% of those are now in companies where I'd want to work. And further 20% of that list are in positions so close to the hiring manager at one of those companies where they could actually speak up and have some influence on a decision. We're down to one or two people in the entire industry.

These numbers are guesstimates (pretty much match my own situation), but I just don't see how "networking" is the silver bullet everyone says it is. I'm sure when it works it really works, but I wouldn't rely on it.
HN probably won't question her overpay for two reasons

1. Fear of being labelled as sexist.

2. It makes no sense. She is not really overpaid.

Firstly, Mayer's career is over. After her spectacular failure as a leader I think she can say goodbye to her career and spend rest of her time vacationing in Bahamas. Of course she is a smart woman and she had factored in this risk and is part of the reason she gets a golden parachute.

Ask yourself this : Will you end your career today if someone gives you 10x of you current salary today ? Then ask if 10x is an overpay.
Less sexual harassment by at least... half!
Great question, I was under the same assumption.
NumPy receives first ever funding, thanks to Moore Foundation
Do you have a citation for large organizations buying up ether? I only came across articles mentioning corporations forking ethereum code and testing it out for other purposes.
that's the sort of statement that bay area CEOs say when they want something to happen. It doesn't mean it's necessarily true.
She didn't include enough of the conversation to provide context. It's possible the support person was responding to her own complaints about the profession.
I'm excited to try this out but I wonder how much complexity it will add to managing specific individuals. If you assigned a team, then needed to remove one person will it require you to remove the entire team then add individuals again?
Who rallies for "abstinence only" for guns in the US? Asking for background checks is more like arguing for safe sex.
I think every good workplace tries really hard to discourage relationships between employees, even if they can't ban them outright (because people will be people).

The basic problem is that, you go to work to work. If you go to a bar or a club or a party or a bookstore and someone there is coming on too strong, you can leave. It's nicer if the club or host or bar or bookstore makes them leave, but whatever, there are other bars, better bookstores. If you're at your job and a customer or a fellow employee is coming on too strong, and your employer doesn't do anything about it, you have the choice of "dealing with it" or "not having a job".

And people need a job; they're there so they can pay for rent and food and (if they're lucky) change the world for the better. Even if you work at an online matchmaking company, you're going to work to find dates for customers, not for yourself. Any finer discussion of the appropriate way or time or number of times to ask your coworker in accounting out is completely missing the point: your coworker in accounting shouldn't have to put up with any number of advances, no matter how mild, when they only show up at work each day to do accounting.
I think it depends in large on the type of shooting. I didn't have a problem with double peeps for man-shaped targets, but acquisition is harder due to the limited field of view.

The military style peep + blade is a good compromise I think, especially when have to worry about ranging.
There is an interesting video from It's Okay to be Smart on this topic;

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jgspUYDwnzQ

It seems they point to a group of bacteria living under Siberian Permafrost for the past half million years. As the video also points out; not in suspended animation, they're rather alive and repairing themselves.
Except this isn't actually happening in practice. I am yet to see any "new kinds of decentralized applications", just toy applications that have no practical purpose besides internet roulette

So, uh, how about all those ERC20 ICOs? I admit that you may wish to classify them as "Internet roulette."
Single System Image is some cool tech in this area, where basically you're running a single operating system instance across the network, which sees each computer as just more available computing resources, and you can for example migrate processes from one computer to another.

There are also database systems that use a ring of nodes connected with RDMA and optimize for that data layout, creating a sort of merry-go-round of data: http://homepages.cwi.nl/~mk/datacyclotron.pdf
MS fonts have the embedding permission bit set, IIRC.
IS it me or is php syntax like this :

public function __construct($user)

that makes php seem to be abhorent? (Well, i am speaking for myself)

Why would you use your time and energy to build another rails like framework when you could work on something better?

One reason not to program in PHP is because of this old timer syntax. Do you like how php arrays are constructed? Really, tell me. I really want to know.

Can we please move forward? I would rather see someone work and improve other frameworks such as django. And all these "implements" in Php. Weren't they copied from Java? I will take Java over everything else. Php is dead. Let it die. I am sure it was an ok language some time ago but there is no way to resurrect it by copying other frameworks over. Unless of course, it provides a easy entry to web programming, hence, saxophone players(not software engineers) write spaghetti code like wordpress and then they become mainstream and "successful".
I am sorry for my vehement ranting by I am getting old and I see no impovement in software...
>>Additionally, there's no upside for creditors if Bitcoin becomes $5,000.

It's funny you mention this, because from what I can understand of Japanese bankruptcy proceedings[1], any excess assets remaining after paying off creditors would probably be given to the MtGox shareholders, which primarily consists of Mark Karpeles[2] alone. I believe the term surfacing in other circles is "unjust enrichment"[3][4].

[1] I am not a lawyer.

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Karpel%C3%A8s

[3] http://blogs.lawyers.com/attorney/bankruptcy/recovering-thro...

[4] http://scholarship.law.cornell.edu/facpub/1/
While I sympathize with him for his loss, and think he deserves a leave, this critical part of the leave has nothing to do with bereavement:

> Upon Kalanick’s return, Uber will strip him of some duties and appoint an independent chair to limit his influence, according to an advance copy of a report prepared for the board.
\o/ congrats people!

Always reassuring seeing a security audit on such an important piece of software as a potential SSH-substitute.

Great job on the ARM support too. Now where's that Raspberry Pi I had around... :)
I had the impression that you thought "yes" pipes the output to shell, and then the shell writes to disk. That's incorrect. " > file" means redirecting to a file, and therefore all write system calls actually write to disk.
> There were news about [Dropbox] faking the prompt and storing your password

Wow, I've missed that. An example of the article:

http://applehelpwriter.com/2016/07/28/revealing-dropboxs-dir...

"note the ‘Type your password…’ sentence is both misaligned and is spaced into a separate paragraph, unlike genuine authentication requests from OS X. The phrasing of the first sentence “your computer password” is also very “un-OS X”."
The external diagnosis of a situation must always be minted in racism, misogyny or struggle. You are not allowed to criticize without starting there
On the other hand, would it have been fair if the value of Bitcoin cratered and then they paid everyone out in the new, lower value?
Absolutely not. I worked in publishing during the 90s and virtually every Mac disk that came into us from a freelancer had a Mac virus on it. Luckily an excellent free bit of Software called 'Disinfectant' spotted and sorted it. It was eventually retired by its author sadly when Office Macro Viruses started running amuck and were too difficult to track.

By the time it was retired, I seem to recall it acted on nearly 200 viruses and worms.
If you want an extended trial, I'm all for hooking you up with one that lasts until you launch (or whatever is needed for you). Though not something I want to do by default at the moment, simply due to the fact that free users usually require more support than paid users.
https://www.quackwatch.org/01QuackeryRelatedTopics/flushes.h...
They've come a long way without funding. Good for them. Mathworks taking notice, I'm sure.
Uber CEO takes leave of absence amid crises
I think the grandparent was speaking more of knowledge then possession of items. Many anti-gun progressives seem to know little to nothing about guns, be proud of their lack of knowledge, and recommend passing ignorant laws that will do nothing to reduce violence. It seems kind of appropriate to compare them - their attitude seems like "Guns are always bad, unless you're the Government, you shouldn't know anything about them or have anything to do with them, and just run away if you see one". Sounds kinda like "Sex is always bad, unless you are married..."
The limit on transactions per second is a function of the block size, currently 1 MB. Based on what the miners say, they would be interested in increasing the block size. Understand that the miners like high fees but they like high bitcoin prices even more. The fees are only a fraction of the block reward. If the system becomes too expensive then the miners will lose a lot more than just some fees.

The 1 MB limit is set by the bitcoin software. The software that most everyone runs is developed by a group called the "bitcoin core". That group has mostly been taken over by the company Blockstream (this is my opinion, others would argue the team is diverse and not controlled by any one company). Blockstream's business is based on off-chain transactions (i.e. the Lightning network).

It is in Blockstream's interest to get a feature that enables Lighting into the Bitcoin software (SegWit). Miners have been refusing to upgrade. One theory is that SegWit will disable a special optimisation that one of the biggest miners uses (ASCIBoost). In any case, Bitcoin core team refuses to increase the block size and the miners have been refusing to enable SegWit.

The SegWit upgrade is a good thing, IMHO, even though it seems like a pretty complicated feature. Having the ability to open "payment channels" and make cheap transactions off the main chain would be great. However, I feel that a block size increase to 2 MB or 4 MB is long overdue. I don't understand all the technology issues so maybe there is some really good reason not to do it.

It is clear to me that Satoshi (founder of Bitcoin) and Gavin (previous leader of Bitcoin core group) felt that the block size could be scaled to keep fees low. Both software improvements and hardware/network improvements would progress quickly enough to scale with demand. The current core team does not think so and think off-chain transactions are the only way to scale now.
"However, I suspect the author meant Venmo/Paypal etc."

And my remark is still applicable there, since they're basically just frontends to the traditional ACH/wire payment system (at least in the case of Paypal; I haven't used Venmo much, so I'm not as familiar with how it works). Unless Paypal is paying the seller before receiving actual funds from the buyer, I'm not really seeing how this would be any different of a situation.
He did? That's a bold thing to state especially with so many car manufacturers trying to get into the same space who will have a far easier time undercutting Uber considering they own the manufacturing and maintenance on their vehicles (thus they have far more margin to play with).

IMO I think Uber will eventually have to be bought by a car company or they'll have to go for a premium market because GM and others already want to get into the same exact business and owning the manufacturing is going to make it a hell of a lot cheaper for them.
Depending on who's doing the advocating, plain text doesn't inhibit images or any other media, as any site with media written in markdown or reStructuredText shows. Lots of GitHub READMEs are written in Markdown and include images, for example.

There are a number of image formats that are commonly supported, as well as video and audio. Once you've decided to go beyond face to face speech in the same language, you have to make compromises. Just try to minimize those, and try to stay within conflicts that have compromises, like line endings.

I think starting from "authorship in plaintext," along with sharing plaintext files, would move things pretty far forward. (I guess there's some irony in there.)
The cops in the US (at least in my area) have patrol rifles and shotguns, which are typically kept in the vehicle.

I think with recent events in the UK it shows that rapid response is too slow; your cops need guns.
Someone asked the other day how to parallelize gpu learning. I had never thought about the problem before, but still came up with and gave this as the most obvious way.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14510146
Yeah the problem is it's not even proper desktop interface, it was made for touch screens i.e. tablets, also 7 years ago ubuntu was first distro on distrowatch.com hits per day ranking, today its 4th and it really goes down every month, so I'm assuming it has something to do with Unity and pragmatically it was a fiasco that was bringing Ubuntu down, I also doubt they can do much about it at this point in time.