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Ask HN: Is breaking a newly signed contract because of a hefty counter offer OK?
Just signed a new contract and it took my two week notice for my current employer to finally act. They've offered a large counter offer which is tempting but would have to break a contract I just signed. Does anyone have experience with doing anything like this?
I agree, but citizen education should not imho be the only approach here. I'm for much more muscular privacy laws and a slightly narrower tolerance on what's acceptable political speech.

Of course education is great, but look at the vast financial and operational asymmetries between even the most informed individual and well-resourced corporate actors like political parties. I have a super-strong political immune system but being politically engaged and navigating social media is exhausting. For the sake of objectivity I have to systematically expose myself to opinions I find disagreeable lest I retreat into a bubble and be surrounded by confirmation bias, but continuous exposure to countervailing political ideologies is intellectually and morally tiring, given the intense polarization and visceral rhetoric that prevails in today's political discourse.

Despite not liking programming, I've been seriously thinking about building a virtual assistant that I can train to pre-emptively tag people using my peculiar ideological criteria so that I can avoid or at least prepare for certain interactions that I know are going to be psychically difficult. By my value calculus, tuning out of politics is irresponsible at best and suicidal at worst; only communicating with people whose values you share exposes you to confirmation bias, and and inevitably exposes one to manipulation; observation of and argumentation with antagonists is psychically expensive and potentially dangerous.

so much as I agree with you on education, it's not something we can just put on the to-do list and wait a generation to benefit from. And that would be true even if we had a well-functioning educational sector rather than one that fails a large number of children and adults by leaving them only semi-literate and -numerate. People who can't read or reckon well are poorly positioned to identify fallacious political discourse.
This right here! Many people try to make bullet journaling an art, though it's supposed to be quick and easy, not time consuming and pretty.
I'll keep my eyes peeled LOL
No one uses helmets. Most people don't use panniers either; small loads are attached to the back of the bike by the default "snelbinders" (elastic straps). Or what's really popular lately are plastic crates above the front-wheel. Locks and lights (and reflective strips on the wheels) are standard on all bikes. In cities you'd get a second lock, but that's really about it.
I don't understand this argument. If you build and sell tools that enable online surveillance, you bear a special responsibility not to sell them to people who will abuse them. Building surveillance tools and selling them to repressive governments is blameworthy.

Equally blameworthy, but rarely remarked upon, is the practice of selling generic computing infrastructure that you know will be used to build surveillance infrastructure.
I have the same issues. Its incredibly pricey and lounge and fastrack access isnt guaranteed.
> What law did they break, exactly? These aren't medical or financial records.

I know this is USA, but FYI in the EU, all personal data is protected.
Any developer who can't name something that "kinda sucks" about their language probably isn't ready to learn a new language.
The 6.8 in the article is for "Windows Server businesses", wouldn't it be way larger than just cloud sevices ?
Even without office, there still would the windows server products in it.
The answer beside is what I meant.

People always think of raw cannabis plant but hemp is the same family except useless for 'weed' since thc is so low in it.
I am struggling to find that article in Vogue or some magazine that gave some inside details of how the iPhone came out. By my recollection, their strategy was definitely not to reduce the phone to an app. The strategy from what I remember was to add a desktop class browser to the phone and remove the limitations of a physical keyboard. Of course these had to be built on a new OS and all that. Oh there was one more - visual voicemail.
Myth: HR is on your side. Reality: The Uber sexual harassment scandal
There are a few pieces to this (I work at Brave and am on the BAT project).

The BAT project has set aside 300M BATs in the User Growth Pool, which will be used to award users that opt-in to the BAT integration with BATs.

Amounts in the user growth pool, including the address, are listed in the BAT FAQ:
https://basicattentiontoken.org/faq.html

We also released a post on the user growth pool and extending the BAT Platform beyond the Brave browser, which is continued in the roadmap:
https://basicattentiontoken.org/driving-user-adoption-and-ex...

The existing Brave Payments beta that uses bitcoin will be migrated to BAT as the roadmap indicates (https://basicattentiontoken.org/bat-roadmap-1-0.html), which will initiate flow for users that choose to opt-in and contribute to verified publishers.

We've posted about this here: https://basicattentiontoken.org/bat-a-natural-way-to-contrib...

The post above also contains a review of the Google Contributor reboot, which filters ads in exchange for micropayments for participating publishers.

As communicated in the roadmap, trials will initially be with ads in private user channels (separate from the current blanner blindness problems that exist - I worked in ad ops and product integration for 5 years prior to joining Brave last Dec - blanner blindness is a problem). Examples: rich push notifications, private tabs, new tab page.

In later phases, verified publishers will be included in the rev share, with additional options for premium content and ala carte content available for BAT for publishers interested in the utility.

That said, verified publishers will be included earlier in the process through the microdonation/patreon option mentioned above.
The difference then is probably widespread access to cars. With suburbs being so spread out, most people would rather drive rather than bike more than 5 miles per trip, despite the big environmental and personal health consequences.
MongoDB is a schemaless

Bzzzt! You ALWAYS have a schema. The only question is whether and to what extent your tools help you validate or enforce it.
Puerto Rico. Interesting game mechanics without the element of luck (save for a tiny bit in one small aspect).
>these systems are invisible * once you know about them, they can be gamed

Like listing the full stack of every product you ever worked on in white 2pt font in your resume to pass naive keyword filters and pasting in irrelevant blocks of tags on craigslist
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Thanks so much for the feedback! Anything I could help, just tell me! :)
Just because something can cause damage doesn't mean you need safety training on it. I mean, you wouldn't get training to use a bandsaw if you bought one for your own workshop would you?
Just came back from a week in Netherlands and stayed in Amsterdam. What a cool place to hang out and take in the sights. Cycling there is huge indeed. The big difference I noticed from Canada was the dedicated infrastructure they have in place. Dedicated cycling lanes everywhere, it's a proper form of transportation. As a tourist, this was weird, I nearly got mowed down a few times but because I was in the wrong and not paying attention. You quickly adapt and realize bike lanes are just as important to watch out for as vehicle lanes. The people are very friendly and nearly all speak English without issue.

I don't agree with cycling on the roads and highways here in Canada, it's chaos and frankly, dangerous. I don't really see if implementing what they have because it's already built in.

The thing that really jumped out at me was when I was waiting for a bus around zaanse schans, about an hour outside of Amsterdam in the country, there was an elementary school that just finished up for the day and every single student came out on bicycles. Myself and a group of Canadian's couldn't believe it. They all happily were socializing on their bikes tightly packed together while riding on the bike path in the country to their homes. Here in Canada nearly everyone takes a giant yellow school bus.

Very nice place, highly recommend checking it out if you have chance. Aside, saw the outside of the Atlassian Amsterdam office too ;)
Thanks so much for the feedback! Anything I could help, just tell me! I hope I can help! :)
I created MyPost ( https://mypost.io ) as a way to get a page up and running on the Internet in seconds. It was originally made for me... but I really wanted to share it with the world and see if people would find a use for it. I wanted a place where I didn't have to register for any account and could use HTML and CSS (Javascript works to an extent too!) to design web pages. Really, to make or share quick notes when I was working with my clients. It was also a way for them to easily make changes to the post so long as they had a password.

But it can be used for so much more ( https://mypost.io/post/what-can-i-do-with-mypost ).

It is completely free to use. I don't have any plans to charge for it, and have not even added advertising or anything to it yet, but it still receives maintenance and updates, though no more major feature implementations are planned. It was my first web app and taught me a lot, from learning the basics of database programming to a friendly UI that could be understood by everyone. My sister, who is not very tech or computer savvy, was the beta tester. Whenever she questioned something or got stuck on something, I redesigned that feature to make it even easier. Whether it was functionality or the wording.. if she questioned it, it was redone.

It boosted my confidence into the web app world. Right now, I've got about 8 more web apps in the works, 3 of which are in the stages of beta testing, and though there is a free version, they will actually be paid subscription to access additional features. So I am proud to boast about this project, as it was the start to my empire.
Start with "not MongoDB" and take it from there.
Recently fixed a bug causing GCC 4.4something to overflow its stack. They are still out there.
Indeed. If you want to challenge the example, you need to argue that in reality things are never quite so finely balanced, and that we can thus assume what geometers call "general position". (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_position)
I love the simplicity of this.
I do not know us legislation, since medical majijuana is so trendy i expected hemp to be legal as well.
It's definitely a choice and I wasn't implying it's a bad one. Everyone has different priorities, like you said it could be kids or something else. All I'm saying is that it's those choices that make urban sprawl a thing and reduces the effectiveness of living car-free. I'd buy a car in an instant if I had to, and I consider myself lucky not to have to right now.

Not all suburban cities are equal either, some makes it possible not to have to commute by car (at least near where I live).
I think the superiority of the Netherlands when it comes to cycling is pretty clear, and has been for a long time. What bothers me about this superiority is the perceived need to point it out on a fairly regular basis.

It's very easy to look at one's fortunate circumstances and wonder why others can't replicate them, so why the constant incredulousness around how the Netherlands stands as an example that should be followed?

Perhaps shrinking every nation to the size and geographical structure of the Netherlands would help. Other nations could also raze their suburbs and reconstruct into quaint little villages with great respect for cyclists.
I think sigil-gumbo also merged in a lot of the changes in 0.9.4 and 1.0.0. Most of them were related to performance & memory allocation; a developer at GitHub did a lot of work to speed up their internal copy of Gumbo, and merged a lot of that work back to master. Kevin Hendricks (sigil-gumbo's maintainer) was involved in a number of those discussions; I believe he applied most of the patches to his own tree as well.

I have some doubts that html5-parser would be 30x faster than html5lib without the performance work in 0.9.4; Gumbo up through 0.9.3 was really slow for a C library.
Wasn't there a huge problem with Facebook Video stealing content from others with impunity?
I'm interested in Amsterdam too, but $345 is essentially 34.5% of the price of my direct flight. For many US folks $345 is going to be more than 50% of the ticket... Just way too hard to justify, even to an employer.

And frankly, the 5% discount they're throwing out is more insulting than offering no discounts at all.

Edit: I think to further clarify, the problem is that this seems most useful to casual/recreational travelers, but at business traveler pricing. E.g. if I fly to Amsterdam frequently for business, I'm not likely to need help navigating Schiphol AND you're competing with Privium (cheaper, more benefits). If I fly to Amsterdam as a tourist, I need the help but am unlikely to find the price appealing. IMO Solve is better off targeting casual travelers at a much cheaper cost and leave the business travelers to the clubs & memberships they already belong to.
I think MS users are more prone to spend money because they are more used to it.
This isn't social security numbers.

This is all publicly available data scrapping stuff. Like your public Facebook profile.

If you don't want that stuff to be leaked, then don't put your info publicly on Facebook.
A DAQ that reconstructs a perfect square wave (or a perfect stair-step function) is employing a "Zero Order Hold", and it would make a god-awful audio DAC.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zero-order_hold

With a 0OH you'd gain the ability to potentially reconstruct a infinite bandwidth signal (the squarewave), which is irrelevant in the audio case: With a 10kHz squarewave, the next harmonic would be at 30kHz which is already waaaay out of the human range of hearing.

But limiting the bandwidth of a DAC (or ADC) is the fundamental property which causes it to be able to perfectly reproduce the frequencies within its bandwidth (~up to 20kHz in HiFi Audio), so that's desirable. And the "ripples" on top of a squarewave are just the manifestation of this property: If you cut away the frequencies above Nyquist, you get a rippled squarewave. And conversely if you compute the difference between the perfect squarewave and the "rippled" squarewave you get out of an Audio DAC this only contains (non-audible) energy outside of the bandwith of the DAC!
I got a chance to do this when an office reorg temporarily granted me a third monitor. The occasional horizontal scroll was more than compensated for by the feeling of godlike power.
They didn't mention seeking approval, they mentioned losing empathy. Those in power losing empathy for others is a big deal.
Ah! I see, thanks.
FYI, newer Stack Overflow code is licensed under an MIT license with a link in code comments serving as attribution. See https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/272956/a-new-code-l...
Awesome-Fuzzing
http://write.itskrish.co/saved/2017-06-19T19:15:13.029Z

It is actually an interesting idea to get "consciousness streams" out there. I'm guessing you meant it as just a one-time thing.. no possibility of editing? But then again... a block of thought.... get it out. Start anew! Nice little project.
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There's no "worse case" for insertion if the api just says list.insert(item).

The half-trollish point being that nothing is "obvious". Indeed, list insertion is O(1) in popular programming languages s.a python or JS.
i cant seem to find any references to the 'no need for a parking place, no need for gas, brings two people at least, police not that much of a hassle when you cycle drunk (and if you really drank too much, you cant cycle...), usually in a city 10x faster due to one-way traffic etc'

And plenty of (serious) accidents happen here too involving cyclist. Though indeed, car drivers are generally in fear of hitting one for legal and insurance reasons.
This is much less of a pain since EU roaming charges ended on 15 June 2017.

"Roaming charges end on 15 June 2017. Europeans travelling within the EU countries will Roam Like at Home and pay domestic prices for roaming calls, SMS and data."

https://ec.europa.eu/digital-single-market/en/policies/roami...

Happily using my UK SIM and data plan while traveling through several EU countries.
It's a good idea, and it reminds me of "handlers" in the general/business aviation world. When you land, they expedite your fueling, customs, immigration, overfly permits, flight planning & routing, and more.

Back to normal travelers - I wish there were a free wiki that covered all this, since it seems like it's just a matter of having the right information. Like knowing which office to go in, what forms to have ready, etc. I guess it'd be more targeted towards casual travelers who won't pay $200 for this kind of service.
The real danger of data like this is concentration camps and death squads. I don't like stating things so dramatically but that's the sort of thing that actually happens, not just in WW2 but also under the USSR, in many dictatorships in the developing world, when countries like the former Yugoslavia experience political collapse, and so on. Just a couple of months ago there was a systematic effort in the Russian federation of Chechnya to round up and incarcerate homosexuals.

Don't make the mistake of thinking that atrocities couldn't possibly happen here just because you're used to thinking of them as something that only happens in other places.
Since it take more power to split up water than you get by recombining it, I severely doubt it.
It wasn't always that way... https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2015/may/05/amsterdam-bic...
There's obviously some mistake, "Russia Today" should be along with "Thrillist", "NowThis News", and "Dodo" and not reputable news like CNN or Fox.
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Ask HN: What laptop do you prefer for travel in 2017?
Hey guys,

going to be traveling soon and I'm in the market for a laptop, what's your favorite laptop for traveling.

General use: browser / light photoshop - illustrator use
The commonality is all of those cases were competing on the x86 instruction set playing field. Intel will probably still win at that game. But now there are many areas of computing where x86 doesn't matter. (As noted, even Windows is moving to support ARM.)
Swiping right from the left edge is the defacto way to go back on iOS. I realize not all apps implement it, but the good ones seem to. It's the thing I miss most every time I use Android, especially in the browser. Having to reach all the way down to that back button is more work, and its harder to do with one hand.
https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2015/may/05/amsterdam-bic...
We have an awesome offering at a good amount of China airports, we'd love to help! We're are also actively decreasing prices in China this month, so be on the look out :)
That's largely due to 'failure bias'. You hear a lot more about failed rewrites than you do successful ones. I've been involved with a number of full rewrites over the years and all of them ended up greatly improving the product and development process.
"They consistently get outmanuevered in gpus, ssds, low power socs ..."

Aren't Intel SSDs considered the benchmark for all datacenter/server work ?

I know we make a point to source Intel SSDs and I don't remember any horror stories like there were with other vendors' SSD parts ...
So, what, it should be illegal to leak your data on public Facebook scraping?

None of the info they had was private info.

If you don't want your info to be leaked then don't make it public.
30% improvement for net performance might actually be about right. Raw improvements were bigger, but software got slower.
This is genuinely brilliant. Thanks for sharing.

For anyone who wants to read the back issues: https://www.alchemistowl.org/pocorgtfo/
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> Surely it means nothing

Well I guess it means that you can't leave your bike unlocked in parts of Amsterdam, which is a shame.
Aside, I really prefer the fallback rendering for hevc in lower bitrate encodes... the "blurry" is way better than avc's "blocky". So even when it's technically less accurate than h.264 in many conditions, it still looks better.
There is no absolutes. You look at what you signed and what you give up. I have reneged on offers due to multiple reasons 1) the offer did not match what we verbally discussed 2) I received a counter offer 3) I told them I was waiting on another offer, they forced me to decide early. The other offer came through, I called them back and told them I was withdrawing.

Bottom line is, you have to live with your decisions. In all cases they also came back with more offers. For me personally, I could live with myself walking away from the first one, but I felt I would be totally mercenary if I took the counter-counter offer, and that it would lead to a work relationship where I would not be sure if they would keep me. Not because I had any particular moral qualms about it - I'm looking for the best work situation for me.
$540.00 to land at YYZ for a glorified bag carrier? What is this?

p.s. solve isnt a great domain I hope you change it, something like traveller.com
Why do you think any of this data is private?

They seem like they were doing reddit scraping/Facebook scraping.

Nothing illegal about that.
If you're sufficiently in to board games, Pandemic Legacy is amazing. But you need a bunch of friends who will do this with you for months.
that's so unsettlnng that its a big enough trend that companies/people can think of profiting this way.
I always thought "majority" people would read whats under a link before sharing it and a few would just blindly share, but its the opposite!
Alternative link in case there is someone bothered by the NYT paywall: http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/wireStory/report-mexican-jo...
Very few "members of the public", maybe, but that doesn't really matter for much when the Patent & Trademark Office is attempting to strip them of their patent protection because they consider it a slur.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Washington_Redskins_trademark_...

That was compounded SCOTUS' rejection of the Redskins appeal, though this opinion should basically resolve the Redskins dispute anyway.
Then HN can sell the "self-censorship index" data to data brokers... oh, wait. :P
Yep, no editing is intentional, for that it's best to copy/paste into somewhere better optimized for that experience (working on adding export functionality).

Also just a note: everything is stored locally within your browser, so those links actually break for anyone else besides you
Presumably not, the mirror-neuron study does not use fMRI. It works by a measuring muscle response to transcranial magnetic stimulation.

> A reliable index of resonance is the amplitude of motor-evoked potentials (MEPs) recorded from a specific muscle via electromyography (EMG), while a person observes another person acting. An MEP is elicited by applying a single, fixed intensity TMS pulse over an area of the motor cortex that corresponds to a muscle underlying the observed action. For a given intensity of stimulation, changes in MEP amplitude reflect changes in the excitability of motor cortical representations (see Figure 1; for a review, see Fadiga et al., 2005).
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That would have required Intel to predict the IoT craze in 2006.
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It feels very hard to associate "Pillr" with something non-medical.
Well, as this decision effectively strikes down the provision that the PTO was using to deny the Redskins trademark protection, they effectively just won the right regardless.