skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Given that a lot of HR is deliberately duplicitous about this, and that apparently -- still -- other "authority" figures in many young peoples' lives don't address this (every college "career counseling" center in the U.S.: I'm looking at you), I think one bout of naiveté can be excused -- although still preferably avoided.

HR IS NOT YOUR FRIEND!

Hell, HR often is not even the hiring manager's friend. "Best practices" are often a poor fit to the real world and individual circumstances. Hiring managers often have to jump through hoops to try to get HR to act on the candidates they actually want.

The way to work HR, is to know that -- if they're competent -- they are all about risk management.

So, make what you want also the way they minimize their risk, to the extent you can.

When I left one of my jobs, some of my PTO time had lapsed per a newer "use it or lose it" policy -- this "loss" probably aided by another prior action, lumping "vacation" time and "sick" time into a single pool.

But, I'd done well by my team. And HR didn't want any unnecessary waves. So, they paid it to me, regardless.

It was also a time of enough organizational transition, that this individual action would most likely "get lost in the wash" and not become the basis for another employee claiming unequal treatment.

THAT's how HR works.

They help you, only when it helps them.

The rest is all empty rhetoric. If you buy it, they just gained (gamed) some cheap compliance from you -- that's all.

P.S. As always, individual circumstances may happen to vary. But regardless, go in with your eyes open and your guard up.
Indeed, lock up a couple CEOs and the others will feel a much stronger need to create better protections. Right?
Having one or more clients doesn't mean much. Eth is organizationally centralized because of the eth foundation. It literally has a dear leader (vitalik), and no different from crypto issued by, say, the fed.

The entire point of crypto is that it tries to solve the problem with existing currency (fiat), which is too tightly controlled by a few individuals.
Cowboys and Giants aren't a race. Celtics is not a racial slur.
Quality Last: Why We Make Poor Software (2009)
Funny. In Japan, there are many places where people don't even bother locking their bikes.
How do you swing it? The IRS requires you to declare foreign assets in any non-trivial amount, and both declaring them and a failure to declare them in which they come to know of them by other means (i.e. FATCA) are big red audit triggers.

It's true that they can't levy them nearly as easily, though, and maybe that was your point.
An amazing demonstration of the math behind some fractals, which runs on web gl, is Steven Witten's "How to Fold a Julia Fractal"

https://acko.net/blog/how-to-fold-a-julia-fractal/

Highly recommended
Then UK thieves are clueless. The recommended padlocks (SS50C or SS65C) can be picked (search for model + "picked" on youtube) in less than 30 seconds. For bystanders picking the lock looks like you are just too stupid or drunk to use your key.
https://www.reddit.com/r/ethereumfraud
Is Whole Foods a Healthy Option for Amazon?
If you liked this, you may also like OEIS (https://oeis.org/) and Fibonacci Quarterly (http://www.fq.math.ca/).
purse.io is a money laundering operation for stolen credit card numbers. If it hasn't been shut down yet and its operators arrested, it will be soon.
OP: interested to hear the story behind this. Did you come across a landlord who needed these problems solved, or are you one yourself? How many users do you have?

Getting people an extra 7-10% out of their investment is no small feat. I live in a country (Australia) where the major cities are, in my opinion, slowly transitioning from primarily-owned to primarily-rented housing. That's a lot of property management money coming into circulation!

There is a lot of value to be captured if you can provide a better service than a property manager at a real estate chain... but those people are likely to be much better at handling worst-case scenarios involving bad tenants.
> there is no homunculus (or soul, or separate entity) calling the shots for you, but even if there were a mini-me inside of you making choices, that mini-me would need a mini-mini-me inside of it, ad infinitum.

I find it kind of amusing that people think free will is an illusion. It's a great illustration of how you can get people to believe anything, including things that violate their most fundamental perceptions.

This "Science disproves free will" thing has the epistemological hierarchy reversed: one of the surest things I know is my own will. Before Descartes could proclaim "I think, therefore I am" he had to choose to make that proclamation.

The argument that free will can't exist because it involves infinite regress is not particularly convincing: if anything, we should expect that our agency springs from something as bizarre as a causal singularity. Consciousness is weird as hell, and I expect the true nature of consciousness will turn out to be weirder than we can imagine.
Yes, I think community service (like picking up trash) is quite feasible.
Show HN: LGF, Game development framework for Lua
> Bitcoin also only has one client with one development team

Nope. See below.

https://github.com/bitcoinclassic/bitcoinclassic

https://github.com/BitcoinUnlimited/BitcoinUnlimited

https://github.com/btc1/bitcoin/tree/segwit2x
Researchers find way to desalinate water with solar energy
I'm honestly convinced that, post-Sable, the FCC is poised to lose should anyone challenge their obscenity provisions, Miller test notwithstanding.

Since then though, the FCC has been more prudent with what they go after, and the fines have are low enough that it serves everyone's interests to keep everything de rigueur.

NBC doesn't want to have to worry about having to compete with smut on the public airwaves, or having to big against Pornhub in the next spectrum auction. Meanwhile, the FCC of course enjoys the presumption of authority over the airwaves with a quasi-plausible veil of content neutrality.
Everything I have ever read about purse.io indicates that the gift cards there are purchased with stolen credit card details.
I've acknowledged that.

We're discussing different aspects, and implications, of the law.

You also appear to be studiously avoiding acknowledging my point.

Cheers.
I guess this is about https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=nope123

I didn't downvote it, but as a rule of thumb follow this unofficial rules:

* No jokes in HN

* No oneliners in HN

* No references in HN

You can break them, but it's very difficult to know when you can break them.

You have some deep interpretation of your comment, but it's not obvious at all. Always write the full version assuming the reader will not understand the shorter form.

In general, HN tries to avoid as much meta discussion as possible, so I guess the mods will not implement this.
Helmets? This is the Netherlands we are talking about. Not a low bicycle nation like the USA or Australia. All the other stuff is superfluous also and tends to be limited to places like the USA (you don't see a lot of people in Netherlands with special biking clothes, for example, and they are definitely commuting!).
> Most people on most developed countries don't have scarcity for water, food, clothes, transport

Yes, they do. They may not have what you view as critical shortages, but if thode things weren't scarce, in economic terms, they would be free of cost.

> Things do become more abundant

Yes, but they continue to be scarce.
FYI, be careful what you do with it. Some of this sort of data--like federal contribution data from the FEC--cannot be legally used for commercial purposes[0]. They do actually enforce it, at least occasionally.

[0] https://transition.fec.gov/pages/brochures/saleuse.shtml#anc... (publication is from 1992, but still accurate per disclaimer at the top)
> Embedded systems, IMO, must be deterministic, reliable and consistent.

This is the definition of a hard real-time system. In most of the literature, 'embedded system' is a broader term that just means there is some compute embedded in a device that performs a larger task.
Typescript is different - I can use type definitions from NPM without typechecking dependencies I don't import.
>They could do a huge crackdown, but that's unsustainable and after the crackdown we'll be right back to the same theft rate.

Actually, there's evidence that a sustained crackdown can succeed in changing norms. I believe that the biking rate in Copenhagen is almost as high as Amsterdam but the theft rate is far lower. Norms matter. Here's an example:

http://www.slate.com/blogs/moneybox/2012/10/15/buenos_aires_...
I get all that and I agree with a lot of it. But that doesn't really explain, for example, why building a subway in NYC costs 7x per km what it costs in London or Paris.

http://www.amny.com/transit/subway-construction-in-nyc-costs...
What is the advantage in creating an Ethereum smart contract over a regular contract in our legal system (using a lawyer and some pen and paper)?

If code has bugs (and sufficiently complex code will always, always, always have bugs) you simply have to suffer the consequences (sorry for your loss) or the entire community can choose to execute a hard fork and rewrite history (see DAO). If a vanilla legal contract has some typos or even some semantic differences that lead to ridiculous outcomes, lawyers and judges will hash it out. People, not computers, make the final decisions in our legal system, so human errors are mostly tolerated. If I sneak a clause into a contract saying that the other party must pay me their entire salary every year, it would be voided in an instant. Not so if placed in a "smart" contract.

Perhaps you could say that Ethereum is better than our legal system because it's decentralized. But I don't think it's enough to say something is better simply because it's decentralized. Why should I be afraid of a centralized legal system? We elect politicians, who choose judges (who have to be confirmed by legislative bodies whose members we also elect). Sure, it's not perfect, but it's hardly the tyrannical system that would make me turn to the bug-ridden wild west of Ethereum smart contracts.

I think the only reasonable argument in favor of Ethereum contracts is that they are easier to create (less friction, don't need to hire a lawyer, etc), but that's hardly a good thing. Real life contracts are expensive for a reason, not because Rothschild & Co. have some other nefarious plans. You need lawyers to write good contracts and think through their consequences, as well as reasonable, human judges to decide issues when they arise. Ethereum, to me, seems a purely ideological creation, not one rooted in actual needs that people have. Sure, it's decentralized and immutable (unless a contract hurts the wrong people, lol) but did anyone really want that (except for those with ideological reasons, i.e. libertarians)?

Not trying to start a flamewar, I just want to hear a strong opposing viewpoint on this.
There is a section in the post about how they handle fallbacks for older browsers.
This is only one of several areas in which our institutional structures (including law, politics, finance, and economic theory) are at odds with scientific models.

As a famous Kenyan has said, "reality has a way of biting back".[1]

________________________________

Notes:

1. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/world-us-canada-38671714/obama-...
Moreover, the lack of sanctions against freebooting shows the complete disinterest of Facebook in protecting the content creators.
Audience is their only priority.
I think it's more accurately described as a platform for Ponzi schemes and pump and dump scams.
Read the article. DNA that creates a plant completely dependent on pollination by a specific insect that is somewhere between extremely threatened and extinct - and no longer seems to occur in areas where this plant can grow at all.

Yeah, that's going to work fine. This plant will never procreate without explicit human effort. We can do this for a few species of course, maybe even a few 1000. But it doesn't really change the fact that the species is extinct. It can't survive in nature and humans "saving" it for centuries won't change that, it will make it worse.

We cannot seriously hope to recreate the entire environment these species depend on. We can only save the DNA. Cloning by itself is useless, in that it can only create a few new individuals that then proceed to die in a very unfriendly environment.
Sic' this thing on lawn dandelions and you'll move a million.

(Not that I have anything against dandelions, myself, except for the way they kill enough surrounding grass to promote erosion on my canted lawn.)
Are memory leaks more inevitable in garbage collected programs than manually collected ones?
> I find it kind of amusing that people think free will is an illusion. It's a great illustration of how you can get people to believe anything, including things that violate their most fundamental perceptions.

And yet, my own fundamental perceptions say otherwise. If I sit here and try to decide to do something, how do I do it? I kind of... wait. Wait for some idea to pop into my head. Wait for something to appear before me. Wait for some feeling to push me one way or another. Try as I might, I can't find anything inside me that could constitute free will. Just a jumble of perceptions and inklings that change with the wind.
I dont think that an additional 100W under load 20W idle is going to have a meaningful effect on global warming?

Lets imagine it spends 4 hours per day under load and 6 hours idle and the rest of the time sleeping. We are talking about 0.5 kwh or 15ish per month. The average us household uses by comparison around 900 kwh in the average month.

Upgrading to one of these will in that scenario increase your household energy budget 1.6%.
What a fantastic name.
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Think of how Reddit can monetise or has.

Now think of all the revenue streams you get with the Minecraft intellectual property.

Also, Minecraft's community is way less volatile. A glorified forum can die and become worthless real quick, if you don't play it right.
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Playing with ZFS encryption on Linux
>Unfortunately, this means that libv8-3.14, nodejs, and the associated node-* package ecosystem should not currently be used with untrusted content, such as unsanitized data from the Internet.

Jeez. I guess this means most people will be using other node binaries in production.
Bancor Is Flawed
> one of the surest things I know is my own will

How do you know you can trust this knowledge you supposedly hold?
Great. When will this target ARMv8 64-bit 'A' profile chips?
Unless they lose their trademark because it becomes genericized.
The link was preceded by the words "from any of several dozen commercial providers that resell government data:" so that's how I took it. It would be at a .gov domain if it were state affiliated.
The curious thing is observing the behaviour of the people trying to push that idea.

It's almost like they just use it as a tool to maximize their freewill impact in the world.
The imgur method. Very annoying.
I think the term "smart contract" is a misnomer. Sure, you could write a code similar to one I use:
Store money and confirm that I am alive every year (by means of me sending a transaction to the contract). If I don't send this transaction, all money is released to my daughters account. This looks like a standard contract.

Now, dApps (distrubuted applications) also use "smart contracts" as the backend, but they do so much more than act as "contracts". For example, Golem is a computation market, Augur is a prediction market, etc. There is a whole universe of applications that can be written on Ethereum that do not quite fit under a simple "contract that you can write using a lawyer and some pen and paper" umbrella.
Quite honestly, I'd give it a shot straight up, and pay close attention to references. I suspect Sapolsky will point you to the foundational works as necessary.

(I've not read this book of his, or any others, but I've seen numerous lectures and interviews, and read several of his papers and essays. He's an academic, but one who explains things exceedingly clearly, and documents sources. Sort of the best of all possible worlds.)
> I can just add that Intel's documentation in the IoT chips is seriously lacking.

I just find it odd that in the absence of information, commentators feel like they have something to contribute anyways haha
That would disclose way more information than just my name and age. You would then be able to associate that information with my HN username and all the data associated with it.
It's looking more and more like mainstream embedded SoCs will combine the general-use HMI processor core (like an A8/A9) with a smaller real-time core for control tasks.

TI Sitara (Beaglebone family) does this via the PRU, and Freescale added a Cortex-M4 to the i.MX 6SoloX for a similar purpose.
That's a different axis than the free will vs determinism debate though. What you are describing is your (and my) inability to convincingly prescribe meaning to our actions. Just because we don't understand it doesn't mean it is determined.
This is crazy. I remember thinking when I first heard about stack and heap growing towards each other: uh-oh. But the problem was so blindingly obvious that I just assumed any system written for anything beyond co-operative multitasking had a fix - because if not there was obviously no actual memory safety...
I am guessing you are in Melbourne. Melbourne has very wide roads, perfect for cycling, much better than Sydney. Now that places has narrow roads.

It also has awesome weather for cycling all year round.

People are just hard to change.
> What you're left with is determinism

Not true even at a fundamental level.

Why should it be true at a macro/aggregate one?
Little bit early for airships.
I doubt it. The stack pointer is modified upon function entry, exit, and per function call (parameters pushed onto the stack, popped off afterwards). You could try to add code to every function to check of the stack pointer is between two addresses and fault if not, but then threading becomes more difficult ...
Phnom Penh has one too but I'm not sure how reliably you can get your stuff back. Two bikes stolen here for me, but only 40$ a piece.
> It's a great illustration of how you can get people to believe anything, including things that violate their most fundamental perceptions.

Or maybe it's just that all of my experience, memories, thoughts, and sensory input leading up to this exact moment in time leave me involuntarily with the belief I don't have free will.
This Is How to Kill Bad Habits with Mindfulness
Everyone is living in fairytale narratives that we spend decades crafting for ourselves. And doing so has some great benefits! But it is also can be very problematic at times.

I've been trying to figure out how to live while minimizing the extent of my personal fabricated narrative. It's a bit tricky... As with many things, I think basic awareness of the phenomenon is the first productive step.
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Haha! You made my evening. The vast expanses of the Internet are your prize, sir.
- x86 compatibility doesn't matter.

On the contrary, I'll say that it does matter --- and that's why Edison failed. It was x86, but not truly "IBM PC-compatible". Those who didn't care about PC-compatibility were unlikely to choose x86 over something like ARM, and for those who did, the Edison was useless.

If Intel had chosen to put an entire "real" PC on the SoC with, yes, plenty of legacy peripherals and such so that it could --- with suitable I/O interfaces attached --- basically act as a lower-powered desktop or laptop, I'm almost willing to bet it could've turned out very differently. They could've found applications in things like this now-dead product, for example: http://www.pcworld.com/article/2873118/mouse-box-wants-to-st... (discussed at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8931999 )

Intel's strength is the immense backwards-compatibility of x86 and the PC architecture, but in trying to make a not-quite-PC platform, they basically threw away their competitive advantage.
It crazy how far computers have improved so this is the kind of thing you can do as a hobby project.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=0jGaio87u3A
I do not think your opinion would be fair. A lot of political decisions seems to be very stupid on their own, but if you look at the other decisions that are made at the same time, they would make a lot more sense. One country and another don't just make one deal forever in their existence, they made many, and in some they give up something and in some they gain something.
Are there any GPU x264 encoders that don't look like garbage compared to ffmpeg -c:v libx264 -preset veryslow -crf 18?
Hi I'm the author of GERT. The size of the ELF for the laser projector program is 2.1M so it probably will not fit on a cortex-m :(. Additionally, I don't think GERT will be as useful on a single-core SOC as it is on a multicore chip because blocking operations (like reading a UART) may literally take forever. The memory safety can certainly be useful though! I'd say just start tinkering and try it out. You can probably gut enough of the elf to get it to a few hundred kilobytes.
My pretty average (yet new and beloved) $75 city bike was stolen on an Osaka University campus when I left it unattended for a few days (it was locked)..
Interesting way to attack post modernism by creating a diatribe in the truest expression of existentialism.

If I assume the piece is well written in the sense that it gets the authors point across (rather than hastily or sloppily written without respect for the ideas and words that convey them) then I have to wonder which part of the snake is being eaten and which part is doing the eating.
Yes, it was also a moral failure of the Chinese political system, but I assumed that they were morally bankrupt anyway (perhaps a good illustration can be found by reading between the lines of Liu Cixin first book).

I believe that they saw it as a huge win for themselves, what makes it even less appealing.

I do not think that a non-democratic system is automatically a moral failure, but it becomes one if they try to enforce it on others.
Frequently pops up as a comparison to my lighter library, Split.js[0]. If you're just looking for draggable split views.

[0] http://github.com/nathancahill/Split.js/
There is also hydro-dipping"[1] It's usually used to add complex graphics to irregular surfaces, but I imagine they could make "ugly' irregular patterns for something like to this to make it unique and unwanted.

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydrographics_(printing)
It's planned. If ARMv8 had market penetration ~1.5 years ago, then I probably would have started that way. One big issue with most SOCs is the lack of publicly available data sheets for writing good drivers. That's also why I picked the imx6Q; its data sheet is very detailed.