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>Imagine you see a squadron of fighter jets flying in above in the sky. Then, one of the jets inexplicably breaks formation and flies off by itself.

I would think that maybe they are performing a 'missing man formation' [1] and would not find it inexplicable. Not sure what the moral of that is. Perhaps that deviance from the mean may be purposeful and not maladaptive?

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Missing_man_formation
The main thing about /r/politics that I have only recently noticed (since the 2016 election) is that they have become extremely orthodox democrats. Before that election, a lot of the time they were a mixture of libertarian and farther left leaning (but certainly not orthodox) people. Now they focus all of their time on Trump bashing, which isn't bad per se, but is extremely annoying since it's pretty much the only thing the sub is about these days. Thing is, there are a lot more political things going on than Trump, and outrage culture has resulted in at least two WaPo posts over each and every one of his tweets.

And then in the comments, you'll be crucified by the posters for anything other than the pro corporatist democratic views that the posters espouse. Move on from bashing Trump to say, bashing Hillary because she was an utterly unlikable candidate and arguably the biggest political failure in modern history, and you draw the ire of dozens of toe-the-liners who see the world just as black-and-white as the idiot /r/the_donald posters.

There's also an excessive amount of hyperbole that just gets annoying as time goes on. Clearly Trump will be around for quite a while longer (until and unless Mueller finds a smoking gun or in the event of a massive Democrat success in 2018), but reading /r/politics you would think he'll be impeached by next week. Adding fuel to the flames are websites like WaPo and the Independent who publish articles with these terribly misleading and hyperbolic headlines that make it seem like Trump is going down, and you get a massive echo chamber fueled and funded by shitty media websites.
I've generally found the behavior of builtin PHP methods to be less predictable and more involved than in JS, so I wonder if the best approach to writing a transpiler in this case would be to go to the C source and negotiate from there.

Having done PHP for years and years before the language itself found adequate elegance, I wouldn't want the burden of replicating all its weird behaviors for something like this, at least without seeing the source to understand what's happening.
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Pretty sure they still use shadow bans. It's just that now they have a policy against using them on real users - they're now only used against bots.
As I understand it, planes are largely automated but the automated components will always defer to the pilots whenever action is taken. I would hope with the amount of training required to do that job that the pilot would be the half of that equation to defer to.
'In search of stupidity'. Talks about tech companies that boom then flop. Overarching lesson seemed to be don't get arrogant and stop listening to your customers.
But...but...why?
Wow - how does it do that?! Image recognition techniques alone (as far as I know) couldn't do that, right? So how does it know how far away something is?
> I personally find prostitution and stripping disgusting (though I think it should be legal)

seems like they are one "kind of person" and you are a another.
Yet it's counter-productive.

According to [1], people are contagious for about one week, starting from one day before they feel any symptoms. It is actually more productive to send the sick people home (or let them work at least part-time from home) to prevent others from getting sick and also having to take time off.

I've been fortunate enough to work in environments where this was acknowledged and practiced, but I'm always dismayed when hearing from friends/relatives who are required to put in their "time of presence" and get half of their coworkers sick.

[Edit] Last point: for the common cold (virus), there's no need for a doctor visit, yet you still need rest and symptom control with OTC meds.

[1] http://www.webmd.com/cold-and-flu/how-long-flu-contagious
Thanks for the feedback. Working to find the best language has been a hard slog. It's actually not for improving a web site's design but is targeted specifically at mobile apps. I'm using the "configuration" language now so that developers maybe get an idea of how it integrates.
Can you link to one of your previous papers?
Ask HN: How to best prepare for remote developer interviews?
How to best (get) remote developer interviews and do well at them? Is prepping for these interviews generally the same as the typical white board interviews you do for onsite interviews?
In bizzaro world, sure.
Those are all valid, but none of those are inherent with Discourse, so not sure why the guy mentioned brought it up.
Which bit sounds sarcastic?
That's a little disappointing. I understand there's financial costs involved in someone certifying the thing, and I understand that consultant should be paid for their work, but for the sake of having a "flagship" laptop that QubesOS can point to--in addition to the fact that the OS would likely gain greater adoption from being a pre-installed option on a laptop--you would think that Qubes might be willing to eat the cost.
This is an interesting read. The structured approach to writing (code or prose) with intent is surprisingly rare among developers of various skill levels in my experience.

One of the key pieces of advice I give to new recruits is "write a paragraph about your intent, what do you want this code to do?". This, it turns out, is non-intuitive for folks as it requires first understanding what is there (OP notes this well) before jumping into coding. I think the root of this is that you're paid to write code and you want to impress right from the start.

Thus I found it very interesting when a few Q4's ago I was tasked with creating a new recruiting site for engineers ( https://engineering.twitch.tv ) to better understand our culture. The central focus of this site was to be a series of blog posts which highlighted core work that had recently taken place. My job quickly became editor in chief; working with engineers of various levels to understand what they've been doing, what was cool about it, and get them writing about it. Seven blog posts were identified and I made calendar events to check in seven days from then to read drafts... seven days later no drafts existed. As I dug into this it was apparent that they'd all assumed they could jump into the writing prose much like they do code, they all remarked that writing prose is actually really hard. I provided a template of my own pieces over the years and by the following quarter we had three pieces written!

I credit TPW for giving me words to describe this to engineers ( http://tom.preston-werner.com/2010/08/23/readme-driven-devel... ) and my high school English teachers for giving me the love of words!
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VPN, TOR browser, no?
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Because if you don't, it gives companies a reason to not hire women.

Employer: "Hmm... we have two candidates for the job, both equally qualified, but we'll have to give 12 extra days off a year to one of them but not the other. Which one do we hire?"
I could see many ways how this can go wrong and be popular with guys who have PHP code and want to run it on the browser because they 1. either don't master javascript or 2. want to save time.
Not sure how to feel about this; but I also don't consider myself a women who suffers heavily under period symptoms.

If I feel bad enough that I can't do my work properly, I would simply leave, periods or not. (Normal paid sick leave - this is relatively easy in my country.) It has only happened once since I started working full time five years ago, that I was in so much pain from periods that I had to leave work. (And that was after taking two painkillers and even those didn't help.)

I certainly think a policy like this would feed into wage gap issues - it would definitely be unfair to pay the same amount of money to two employees, when one of them potentially works 12 days more in a year.

It sounds plausible that it would work better in a female dominated company -- I would rather suck up the pain than deal with stupid remarks of my male colleagues because they know I'm on my periods...

In general, I think women grow up with having to deal with their periods and the symptoms since childhood/teenage years, so it's just a normal part of life for us. Sure, some women have it way worse that others, but I'd say 90% can cope with it without problems and don't need extra holidays.

Though I do like the idea of giving those women in bad pain the opportunity to work from home! It doesn't necessarily help with the symptoms, but at least one can sit somewhere comfortable in PJs with a warm water bottle, which makes it a lot more bearable IMO.
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See the Tests and Research section of the following NTSB report on a Delta incident where a plane landed on a taxiway at KATL. Note Also that the lights had been recently updated with LEDs from incandescents. Basically, the taxiway centerline was brighter than the runway centerlines and the colors of the lights were only apparent at 500ft.

https://www.ntsb.gov/about/employment/_layouts/ntsb.aviation...
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Having a period does not require a visit to the doctor. Should I have brought in the bloody adult diapers as documentation?

Ideally I would have used "vacation days" for this if they were separate at my workplace, but they often require requesting the time off ahead of time, which is not really possible when you have an unexpected period from hell and you have no idea how long it will last.
> am I missing one?

Google Reader and YouTube both predate G+, and were specialized social networks. One for links of any kind (you could share anything), and the other for videos.
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The problem with this logic is that you would never hire a woman, for fear that they could get pregnant and become "unreliable" for 9 months, and completely unavailable for the duration of their maternity leave (while having to keep their job position unfilled).

It's far better to apply some humanity to the equation and just give everyone those extra 12 days off (and (mat|pat)ernity leave), so you're not tempted to discriminate off the "productivity loss".
The scientific method is a core part of research design in poli sci. We have entire classes dedicated to Karl Popper and fun topics like that. We do real research with hypotheses, testable results, and conclusions. It is science, even if it isn't hard science.

Dunno why it matters....back to your rant.
Why not just build stuff and solve real life problems with all your effort? That in itself is brain training AND productive at the same time.
I was in so much pain that I could not move. Over the counter pain medicine did not touch it. Getting out of the house to go to an unnecessary doctor's visit was out of the question.
There's also Movable Type, which has been around for 16 years now.
In my experience a dedicated server will be cheaper most of the time.
I'm using Hetzner for most of my customers (small & medium-size companies) and for several services offered by Amazon a dedicated solution is just cheaper. I always calculate the prices beforehand for several scenarios and self hosting scenarios are almost invariably cheaper (storage, computing etc.).
This does NOT mean it's better. Hetzner's servers are in Europe, they're not infallible (but usually they replace the hardware within 30 minutes or so), you need more time for the initial setup than with AWS, and obviously you can't scale them up in the same way. However, they're cheaper.
I did not specify that I had a cold to my employer. The entire time I said I did not feel well but did not provide details.
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I don't see how what I said is a misunderstanding or how these facts support your claim.

China's GDP growth has been high for 40 years. There's no possible way that the GFW created this, given that it wasn't around until about halfway through this period. Even if you say that it somehow doesn't count until the 90s, it still doesn't line up, since the GFW started out as purely political censorship and they weren't wholesale blocking foreign competitors until well into the 2000s.
Oh, sorry to double reply, but I just thought of something devious. What if any of the following apply to the female employee:

Is on birth control to supress having a period.

Has an IUD and is one of the 1 in 5 for whom this stops
Having periods for a year.

Has had a hysterectomy.

Has gone through menopause.

Has another condition which causes them to not have periods.

do they have their 12 days ripped from them unceremoniously?

It seems like there are a lot of edge cases here which may provide additional areas to cry "sexism" because for the cases listed above they wont require the 12 extra days, yet without having intimate medical knowledge of your staff, you cannot differentite between one type of non-period having staff member and another (in the "other" case a male).

in any case I'm glad they've done it as a case study on what happens next.
I don't know where this idea that Americans don't take their vacation time came from, but it is 100% wrong in my opinion. I have coworkers that have had negative PTO balances for months. Whether with PTO or holidays, I try to get at least one 3-4 day weekend each month. I take least one 2-week vacation every year. Everyone I've worked with over the past decade, with rare exception, is the same.

A friend of mine is a (non-computer) engineering executive and has a particularly generous PTO package of 200 hours a year with a 400 hour rollover cap. He keeps a bank of about 250 hours in case he needs them, but other than that he's using it as fast as he gets it. This in addition to the 12-14 holidays he already gets.
Spaced repetition absolutely works. I can literally see it in the statistics as clear as day. This is in addition to all the scientific evidences.
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Oh shit there's this:

>> The documentary, hosted by former FBI executive assistant director Shawn Henry, also alleges a cover-up, claiming that the US government knew of her whereabouts but did nothing to rescue her.

So (former) government officials are promoting false notions of government conspiracies. It's all theater folks. We are being manipulated by everyone.
In Germany at least you get three instances of a sick note:

- One for your health insurance, which lists the diagnosis, duration, etc.

- One for your employer which only gives the days you are unable to work

- One for yourself with all the info as well

This neatly solves the problem that you have to tell your employer anything that only concerns your doctor (they're not allowed to ask either).

And my work contract states that I can take leave for any personal reason if needed for up to two days, but after that a doctor's note is required. So in the instance of a period from hell that would make me unable to work, yes, a visit to the doctor is needed, if only for bureaucratic reasons.
OpenPOWER[1] would be a great option. There was a recent crowd-funding effort to try to make an OpenPOWER desktop a reality[2] but unfortunately it didn't get nearly enough funding (though apparently they are still developing it[3]).

[1]: https://openpowerfoundation.org/
[2]: https://www.crowdsupply.com/raptor-computing-systems/talos-s...
[3]: https://www.raptorengineering.com/TALOS/prerelease.php
I will say it's mostly due to the amount of effort creating power-saving features in OSX that are not present in other OS's. It's quite interesting all the little things they do to prolong the battery.

I have Fedora 25 with TLP, it operates fine, there is nothing proprietary blocking it (but you do need TLP, install it asap to get any batt life out of Linux) on my macbook and I can almost reach 5 1/2 hours web browsing (Opera with battery saver). On OSX I can easily obtain 9 hours doing similar work. This is all on a 6 year old battery too.
> Surely you also see the absurdity of comparing Reddit upvotes to democratic elections.

He may, but I don't. American elections are decided by very thin margins, and I think even small streams of influence can have outsized outcomes. Swiftboating and Rathergate come to mind. I specifically think the rise of /r/The_Donald, just before the election, which carpet-bombed the ever-living daylights out of the front page, had a non-inconsequential effect on the vote. It's why Reddit changed their long-standing front-page algorithm. I'm truly surprised they didn't do so the month before the election. Utterly astonished, actually.
Company sizes follow a pareto distribution. In a pareto distribution, some small number x companies will be responsible for some large y% of anything.
There are things we can do to help get us out of this Intel ME rut.

* Let AMD know that open-sourcing/disabling PSP is important to you [1].

* Contribute to RISC-V. You can buy a RISC-V SoC today [2]. Does your favorite compiler have a RISC-V backend?

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/5xvn4i/update_corebo...
[2] https://www.sifive.com/products/hifive1/
Could it be that a fake SD card would make all the pictures in it Black or garbled? I had that happen to me, but it was a 2GB SD card from 2007...
The point is that they can still. Whatever the standard for taking time off work for illness it should apply equally to both genders so there should never be any need for a separate rule/law.
Are long weekends really such a bad thing?
We already do have robust efforts at automating programming. See the field of Genetic Improvement ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genetic_improvement_(computer_... )
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This seems like a very good and cost effective solution to test my website, I'll be in touch :)
I prefer to avoid the service itself if I find it resorting to such methods. And I don't care "everyone" does that, I want to punish them, and reward those who don't do such things.

Maybe I'm going to have a hard time, sure. But "be the change you want to see in the world" and all that. In the past, my objections have prevented one company from engaging in marketing spam, and made a third party dump their SEO provider because of shady practices. I'll continue doing as much as I can, and I encourage others to do the same.
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Yeah, based on my experience living here I don't think this kind of price control is ever going to happen in the U.S.

In the majority of the 1st world where the goverment and general population accepted the fact that healthcare is a special case outside normal economic rules. That's why get things like single payer, price controls.

That's not the prevailing belief in the US. The majority of people in power (not sure about general population) believe that healcare is like any other business subject to the same rules. Single payer is government interference into the market; price controls are definitely out of the question. Price controls might even be unconditional (if challenged, depending on context).

Also, the various lobby groups representing doctors are very powerful much like unions used to be. However unlike labor unions these groups have broader cross party relationships. These groups tent to oppose any kind of limits on pay that could directly impact their constituents.

When you put that in perspective it's obvious to understand why we end up which such convoluted solutions as the ACHA in order to expand/guarantee medical coverage to people.
The issue with any dynamic site is security. You can't set up Wordpress and forget about it. There has to be some mechanism for updating to the latest version for security (which may break any plugins/themes).
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Hi Linde, the traffic comes from our affiliate websites' visitors. They perform a set of limited http/s requests to the tested application.

This way we can offer our affiliates an alternative monetization model. Website owners embed our script, and share the revenue generated from the tests they help to power, while keeping their website free from ads.
I'm not saying people should work when they're sick. I've sent folks on my team home against their will because they were obviously coming down with something. And the flu is very different from a cold.

I'm just saying that when there is an extended absence from work, it's reasonable that your employer request a note. Now maybe 6 or 7 work days doesn't meet the definition of extended for some people, but for me it does.

And as stated elsewhere, this is not about a nosy manager getting their employee's health information. This is about a manager exercising their right to know that the employee is not at work for a legitimate reason. I've had these types of notes before, and they typically just have a date range of when you should not be in the office.
Why nodejs? Why why? edit: I would argue that both languages are equally horrible. Yet here we are.
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You're right, I don't go to a school in Canada. But 90k USD is actually very low these days for places like Google/Facebook/MS so your comment is still not quite so up-to-date. 100k really is the median starting salary of graduating undergrads (at my undergrad, at least).

If Canada doesn't want all their CS graduates chasing the huge amounts of money they can make in the US, they need to raise their salaries. Otherwise they won't only face a tech-worker shortage, they'll have to deal with a full-on brain drain, which is even worse (of course, Google is expanding in Canada so hopefully this won't happen).
You're right, I misremembered.
Seems Apple solved monocular SLAM problem before attempting VR.

Wonder if they used FPGA or anything to speed up the algorithm? In my experience SLAM takes too much computation power and/or release too much heat.
Who doesn't like "ancient astronaut theorists"?

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I think that you rationalize one kind of relationship and romanticize the other just to favor your opinion and I could do the opposite but we can also treat both as social relationships with allegedly mutual interest involved.
That's not how the market works. Consumer preferences are expressed by what's available in the market not the other way round.

And even leaving market mechanics aside 'demand' doesn't justify 'anything'.

A civilized society operates on rules and regulations. This is a problem of regulations, capture and unconstrained behavior by corporates.
I had added a paragraph with this idea but have since lost it accidentally :(
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Speaking for myself (as a standard US employee with a "progressive" HR, I mean Human Asset Management dept), I get 0 sick days. I get three weeks (15 days) which is supposed to be for both vacation and sickness. Someone who can't work two days a month would either be fired or be taking leave without pay, and never able to take paid vacation.
I once dim-wittingly interviewed with one cheap Chinese Jibo clone maker. The thing that struck me was the how much they relied on VPNs.

At one point, I was told their plan was to use Google Translate (through a VPN) for Mandarin-English translation, at which point "tensorflow" would come in and do some magic.

Needless to say, I roadrunner-ed out of there.
Marginally cheaper? In the statistical sense - each one is physically cheaper. But if you count managing them yourself, backing them up, fixing them when they break? Count the room they take in your house/office? If you have enough, count the salary of the person hired to install/manage them as you expand?
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