skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Even with such a vague description there are plenty of regulations involved. If you do your transaction electronically it is subject to several financial regulations. If you do it in cash there are regulations for those as well. The transaction itself only exists because of regulations. The "give it to them" part only exists because copyright is a well defined concept.

There are no free markets without regulation, just chaos.
There's also the one that induces a severe, life-long allergy to red meat. https://www.wired.com/story/lone-star-tick-that-gives-people...
They are. Why anyone is willing to adopt the delusion that a "personal improvement plan" is about improving anything I cannot understand. The circumstances are far less severe and consequential, but I can only compare it to a political dissident in a totalitarian state being tortured so long that he eventually believes he was undermining some righteous, just society with his actions.

You shouldn't take it as a personal insult or grievance against you, but the "personal improvement plan" is what HR came up with when your boss requested that you be let go. If you've committed a crime or violated some policy (no matter how trivial) you can be let go immediately. But in most of the United States, it is simply a bad decision (financially) to just let someone go. It is much better to have some documentation of their inadequacy. Hence the weekly meetings.

The person conducting these reviews (be it your boss, or someone else) is probably bored out of their mind that they must participate in these meetings. The phrase "what did I do to deserve this?" probably goes through their head each time they complete one. They don't care about your performance at all at this point. They may provide an objective review, or they may just copy in some boilerplate. Something that sounds great like "fails to meet established goals". It doesn't really matter.

Again, it is completely pointless to take any of this process as any sort of rational feedback. At this point, the decision was already made that you need to go. They just need some documentation before you are let go. I would take the fact that you are being let go as feedback, but stop there. The "personal improvement plan" isn't about you. It never has been.

If you're in a financial situation where you can, just resign. If you can't, that is understandable. But no one involved is going to be upset if you just resign. I'd offer 2 weeks, but they'll likely just counter with an immediate resignation. If anything, everyone will be at ease.
Sure humans haven't evolved, but the parent poster didn't say that. Society has evolved. We still make desperate actions during wartime, meanwhile during peacetime we are even outraged these days when death row prisoners have their executions moved forward.
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Sure, it is a form of education, but - being probably much more pessimist than you are - my invented 80 was including BOTH those that tried (with smart ideas and hard work) but failed AND those that wouldn't even try or try without ideas nor working too much hard for it.

I suspect that for the latter ones (how many? maybe 20-30) that wouldn't even be educative at all.
Yeah, a very fine comb is the best way to get rid of lice (and their eggs, more importantly) - they're quite resistant to the meds/chemicals on the market, even most of the prescription ones.
The use of AI and ML for application purposes is starting to get to a point that it can really be used for problem solving, we did a demo app similar use of this technology, https://zyanya.tech/hashtagger-android

I am going to give Seeing AI a try as well, but I totally understand why a research department would like to have a demo as an Application available for public.
If it's illegal to send encrypted communications it will still have an impact. If the source of any unapproved encrypted transmissions could be identified there is a good chance the sender could be apprehended.
> fearless refactoring really is something that compiled langs excel at

Would you say that's a feature of compilation? I'd have said it's Rust's strong and static type system that makes refactoring 'fearless' and generally aids productivity and maintainability.

Python ≥3.6 with liberal type hinting is a more interesting comparison in my view.
Iranian here, one point I really want to mention is following despite our theocratic regime, really I have to mention, Iran is not Suadi Arabia or anything like that. Girls and Boys do get the almost exactly same education, they have great opportunity to be a successful scholar in any branch of science they want (yes, It is like USA, your parent demographic will decide which university you most like end up into. But this issue is the issue of most part of the world and we cannot blame Iran, USA or any specific country for this, we should blame the system).

She got her bachelor degree from one of our top universities (Sharif University) and went to Harvard from there and there is plenty of science-eager students like her are there waiting for an opportunity to become next Maryam Mirzakhani.

Come to Tehran. I know you hear a lot of bad thing about Tehran and Iran from Right wing political media outlets. But believe me, you are going to see Paris of the middle east and whole new generation of liberal people who believe in personal freedom and freedom of speech.

It really bothered me when I saw her talking about how people of USA think about Iran as desert and all women wearing an abaya. No they are not, we are a new generation and we are different and although our regime tries its best to suppress us, we are the future of Iran.
This is why I hate that there was such an uproar around raising the tweet length limit. Mastodon's 500 character limit works so much better, especially when paired with the ability to collapse the bulk of a longer post's content under a short summary line.
A fully qualified engineer will be in a much better position to provide valuable products and services than an 18 year old noob.

I guess it's better than a gender studies degree, but believe it or not, undergraduate education is not completely useless. I learned a hell of a lot.
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If something akin to a "Pearl Harbor" struck us today I could totally see us rallying around a new war.
I hate xkcd.
googling for solutions/patches/fixes for ubuntu don't seem to yield much (though that doesn't give me much confidence). I wonder if it's just drowning in the noise about android/ios
Article title is misleading. This article is solely about noncompete clauses in employee contracts, while title makes it seem that Idaho employees are subject to serfdom.

I fall on the side of "noncompete clauses are stupid." Provide a better job or GTFO.
"But I do think more folks would try if they could take the college money and invest it in things like starting a business, no matter what the business is, and wish more folks had this option."

I don't think these options are comparable. The other is a structured path to more or less predictably increase ones human capital while the other is a high risk, unstructured mess. I suppose the key is this - can the person thrive in a non-structured space, and would they enjoy the hustle of entrepreneurship.
I remember how excited I was when she received the award as a role model for women and immigrants, and a reminder of how great minds can come from places the US considers enemies. My wife (33) spent most of last year being treated for Breast Cancer (now in remission). This news makes me profoundly sad.
I've helped several times now with transitioning English only projects to supporting multiple languages and it's always going to be messy to be honest. There's never one way to do it, the text to translate is always stored in several different places (e.g. in web page text, URLs, common strings, documents, images) and the tools the translators need to use will differ (e.g. maybe a WordPress plugin, spreadsheets, gettext app or web interface). It's going to vary project to project is what I mean and it's very dependent on how your project is coded.

This post about localising the game Papers, Please has lots of good examples of project specific issues:
http://dukope.tumblr.com/post/83177288060/localizing-papers-...
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Unimpressed. Took a picture of a ceiling fan and it said, "probably a chair sitting in front of a mirror." Took a pic of a dresser, and it said "a bedroom with a wooden floor." Tried the ceiling fan again and got an equally absurd answer.

Deleted app.
My random advice from the internet is to hire a top notch consulting firm to develop the app for the organization.

To me, there are two orthogonal ideas in the question. One is solving an organization's problem. The other is an individual learning app development. The members of the organization are better served by one approach, the individual will learn more from another approach.

To me, the amount and type of work that is likely to be required in order to change a significant organizational process might be better put to simply learning to build apps for something else. The skill set to change an organizational process is probably orthogonal to technical skill as well. I mean the premise of the app is along the lines of "everyone is doing it wrong" and that's a hard sell. The sale requires building allies among the people in a position to institute the change and to sell it to the hundreds of thousands of members as a benefit...and there are probably people like me among the membership who would rather have a card than something on their cell phone and maybe a few who run Windows on their phone.

Good luck.
Non competes would be fine as long as the employer needs to provide compensation for the duration of it after you've left. If an employer leaving will really harm your business then you should be completely fine with paying to avoid it.
OK so one datapoint! But not to the most controversial claim.
Should a framework optimize for the vanishingly rare case?
It depends on the application. In one of my jobs for an educative platform I automatically maintained it over 15 but under or at 30 (if it was over 30, it improved quality).
> Now, the government is too afraid to publicly speak about Liu

As it should be. Speaking up would only draw more attention to Norway's unscrupulous actions in conflicted and autocratic regions, especially considering its public image of neutrality, diplomacy, non-interference, and promoting progressive values. Denmark and Sweden are also in this as well - they say they promote human rights while exporting billions of euros in military technology and services to regions with known human rights abuses.
Luxury robot cars will definitely have an, "asshole mode". So yes.
Don't non-compete clauses make employment a form of serfdom in a way?
Yes. But this isn't new and certainly isn't specific to Twitter.
More and more Americans understand that anti-Iranian sentiment here is mainly due to propaganda, not any rational considerations. Iran should be a natural ally of the US.
Socially/politically conservative? Hate cities? Love the outdoors? Like to live somewhere affordab.... oh shit, the Californians have arrived with their bags of money.
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Might be difficult to detect if someone peed though unless you can make the interior highlight it somehow. Maybe a moisture detector could be added but could be difficult to calibrate that for rainy days.
FWIW I had the gnu at 85% faster with built in gnu (Intel Iris) intel i5.
Not weak, but fragile.

In fact, the government structure designed by Lisi in Qin dynasty 2000 years ago, and still being used today, is a fragile structure in peaceful times. It's a structure designed for war and the law enforcement tends to vanish if no direct threats are present to ordinary people. The central government will lose authority if the officials cannot contain dissenters, especially those who may be backed up by the provincial government officials.

Liu tried to restructure the aforementioned political structure through 08 Charter:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charter_08

We still don't know the details about what he actually had done besides drafting the manifesto.If he tried to create a political group to materialize the 08 Charter, then it's definitely a substantial threat to the central government and even to most of the Chinese people, though it would be a trivial issue in any western countries.

The Norwegian government officials apparently had no idea about the severity of backing a dissenter challenging the central government in China due to cultural gap. In fact, many NGOs failed the same way in China. Those few who helps the central government are successful though.

Liu spotted many flaws in the current political structure that many Chinese people know for years. Even scholars in northern Song dynasty and late Ming dynasty also tried to fix the same drawbacks Liu mentioned, but they failed miserably and gave up the entire civilization to Mongolians and Manchurians.

In my opinion, Liu's importance is exaggerated by western media. His solution to our centuries-old problem is completely non-realistic and very dangerous. Ordinary Chinese people will laugh at his naiveness instead of respecting his idealism.

To do a successful political system reform to attain the same achievements that western civilization has obtained through hundreds of years of improvement, China needs to meet Chinese people's most urgent demands step by step and reason from First Principles instead of mimic any model countries.

It's kind of similar to the way for a startup to succeed.

Edit: Added the Norwegian government paragraph and fixed some grammar issues.
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Is that the same bug, or a different one, though?
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While I appreciate your agreement, I disagree with the reasoning - I don't think it has anything to do with that (and you can check my comments to see that I don't even think that "issue" is all that much of an issue in and of itself [1])

Instead, I think it's just a bad mixture of arrogance and antiquated power relationships in the modern workplace. Especially with technology, the age difference between any given two employees can be pretty drastic in either direction; with two peers, this typically isn't much of a problem, but when you have a manager/employee relationship, this can strain the relationship if both sides aren't willing to get outside of their comfort zones a little. Some of my most difficult colleagues and employees were people who were older than me, or thought they were (I look much younger than I actually am), who felt they could just ignore me because of my age. (or theirs, same result if for different reasons) And for sure, they took being wrong very hard, especially if I were the one to disagree and explain why.

Similarly, the love of having a social status quo makes it very difficult to enact change in people via any confrontation. People aren't just resistant to change they themselves aren't trying to enact, they're hostile towards it. The countless games I've seen played where poor programmers had to convince their bosses that a project was actually the boss' idea are simply ludicrous, but it's the only way in these environments that such projects were able to happen.

When a team works well together, it's because of mutual respect - the best teams I've been in, despite drastic differences in age, politics, and philosophies, everyone got along well professionally and respected each other's domains, challenging appropriately, but also conceding when appropriately. It's when people start digging their heels in and insisting that they've conceded enough or let pride get in the way that we get stories like you mentioned or like the author is describing. It takes a lot of maturity to quiet the part of you that wants to fight every criticism simply due to the fact that it's a criticism; it's that impulsive response, plus the above reasons, that people have such issues.

(Of course, all my opinion and experience, your mileage may vary)

[1] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14485882
Plantronics seem to do it substantially better than anyone else somehow.
No. They actually don't. There are a number of limitations that companies may put in employment agreements including non-solicitation, NDAs, etc. that most people think are reasonable. The issue with non-competes is that many, including myself, think they're a bridge too far absent appropriate agreed-to compensation in most cases.
What is the issue with "at will"? That benefits both sides - unless I'm unique in the fact that I've never had a negative experience with it?
Also, assuming your device has a good maintainer or maintainers, security patches arrive in days rather than the months-if-ever it can take manufacturers to release updated images and then carriers to roll them out.
I find Twitter the only bearable bulletin these days, just following my industry influencers without participating actively.
That's not being proposed here.

It may not be explicitly proposed, but I'd wager it's still implicitly there. Definitely for army/police, but probably for ruling class as well.

So, again, a mistake. Understand the fight you are in.

Understanding the fight you're in is definitely key. I don't know enough about the Australian people, but I know that reframing the situation in a way where another privilege is taken away from the common folk, but will still be there for the ruling class -- this would motivate a lot of people to rally against the proposal where I live.

In addition, in the age of Trump & co, it should be clear to everyone that facts don't matter. I mean we have the PM himself saying here that math doesn't work in Australia. It's completely possible to reframe the whole discussion in a myriad of ways that aren't based in reality. Use fake news & propaganda to move the needle in favor of encryption. One could argue that this undermines the greater goal of having a fact respecting society, but it's irrational to claim that such tactics won't work for achieving narrower goals like saving encryption.
For those interested in coin:

Ask HN: Who is willing to work for coin?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14776408
I find half filled coffee cups and food wrappers all the time. Last one was bare gum in the cup holder, cleaned it out myself so it wasn't on me.
We stopped using ReSharper (and paying for upgrades), so we never paid for that new subscription.

It was not pure fault of subscription model though. ReSharper became too slow in the recent years.
So not at all the same? Look this is a stupid law that is bad for both employers & employees in Idaho but it's not indentured servitude.
It's entirely possible (and this is pure speculation) that this was a pattern his managers observed, and one that continued even with regular corrective feedback. I've been on the managerial end of that situation and it's really no fun when no improvement is seen even when expectations (and consequences) are clearly and explicitly laid out. Some people just don't get it - but again totally speculation, may not really apply in this situation.
>The problem is that one person makes $10,000 (or $40,000) while another makes $10,000,000.

Explain to me, how is that a problem. Suppose someone invents a method to make lots of clean renewable energy very cheaply. They make a company and earn $10,000,000. Did they not deserve the fruit of their labour? Is that a problem?
On NewsFirst Woman and Iranian to Win Fields Medal, Dies at 40
The majority of Chinese ruling class who send their children to US surely think different.
Sure they are called consulting does not have much to do with the article though. Comparing slavery to having a super flexible very high paying job with only hard requirement being timely communication just shows how much some of us in tech are detached from reality.
I don't have the details of your exact use case, but I cannot imagine any complex non-linearities involved in your sales process. If ARIMA models produce decent results for your use case I would try to improve the ARIMA model through additional data, rather than switching to deep learning.

If you are convinced that there are complex non-linearities that an ARIMA model cannot describe, then I would try to use RNNs to find a pattern in your ARIMA models' residuals and try to augment your ARIMA model with an RNN.
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> Maybe you don't like that he can directly talk to the people rather than twist his words to suit your narrative before heading it over to the masses

It's telling that you chose to twist the original poster's words to suit your narrative with the least fair interpretation. Unchallenged doesn't mean that something gets edited to bits. Traditionally it just meant that, for example, a reporter would ask followup questions to expand an idea or attempt to get the subject to explain things they'd prefer not to discuss (e.g. “How will we pay for that?”), or that controversial claims would be presented with a response from a relevant expert.

Trump is obviously unwilling to submit his ideas to critical review (or even basic editing) and in that sense Twitter is perfect for him. He can hit send and millions of his followers read it without any barrier where someone says “uh, doesn't that contradict what you said last week?”.
The channel capacity is full of false. So responding takes more than one tweet of true. The medium of twitter makes it hard to rebut anything but the most simple statements.
It looks like her research is here:

http://math.stanford.edu/~mmirzakh/Research.html

And the paper in question that got the Fields Medal might be one of these:

http://math.stanford.edu/~mmirzakh/Papers/VA.pdf

https://arxiv.org/pdf/1206.5574.pdf

It looks like her work involved counting the number of equivalent paths between two points on surfaces that have been punctured.
Governments can ask companies to comply to get information.
This is a great analogy.

Encrypted messages are used by both criminals and whistleblowers.
Weakening encryption will likely help apprehend criminals and even create a chilling effect on criminal communications.
It will equally help apprehend police and government whistleblowers and create a chilling effect on criticism of authorities.
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The Iranian hardliners do a lot to stoke that flame too. Much like us, they have a polarized society. Their support for Hezbollah, Hamas, and other problematic groups complicates things too. Add to that the fact that it would be tough to repair the rift with Iran, while managing our Saudi relationship.

All that said, I think it's a worthy undertakings to normalize relations with Iran. And selfishly, I look forward to the day when I can freely visit Persia as an American.
I hope to study (non-inter-universal) Teichmueller theory some day, as a side quest on my own journey (which is vaguely directed in some sense toward number theory at present). It's the best way I can think of to honor her memory: to learn to appreciate the ideas that she devoted her life to understanding better.

Here is a picture of her drawing on one of her vast sheets of paper.

https://news.artnet.com/app/news-upload/2014/08/Maryam-Mirza...
For someone willing to do it, what (non police, non legal system) impediments do you currently see that inhibit kidnappers?
Sometimes the good bits of their research projects get rolled into others. https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/product/computation...
It looks interesting, and talk with these guys (including the author) on a conference (GPU Tech Conf in San Jose). However, for other much more transparent systems, I am kind of anxious to add a black box.

Especially as most of neural network tweaking go well beyond hyperparameter tweaking - one need to adjust architecture, make sensible cross-validation, good augmentation, etc.
What a sad day. Too soon.
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