skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not me personally, but some people are allergic. I'm allergic enough to cats that if my employer forced me to work around them, I would just leave. Some people are that allergic to dogs.
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What if you could accept payments by text? Now you can
I don't think it is even that...look at how much your average corrections officer or law enforcement officer is paid...and then ask yourself why so many of them can be corrupted by a little bit of money.
The nice thing about perks is that they come out as company expenses--- so they don't get hit by payroll taxes or personal income taxes. Which potentially means that you get to double money spent on perks.

You're right that it would be cool if we could customize it. Give people "perks cards", which come out of company expenses (takes advantage of the above avoiding-income-tax multiplier) and let them spend it on whatever.
The thing is that errors at compile time get reported almost instantly, but errors at runtime might be reported hours after you started your program if you are unlucky.
you probably want to file that on the issue tracker, not here.
In case it wasn't clear I agree.

I think todays practice is a whole lot better.

I also haven't been banned yet but I feel I sometimes annoy dang a lot even when I try to be as polite as possible without letting go of the facts so I won't be surprised if/when it happens.
Shadow banning is the most lowly form of moderation.
Something that stuck out for me:

> "Don’t get me wrong — Even has plenty of perks. Our team is offered paid vacation time (with a minimum number of days off)"

Is paid vacation time really a perk? Is vacation time usually unpaid in the US or something? Or maybe the perk is the minimum number of days off?
OK, but that wasn't the original question.

(There are also all sorts of optimizations that can't be done statically, so I guess there's that.)
How much do you take? Do you think this is enough for any number of possible use cases in the future e.g. multiple diseases, experimental treatments, etc. Is there a real possibility of running out of banked stem cells?
I know that's not how it works in practice on a naval vessel, but that's how it works in abstract economics world.

In AEW, specialization rules everything, so the toilets are cleaned only by a specialist toilet cleaner, and specialist toilet cleaners only clean toilets. If you try to shoehorn AEW onto a ship, you only need one toilets guy, because having clean toilets is important, but not so important that it has to be done 24-7.

It is an open question whether it would be more efficient to have 3 radio operators providing 24-7 coverage on the radios during their duty hours and doing other jobs when they are off watch, thus giving them 16-hour workdays divided up into 8-hours of "important" work and 8-hours of "grunt/scut" work, or to have 2 radio operators on watch 12 hours each, and one specialist cleaner taking up that extra 8 hours in that bunk, cleaning toilets 12 hours a day. Is that last 4 hours of work squeezed into the day okay if it requires no dedication or focus?
And that kind of thinking about work is dogma, not reasoned consideration.
Years ago I attended a lecture on Toxoplasmosis gondii. Intriguing (unattributed) points made by the scientist:
1) there's a higher prevalance of infection in car crash victims than control
2) by hijacking dendritic cells (blood immune cell), the parasite is able to bypass the blood brain barrier (highly protective filter of brain)
3) once in the brain, it may form cysts that may lay dormat
4) a significant portion of the world population is infected
5) if have cats weren't allowed as pets, there would hardly be any T. gondii infections
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You wouldn't think so, given how easy it is to burn out a regular white-collar worker by overworking them, but people in the military are sort of the "high-spec components" of humanity: there's been many layers of selection pressures applied to find the people that can be pushed far past their "tolerance" without breaking. Everyone that can't, washed out a long time before you got your hands on them. (At least, that's the thinking. In reality, it's maybe 50% that, and 50% everyone hiding their weaknesses and covering for one-another's failures to give off the image of this. But good officers know that, and only expect 150%-of-tolerance rather than 200%-of-tolerance. :P)
Multiformats – Self-describing values for Future-proofing
Honestly I'm not sure why prisons wouldn't be a little pleased that inmates are sneaking in cellphones. The prison could run a stingray on site and collect, at a minimum, the metadata about calls and I would imagine full recordings of calls.
If you are selling an app in the App Store, then Apple is your employer. That lines up with the GP's point that Apple is required to send both you and your government documentation of your income via the App Store.
I find that bringing your pet to work doesn't just impact the other employees but also the pet owner.

I love my dog, but tend not to bring her to the office unless I absolutely need to (maybe we're getting some work done at home or something). The dog loves it but my productivity tends to nosedive since I'm keeping an eye on her to make sure she's not pooping under someones desk or something!

Maybe a "Bring your dog to work" day once a year/quarter, but more frequent I feel just becomes problematic.
I'll echo the sentiment. In our working life we don't get to know many codebases in depth. And the ones we do know, it's not at all obvious if they are relevant, or a regular disposable mess.
Their number of transactions per second are orders of magnitude lower than VISA. Work is being done to address this, most notably Lightning Network.
Doesn't seem like Apple actually wanted to buy a glass factory. They just got "stuck" with it because GT declared bankruptcy. Excerpt:

>, through an auction of between 1,400 to 2,000 of GT’s sapphire-making furnaces in November. Proceeds are to be split between Apple and GT, according to court papers, and any unsold equipment (with the exception of 600 furnaces that GT Advanced will retain) will be given to Apple for scrap.[...] Apple has announced plans to repurpose the facility as a data center.
Lifelong Rubyist makes some Python code 5x Faster
If you are interested in deep learning and how the space is evolving, this is the place to be. Floydhub is working on tons of super interesting problems, the solutions to which will make DL algorithms and GPU cloud infrastructure accessible to everyone.

Disclosure: I am friends with the founders.
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Fear is a very real concern. I know someone so afraid of dogs that being forced to work near one could easily cause a panic attack.
How do you mean normal? Outside of startup land, a pet policy and free booze at work is kind of unusual.
In the US the employer is under NO obligation to provide vacation time, period. Paid, or otherwise.
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And "why? oh, why?" when that data structure is unvalidated json and the only way to enumerate all options is to read all the code
that's sarcasm right?
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Sounds like I had more instruction on water navigation in my HS drivers ed class than some officers in the Navy are getting. Not a good place to be when piloting large vessels in potentially tight and dangerous conditions.
Unfortunately, without anything concrete this isn't very compelling. Plausible and likely, sure. But not convincing to others.

It also hinges greatly on what you mean by "The establishment came to him and made him an offer he couldn't refuse". This reads as if you're referencing a top-down collusion to silence your type of speech, whereas I think it's more likely that these companies are worried about populist/democratic outrage affecting their image. Same result for you, same chilling effect on free speech, same dynamic where centralized communications administrators are ultimately forced to censor. But stemming from a completely different power mechanism and thus needing a very different approach to tackle.
We have a dog friendly office and it drives me crazy sometimes. One dog is fine but when you get them in pairs they like to play. And having a dog wrestling 4 feet away from you is distracting.

I like dogs and I will make it a point to befriend the ones in the office but at some point it becomes disruptive.
1. There may be few pluripotent cells in what we collect, but the majority of stem cells collected are multipotent (mesenchymal and hematopoietic lineages).

2. We haven't been cryopreserving stem cells for 60 years, so that is impossible to know. However, there is evidence that bone mesenchymal stem cells can be stored for more than 20 years: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22280954 In my own experience, I have used cell lines that were stored more than 30 years, and primary cells stored more than a decade. Evidence suggests that the freezing and thawing process have the greatest impact, and that time in liquid nitrogen does not.

3. Once collected, you have a dashboard where you can log in and see/request your cells. We are working on rejuvenation therapies that employ these cells, so such a roadmap might develop should we have success.

4. I would not venture a guess.
Is it really reasonable to expect users to buy a new router every 2-3 years? 50mbps 802.11g is still plenty sufficient for casual web browsing and streaming, especially considering the fact that most people still don't even have internet connections which are that fast.

My $20 TP-Link router that I bought around 2010 or 2011 is still quite healthy and providing more than sufficient service to my parents' house and is only now starting to fall behind their connection speed (their connection recently got bumped up to 100/5, after being 30/3 for close to a decade)
Besides the funny fact that many years ago people would blog that Sony should buy Apple, I don't think this is a good idea. In general, I don't think anything good comes out of a large company buying another large company. We get less variety and competition. Sony once was, what Apple is now, a company which would create very unique and beautiful pieces of technology.

Their advertising slogan "It is not a trick, it is a Sony" really held true - they would come up with very innovative and nicely designed things. But while a shadow of its past, the old Sony is not gone. Their camera division currently is making the best sensors on the market and their A7 mirrorless line is very popular for a good reason. Being bought by Apple would probably destroy all of this.

Apple buying high-tech startups and small companies completely makes sense. They cannot compete with the industry giants, so being bought means that their technology comes to market faster. But for an established company with their very own line of products it would possibly mean destruction as Apple most likely wouldn't allow them to keep their own product lines.
I started using it when I was in school (probably around 7th grade) and we were given shell accounts on a server somewhere. I used it that way until I left university in 2004. After that I needed to set up a new email account and started using webmail. I also wasn't regularly telneting into a shell so didn't really have access. The things that made it really good: threading, keywords (basically tags), and keyboard navigation were done pretty well in gmail. It also had good filtering. But I feel like I need support for images and HTML, even if I hate those things in email.
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A few of my favorites (some of which aren't relevant when using a framework like this):

- simplified query recordsets (loop through, values referenced as queryName.columnName)

- you can turn anything into a recordset

- in-memory SQL queries of recordsets

- easy access to SQL (<cfquery ...>select a,b,c from foo...</cfquery>)

- write code using integrated markup or using ECMAScript-type syntax

- built-in web-based UI

- simplified REST API construction

- simplified web services construction

- simplified access to global, app-local, session-local scopes

- delimited-lists as a top-level data structured

- simplified access to things like email, charting, etc

- most of what you need for a web app is in the box, so if a server is running a CFML application server, you can build an app with no boilerplate (frameworks like Wheels and ColdBox obviously work differently, but CF is no framework required)
I reread my comment and I dont see any place where I blame others...
Im just told my story, not blaming any body and mentioned how big is google, thats all
anyway...
It's a major perk in the US. Vacation time is basically reserved for management or C-Suite folks, especially if it's paid.
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I wouldn't call an office with drinks and dogs normal, not in most parts of the country.
Every time an app gets redesigned a designer gets a promotion.
That's entirely correct, and one of the tradeoffs.

However, in a statically-typed language, you must satisfy the type checker for everything, which adds development time. In reality, there might be a small percentage of functions in your code base for which errors (either compile-time or run-time) would likely crop up, yet you must pay that cost for 100% of them.

So that's really where the debate comes from.

Dynamically typed languages can get around this problem by generative testing (in Clojure's case) which allow very fine-tuned aspects of your system's requirements to be automatically tested before run-time without writing tests, which offers some of the same confidence as a compiler.
I worked as a state security guard in college.

90% plus of the shenanigans were carried off by security personnel, Insiders, and local cops.

I basically watched a hugh building in San Francisco on the weekends.

I only spoke up when they tried to blame it on public, or the homeless. Blaming the homeless was a go to. I remember they tried to blame the homeless for stealing 10 tons of electrical switching gear. Gear so heavy, it needed special fork lift to move. By speaking up--meaning I just refused to go along with them blaming innocent people for their thefts, but I knew my place.

Whenever their was a theft, or break-in; I just knew it was an inside job. The denial was huge. I personally didn't care, I just didn't want to get shot.

My boss was the most honest man I have ever known though. I think he knew how corrupt the "good guys" were, but knew not to rock the boat. He had a good heart too. They would reprimand him for feeding the cats, but he really loved all animals. Very few men left a good impression on me, but I still think about him.
I've tried it a couple times. I have to allow extra time to sleep and have someone there to wake me up since I sleep even heavier than normal - more chance to miss the alarm, unfortunately. I wake up groggy, but once that passes I'm very, very well-rested. Also, I get weird dreams as well.

I decided long ago I wouldn't try it again without a doctor's advice, which is probably a good thing since now I live in Norway and it is only available with prescription. Some folks do wind up needing it if they take it every night, though. I worked in a pharmacy in the states and heard the pharmacists' advice on this very thing many times.
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Neat post but would have loved to have seen a side-by-side comparing the suboptimal code with the optimal code.
Fixed packages released - was just able to install. https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/source-package/d...
My understanding from speaking with sleep specialists is that you'd need to take a large amount every day for weeks or months to develop a tolerance. They thus recommend cycling off melatonin bi-weekly or monthly for a little while.

(Sorry, no source other than time spent visiting the Cornell Sleep Institute.)
This is one of those times it's a shame I only have one upvote for a comment...

Open source is extremely heavily used by commercial software and hardware manufacturers and the reality is that very few of them contribute back, meaningfully, to Open source security.

The end result will continue to be bugs like this, with ever growing impact.
I don't know. It does seem that law schools don't do this based on the numerous post graduation interview/surveys, where if memory serves if one doesn't get admitted to a top 20 school or so one might want to rethink a legal education as one's avenue to financial success.
Perks have the advantage of being pre-tax.

So if you get $10 worth of perk (assuming it's something you'd buy anyway), it only actually costs you somewhere between $5-8 depending on your tax bracket.
Mergers and consolidation do _not_ help anything. We need _more_ competition, not less. Large corporations are not focused on innovation, which Apple usually pursues