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USA. When I was at Sociable Labs, unlimited vacation worked out pretty well for me. I took around 4-5 weeks most years. Typically a week or less at a time, although I'd do a 2 weeks around Christmas and I think I took one 2-week trip during the summer.

Some of my colleagues weren't very proactive about it, so after a couple of years, the manager started assigning folks a week off here and there if they hadn't taken much vacation recently. I think something like this is a good idea.

I'm now at Tanium, and they have unlimited / self-directed vacation, but I've only been around for a few months, so I've only taken a day or two off.

They told me that most folks take 4~5 weeks a year here also, and I have seen a couple colleagues take vacations where they were wholly unreachable for a week or more.

My first job out of high school did not have unlimited vacation, but I took the month of August off (unpaid) my second year there - that was nice.
As someone who uses a MBP as a daily driver laptop: Windows has been a better platform for a lot of the photography software for over a decade. Photoshop and Lightroom just work a ton better on Windows and have since right before the CS days.

But the native terminal, etc, has won me over as a *Nix person for a long time. I don't like Linux desktop interfaces at all, and the new Windows linux/bash stuff hasn't been compelling or integrated enough for me to want to switch (ConEmu and all of the terminal stuff being garbage is a big issue). I'll be sticking with a MBP and OSX for my laptop and work related stuff, but I don't understand why anyone would still be using OSX for a photography workflow. It's just so much more polished on Windows.
well I wouldn't recommend webkit-gtk either, but there's a whole lot of other controls and stuff in gtk that were designed for desktop apps. Just seems silly to have to go through all those lengths just to preserve a JS/HTML/CSS workflow when you can get the same thing, with less work (edit: and fewer potential vulns) with gtk and rcstyles.
Some more discussion on Reddit:

https://www.reddit.com/r/askscience/comments/58plow/why_are_...
What would you do for highly elliptical orbits?
HN isn't "supposed" to be anything. At best we could hope that it's smart people talking about what interests them. Don't put us in boxes.
If cost of fraud is less than the cost of pins. Then nobody will push for pins.

Adding pins to checkout process adds friction and checkout time. It might be a minor amount per transaction. However if you add it up across all transactions, it's a significant amount.
It's not circumventing law, it's carefully sculpting it. In general, those hacker loopholes come from (1) over-broad policies made by ancestor rabbis to "build a wall around the Law", and (2) a desire to shrink the walled area, without (3) disrespecting the judgment of ancestors.

Do you think the US Supreme Court circumvents the Constitution and laws?
>Plenty of countries limit exchange of their local currency to other currencies.

This is true, however if those countries (and companies within) take out loans denominated in another currency, and want to pay in their local currency, they still have to worry about the offshore exchange rate via instruments like non deliverable forwards.

I wouldn't be surprised in the next coming years if NDF markets expand to using cryptocurrencies to enable even greater speculation on those local currencies.
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Was OP's quote, but "somewhat similar" still applies. For some, the whole point of Electron is they can see web pages...meaning maybe there isn't only one "whole point" of it and therefore to some "nothing like Electron" is incorrect.
Then I'll stick with a laptop. Probably my first non-MPB in over a decade.
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With the alliance, Govt of AP is primarily aiming at integrating blockchain tech in to governance and that's that. Their vision is still perfectly aligned with RBI guidelines and will perfectly act as a case study for the rest of the states to follow should things fall in place. Not sure what "situation" are you hinting at.
In my experience it has a chilling effect on actual vacation taken. The real driver is not having to pay an employee for earned, unused vacation when they leave the company.
You can see here:

http://openjdk.java.net/jeps/295

Basically Java AOT is half-assed solution like so many other Java solutions e.g Java GUIs, Java build tools, Java generics etc etc.
I really don't know. My comment is just based on the experiences of friends and family. Parents too busy at home, and little or no support at day care. As mentioned in some sibling comments, today's "super diapers" might not help, as they might be too absorbent.
> We live in a society with the lowest crime rate, highest levels of healthcare, lowest unemployment rate, and lowest levels of poverty in all of history.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enlightenment_Now
Hooray Facebook ditches searching for people by phone number or email
You are extremely casual with the truth; Your post is choke full of inaccuracies. The major one is:

> The government stated that they needed apple to break ios in order to nail a creep. This was a lie.

It was not. The specific question was:

"[are you] testifying today that you and/or contractors that you employ could not achieve this without demanding an unwilling partner do it”

The answer was affirmative, and correct for that point in time. It wasn't quite the "whole truth", but it was true. And there are any number of reasons you'd not want an unfinished project to become public.

Also: the government's position was never that "this man would go free" or that they intend "to nail a creep". That man/creep was dead.
That leaves 500 years unaccounted for.
I could justify the cost that whole time until the 2017 Macbook Pro. Or was it the 2016 that moved to the tiny-action keyboard switches?

My 2017 MBP is less than 6 months old and two keys don't attach to the switch anymore. They literally come off with my finger as I type. They aren't broken, the C-clamps are still intact. They have just widened enough with wear such that they don't clamp anymore.

It's so bad that I use my 2014 Macbook Air when I need to do a lot of typing.

Most of the people I know IRL are having the same issues with their newer model Macbooks, especially my developer friends since we of course tend to be harder on our keyboards.

So you aren't missing anything.
pch is non portable at the moment.
Ask HN: MIT or Harvard (MS and MBA)
I'm in the fortunate position to have been admitted to both Harvard MS/MBA and MIT LGO (MSEECS + MBA). Now that my initial excitement has passed I have to soon make a difficult decision: which school?

I haven't felt entirely comfortable asking acquaintances and colleagues for their opinions for fear of sounding conceited, so I decided to turn to HN to crowd-source some help. Hoping to get an aggregate opinion and/or maybe find some specific points I haven't considered from folks here.

- The case for Harvard -
Pros - The program is entirely case-method and discussion based. I'll learn how to speak/think under pressure. The students are from extremely diverse backgrounds. I can bring a unique perspective coming from a technical background. There is a lot of emphasis on "big-picture" thinking (ie. "Reimagining Capitalism"), though I'm not sure how practical this is. Access to VC funding. Strong bio/healthcare activity (which will be a HUGE opportunity in the coming years).

Cons - The program is almost entirely skewed to business - 17 business classes / 4 engineering. Many of the students come off as very elitist. The culture is somewhat... aggressive... I find a lot of type-A personalities. I'm fine in social situations, but I don't particularly enjoy it. I listen to Bluegrass music and usually spend my weekends rock-climbing in NH. I don't get that feel at HBS, but hey, maybe that's an opportunity.

- The case for MIT -
Pros - I know I will be more comfortable at MIT. However, I don't know if that is a good thing. The classes are taught with an analytical foundation and most people come from a technical background. I'll be at the ground-floor for a lot of new tech that could be ready for commercialization.

Cons - I feel like I will be a techie among techies. Of course, the program will be hard, but very similar to how am used to operating. I have to do an internship with one of their partner companies summer yr 2, which could be a bit restricting.
It's basically an automated recurring billing service that you can use whether you run a static monthly subscription service ($9/mo per user), or if you are using a metered approach, such as $0.02 cents per SMS, and then do that on a recurring basis.

So if you think about the 3 or so standard business models for SaaS, per user, per usage, or per tier (standard, pro, advanced) - this provides for all of that in an automated fashion.
"I have seen a couple colleagues take vacations where they were wholly unreachable for a week or more"

Is that unusual? When I am on vacation I never check my E-mail. They could send a text but that never happens.
>Wat.I just went googling after reading this comment and at first glance, it looks like this is an officially supported method to run GNU apps in a Windows terminal?

It's hardly limited to GNU apps. Most of your Linux applications should work fine on it. I've had no problem with all sorts of non-GNU releases when I use it on my desktop.

>Can you boot directly into Ubuntu desktop without messing with BIOS and UEFI?

No, it is a Linux userland on top of the NT kernel with an emulation layer written to handle all of the syscalls.

It works well. The only really glaring issue is ConEmu and related Windows terminal ecosystem is still hot garbage compared to any Linux or OSX terminal.
I'm complaining as a consumer. I have half a dozen cards in my wallet, and each retailer is incentivizing me to get their card (5% off is hard to ignore), if I applied for and carried all those cards I'd have ~20 cards to carry around, each with a different $%&#@%^^% PIN to memorize. It is not possible to do that.

Quite frankly, as a consumer I don't need increased security over what we had 20 years ago (mag strip and signature), someone else took the liability for any fraud. Chip+pin is trying to push the cost of fraud on me, and I don't like it. The value of cards over cash or checks is largely because I pay less price for fraud.
Yep.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jewish_diaspora
There has only ever been one source for values: people.
You'll most likely not get a definite answer because it can range from very bad to very good depending on both company and team.

I don't want to mention my current company to keep my anonymity but we currently have unlimited vacation and at least for my team it's going great but it's mostly because of our direct manager who encourages us to:

a) track and document our work so that when someone leaves on vacation the sky doesn't fall
b) take as much time as needed to unwind

I personally took about 6 weeks of vacation (double the amount of policy based vacation I got at my previous company) in the past year and things at work have been stellar. We delivered, kicked ass, whatever you want to call it and with zero guilt. But my company is well known for great work-life balance.

However, I can't say the same about other teams where peer pressure keeps people in their seats.

I am personally very cautious about 'unlimited vacation' plans because if you do a game matrix you'll realize that it's skewed against the employee and you'll end up in a better place only if the stars align just right. If they don't you'll end up working way more and either you'll never have 'approved' vacation by your manager or you'll never ask for it because passive-aggressively the culture frowns on 'slackers' who take time off.

If vacation time matters to you (and It definitely should) before accepting an offer I would ask the hiring manager for the actual number of business days the team members use for vacation. If he/she brushes it off or is handwavy like 'nobody keeps track' (somebody ALWAYS keeps track) then stay away.
From what I've heard from people in companies that have implemented it, it basically devolves into "you can take off whenever your want but... we really need you here due to crunch!" Basically it turns into a game of guilting people NOT to take any vacation time. Having guaranteed off time that can be scheduled well in advance and flexible working hours is way more reassuring.

In my opinion, why not just be way more generous in how much PTO time employees accrue? If European companies can still function with employees taking up to a month off why is it such a big deal to be generous in this category?
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- My reasoning for higher education -
I left my mid-sized tech company a couple years ago to join a hardware startup. I started as an EE, but as leadership positions became necessary I started filling those roles and building a really solid (however small) EE/FW team and helping with more business strategy. We ended up making some really tragic business decisions, many of which were set in place long before I started and I didn't exactly have the credibility to argue. I left the company several months ago. I started to realize how important business strategy (incorporated with engineering) was to success or failure of a product. I learned a TON about leadership/culture/strategy/funding, but it made me realize how much I didn't know. I read books/blogs, scoured HN/Stratechery, etc, but I felt under-educated. Though it might just be insecurity, I felt every other individual I worked with had more experience or pedigree (still, there are tangible effects this has - fundraising for one).

I also just like learning. I grew up in a small town, and these schools just weren't on our radar. Whether it's technical or business, I want to learn how things work. I don't think I'll ever regret taking two years out of my professional career to go back to school.

I want to network.
Why not use uuids?
Sounds good, doesn't work.
The fear of taking too much time off makes the conscientious not take enough holiday to maintain a healthy work-life balance. Others take advantage and "are off on vacation again" making the hardworking people bitter and resentful. Unlimited isn't the answer, flexible and accommodating, while accountable, is.
Put simply: Fuzziness is a real thing.

Fuzziness not only in the topic here but in the meta discussion of the topic.

Yeah, there's something about white, American Christians to be discussed historically… boiling it down to "white" is probably better done by going with "European" but that's probably my own intellectual biases from my experiences of the language.

The thing about being Jewish is that it simply has been significantly different (even as there are parallels) to most other ethnic discussions. There are genetic similarities (read: inbreeding) within the primary Jewish ethnicities where other groups show more diversity. There's a weird tie between culture/religion and ethnicity.

I often make the analogy to being Cherokee or something. You don't just decide to believe some religious things and it makes you Cherokee, but they do have traditional beliefs and the idea of true adoption as a Cherokee isn't crazy. The Jewish religion is sorta like that where they discourage converts, and conversion is like getting adopted by a different ethnic group. That's quite different from Christianity and Islam that promote conversion.

For this and many other reasons, Jews stayed distinct in their own weird way.

Talking about "whiteness" and "white people" is actually more like "blackness" and "black people" where dark skin can come from a range of cultural and ethnic backgrounds. Lumping all dark-skinned people together makes little sense except for how it's treated (self-fulfilling prophecy somewhat) in our world in reality.

You may recall people remarking that our first "black" president was not only mixed-race but his African father was really African and not a descendant of American slaves. But obviously he still lived his life in a way that had him be a part of the American (slave ancestry) cultural reality.

So, yeah, fuzziness. But Jews really have had ties going back generations that the various conglomerations of "white" Americans have not… even as you can draw some analogies and questions.
http://www.hackernewsletter.com/ does a good job.
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What about the existing trashcan design, but instead of plugging in a monitor and mouse and keyboard, the trashcan's surface is just one single touch screen? That's much more user-friendly, you don't have to mess with cables at all anymore.
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Ctrl+[ is more ergonomic anyways. After I started using that, I realized how much I hated using Esc for anything.
Yes, that's my point. How much money are you saving? Maybe a couple thousand dollars? Balance this with the time you'd need to spend on setting this up and getting it to work right–a couple days, a week? It's not obvious that this would always work out, especially so if you don't have in-house IT and would either have to get a creator to learn how to do something like this or hire someone that does.
> Hitler was a catholic ... Stalin was a student at a seminary

If you can prove to me that these men were actually acting in accordance with the stated doctrines of the institutions that they claimed, then your point might be valid. However, it isn't and it won't be because they were not.

Man corrupts religions to his advantage—that is not religion's fault. It is man's.
The suggestion that it might be obvious is central to the question and what makes it interesting (to me).

Because, yes, it would seem obvious.

>It's the difference between negligence and pre-meditation/mens rea.

a) you're using legal definitions when the question is about morality and b) it's not negligence to actively choose one path over another. It's simply making a decision, and I was asking if that decision can be considered a moral one.

Started off as a philosophical question, but seems to have gone a bit literal. Oh well, it happens.
For me it was super stressful and made it really hard to plan. What I did was decide how much leave I wanted if this were a "traditional" system, discussed that with my manager informally (he still wouldn't give me a straight answer but I got to a number that he seemed to be okay with), and tracked the vacation and sick time myself in a spreadsheet.

One thing I did notice is that it seemed very hard to get more vacation as a more senior employee.

I think it's less about flexibility for the employee and more so they don't have to keep everyone's unused vacation on the balance sheet and in the bank. Also they don't have to pay out that unused vacation when you leave, so if you're tracking it yourself, try not to "accrue" a lot of vacation. The reality of "unlimited vacation" means you will probably take around the same amount as someone at a traditional setup, but it will be more frequent shorter vacations and you're less likely to take like a month off for a big summer trip.

I've also seen this system (perhaps inadvertently) take advantage of people with workaholic tendencies or people that tend to feel a lot of peer pressure to support the team, and "unlimited vacation" can mean "no vacation" for some folks.
Besides stack familiarity, a big problem people have with GTK is that it feels even less native than Electron.
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I've never experienced this myself directly. However I used to work at a company who now does this.
I still have many silo'd friend groups at that company (who don't even know each other too well - designers/devs/sales) and the general consensus when I'm out with each group is that "it's a trap". There appears to be a negative vibe a kind of undertone where people will question others (to them selves not openly) and the hierarchy. Admittedly the trust was never great at this company but from my third party view point I would absolutely not like it. Culture would play a huge part though and unfortunately in this case the unlimited leave was a marketing/recruitment angle so was pretty much always set for failure.
Flint is not even close to the only issue. Locals are aware of the damage Nestle has already caused to the local ecosystem by dropping the water supply. There is also much worry that legal draw limits were not set with that area's situation in mind, but Nestle is pointing to the legal rate and saying everything will be okay.
"These days, you might get more applause for not being on social media than for reaching a follower milestone in Europe's liberal hubs such as Berlin or Paris.

...

The mechanisms used by Cambridge Analytica and the "malicious actors" cited by Facebook appear to have been legal and do not constitute a data hack, but rather a deliberate exploitation of information through tools or loopholes Facebook itself provided in the past.

...

At least two foreign governments, Australia and Germany, threatened or launched investigations into the practices on Thursday.

...

Meanwhile, in India, where more than a half-million users are estimated to be affected, the allegations have resulted in a governmental request to Facebook and Cambridge Analytica for more detailed information, with a Saturday deadline.

Even though India is now Facebook's biggest market - ahead of the United States - no Indian media outlets were able to ask questions in a conference call with CEO Mark Zuckerberg on Wednesday.

The heavy U.S. focus immediately triggered criticism because privacy advocates are still looking into reports that Cambridge Analytica may have used Facebook data to influence Indian politics, as well.

...

German justice minister Katarina Barley already called for an E.U.-wide investigation into the misuse of Facebook's data by Cambridge Analytica and other companies on Thursday.

"Facebook has gambled away people's trust," Barley said.

...

But in Europe, Germany's justice minister and others already fear that the latest regulations aren't enough."

Source:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2018/04/05...
How precisely does it provide a secure default configuration. As far as I can tell it enables very few security features built-in to kubernetes (of which there are many not enabled by default or require configuration to properly enable). It's still up to the administrator to secure.

Edit: Not to mention your comment doesn't address half the article, which dives into security tangential to kubernetes itself such as AWS
Mar's law: Everything is linear when plotted on a log-log scale with a fat marker.

(I know this is a lin-log plot)
Completely agree. I made a plot with a uniform distribution: https://www.strandmark.net/Planets.html

So I am not sure there is anything going on here.
I was being somewhat pedantic in my previous reply, I realise they mean tracking cookies and the likes

As for putting session IDs in URLs I would not advise that in any way, that's one unsanitized href away from Google being logged in as and indexing your user's private account data if done badly and a nasty bout of session fixation if done less badly. More information here: https://security.stackexchange.com/a/14094
CentOS has a great utility called needs-restarting which finds processes which have been updated and need to be restarted. I just stick it in a cron job and I have an email waiting for me in the morning if I need to do anything.