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My current workplace has "unlimited" vacation. You have to request days off in advance, which your supervisor can approve/disapprove.

However, once you reach 4 weeks (160 Vacation hours) you have to get VP-level approval to take any additional time off. And the vacation hours tracker resets at the end of the Fiscal Year.

So, basically, unlimited means 4 weeks per year tops, and you have to get it approved in advance. I don't really care for it.
I'm sure some companies are doing it properly, but I think for the most part it's 'unlimited holiday if you get the work done', which turns into 'holiday if you get the work done', and there will always be enough work that it never gets done.

At previous company we switched to the 'unlimited holiday' policy, I asked my boss what the real limit was and she said if it was anything over 27 days (the previous amount before being 'unlimited') then the manager would have to sign off on it, which basically wouldn't happen.

I'm experiencing a similar thing at my current job where when I asked what the office hours and lunch hours were I couldn't get a straight answer, it's kept intentionally vague so that when it gets to 5 you don't go 'well I'm off home, bye!'
How does Stripe auto-recovery compare to a service like Stunning? Does it make it redundant?
> It's just too shallow to dismiss it as superstitious ancestors who werent as smart as us.

This is commonly misunderstand point, as you hint at.

Our ancestors were about as smart as we are -- some smarter, some not, but on average they were far more ignorant of how the world works. There were plenty of brilliant ideas wrapped around less sure knowledge.
The point being there are checks. "No questions asked" implied no checks.

> For the people who would rather see newborns have health issues than pay taxes, I frankly find their morals odious and their foresight lacking.

The article referenced a black, un-wed, young mother stuggling to pay for diapers. That portrayal of poor minorities is what the anti-welfare state sees when fighting for less taxes. The money isn't going to people who are struggling like they might be; the money is going to minorities who aren't willing to work hard.

Said more plainly, the health and wellbeing of black and brown babies are worth less to (some|many) Americans than white ones.
We actually do code and model versioning (and simple data versioning). One thing to keep in mind is that code/results/hyperparams must be coupled. If you have a git branch with some training code and you do not know what the hyperparams/results are then it's not very valuable.
C++ core guidelines combined with the guidelines support library get you most of the way there.
> That thing ticks most checkboxes of a pro machine

Except for little things like (workstation) Xeon CPU and pro graphics (Quadro or whatever ATi is calling their FirePros these days).

If you want a actual pro system, check out Dells workstation line, e.g. Precision 7520. Sure, its not light and pretty like a XPS, but you can load it with fairly serious amount of stuff and as a cherry on top it comes with Linux support out of the box.

Workstations are just a different class of computers.
I've seen it both ways. I think the "wholly unreachable" version is more common, but I've definitely seen people take "work-cations".
The major studios are still using Maya, Photoshop, and other commercial software that doesn't work on Linux. They are using Linux for render farms and some custom software.
Nope, you do it through an app or website for every card I've gotten.
I completely agree that backdoors are a terrible invasion of privacy, that law enforcement gained absolutely nothing in this case, and that Apple should be lauded for their bold opposition to these requests.

I'm merely attacking the specific line of argumentation the EFF is using. I consider it both intellectually shoddy and bound to be counter-productive.

(Unfortunately, HN doesn't appear to understand such nuances.)
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Doubling down on a narrative that is severely lacking in historical evidence. Please, do, show me where all the white people got together and decided on this definition? Let me know where I'm supposed to get updates on who is, and who isn't? I must have missed my subscription to this topic.

I'm aware that various groups may not have been afforded every accomodation in the past by the dominant cultural groups in Europe and North America. This is an unfortunate legacy that is slowly being healed. I don't think individual white people alive today need to take on personal culpability for such (in a "sins of the father" sense), nor does it follow that White does not exist as a category merely because it has shifted in definition over time.

About all you can really say is that the definition is subject to further change in the future. Fair enough, but this doesn't mean the group doesn't exist.

> "White"? No.

You're very close to practicing "cultural erasure" by implying that people who identify as white (and there are hundreds of millions of such) don't exist, or are somehow mistaken in their own views about what they identify as. If this same tactic is used on literally any other group (whether it's racial, religious, ethnic, national i.e. Tibet, sexual i.e. LGBT groups, etc) it's viewed as a tremendously offensive act.

Why, then, is it okay to do against White people? Pray tell me why this group is the only one which you are not only permitted, but encouraged to deconstruct and deny the existence of?
That's because you are not buying the right ones. Real biodegradable & flushable wipes are okay for waste treatment plants. You need to purchase those that do not contain any trace of plastic fibers.

If you are so worried about clogging anything, put them in the compost bin.
for mining i dont really think so unless you happen to have a large number of spare devices that you can use which are constantly plugged in. mining is pretty much always going to be a very resource intensive process so its going to eat your battery in most cases.

There may be another system which could be possible but i havent looked into other solutions much, i know there is Xtrabytes proof of signature system which may be a good fit for mobile

https://blog.xtrabytes.global/technology/proof-of-signature-...
They tried that in the past.

It was one of the first things Jobs "fixed".
In fact our Palo Alto pediatrician asked immediately if we use bottled water and said we should use tap water because of flouride and minerals that might not be in the water service water.
NaN is one of the reasons IEEE floating point numbers don't have a fully defined order.
Yeah, I'm sure Facebook could build WhatsApp into a trustworthy social networking platform.
I have been battling Apple about my 2013 mac pro for a year. You have to be careful about the monitors you buy because Apple will say it's not their problem when your monitor knocks your wifi offline (personally) or some weird shit. Personally, I think for anyone deliberating between an iMac Pro and a Mac Pro, you should go with the iMac Pro because Apple has always been an all-in-one company--it's one of the few things they are still good at these days. I used to work on the older mac pros in high school and never had problems, but those days are over. If I knew hardware well enough to fix it I would have gone Hackintosh.
I've wondered for a long time if stem cell therapy could, for example, cure my amblyopia — though it hardly seems worth the cancer risk. This very surprising news is a data point in favor of that kind of thing.

It's also a kind of data point that we really need to improve science a lot in order to be able to advance as a civilization.

(Amblyopia is due to anomalous neural development caused by, more or less, early childhood early sensory deprivation from one eye. The result is a lifelong lack of visual competence in that eye — it may focus perfectly, as mine does, but recognition is poor, apparently because perception of Gabors at certain spatial frequencies is very poor. I say "more or less" because the eye is still providing sensory input, but because it's pointing in the wrong direction, that input isn't useful.)
> My monitor does video, charging, and USB 3 with full size ports with one cable.

My Lenovo X1 Yoga also does everything via one Thunderbolt cable, but it also has a full selection of normal ports on the notebook itself rather than only on the docking station. It also has a 1440p touch screen and a nice keyboard, and still costs 1000 € less than a Macbook Pro ^W Deluxe.
Why do you consider choosing MySQL over Postgres a grave error? There are some cool features in Postgres. I am going to learn more about partial indexes, that looks useful! But there is plenty of precedent for large, successful MySQL projects. Uber, for example, switched from PostgreSQL to MySQL in 2016. https://eng.uber.com/mysql-migration/
It's not. It's maybe even worse than racist, because most of Disraeli's ancestors probably weren't even members Solomon's kingdom, they likely were mostly Europeans who converted and then adopted the ancestry.
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Had the exact same predicament. Struggled with it morally, until I was exclusively working on offensive technologies ("cleanly isolating and neutralizing targets via unmanned air vehicles, out of line of sight with no gps"). That's when I quit and got some of my morality back by joining a quant firm that makes money off of other people purely for the purpose of making money and nothing else.

No wonder I have such an alcohol problem...
Though the big aluminum desktops they made years ago were probably a high point for balance of beautiful and functional.

This. I think existing and potential future Mac Pro users would be perfectly happy with a cheese gater that has 2018 innards (ok, they could make it Space Gray).

When it comes to Pro hardware, I think that Apple has lost the balance between aesthetics and functionality. The trash can Mac Pro is a good example of this - it's beautiful, overheating all the time and not extensible. So is the new MacBook lineup, they are beautiful. But really? 1 USB-C port on the MacBook 12" and 2 USB-C ports on the MacBook Pro Escape? I don't know of any MacBook 12"/Pro user who doesn't dislike the port selection.
Would appreciate more from what you've been tracking.

Someone put a lot of love into this list for MSSQL circa 2011: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Microsoft_SQL_Ser...
Totally relevant. The original statement was (paraphrased) "Someone might have gotten pregnant even if they can't afford kids," to which someone replied "Put it to adoption."

First, this seems incredibly heartless -- poor people should just give their kids up to adoption -- and second, it only makes "logical" sense if you assume that adoption is a better outcome for the kids than growing up poor. But if, as stated, some kids are going to end up in "they system" for years or decades, instead of magically getting adopted into some rich family, then putting them up for adoption may well end up much worse.
Wow, yes they've definitely lost their "eye of the tiger," haha.

Doubt there is a Lenovo waiting in the wings, nor would they allow it, a shame.
Free for the first $1 million of recurring charges.

After that, 0.4% on recurring charges

Does this mean recurring charges don't carry Stripe's standard 2.9% + $0.30 charge? Or is the free at first/then 0.4% _on top of_ the 2.9% + $0.30 charge?
“unlimited”, from all accounts I've seen, seems mostly to be a way to put a positive spin on “you have no balance that accrues or can be cashed out or used as terminal leave, but its still just as limited for most employees as would be common at similar firms with limited policies. Plus, we’ve got a built in way to play favorites without violating the on-the-books policy should we decide to do so.”
Im no expert but reading that it sounds like a bunch of people poking at knobs and dials in order to see which dials work and which don't, and then not understanding why...?
there’s a pretty nifty 4 stage rotation mechanism that solves most, but not all, of those race conditions. More info on it in the post and the docs.
My sense is that CometML is tackling some but not all of the problems you're talking about here. Specifically I think it's pretty focused on tracking ML models so you can keep track of how models are performing, how they're improving etc. But I think, and the other comment seems to suggest, that external systems and practices will be required to make it so these results can be reproduced. Making ML experiments reproducible is a different and fairly challenging problem. You need to have a way to essentially snapshot everything that goes into training a model, training data, code, tuning parameters maybe even specific hardware it needs to run on. As you mention, this is as much a DevOps problem as it is an ML problem, maybe even more so. I think you'd have good luck pairing CometML with a system like Pachyderm [0] (which, full disclosure, is a system I helped write). Pachyderm can handle the Devopsy reproducibility piece and be paired with CometML to get insight into what's actually going on with the models.

[0] https://github.com/pachyderm
USA. It has mostly to do with personality. People who can take 4 weeks in South America and not feel guilty do, and appear to have a great time. I typically take normal holidays (two weeks for xmas, a week here or there ~twice a year).

I think the best way to stave this off would be to have a mandatory minimum time. Eg, we have unlimited PTO but you have to take at least 4 weeks this year, or n days a quarter, or something like that.

Not sure if it's legal to do that.

edit: another point that someone else brought up is that you can take sick/mental health days often and with ease. This is very true, and is a benefit I've enjoyed a lot.
Thanks for the explanation!

Short of turning off ads or ad targeting, do you have any ideas about how to make this better?
Kubeadm does set up a few security features as long as its a fairly recent version. There are others you still need to configure and/or enable if you need them. (eg NetworkPolicies, OIDC, Encrypted data at rest, etc, etc.) I don't see openshift setting many of these either.
I work for a reasonably large (500+ engineers) software company in San Francisco with "unlimited vacation." I take between 4-5 weeks off a year (20-25 actual days off). It seems pretty typical amongst my colleagues.
Zero to one vs. one to N developers
> The energy would be better spent eliminating potential for unknown, undetected attacks.

Think both/and, not either/or. Yes, work on eliminating unknown, undetected attacks. But you're never going to be perfect at it, so also work on minimizing the damage from undetected attacks. If you're not dealing with human-remembered secrets, sure, go down to rotating every few seconds. By doing so, you make the compromise harder to exploit. Even though you don't make it impossible to exploit, "harder" is still worth doing.
Because the person who says that is part of the oppressed minority, not the other way around.
Right, so those people keep using Apple and wait N years for a new computer.

Other people use a Hackintosh and help to define requirements for Apple's next computer.

Apple gets free R&D. Those who need performance get it. Everyone eventualy gets the benefits in the next computer.
Many believe God does not have the power to be other than what God is. If God is existence itself, then evil, as humans understand evil, seems to be within God, just as it is within each of us.
That's better than Recurly. They take 1% plus $99/month or $299/month if you want accounting software integration. And there's no free tier.

I'm game.
Haskell had that.

Java was marketed pretty closely to that.
I hope you mean RO or some other purifying process. I wouldn't drink DI water.
Part of the fun of prototyping is setting up your own service; at least, I always find that part fun. That likely eliminates some of the target market.

If the service API were fully standardized, and users paid for their own database, and signing up for a new website meant that the user granted controlled DB access to the site, then that might be enough impetus for developers to use a provider of the service. Maybe it could follow a Dropbox model where the first N bytes/month are free per user, and service providers pay affiliate fees to sites that recruit lots of paying users.

See also Attic Labs (https://techcrunch.com/2018/01/08/salesforce-acquires-attic-...).
I don't run antivirus software, only ublock. I have literally not had a virus or malware infection in the last 10 years of pro use.

And I use BitTorrent and Usenet frequently.

Where/how are you getting all this malware?
This seems like it would need someone on the inside. How do you know the corps about to get new cards?
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Nice breakdown. I agree that data versioning is the one area with limited standardized options. I would add that in addition to versioning the data, there is also the related problem of integrating the 3 areas of versioning... tying the "data version" to the "model version" and the "code version". That seems to me like it might be a good place to start in tackling data versioning, or is that too trivial? Is there a product out there that already does this?
You've been breaking the site guidelines by getting into flamewars. Please don't do that—it's just what we don't want here.

A comment like this one also breaks the guideline that says: "Please respond to the strongest plausible interpretation of what someone says, not a weaker one that's easier to criticize."

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
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Take a long term view, what is it that you wish to do eventually - 10, 15 years down the road. Will it require more of "Reimagining Capitalism" or Analytical and technical things. Think of the school choice as a shortcut to where you are headed - reduce 15 down to 7 for eg.
Let us know what you decide.
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"Unlimited" vacation without requiring a minimum is a negative thing. It means that instead of "earning"/accruing vacation and spending it how you want, you have to ask permission for every little use.
Instead of the company owing you your fair vacation use, they now have an avenue to discourage vacation use and encourage a culture of limited vacation use.

If a company truly cared about their employees, they could always just double the accrual rate of paid time off.
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I see a new 0.4% to 0.7% fee, that is enough to make me start shopping competitors on Monday. The stripe processing fee is already high. It seems that all I get is some hosted invoice stuff.. which I could build in a weekend and not have to pay a fee on?

Thinking about it, a medium sized SaaS company billing 15 million a year. 14,000,000 *.004 = 56k a year? For the same product they already had?

Obviously it is cool if you want metering and the advanced features, but I wonder if there is a way to opt out and use the old simple stripe without the new fee - or if this is to push those users into braintree / etc?
I assume "visually impaired" was a little jab at me, well, I must be really blind, because having read the blog posts it's still unclear to me how many tokens were sold and how much money was raised.
> 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.

I agree with this - but it's also very clear that Black people, especially in North America, have some amount of shared history that crosses their ethnic lines, and absolutely have shared interests. Can one really pretend Black people don't exist? Can one say that it should be deconstructed, and that we should talk about Ethiopians and Nigerians, etc - and if so, which sort, because within country borders there are still many different groups? How do we label an African American who can trace their history back to sixteen different countries? What do they identify as? I can tell you, it's an easy answer if you actually ask them...

Not only is this clinal (fuzzy), labels are also applied at different levels of granularity. There's still value in speaking about finer levels of granularity, and the shared history/values/goals/problems that apply at one level of granularity may not apply when you move up to the superset, but some still do.

It's those shared issues that highly coarse groupings are concerned with. Let's not miss the forest for the trees.
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>That's not a fact that the recipients are users that signed up for it.

It is if you use an email verification step as part of your sign-up flow, which we do. At most, someone could sign up with someone else's address and generate a confirmation email, but it'd only be once per address and that's the price of an open Web.

Anyway, I'm aware that not everyone does this, but at a certain point there's not much an ESP can do, beyond which there's essentially trust and monitoring.
Their pricing is ridiculous. $50 per user per month for their cheapest plan that works with private spaces, $149 per user per month for self hosted.

If you're a company with 15 people working on a single model you're going to be paying more than a team with five people who have 20 different models they are working on. The actual load and cost for the service is completely detached from the price.

I was strongly considering looking at this for a project, but not at that cost.
I have a less charitable explanation, but a container fan on our team convinced me recently to switch to fully static binaries which did indeed simplify many things. So there is something to be said for this in an age of cheap storage.
This is a lot of copy for some pretty simple updates:

* 2019 release data

* Modular architecture

* Probably a heavy bet on eGPU and TB3

* iDevices as additional inputs
It's a mechanism to reduce the amount of bookkeeping HR has to do with vacation hours, with the added benefit of not having to pay out any vacation hours when an employee leaves.
As a kid that grew up addicted to video games, my greatest "wish" or "feedback" from my perspective is that my parents had significantly restricted my screen time, or reduced screen time competently. As it stood, they were young, broke, and relatively uneducated when I was born, and in their mind if I was quiet, not-dead, and had nothing lower than a B on a report card, job done.

But that came with a total addiction to World of Warcraft, Battlefield, and pirated anime, along with all the broken social interactivity that comes with a pale-skinned weaboo spending his summer vacations hiding in his room and worsening his nearsightedness.

I love my parents and because I don't have kids I won't claim to know the best way to raise them, but I will say I wish my dad had learned enough about computers to actually managed to restrict internet time rather that just throwing on a shitty parenting software his coworker gave him that I surpassed in about five minutes. Or, somehow rewarding me for exploring the pirated copy of 3D Studio Max and fostering creativity there. Or, just taking the damn computer away and forcing me to go hang out with people. I was a shitty kid and I know I was hard to manage, but I think that dealing with that is part of being a parent.

I have no idea if I would have turned out struggling less with the things I struggle with now if they had done things like that, but I suspect this is the case. So, you know, don't take my words at face value, just consider it as one perspective from someone who is now an adult and did grow up with nearly unlimited screen time. I managed to fill the social gaps somehow, get a job etc, not all of my old WoW buddies ever managed to.