skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If it’s a serious company, it’s just an expected, standard part of negotiating, no different than salary, bonus, benefits, vacation, etc.

In general, you should ask if you’ll be required to sign any NDA, non-compete, or non-disparagement agreements, either as part of a company handbook or as standalone documents. If so, the severance package should be commensurate with the duration and condition of those.

It is common to negotiate severance equal to your salary for the duration covered by the agreements, or at least a large fraction like 30-50% of the duration, so a competitive severance package would certainly be in the range of 4-6 months of your base salary.

You can also negotiate to have company-paid insurance benefits extend past your termination date as part of severance, to avoid needing COBRA in the US.

The severance agreement should also cover anything like a company issued laptop, etc., if you are promised you can keep it after employment ends.

To get this, they’ll likely require you to sign waivers to any additional monetary claims, and draconian IP, NDA, etc., agreements. And this is why you should force the issue of negotiating severance up front and why you should walk away from companies (like IBM) that won’t negotiate.

Otherwise, they’ll announce the restructuring or layoff and then hold you over a barrel, by claiming you have to honor their company policy non-compete anyway, and pressure you to sign restrictive documents at your HR exit meeting, generally offering some insultingly low severance benefit, like only a few weeks or months of pay and no continuation of benefits.

All of this advice is specifically for junior-level employees as well. Never let anyone treat you like you cannot negotiate severance just because you’re a junior employee. Walk away from those companies.

For experienced employees, the amount of severance should absolutely be at least 6 months of pay and continued company-paid health coverage, and in many cases you can negotiate for it to fully match the duration of the non-compete or NDAs, usually 12 months.

Above all, don’t accept any baloney nonsense about “standard policies” restricting severance to a small number of weeks of pay per each year of tenure, or any of that garbage.

That’s just the standard line they feed to people who don’t negotiate. And if a company refuses to be flexible on it, walk away.
Oregon State University's Open Source Lab offers development hosting on their POWER8 OpenStack cluster.[1]

[1] http://osuosl.org/services/powerdev/
What is some potential mischief one might do while the WHOIS is dark?
Theoretically
This reminds me of something I read once about pain reliever marketing. 'no other pain reliever acts faster' == 'they all act exactly the same speed'

Lies, damn lies, damn damn lies, and marketing.
I am appalled at the apparent ignorance/disbelief in so many comments from people who don't find it obvious that location history data from Google/FB can be used to improve the user experience.
But there is a lot of groupthink on Reddit, too. Some popular forms you just have to stay out of if you have a different opinion.
Thanks for the gist with the channels implementation.

I wish they worked on their release notes with samples for all the smaller features like formatters, pooling and channels. Too much of it is buried in github issues.
As far as I can tell, Bezos has stayed away from the editorial side completely. They've posted some negative Amazon content:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/is-amazon-getting-to...

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/business/wp/2018/04/27/h...
I'm no troll, but I like to keep my fun/hobby life separate from my professional life. My customers don't need to be able to google me and get my "fan theories" about Westworld, etc.
Isn't that mostly theoretical? I can't seem to find any processor that doesn't use 2's complement.
> continually pressuring spouses to spend above their means

(I agree with you).. but back to the original commenter's point about the behavior, versus the object of the behavior:

Do you believe that eliminating (or sufficienctly discouraging through education or contrary social pressure) diamonds and/or expensive weddings would sufficiently eliminate this spending above ones means? Or would that spending just shift to other targets, such as different jewelry (which even the article refers to in talking about spending more money on setting instead) or experiences?
Ah good point, they are still north of the cache and MMUs though (as opposed to being on the PCI bus and behind the IOMMU at best)
You should contact the Police.

They are the specialist and have the power of law for that.

Contacting HR for this may be seen as a personal Vendetta sd you say it happens outside the workplace.

Contact police and give as much detail you can.

I am sure police have more ways and skills to investigate that.
How is it backward looking?

Do you think the data is wrong? Or interpreted wrong? You’ve presented some news articles about issues in China but I don’t know how these affects overall life expectancy in combination with all the other factors. Do you?

They seem to think they’ve taken account of likely future trends and ongoing health issues because they’ve said:

> Chinese newborns can look forward to 68.7 years of healthy life ahead of them

Do you think they’re mistaken somehow?
A coffee-break introduction to time complexity of algorithms
Span (safely refers to data anywhere) and Memory (safely refers to data on the heap only) have a much nicer API than arrays. ArraySegment has had a facelift but to nit: ArraySegment is a pain to type. Also, unlike arrays, there are read-only variants - which are good for rich type checking. In addition you can easily reinterpret cast between blittable types (the new 'unmanaged' generic constraint) for when you are participating in mortal sins such as directly serializing byte representations.

Tons of reasons to use them besides performance. We use them for those reasons and if there is a performance boon, great bonus!
Is Apple ready to take on Netflix?
those numbers are on the high side, but yes indeed.

Also all those calculations are completely forgetting that money is a time-sensitive value. If invested wisely, the first $ from 4 years ago would be 1.7$ today if invested into a typical low cost SP500
And the Staten Island ferry, with its spectacular views of lower Manhattan, One World Trade, and the Statue of Liberty is free!

It’s a fantastic way for a tourist to spend an hour at no cost.
Like I said, Uber and Tesla have both been reported. If two companies of that status with their funding abilities are potentially dangerous, I wouldn't doubt any smaller company would.
Reddit essentially replaced Usenet.
Why do so many Rust projects lead with telling you their number one feature is type safety? It’s Rust we get it, stop telling us about your type safety!

Also, what problem is this solving that countless other near identical web frameworks don’t already solve?
Mostly due to customers that buy our software that are still running EOL versions of these products, or are in industries where running a SAAS version is never going to fly.

There is no Teams API to speak of, I'm super confused why Microsoft is pushing it so hard when they are wildly behind on the integrations that were promised already, and the functionality is behind the product that it is supposed to replace.
Simple tax laws are easy to enforce and leave no room for creativity.

They also leave no room for "cheap" campaign promises and new initiatives that politicians can announce and display to the media (repeatedly). We'll give a tax credit for low emissions vehicles to save your children's lungs and the planet! An incentive to finance homes for nurses!

Tax is just code. Poorly architected code with lots of documentation that obfuscates rather than illuminates.

Politicians love to nudge through the tax system as it seems cheap, costs are obscured as, and there's no project to fail like there is if you try to build something. You end up with perpetual scope creep and "minor" additions.

Then you get people politicizing the outcomes - "bad people" are taking advantage of a good program, or a "bad company" isn't paying as much as someone thinks they should in an ideal world. If you are going to live in a nation of laws rather than the whim of some functionary you need to let everyone do what is legal, rather than just preferred individuals or classes.
The reader view is really something. One of those things I necer thought about til I used it, now I miss it whenever I'm in chrome.
The automation is already happening. Massive deployment of AI to wipe out low level work in next 5-10 years, just like with law.
Remember when people thought Facebook wasn't going to be able to pivot to mobile ads and make money there?
I've yet to see a "proper healthcare system" that doesn't require private insurance. Take Australia for instance, where the healthcare system seems to work pretty well, but only because private insurance options are available. Without private insurance, the public system that is already slow would basically come to a stop, and those that can comfortably afford regular payments for private insurance (most people) that all of a sudden get sick and have to pony up 100k, couldn't do so. Those who don't get sick would be living the dream.

I drew the Obamacare conclusion from the reason in my above response. Nobody is adverse to discussing healthcare solutions, so what are you talking about when you say there is a movement of hate to the degree such that people are actively rejecting the idea of others having access to healthcare?
Does it ever optimize more aggressively than previously? i.e. would we see, as a bad but relatable example, more functions inlined?
> Credit scores decide interest rates and loan approvals.

They decide a lot more then that. Housing, job applications, sentencing, whether or not you can get an education...
The Many, Many Roads to Heaven and Hell
As a developing nation, China should indeed be experiencing an increased lifespan. But under normal circumstances, China's life expectancy increases should be getting closer and close to the curve of developed nations without actually touching - because all countries should be making progress.

So the obvious story here is the actual decrease in US life expectancy, a situation broadly reflecting declining living conditions in the US.
This is a good thing.

For all the criticism of Google, of which I have extensively done, very little negative is said about their security. The fact that you can have 99 character passwords in GMail speaks to this (Paypal and Bank of America’s limit is 20 for example).

Everyone today worships small business, but the 30 years of incredible economic growth was partly achieved by the partnership of Big Business with Big Labor and Big Government.

As Galbraith said at the time: “the entrepreneur, as many see him, is a selfish type motivated primarily by greed, and he is furthermore, unhappy.”

I think entrepreneurs have contributed a lot to society, but I also think new era’s come and go, and the worship today of “innovative startups” will not last forever.
I don't have a source for this, but my understanding is that much of the improvement in China's literacy rate came from the government's redefining of "literate" down to about a 1st or 2nd grade school level.

Still, I can't help but be happy at how so many people's lives have improved so greatly in such a short time.
(I use FF developer edition and chrome, but not chromium)

I find Firefox Dev tools to be a bit nicer,esp. the network tab. Firefox also has a few experimental features that are okay, but the fact that they're experimenting is worth something (eg the JavaScript scratchpad feature).
FWIW I found your feature descriptions pretty tight and compelling. It was cool to read through what's available and then pop to the top of the screen to see it in action (particularly the typewriter and blur modes).

The main thing I didn't get a feel for was how this works as your document gets longer, or you're working on multiple documents. If you're writing a book does the whole thing end up being in the same text area and you just scroll around? Is there a save/load?
That Time It Rained for Two Million Years [video]
And given the terrible air, water and soil pollution they suffer from, this means the rest must be really, really top notch. Or that we don't have all the metrics.
Why High-Tech Commoditization Is Accelerating
Is MUMPS still a thing :-) maybe I ought to dust of my RT-11 / FORTRAN skills off
Yes. But the Optane chips are fast enough for that to be only a minor nuisance.
At least in the SF Bay Area, appraiser selection was random. Perhaps this is a state law though.
I can't comment on Uber's financials or accounting practices, but I can add some context on the author linked: Hubert Horan has published numerous articles with very negative outlooks on Uber over the last few years.

A good example is one of his original articles from 2016 [0], which calls Uber out for having -143% profit margins in 2015. In 2015Q1, Uber's revenue was $287MM and loss was 385MM. Horan claimed there was "no evidence that Uber’s rapid growth is driving the rapid margin improvements achieved by other prominent tech startups as they “grew into profitability.”"

However, 2018Q1's revenue was 8.7x and losses were only 1.2x the 2015Q1 numbers. Horan was clearly wrong, and underestimated the potential of the business. I believe he still doesn't 'get it'. If you don't believe in the potential for any growth business, the numbers can look bad on paper, but time will decide who will be vindicated and who will be disproven.

[0]: https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2016/11/can-uber-ever-delive...
Only slightly. Changing the orbit of the earth to achieve a 333.333 day year is not feasible b y any foreseeable technology.
Judge Dismisses Kaspersky Suit Challenging Software Ban
I agree and hope you didn't think I was disagreeing with this angle on things. It really is a double-edged sword in that respect.
...Well, that is until everyone tries writing them.
There are also spaces which are extremely tolerant to difference of opinion. You can choose those.

r/changemyview is one favorite example for excellent rational discourse on often very controversial topics.
I learned via Udacity's course (been using Python at work for 5 years now) but I recommend others to use "Learn Python The Hard Way"

For Data Science I'd recommend DataCamp which ChaseDehan recommended or Panda's Documents (especially the cookbook) are very useful. Pandas is 80% of what you need to know to be a king at Data Analysis.
Make no mistake: the opioid epidemics is pretty much a self-inflicted harm. It is what happens when you underfund actually useful drug programs and let corruption (relabelled 'lobbying') by pharmaceutical companies run unchecked.

So yes, sure, China will make business if they can, but they are not "out there to get you".
Android users baffled by search that lists personal text messages
Natural Language Semantic Search for Arbitrary Objects with Deep Learning
Two distinct isomers of water isolated for first time
google translate converts this to:

Without the Communist Party, There Would Be No New China

But considering the party that the communists replaced were the Nationalists... who are in control of Taiwan.. which is even richer per capita than China (31k/person)... that seems unlikely.

Can you explain more why the Nationalists were successful in Taiwan, but you believe they wouldn't have been in China?

Edit: this is not to say that I believe the Nationalists would have been more successful than the Communists in China.. China is certainly a far larger task, both in building out a larger country and pulling more poeple out of poverty. So this is a sincere question about your opinion on the nationalists.
All valid points. The good news is that China has big ideas for dealing with these, and will actually implement them.

I have no love for the CCP. I think they are an oppressive regime that unduly subjects their people to censorship and control. But I do respect that they invest in infrastructure and solving big problems for their people.

The US seems to have given up. It seems to think that the problems we face are unsolvable by cooperation and have resigned us to crumbling roads, poor health outcomes and failing schools so corporations can flourish.
You could also just write a regular comment arguing that point. Your approach risks coming across as condescending, and depends upon the reader having the patience to read essentially the exact same comment twice, keeping an eye out for whatever clever substitutions were made.

edit: that being said, I'm more than happy to move on. To each their own
Yep I went on and had a look the other day because I used to buy a book from them every 2 months but I haven't looked at their books for 2 years their website made this nearly impossible.
That's likely COM, meaning tough luck so far as netcore goes AFAIK. What you can do is wrap it in a service over something like HTTP or gRPC (even with a localhost NIC binding). Your codebase doesn't have to be homogeneous.
The US has credit ratings and secret no-fly lists. I really fear what the CCP will do with their scores but so far it seems to have a lower impact on peoples' life than the US' system has.
I don't have generic good pointers but a few interesting things I read or downloaded:

- https://aclanthology.info/pdf/I/I05/I05-7002.pdf This paper make use of the radicals to build an ontology, but it does so with a stunting amount of depth (historical context, variants, etc.) that most works overlook. Too bad no data is available.

- http://www.persee.fr/doc/clao_0153-3320_1978_num_4_1_1047 Very interesting read on the formation of Chinese-like characters by the Vietnamese. Some technics described were also used by the Japanese when adopting sinograms.

- didn't read the paper but the references section lists a number of paper about the segmentation of Mandarin http://www.anthology.aclweb.org/F/F12/F12-3001.pdf

- didn't read it yet, but seems to contains accurate information of the Chinese writing system: http://learnlab.org/uploads/mypslc/publications/perfetti-lex...

Anyway, I think for getting a fair understanding of the writing system the learning of about 600 characters in either Chinese or Japanese + basic of the chosen language is required.
Says more about the stagnation of the Web than the rise of Reddit or the fall of Facebook. Facebook has market-leading apps. People are getting their Facebook through apps, not Web. Meanwhile, until very recently Reddit's app was a joke.
Many of us go to China on a regular basis. Some people may even consider living there. Knowing that it is now not that bad of a place to raise kids is interesting.
I haven't had this experience, but internet bandwidth tends to be a serious bottleneck here, so I rarely feel game enough to exceed 720p.
I'm curious about this, could you point at the documentation?
> Most programmers are plumbers and brickmakers building houses, not engineers designing skyscrapers.

Conversely, most mechanical engineers don't end up designing a new production motor, they design a door handle.
The fastest NVMe SSDs are already right around the threshold where there isn't time to complete a pair of context switches before you get the data back, and the difference in latency between polling or waiting for an interrupt is significant. These Optane DIMMs should be fast enough that only hardware-managed context switches like hyperthreading/SMT are usable without performance loss.
All you listed are likely urban problems. China has like 1B country population.
> Most of the VFS layer, with so many optimizations for spinning rust. Right out.

You already aren't running 'em! Also, that's the block device layer, not the VFS layer. The VFS is the bit between the syscall interface and the concrete FS (which then in turn works with the block layer, if you are using a block device).

Don't go signing the death warrant for something you clearly don't understand.
WLAN

That they've included this in their bullet points for a role intended to cover enterprisey Microsoft-ish business application server admin and reporting is a red flag.

That, and no indication that so many tasks shall be delegated to a team of loyal underlings and minions. (hint: the minion is you)

Also, "Excel spreadsheet" expertise.

( ._.)
"0% new smartphone unit shipment growth in
2017"
There were horrible problems that derailed progress, it's pointless to deny them. On the other hand, some of the suffering came externally, like sanctions and embargoes designed to make life miserable and induce the country to fail/the regime to collapse. Also military threats that depleted meager resources and made normal investment impossible.

What can be said is that, given this set of very difficult challenges, whether self-induced or not, the outcome, such as it is, is a commendable one.
I don’t believe they’d be successful in China because they weren’t historically.

Also we can compare how a nationalist, democratic, and capitalist country of similar size, population, colonial explotation, and natural resource wealth would fair in India. Which again makes the PRC come out rosey.
How long is a day on Saturn?
I can certainly attest to this that reddit is a great tool in gathering like minded people. I experienced this recently with the Longfin Blockchain Corp, a NASDAQ traded garbage that the SEC is now investigating.

It was amazing to see how quickly a community sprang from the ashes of financial ruin.
There's a lot of strange loops like this is free and open-source software generally. For instance much free software is partially funded by proprietary software companies who want to use it internally, or is open-core but not fully open-source. GitHub itself is a walking contradiction of license philosophies for instance.

Not quite the same thing, but there's (almost) always a weird interplay and tension whenever something actually needs to get funded or make money.
Well reddit is pretty much the only site that I compulsively check.

I no longer care about Facebook.

Actually I prefer anonymous reddit users more.
Any links with more info would be appriciated :)
Fujitsu Boots Up Quantum Computing Cloud Service – TOP500 Supercomputer Sites
Sign it and put it on your resume. Even as a filing its something to show to future employers. Not sure how it could bite you in the ass. Of course read it first and make sure it's factual.
But the political winds are blowing toward drug liberalization on the basis of libertarianism. That's what I am referring to.
If I remember correctly, there's no benefit to the soldier involved if they choose an apartment that only costs half of the Basic Allowance for Housing - they don't get to keep the surplus.
THAT IS A REALLY GREAT LINK, THANK YOU FOR POSTING IT.
> the compound annual return of the respondent group is 8.97% greater than the non-respondent companies.

That's actually interesting, because I could easily explain away the opposite result: CEOs who waste their time responding to personal letters aren't focused on improving company performance. For example, there's some potential negative correlation between time spent playing golf and company performance [1].

Granted, even if this were statistically significant you can think of explanations why it makes sense: "These CEOs have thought so deeply about their business that responding to these letters is trivial", or "Being forced to answer these questions is beneficial for the CEOs business acumen".

Of course the most likely explanation is that the correlation is just spurious and the two things are unrelated.

Still, would be an interesting study!

1: http://www.businessinsider.com/ceo-golf-rounds-indicate-poor...
I've noticed this, although it's weirdly inconsistent, which is possibly worse. Sometimes it hit C-S-t and get the tab I just closed, sometimes I get something from 20 minutes ago.

It'd be one thing if a quick C-S-t within a few seconds could restore something you accidentally closed, but this behaviour is utterly incomprehensible.