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> Michelle ultimately served 3½ months in jail ... Michelle had no intention of breaking any laws and no idea that she’d broken any laws.

There is something desperately wrong with our legal system when a situation like that is even possible.
Yes. In my case, probably demographics (most likely age). In this case, the employer may be motivated to go through a certain number of steps for the purposes of metrics, even though they have no intention of hiring you.

As to how I deal with it, I just drop them and move on. I enjoy short coding exercises, so don't really resent those. Larger projects I wouldn't do in any case.

It might be partly due to automation. It's far easier these days for employers to take the first few steps with hundreds of candidates, with little cost to themselves.

I've been somewhat seriously thinking of charging prospective employers for interviews. :-)
I find the taste of the hand mixed one to be an improvement on the premade bottled one. Although my preference for the taste may be nostalgic as that is what my parents and grandparents did as well.
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If a world record isn't particularly remarkable then I don't know what is
I think the biggest drawback for pre-fab housing in the negative image that it is somehow lower quality construction. Some people even confuse it with mobile homes. I watched a season of This Old House recently were setup a pre-fab house for a family. It was very interesting. They brought in the house in section that were wired, plumbed and had future proofing setup. The house took a couple of month to put together, partly because of the weather and TV show been filmed around it but it went up quicker then most homes these days. The house was very nice. It looked like a $600,000 home in my part of the world.
He could collar his position. https://www.investopedia.com/terms/c/collar.asp
> Michelle was surprised, as her previous company had run this practice for years with full approval from PricewaterhouseCoopers, its accounting firm. I said: “That’s all fine and good, but I still need Jordan to review it first.”

Jordan came back with an answer that I did not expect: “Ben, I’ve gone over the law six times and there’s no way that this practice is strictly within the bounds of the law. I’m not sure how PwC justified it, but I recommend against it.”

One of the foundational reasons for the spectacular implosions of both Enron and WorldCom was the behavior of their common auditor, the ginormous accounting firm Arthur Andersen (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_Andersen). Andersen was willing to certify pretty much anything these companies wanted to do as fully legal and above-board, because these were big clients and Andersen didn't want to lose them to some other accounting firm by inconveniently insisting that they keep honest books. So they were free to rip people off in all sorts of creative ways for years, protected from close scrutiny by Andersen's seal of approval.

All of which is to say that, if you represent serious cash flow and you're tempted to push the legal envelope, you probably shouldn't expect a Big Four accountant to be the one to talk you out of it.
Not sure how to feel about this.

Story seems to be that this lady went to jail from a knock-on effect of a stock option backdating scheme, which led to taxes being wrong. But many firms seemed to have done this, presumably with somewhat independent legal advice.

I'm not close enough to the details to really understand it, or even understand whether it smelled.

But I can remember a time when accountants were shopping around tax-saving schemes in the City of London, and I came across one of the sales guys. There would be all sorts of strange schemes, for instance involving the schemers "advising" P Diddy on his lyrics. Or publishing a book of their own poetry. And the explanation diagram would always fill up entire A4 pages with various sorts of entities. I'd get told the scheme was sound, approved by top lawyers, etc.

But I never participated, it just seemed too contrived to make sense. The stuff was always marketed as "you'll save tax" but everyone knows whether they're making an income, and what the rough tax rate is. So if you're paying a lot less something smells.
Very much in keeping with the [Extensible Web Manifesto][1].

[1]: https://extensiblewebmanifesto.org/
This also means that you can't buy the tickets as a gift, nor can you pass the ticket if you can't go.
Airlines don't have a scalping problem. There's no reason why venues couldn't end the practice for concert tickets as well.
That's harder thing to do on every iteration down to the first principles. So in theory you maybe could do the hammer, which is made so as to specifically clog nails with a deviation of 5.2 degrees to the left, which leads to the light bulbs distortions in the chip designer room which eventually leads to particular backdoor in the chip he designed - but this is really hard.
How is that supposed to make things better? You get all the disadvantages of filing with the EEOC, combined with all the stress and headaches of a lawsuit, and you get to be known as “that person who sued their employer.”
I think your message is 'for whom it's for.' Based on how the average person is programmed to think/act in society, what you've said is unlikely to be well-received by most, IMHO.

I'm not yet in your (stated) position, and trying to discuss such matters typically raises hackles & hisses. I think this has mostly to do w/people deciding that they'll never be in any position to live the sort of life you've mentioned. Could go one about this for a while, but won't.

Again, salute to you if you are actually living the life.
>Could do similar things to what Mark Cuban did to hedge his exposure of Yahoo stock after the purchase of his company. Basically shorting against your holding [1].

I interpreted that article to mean that he shorted the sector (Internet) that his holding (Yahoo) was part of, but without appreciably shorting his actual holding. (less than 5% of the fund he shorted.) Had the Internet sector (and therefore the fund) went up while Yahoo went down, he could have lost from both directions.
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by constantly teaching myself new things in technology including new languages, learning new assembly languages, working with small micro controllers like Arduino, Raspberry Pi, Cubie Board. Keeping my old language skills by writing code. I am not a coder I do security right now. I read incessantly. I have been relearning electronics and I am building a lot of hardware projects that require software so I get to implement both in the project. I am not very young and I have been working with unix, the net and security a long time. I used to be a hardware engineer that fell in love with unix and left hardware behind. That is how I am preparing because I am a hacker. That means I am prepared.
> As a non-Ruby programmer, this sounds like it makes it non-obvious whether you're calling a class' method or attribute.

“Attributes” in Ruby are just methods that do attribute-like things, so there is no ambiguity: it is always a method.
Here is Ben 3 years previously recommending that executives break the law to preserve their standing with each other:

"It is important to note that just about all of these kinds of policies violate the Right to Work laws in California. Specifically, if you block a hire based on this kind of policy and the employee loses their job and cannot find work, your company is liable for his wages. As a result, the business relationship with the other company must be extremely important for you to employ any kind of “hands off” policy."

https://a16z.com/2011/02/23/is-it-ok-to-hire-people-from-you...
Thanks Nathan! The pricing on your site looks like something I can afford. I'm doing the work as a side-project for the "benefit of my community", I'll get in touch via email shortly.
Thanks for the feedback @scrollaway. I appreciate that fact you recognize we have made a lot of improvements and that there is a challenge in scaling and keeping the user experience consistent.

"Stuff that is conceptually duplicated. And also there's yet another "Settings" sub-section."

I am curious to learn more about what you feel is duplicated in the sidebar? The 'settings'in the sidebar is specific to the project you are currently viewing. The 'settings' in your avatar drop-down is specific to you. Are there other duplications?

"The CI UI could use some reorganization as well. It still takes me several clicks to get to the current running build log from the project homepage."

We agree! We have an epic to prioritize UI/UX improvements for CI/CD. It is still being updated but you can view it here: https://gitlab.com/groups/gitlab-org/-/epics/295. I would love to hear any more specific area you think we should concentrate on.
> So if promoters try a more market based strategy like the one you mention it will probably cause a backlash from fans for charging $500 for a ticket. Unlike the promoters, scalpers have no perceived connection to the artists, so they (or Ticketmaster) can take the public outrage in exchange for profits without risking future ticket sales.

Yeah, which is why the promoter should just present itself as a scalper, "selling out" 100% of its tickets to a subsidiary, which then does a reverse auction like in the GP's comment. Fans won't care, because nothing has really changed from their perspective; the promoter will make more money (that the artist can demand be passed on to them); actual scalpers, economic parasites that they are, will make less money; the market will clear more efficiently; economists will be satisfied. Everyone wins.

Everyone except for—as can be seen in the OP article—non-economically-versed journalists, and those that they manage to incense with their rhetoric.
Neat story. Definitely underscores the importance of not just blindly copying others. Just because "everyone's doing it" does. not. make. it. right.
To satisfy my own curiosity, do you have a source on that issue with the Everett interpretation? I'd love to read up on what you were talking about in that second paragraph.
I myself live in a country with a not so effective rule of law and whatnot. That's why I find it odd that banks are so concerned with possibly doing an illegal data collection, while employing unquestionably criminal techniques of extortion...
If TimescaleDB could get some clustering & sharding going on, that'd be awesome. Maybe team up with Citus
And all cross-platform apps made before Electron.
The truth is that we _know_ almost nothing. That fact clashes with virtually everything we assume in our everyday lives.
Thank you. I understand. I know PR is difficult and I really value the candor. I am very concerned personally about what Gitlab represents for my industry, but if you are all willing to speak directly to challenges on it that goes a very long way. I hope you can understand also why people have these concerns.

It seems to me that the reverse of your policy would be best for the world. If you free people to move, they can choose community, friends, family, politics over being tied to a single geographic location where most of the activity is. This would help with availability of technologists in many disadvantaged locales, and would provide an influx of taxable income and consumer spending locally. This should have the ultimate effect of improving economic conditions in depressed areas, and when that happens you can actually come back and reduce everyone's wages across all locales because the economy is healthier and more robust. It works out for the owners too in the end, if they take a long enough view.
15 months is enough time to change your mother's maiden name and the name of your first pet.
Ignorance is no excuse for breaking the law.
Especially when it's your job to not be ignorant of it.
I'm not going to comment on moral or legal responsibilities of bookies and gambling companies, because I am uneducated on both subjects, but I found your use of the term "collect more juice" really interesting. It seems odd to relate pulling revenue from fruit to pulling revenue from people's incorrect bets. Is that an industry term?
Probably because it's not relevant to the actual methods used. It sounds more like a reaction-diffusion system. The veins have curved edges. The resemblance to voronoi diagrams et al might not be much more than cosmetic.
There's a handful of laptop manufacturers that will ship with a preinstalled linux distro of your choosing. If you're comfortable with the one you choose, there's little inconvenient.
Being a long on in the money PUT is called synthetic short.
One thing we can be sure of is that trying to direct the language people use is a sure fire way to provoke a reaction. That goes for your ridiculous request for me to not use the word welch in the sense that i used it. If it had an association with the Welsh people that's long since been lost and I say that as someone who's lived on the border with Wales.
Absolutely not. In fact, security was a differentiator for competing products when WhatsApp did not have it. Just not one people would care about. It fits nicely.
People were making cross platform apps before Electron.
Based on the current trends in keyboard designs, we will be banging on the tables regardless.
You're moving the goalposts with a strawman. We are no better than anyone else when it comes to information privacy, which is the thrust of this article.
Maybe this will finally make Apple rethink its manufacturing.

It can either be the bastion of freedom in consumer electronics, as it likes to brag, or not. Time to decide.
Congrats -- you now look like every other company in the fintech space.
The speed of light in a vacuum is c, which is the speed of information, or the speed of causality
Can those of us that are not members of desirable under-represented groups assist you by not applying at Gusto?
John Hancock will include fitness tracking in all life insurance policies
My subjective opinion is that cannabis is far more variable in terms of both effects and smell/taste than any alcoholic beverage. Partly because the psychoactive effects come from 100s of discrete compounds rather than just one source (ethanol), but also because there are a ton of aromatics and terpenes in the plant which depend upon dozens of variables -- not just the strain but the ways that you grow, harvest, dry, and consume it. And on top of that, it's being intensively bred and modified at the moment. Intensive genetic modification hasn't happened yet, but I fully expect to see cannabis strains that glow in the dark or contain nicotine (or taste like craft beer) in the years to come.
Exactly. HN is great at armchair-quarterbacking the PRC but is too busy fawning over US tech corps to see the parallels.
I've noticed sometimes during the rush, the Ticketmaster app will report no seats available, but the website (sometimes after a few refreshes) will have seats, and vice versa. I had to refresh for probably 30 minutes the last time I bought Dave Matthews Band tickets, and ended up with pretty good seats.
And of course with "kale Caesar", the name only improves.
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I once did "over 50mph" free-wheeling down Parley's Canyon on I80, from Park City to Salt Lake City (~2000' drop in 10 miles; 700m fall in 15km). There's no alternate route there, so bikes are allowed on the Interstate. I only slowed down after I had to swerve out into the traffic lanes to avoid a broken wooden pallet lying in the shoulder. It's not the steepest of the local canyons, but one of the fastest for bikes because it's straight, wide and has good visibility of the road ahead.
The blog post is a highly misleading one-sided account of a notorious white-collar crime. You should read more about it from other perspectives.
I have an Apple leather case on mine, and the Peel charger works flawlessly. It also supports the Qi fast (7.5W) charging standard for devices that can utilize that.
And then go to filtering the "fake news" out, saying "yes" to 'progressive' regimes? Because there is a strict difference between Good and Bad censorship and tracking, right?
How many times has Google or Facebook rejected a subpoena to turn over a user's data?
> Shall we send in a stool sample as well?

No, I think a cheek swab should be sufficient.
Surely the best sizes to prioritize would be the ones your users are using the most?
Red lights are a whole conversation by themselves.

One of the jurisdictions local to me makes the yellow light 4 to 5 seconds long, depending on road speed, and puts a 2 or 3 second delay after one light goes red before the opposing signal goes green. They have no red light cameras for enforcement.

Another jurisdiction, adjacent to the first, has lowered their yellow light timing below 4 seconds, sometimes lowering it to the point where it takes as long to go across some intersections as the length of the time is yellow, assuming you are at the speed limit. They love red light cameras.

Until we remove the monetary incentive from enforcement, we have no business further automating it. Use points, remedial training, reduction in driving privileges, whatever, but the incentives currently benefit those who make the rules, and the result is not safer roads.
As noted somewhere the template functions can return anything not just strings. They can return functions.

Now my question: Isn't this the same as ability to define macros in other high-level languages like Lisp for instance?
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Oh a "line error". That explains it.

Wait - what? What the hell is a line error?
So the Windows search uses an index to make search faster. Amazing discovery!
It honestly doesn't seem like a large enough performance jump when you consider the price jump as well - last gen you could get a 980 Ti's performance for a mid-range cards price, but now you get a little more than a 1080 Ti's performance... for the price of a 1080 Ti. Seems like a weird shift. They've expanded the price range, but not the value. I'm glad I picked up a 1070 at the very beginning of its life, seems like it was the perfect time for that (before the Bitcoin craze).

I really hope that AMD keeps up this generation - the Vega's were too little too late - you shouldn't be going toe to toe with NVidia a year after NVidia's cards come out at the same price point. I would much prefer an AMD card though - AMD seems much less user hostile, and if I'm going to lock myself into a display I want to lock into one that doesn't cost me hundreds of dollars more for the same product. It would make me incredibly happy to be fully AMD for my next PC build (I ran AMD chips since the 486-66 days until intel's "i" series), but only time will tell if they can get their act together this year and actually compete in the mid-high end space.
The biggest problem with online-only banking is that there is really no way to get a large sum of money out immediately. The only way to withdraw a large sum is to transfer it to another bank account (1-2 days) and then go to that bank's branch.

Of course, you can use checks, but sometimes you need hard cash (e.g., buying a used car).
>This also means that you can't buy the tickets as a gift

how so? you just specify the gift recipient's name at the time of purchase.

>nor can you pass the ticket if you can't go.

don't speculatively buy tickets then? nobody seems to mind that you can't (cheaply) cancel airplane tickets.
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Michelle got actual jail time for a simple, honest accounting mistake? I don't buy it. Rich, connected people don't serve time for white collar crimes in the USA unless the criminality is severe.
Amazed to see it's still going, I haven't heard mention of it for decades. It was going to be the next big thing around the same time that quadrophonics was failing to take off. Obviously that didn't happen. :)

It was developed by the long defunct UK National Research Corporation that also brought us carbon fibre and the hovercraft.
> > Michelle had no intention of breaking any laws and no idea that she’d broken any laws.

> There is something desperately wrong with our legal system when a situation like that is even possible.

Is there? If I intend to do something which is illegal, but don't know that it is illegal or intend to break any law, should I be immune to criminal punishment? If I mistakenly believe the legal scope of self-defense includes using deadly force against threats which are only fuzzily-anticipated in the future, should murdering the roommate a vaguely suspect of harboring ill-intent against me be non-criminal?

When the law cares about intent, it is usually intent to commit the act which the law addresses, not intent to break the law by so doing. If this really wrong?
It's neat how some rap references, lip-service to integrity, and some local color about Berkeley hippies can make a multi-millionaire's story seem sympathetic, given it's about hiring a CFO who ultimately went to jail for accounting fraud.
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Incrementing counters for pageviews, visited page, referer and page width, and putting that into chartjs is something I can put together myself in two hours. It wouldn't be nearly as polished, but it would be 90% there and good enough. Plus I would have a much better idea how well it scales, and generally have less unknowns and risks.

The goal is great, the design is sleek, but at the current price point (which is already lowered to $9) and feature set, it's just not worth it to me. For that price the tool has to provide more actionable data or other value.

There's probably a market out there, but most of that market is probably not the type of person you will find on hacker news.
Note that ATS has a limited version of dependent types as compared to Idris/Agda/Coq/etc. As I understand it, you can't run arbitrary (recursive, etc) functions at the type level. But even this 'lite' version lets you express preconditions like "n is a multiple of 4" or "the source array and destination array must not overlap in memory".
Everything you said is correct.

One thing I'd add, is that Prop 13 also discourages any kind of mobility. For instance, my Mom often talked about moving to a different town, but she didn't, because her property taxes were so darn low. She's lived in the same home for over 40 years and if she relocated, her cost-of-living would go through the roof, due to higher property taxes.
this is four years old, the title should be updated.
How would an ignorance defense possibly be workable?
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I refer to this as the "spaghetti law of attraction". The burden of refactoring things gets higher and higher and no one wants to touch it. So they just add another try-catch block and do some side effect and get the PR merged.
Fewer than 10% of households in the Carolinas had federal flood insurance
I am pretty sure that would fall under pricing error laws,and at least in California, they would have to honor it.
Violating California labor law is unlikely to land you in jail-- most of the penalties are financial.