skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
1: I'm certainly no expert on anything remotely law-related, but Google would be in a lot of trouble constantly if they were liable for the real life actions of their users, especially since Google doesn't host the information, they only link to it. The same would apply to DuckDuckGo.

2: Of course nation-state level attacks are going to be an issue for a very limited number of users. Regardless, the privacy benefits from using DDG are still significant, even if it's not a silver bullet.
> Of course, we also have a national ID in the form of passports, but a lot of people don't have one.

Passports should be issued to citizens free of charge, and could carry driving endorsements as physical and digital metadata (I don't suggest that harmonizing driving credentialing and administration across all 50 states and other US territories is an enormous undertaking, just one that should be done).
How wouldn't * not compose as well as apply?
The Noise Channel: Hearing and Cheering the AY-3-8910
> "Noone is forcing you to look at it immediately every time there's new conversation happening."

Nobody except your employer. In shops that use slack it is often the expectation that slack messages should be read and responded to ASAP. If someone PMs you in slack that is taken to be the equivalent of an IM or a phone call, with the same implications of urgency. If there is a chat for your specific team then it's expected you are following that pretty closely (at least as closely as your email if not more so).

Additionally, sometimes it's not possible to avoid paying too much attention to slack. If people have a habit of dumping lots of context and decision making into slack without putting that info elsewhere (like wiki, issues, email, etc.) then at some point you need to go back and read all that backlog to keep up to date on what the hell is going on, typically it's far easier to do that as close in time as possible to the original messages, so that you're in the loop. Relatedly, people have a habit of having substantive conversations and effectively virtual meetings in slack which can include decision making as well. Meaning they can make decisions without your input, advice, or consent if you're heads-down and not paying attention, which can mean people make the wrong decisions (they did it without additional context, information, or advice you could have provided) or they make decisions that put you individually at a disadvantage (because you "weren't in the room" when things got decided).

Yes, these are absolutely undesirable and unnecessary ways of using the platform but they are also very common and they are some of the big reasons why people tend to dislike slack.
I suppose a happy medium would be making passports much easier to get. Make them completely free to apply for, simplify the paperwork and start automatically printing passports for newborns.

This doesn't solve the issue of people lacking a drivers license but might solve a few others along the way.
As gamblor956 has also pointed out, it's very jurisdiction- and time-dependent. This was Massachusetts in 1999. It might well have changed here since then, and/or always been different other places. If I were in a similar situation again, I'd have a lawyer check things out all over again to account for such differences.
Maybe I was looking in the wrong place, good to know, thanks.
By American common law every contract is completely unenforceable if any one part of the contract is unenforceable... unless you write a severability clause. Businesses are never caught by this of course, but everyday people are.

Also, contracts are not particularly binding.
Now seems like a reasonable time... I mean they have to sell eventually, right? What are they waiting for? Trillions?
That was fun. Few years back a couple faked their way to President Obama's dinner at the Whitehouse. I think confidence is supremely important. I can't fake like this. I would get caught just by my looks when I lie.
Naive question here, but how much of the time would you expect cpus in a data center to idle?
Also, you save 20% of idle (which is a sizable percentage, but not much in absolute wattage) and nothing when not idle (which is much higher wattage). So how much do you save per month overall?1%, 0.1%?
Tech lead required at Expert360
We've recently gone into the market for a new tech lead for one of our exceptionally high performing squads. The role will be a little bit technical but with an emphasis on the subtle arts of the none "hands on" components of a tech leads life.

We're currently at the edge of Elixir development in Australia and are one of the few companies willing to take on the challenges of building a scalable web application with new technologies including Elixir and GraphQL. Our new architecture is both exciting and fun to work with, and although it does have it's challenges, we're involved with the Elixir community in Sydney and Australia to help us and others.

We're building applications with React, powered by Relay, which helps us set a clear distinction between frontend and backend. One of the major challenges we have is supporting multiple versions of components while we build out what will be known as the Expert360 Design System in an accessible way.

Get in touch at agarner@expert360.com if you would like a chat about it.

Cheers!
The only place I still use google on is my phone because I haven't care enough to change the default browser. Even on desktop when I don't find what I want from DuckDuckGo I find myself using !b (bing) instead of !g (google)

On mobile it's another story. The intrusive ads from content creators (think auto playing video, full screen popup, etc.) ruin the experience and it's easier to just look at the google-provided snippets and stop visiting these sites altogether
> ... there is absolutely no way that the federal government is going to regulate driver's licenses.

While true, it’s also hilarious as they do indirectly regulate speed limits, road composition, vehicle safety features, and emission standards. So basically everything except the person operating the vehicle.
It's interesting to see how much difficulty they are having defining a PC.

I.e. if half of otherwise identical Asus machines are excluded based on chromeOs then Asus has a better than stated position on hardware volume but not Microsoft licenses. OsX has an entirely different situation and luckily easy to separate yourself but is included..
This is ridiculous because the vast majority of regulations have never been tested in court.

If you punished lawyers for making good faith attempts at following the law, all you'll do is encourage lawyers to resort to ever nefarious means to avoid punishment.
Do mushrooms count? They don't need any light at all. Shittake just need some wet oak.
In 2018 there is no question about it. They should be done in HTML.

I have some experience with this subject on my math website (http://regressionbuddy.com, look at the appendixes). Having it be adjustable to the screen size while at the same time presenting the content in an easy to follow way is challenging. But once you get it right there's no way to beat it.
Incredible video of Boston Dynamics' Atlas robot doing parkour
> This is one of those areas where I find Python a little contradictory.

It's not contradictory. You should never use args and kwargs unless you need them. Usually they're only needed in relatively rare situations, like A) when you're building a dictionary dynamically without knowing what the key names will be in advance B) when building a library where you want to allow people to subclass a parent class, but also reserve the right to change method signatures in the parent class without breaking the user code.

If developers are just using args and kwargs when calling one normal function from another then you should absolutely should not merge their pull requests until this gets removed.
You know, I figured out what the problem was and it works now. I had setup FF Sync on a PC that didn't have U2F turned on yet.
No. IT doesn't. It has to do with the GOP's platform being at odds with the domain knowledge of engineers.
Why do you assume it has to be low quality or mediocre?

The article is about infrastructure for food preparation and storage.

How many food entrepreneurs and chefs have you talked to? What are their biggest pain points and what are the biggest barriers to entry to go from a novel food idea to serving it up to customers? What are the biggest barriers to quality in food?

How many restaurant-goers have you talked to? What kind of food do people want and how is that changing? How fast are delivery businesses growing YoY and can something like this enable more delivery-based restaurants?

There are so many interesting questions and data around this space.

If you have even a fraction of the answers to these question, please do share and contribute because as it stands now, your statement is more suited for Reddit. I can't respect such a shallow take on something quite complex.
In the United States, a law cannot apply to anything before it was passed. This is in the constitution. I am not aware of any case where what you claim happened.
It's not obvious to me why anyone uses slack
That's great, I didn't realize there were micros that could do that automatically. Much simpler than the usual mucking around with registers.
This is starting to get to terminator levels of mobility.
It was sad to watch so many "intellectual elites" fawn over MBS' "reforms". Wow women can drive and go to football games. Wow folks can watch Black Panther at the movies. All the while the Saudi government is bombing the hell of out kids in Yemen with bombs that have the US flag painted on em. Hopefully this will be the beginning of a thorough re-evaluation of our relationship with KSA but I highly doubt it.
I don’t really care about privacy on my internet searches, but google isn’t what it once was.

It’s not uncommon that I have to go to the second or third page of results, or even refine my query and then go to the second or third page of results to find what I’m looking for.

If I set search filters to the last 24 hours, and search for an event, like the recent hurricane. Half the results that pop up lead to spam sites.

Google wasn’t like that before. Until last year, I don’t think I’d ever visited the second page of search results on google, unless I was searching for something really obscure or niche.

If DDG wasn’t terrible for non English searching, I’d use it exclusively. Not because of privacy, but because Google really sucks these days.

For E-mail I switched to Runbox.com, this was partly because of privacy, but it was primarily because the new gmail client kind of sucks in safari/Firefox, and despite invading my privacy, those 2-3 advertisement-pretend-to-be-real-mail-annoyances they put on top of your inbox, never actually advertise anything I’m even remotely interested in, unless I’ve already bought it.

It’s been much longer, but my first smartphone was an android. When it got ridiculously slow after two years, even when rooted and fresh installed, I got angry and bought an iPhone. I’ll never own an android device again, this is also partly because of privacy (I’d want the play store) but it’s mainly because of useability.

I’m happy people are taking privacy more serious, I should too, but my main reason for not chosing google products, is that they’ve become inferior. I mean, I think google maps is the real test on whether or not you care about privacy. OSM and Apple maps aren’t terrible, but I think most people still use google maps even though it’s arguably one of the most privacy intrusive things you’ll ever use.
Not only is this funny, it's very true.

I work in IT, and even the most computer illiterate people generally can't get tricked into using Bing.
Voting for Trump might be an anti-social way of punishing those do-gooder liberals.
I sold at $15 and was happy that I'd paid for some real fancy graphics cards with the proceeds. Valuation at one point was well over $500k, oh well. Oh and half went poof in MtGox.

I paid for a month's rent with a wallet I'd found with only a transaction fee inside which somehow didn't get deducted from a few years back.
Fair enough. Women are generally less interested in engineering, so there will always be a gap. James Damore was fired from Google for writing this memo on the tech gender gap. You may find it interesting. https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/3914586-Googles-Ideo...
More accurate:

Basic wage: X

Bonus Wage: A

Market Appreciation: B

Total: X+A+B

Under the new system

Basic Wage: X+Y

Bonus Wage: 0

Total Wage: X+Y

X+Y > X+A

Sometimes, X+Y+Z > X+A depending on if you keep the RSU. But you can always also take Y (the increase) and invest it and it will always be higher.
Compared to e.g. a Lamborghini, it's not nearly as loud in appearance and can almost pass for a normal car in a grocery store parking lot, as long as it's not fire-engine red or something. But I think this analogy breaks down a little when applied to graphics cards.
In general, if they prevent you from working in your profession, they are unenforceable in almost every state. This is for the simple reason that it is against the public's interest to have you on unemployment, and the state cares more about its coffers than business interests.

This is as an employee of course.
Fyre Festival Organizer Sentenced to Six Years in Federal Prison
Religious purposes? I'm curious to know what you meant specifically. Metaphysics?
Yeah but there are also a lot of other things that only they could be doing that don’t fit the job description. Like a software engineer having enough people skills to explain his/her solution to a problem so that someone else can take his place. Or a surgeon being able to teach a newer surgeon some of the wisdom he/she has gained on the job.

The real problem for organizations is choosing what to optimize for, and how short sighted they can afford to be to survive. Someone below mentioned that the military in a war time environment is probably something that people who subscribe to this kind of thought would think is the ideal work place. The thing is if you look at these organizations in times of crisis, they may optimize for the quickest way to win the war, when it really should be to ensure long standing peace.
Neat:

>>> pi = 3.14159; two = 2
>>> f"{two:02d} pi is {2*pi:.2f}"
'02 pi is 6.28'
Six Principles for Making New Things (2008)
Markdown gets used for user contributions some of the biggest sites on the web, like Wikipedia and Reddit. Are content editors really less technical capable than Reddit contributors?
Note that while the 555 is definitely a classic, definitely an amazing and useful chip, it puts large current spikes on the power supply and you would probably want to use something else in new designs unless you’re feeling nostalgic.
If you're interested in these classic chips and know how to solder, you owe it to yourself to build a Three Fives Kit:

https://shop.evilmadscientist.com/productsmenu/652
NetRexx 3.07 GA Released
I'm inbox zero type of personality and my workplace is incredibly email heavy. Reply-All with far more people than need be present is commonplace and it almost feels taboo to remove someone. What you end up with in a situation like that is inbox overload, synchronous conversations in email and lots of anxiety because now I have 2,000 emails in my "inbox" and just the thought of categorizing them now exhausts me.

For that type of culture, I much prefer slack. The synchronous conversation can happen, you can choose to pay attention or not and, generally, someone will @ you if they really need your input. The one thing I wish slack had was a way to mark comments as "decision points", much like what I heard stride was doing. Hopefully that'll get merged into slack after the buyout.
UIs in highly reliable machinery feels old because they're in development for so long (plus the manufacturers are typically blind to software UX).
Hopefully old car makers are currently considering easily updatable software (what an invention), so that we can have it in 3 years.
Wikipedia is also just !w
E-Textiles/ Smart Textiles
Google usually talks about it's hardware few months after they have moved to a newer better version. They probably are already using TPUv4 by now.
..except by putting a privacy skin around it
Quote: "The US government's accountability office estimates all costs associated with the project will amount to one trillion dollars."

What a waste. The money could be better spent, and I'm not referring to spending money on something better than a weapons system. That money could buy a lot more gun-power that a buggy fleet of fighter planes that will soon be soon with the rise of drones.
That is the first thing I do when I install a slack client at a new job. Turn off all the notifications. Then I check it when it makes sense for me.

I give team members my phone number and say "text me if you need something ASAP". People don't do that unless it really is important, in my experience.
Signatures are a modern thing. It used to be you 'made your mark' on a document -- many people couldn't write. So the question is, would you perjure yourself when asked "Is this your mark on the contract?". After all, many signatures bear only a slight resemblance to a printed name.

Did they ask you to sign this contract after you had accepted their offer, or after you had already started working for them? Or was it provided as part of the job offer? Did you receive any additional compensation (consideration) for signing this contract?
I had bitcoin worth about $50 in 2009/10 go poof when I reimaged a laptop and forgot to backup.
What do you mean, you "don't see this"? What else would their goals be?
I meant that the instant such a law comes into effect, it applies to all existing contracts from that point onward, right? So any violations from that point onward could be enforced based on a past contract, even though that contract used to be unenforceable. The contract wouldn't need to be renegotiated, right?
"Current knowledge indicates that if Mars were smooth and all it's ice and permafrost melted into liquid water, the entire planet would be covered with an ocean over 100 meters deep."

This seems .. incredible. Do we have a different understanding nowadays? (The paper is 20 years old)
I bet his intentional ignorance would have been just as forceful if the interviewer had asked him if he knew who Sayyid Qutb was, and the history of his association with certain wealthy saudis.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sayyid_Qutb
Well, it is a huge base! Hey, at least the VA can cover my out-of-pocket cancer expenses?
People who come from math backgrounds often becomes infatuated with complicated list comprehensions when they realize that they can be used as set-builder notation. {(x,y) for x in range(10) for y in range(10) if y == 2*x}
I am reading the end of your comment like "Apple does not pay good salaries". Is that true? I have no interest in shares / stock, just the net sum at the end of the month.
I disagree with Bruce's assessment that government regulation is the best solution to this problem. As someone who has read a lot of government regulations regarding technology, I have often found existing regulations to be unsatisfactory when it comes to actually protecting consumers. (recommending old and broken encryption schemes, arbitrary/nonsensical password requirements, etc.) The speed at which the industry moves far outpaces the ability to regulate effectively.

I would much rather see software engineers follow the lead of electrical engineers and embrace non-profit (or even for profit) certification companies à la underwriters laboratories. It would be easier for consumers as the could just see a seal of approval and know they are getting a quality product. (Think LEED certification for buildings)

If anyone is interested in starting such and organization let me know as I do think it could do a lot of good in the world.
The federal government also indirectly regulates driver's licenses, cf. the Real ID act (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Real_ID_Act).
What you say is true in general, but in the specific case of Google it’s not relevant. Googlers, even down to individual rank-and-file engineers, have a lot of autonomy and self-determination. For better or worse, what they do is mostly up to them, so they’re expected to position themselves in a way to make maximum impact. Management only provides very high-level priorities and those priorities only affect what’s easier to get promoted for, not what anyone has to do.

There are a different set of disadvantages to this system, but I just wanted to point out that in Google’s case, management doesn’t assign anything, so an engineer working on something unimpactful is not seen as a management failure but a choice made by that engineer. It’s fine to do and you can keep your job forever doing work you believe in even if it’s not overtly “impactful,” but if you want to get promoted, it’s up to you to align yourself with the higher-level priorities.

Edit: That’s not to say Google never wastes highly-paid employees’ time (like your admin example), but the core difference is Google employees aren’t just hired to “do.” They’re also expected to spend a lot of time thinking, prioritizing, and organizing themselves, so that’s not wasted time.
IANAL, but a lot probably depends on exactly how it's done. Was the previous contract, and all consideration attached to it, truly severed at some point? Was there a period, however brief, when the employee was cut off from company facilities and equipment? Was there an explicit offer/acceptance of the new employment, conducted as other offers customarily are at that company? Were any arrangements regarding things like benefit carryovers the same as those available to others, not specially made up for the acquisition case? Were any promises made as part of the acquisition itself regarding retention or compensation? I can easily imagine that one set of answers might lead a judge to believe the firing/rehiring was legitimate, and another set of answers leading them to believe otherwise. Law follows its own rules, not common sense.
I presume that the first step of your strategy would be to sell 1/4 of your holding now, since it's already doubled (more than once).

I also presume that you mean, the second time, that you sell 1/4 of the 3/4 you have left.

That strategy works for something like Bitcoin, if you got in near the beginning. It's a really nice strategy for that situation.

But let's say your employer gave you got stock options at $1/share which, at the time they were granted, was exactly the stock price. The stock slowly goes up to $2.50, then slowly falls to below $1.

There are two problems with your strategy in this scenario: First, when has it "doubled"? You were given these options for free, and (on the day they were granted), they are worth zero. As soon as the stock goes to $1.01, they've more than doubled... but you don't want to sell then. (This is also true of Bitcoins that you mined back when that was easy. They were essentially free, so when was the first doubling?)

But if you wait until the stock is worth $2 ("doubling" in another sense), then you only sell once, and only a quarter of your holdings. That's much less gain than you could have made.

Your strategy is a good one for a rocketship like Bitcoin. But you often don't know that you're on that kind of a rocketship until it's doubled several times. If you wait for confirmation that you're on a rocketship, you could miss some much smaller, but still really sweet gains.

What I did when I had the options scenario is essentially your strategy, but with much lower numbers. When the stock went up maybe 25% or 50%, I sold off some of the options. And some more when it went up another 25%. That worked very well for me. But if the stock had been a rocketship, I would have missed out on a lot.
It states that the "typical GPU system" (estimated at ~1300$ without GPU) will be 25% more expensive.

By the way, the MSRP for a regular 2080Ti is 999$, the 1200$ is the Founder's Edition price.
Not to mention all the people they've killed in Yemen and elsewhere...