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> Result is the same, VAT is not a cost for enteprises.

That's just partly true. Depending on the taxing agreements between two countries involved you can apply reverse charge, yes. But within one company's country, the VAT is not something that you can "just refund" from the government. Instead you can set off the VAT you've paid against the VAT your customers paid.

In other words: The only way for you pay zero VAT is if your earnings (income minus expenditures) are zero too (something that despite the tax-evasion clichés is something that companies usually try to avoid).
TBH - Do you even need 1TB of storage on your desktop? If your image/music library is that large, you'd have it on a NAS. Maybe if you've got a big batch of VMs for some reason...
You could get the 970 EVO as well. IIRC it's also MLC.
Note that this means you lose the ability to use option-backtick for diacritic marks. Normally option-backtick followed by a makes "à", Option-backtick followed by e makes "è", etc
1) Identify the absolute worst thing that can happen if this individual does truly have a significant exploit on your site. What is the absolute worst thing?

2) Accept that #1 might happen. As in truly accept this as a possibility

3) Work in ways to mitigate #1. What active steps can you start taking right this very minute to mitigate any potential damage done from the worst case scenario in #1?
I was wondering the same thing. I have a huge project that I would love to TabNine. Since they are still on beta, it's possible to be a product limitation rather than a business limitation.
There is no such mapping, especially with STAR. So, the critique of scoring based on mapping being variable is fundamentally a misunderstanding.

In STAR voting, you have up to 5 points to give to each candidate. You effectively get to push each candidate ahead in the race relative to the others by as many as 5 steps forward. There is NOTHING subjective about the meaning of points. They are just points. More points wins. They have no cultural signficance, no opinion, nothing subjective.
A visual aid that I might edit into the post later: https://twitter.com/kemitchell/status/1059574111733657600
Selecting algorithms well is not trivial. How many people think about the difference between linear search in a small array versus just passing maps around without calling it optimization?

It also doesn't matter as much if your design is a mess of abstraction and indirection that spends 95% of its time chasing pointers and inspecting maps.
I've bought two Minis as dev machines in the past. Portability was part of it. I also saved a bunch of money because I already had a full set of peripherals. Edit: Upgradable RAM and the ability to install a second drive was also great in retrospect, I wonder if the latter is still possible with the 2018 model.

And I'm not sure whether glossy Retina screens are really the best bang for the buck for developers. I often wish I had dual 1440p or a ginormous 21:9 screen when I'm dealing with complex projects.
It's not specific to the Python one, and if it were synchronous I/O sendmsg would block, not return EAGAIN.
> I think bootcamps are a social signal as much as anything else, if you get a private tutor it's basically invisible.

This ^
I believe voting is a public good.
We have a peak where we use 16 instances for about two hours for the throughput we want and a trough where we only use one. The T2 instances are really cheap. This is a back end ETL message processing job.

We also do an immutable deployment for our web stack - we spin up a completely new stack - VMs, autoscaling groups, load balancers, etc. test it, slowly move users over to it and then kill the old stack.

That doesn’t even include all of the managed services we use and don’t have to worry about managing the underlying servers.
It's not a terrible idea, it's a bad metaphor from imperfect people trying to explain a perfectly fine idea.

STAR voting is NOT like rating books on Amazon, it's just superficially similar.

At Amazon, if you don't like any of a bunch of books, none of them get 5 stars. With STAR voting, you award points not to mean anything, but only to decide how much ahead in the race you want to push each candidate versus the others. Whoever you want to win most, you push them ahead with all 5 available points. That's it.

Your reaction and misunderstanding does further my annoyance at the people explaining STAR using the Amazon analogy, and I think that bad comparison is harming support for what is truly an excellent voting system.
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This article makes me happy. To see that Apple is listening. I'm super excited for the next Macbook Pro,and I really hope we really get something that is better, more reliable and practical. I'll be thrilled if they can find their groove again for the Macbook Pro
> people that are required to interview for every job on the board to maintain unemployment.

I'm pretty sure you're being hyperbolic, but that sounds hellish. I have GAD and dread interviewing so much that I'd forego unemployment and just work as a Task Rabbit or something.

To preempt the inevitable responses: Yes, I do have a family to support and, yes, I have worked as a Task Rabbit or done manual labor when faced with similar situations in the past.
I've seen various performance management systems at eight different employers now. My conclusions:

1. Some feedback is useful. Sometimes it's hard to be sure how you're doing, particularly if you're not super-sensitive socially.

2. More is not better. Once a year is plenty.

3. It's mostly subjective. Trying to draw clear lines is probably a waste of time. A very experienced organization may be able to create some guidelines, but they should be guidelines, not rules.

4. In the end it's all about whether you are making the boss happy. The only reason to involve anyone other than you two in the process is when some of your work is genuinely out of view of the boss.
Oh great, an ad that covers the entire page on mobile. Guess I'm not reading this article then.
Has anyone benchmarked it yet?

Frustration I have with latest iPhones is that they still run on USB2.0 speeds. Sure, USB-C cable supposed to do up to 10Gb/s, yet you are pumping 512GB of data at 20MB/s...
Here, or https://www.memsql.com/forum/, or memsql-public.slack.com.
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Those two are far from mutually exclusive
*nix shells typically do something very similar, where hitting tab auto-completes up to the first forking character
Well seeing that the executives who chose IBM in the 80s were right. You can still buy new hardware from IBM that is compatible with thier systems from the 80s. Thier competitors not so much.
Chicken-parts processor interviews aren't like this, para-legal interviews aren't like this, firefighter interviews aren't like this, teacher interviews aren't like this, etc.

Doing this sort of interviews on programmers probably wouldn't work even if current programmer interviews do suck for both parties and they're mostly embarrassing, too.

I'm guessing here and might be wrong but all these professions have a rather fixed set of limited skills they have to know in order to qualify. Teachers have to teach a certain curriculum: on top of that they can be bad teachers or good teachers but basically what they have to achieve each year for each class is known and predicated. Firefighters have their training and as a baseline it's sufficient to be a good team player and just execute. Firefighters will have to improvise at times, and they will have opportunities to make some really good judgement calls based on their experience alone, but that's sort of extra. You're still a good firefighter if you just stick with doing it by the book.

Now, the same for programmers would be something like "Must know Java and we'll hire you". This didn't end very well in the IT bubble twenty years ago. Knowing Java inside out doesn't make you a good programmer, not even a good Java programmer, there's so much more to that. Would you hire an artist based on "Must know how to paint in oil, watercolor, and draw in charcoal"? That's where the real skills begin, not suffice.

If you're a Java programmer it doesn't mean you can just sit down and program anything for any company: there are hundred domain-specific skills and questions, all sorts of CS theory of which you know one or two fractions based on what you've worked on before, and a very specific mindset that makes a good programmer for a specific role. To some extent you can be a generalist and learn a bit of this and that but especially for heavy specialists it could take years to transition from one specific subdomain to another.

All programmers are cathedral builders but they will all make very different cathedrals and they are continuously requested to make cathedrals that have not been built before. Then there are other jobs where they follow the blueprints and produce a cathedral one after another, meeting the same requirements each time.

I'm not saying programmers are superb to these other professions when it comes to complexity and depth. It's just that a programmer's job can be about anything: the number of problem domains is endless and more so as the world becomes more software than hardware. You can do so much with computers and programming that whatever baseline there exists alone doesn't yet take you anywhere as a programmer.

There's the fizzbuzz level of a baseline, there's the skillset, buzzwords and qualifications baseline, and there are a lot of other baselines that need to be met. That's why you need to figure out a way to interview programmers that takes all this into account.

There's no single interview that could be used to qualify people for being hired as a programmer because the requirements are never fixed.
No worries. Thanks for the response.
My experience has been that people are weirded when someone talks from a non-natural perspective. I've met many women who talk naturally in a confident and assertive way, and it doesn't feel like they're forcing it, or telling themselves "I'm going to try to sound like an empowered man when I say this." It just seems to fit holistically in the situation. I personally get push back when I try to sound more confident than I actually am on an issue, vs when I actually am very confident on an issue. People seem to be good detectors of subtle cues.

So I guess my point is, are you only noticing it when you are testing for it?
The Belyayev foxes have always fascinated me. And I've wondered about the feasibility of applying his domestication protocol to other animals, like apes, raccoons, etc. Or alternating selection for tameness with intelligence every few dozen generations.

Maybe David Brin's idea of Uplift could become a reality.
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I'm a dude and usually say "Can I please have..." but I'm from a Commonwealth country and I think there's a tendency for British/Commonwealth people to be less brash than Americans.
That's the thing about a disease that kills >50% of the people it infects -- there's no ethical risk in using untested, unproven vaccines to fight it. It's still better than the alternative, even if there's bad side effects.
And then you have only one data center.

It’s not just about your data. You need to have your entire stack in a different region.
The most important bit WRT to TR3 is going to be the central I/O chiplet instead of dividing memory controllers between individual Zeppelin dies. No more NUMA headaches to deal with on their workstation/enthusiast CPU's, I'm glad that AMD saw that such an approach wasn't going to work long-term (at least not for the time being when basically anything outside large database systems and hypervisors lack even basic NUMA-awareness).
Does npm not have version pinning? Why would you want to operate as if you didn't have a package manager, as your default behavior?
You should not let others define this for you. You should feel satisfied based on your progress towards your goals, as defined by you.
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The SD card reader was the first thing to break as well. And the cost of replacing it was way more than a SD > USB dongle.
Are sufficiently severe injuries to warrant a physician, not an ambulance.

And the cheaper option for Tesla would be not to hire a team of full-fledged doctors waiting in a room 365 days/year for taking care of any injured worker.
FPTP is not the only system to do that - if the vote is to decide who represents _you_, any system can do that. If the vote is instead to give the party a certain amount of power, it won't do as you want regardless of the voting system.
> I can only understand his anxiety if he is an exec high up the chain and likely will be trimmed and his multi-million dollar salary is affected, and he has a huge mortgage, and lots of bills to pay and so on. Otherwise, life just goes on.

There are other sources of anxiety besides financial
The longest-unique-prefixed-subword is the completion that bash (and tcsh and many other shells) have had for ~30 years now. The non-uniques are listed on the 2nd tab.
The point of a "practice interview" is that you can actually get feedback, as opposed to going and doing a "real" interview for practice.

As for not being able to risk rejection, what is there to risk besides time? I've heard of people practicing for 3+ months. In that same time period, one could probably get 10 onsite interviews and a lot more phone screens in. The fundamental problem is the lack of feedback on rejection (although it's possible to get randomly hired while doing this type of "practice").
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It could be that people are happier with something they were a part of building, even if it’s not better.

Though change can be difficult.

The very article posted that new functions in the EHR increased deaths by 0.11% per function in the first year, but then decreased by 0.21% per year.
The author did mention an all-hands with both Red Hat and IBM executives; there's a pretty good chance some "insider" information was shared there
>Apple lent me a high-end configuration for review

Is this common, for a company to lend a product for review, instead of just giving it to the reviewer?
Just out of curiosity, what kind of places have you been interviewing? I'm at about 5 years, and I'm still getting mostly the same old "write down the solution to these leetcode problems" type interviews. I would say 75% is leetcode bullshit, maybe 25% more applied type interviews.
Perhaps in past years. This year, with the lower growth and decline in job numbers, it's been doing worse.
As others said, if 9.7% was guaranteed enough, who would lend Softbank at 7%? Banks aren't that stupid, they'd buy S&P (feedback loop)

Even 7% is an extremely good return rate.

Softbank does these things because they have access to a lot of easy money.
Lol, dude, I'm 31. I've been doing this for around 10 years now. And I'm alright at it :P

Have you seen how happy homesteaders are?

On a serious note. I'm aware. That's why I did my own company with a friend. It cuts a lot of bullshit out I don't have to deal with anymore. As (essentially) a contractor, it's easy to tear people a new asshole in a meeting and get away with it. I can't imagine an employee being able to.

First off, people need to stop worshiping the ilk like Jobs, Musk and Bezos. They're just money makers. Just like Rockefeller, Morgan and Carnegie. None of them are visionaries as all their ideas are easy to spot from history or other people. Like the hyperloop... just about 80 years too late to call that one unique. Ooooo you put colored pieces of plastic on a computer and made a small digital music player. The Zune was WAY better! The other guy just sold books and moved on to other shit. Congrates on the better mouse trap. But it's not like they did it themselves.

Maybe a homestead on a tropical island... I like coconuts.
>Runoffs are something people understand, IRV is conceptually similar and makes intuitive sense to people, it's very easy to explain to people, 'if nobody gets a majority, eliminate last place and redistribute their votes, repeat'.

> Compare that to to some of the other systems which often have complex mathematical descriptions which are hard for people to wrap their heads around.

> Another thing is how big a deal is 'non-monotonicity' is it actually going to be something that will affect elections all the time, or is it something that's more minor than say turnout which honestly has no solution and on one side you have USA where turnout is low so the game is all about making sure your base turns out, or on the other side you have Australia where voting is mandatory so making sure people who don't care, don't vote at random is a big part of the game.

> Runoffs are something people understand, IRV is conceptually similar and makes intuitive sense to people, it's very easy to explain to people, 'if nobody gets a majority, eliminate last place and redistribute their votes, repeat'.

Compare that to to some of the other systems which often have complex mathematical descriptions which are hard for people to wrap their heads around.

It's fascinating how a similar constraint arises in industry software engineer; more than fascinating
I think he was commenting on the generational trend. There is naturally going to be a shift when two billion new users enter a media landscape that was previously only occupied by a few professional firms. In addition, I think it would be hard for an intellectually honest person to deny that in the current age of click bait news that agencies of all stripes are running articles with less corroborating evidence than they would have in the past so as to be the first ones to the scoop. Unfortunately, Russian facebook trolls have set the new burden of proof for online kangaroo courts, and it is not much.
This is insightful and reassuring. Thanks for sharing.
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> What's wrong with perl?

It combines all the worst aspects of C and Lisp: a billion different
sublanguages in one monolithic executable. It combines the power of
C with the readability of PostScript.

> To me perl is the triumph of utalitarianism.

So are cockroaches. So is `sendmail'.

— jwz [http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=33F4D777.7BF84EA3%40netscape.com]*

~ and ~

If the designers of X Windows built cars, there would be no fewer than five steering wheels hidden about the cockpit, none of which followed the same principles – but you’d be able to shift gears with your car stereo. Useful feature that.
As long as there is demand, he'd most probably maintain the project but it's not a disaster if he decides not to.

If there won't be any demand for this tool in a few years this could mean 2 things: Either people think it's not worth it (in this case, you don't lose anything by not using it) or there are better/cheaper alternatives (and you can use them)
Take a look here for some solutions:

https://www.openmined.org
> I didn't know PH is not cool anymore

Well, they did get acquired by AngelList. PH isn't really seen as a credible source of cool products anymore since they supposedly can rearrange the top content based on who's paying AngelList the most money.
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How much do we know about honeypot liability?

It seems like the last time I looked into this, precedents were not well established. In school, we avoided the issue by only doing exercises on virutualized networks not routed to the real internet.

I have been tempted to do this sort of thing myself, but I am uneasy about it. This would seem more defensible under the auspices of protecting a private business owned network, behind other layers of security, and one would also be backed by an organization with deep pockets and skin in the game. Doing this alone with willfully mis-configured servers on the public internet seems to rely on luck, in the hope that the attackers won't attract the attention of anyone important...
False positives probably aren't a huge concern over in Putinville
We're looking at moving to Epyc but waiting for Epyc2.

Currently on 2 socket Gold 6126's across the board.
Ask HN: How to have a meaningful runup to Christmas, especially for kids?
Christmas seems to have lost its meaning in many ways.

I'm talking here about the few weeks running up to Christmas day.

How to celebrate the run up to Christmas in a personally meaningful way?

Any ideas?

Obviously the answer is "it depends on who you are and your personal values", but I'm wondering if anyone has any ideas for making special experiences, especially for children.
Did Heptio do some consulting for Amazon AWS? They have a guest blog post from memory, and im wondering if they helped kickstart EKS? Obviously they built aws-iam-authenticator, and as a company worked with AWS services... I would have thought Amazon acquiring them would have made way more sense?
For 1., looks like any adjective works as opposed to just proper nouns representing places.

Also, for 3. seems like all the nouns are plural, so the singular and plural forms don't necessarily have to match.
No doubt many new hires are OK relocating to Menlo Park. Evidently, many are not. Facebook would not invest in an expensive offices in NYC, for instance, if everyone was just happy to relocate to its huge campus in Menlo Park.

My comment referred to the first proper Facebook campus was going to be very close to Palo Alto since that's where their first offices were. Just like has been the case for Google and a bunch of other SV employers.
Elfen magic(tm) or Blue Crystals(tm). Your choice.
Why should Ireland be able to determine the taxation policies of Ireland? The EU doesn’t set immigration law for Ireland does it? Why should it be allowed to dictate tax law? Low taxes can be a competitive advantage to fiscally responsible countries, why must the EU try to “fix” that?
> There is no such mapping, especially with STAR.

Yes, there's a mapping to a (typically 0-5) numerical rating like those popular in online review systems, which is a motivation for the forced acronym, and exactly the similarity that is viewed as making it particularly intuitive and accessible.

Cultural differences in how such rating systems are used for similar preferences have been studied considerably.

It's true that you can also view STAR as a limited bucket (and so forced-tie for any but the smallest candidate pool) ranked-ballot method, in which you force voters to arbitrarily select which intercandidate ranking preferences to suppress, and then do a completely wacky (from a ranked preference perspective) method of tallying the ballots.
If you hate standing in line and talking to your neighbours so much, just vote by mail.
projects they worked on that failed

That's a bad one, considering that everyone is supposed to be upbeat and positive in the face of adversity. You can't place blame on management and the environment that was in no way conducive to success because that's not culturally acceptable.

Are we supposed to prepare an answer for that question now as well because the true answer (unrealistic expectations from upper management and insufficient infrastructure) will make you fail the interview? What you could ask is what will make a team fail, and my answer would be autocratic management.
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I don't think they care if you read the article. They just care that you saw the ad.
Micro garbage.
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Yeah. "Give me ..." without even "please" just sounds rude.
What are some valid complaints about XML? I was talking to one of the older IT guys at my company a while ago, and he was all about it because it made serializing data structures very simple. I'm not sure if that's a valid use case or an example of the kind of monstrosity that XML-haters hate.
Is this the one that can’t handle installations across time zones?
It's never worth asking. They just didn't want to take the time to talk to you.