skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So basically BuzzFeed could just do the math on the ten weeks of severance by subtracting each employee's PTO, calling the remainder 'severance.' I don't think they are obligated by law to pay any severance, though I could be wrong about that.
It's a consumer grade computer. We're not talking about a high performance aircraft, safety critical application, medical accessory, being in hazardous or corrosive environment, something that needs solvent resistance, or vibration resistance. It sits on a desk, that's it. There are tons of screws they could choose from.
So you have this list written, and whenever you encounter a new technology you run it by it?

Or you just imagined your ideal choosing process?

Or perhaps you use what you employer's previous employee chose to use.
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This is what I do for an IR camera project.

Set up everything how I like it, set root read-only and mount tmpfs in various areas such as /var/log etc..
Nope, not in WA. Left a job with 3 months of PTO due to 80-90hr work weeks. Never saw a bit of it but was still the right call in the long run.
according to this article, only in California (where they did pay out PTO). This was a surprise to me.
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Yes this could have been worse, and is relatively minor compared to other mideast travel horror stories. Nonetheless I feel frustrated not only losing my computer and non-backed up materials, but because this occurs as I am helping an Israeli tech company by sharing my knowledge and expertise. There has been incredible outreach initiative in the AI research community as of late -- e.g., DL Indaba in Africa -- but this makes us feel unwanted. I will continue working with the Israeli startup, but from my office in SF.
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Every open office plan or cowork office I've been in has made it almost impossible (coming from WFH) to concentrate and get things done. Having people visit to natter over things and the potential for shoulder surfing, surveillance, traffic capture drives me nuts. If you are an SA or working with private data cowork or public settings are not really an option.
Had Europe lost its tech giants?
My understanding is that California and maybe Nebraska also prohibit use it or lose it policies—although they do allow AFAIK limiting accrual to some maximum number of days
Spot on. Always buy it just cut, when possible. It does make a difference in taste.
Dr Gabor Mate has also done fantastic work on addiction. Stanton Peele seems to share some viewpoints with Dr Mate.

"Dr. Maté's approach to addiction focuses on the trauma his patients have suffered and looks to address this in their recovery"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gabor_Mat%C3%A9_(physician)
It says 'marketing' right on the front page, right next some unique drawings which indicate the kinds of things they can create. It took me less than 5 seconds.
If you're talking about GoF design patterns, then I think they are a waste of time. They are low-level and extremely class-oriented. This is exactly the area where FP wins over Java-like languages hands-down. And I'm saying this as primarily Java/C# developer. Hinton has a great presentation about it:

http://www.norvig.com/design-patterns/

What I would recommend is learning about the Smalltalk approach (not necessarily the language, but how Smalltalk environments are designed and what you can do in them). Another thing I recommend looking into is Agent-Oriented programming.

Agents seem to be much closer to Kay's original vision than anything we call "object" today.

Here is a really cool read:

https://alumni.media.mit.edu/~mt/diss/prog-w-agents.pdf

It might sounds academic, but there are tons of great design ideas there. I used some of them in HR applications, which is as "boring" and practical as programming gets.
Generation X and Millennial isn't really a sharp transition. No generation is, but it is even more diffuse this time since there wasn't necessarily one or multiple "big events" at a fixed date. I don't know if parent's argument is correct, but what is being said is essentially early Millennial, ~1985 and late Millennial, ~1995. Huge difference in many e.g. housing markets. Once people born around the actual millennial gets old enough we might start talking about Generation Z instead.
This is not simple at all! There are hundreds of corner cases to code for, you need a swarm of machines to crawl etc.

When he started more than a decade ago, there was zero competition and it was a novel idea. Now there is stiff competition.

This is far from simple - this is actually a very serious project, not an example of 500$ stuff!
Good luck with that, Airline can't do anything about that. Your next best bet is to reach out to the airport again, but this time through an embassy or consulate.
That sounds mega depressing and lonely though.
You basically can.

https://www.pcworld.com/article/253523/how_to_make_sure_that...

> The second class of signatures, which Parmar uses all the time in her practice, is signing one's name to a document electronically by typing your name in one of the following formats:

> For submissions to the Federal court system: /s/Angela West

> For submissions to the Patent & Trademark Office: /Angela West/

> Both the // and the /s/ methods are considered to be legitimate signatures under the Federal E-Sign act, and acceptable enough for the legal industry.

Here's proof of that where Federal courts are concerned: https://www.cand.uscourts.gov/ecf/signatures
This model of addiction (chemical dependency + wanting the freedom to make bad choices) is not at all backed up by modern research, and reads like it is severely lacking in compassion and empathy for people who suffer from addictions - I feel sad hearing you call these people "bullshit artists" and labeling something that so powerfully controls and hurts millions of people (e.g. nicotine) "pathetic".

Is it up to you to dictate what other people's experiences are? If someone has a crippling addiction to sex (a non-substance oriented addiction), do you believe that you can tell them that what they are saying is "nonsense" and that it actually isn't an addiction, and that they just need to "have more willpower". How is that in any way helpful?

If you are open to hearing about what the medical, psychotherapeutic, and academic communities have been learning and working on in the past few decades around addiction research and treatment, A good place to start is the work of Dr. Gabor Maté: https://drgabormate.com/topic/addiction/.
More "I didn't want to pay for AppleCare so took and risk and now need to take the phone to a dodgy after market repair company who will stick a generic OEM part on it which may or may not work properly".

Apple replaced my 6s before xmas 23 months into AppleCare with a brand new one because there was a light patch on the screen. Cost me £0.
Depends which ones. I like the smaller, casual, work-focused but friendly ones. Also flexible hours and not having events / meetups / parties is important.

Pricing-wise, from experience, the most expensive are rarely the best ones. Sometimes the free section of the coworking space is somewhat better than the paid section even (depends on a lot of factors, it makes it much easier to work with other people).
I assume whomever downvoted You has forgotten what happened to Aaron Schwartz.
Because the ceremony of a signature has been socially recognised for thousands of years. That's what our society expects.
Whether it's "worth it" is completely subjective, and differs from person to person based on their values.

You seem to value having your name remembered; i.e., you value fame, and you're projecting that onto Snowden. I don't know what Snowden values, but assuming he values fame as you do (or that the person you're responding to does) makes no sense.

If the person you responded to values only financial security and a peaceful life, then he's absolutely right to say he doesn't think Snowden's actions were worth it, because to him, Snowden sacrificed all that and got nothing in return but exile in Russia. (I guess it could be worse... there's worse places to live on the planet, but Russia is a pretty lousy place to live in my book.)
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Don't fear the reaper.
Ha, this is a good one.

"Publish their own petitions" - can you give an example? Share more details, without giving your URL or any other secret sauce away?
It's pretty hard to know what the "future reckoning" will be with the move of manufacturing to China. The situation is different from setting your house on fire to keep warm. I don't think a war between the China and the rest of the world is terribly likely and I believe globalization is overall more good than bad for humanity. Other people may of course disagree, but the issue is definitely not as clear cut as you claim.
At least the Vietnam deal has been in process since early December [1] when the Vietnamese government leaked it to the press.

What I am somewhat confused about, that maybe someone with more experience in the import/export situation can enlighten me on, is whether the Wisconsin plant was also some sort of move in this direction or not. What are the advantages of trying to avoid a trade war by opening up facilities in some neutral third country, as opposed to what they already have, which is facilities in both "belligerent" countries? Is it that you're trying to route Chinese-made products through some minor step in India or Vietnam in order to say "no these really came from India/Vietnam, the tariff doesn't apply" and maintain capacity? Or is the idea that they're ramping up enough capacity in India/Vietnam/US that they no longer have to depend on Chinese policy in general? Or something else?

[1] https://www.reuters.com/article/us-foxconn-iphone-vietnam/ap...
Or maybe puts on tin foil hat they know exactly what happened to him.
A place I used to work set it at 160 hours, got bought, then changed it to 80 hours, everyone made a big enough stink by threatening to take off during critical times. They changed it the cap to two times your yearly accrual rate which put the cap somewhere between 240 and 400 hours depending on your seniority. The cap was nice but it was almost impossible to use that much leave with the amount of job responsibility you had. You could sell your hours but it had to be agreed on at the beginning of the year and the payout spread out across the year so there was no way you could get a quick influx of cash.
> Higher quality cards such as SanDisk Ultra Mobile or Samsung Pro series should last quite a while when used as a normal "disk" on a system like this.

Nope, it's mainly marketing. Cards from those brands are fundamentally not great for sub million unit purchases. We tried to use some for the root fs for a fairly high availability appliance. If you don't want one in twenty going out in a month (and we figured out a way to make them go out after 8kb/s for 8 hours with a specific access pattern without power drops), then you need 'industrial SD cards'. They'll treat you like adults when it comes to support, will have lot codes that actually map to internal changes, etc. Trying to sell a product with consumer SD cards (yes, even the ones that call themselves 'Pro') is basically a futile exercise.
this does seem really complicated. my guess is that it doesn't save on TLB space since the hierarchy is kind of baked into that cache. it saves a little bit of memory?
Facebook is in error, and it's not the user's error for trusting them at some point and having that trust abused

We have absolutely no argument about this point.

Cutesy passive aggressivenes also doesn't really help their case. It was that, which really turned me off. I couldn't have imagined at that time how dirty that company really is.
That's great! I'll need to rebuild my Raspberry Pi if that's the case, maybe make everything run in some repeatable way so I can reprovision quickly if I need to, thank you.
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This just sounds like the old drop days, companies like snapnames, pool, namejet, godaddy have had backorders and snapping up as fast possible over APIs for ages. Only interesting bit is the policy change that caused it.
The key to getting there (aside from the driver issue), I think, would be creating an environment that is simple, easy to work with, and friendly to creating new tools. The faster you can spin up new tooling, and the more you want to, the more willing people will be to move to the new system. Then you provide VMs, emulators, and/or compatibility environments for running software from "legacy" systems.

Do not attempt to make a new posix system, because we already have giant, entrenched, mature posix OSs and you'll bring nothing new or interesting enough to the table to warrant switching while being held back by the creaking old standard.

I'd be willing to make a lot of sacrifices to move to an OS that met my personal list of wants.
No, it sounds like your opinion is born of a sheltered life. You're probably thinking something along the lines of a job being enriching, fulfilling, etc. Sorry, but that's a minority of workers; for most people, a job is just daily drudgery they do to pay the rent, nothing more. It really is just a transaction where you trade your time for money.
That's not a reason to prevent people from repairing/altering their products themselves if they want to.

People who didn't have the skills and didn't know a repair shop they trust could still pay for AppleCare, but AppleCare should have to compete on value, not be the only option because Apple locked down the product.
Every job I’ve had does not pay accrued PTO no matter how you left the company. Most states do not require companies to pay out accrued PTO.
I found that trying to solve the Advent of Code (https://adventofcode.com/) - once they were describing a problem where people were doing things, I'd actually model out the people and the stuff they would do. Elves fighting? Awesome, let's abstract that out. They all get stats and attack functions and make decisions. Elves in an assembly line? Cool, make each one take care of their own work.

So much easier conceptually than trying to use the math to abstract it all down.
Same principle when redecorating our house: Will I still like the colour after a week? a month? a year?
Look at the bottom left corner of the screen, then it becomes clear immediately. And yeah, it looks pretty.
Citation for the GoDaddy claim?
I am not saying that DL isn't very successful and very popular. I'm just saying that it isn't, all by itself, the entirety of the field of AI. I'm not arguing anything about popularity and I definitely don't have usage stats, since approximately nobody is going to publish exactly what stack they're using if they get a competitive advantage from it.

But from a research perspective, it's not hard to find papers on arXiv showing people continuing to research other aspects of AI.

It's also not hard to find papers from people suggesting that the DL train may be running out of steam in the near future. See, for example,

https://www.technologyreview.com/s/612768/we-analyzed-16625-...
Yeah, here on Ontario most of the Home Depot staff are old guys who've got plenty of experience with the stuff they sell. At worst, their knowledge is out-of-date from current best practice.
There are few use cases where that 3% matter. Unless your writing real-time critical systems, which most of us aren't.

What really matters is documentation, user-base knowledge, adoption, and honestly I think Rust is doing a wonderful job in those departments.

I think far, far down the line (5-10 years), Rust will provide an unseen boom in the utilization of embedded electronics, not in that the speed is comparable to C/C++, but because you can be more expressive and organized in your usage of the limited resources. Better code is not just code that runs faster, but is easy to read and refactor, Rust is leagues beyond C/C++ in that department, in my opinion.
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The article says they're paying out PTO in California because it's required by law. My guess is the severance is to compensate employees in states where it's not required. They could decide to pay out PTO and take away the severance, which would likely be worse for most of them.

I guess they've missed the big picture that the company is bleeding money so fast that they had to lay off 15% of their workforce.
It is no more a dark pattern than an auto-renewing annual subscription sold as a monthly one with no easy way to cancel ahead of time (assuming what others have said is correct there - I have no first-hand experience on that point as I've never subscribed).

I know two wrongs don't make a right, but then again neither does one.

And I count three dark patterns from them before we get to counting the one from that user, so that should be "four wrongs don't make a right, but three don't either"!
From my experience working on a commercial game engine, my guess is that almost anyone working on a huge C++ code base (e.g. a game engine, browser, OS or the like) would rank compilation speed as the #1 issue they would like to see addressed. Modules seem like the best candidate to improve this issue, primarily by limiting the scope of how much needs to be recompiled whenever a change is made. So I think it's a feature that is worth quite a lot of compiler-writer pain to get shipped, seeing as how many man-years it could save. That said, I don't really see why this would be all that tricky for compilers to implement compared to other recent additions in modern C++ - do you have any particular reason to think it would be? (other than apparently some communication issues within the body making the spec as per the linked article)
You can use flash drives over USB on RPi 2 and up. Boot from them and everything. Requires a tiny bit of setup.
You know those annoying notifications that usually say something like "Dawn in Idaho bought a 3 pack or gorilla stickers just now" on e-commerce sites? That's what fomo does.
I run https://awardfares.com with a friend, it's not making much money but it's certainly profitable.
It's no different to having to buy a TX8 screwdriver because you don't have one already. Even the big brands make them now: https://uk.rs-online.com/web/p/screwdrivers/1230844/

I have replaced various things on Apple products over the years myself and have had no problems at all. It's not exactly prevention!
I thought they were doing Go whenever possible.
hey there! i love travelling too, and if this website is going to become a one-stop then i'll definitely keep it in mind.

a little bug stuff i found just through user end point use.
- passport selection is white, and only highlights when moused over. (google chrome)
- when i selected UK passport the max stay became blank (i know this is just a data entry thing)

i like the simple and straightforward layout, but i'm wondering if you can have a google map part that shows the country?
or a outline of the country and it's capitals?

then i guess it depends on your vision for this is, if its just travel advice that's technical (plug style, currency) or if it's a travel guide ("best places to do in Croatia" kinda thing.)

anyway, cool stuff!
Stop worrying about edge cases
3,000 EUR to potentially get access to a ton of good domains doesn't seem like a big deal?

If I knew I could register 100 interesting domains, I would totally be willing to pay that price.
It needs a lot more work, the search is horrible, and there are a number of features needed to take it to the next level. So far their feature velocity has been tepid. I like a lot of the ideas, and appreciate a viable google docs alternative, but I fear a Dropbox-level of feature development will doom Paper long term.
>You seem to value having your name remembered; i.e., you value fame, and you're projecting that onto Snowden.

Total bullshit. Nothing I said implies any of this.

What I value is that we can have a discussion premised on facts. Snowden is a real person who exists, and we can discuss what he did and what the consequences are. The alternative is that we discuss a hypothetical whistleblower and have all our reasoning dismissed as fear-mongering or paranoia. That is what I value.

>Whether it's "worth it" is completely subjective, and differs from person to person based on their values.

To be clear, it is worth it to me to have Snowden be a whistleblower because I had to pay nothing for the privilege. There are not many people who would say it is not worth it for someone else to be a whistleblower unless they think whistleblowing is inherently objectionable.
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It is worse than "a monthly contract with a minimum of one year". It is an annual contract billed monthly. With the former you'd pay 13 months if you cancelled in the 13th, with the latter you pay for 24.
Patents were meant to protect the person who invented a particular physical object or physical process.

Patenting software amounts to patenting algorithms, which is basically patenting math. It's far broader in scope by its very nature. On top of that, it's not hard to get software patents on things that are obvious, often by simply patenting "$well_established_process, but in software".
This is amazing and fast. I'm complaining about it actually being easily broken only because I really wished this worked well, so I could build on it. It crashed for me on literally the very first thing I tried. I opened up the demo page, typed in 4 numbers in a column (in positions a5,a6,a7,a8), then typed "=sum(a5:a8)" in position a9, hit enter, and the demo crashed (with canvas all messed up). There's a traceback in the console log that starts "Uncaught TypeError: Cannot read property 'render' of undefined at cell.js:146". I'm using Chrome 71. I refreshed and tried the same test and it crashed again. There is a test suite (https://github.com/myliang/x-spreadsheet/tree/master/test) but the files have mostly not been touched in four months. In any case, awesome work - please make it even better!
Would you ruin your life if it guaranteed I'd know your name and mention you 6 years later as an example of someone who ruined their life without achieving anything?
The real stuff, for my palate, is the single best food there is. It’s that good.

Some prosciutto di Parma and Parmasean-reggiano is my last meal.
> There are legal rights that are protected to the extent that you cannot waive them

Yes. This is entirely about "legal rights". Why would you assume otherwise? And the right to go to court, the right for the law of the land to be applied, is a legal right, it may even be a human right. The US is lacking behind the world in legal and human rights, is the entire point of this thread.
PTO is a benefit since there is no law that it has to be given out. Paying out PTO after you leave is another thing that isn't mandated so therefore it's a benefit. PTO and the payout of the balance shouldn't be a benefit, it should be the law.
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this is the most pretentious thing i have ever read? is this satire?
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