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This hits close to home as I'm currently in the process of revamping our handbook and one thing I've fought for for some time is the ability to be paid out or "take" PTO if you leave the company on good terms (ie. 2 weeks notices, you aren't on a PIP, etc). My main arguments is our PTO is accrued (not front loaded) and I feel it is part of my compensation package and I am owed it. The run-around I've gotten in the past is PTO is a benefit not compensation (I honestly don't see a difference) and it would cost the company too much to pay out PTO.

My thoughts are this should be treated like 401K contributions where the company HAS to set aside the full amount of money even if the employee isn't fully vested (they get it back if they leave before fully vesting). Also, in my mind, this is easily solvable with just continuing to pay the employee for the duration of their PTO when they leave. That way it's not an increase, it's just the status quo. It would be the same as taking all your vacation then coming back and putting in your 2 weeks (or just leaving).

Would love to know any arguments you all have or have made regarding this situation.
That sounds like a missed opportunity, who doesn't want higher performance fuse filesystems?
>I have read, I can't remember where, that actually going cold turkey for hard drug (heroin, crack, etc.) addictions is a lot more effective than gradual decrease in use

You can't just group all "hard" (what exactly does this mean anyway? Is diamorphine "hard" but morphine not? Codeine? Tramadol?) drugs under one umbrella. You ESPECIALLY need the appreciate the differences between, for example, benzodiazepine (are these "hard"?) withdrawals and crack withdrawals. An addict withdrawing from crack/coke mainly needs sleep and nourishment, "cold Turkey" is a realistic option. An addict who is physically dependent on benzodiazepines will have a grand mal seizure and die if you attempted to force them to "cold Turkey". Gabaergic withdrawal (alcohol/ benzodiazepines/barbiturates/GHB) is a death sentence, opioid withdrawal (diamorphine/morphine/ methadone) sincerely feels like a death sentence but is very rarely lethal (and then almost always a result of dehydration), stimulant withdrawal (meth/coke) is never lethal. I've oversimplified greatly, but I think you get the point.

Also note how alcohol withdrawals are often lethal. Very few people classify alcohol as a "hard" drug comparable in seriousness to heroin, but from a physiological perspective alone, alcohol dependency is far more damaging to the user than heroin dependency. A dependent user could use opioids every day of their life and die at a normal age, completely healthy (the negative health effects from opioids are almost entirely a result of users being forced to turn to a black market). This cannot be said for alcohol.

Before advocating for any policy in regards to a serious public health issue, please at minimum read up on the literature regarding physical drug dependency, the differences between the major classes of commonly abused drugs, and which (humane) approaches other countries have tried which have yielded positive results.
What is required by states or not is irrelevant if you signed a contract.

If the contract says "I will give two weeks notice before I leave" and you sign on the dotted line, then you need to give two weeks notice before you leave or else suffer the penalties described in the contract.

You can't cite laws to get out of contractual obligations unless the contract demands you do something illegal.
Never underestimate the profits of established industries from continuing business as usual...

Climate change is not just some "use electric cars" thing, it's also "change whole industries", "stop producing/selling as much crap" thing, and that flies in the face of constant magnification of everything...
Ive noticed this too alot lately and I've actually started to question if our ideals are really moral.

I think we have a very serious conversation ahead of us as a culture.

Are we the bad guys?
Isn't that the distinction between "Programmer" and "Architect" that some places use? Although, it isn't really standardized.
The problem isn't "overpopulation" it is resource consumption.

How can it be too many people when a person in one country uses 20x as many resources as a person in another?
Probably could of sued them for violating their own policy. But my guess is its better to just leave.
It's installed an works many places so it's not quite Hurd.
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Agreed. However, Synology uses it in their NAS products along with md RAID. Also, SuSE ships it in all their products. OpenSuSE LEAP 15 which was released two weeks ago and has a transactional updates feature that uses btrfs snapshots.
But be aware: The free-will model can be uninstalled from your brain, and this may have interesting side-effects. (Including possibly temporary DPDR, though I wouldn’t necessarily call DPDR a bad thing, just... atypical. And it helps to have solid coping strategies.)
I'm a founder and have never been an investor. I feel there are many things that could be improved, but I don't feel that moving investors to preferred is one of them.

My sense is that investors take a risk and that preferred protects them from a lot of downside of that risk. If they didn't have that protection, they'd need to do way way more work to protect against the risk, making it harder for startups to get/close their funding rounds.

Also, since investors price the risk in, you'd end up having to give investors more upside in the success case, which is a thing I'd personally prefer not to do.

What do you think are the upsides of investors having common stock only?
> There are good American variants. "Parmigiano-Reggiano" may be protected, but it doesnt mean that the only good cheese is coming from Italy.

Cool. How about they stand on their own feet and you folks stop lying about and mislabeling products?

It's also quite obvious that Italy is not the only place good cheese comes from. The UK and France at the very least are in the running.
Then there are mixed reality applications. It won’t need HFT levels of low latency, but will demand a lot more bandwidth. Many of the tricks won’t work there.

That’ll require exploiting edge distribution to its limits, with an entire new level of internet infrastructure that doesn’t exist yet.
Friendly opinion - I think it is wrong to conclude that livestock farming is inherently bad for animals and the environment.

Cow methane as a component of AGW is very over stated. Emissions have been extremely heavily researched by IPCC and ALL of agriculture is rated as contributing to about 15% of global greenhouse gases of human cause[1]. Methane from cows, rice and many other sources is included and weighted in that measurement for its intensity and halflife but is commonly misinterpreted in articles about the subject.

There are serious welfare problems with over-intense and callous livestock farming. But the life of domesticated livestock is not inherently traumatic. Many farmers take pride in the manner they keep their stock which are domesticated to be as content as can be living under humans.

The act of slaughter is morally problematic for sure, but the stress of this one event can be minimised. Livestock can be shielded from awareness and don't consider such things the way humans can. Predation in nature involves running herds of prey to panic and exhaustion, and no less than frenzied violence. Farms animals could well appreciate in ways a less challenging existence.

In order to tackle the huge amount of animal cruelty present in modern farming, I think it is important to respect that many animal farmers are not actually cruel and that livestock farming does not necessarily mistreat animals.

[1] http://www.tsp-data-portal.org/Breakdown-of-GHG-Emissions-by...
Breaking into a hotel room, and breaking into a hotel room without sufficient surveillance resources are two different things... Just off the top of my head, I can think of a few concerns. You'd need a rotating team of at least three persons to verify that the subject has left the hotel room, and isn't going somewhere for a very short time such as to the hotel laundry room, to a lobby snack bar, or such. You don't want to be surprised in the middle of installing a rootkit. Then you have to deal with the fact that the front desk staff might speak to the person later, like "Hey just checking your new key card worked OK?" "What new keycard?", alerting the person that something is fishy. You have to deal with the possibility that the person might have left a portable motion sensitive alarm stuck to the inside of the hotel room door, or a tiny camera somewhere in the room.

Lots of things can go wrong with this sort of plan. But it's not a one-person job.

You might have your rootkit totally prepared and ready to go, and find that the person has a sub-1-kilogram sized netbook/small laptop that they take with them literally everywhere they go, in a backpack, small bag, or purse.

You might have an attack prepared and get there to discover that the laptop has had its USB ports disabled in the BIOS, with a BIOS password set, and insufficient time to work around that.
Well, if you're only interested in kebab-case, then specifying that identifiers can't start or end with hyphens solves most of the problem. The only restriction would be that you'd need whitespace around '-' only when used as an infix operator.
You're certainly entitled to your opinion.
First, let me say THANK YOU for making this a free textbook available online to everyone everywhere. The world owes you a debt of gratitude. I, for one, will do my part and make a donation via the link at the bottom of your textbook's web page. I hope others here will join me.

My question is: What motivated you to create this freely available book?
Not only that, but we really don't need journalists in the traditional sense as much as we used to. It wasn't even that long ago that newspapers and TV were people's eyes and ears. Now anyone with a phone can record video of events as they happen, and anyone with a YouTube channel can report on the news and make political commentary for a mere fraction of the overhead that media firms operate on.

This isn't to say that there isn't value in traditional journalism, and I think the viability of member-supported radio is a testament to that. But the old guard of for-profit journalism is obsolete, and it's quickening its own death by going hog-wild with unverified sources, hit pieces, and lack of fact checking.
I acknowledge that this will be unpopular, but ...

Those of us who are fossil grumpuses already think IDEs often allow people to write code they don’t think enough about with the idea that issues will be caught by someone else in code review. This, at least, is what I’ve observed over the last few years.

Something that writes the code for people and people basically “code” by doing a series of micro-code-reviews seems really crazy to me for any application that isn’t just fluff. Just look at what autocorrect has done to average incorrect-words-per-sentence. One of the problems with predictive text generation in general is that in isolation the output can seem very sensible even if it’s gibberish.

So as an IDE skeptic in general, I’d be very curious to try this tool out, if only to see how they deal with that.

[I spent years and years using VC++ and other tools and it was actually this feeling of not really knowing anything that drove me away from it. Etags/Cscope/Grey/actually-reading-code was what I replaced it with..]
1x preference I think has meaning and it's reasonable.

Basically, the VC's are 'getting their money back first' - after all, they put the money in.

So if they put $1M in and the company sells for $1M ... should they only get $200K back? Or their $1M? Is the question.

Arguments can be made either way, but a 1x preference I think is something quite fundamentally different from multiples of preference.
Thanks; I'm past the edit time cut-off, but will keep it in mind for the next time I say something like that :)
Sure, especially when you VPN into a sacrificial subnet and need MFA to continue elsewhere into locked down application domains. OTOH I would leave ssh listening on a non-descript high port with MFA (key and OTP) enabled. No use worrying too much about that.
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Downvotes are because

1) This is a standard series A term sheet

2) This is a 1x non-participating liquidation preference.

Plenty of folks sign term sheets with MUCH WORSE preferences. Participating 1.5x etc.

This preference simply says, investor gets their money back if invested on a preferred basis during Series A.

That's where the real problems often come, participating preferred at 1x+. This is not one of those term sheets.

3) Fair is what is available in the market that is not misleading. A 1x nonparticipating preference is much more logical than many other approaches, so is easier to understand. And yes, if you take 20M from a Series A funder and sell for $22M, you are basically going to get $0.
When did I say that? Search traffic is a major part of marketing (along with PR, word of mouth, ads) for lots of companies, including public ones (tripadvisor, yelp, zillow, demand media). And to dismiss it is simply delusional.
I'm not sure what you mean be "that's just how context works", but perhaps to illustrate the disconnect, it is just as incompatible with GDPR to share the page URL itself, let alone data derived from it like the page category. Doing so is sharing user data in a way that is not consented to.

I don't know what you mean to say about the cookie either, the whole point of this kind of advertisement is to persist associatable data about a person for the lifetime of the cookie.
This.

We need more community/company interaction in Rust, especially in the networking space, instead of parallel implementations.
>The proportion is different, because different areas have different borrowing costs, risks, regulatory environments, etc. The proportionality is always there

That holds for everything. Only if they necessarily also move in the same way does this have any meaning, else it's like saying two points connect to a line.
If you have to embrace ugly things to prove your authenticity, you aren't authentic. In fact, if you do anything for the purpose of proving your authenticity, you aren't authentic. You're a wanna-be trying to cover up the fact that you're just a wanna-be.
I always had hobies: I used to be into live music A LOT: I went out to gigs like 5 or 6 times a week, then there was always some friends around, wine tastings, mountain hiking or random trips on weekends. I have small kids now, so I dont go out very often but there is always hiking on weekends and I spend one day a week on my wine farm.
What a great idea. That could be a tool/app in its own right compatible with whatever IDE.

Codementor meets github.

Edit: Totally forgot to mention, exercism is a bit like this but not with your own custom code. Maybe codementor meets exercism meets github.
To get kebab-case, the restriction that identifiers cannot start or end with '-' gets you pretty far. The only whitespace change is that you sometimes need whitespace around an infix '-'. Other operators are still fine, and it still works fine for prefix and postfix operators.

Also, the reason to prefer kabab-case for me has nothing to do with avoiding a keypress. It's that I find kebab-case easier to read.
A number of HN comments have pointed to the internet-native advantage Buzzfeed (BF) had, and that the layoffs are disconcerting or puzzling in this respect. It's a fair and natural point. However, there are a number of fundamental shifts occurring as the digital economy grows as a percentage of the total economy. Many companies misaligned to these on-going shifts will either change or go under.

Shouldn't an internet-native company already be well aligned to these shifts? Not necessarily. For instance, one of the shifts underway is the increasing transience of markets. That is, markets are created, undergo change, and die-off at an accelerating pace. This is just one fundamental shift underway, there are others, and companies will not exist very long if merely a portion of the company is aligned for this new environment.
He's probably being down-voted for saying erroneous things like

> The high conviction rate is a result of extremely high maximum sentences. People who are 100% innocent often plead guilty after being threatened with a 30-year prison sentence that would be only 1 or 2 years under local law.

That's erroneous because very few federal defendants actually face such long sentences, so those that do so pleading guilty is not a plausible explanation for high conviction rates.

Federal sentences for a particular instance of a crime are based on the class of the crime and on the details of the particular instance. The class sets an upper limit, which often is long, up to 20 years, but it is the details that determine how much you can actually get. To actually get anywhere near that 20 years you have to have a lot of the details against you. Typically this means you caused a lot of damages or harm, had multiple prior convictions for similar crimes, where doing it as part of organized crime, and similar things.

Swartz is a good example. A lot of reporting said he faced 30 years or 50 years or similar big numbers. Actually, he was looking at maybe 6 or 7 years if things went as favorably as possible for prosecutors.

The DOJ bears a lot of the blame for that bad reporting. They make no attempt in the press releases announcing indictments to actually compute the maximum sentence for the particular instance of the crime. They just give the maximum that it is possible for the worst possible instance of that crime committed by the worst possible defendant.

Here's a good article on federal sentence length [1].

[1] https://www.popehat.com/2013/02/05/crime-whale-sushi-sentenc...
I'm not sure.

It's possible that I came to my conclusions purely through philosophical reasoning, and that I am suffering the sort of defect that famously consumed Cantor or Gödel or Pirsig. It's easy to say, "I'm not crazy! You're the one who's crazy!" Or perhaps there is a repressed childhood of abuse somewhere in the memories, but who can tell whether repressed memories are a real thing, or whether memories are trustworthy in general.

At the same time, though, people delude themselves all the time. It's a cultural thing; I think that memetics is the right field of study for figuring out how that works. And once one starts to realize how delusional their cultural beliefs are, one cannot help but start examining themselves. Upon learning about p-zombies, for example, I realized that I must be a p-zombie, because I had no evidence to the alternative and no way to refute the argument.
Because the kernel dev decided that interfacing with the kernel through the API would change the kernel too much to not be in compliance with the GPL if your license isnt.

Its not non-GPL. Its non-GPl-compatible.
The fuzzing is interesting but whats the deal with storing config files as binaries in 2019? Paradox has tons of text configs and doesn't even bother minifying them.

Am I underestimating the quantity or smth?
I have no doubt these ships pollute really badly. That said, this is poor reporting. The numbers given in the article are impossible to make sense of as given. We get some particulate numbers for directly outside and around the ship's funnels and comparative numbers for Piccadilly Circus. But even assuming these numbers are fairly collected, that doesn't really tell us all the information we need.

The article implies this means vacationers are getting a bum deal if they are looking for cleaner air, and that ship staff might be in danger from exposure to these particulates as well. But there's no information on how often staff or vacationers are in these high-particulate zones. And there's no corresponding numbers for other parts of the ship. What about on state room balconies? Or the pool area? Or staff quarters? My wild guess is that the numbers would be significantly better than Piccadilly most places on the ship, but this article doesn't tell me if I'm right or wrong about that.

As for the "as much particulate matter as a million cars", that sounds bad, but what does it mean? Is it a million cars operating 24/7? Given that they say 30 cruise ships equal all the particulate pollution from cars in the entire UK, I'm guessing they mean a million cars' typical daily routine. Which would be what, a couple of hours at most of operation?

And then, the ship is serving as living quarters for the people aboard. So how much particulate matter is generated by electricity generation and other fuel usage of a typical home? What's the difference in those usages when people are occupying the residence versus when they are on a vacation? For that matter, how does cruise ship vacation pollution generation compare to pollution generated by other vacation modes?

Sure you can't answer all of that in one article or one study, and while I fully accept cruise ships are "wasteful" in some sense, and are definitely not a positive impact on the environments they travel through, it's important to give a full picture of the situation.

(The article is from 2017 by the way.)
Can you comment on what provider you ended up using?
TVM is an open-source deep learning compiler stack for CPUs, GPUs, and specialized accelerators. It aims to close the gap between the productivity-focused deep learning frameworks, and the performance- or efficiency-oriented hardware backends.

The conference contained 20+ talks covering deep learning compilation, specialized accelerators, IoT, ML for systems, privacy/security and more
In fairness to The Guardian, they've been writing about it for years. Online coverage seems to have started in 1999, with a few significant articles reproduced from earlier print versions.
I get it, you want some reliable subservient workers analogous to workers from America of a particular race in the 1800 who have no rights unlike yourself.
The only problem with this aproach is that the local exchange needs to do an initial purchase of Ethereum from foreign markets, which is a traceable transaction.

Once they’ve traced the original ETH all transactions flowing out of it can be blocked by the other exchanges.

Their options are to either use a privacy coin (Monero) or make the initial purchase underground and somehow hope it doesn’t get discovered.
Thanks for moving it off the cloud and making it local.

That is a huge step towards making us comfortable with the potential privacy aspects.

Do you collect any information?

And how will you make money? (I want you to be around, pay staff, do well etc)
I've never seen so much food-snobbery in 1 thread before.

Do you guys only eat food sourced from its place of origin 100% of the time? Nothing else will do?
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I tried the Wall Street Journal Online, since I think news about money is more real, but their website wasn't very good [1], I think there's still hope to get paying subscribers if the online reading experience is more pleasant.

1) Right now WSJ has three columns of text because they want consistency with their hardcopy, but it doesn't feel right for a laptop.
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Yeah excessive preferences do exactly this. But it's not the preference mechanism as much as what the preference does in relation to business value. Assuming liquidation preferences are 1x, what it means is that the company needs to build value that is well in excess of the amount that's been raised. The reason people end up surprised is that the amount raised is not always transparent, nor is the value of the business.
And I always think of Insane Clown Posse: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8GyVx28R9-s
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