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Hobbyists and tinkerers like us are somewhere between completely irrevelevent and mostly irrevelent when it comes to market share.
Instead of writing code to beat the market, they are better off writing code to create valuable datasets they can then sell to wall street. Or applications to help Wall street analyze huge datasets, sentiment or news feeds.

Selling shovels, so to speak.
How about Norway just stop pumping oil to reduce our carbon footprint?
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If this person was observant Orthodox Jewish, and you expected them to be available on Shabbat, it'd be a clear violation of religious freedom - I don't see why a particularly religious Christian shouldn't get the same exemption. It's not reasonable to expect someone to be available 24/7 unless they were on call for this particular spell, as part of a rotation.
If you want plain sight you need not look further than Catholic Church.
Wow, that's not as short, as I expected, but nailed it.

A TL;DR; of TL;DR; : they are talking about reformulating laws of physics, so that formulas would not be dependent on space and time.
Postgres' cost model uses a bunch of constants that evaluate the relative cost of queries with regard to CPU and I/O and random vs. sequential reads. You can actually tune the cost model yourself by changing the values of the constants. Cost does not really map to wall-time in any way besides the default constants being chosen relative to the cost of a sequential read as a basis (and Postgres admits these relative values are not scientific or necessarily accurate).
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I stumbled across a blog post that used Arch and Shorewall to roll a diy router. Any chance you used a blog post for inspiration and if so do you have the link still? I have been trying to find it ever since...
Don't have one on hand but I have seen quite a few. I have heard that they are mostly 20% time projects though I'm not sure if they try to take code written on your own time but it looks like they do (and anything else you have written before working there) from this:

https://opensource.google.com/docs/iarc/
Companies have an obligation to make reasonable accommodations of employee's religions. Not expecting them to be available during major religious holidays is well within the bounds of reasonable accommodations. In addition, unless there is more to the story, it doesn't seem believable that someone acting in good faith wouldn't be able to work something out; I mean Christianity only has two major holidays.

This is excluding extreme cases like if someone claimed that their religion has dozens of major holidays a year. To my knowledge, no major religion does that.
No, it actually wouldn't. The law prevents people from being treated differently because of their religion. No law obligates employers to respect religious beliefs. You simply can't treat them differently because of them. That's certainly not the case here.
Reputation has a lot of hidden costs. Simply having a smaller pool of applicants means they need to either pay more or accept what they consider worse employees. Similarly, high turnover means the loss of skills and the inability to underpay highly valued workers.

Both of these directly impact the bottom line and in competitive markets can and has killed companies.
On top of how late "new stuff" often was, I never understood why they kept out of date, unsupported stuff running for so long - especially for free, open source projects.

http://rubies.travis-ci.org/ They support ruby 1.8.7 and ree. ree went unsupported in 2013 (https://www.infoq.com/news/2012/02/ruby-eee-eol)

If anything, I feel like they are actually doing the open source community a disservice by supporting build environments that are no longer supported by the upstream community. They legitimize testing against ancient, unsupported environments, rather than moving forward deliberately to stay on a supported stack.

I understand there is a burden on updating software, but given all the trouble we have with breaches in old software, we need to bias the world toward staying on stacks that get security updates rather than sitting stagnant.
> Compared to other operating systems? Not that many problems.

I disagree. It's roughly the same amount of problems. That was my initial point before you went all Linux Crusader on me: printers suck everywhere.
That's exactly why we steered clear of adding email sign-ups in addition to our social auth. When we had both, it caused a lot of confusion, especially given the small percentage of sign-ups via email.
Neither of us are lawyers, but it's my understanding that the law is that an employer must made accommodation for religious services.

Several people my wife works with are deliberately scheduled around their weekly religious obligations.

Perhaps an actual lawyer on HN can chime in, or post a helpful link.
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> I'd be interested in the details once everything is decided

I'll give you a preview: This is going to settle very quickly. Yelp probably wins the court case, but there's no way they are letting this type of story stay in the press forever.
> Averaged across distinct contracts (as opposed to contract-instances) forced arbitration is a very good thing.

Forced arbitration is a very good thing for the employers. It's not a good thing for the employees, who are effectively signing away a huge swath of rights.
A background of arduino gives you a view of the microcontroller world that is like climbing a minaret in the smog in delhi gives you a view of the himalayas.
No comment on the merits of the case, but the headline is really hiding the ball. Instead of "Manager" they should say "Man Tasked With Granting Out-Of-Hours-Access to Office".

I.e. this wasn't just some random manager, but evidently someone they needed to be available to grant out of hours access to their offices.
No, discrimination isnt just changing the norms for an employee because its a religious holiday, its about not respecting that employees right to worship as their religion calls them to.
Ah but that is while it is free and presumably everyone else is using it. If it costs a dollar people would have to enter payment information all of a sudden, so it is putting a decision point in front of people where they have to expend effort and money (albeit a small amount of both) to keep using this thing.

If their friends seem hesitant about it maybe they won't sign up to pay for it.
lol, i was gonna say the same thing.
It isn't. But as I stated, there were exactly zero choices other than Made in China when I searched. And I did a very thorough search.
The rainforest on the Olympic Peninsula is beautiful and rich with plant life, but the South is a different beast. If you take an empty lot in the South and wait a year, it will be packed with growing things, sprawling and reaching toward the sun. The rate of growth is just insane.
> doesn't even support SERIALIZABLE on read-only replicas yet

What are the anomalies here? Could a replica diverge or succeed where master failed or sth? I never asked these questions before.

> It‘s complicated, and we aren‘t even talking about multi-master.

Hah, a dream. Very interesting read, thank you!
In addition to the other answers, one of the reasons animals strive is to attract a mate.

I think a lot of people marry someone who did so with an understanding that the gravy train continues indefinitely.
They say "mainline Linux". Lima the open source driver for Mali GPUs is mentioned. I don't know if it's already in Mesa. I would say WIP, but seems doable.
And what is unethical about betting in principle? You haven't provided an argument.
Not so sure about that. I am not a lawyer, but from what I've read, the courts are very particular about religious discrimination cases and part of the burden of proving religious discrimination is to demonstrate a policy or behavior that has the effect of singling out individuals of a particular faith.
That quality of an interviewer is something that not all podcast hosts have. I find that if an interviewer is a trained journalist (i.e. Ira Glass), they do ask questions from a point of curiosity, even if they know the answer.

Contrast to someone like Dax Shepard, or in some cases Sam Harris, where they may monologue during an interview, or basically try to interject knowledge or anecdotes to prove they know the material. Harris I can deal with, and to his credit he will sometimes shut up and let the guest talk (e.g. Harris interviewing Zeynep Tufekci). I had to turn Shepard's podcast off after about 10 minutes.
We created a Segment account over a year ago, but didn't start using the service because (a) our startup wasn't quite ready, or had the traffic to collect meaningful data, and (b) couldn't afford the pricing at the time.

I wonder if we could transition that old account to this new startup plan, as we are still at early stage (just got into our first accelerator a few months ago) and bootstrapped?
"I don't care about your religious holidays or children" in this case likely should be interpreted to mean "your exact reason for not doing your job doesn't matter".
"Maybe this should be called "lifestyle inflation." Through social pressure, greed, trendiness, or perhaps stupidity, people piss all their money away and need more."

There's also a lack of education teaching people to value and strive for something beyond material goods, fashion, and whatever the mainstream media happen to be hyping at the moment.
I agree with the notion that democracies aren't synonymous with "good", but I disagree that things shouldn't be democratic. The sole purpose of democracies is to make people's problems their fault. Most systemic issues we see today have a root cause in people giving up their ability to vote -- electorally, financially, or otherwise. Keeping things democratic means keeping people's options open and legally, in writing, preserving each person's share in the power pie. IMHO, that's a worthwhile goal in and of itself.
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You could also consider a dynamic split arrangement.

Used Slicing Pie (https://slicingpie.com) once and can never start a venture any other way. And the free excel sheet is actually better than the application ;)
> The oath of office and the process of electing the president, for example, is followed to the letter as if the consititution is the source of authority, though we really basically cast it aside for everything else.

No, we mostly don't.

> Have you ever tried to get a trial jury for a traffic ticket more than $20 (which is a civil, not criminal, suit)?

Like all of the Bill of Rights, the 7th Amendment is a limitation on the Federal government.

Unlike some provisions of the Bill of Rights, the provision of the 7th you raise has not (as of yet) been found to be a component of “liberty” protected by the 14th Amendment Due Process Clause and, thereby, incorporated as a right defended against State action.

Traffic tickets are generally under state law and thus not subject to the provision.
How is Facebook supposed to differentiate between somebody who is an admirer of Nazi icons, and somebody simply doing research on them?

The degree, frequency, and enthusiasm with which they share content are good clues, among other factors.
I mean, I'm a big fan of privacy but I consider an airline cabin to be a pretty public place.

I'm already used to security cameras in pretty much every public building I walk in...

...can anyone think of something nefarious that could be done with these cameras?

The only possible "threat" I can think of would be to eavesdrop on someone's laptop/conversation for potential business secrets or otherwise, but the cameras are pointed at someone's face (not screen) and no mention is made of a microphone... although planes used to have those phones (obviously with a microphone) in them for many years.

And in any case, a commercial flight is probably not the best place to be discussing top-secret info anyways.
A downvote without a (short, simple) statement of reason can be quite impolite and disrespectful. This is a perfect example.

Not only is it discouraging (not everyone knows they've made an error...and so it punishes an innocent question ), it leaves the recipient without knowing what the problem is.
The longer the duration, the more it is a good idea to be heavy in equities. This can be teased out of the data on firecalc.
In Seattle, I mow the lawn every two weeks for about six months of the year. When I lived in Florida, if I didn't mow at least once a week, almost all year, I would very quickly get a lawn too thick for my lawnmower to get through. The Gulf Coast is always waiting for a moment's inattention to revert back to the jungle that it desperately wants to be.
Binding arbitration is a good way to limit liability and bad PR; take it away, and the company will be looking for something else to de-risk them.

I expect the outcome will be more contractors, since those companies that employ the contractors do not have to abide by this.
From own experience (switched to ML 1.5 years ago):

1. That software engineering skills are way more important than ML skills.

2. That you'd be spending more time on making presentation than doing ML (and it makes sense, it's very important to present statistics properly).

3. That most problems don't need good ML models. Something cheap and easy is often good enough. What you do need to be good, is data pipelines around them (see 1.)

In my case, I learned ML enough to feel "senior" compared to other people in company and online in less than a year. Same path to Senior SWE took me much longer (way larger mandatory knowledge base, probably because ML is a young field). So I'd say ML is definitely easier.
I sleep better working in HFT than working in regular tech

HFT, at worst, adds exactly zero value to society. I don't buy into the memes of "we provide liquidity!" or "we make markets efficient!" being some noble mission. But HFT certainly does no harm

Regular tech ultimately just pushes ads or products on people, which I consider poisonous to society
Glassdoor says the average was only $12 but in October they raised it to $15 minimum. Walmart’s low end is about $13 but the average is $17 an hour. Walmart has 1.5 million workers in the US, over 2 million worldwide.

The goods news is Amazon’s pay raise has made Walmart and Target increase their minimum wages as well.
We're venturing a bit off topic here, but yes I can understand a user with many logins on many sites may not remember which they used on yours. You can't really remind them on failed login without subjecting yourself to leaking that a user is a member of your service (or full blown user enumeration attacks).

In these cases where social logins are the primary approach most users use, I suggest making the email login look like a social login button, but make it clear it's email (i.e. more than just an icon) and trust only the few I-never-use-social-login users will leverage it while not confusing the others.
While I get why that distinction sounds like it matters on a message board, for all of the HNers that will be in a position to hire and fire people: if you make a practice of mentioning holidays when firing people, your lawyers will make a practice of settling lawsuits on unfavorable-to-you terms.
Yes, at the heart of it, this is the problem. As an employee, an arbitration clause realistically means that the only recourse you have is through what amounts to a kangaroo court run for the benefit of the employer.
Is there no one to delegate this task to when the employee is unavailable?
I wish I was 10% as organized as Wolfram.
Utopia is not about arbitrary metrics. Maximizing choice is more critical than having trains show up on time, to the nanosecond.

"A Utopia (/juːˈtoʊpiə/ yoo-TOH-pee-ə) is an imagined community or society that possesses highly desirable or nearly perfect qualities for its citizens." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Utopia

Suggesting all metrics must be at 100% is thus clearly a straw man. The end to starvation is very much a realistic and Utopian goal out of reach for our ancestors.
> As part of your employment agreement, Google most likely owns intellectual property (IP) you create while at the company. Because Google’s business interests are so wide and varied, this likely applies to any personal project you have. That includes new development on personal projects you created prior to employment at Google.

Just to be clear, it says "new" development while you're employed by Google, they don't claim to retroactively own your prior works pre-employment. I'm sure they ask you to declare it though so it's clear what you built before joining.
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She is depicted as a deeply flawed and vindictive character. As a reader, it's easy to hate her and as I was reading it I imagined the author must have hated her too. But there are other women/girls in the story who come off in a much more positive, almost angelic, light so I don't think the author could be accused of misogyny here. Nor the husband in the book - his mariage seems to be something unpleasant that happens to him but he never seems to hold his wife's apparent flaws against her.
How can the car have the top spot for consumer satisfaction and, at the same time, be bad enough for them to retract a recommendation? Seems shady.
People generally have a problem with political leanings that are explicitly predicated on abuse of others.
> I spent years learning industries, learning how to read quarterly report, to identify signs of fraud, and pay attention to the news every single day.

How'd that work out for you? Do you beat the S&P 500 YOY with less volatility? If you account for your hours and trading fees? How many years in a row?

If your answer is yes, you should start a fund! Because statistically, whether a mutual fund or exclusive hedge fund, you're a miracle.

> Like anything you do you have to be committed and determined to be successful.

His argument, seemingly based off the Random Walk Down Wall Street data; which basically shows that no matter how committed and determined you are, the broad based index is going to beat you, if not 1 year, year over year.
It seems to me that would be basically the same as an employer saying "We don't discriminate against your religion, we just won't allow you to practice it". If that's the case then protection from religious discrimination has no meaning.
Go has anonymous functions too.

The Go Programming Language book (Kernighan and Donovan) has some examples of them.
> there is no denying that it's the quicker and cheaper method

I don't think anyone is disputing that. The problem is that "cheaper" and "faster" comes with the cost of injustice.

> Labor unions are adversarial to change and innovation and especially in this era there is no place for them

Why not? What replaces them? The entire point of unions is to try to correct the serious power imbalance between employer and employee, an imbalance that historically (and currently) has been eagerly leveraged against employees.

What sort of protection against this would you recommend? Much stricter regulation?
> It is possible to outperform, in some regards, Golang’s Gorilla WebSockets on an SSL vs. non-SSL basis. That is, your JS code on SSL can message faster than Golang can without SSL (in some regards). I think that’s pretty cool.

Really impressive, sounds like a highly performance optimized api compatibile alternative c++ backend for node.
Indeed!! Yelp specifically makes me glad that I'm in a B2B sort of business and not subject to their extortionate behavior.
Years back, Sony updated the PS3's software to remove the 'otherOS' feature (i.e. the ability to run Linux).

Apparently they lost the class action, but only paid out a couple months ago.

http://www.otherossettlement.com/
Yes, but only because software engineers generally have more leverage than employees in other fields.

(I meant "we" as in "our society".)
so you can think of only one nefarious purpose.... does it make it right?
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The closest thing to a middle ground I can think of is FIRE-ing and going back to work as a landscaper, or a carpenter, or whatever. You can not "need" to work financially, but still have to/want to have a job. The key is it can be any low or even non-paying job that you want.
I could not disagree more. When I'm skimming code, I want to immediately know what a variable means. I don't want to go cross-reference elsewhere.
“One, for example, initiates the process for me doing an unscheduled livestream: it messages our 24/7 system monitoring team so they can take my feed, broadcast it, and monitor responses.”

Must be nice!
One one hand: Of course.

On the other hand: How good will it ever be? I'm really concerned about the UX.
I've been to the town twice (Amboise) while visiting the Loire Valley - it's pretty nice and quaint as you'd imagine medieval towns in the French wine country. Walkable, picturesque, good food and wine.

However, the Leonardo da Vinci related stuff is surprisingly gaudy. And for some reason the main da Vinci exhibit is sponsored by IBM yet still expensive for admission.

Overall, if you're in the area it's worth checking out. But nothing to go out of your way for.
Not the person you replied to, and I read the book years ago so the details are fuzzy, but I don't think there's a clear-cut answer to your question. We effectively see everything in the book from Stoner's perspective (although it's written in the third person, grammatically), so there's no clear separation between his perspective and the author's. My feeling was that Edith was hard done by, and I would definitely understand someone seeing her as a misogynistic caricature. But it's hard to generalise: this is Stoner's story, so of course the most nuanced and sympathetic portrayal is of him; and anyway, it is the author who shows us enough to make us feel more than just contempt or pity for Edith, and even to feel frustrated by the superficiality of the portrait he has painted of her.
My guess is that religion thing was added to make the case more robust. Unfortunately the meat of the case (having to be on call 247) might be considered "less outrageous" these days :(
Arbitration is also far cheaper than court. The average person filing a lawsuit is going to be much more confident than one going through arbitration, so of course, lawsuits end up being more successful.
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> However, if multiple synchronous standby replicas are configured, then this means that stale reads are possible, since Postgres by default does not necessarily wait for all replicas to ack the write. It depends on the replication configuration and where reads are directed.

It seems synchronous replication still refers to durability of a commit. Once it‘s stored on the replica persistently it doesn‘t block anymore, so no strict serializability. Macdice‘s comment and the link hold lots of info on this.
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Reasonable accommodations can be made, but if availability during those times is a core job duty (known beforehand), then the firing is eminently justified.

If your religion says you can't handle pork and you take a job at a pig slaughterhouse, the employer should not be obliged to pay you to do nothing.