skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Its unfortunate that there are not laws preventing things like this from happening. Too many people in the US do not want the government to impose laws or regulations just because they oppose any government interference what so ever. Even if the interference will benefit everyone.

People have a choice where they work. Had this happened to me I would be high tailing it out of there but professors dont have that luxury.
As a counterpoint from civilized Germany, after the birth of a child both parents are granted 14 months paid leave (at 2/3 salary up to ~$3k/mo) to split between them. Usually the mother takes 12 and the father 2 concurrently. The state pays for this, not the employer.

You also have the right to 3 years unpaid leave (extended with further children) and the employer must find you a similar position when you return to work.

So far this has neither economically crippled the nation nor made it impossible for its companies to compete on the international market, nor driven all the manufacturing and blue-collar work abroad.

I'm just astonished how such different systems can coexist. What are the benefits of the American system and who receives them? A lower tax burden? Is it really that much lower to be worth it?
"This free online service performs a deep analysis of the configuration of any SSL web server on the public Internet."

https://www.ssllabs.com/ssltest/
Most people who come off as eloquent in english have spent a lot of time not only writing but also reading. Reading encourages passive learning of language patterns, and reading the works of talented writers (even without analysis) can lead to learning some of the skills that those writers use. (I'd be surprised if this were not also the case in your native language.) If you feel like you can't get enough practice speaking and writing english in a conversational context, spend some of the time you would otherwise use to practice writing english instead reading fiction in english.
Practice makes perfect How to know when your app is sick
Out of interest, what’s the performance of current switches in this market segment? I don’t have anything to relate 110ns to.
Yep. Discovered I had cancer in the fall of 2005. My firm told me they would be so generous to keep me employed throughout my treatment. Got fired the week before Christmas (while still going through chemo) because the company was being sold and they wanted to minimize headcount. And companies wonder why there's no loyalty anymore.
1 month – 4 prototypes and MVPs
Learned this the hard way. My rough math is this for SF:

1.5xCurrent Salary -- Because everything is expensive here

+ $10k / marginal tax rate -- for relocation and flights home

+ 500/month forEach dependent spouse -- Medical Dental Vision

+ 250/month for each child dependent -- Medical Dental Vision

+ X -- to replace spouses's Salary because they cant work

+ Y / marginal tax rate -- spending money to keep spouse sane because they cant work and cant stay home all day doing nothing

Edits: small clarifications, gross Y up by tax rate
Not sure about Netflix, but I know that when I was at Twitter they offered 12 weeks of paid vacation leave (paternity and maternity). Some of this was mandated, and paid for, by the state.
Hey, I am a freelance composer and I'd be willing to make you some competitively priced custom music. Check out some of my work here: https://soundcloud.com/conor-strejcek/sets/portfolio
Its disappointing to see this happen in 2014.
I think it can be simplified further:

employers in the U.S. do not care about employees at all, unless we’re consumers of their products. It might be more accurate to say that they view us as horrible useless burdens who need to be ushered back to full-time work as swiftly as possible. They will do anything in their power to keep employees from exercising their federally guaranteed rights to twelve weeks of MOTHERFUCKING UNPAID LEAVE, up to and including forcing employees to give up paid sick leave.
Mothers in the UK get a full year of maternity leave at 90% pay for the first 6 weeks and then about $200/week after. You can elect to return to work earlier (although you have to take at least 2 weeks). You can start the maternity leave up to 11 weeks before the due date.

And the UK isn't even particularly progressive about this sort of thing. Norwegians get 13 months at 80% pay followed by up to a year unpaid. In Spain you can take up to 3 years unpaid.
Project Hierarchy is fusing Java with a Database
I thought Google Apps email wasn't free anymore? Didn't they stop offering it around late 2012?
ClojureScript already exists! So do Elm, Funscript, Purescript, Haxe, and a bunch of other things which transpile (might as well just start calling it "compile" now) to JS.
HTC released the first Android phone, but that's a minor point.

I think bubblemachine3k has a point. Motorola is competing in a tough market with a lot of other Android phone makers. At the end of the day, they're all producing basically the same thing: a variety of Android phones, some good, some less good. There's little loyalty to Motorola, unlike iOS's closed ecosystem. If, next year or two, HTC's phones are the best and Motorola's are so-so, then you're going to get an HTC.
Why I ended my open source contribution streak at Burning Man
Your inability to respond to any of the points has been noted.
What? That's ridiculous. Does the employer pay or is it government assistance?
I really think that a minimum number of sick days should be mandatory as a public health measure.

The amount of lost productivity caused by sick people infecting their coworkers per year has to be immense.
My wife and I moved to the EU about two years ago on something of a lark (we're both politically left-of-center people who prefer transit to driving everywhere, and we like seeing castles in the countryside). We have every intention of staying here as long as possible, and the VASTLY superior policy and attitude towards quality of life is a huge part of it. The US hates its own people and cloaks the sentiment in language touting "economic freedom".

Fortunately, the US also is home to one of the most environmentally damaging populaces in the world, so if anyone is going to have fewer babies, it should be them.
> Tim Cook continued contracts with Foxconn with the sole goal of minimizing production costs by using underpaid overworked labor

I'm going to upvote you for this.

Just because Tim Cook is gay doesn't make him Mother Teresa. He seems quite happy in promoting brutal Victorian style work-houses because it's "over there". Out of sight, out of mind. He's quite the hypocrite.

He's also no better or worse then the operations guy at Dell, Samsung, Lenovo, etc. who are all churning out products from the same manufacturers and assembly lines in China and South-East Asia. I don't know why people keep promoting the myth that he is some amazing operations guy when everything is outsourced anyway, and recent products have suffered from manufacturing delays and raw material supply issues.
>it’s different and better

I'm a huge fan of (the idea of) BitTorrent Sync but it's very bad software. Very early on I tried it and found it would eat my files sometimes (lost, corrupt or old versions). Recently, hearing it's now in stable I gave it a shot. I lost files again. If it works for you fine but I've found it to be very buggy.
Important to note that these are government leave programs. A big problem in the USA is that it is expected that your employer handle this stuff.

Here in Canada, the employment insurance system - a payroll-tax-funded program that handles short-term unemployment benefits - also handles parental leave. They offer 4 months for birth mothers and a an additional 8 months for any parent. The money is tiny - something like half your salary capped to a poverty-level wage, but it's better than nothing and good employers will subsidize it somewhat.

My wife and I split the leave with our 3rd kid. 5 months for her, 7 for me. It's easily some of the happiest days of my life.

There is no reason that private companies should be expected to shoulder this burden. It's practically punishing them for hiring women who want a family. This is the exact kind of case that government exists for.
Onyx 0.4.0: DAG workflows, catalog grouping, lib-onyx
RailsBricks: build Rails apps faster
Secret manuals show the spyware sold to despots and cops worldwide
Turning Contract Work into SaaS Products
The problem has nothing to do with the country. The problem is that the HR clerk, like all HR clerks, is an idiot.
Agreed - the title should be changed. Perhaps the submitter saw the Nvidia cards in there and read this as an OpenCL vs CUDA kind of thing, not seeing the principal cool-factor of OpenCL : that OpenCL interoperates across all these devices (GPUs and CPUs - despite Nvidia making it difficult to find in their SDK)
What makes Rocketdyne engines less risky? Maybe they are both expensive and risky.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/outdoo...

I doubt that those are all frail and doomed to an early death.
Etcd and fleet
It seems not:

http://www.aggreddit.com/?r=%22%3C%2Fa%3E+%3Cscript%3Ealert%...
Yes.

The issue I have with the whole Brendan Eich situation was he was professing thru his right to free speech a profoundly held religious belief, I disagree with his interpretation of scripture, and conceptually that scripture should determine who can get married - but as gay male (who came out at 15, in 1998) I'd fight to the death for his rights to speak his mind.

I have an extreme distaste of Social Justice Warriors - there are people whom I firmly believe would never stand up to try to stop a gay bashing, but are more than content to stir up a huge ruckus online. Brendan Eich did the internet community a great service in his time - he didnt deserve to be drummed out for his beliefs, a thoughtcrime is not yet a crime, and I'd rather see him judged for his actions in his management roles not for just what he thinks.
I don't see why you need to know values. The operations don't require the sender to supply them.
It is sad how people who would benefit most from it can easily be brainwashed to vote against it. This is summed best by the ironic "get your government out of my Medicare" slogan. It is not a real slogan but it is used as a joke to illustrate the underlying logic.
Sometimes I'm immensely proud to be part of this country (second-generation immigrant), but reading things like this make me feel like I live in the most backwards place in the world.

The richest country somehow can't provide a basic standard of living for so many of its citizens.
Why the U.S. Has Fallen Behind in Internet Speed and Affordability
"Latency from 550ns to 2 microseconds" (http://www.arista.com/en/products/7250x-series)

"Consistent latency as low as 350ns for all packet sizes" (http://www.arista.com/en/products/7150-series)

So this is about 3x faster than current devices.
At the very least when dealing with monstrous policy, the correct thing to do is refer them to somebody who has the power to change the policy.
The trade off is rarely "copy&paste vs coupling components". Typically, you would factor out a third component that the original 2 would use.

Two components are hardly coupled just because they happen to use the same library.
AdPushup Raises $632,000 for Its Banner Ad A/B Testing Platform
At some point your configuration just becomes code in a domain specific language. They talk about a new employee picking things up pretty quickly - it's not because they used configuration instead of code, it's because they have a sensible architecture.

If your "configuration" is powerful enough to do everything you need then it's Turing-complete and is just "code" by another name. If it's not powerful enough then you'll need to drop down into the code layer pretty frequently anyway.
Microsoft Employees Are “Worn Out” Over So Much Change
Run postgresql as root, make an interface for the filesystem, hook up to a Django ORM and you have a webpage with the power of bash? (yes, bad idea on so many levels but still, potential is .... staggering.)
> 52% of Californians voted in favor of Prop 8 (to ban same-sex marriage)

No, they didn't. 52% of those who voted on Prop 8 (about 79% of the ~17M eligible and registered to vote, which were themselves only about 45% of Californians) voted for Prop 8 -- so about 19% of Californians voted for it.

> so you could argue Brendan Eich holds a rather popular opinion.

Well, no, you couldn't make a good argument that he holds a rather popular opinion based on the results of an election 6 years ago. You could perhaps argue that he holds a view that was popular at the time of the election based on those results. After all, opinions change. [1]

[1] see, e.g., http://www.ppic.org/main/publication_show.asp?i=1012
In the entire EU you can take unlimited sick leave(which does not take away anything from your mandatory 25 days of paid holidays), and the employer has to pay only for the first 30 days - after that, the government continues paying your salary(it might be 75% of the full salary in some countries). If you are sick for long periods of time(>2-3 months) they might require you visit an approved doctor, otherwise they stop paying. The same rules apply to maternity/paternity leave.
The Internet Arcade
Not just tech media - anyone who follows GLBT politics and rights assumed it too.
And why not prominently state "Soviet" in the title.
Bitcoin foundation chairman resigns
With recent big increases in support for
legalization of same-sex marriage, the
California public is now 61% in favor,
31% opposed according to a February 2013
Field Poll,

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Same-sex_marriage_in_California...
RAPPOR: privacy-preserving way to learn software statistics
Original blog post: http://googleresearch.blogspot.com/2014/10/learning-statistics-with-privacy-aided.html
We always hear this, but it doesn't really make sense. First, a firm that actually wanted employees to take vacation could just make a policy by which a certain percentage of banked time would be automatically scheduled by HR after so long a period of banking. Second, under the "lose-it" policy, many employees don't actually use all their allotted vacation. This can happen even to those who really try to schedule it. A cynical manager can always stymie the best-considered vacation plans. I consider that this common result is actually the intent of this anti-employee policy. (At many firms; of course any particular firm may be an exception.)
Desk: A New Way to Tell Stories
Do we really expect every parish choir with a website to configure server file and directory permissions and turn on HTTP authentication? Seems to me that static site generation is only going to be more secure if the people setting it up know what they're doing.

Probably the best approach these days for a parish choir website is a hosted solution like Wordpress.com, Squarespace, Google Sites, or if we're talking Drupal specifically, Acquia Cloud Site Factory, or Pantheon.
My system didn't have the right fonts for this to work, but installing "symbola" seems to have fixed that. The package is called "ttf-symbola" on Arch.
I've been using btsync for a long time. I have seen high cpu or net utilization, but it was because of a changed name on one of the computers that were syncing. The other instance was still trying to connect to the device using the old name. The solution is to delete the synced folder and reestablish it under the new name. It does not need to recopy the data, but it does need to reindex.
I hope it doesn't end a bit watered down, like the IBM Thinkpad line.
I'm assuming you haven't had the joy of working with McAfee Ednpoint Protection. When you insert a USB device, it automatically encrypts it. Our BIOS are locked down to prevent anyone from monkeying with the desktops. Same with notebooks. Hell, we even encrypt CDR/DVD disks that are writeable...
This is a phenomenal reply tokenadult. Would you be willing to reply to the same question if I post it in http://writers.stackexchange.com/?
It's really easy to get the wrong idea about post-childbirth from just watching your friends have kids on Facebook. I think it's commonplace to assume that the birth is the difficult part, because nobody posts about their trauma in the weeks that follow. Birthing a child ranks on the scale of sick-day-worthiness somewhere near a gunshot wound. This woman's treatment is deplorable. (And yes, the whole damn system is deplorable.)
Arthur Whitney's One-page Interpreter (1992)
Looks like Californians are lucky enough to get 16-18 weeks paid maternity leave.

http://siliconvalleymamas.com/2013/03/understanding-maternit...
If your build process and deployment are forcing you to decomponentize something so you have to copy and paste it, I'd blame those processes instead of saying there's an inherent shortcoming in the idea of composing components.
With Google Domains you get 100 email forwards and one of them could be * (I'm using this config). The cost is just the domain registration, e.g. $12/y for a .com.
Yup - that is indeed what I meant to put. That's what I get for posting while on the phone.
Our runtime is straight ANSI C.

No comment on anything else mentioned:)
I wonder how they're getting around Apple's MagSafe patent, considering Apple doesn't license it out?
Be the smartest person in the room: 6 ways to start having great ideas now
Flash Player 11.2 last version for Linux
For PFL in California, the maximum is $1,000 something per week and you get the money on a Bank of America Debit Card.
I'm not a native English speaker. I usually type the comments in MS Word, so I can correct most of the typos and grammar errors. Another trick is to reread the comments twice before submitting.
In the US and most Western countries, that data can only be accessed with a warrant or other court order.

In Russia, the prosecutor can demand the data himself. Bloggers with at least 3000 followers automatically get put under surveillance (http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/russian-blogger-law-puts...), and the surveillance infrastructure is modern (http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/SORM).
Does fork not use copy-on-write? I would expect it to add overhead to all overlapped memory operations going forward, but am really surprised if it literally duplicated the entire memory contents.
Would you eat “nuclear soup”? Artists serve broth with Fukushima-grown vegetable
Art:

"If truth was self evident, Eloquence wouldn't be needed." And surely we need eloquence. I share your envy. I believe you have to imitate the writers/users you enjoy reading the most. As you go along, you will develop your style. Think of words as colors, and beautify your sentences.

Science:

Pick up a book on Logic, preferably very old, then Rhetoric. Done!
Mac OS X local privilege escalation (IOBluetoothFamily)
My employer will not pay us for accrued leave. I saw the end result recently when a co-worker took a week and a half off only to return with his resignation in hand. Guess he cashed out his vacation time anyway....

Now we all realize that if someone is going to resign, it's most likely going to happen after a long vacation. I don't know if HR realizes this yet.
I'm glad I'm not alone in noticing this. The level of discourse on HN is step beyond any other site I frequent. I don't go a single day without being impressed by somebody's diction.

Some of you have a knack for articulating my inner thoughts with far more eloquence than I ever could.
<<I find the whole notion of "sick days" and accruing them bizarre.

I believe it's mostly for accounting purposes. Most employers allow you to borrow from what hasn't accrued. It doesn't typically become an issue until you leave the company and have used more than has been accrued. At that time, they will probably not pay you for X days you are over your accrual.
The Red Cross’ Secret Disaster
Why not? Sometimes people desperately organize boycotts of institutions that they want to behave, but it never succeeds, because everyone needs at least one of the institutions (for example, everybody needs to be employed).

I think maybe there could be a lottery and people could collectively agree and randomly single out one actor and boycott it for some time. That would force at least that one actor to care and enforce competition. Who cares about fairness, if everybody is guilty?
Also true in the UK, but for a different reason. Here, a huge raft of citizens live above the level of the welfare system but below the level of financial comfort afforded to a relatively small professional elite. This group is financially squeezed in so many ways that it is unusual now to see parents in said group with more than 2 kids. This is an extraordinarily serious problem, as effectively the engine room of society is no longer numerically self-sustaining.

At present, the only de-facto solution appears to be immigration, which of course creates huge tensions and problems of its own. But it is an enormously difficult task to reform the welfare system to create the appropriate incentives (or, equally, disincentives) without also victimising the weakest members of society.
Learning statistics with privacy, aided by the flip of a coin
The really interesting bit for me is that theres a plugin module with a FPGA that can be programmed by the end user.

Which means simple apps wont even have their traffic leave the switch. I can think of a ton of uses for that, especially from a security perspective.
Well, it matters to the customer if their WordPress site goes down because it was infected by malware that sends out spam or makes clicks on Google Adwords.

This happened with someone I was working with, to try and rescue their WordPress.

Ironically, the site went down only because the malware that I'm guessing was scraping Google or making clicks on google adwords or something (I just skimmed the malicious code, it wasn't entirely clear to me what it did) -- had a bug in it that brought down their site. If it had been bug free, it could have kept using their site for it's malicious purposes for years without them ever noticing.
> Rust, if I remember right, requires restricting yourself in order to do things like kernel writing.

Nope, you just lose the standard library, and have to implement a few language intrinsics yourself.
Wow. I feel so sorry for you that you live in a supposedly civilized country and you have to live with that.

What a shame.
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Why do you feel guilt at all? The company could afford to bump your salary up 50%, you just needed to give them a compelling reason to do so. In a world where sociopathic behavior is celebrated, you’re just playing the game.
Security and convenience; it's been covered ad nauseam elsewhere. And you can always use the plastic as a backup if you like.
anti-(gay propaganda), to be exact
English is my second language and posting a comment on HN takes me five rewrites before clicking "add comment" and two+ edits after. Even then they don't necessarily come out all that clear judging by some of the responses I get.

Maybe start a blog in English or hang out in IRC channels related to your interests?
Neat, looks like JS is getting SIMD speedups because of fixed type objects.

Would really love to see the speedup on fixed tuple transforms and convolution algorithms.

When I saw JS speed wars originally, I started writing an adobe curve apply algorithm in JS, to apply .acv curves live using Canvas, but essentially hit CPU & shelved it.

https://github.com/t3rmin4t0r/io.dine/blob/master/lib/iodine...

http://notmysock.org/code/iodine/

I want to rewrite it using something like the newly introduced float32x4, assuming I can read out the images int o RGBA tuples.

Something like a blur would actually be possible once this is fast.
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OASIS is pleased to announce that MQTT Version 3.1.1 has been approved
> I hope that when Rust hits 1.0 -- they take backward compatibility exceptionally seriously.

We do and we will. It's one of the reason there's such churn right now: we can't keep doing that post 1.0.