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Do not, under any circumstances, go to your bosses looking for advice on this.

In many cases the C-level employees of the old company have bonuses tied up in retaining a certain fraction of the original employee team for the term of their incentive package, and they lose out on part of their payout if they don't.

Not to say your bosses are going to steer you wrong, but it's very likely that it's now a conflict of interests for them to weigh in.
> it gives both parties a way to protect themselves and delineate what belongs to whom

Some contracts state "The company owns everything you do, even in your spare time". I can't see how this protects the employee at all.
Ask HN: Best coffee shops for startup work in Munich?
Will be in Munich for awhile--where are the best places to get stuff done?
Awesome – A curated list of awesome lists
That's the most Russian thing I can imagine
Quick Node.js Tip: How to Quickly Setup a REST API Server CodementorIO
4 Ways to use templates for your Website
The Importance of Vision
50 appears to be the number? When I was 30, I thought 50 was ancient. My doctor tells me 50 is when health problems start to climb the graph. I can tell you this 50 came too quick for myself. I'm not sure if being reminded 50 is old on a daily basis is good for the soul, or mental health? I'm thinking about disconnecting from all media, and advertising. They really bash the 50 and over crowd?

I was very scared of death in my 20-40's. I'm now 50 and I don't fear death like did when
I was younger. I just don't want to die in agony like my father did. My father died of liver cancer, and it was beyond hell. I would not wish that pain he went through on my worst enemy. And yes--a Hospice nurse said it was 'just the natural process of death--'. The doctor came to the house once--I think?

I don't have a point other than the fear of death lessens as you get older. If you are reasonably healthy man in your 20-40's don't ruin your life ruminating about death. I did!

Oh yea, my generation is not my father's. There's no need to call me "Sir". I was born in the 60's. We are not my father's generation: We don't take ourself's seriously. We don't need to be doated on. We still look at the world as if we were children; meaning we don't trust the grown up's(the one's usually in charge), and dislike authority figures--abuse of authority. My generation was raised by beatings of orange Hot Wheel tracks, by Hippie/conservatives (father--conservative know it all. Mother--a hippie who was in need of therapy). We grew up and learned from our parents mistakes. Please don't lump my generation with all the others. We are just as lost and confused as most of you--just chronologically older. Sorry, about my neurotic rambling. I'm 50 alone, scared, and close to being homeless.
Why we politely ask for a Pitch Deck First
Warning: Slowrolling and continuing to work without objection may count as implicit agreement to an employment contract in the UK.
hey Senthil, thanks for the fix! just rolled out a new version to rubygems :)
Here here. I was told that giving a prospective employer full medical history was "standard" despite not even having done it before. Don't believe "It's standard".
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One of the reasons that these sort of paradoxes can exist is because real numbers can get arbitrarily small. In principle, you could build a horn that very closely matches Gabriel's horn, but it would necessarily be an approximation of the mathematical object because you do not have available particles of arbitrary size with which to build. This last notion hints at an important property of the real numbers: they can be divided into pieces smaller than any size you can specify. They are useful abstractions upon which to build extremely successful models of reality [1], because at those scales, real numbers work very well. However, at extremely small scales, the correspondence between real numbers and reality breaks down. What does it mean to model a horn made of atoms with numbers that are arbitrarily small fractions of the width of an atom? This is not a 'real numbers / axiom of choice bad' rant, but rather I'd like to point out that real numbers exist in our minds, and using our physical intuition about to reason about them at very small scales is bound to lead to paradoxes.

[1] Electromagnetism, classical mechanics, etc
If you haven't read that article[0], you should.

If you have read it, what's your quip with it? It seems quite reasonable. Is it the title?

[0] http://arstechnica.co.uk/information-technology/2015/06/is-t...
Works here (tm).

Releated links which may work for you if the article link is still dead:

https://youtu.be/_whiCEywodw
https://github.com/MadRabbit/ruby-fighter
I'm slightly unclear why this website exists.
As expected, a page for Lisp fanboys.
Disagree.

We haven't seen the paperwork, but a deliberate change in employment contract is not something that's done just for fun or on a standard basis.

It doesn't seem to benefit the original poster to sign the contract as it stands. Contracts are supposed to be an equitable agreement between two parties - there is no "standard". Standards which benefit only the employer can and should be questioned.

OP should speak to an employment lawyer about the contract as a whole and any clause they are concerned about.
In case you're not joking: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WikiWikiWeb
yeah, come to the hackerdojo if u are here in the Peninsula.
We have a resident lawyer here.
I read it and I don't get it! Here, take a look:

> Suppose we want to raise revenue with a present value of $20,000...We could have a wage tax of 20%, and raise $20,000 right now.

OK, sure.

> In contrast, an income tax doubles taxes the money saved, once as wages, and again as capital income . So now it’s $40,000 consumption this year, and only $72,000 in 20 years ($80,000 minus 20% tax on the $40,000 in investment income), an effective tax rate of 28% on future consumption

So the line of reasoning is:

1. The government wishes to raise $20k NPV in taxes

2. A 20% wage tax or VAT will accomplish this exactly, but a 20% income tax will raise $24k NPV, which means it is an effectively higher tax

3. Therefore income taxes are worse than wage taxes or VAT.

But that doesn't follow at all. The correct conclusion is that an income tax raises the same revenue with a lower nominal rate. That doesn't by itself make an income tax better or worse.
DroidConTLV summary – part 1
I'm unionised, working in IT. In Norway, basically everybody is in a union.
Little endian is easier to deal with at the machine level as you don't need to adjust pointer offsets when referencing a smaller sized variable. A pointer to an 8, 16, 32, 64, 128 bit quantity will be the same. Big endian you will need to adjust the pointer up/down accordingly.
Well, the typical state of things, come to the hackerdojo here in Mt View CA, we have a resident lawyer that can probably help you with any questions.
In smaller companies, my experience is that you'd be at a distinct disadvantage compared to most full-stack developers. At larger orgs, however, there's plenty of room for specialization - depending on the size, "backend developer" may even be far too broad of a term.

That said, while the front-end can seem scary, it's alright once you dive in. With 2 years of experience as a Python developer, I wouldn't expect you to have too much trouble picking up Javascript and HTML/CSS.
DuckDuckGo has grown 600% since Apple made it a search option
why the alias as well as the function?
Have you looked into http://ipfs.io ? I suppose it fits the bill for "too immature to install", but might be something you'd want to track.
Materialize: Responsive front-end framework
Watermarks are the artist’s weapon to combat this problem.

No they're not. Exif metadata works far better but not many people outside of the professional community use it consistently. Fuck watermarks, they're just brandjacking and I hate them.
> testing the consistency and durability of arbitrary applications

Could you go into more detail about what you mean here?
We built http://www.attmatr.com with a similar philosophy. The difference is we strive to actually be farm-to-table as we deliver to the customer's doorstep - and our platform caters to B2B too. We're only in Denmark at the moment but will soon expand abroad.
It's on GitHub, issue a pull request with a fix
> I don't think a modern website with CSS3/HTML5 favored will load that perfect in 10 years.

I'd be willing to bet it will, modern design principles are about separating the content from the style. Many of the techniques used were just workarounds because we didn't have the standards we have now.

In fact I'd say that this sites days (probably years) are numbered. It uses frameset for example. I would imagine that browser developers are going to start pushing for a cleaner underlying HTML/CSS/JS.

Having to support valign attributes in the HTML tags is not something you want to support forever.
I'd highly recommend you get in tough with GreenPeace as they're pretty active in this space, not only in pressuring organizations to use sustainable palm oil, but also pushing the RSPO to improve themselves and holding it accountable, too.

I'm sure they have a much better assessment than I could ever make of the worst performers, the biggest players, and the key organizations to target to bring change. Not to mention that if they have campaigns running/planned it would be nice to coordinate with what it sounds like your organization is doing. Annisa Rahmawati (@AnisaHijauDamai) was representing them at this years RSPO european roundtable two weeks ago.

The WWF is also very involved with the RSPO and Palm Oil. Good luck!
Going from 30 servers to 2 sounds like something whose cost savings might add up to as much as 100 hours of developer time.
Take a set of discs with radii 1/n. Their total area is finite but the sum of radii is infinite, so we can just use them to cover the X and Y axes. Yeah, this is pretty similar to Gabriel's horn.
That's just like, your opinion, man. Sign me up for version 2 or 3 of cybernetic enhancement suite (sorry, not gonna be an early adopter of robotic limbs - clumsy enough as it is).
How did you get better at it? Did you move to a sales role?
It protects the employee from the company's own lawyers.
What were your marketing strategies?
Demystifying iOS App Cracking
I have no idea what of my personal work qualifies as an invention.
SmugLispWeenies is why we hate Lisp. People who, when writing Lisp tutorials, spend a condescendingly large time telling the reader that they are going to have their mind blown by the concept of first class functions. In the space year 2015 people are still doing this.

Also they have apparently never heard of Forth either.
OS X El Capitan for Developers
A New Theory of Distraction
One thing I love about vanilla JS is that you can both set and get with the same property. I wonder if having both setters and getters is enforced by CoffeeScript or a design decision of the Atom team!?
What's depressing is that 2.3 already had an API that would use SNI, but they didn't update the stock browser to use it :|

https://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=12908#c2
By the employee giving over everything! Yes, it saves you from any court case, because the employee owns nothing!
Digitalocean is silly expensive. Why don't you look at Atlantic.net they are so awesome and charge way less than overpriced digitalocean. Why not run it on your laptop which you've already paid for, that would be even cheaper than overpriced atlantic.net!
Posting or allowing to remain posted? Unless 'kamilszybalski works for YC.
Visual Studio 2015 Must Know Keyboard Shortcuts
Avast Browser Cleanup Review Not Working Free Download
I was in Shenzhen a few weeks ago. It's indeed a wonderful city.

Originally the massive manufacturing industry was accelerated by the large amount of people from rural areas flocking into the city due to reform and opportunities. The increase in population resulted in a large unskilled workforce and thus very cheap manual labour and large factory assembly lines.

It's a lot better now given a much more competitive market. Salaries are higher and quality of living is better than the rest of the country. A lot of people became very rich in Shenzhen within the last decade.
They simply underestimate the ops cost, and often focus on the monthly cost. The thing that cloud providers like AWS are good at, and IMO, the only reason you should choose them, is when you have highly variable loads. Dynamic scaling is something only they can do because they have such a massive scale. Even if you're relative small and cannot justify hiring a sysadmin, there are plenty of consults out there you can hire.
Facial recognition software provides a probability that a record and a image is of the same person and that process will without exception create false positives. A anti-shoplifter system would thus have to have several safety features in order to not turn into a no-fly list.

How would that system work in a fair society government by law? Would suspects not found guilty in a court of law be there? How should false positives, that is people who the computer incorrectly predict as someone else, get a chance to clear their name (face) and get compensation when it happens? Should criminals that have served their time still be locked-out for-life and denied entry to stores that share the system?

Like vigilantes, I have a hard time seeing a way which such system can be created without massive abuse. Let assume that 1% of scanned people will be false positives, and say 5% of records will be falsely added by clerks (they are not trained to be cops or judges, and some will abuse the system to intentional hurt people they know). How many people would be hurt by this system if it was shared by the majority of stores in a large town?
Actually the producer can set a minimum revenue under which it's not profitable for him (then he doesn't have to deliver). When the minimum is reached, the Ruche says "yes" to the producer -> thus the name :)

For french speaking people, this video explain it: https://vimeo.com/17644285
DO's "most popular plan" is $10/mo [1]
AWS's t2.micro in us-east is ~$10.30/mo with a standard 8GB disk [2]

Both VMs are single core, 1GB RAM. DO gives you 30GB SSD, but AWS has a freely adjustable disk size. Upscaling from 8 to 30GB is another $2 - but how many single-core low ram instances use double-digit GB?

In the middle, DO has 8 core, 16GB for $160/mo, AWS has 4 core 16GB for 185/mo + storage.

At the top end of the DO offerings, DO's 20-core 64GB machine in $640/mo, and AWS's 16-core 64GB machine is $725mo + storage (not much). The difference in pricing is not that crazy, and you get a crapload of extra free features on AWS.

Those AWS prices are with the "On-Demand pricing". If you're willing to lock-in for a year, reduce by 1/3. The argument that DO is "OMG cheaper" than AWS is no longer valid.

[1] https://www.digitalocean.com/pricing/
[2] http://aws.amazon.com/ec2/pricing/
I think it's more like Schroedinger's Ownership
However Github doesn't actually have support for "machine users" - they're just normal user accounts with full GUI access on Github.com.

And if you are on Github's per-user pricing model, machine users are not free.
It's partly mentioned in the article:

> Later, he conducted a study showing that rats developed atherosclerosis after being fed artificial trans fats. When he removed the substance from their diets, the atherosclerosis disappeared from their arteries.
did you quit in the end?
Python:

sum(range(1,11))

I think this more explanatory than the Lisp. Perhaps that's just me.
Based on a couple of years working for an academic publishers, I'd guess commonly it's lack of domain knowledge + switching cost + switching of mental models + sunk equipment costs. Most are very small, with very established ways of working; I found it incredibly frustrating at the time that my employer wouldn't even consider even minor shifts away from what seemed an enormously wasteful print model, it seemed utterly ridiculous at the time, but with some objectivity I find it completely understandable (still daft, and I'm glad to be out of the sector, but understandable)
Programming with Love
There's a relatively famous (and admittedly extreme\unlikely) example of this working in Russia, where someone changed his bank contract who blindly accepted it: http://rt.com/business/man-outsmarts-banks-wins-court-221/
Fleye: personal flying camera
What does 'scale' mean :) ? Solving graph problems are best done in-memory with a big machine (RAM!), otherwise you are an order of magnitude slower (at least) if you try to distribute. But if you really have no choice I would have a look if some of the graph databases has a good distributed model. My gut feeling tells me that even a bad approach there is faster than spark ...
I'm not sure how you intended the example, but it's probably a bad one: If you take the integral of 1/x, say from x=1 to infty, you don't get a finite amount (because ln x goes to infinity).

On the other hand, if you take 1/x^2 as the integrand, you get the desired effect: its antiderivative is -1/x, so the integral of 1/x^2 from x=1 to infty is finite (actually, it's 1).

By the way: For good fun with convergent series, take a look at the problem of escaping a lion in a circular arena at equal maximum speeds. Here's an example link to both question and answer: http://puzzling.stackexchange.com/questions/8140/escaping-a-...

IIRC, there is an even more fascinating story associated to the history of this problem, as the first published solution was actually incorrect.
"Just a formality" = "it's meaningless"

Well, if it's meaningless you can take it out.

So suggest that.

You'll quickly find out when you suggest that, that "just a formality" usually translates as "ok, maybe it's not such a formality after all, but just sign the damn thing already please". Red flag, in other words.

Similarly, "standard" is another ridiculous term to use in contracts. There are no "standard" contractual clauses, there are only common contractual clauses, and "common" does not necessarily mean "reasonable". There are plenty of very common and highly unreasonable clauses like the one the OP complained about.

Both terms are examples of weasel words when used in the context of contracts: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weasel_word
Mhhh ok :D
Can't be worse than Dutch counting!
New T2.Large Instances for EC2
Sometimes they're called professional societies, or sometimes that's something a little different.

Examples: http://www.ukape.org.uk/ https://www.prospect.org.uk/

Don't American doctors and teachers have a union?
The New Standard for HTML 5 Animation
You're probably kidding, but just in case people take this seriously: this is a prime example of survivor's bias. A literal one, even.
Gezonde+en+verantwoorde+snacks+doen+je+meer+vet+verbranden+en+snel+afvallen
NatWest Bank Customer Payments Are 'Missing'
The latest EVO firmware have this issue as well, so it's probably a bug in their shared codebase for the controllers.
Some white blood cells will calcify and stick to arteries. The process can be reversed, but it is very slow.
Alternative to advertising for user acquisition
Recently the cost of advertising on effective platforms like Facebook that has good targeting tools is getting really high. User acquisition for mobile apps can even go as high as 30 to 40 bucks in my experience. Now why wouldn't app stores like google play or apple AppStore offer developers to pay targeted users to download their app. So the developer can actually directly pay targeted customer base to try his or her app. With cost of advertising going so high this method can make more sense. It would be great to provide an API that allows developer to set conditions before user can uninstall, in case they were paid for it.
I prefer, at nighttime, the McDonalds at Karlsplatz/Stachus or the new one in the central train stations (beware though, both are notorious for a lack of power outlets!), and if you're into bagels/muffins, head to tram 27 Schellingstraße, there is the Fresh Bagels & Muffins. Great bagels, dude.

If you're into cats, head to cat cafe Katzentempel at Türkenstr 29, it's in walking distance of FBuM.

Oh, and if you mean "getting wasted" with "getting stuff done", head either to Ostbahnhof's Kultfabrik area (just follow the drunks) or to the club areas at tram station Am Lokschuppen. The club "Nachtgalerie" is famous for cheap drinks, but well, it's mainstream music.

Have a nice stay!
The second answer is correct, not the top answer. If you have some knowledge about the form of your HTML, then regex might very well be the best tool for the job.

I've spend hours trying to get something to work in BeautifulSoup that could have easily been done in minutes with regex and a few lines of python.
When I read something like this my mind wanders and I imagine a future MacBook Pro that, instead of a single Intel processor, contains many ARM processors. 10-15 ARM processors acting as one could offer a whole lot of performance when you needed it (use all of them), and a whole lot of energy saving when you didn't (use 1 of them). With the current trend of multi-core CPUs, I see this as the ultimate form of the architecture.

Now, whether Apple will do something like this is or not is anyones guess, but its nice to dream of the possibilities. :)
A contextual expressive Chat
I'm not sure what you disagree with. And I suppose I'd have to ask you and all the other 'speak to a lawyer' people. Have you ever signed an employment contract in the US? Have you ever hired a lawyer to review it? If so, what did they tell you about the AoI?
25 years of laptops and we still have these damn screens on them that are physically attached to the computer.

Any laptop engineers out there: I want a screen that I can detach from the laptop, velcro it to a wall or to a stand and let me use my laptop with good posture.
LTC Launches Bus Da Pata App to Facilitate the Commuters of Lahore
RubyC 2015 Bozhidar Batsov: “Ruby: The Bad Parts” [video]
10+ Content Performance Metrics You Have to Measure
Yes, this article shows several different ways to do one same thing, you can't really expect programmers to remembers all this syntax.

from https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0020/ :

> There should be one-- and preferably only one --obvious way to do it.

I don't know if common lisp is an "easier" lisp, but I sure would like to have a watered down version of lisp so I can learn its paradigms. I don't even know if that's what haskell is.
The backup creates a web app, '1Password Anywhere'. It's nice how they do it since it's self-hosted.
You could argue that the best people to fight the bad guys are recruited from the bad guys, or former bad guys. After all, Frank Abagnale Jr was recruited by the FBI to catch check forgers.
I pay my Chinese employees in shenzhen the same wages I pay my workers in LA. The cost of living, from what I can tell, is fairly comparable.
Yes, Linode being opaque was my experience too. I remember a really weird discussion with their support about HTTPS load balancing.
Or PostScript, which combines the best of Lisp and Forth.
Trim really is only a helpful message when the drive is near full so the GC can preemptively zero blocks and retain good write speed. Without trim, the firmware must wait until it gets a write for a particular block before it know it can be erased.

If your drive has reasonably with unprovisioned space, it can simply work around the missing trim commands - this however, is theory, I do not know if the firmware actually does this. This is the exact thing that makes some drives better than others when working without trim.
The AMAPs are subscription based, and you get a box (panier) with whatever the farmer happens to have this particular week.

Here you can actually order things.

In the case of AMAPs, the nice thing about not knowing what you'll receive in advance is that it forces you to learn a certain number of recipes so you'll be able to cook whatever you get.