skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That depends on which part of Germany you're in. There are two Aldi chains in Germany, run by brothers. South Aldis are great. North Aldis are understocked, dirty and generally don't provide a great experience.
And those that grumbled about it was more often than not people working to automate large server farms or similar, not your average software dev.
My first lawyer taught me a very valuable lesson: the important question isn't whether you'll win the suit eventually, it's whether you can afford to go the distance. Doing the PIP after doesn't increase the distance as much as doing it before, but it definitely makes it harder to sue than if they just fired you the day after a positive performance review.
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Yeah, they're not going to have a leg to stand on if this ever made it to a lawsuit - a PIP on someone after they announced their pregnancy is pretty lulzy.

But it's an intimidation tactic like any other - your options here are either leave quietly (like the author of the original post), or be fired unceremoniously as a documented poor-performer and have that hanging over your career, and maybe sue the company for wrongful termination.

99% of the time, even when the situation is patently unfair and insanely unjust, people will choose Option A.

Even if you choose Option B and sue the employer, Amazon has a warchest the size of the moon and lawyers on staff best measured in boatloads - so more likely than not you'd be forced to settle for a modest sum and still have the firing on record, and no admission of fault on Amazon's part.
Plus the US has got over 4x the GDP of Germany ($17,418,925 vs. $3,859,547, according to an IMF report from 2014), so it's not like it can't afford it, sufficient funds exist in the system.
Philadelphia is particularly bad in terms of labor costs and DC is particularly good. Most US subways don't do ticketing the way that Philadelphia does but they do often put more people on trains than they need.
http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2013/09/27/poll-obamaca...
You are treated like crap in multiple ways at Amazon is the connection.
If you're calculating by nominal GDP, yes it is (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_GDP_(nomi...)
By PPP GDP China is (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_GDP_(PPP))
By per capita GDP Luxembourg is (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_GDP_(nomi...)
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> That's just one example, but you need to stop thinking about "me, me, me" and think "us, us, us"

I like how that can work to further your point whether you read is as "us" or "U.S."
Unless you have a recording of your manager coming out and saying, "I'm putting you on the PIP because you got pregnant," you can't do anything, because there's no proof that's why it happened.

Which is fucking bullshit, because everyone with a modicum of logical thinking could see that's exactly why it's happening. But instead of them having to prove that the PIP was justified, you get people having to prove that they're not being fucked over by a bully.
ALDI (Süd) is adding 600 stores and 10,000 jobs in North America by 2018, a 50% expansion. They're doing quite well.

http://www.chicagotribune.com/business/ct-aldi-expansion-hir...

ALDI Nord owns Trader Joe's in the USA, and that chain is doing great business as well.
A sliding door seems to be a perfect analogy. And they have existed long before Apple.
It might be interesting to you to watch John Oliver's video on the wealth gap in America. He covers why people consistently protect the 1%, even if it's not in their current best interests.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LfgSEwjAeno
The entire notion that land - the fucking Earth - should be the property of a sole party is absurd.
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Being treated like crap doesn't automatically mean you're being treated like crap because of your gender or race. Right? I can't be the only person who believes that.
> Why would you expect to be able to come back into having people report to you after a five month leave from a high-paced environment?

You seem to be suggesting that if I'm a manager and I take maternity leave it's totally OK for me to come back to a completely different position with no reports or responsibility. That seems...wrong.

> So, in the end, she collected half a year's pay for no work, and then quit [...] At companies like these, women in fact have a clear advantage in getting hired - though that is damaged by stories of women collecting pay for no work and then quitting right afterwards.

That sounds like the ramblings of a misogynist. Firstly, you say women have a "clear advantage" at tech companies, when there's absolutely no evidence that's the case (indeed, all of the evidence is the opposite: most tech firms are majority male, with very few women in leadership roles). Secondly, you seem to be suggesting we shouldn't provide paid maternity (or paternity) leave and to do so damages a company, when again all the evidence on productivity suggests that companies that provide such benefits perform better and have more satisfied employees that are retained for longer.

> I can't help but coming away from this article with an impression of an air of self-entitlement.

Yes, how dare a women who goes off to have children expect to be able to come back into the workplace in the same position she had when she left?

Comments like yours illustrate exactly what's wrong with the industry. In a way it's a shame you're going to be downvoted because people really need to see the kind of crap that gets thrown around.
> Does anyone know why they have selected this versus the easier Score Voting option?

Instant-runoff voting (aka ranked-choice voting) is the law in San Francisco. It was passed by the voters back in 2002.

By the way, systems like approval and score voting suffer from the problem of voters having to vote against their favorite candidate to support a "lesser of two evils."

Think of an approval election with Donald Trump, Hillary Clinton, and Elizabeth Warren (where Warren is your favorite and Clinton is the lesser of two evils). Do you "approve" of Clinton, which would help defeat Warren? Or do you "approve" only Warren, at the risk of getting Trump?
That's very unfortunate, they were the only ones letting you download your private key.

Tutanota still have to make the keys manageable, but it is a good alternative, IMO: https://tutanota.com
Don't forget $0.25 deposit for shopping cart and bags are extra.
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Fairness is a human concept, as are land titles. If the latter are unfair we can't blame nature.
Thanks for the link, very interesting. Noticed there is an update on this on the blog - http://www.gatesnotes.com/Development/Omni-Processor-Update
I imagine typing a code comment in my text-editor before I start writing the code (e.g., calculate fibonacci sequence) and my editor (on a machine connected to the internet) populates with sample open-source code in my language (inferred from the file extension, or shebang, etc), that I can use as a boilerplate and make changes. The populated code is one search result, with the option to look at second most relevant result, third-most relevant and so on. And it shows the source url where I can go for details.

I think something like this with rosetta-code snippets is very doable (a weekend project, assuming you're good with your editor's programmability).
I too had a similar experience. Senior dev at our open office rushed to my desk after I asked him to clarify about some email instructions he sent me. Told me to read the instructions out loud in front of the entire company. I laughed it off but he was really persistent. Just disconnected my laptop, and told him he can explain to the CEO why there's no longer a frontend department (I was lead frontend, and I got friends hired who I run a sideproject with, so we all just up and left, but we've been planning to for some time. This was the final straw.)

Felt amazing but I was also super broke.
Imagine a system where the subways are used as mandatory transportation to forced labor camps. Government trains transporting citizens to government factories, where they are forced to sing the national anthem before another grueling 14 hour shift. And if there are any problems, well, the subway is deep underground and out of sight.

A truly sinister system of subterranean socialism that stands in stark contrast to the red-blooded freedom of the open road.

That's almost scarier to me than Uber bans.

</sarcasm>
It's really not the same everywhere. I work for a big financial corp. Things aren't perfect, but we do everything in our power to support women on maternity leave, and that kind of behavior would get the manager fired.
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I guess people are downvoting you because they disagree but unfortunately, this is sadly the world we live in. Without external factors to counter-balance all of this, massive companies have a massive power and can almost do what they want.
"fat-apps"? What is the difference between that and a tar.gz with all dependencies included? Mozilla offer Firefox that way, Opera used to offer, well, Opera that way (until they wen't full retard and cloned Chrome).

Heck, a RPM is pretty much a fancy tar.gz at first glance (and a DEB a bit more elaborate).

I swear i wonder of far up the devops exhaust channel the Linux userspace thinking has gone these days...
From KSP (unity via steam)

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What I do not get is why the airport would allow that sort of things. I can understand that providing wifi is a cost that should be mitigated for someone like McDonalds who is running razor thin margins, but considering the cost of operating an airport trying to monetize wifi will probably never make an impact on your bottom line while annoying your users certainly will. It just seem like a foolish move to me.

What am I missing?
"Scheveningen" is the one that stopped me in my tracks.
Nonononono. Python does not need more string literal specifiers. For a language that avoid symbols and sigils like the plague, it already has an absurd amount of string literal syntax.

Why not make a strfmt library on pypi that provides a single fmt(s, args, kwargs) function and let people call that? Why the obsession with more builtins?
It's frustrating because Google and Amazon are no doubt extremely impressive and truly have "changed the world".

The problem is that a lot of jerks are using the self-proclaimed "changing the world" mantle as cover for their lousy behavior.
Ummm what? Part of the whole point of making companies is because individuals can't risk going bankrupt to make a game, while a corporation that takes investments from people who understand that they may lose money on the deal shifts the risk to those more able to take that risk on.

Uber works because the number of cab fares is large enough that over non-tiny durations the risk averages out and makes the situation tenable for the drivers. When you deal with programmers.

Or were you thinking of something like freelancing sites like rentacoder? The internet means that those basically provide work to people with spare time or in developing countries, not first-world countries.
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Regarding your last point, if proper health care reform brought us in line with other first-world countries, it would dramatically reduce health care spending, freeing up even more money for blowing up brown people if that's what we wanted to do with the savings.
Anybody have a translation for the fish shell prompt?
Cornel West, a highly respected person in the black community, just endorsed Sanders[1]. What's interesting, and not surprising if you know West, is that he's support of Sanders is much stronger than his support of Obama 8 years ago.

I think it will be far easier for black voters to get behind Sanders than behind Clinton. I'll suggest the same is true for Hispanic voters.

Since blacks aren't going to get behind any of the GOP candidates, the question is more about whether they will sit out this election.

[1] http://www.nytimes.com/politics/first-draft/2015/08/25/berni...
On the whole I agree, but I also think that the business person's decisions/consequences case only works out if you are fairly optimistic and fully believe in the trickle down theory.

That is, anecdotally it seems if an exec makes a good decision, or even if someone at a lower level does, they will benefit substantially more than the rest of the employees. At the same time, if they make a company-endingly bad decision, employees may be out of a job while they will still probably make out okay (golden parachutes and the like).
Cry me a river about individual rights to bend over for the employer. I am ok with a huge government to protect me from having to compete with workaholics.
Not to mention PIPs-out-of-nowhere IMO always represent a decision that has already been made, and the PIP is just the follow-through.

If this is genuinely a case where your manager has repeatedly told you about your poor performance, and is now going official with a PIP, then yeah, probably recoverable if you get your head screwed on right and do a great job.

But a PIP that hits you out of left field unexpectedly is pretty much always a political maneuver, and represents a decision to fire you that has already been made.
Pointless. New York state, New York city, etc. which feature in the article are the among the wealthiest regions in the world. You are not talking about a coal mining company in rural Kentucky or a mom and pop hardware store in Alabama. This is Amazon, which on paper at least, has the wealth to implement humane policies.
Ignoring the (fantastic) content, I think this is how Julia slowly wins users. I keep find myself doing parallel implementations like this.
When I said "exactly" I meant an option to see down to exact data packets that were sent while participating in the program. Or, if we're talking about the initial consent - the example of such data packet.

Obviously, they're machine-encoded (binary or XML), so the representation should be modified a bit to be more human-readable.

I don't care that I won't know what most of metrics mean exactly ("magic mumbo-jumbo average time: 0.42us" or some hard-to-read probability matrices), but as far as I can see no raw personal data is being leaked out (my private file information, raw texts typed on keyboard, screenshots - this sort of stuff) it's probably OK. The important part is not me understanding the data sent, but the transparency about the program.
In the early days of the App Store, people solved this problem by publishing two apps, a free "lite" edition and a for-pay "full" edition. Not sure why this isn't used more. Maybe because it's a hassle to migrate data (game progress, saves, etc) between apps, but I thought at least in modern iOS versions, multiple apps can share a common bundle ID prefix.
True, I wonder how many other women at Google have had this happen to them-- pregnant then suddenly PIP.

If there's a pattern there, then a clear discrimination case could still be made, I think.
It sounds like true competition, true capitalism, and true startups will arise after the bubble bursting apocalypse.
In this scenario, the amount of equity being offered is in lieu of market-level compensation. I know typically you want to get full market compensation + equity, but the claim is the company can't afford it at this moment (common startup situation, I'm sure).

So say that I have given a quote as a consultant for $100k worth of development. They can only afford to pay $50k. They claim their seed round gave them a valuation of $10M, so therefore they offer 50k / 10M = 0.5% in equity in addition to the $50k cash. This is why the valuation matters - it is directly determining the amount of equity in the offer.

Is that a reasonable arrangement?
Should I ask for proof of valuation and, if so, how?
How is Home Depot a model of "Customer Intimacy". Have you been to one of their stores? If you do, god forbid, don't ever go on the weekend and look for help.
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You know, I could stomach inserted ads a lot more if they were honest about doing them; something like "the contents of this box were placed by the owners of the free Wifi network you are using".

The infuriating part is that these ads are typically folded into original content as if the original page had the extra garbage in it. When you see an obnoxious ad, you're not thinking "well I guess I won't use this wifi again"; you think "well I guess I'm not going to this site ever again".

We desperately need a way to strongly sign each part of a page so that it is impossible to display a web site with any third-party content that wasn't explicitly added by the site owner (e.g. such as an authorized "Like" button). This naturally means removing i-frames and all other similar mechanisms from browsers, or at least making them a hell of a lot more obvious.
I took the isidewith quiz and got something like 80% for Bernie Sanders.

Then I took the quiz, intentionally answering the opposite of everything I actually believe. Still about 80% for Bernie Sanders.

I'm at a loss.
Ah true, I should have probably written "all round 1 participants". It can be enforced by the receiver as well. There are some other implied receiver-side steps that I did not write down, such as rejecting all proposals with a sequence number <i.
Even if this story is just an anecdote, it is completely and absolutely unacceptable that Amazon would let anyone be treated like that. This is the kind of story that should end with people being fired for incompetence.
I think stronger worker protections for life's inevitable catastrophes in a manner similar to Germany would be great.
Which keep the stores and parking lots remarkably clean. That simple deposit keeps all the carts up front and organized. Lack of free bags inspires people to take the packing boxes with them.
I think the idea is that Trump would take enough of the conservative side of the vote that even if moderates tended to vote for Cruz (as Sanders is thought to scare moderates) it could be close between Sanders and Cruz.
PIP stands for "Performance Improvement Plan". I don't have experience with one, but from what I've read, it sounds like management-speak for "We're going to find a reason to fire you". Michael O. Church has an interesting perspective [0]:

"""
Most people think of “performance improvement” as something well-intended, because they take performance to mean “how good I am at my job”....

However, that’s not what “performance” means in the context of a employment contract. When a contract exists, non-performance is falling short of an agreed-upon provision of the contract. It doesn’t mean that the contract was fulfilled but in a mediocre way. It means that the contract was breached.
"""

0: https://michaelochurch.wordpress.com/2012/12/24/never-sign-a...
Before we start sassing somebody for interpreting a sentence improperly, let's look at the ACTUAL full quote;

"Supreme Court member Ruth Bader Ginsburg has an honorary doctorate degree from every single Ivy League School, with the exception of Cornell, which doesn’t give them out."

It doesn't seem unreasonable to point out that an earned undergraduate degree is significantly different from an honorary doctorate degree, and that perhaps when somebody EXPLICITLY SPECIFIES the second type, they aren't talking about the first. That's not a syntax error, and it's plenty clear.
“Socialism never took root in America because the poor see themselves not as an exploited proletariat but as temporarily embarrassed millionaires.” ― John Steinbeck

Also remember you are seeing a media/attention filter on everything. Nobody reports or passes on the mundane things. Instead controversies have to be found that outrage some people, all the better to get eyeballs on the TV/site and go viral on Facebook.

I do recommend following Scott Adams' blog (creator of Dilbert). He has an mba, is a trained hypnotist, and various other skills unrelated to comics. He has been writing about the various techniques Donald Trump is using, and why they are so successful. (Note not endorsing Trump, but rather observing.) http://blog.dilbert.com/
Irrelevant. We're close enough to the top that it makes no difference to the person's point. It should be absolutely unacceptable that this happens in a civilized nation.
From the Article:

"You can’t claim to be a data-driven company and not release more specific numbers on how many women and people of color apply, get hired and promoted, and stay on as employees. In the absence of meaningful public data — especially retention data — all we have are stories."

Unless Amazon is willing to release the numbers, then most people will tend to believe the bad stories (like Julia's) over stories like your friend's.
In a pinch you could extract a RPM into a sub-dir and attempt to run it from there.
Is it bad to look like bash? Bash really is a beautiful language, and string interpolation is one of the things that it's designed for.
To me the remarkable thing is how well Trump is doing even after the media (on both sides) have tried to extremize his views. The contrast between what Trump actually says and how the media frames it is appalling.

But, by and large you're right. His policies are fairly mainstream and even the ones that sounds extreme (immigration being the main one) are commonly held by a large part of the population.
There are always enough talented people who have been on the job market long enough to be desperate for an offer from even shitty employers. I'd imagine the net effect of all this fuss about working conditions, on Amazon's ability to attract talent would be minimal.
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Ask HN: HN page dead after using back button
This behavior began a day or two ago. I use Ubuntu 14.04 and Firefox 40.0 (latest updates). From the HN page, traversing to cited link (and possibly others) then returning via the back button takes me back to the index page, but all links on the page are frequently dead. Reloading does not fix the problem. The only recovery is to kill off the browser and restart. The failure happens frequently, but not all the time.

Is this a HN problem a Firefox problem, or what? Does anyone else see this behavior?
Conversion on anything trial-like, is going to be very small, and likely worse than even an upfront purchase because you will hit some people who are satiated with a small amount of trial gameplay or people who decide not to buy after playing.

Keep in mind that the best premium apps have lifetime revenues in the low tens of millions, and the best F2P are in the billions.
When the first game came out, it was written in Lua and they had embedded a runtime in the iOS application - interesting that Apple at first forbade that practice, to the point of scanning libraries for interpreters. It then became the #1 iOS game - goes to show, allowing companies to bring their own language to the platform allows for unexpected successes.

Hopefully Apple learned from that lesson.

All the same, 800 employees for a game seems excessive, but then we have 5000 employees at Facebook for a website..