skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What do you expect people to do when they can't find work and don't have access to any other safety net? Is it really worse for someone to lie in order to keep food on the table and a roof over their head, than for us (as a society) to let people starve or go homeless?

The fact that the SSDI stats jumped during the financial crisis shows that people aren't applying just because they're lazy and don't want to work. They're applying because the work isn't there, otherwise the numbers would have already been just as high before the crisis.

You also have to consider that a lot of these people may be legitimately "too disabled to work" during a job shortage but be fine when there is more demand for workers. When employers are desperate for workers, they're willing to make more accommodations than they would when there are hundreds of applicants per opening. MS is a great example of this because its symptoms are so variable from day to day. My mom has had MS since before I was born and she's been able to find part-time work when the economy is doing good because some employers are willing to accept that she needs to work shorter shifts, take longer breaks and will call in sick more often. During harder times she's outcompeted by applicants who don't have these issues. It's very possible your neighbor is only capable of lifting 100lb stones 2 or 3 days of the week. Hard to find stable work that way.
The "13 people" you thought owned 61.5% of the company were VCs who did not own those shares as individuals but as managers of their VC funds.
Same here -- my GF has Fibromyalgia. She was working up till a couple years ago, and now can't drive due to the pain meds. After 3 rejections, she's finally getting a court date at the end of the year.

From what I gather, since there has been a larger number of people filing for disability, they are automatically rejecting applicants several times hoping that they will get a job (if they really don't need the disability). Then, if you make it to the court date, that itself is evidence that you are disabled enough.

Now I don't agree with this, but apparently this is the way they are running the program now.
edits to correct typos made on my phone.

I am skeptical of developer bootcamps because they often aren't open enrollment. You generally have to have the aptitude and background to get through their admissions process and interview. That weeds out some people right away.

They are right to have this admissions process, because if you let everyone in, lots of people won't make it, and then the promise of good paying jobs is much more hard to advertise.

Let's not forget that it does favor a certain type of people over others; namely people who have grown up in an environment that teaches them how to learn. Most people on HN know how to learn on their own and see value in bootcamps because they feel that candidates from bootcamps can learn the material easily.

But folks, that's not everyone.

A lot of people don't like school. They aren't good at it, or they had bad experiences, etc. And a lot of people transitioning into software development have been trained for many years to do what they were told, so they have to develop those critical thinking skills.

I think these people have a harder time making it through the application processes for some of these camps. And that's a shame.

I would be 100% behind an immersive bootcamp experience that had an open enrollment process. I work at a school that has that right now, and we do have lots of people who don't make it very far. But we have many more that go from minimum wage to doing very, very well for themselves and their families.

If I had those students for 12 weeks straight where they could learn and apply through immersion, oh man, the things we could do together!
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>If they don't offer you a significant raise with 24 hours, start applying for other jobs.

Start applying for other jobs anyways. Schedule on-site interviews more than 24 hours after you talk about getting a raise. If they offer a significant raise, cancel the interviews.
Even if this is true (and [jnbiche](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10433503) argues that it isn't), what's the use of saying so? If you don't like the increasing Reddit-ness of HN, then pointing out that HN isn't Reddit is the right thing to do to stop the trend.
> How's this new at all?

Nobody said it was new. Do you really think all developers know everything , every paradigms , techniques, frameworks in existence ? no .

Do you like FRP ? if yes then why would you complain about FRP vulgarization ? about yet an FRP blog ?

Some things might seem obvious to you. Well there are not obvious for everybody because they have other things to worry about in their respective domain. Don't be arrogant. If you like FRP then you want more people to embrace this paradigm. Something will always be new to somebody.
Every variant of Colgate has the same active ingredients.

http://www.colgatetotal.com/health-benefits/toothpaste-ingre...

The only difference appears to be 0.14% vs 0.15% w/v fluoride ion.

The naturopathic folks will tell you that triclosan is toxic and you should avoid the mainstream brands altogether.
Ask HN: Which recruitment platform you use for your company ?
Hello everyone
I am trying to reinvent recruitment process for my new product. Can you people share with me what recruitment software you are using and what are pros and cons of it. Here is a list of few recruitment platform I have collected so far

Underdog https://underdog.io/

Smart Hires https://www.smarthires.io

Way Up https://www.wayup.com

recruiterbox http://recruiterbox.com/

stackoverflow careers.stackoverflow.com

greenhouse https://www.greenhouse.io/

JobScore https://www.jobscore.com/

Workable http://workable.com/

Smart Recruiters https://www.smartrecruiters.com/

Triplebyte https://triplebyte.com/

Simplicant http://www.simplicant.com/

Staff https://www.staff.com/

Thanks
Shadow DOM is there in Chrome and might soon be added to WebKit. I personally don't think they will last.
Any professor who understands the first thing about marketing and adoption should do this. Jack Lee taught me smooth manifolds out of his own book that he gave to us for free. 10 years later, I'm teaching out of that book, so my students are paying for it.
He doesn't know whether his neighbor needs disability or not, he's just guessing. MS symptoms are really variable. The fact that he has a few good days doesn't mean he can hold down a steady job.
> From what I gather, since there has been a larger number of people filing for disability, they are automatically rejecting applicants several times hoping that they will get a job (if they really don't need the disability). Then, if you make it to the court date, that itself is evidence that you are disabled enough.

This disgusts me on a level I can't even describe. My mother is lucky: I live a modest life, combined with a tech worker salary, means I can support her without any impact to either of us. Without my job though, she would be homeless.
That's nuts. You're more proficient and efficient with that experience, which should compensate for the wage difference between you and a less experienced colleague.
Please stop taking HN threads on generic ideological tangents. You've been doing this a ton, and it's not what this site is for.

In fact, there's little that's worse for HN. Such tangents are predictable, which makes them tedious, and tendentious, which makes them prolific. Tedious plus prolific equals sludge. Moreover, such discussions only get worse as they proceed, never better.
the most common disability out there is obesity, at least from appearances sake. More than one coworker has gone out for this which is surprising to me because until they did you would never have expected it. Yeah they were large but to get out on disability and stay there? Really?

Of course patient survey's don't help this at all. I do know my doctor will rarely if ever raise the notion that a patient's weight is the cause of their problems, from bad back, weak joints, pain in walking, or diabetes. Why? Surveys. You get whacked more than a few times and suddenly its not worth the frustration. Sadly there are movements that are pushing for acceptance. I wonder how many other shake their head in annoyance at all the obese who have stickers and park up front at the store? Its like ready content for people of wal mart.

As for the SSDI, there are so many cases of fraud and its not uncommon to read about some disability mill getting caught and having to pay out. However you won't see many of those receiving their SSDI losing it. Its even worse when just you can make believe a mental disability and get it. There was that famous case from 2011 where a guy was claiming disability, wearing diapers, having nurses attend, and more.
I can appreciate that.
How does this work ? what happen when someone steals my blockchain master-key ?
Data is the plural of anecdote:

"The founders whose companies die usually only earn small salaries. Before being admitted to Y Combinator, founders usually live off savings or taking loans. During the Y Combinator program, they use a one-off seed investment from Y Combinator of US$120,000 to pay living and business expenses15. If they go on to receive angel investment, they can pay themselves about $50,000 per year. With venture capital funding, this tends to increase to about US$100,000 per year"

(From the section on "What about the companies that died", namely, the case for most founders.)
Awesome. Thanks for the review and thoughts on design.

>Click the Hibou highlight button. It will be saved here until you make a highlight.

Here refers to the Reading list. If you click the highlight button, but don't make any highlights, Hibou will save that page in the reading list (the left-most icon in app.hibou.com). That way, you can go back and highlight it later. You won't get any reminders or notifications until you create your first highlight on that page, at which point it goes from your reading list to your queue (middle clock icon), and of course the highlights are saved. I'll make that clearer.

Thanks for pointing out the disabling bug. If you only use the keyboard shortcut, enabling and disabling should work fine. If you use the popup, disabling seems broken. I'll fix that today.

Logging in allows you to
* see your highlights on another device (which means another computer right now, but will soon mean your phone) by going to app.gethibou.com and logging in with the same gmail account.
* Store an unlimited number of highlights. Everything is saved locally if you don't log in, and you're limited to 5mb of local storage in an extension, so eventually you'll run out of space (you'll get a warning if you're running out of space).
* Sort all highlights by tags. As I roll out features, sometimes things need to be coded on the server and within the extension. In those cases, I'll write the code on the server first, so by logging in you'll get access to newer features. Sorting by tag is the first of those features.

I'll add this to the guide.
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This has been extensvely studied, and it has been found that many people realized they could get much more money in the long term by claiming disability instead of simply claiming various unemployment benefits.[1] The number of people on the disability rolls went up substantially during the great recession when the number of unemployed or marginally employed people increased drastically, and many of them decided to claim disability rather than trying to go out and look for new jobs.

What is particularly distressing about this phenomenon is that the people on disability are discouraged from looking from insecure jobs, because disability benefits are a guaranteed long term income stream which is forfeit in perpetuity upon employment. It is clear that many of the people receiving these government benefits understand the system quite well, as a substantial portion of them are working off the books, to get extra income while avoiding loss of long term benefits.

[1] http://economics.mit.edu/files/7388
a third reference isn't far away, in my experience.
As someone who has been working in JS for, oh, since it was invented: no, JS as a language definitely sucks.
You're taking anecdata from anecdata.

"I know one guy who is potentially abusing disability. I have seen him on ones of occasions do something that makes me think he should be working."
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I'd caution you against making easy assumptions about other people's health. MS is an episodic disease, which means that there are times when patients are near normal, and times when they're entirely incapacitated. Have you considered that you might have seen him to these things when he's not experiencing an episode? Not to mention that disability is fairly strict and that MS would be extremely hard to fake (pretty sure that MS diagnosis is usual made on the basis on MRI imaging).

Also, to take a very personal example, I've also got a neurological condition (not MS) that is fairly episodic. I'm fortunate that I'm have got a desk job as a software developer and so I haven't had to seek disability (despite being told by my physician he'd support an application). If I had to work going physical labor, I wouldn't have a choice but to apply for disability, since when my condition flares up I'm fairly immobile. Even walking short distances is difficult. There's simply no way I could hold down a 5 day/week physical labor job.

That said, when things are going well, I can be fairly active. Today I was out working on my deck. I take my kids to the zoo and walk around the entire park. If I had had to take disability, would people say the same things of me?
Your sample of "hiring-freeze" companies is totally different from my sample of "hiring" companies in that time period. Employees looking for job don't care about the practices of the companies that are not hiring. They care about the practices of companies that are hiring.
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There have been multiple waves of Chinese immigration to the US, with different concentrations of Mandarin vs. Cantonese speakers, education level, affluence, etc. Thus, there tends to be major differences between China Towns in different major cities.
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It's especially difficult with how non-existent the possibility of "professional but part-time" is. I know my wife would love to begin putting her engineering degree back to use 15-20 hours a week, but the only real option is to go full time and enroll our daughter in full time daycare, which we really would prefer not to do.
It might be interesting to note that there's a tech workers union in Finland[1]. The collective bargaining is mostly non-existing, as people tend to get paid more than the minimum wages bargained by the union. Finland has the highest union memberships in the world too, but membership is less than average for this particular union from what I understand. (I'm not a member).

1. https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tietoalan_toimihenkil%C3%B6t
> what do we gain in the meantime by quibbling over typographical errors? Did anyone really read this fellow's comment and go, 'wait, what? That doesn't make any sense.

Nothing. There wasn't really a reason for whoever pointed it out to do so. On one hand it's a common error, so it's very noticeable—but on the other, it's a common error, so people know what was really meant.

> And, if the situation is as the parent comment described --- 'this error is made consistently upstream' -- then we're looking at the collapse of loose/lose probably in the same timeframe as 'they're/their/there' and 'to/too/two'.

Yeah, that seems reasonable. One thing your other examples have going for them, though, is that if you use the incorrect spelling, it's (almost) always obvious from context which is correct, but I can imagine there are more situations that lose and loose could both be correct.

> My main point is that language is not a static set of do's and don't's. It lives. If you need someone to clarify, ask them! But pointing your teacher's baton at them and saying, 'you're using your language wrong' is a waste of life.

Agreed 100%

> so perhaps my fervor has backfired.

Meh. I see so many "they is always plural!" or "literally meaning figuratively is a recent error!" or "language never changes!" or other prescriptive garbage, that it's a nice change of pace to see someone a bit too far on the descriptive side :-)
This is exactly right. I had detailed knowledge of an acquisition and all media articles about it were so completely wrong that it was offensive.
I didn't mention exec/directors in my original comment above, only Jack at $1.5B and average employee at $300K. Which of those is totally and completely wrong, and why?

Are you saying that employees retained the full remaining 38.5% ?
A professional guild - like lawyers, accountants, or actuaries - is a much better structure, IMO.
True, usually founder risks > employee risks, but I do agree that employee risks are often down played.
Number inputs are amazingly bad. In many languages, comma is considered the correct decimal separator [1], but if your users enter that they will break the input in about half of the browsers.

As far as I understand, there's no way to feature detect this stuff. Why not just use text input? Because on iOS, `type="number"` is the only way to get a keyboard with both digits and a decimal separator. So, browser sniffing it is...

[1] http://www.statisticalconsultants.co.nz/blog/how-the-world-s...
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"Employees may not always be aware of the risks, but they are exposed to them."

Everyone is exposed to risks. Jobs are never a sure thing in the first place and being a first employee or an employee at a newly funded startup is always going to have some risk. If you aren't willing to take on the risk that comes along with the job, you can work for a non-startup. Plenty of people do this.

"But consider someone who has the ability to get hired as a senior SE at a place like google or netflix, who instead works at a startup for, say, $150k a year. That's still probably close to $75K in lost income a year, and I really do think I'm keeping these numbers conservative."

An opportunity risk, maybe. However, if the person loses their job..they don't really lose that money. It's pretty unfair to put that responsibility on the employer and impossible to prove one way or the other (How are you going to prove an opportunity that will or will not happen??)

You could also make that same argument for any company (not just a startup). If I work at a place making $75K, I could be potentially leaving money on the table because another unknown company might want to hire me for $100K.

"1) they may be taking on vastly more risk than you have estimated through lost opportunities/salary/lack of job stability,"

Which really isn't taking on more risk in regards to the company, which is my point. We are all taking on risk with almost every decision we make. Nothing is a sure thing.

"they may be entitled to more shares even at lower risk levels because their skills are very valuable (truth is, they may be more valuable than the founder in some cases)."

They aren't entitled to anything and nearly all employees are expendable. How do I know? I was the valuable employee in many companies before I started my own. I, and everyone I ever worked with, could be replaced. Was it easy? Of course not. But the work in most companies isn't rocket science...and when it is, the company compensates the employee accordingly and tries to keep them there at all costs.

Once again, shares in the company is directly proportional to risk. If as an employee, you are willing to take a paycheck directly related to the success of the company and, or take on debt when the everything crashes, they you have the leverage to get a higher percentage of the profits.

The way I see it, you want a higher percentage of the profits for no more increase in risk, which doesn't really make sense.
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> That weeds on some people right away.

> people who have grown up around how to learn

Neither of these phrases makes any sense.
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So basically, liberty.
As I understand it mod_wsgi with Apache will do a code reload when you either touch your WSGI file or do an apache2 reload (that is send it a SIGHUP). The big downside there is having my Python code be re-loaded and re-parsed as the new processes get spun up. That usually results in the first few requests being really slow. But it is effectively a zero downtime system. In general, if the components of your stack support being reloaded via SIGHUP instead of having to be restarted, use that. If they do not, consider using different components.

However, I'd say that this gets a whole lot easier as you add even a "local" load balancer: that is a load balancer that lives on the same box but does not require a restart during a deploy. In this case you can start up your gunicorn/apache2/uwsgi/whatever on a new internal port, then remap which port is "live" using your firewall or by updating your load balancer's config and reloading it. This is how dokku works with Docker containers and I love that I have zero downtime deploys with it out of the box.
You don't need a complex guidance package when traditional direction finding and triangulation will produce coordinates that can be used to direct artillery, air strikes, IED, etc. Sigint targeting is quite common.
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Pretty much every grocery store in Chinatown in NYC that I've been to has had them.
Do you delete files after they are purchased and downloaded, or do they persist? How long?

Are you encrypting the files on your storage servers in case you're subpoenaed?

How can I verify the file is what is described, before I pay for it?
Multi-section most likely means that there are several different sections of the same course running simultaneously. In addition, there are probably different professors teaching these sections.

I can understand part of the argument here - it would be important to maintain consistency among the different sections, so that students who take the class from Professor A learn basically the same material as students who take Professor B. That being said, the material presented in a low-level class like this hasn't changed in a long time, so any book should suffice.
I've walked out of restaurants before when there were too many things on the menu. Ethnic restaurants can be forgiven, but an American restaurant that does this gives the impression that they do none of the dishes well.
Becoming a nurse or paralegal requires far more certification than software development. It's actually quite amazing how much of an outlier software is in the realm of professional qualification.

Accounting is perhaps a more interesting corollary because it doesn't have the built-in awe and long history of respect as the medical and legal professions: perhaps we should have 12-week tax accounting bootcamps! I'm being a bit tongue-in-cheek, but there are real benefits on both sides of this argument: there are real quality of work and quality of employment (salary, respect, etc.) advantages to professional certification enforcement, but it is difficult to imagine the pace at which the technology sector is growing if employment were controlled by certification.
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Because everyone should have the exact same risk tolerance as you. And if they don't, they're wrong. There's no two ways about it.