skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What's interesting about this article is I saw only two parts where it mentioned critical, employer behavior. That behavior is treating people like disposable objects with no concern for their pay or well-being. Also, reinforcing it by pushing for "at-will" employment where they can even drop good workers without cause. Lots of layoffs of loyal employees at the big firms over the past decade just reinforce this issue.

So, after all that crap, they want to say a person is doing a disservice to the company to quit without two weeks of extra benefit to the company? Funny stuff. They keep forgetting that capitalism says that everyone, not just business owners, should act in their self interest. Truth told, unless it's a stakeholder-oriented business, then everyone should be giving the company as little as possible. Like the company does them.

Companies that want loyal employees that will make sacrifices for them know what to do. They can go back to old IBM Watson or current, Publix Crenshaw approach of taking care of workers along with incentives for them to improve bottom line. Then, the workers will take care of them and much less likely to disappear in a day. That simple. My money says they won't do it, though. So, ditch them the second you get a better offer much like the CEO or board members would.
> Bitcoins are amazing. Just not there yet. I can't give a credit card of bitcoins for my wife to buy groceries :)

Yes you can. There are actually even multiple providers for just such a card.
It appears from across the pond that the US heavily favours employers when it comes to workers rights. I could be wrong, but I believe in most states you can be fired even without a reasonable cause. This is extremely different from the UK, at least for full time workers 1-year+ at the company.

As this is the case, I don't think quitting on the spot is an unfair use of the system.
Yes, LA should build more housing, but it doesn't help when people remove housing from the market. This is a huge problem with AirBnB, they're encouraging people to remove supply from the housing market, often in the areas where more housing is needed the most.
I remember him as well, he didn't understand OO well enough to critique it so very little of what he said had any actual value. "Spirited" is a nice way to put it, a bit colored by nostalgia though. His idea of programming is a big ball of procedural mud over a relational database where every task is a hand written sql query/loop over result set, fucking terrible.
Depends on intent, if you gave two people offers for one position just to see which one would accept the fastest you'd have a lawsuit. If there was a genuine reason then it's fine. Just like how a company can't sue you if you recind after signing a contract, even if the company stopped hiring and had monetary damages as a result.
Just playing devils advocate here: do you think the solution would have been different if it had been white people shooting each other?
Broken URL (pasted twice).
The correct URL is: https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2010/01/primer-information-the...
Research bolsters case for a present-day subsurface ocean on Pluto
it isn't just removing blacks, its removing anyone not wealthy enough to afford to stay. row housing in Chicago went this way as older units got bought up, modernized and it felt like it went one block after another. Taxes went up and if you didn't sell for the good sums offered those taxes usually ate into your limited income. The gated community mentality started in cities and while it went out into the wild it never really left.

to not take action eventually results in situations like what they fixed here. decades of indifference on the part of the politicians of the city including those representing the district is what put the residents into these positions. Take it this way, the city government and perhaps even the state all had ample opportunity to fix the situation and failed. The bureaucracy of the city likely doomed all effort and far too often activist simply cause an existing situation to persist.

the take away is, people should be demanding city governments do something before areas become so bad that draconian measures are all that is left.
It's decent advice for larger organizations. At startup-sized orgs you're bound to have people with disproportionate amounts of power (and often it's a good thing). I hate to be pessimistic but I think instilling a deep sense of moral wrongness of certain actions and behaviors is what you have to do in order to have real impact.
The problem will never be solved. There are actions a society can take to reduce occurrences of the problem. There are actions individuals can take to reduce their personal risks.
So you are implying that makes it okay to assume everyone accused is guilty for all intents and purposes?
Who owns the panels seems like an implementation detail. Don't agree with you about time value of money for the long haul.
Don't drink if you... can't trust the people you are with.

"3 out of 4 rapes [in the US] are committed by someone known to the victim." https://www.rainn.org/statistics/perpetrators-sexual-violenc...
If you want to just focus on what you call "abusive rock stars", then I think the most accurate term is "abusive charlatan". That covers the lack of skill as well as the fame-seeking.

In terms of reading charitably, I'm sorry to say that you're the one who needs to do more of it. I never implied that the author might be accusing those people of abusive behavior. In fact, that idea didn't even occur to me until you mentioned it. I was just giving examples of good "rock stars" in our field.

My issue is this: There are plenty of existing terms that accurately describe what the author is talking about. If she manages to redefine "rock star" to be purely negative, it robs us of a useful word. And because of that, a lot of people are going to be against her definitional change. (As evidence, just look at this HN thread.) She could gain more support by avoiding this definitional fight.
PocketC.H.I.P. Successfully Running Doom, Because ‘Everything Runs Doom.’
I find it to be a peculiar business decision to completely (as much as you can) migrate to one of your largest competitors' cloud service. It seems like Microsoft is the only, of the larger cloud providers, that doesn't -really- compete with Netflix. (Google has YouTube, and I guess even Microsoft has a much smaller Windows Store presence.) Even if Amazon can't access the raw data, they could see how you're utilizing it to improve their own video service, and they get the benefit of billing you and potentially using their pricing leverage to squeeze your margins.

I feel like Apple's approach of utilizing multiple providers makes more sense (though they do this for uptime and redundancy.) Maybe I'm being a pessimist.
It would be available day and night and not as susceptible to weather fluctuations.
Not it, longer ago I think and the recommended contact feature was a key part. Thanks though!
This is flat out wrong. In the US/EU, you can't be put on trial for being a rape victim. What offence would that be? Complete hyperbole.
>"we should never try to prove that anything causes anything"

I don't know about never, but the "c-word" gets thrown around way too freely in my opinion. But yea, I am saying that the most successful science has had little to nothing to do with causality. You see the focus on causality is more common in the less successful endeavors such as the social sciences, perhaps it is time to consider that the causality concept is a red herring (at least when it comes to science).

To be sure, I am far from the first to entertain such thoughts:
"Causality in physics has had bad press in philosophy at least since Russell’s famous 1913 remark: “The law of causality, I believe, like much that passes muster among philosophers, is a relic of a bygone age, surviving, like the monarchy, only because it is erroneously supposed to do no harm” (Russell 1913, p. 1). Recently Norton (2003 and 2006) has launched what would seem to be the definite burial of causality in physics. Norton argues that causation is merely a useful folk concept, and that it fails to hold for some simple systems even in the supposed paradigm case of a causal physical theory – namely Newtonian mechanics."
http://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/4690/1/CausalFundam.pdf
Went through the Brandery, lived in OTR for a year and a half. Ended up falling in love with that neighborhood. Truly a special place. The tech community there far exceeds expectations for a city it's size as well.
I believe that DMARC requires SPF. Since I want DMARC, I need to provide a compatible SPF, which means ~all.

(And I do want to implement DMARC. Not so much to improve deliverability of my own email, but rather to prevent delivery of malicious email pretending to be from my domain.)
A lot of people are approaching this as an employer/employee relationship, which is fair, but I think it's more important to understand how quitting on the spot affects the employee - employee relationship.

If someone I work with quits day-of, and there's no obvious signs that it was over an ethical no-go, I'm going to conclude that it's someone I don't want to collaborate with in the future.

If you can't make the effort to spend a week cleaning up loose ends, document your projects, and pass on knowledge to the rest of the team, you are certainly not someone I want to work with in the future -- much less ever consider having as a co-founder. It's just basic professionalism.

Obviously not the case if the employer asked you to do something unethical, but you need to make that clear to the rest of your team if it happened, in order to reasonably retain their respect.
If Linux/UNIX is so great, why didn't Microsoft create a distro (a decade or two ago)?

Actually, they did! Xenix was Microsoft's Unix distro, licensed and derived from AT&T's System V source.

During the late 1980s it was the most popular Unix variety of all, measured by number of installations.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Videos

They did make their own version of youtube at one point, apparently it wasn't enough and they wanted the userbase too.
I think I'd rather stick to the format supported by Go and the 'jq' command, where each line is actually JSON.

But if it became popular, this format seems easy to support.
I will never understand people who take drugs for working. Drugs are supposed to be for fun!
There are abusive rock stars who are not charlatans, so that doesn't work well either.

I'm not saying that the debate over terminology is unproductive; maybe we'll hit on the perfect word. But it's not the point of the piece.
Giving notice is a courtesy. I think it's the 'right' thing when you think you and your employer have mutual respect for each other.

However, if you feel you are being underpaid, under-appreciated, or asked to do unethical things, why do you owe them anything? Just get out! Maybe if it stings a bit, they'll treat their remaining/future employees a bit better (or go out of business).
I would call this "JSON encoded CSV" since it appears to be a strict subset of CSV, not JSON.
>Just like how a company can't sue you if you recind after signing a contract

How would that work? Wouldn't that be a breach of a binding contract, or is there usually some kind of exit clause to account for specific circumstances?
I've come across animated GIFs that when downloaded in GIF form are 100+MB. That's slightly different than a 100KB jpeg.
Why do people think that having programming skills is something that people of the future need? It's useless for most of people, and for many people who know how to program, is also useless for them too, as most if not all their needs are already fulfilled by someone else.

I think it's more important for the younger generation to learn about other things, some of them I do not know.

Things like agriculture, law, music theory, etc. are much more important than programming.
I've never heard anything suggest there is "an increased tendency among employers to rescind job offers," so it's probably just an excuse people give (or don't, maybe the author pulled that statement out of thin air) to not do the right thing and give two weeks, assuming a normal situation of course.
> If you can't make the effort to spend a week cleaning up loose ends, document your projects, and pass on knowledge to the rest of the team, you are certainly not someone I want to work with in the future -- much less ever consider having as a co-founder. It's just basic professionalism.

Why would you accept the same case from a company? ("at will employment")
Surely he means something like an activity light, not a modal dialog.
FTA: While our subscription processing was using data in our Cassandra datastore, our payment processor needed ACID capabilities of an RDBMS to process charge transactions. We still had a multi-terabyte database that would not fit in AWS RDS with TB limitations.
> This is assuming you are using all InnoDB tables(you likely should be).

Ah, that's probably it. ~2004/2005 InnoDB wasn't nearly as popular as it is today, IIRC (but it was there, and was used).

In any case, multiple master with failover setups always worked well in my experience, as long as you take care to track the replication state.
They don't like swear words.
I really wish ASCII delimited text didn't die off.

https://ronaldduncan.wordpress.com/2009/10/31/text-file-form...

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7474600

But, it suffered from not having designated keys on common keyboards, therefore it wasn't obviously necessary for plain text editors to support. Meanwhile, everyone uses plain text editors for everything --even if it means jumping through hoops full of exceptions and corner cases to pretend they can handle more than plain text.
You can't post like this here, even in (especially in) a highly inflamed discussion. Comments on HN need to be civil and substantive.
I appreciate the problem this is trying to solve, but it could be more easily remedied by a JSON stream processor than reinventing the wheel of data marshalling (yet again). JSON is so simplistic in structure, it's trivial to know when you've met the conditions of a completed segment of structure. There's no reason why a stream parser couldn't handle this well.
i read the allegations, he's a funny guy if its true.
> If you flipped this and asked all these people arguing that it's never ok to quit on the spot if it's fine to fire someone on the spot, do you think a single one would say no?

With or without two weeks of pay? I don't think I'd fire someone without two weeks of pay in lieu of notice, although I suppose if the behaviour were terrible enough it's possible.
Depending on where you draw the line between statistics and machine learning, it could be argued to have originated with Bachelier's thesis in 1900 [1], or Thorp's adaptation of Kelly's work first to gambling and then to finance in the early 60s (he may have been first to use computers for this kind of thing) [2] or maybe with James Simons' Renaissance Technologies in the early 80s [3].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_Bachelier

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_O._Thorp

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Renaissance_Technologies
Palm prints were used at a nuclear facility I visited as an alternative to fingerprints in step 2. After you scan your id card you scan your palm print and the system verifies the palm matches the one that is registered with the card. They are not as unique as finger prints but it makes it much more difficult to use someone else's card (or username).
Was this just taken off the HN front page?
This is from 2015 - should be reflected in the title.
Remember superdelegates? The system is explicitly designed to not be a 100% democratic process.

(It used to be wholly decided by party elders in secret. I'm glad we mostly use primaries now, but I can see the merit of that approach. I bet the Republican leadership wishes that's still how it worked right now. )
Me too. I binged a lot of the C2 wiki last year and waded through a lot of his spew.
Well it is "at will" employment, so you're more or less quitting the new job immediately. Most people would of course not turn down a job immediately _after_ signing a job offer. They just wouldn't sign the job offer.

What I was getting at, is I had heard somewhere that companies can be liable if they extend a job offer then rescind it causing the employee considerable harm. Sounds like it is a "it depends" type of situation.
We need spreadsheet oriented programming. A lot of people use Excel for all kinds of programming but it gets pretty complicated. Even something as simple as being able to name a column or a cell could go a long way towards improving these Excel programs.
ThinLTO: Scalable and Incremental Link Time Optimization
NIST Draft: The KMAC, TupleHash, and FPH Functions [pdf]
I've been using my custom JSV Format for years:

https://github.com/ServiceStack/ServiceStack.Text/wiki/JSV-F...

Which is just JSON with CSV-escaping which is ends up being faster, more concise and more human-friendly since quotes are only necessary when using special delimiter chars. It's just not as interoperable or ubiquitous as JSON so only an option when you control both ends.
It's interesting that Reddit-hosted images have been averaging fewer upvotes than Imgur-hosted images, on /r/pics at least: http://i.imgur.com/91qkas5.png

One postulated reason is that browser plugin Reddit Enhancement Suite doesn't work as well with Reddit images as Imgur ones. But I wouldn't be surprised if something more subtle was also at work.

I know you're doing some work around this and it will be interesting to see wider results in a few months.
for a second i thought it said walmart in the beginning
Yes, they oppose it so strongly they refuse to continue to do business wi- ... oh, they still cash the cheques? Well then. How much is that opposition worth?
the HN community seems to shine at not making you feel embarrassed about what you've made.

Not in my experience. Several Show HN type of things I posted were highly criticized with harsh words. I'm not posting anything on HN ever again.
It seems you're doing a great job trying to connect with your customers. Congrats. Most people don't try that hard.

Have you tried capturing phone number as part of the sign-up process and calling customers who don't seem to be using your software?
I've just realized I basically cannot read cursive anymore.
A street over would be Walnut or Main streets, which now have a packed barcade, and a pretty solid empanada place, etc. The change even in the last two years is extremely positive, and I would have to disagree that the article greatly overstates it.

That said, past Liberty or Main certainly has some unsavory characters, but for the most part they're only dangerous to each other. I lived in that area recently and go back frequently. I never felt unsafe in the area that's experienced significant development, even late at night.

I think a lot of people who formed their opinion of OTR back in the race riots would do well to revisit and go in with an open mind. It's quite a wonderful place now
Microsoft Wallet
I have massive issues with the fingerprint systems like Apple Touch ID because of my eczema. Sometimes I have to retrain as often as once a week. I'm not alone with this problem, how exactly will these systems approach people with very real challenges with fingerprints, missing eyes and other issues?
So you save some space on top level keys which are stored once in the header...but you waste space by having to flatten data structures into a table to start with, with key values being repeated over lines, the more deeply nested, the worse it gets.

Stick with JSON document per line.
So now if you live in Brazil you have to worry about people chopping off your fingers to take your cash
My definition, which tell people at restaurants, is 'nothing that had eyes except potatoes.' it's succinct, and everyone gets it.

I'm fine with eggs, though, so YMMV.
I like this counter example. I also think Sheryl knows that she can be the kingmaker and not the king to be successful. She is a driving force behind Mark Zuckerberg's success. Of all the folks mentioned, I put Sheryl in the rare breed category who has very high emotional intelligence.
Almost definitely not; rather, the post was probably flagged by users. This happens all the time, and your question is a very common one.
In my life, I have seen two Teslas directly. One is owned by a person I know. I've seen one other "in the wild."

I don't think the Model S is very distinctive so I may have missed more in my peripheral vision. The Roadster was much more of a head-turner.

I have seen more McLarens, Lamborghinis, and Ferraris than I have Teslas.

I live in an area of about 100K population.
Causality is central to hard science.

Its why we have concepts like dependent and independent observations. We split observable dimensions into these groups so we can change the independent variable and find out their causal effect on the dependent variables. The whole reason we have "experiments" is so an experimenter can deliberately change the system in a focused way, outside of its normal dynamics, to reveal the causal structure of the system under observation. You can't do this by passively observing the system. This is why we have experiments. This is core to the scientific method.
Totally fine with this.

Put it this way, if a manager has this happen more than twice, fire him.
'A lot of employees are loyal to companies, not so much the other way around.'

Recognising and then losing this mindset is so important. Many of my younger friends who have only been employed a few years appear to have fierce loyalty to their employers. So many have sacrificed salary for essentially worthless options. They appear less likely to ask for a raise, assert their rights to reasonable work hours, dissent to a bad work environment.

The best way I have found for avoiding this is reducing the idea of your job into a very simple transaction, taking the view of a consultant. You have problems that need solving and will pay. I will solve those problems for pay. When seen as purely transactional, I believe the individual feels more empowered and avoids the loyalty trap.
Appreciated! We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11949814 and marked it off-topic.
You already can name cells in Excel, and use those names as references, rather than B5, or whatever.

https://support.office.com/en-us/article/Define-and-use-name...
Microsoft Wallet with tap to pay available for Windows Insiders
Right to work dealt with coercing workers to join unions. Not at all the same thing.
I was unable to find information about the "terrible omen" referenced in the article headline.

Closest thing:

> In often-fragile ecosystems, reliant on a stable climate, it is now much easier to see how environmental change might have contributed to the collapse of these ancient civilizations. As a result, many ideas about the collapse of ancient societies, such as those promoted by Jared Diamond - who emphasizes social, political, and economic factors - may require some significant rethinking.
So a sed script?
Luckily the number of people who want to exterminate all of humanity seems to be rather low.

Which just leaves the people who want to exterminate part of humanity.
Vic did create a sticky product - so hard to get rid of Google Plus.
There's always a good chance you could work with some of your old peers at a new company. They aren't necessarily going to forget the way you acted when you left.

Honestly two weeks notice isn't about the company at all, it's about the people you work alongside (including your boss). The company will do just fine regardless, but your co-workers have to pick up the extra slack.