skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Or have had the actual experience of not being allowed to plug in your own electrical cord at a trade show and blaming in on the union - which is probably right. I'm not saying unions are all bad but in the US ones don't have a good track record.

While in grad school, the heater in our lab was out during a cold-ass New York winter. We put in work requests for weeks, and no repairs were ever made. A fellow grad student finally got fed up, looked up the plans to the heater online, and figured out how to fix it on his own. Months later (it is spring time now) someone from facilities shows up, goes into a fit that someone non-union fixed the heater, and the fellow grad student got into some shit from the department and the deans office. Yes, this is anecdotal, but negative interactions with unions are a real thing.

Edit: Also, the most vocal opponent of the smoking ban on campus was from one of the service worker unions.
Ask HN: How do you deal with offshore developers?
Looking for some insights on what is good and what's bad in having an offshore development team. Does anyone have an experience?

What may go wrong? What is good, except the cost?

How do you manage a team? How do you hire them? Any challenges?

Will appreciate any help.
Doesn't work with Android Pay, though.
Yes, though other things are a priority (check out my other comment)
How far are you? Beta site link?
>I agree with the sentiment elsewhere in these comments that the solution isn't to completely delete your accounts (I think they can have some value when used in moderation), but rather to change the way I use them.

I would hope the solution to your problem is not for me to delete my accounts.

Your problem sounds like you're following people with weak content. Follow new people and stop following (or make better) the weak.
>More importantly social media is bad for your mental health. [...] Being social is a good thing.

This is all that I need to have learned to quit* social media.

*I still use a Facebook, but I don't post anything, and I don't read anything. It is handy for the messenger though to keep in contact with friends that you might see again, such as when travelling.
This article conflates global greenhouse gas concentrations with local air pollution. The idea that the communist party of China cares so much about the global environment to actually do something about climate change, but won't even clean up the local air pollution in its major cities that drastically reduce the immediate quality of life of their citizens is absurd.

Talk is cheap. China isn't reducing green house gas emissions one iota. However, China's leaders are smart and will put pressure on the USA to do so in order to give an advantage to Chinese manufacturers. Trump is calling them out on their hypocrisy. China wasn't the first to push global warming for financial gain, but they sure will if our leaders are stupid enough to let them get away with it.
A list of applications built on top of Rosette:

http://emina.github.io/rosette/apps.html
There were various articles about this recently and not all pollution is created equal. Local high ppm counts might be a problem for the local population and look absolutely insane, but those won't create a global warming effect.

Blowing CO2 etc. into the atmosphere doesn't look bad in your postcard pictures, but actually adds to the climate problem.

Don't conflate the two things, 'covered in smog' doesn't necessarily mean 'worse than my industrial area with clean skies'.
I work in e-commerce, have for 10+ years now. Without a doubt I'm going to Hell, even though, literally, every day, I refuse to do what everything customer's ask of me. Eventually, because of pressure from management or the customer, you will do something you're ashamed of or worse. When you have two small children to feed and your jobs on the line or you need the money it's hard to hold the line. Now that I'm older and the stakes are lower I can give the fuck-off more frequently, and I feel better about myself on the whole, but early on I wasn't so resolute.

Here are the things I've been asked to do and refused, so they just went to someone else to get it done.

- Disable the back button coming from a Google search (Don't want them going to a competitor's site).

- Change the default selection for being included in spam list from no to yes.

- Export email lists ignoring the "include me in spam lists" selection.

- If someone has purchased before, save their credit card information, and if they add something to their cart ever again, charge them immediately, and them make refunds difficult.

- Make the RMA / refund page throw an error the first time, to try and discourage returns. It'd work the 2nd time.

- Add a "pay with cash discount" wish is really a credit card surcharge because the request to pay in cash is never approved.

- Doctor the math for discounts so unless a customer double-checks they won't notice the ~25 cent discrepancy.

- Take donations for a cause with fine print (literally, like 3pt type) that says only a small percentage gets donated.

- Intentional violation of credit card rules, such as storing the customer's credit card without their knowledge, sending credit cards numbers through email unencrypted, refusing to honor recurring payment cancellations, and so on.

- Ship by a slower shipping method than what the customer is charged for.

This list could go on for literally hundreds of entries. The point is that, yes, as the programmer, we are the last line of defense. The stories here with people working in the health care industry just break my heart - so much more at stake then people's money.

One piece of advice I can offer. When you refuse, and they go hire someone somewhere else to do the dirty work, you can always report them anonymously afterward. The satisfaction of seeing them having their credit card processing or merchant account yanked can give you some solace.

But in the end, I don't know if it's a winnable war. I want to say this very carefully, because I in no way wish to disparage programmers from other countries, but what I've seen, over and over, is that if I won't do it, there is always someone in another country, for cheap, who will. I'm sure they've got two kids too, and they need the money. There will always be someone ready to do the wrong thing, for whatever reason.
Probably should have clarified overall comp and benefits are lower... not specifically wages.
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The top scoring conference talks of Devoxx 2016
> I would take a 45 minute dump just catching up on stuff

ROFL. That's 1 long helluva a Dump. Hope you don't have roommates or a large family.
Do you have any evidence for that point of view?

Mom and pops very rarely have good benefits because they don't have the resources that larger firms have. It's complicated and expensive to set up things like health care plans and 401Ks. This is why the ACA employer mandate doesn't apply to firms with fewer than 50 employees.
It seems there are a few good things
1. If you are terminated from employment on day X you have 60 days to get a new job, before you had to leave the country and/or hop onto another visa category that allowed you to stay.
But I think the 60 day rule is usable once per "authorized validity period" which basically means you can't misuse it by reusing it regularly.

2. Skilled Immigrant visa petitions(which take many years(5-10) to get approved for certain countries) need to be re-applied for between jobs. Which essentially puts you at the back of the queue for many years.

Hoping some more comments from folks can shed light on the minutiae here..
What did you expect them to do? When Wal-Mart has a choice, they almost always choose the least expensive option. If the drafters of the ACA wanted Wal-Mart to pay for health insurance, they should not have left Wal-Mart an easy way out.
Trump campaign director claims Twitter CEO Dorsey personally censored campaign
I had that same frustration and wrote pdoc: https://github.com/BurntSushi/pdoc

Example output: http://pdoc.burntsushi.net/pdoc
I trust a Chinese engineering degree held by a top communist party official even less than a law degree held by a career politician in America.
Word. Your plumber be like "she's overloaded, Captain, she cannae hold out much longer!"
Sounds dangerous - mistakes happen - will I get thrown under the bus by the media if a bug in my code causes an accident that no QA process could have reasonably picked up on?
Here's how it works when the product is not constrained by geography: business and managers have the job done somewhere else.
This is a bizarre comment. If we forget about energy, this is equivalent to saying 3-momentum is not conserved in inelastic collisions in real life. Which is false.
Yes, I mean everyone, including the dictator you would have abusing the system, so that he could be seen doing it and thus would not be above society's agreements himself.

Replacing capitalism is a fine idea too. Even Trump, the original fan of capitalism, is making a show of kicking out folks who might have lobbying ties.

In fact, if you think about how a healthy family or healthy company works, the first thing they do is push capitalism to the outside, because it tends to make people upset.

That's why you're not encouraged to share salaries with each other or why you're not encouraged to put up advertisements encouraging people to come to your office for consulting for a 20% off for a limited time only. That's why when Mom serves you breakfast, you don't pay her $10, and kids don't say, "I dunno, Mom. Joey's Mom down the block serves a much more competitive breakfast and is offering 50% more love."

When you reduce the value of the goods and services people provide down to a scalar, it becomes trivial to compare people on a line, and that way lies drama.

If you think about it, the idea that the clearly multidimensional value of goods and services can be formally represented by a single scalar is ludicrous on the surface of it, and now that we have cell phones that can do a billion vector operations in one second, there's really not much reason that we shouldn't be migrating to a more accurate and powerful way to represent value using long, sparse vectors. This actually goes very nicely with broadcast surveillance, because you can repurpose all that information to capture far more attributes and information on any good or service all the way down the supply chain.
The mess that is India's de-monetisation/e-cash drive
The $250 bill isn't for the 15 minutes you spent with the Dr, but for the 15+ years he spent in med school and residency.
> I think all SM has good and bad parts.

Correct. But like Professor Ted Kaczynski stated in his "Technology Manifesto"

> The bad parts of technology cannot be separated from the good parts.

This here is pretty much applicable to everything online, not just SM. Example: FaceBook and Twitter are used to organize protests, break news, reconnect with lost loved ones. The same technology sites are also used to recruit terr_ists, phish and spam seniors and unsuspecting people, troll and commit felony crimes etc...
Verizon bought Vodaphone's share of Verizon Wireless in 2014.
Do not mistake ignorance for courage.
Who would appoint the leaders of the agency, if not the government? I can't see how you could have this system without the agency being subject to the same political pressures regulators are.
> "The people who speculate about unproven sets of beliefs are sectarians, not scientists." -@dschiptsov

The entire realm of astrophysics and particle physics would beg to differ with you. Just because we don't yet know the maths, or truths, behind the studies does not relegate the science to the realm of sectarians or religious figures.
As I pointed out in other comments, something like FB can never be truly open for the simple reason that most people really don't want their posts to be searchable by everybody. Facebook is Facebook because you can post silly things on it without worrying if some future employer could find them if they wanted to. Sometimes an information silo can actually be a good thing, I suppose. But perhaps more research into federated social networks could take away this concern.
Surprised they don't list the Sony devices. They are "near-stock", unlockable and I'm pretty happy with my Z4C
A couple of anecdotes as a photographer, a part-German triple-citizen Wikipedian, someone who has scanned significant German photography of the same period, and someone who likes to read and access reference works but lives in China (where there are slim to no English language libraries).

The first example in the article is that of Germany. For some reason, a few years ago I helped to write the article on the Wa (a kind of native, long-distance voyaging canoe of Micronesia), and we found out there were full scale wa in the Berlin Museum of Ethnology. I've since even been to see them. Unfortunately, though we were able to find a German person to potentially volunteer to go take pictures of it, the rules in Germany are that you aren't allowed to publish images you take in the museum! This strikes me as "back-assward".

A second note on Australia. A friend of my father's in Sydney is a bit of a dilettante (he grew up playing in the WWII-era ruins of East London), and discovered that his elderly neighbor had a box full of glass plate photographs documenting in spectacular resolution previously unknown views of northern Sydney. He said that he planned to ask her to donate them to the State Library, but I implored him to first at least send scans to Wikipedia Commons, since they will be far more effective at making them both discoverable and generally available for scholarly research. This request fell on deaf ears. To date, I still haven't seen them.

That said, of course there are limitations to Wikimedia Commons, but it's not bad at all. I am personally in possession of approximately 16,000 postcards from around the 1900 period which I plan to host on their own website. Currently I have scanned something short of about 2000 of them. It's a hobby, I enjoy it, but the sorts of classification strategies, automation strategies and get-some-damn-money-back strategies I have do not permit a Wikimedia Commons compatible approach.

Also recently I visited the National Library of Spain in Madrid. I calmly explained that I had come from Australia and wanted to photograph some early images of pacific island watercraft from their library. They wouldn't even let me in, as I wasn't currently affiliated with a university, individual researchers were not allowed, and Wikipedia didn't cut it for them as a research institution. I was truly shocked - if I were Spanish I would have been livid.

Finally, I would like to point out that the resolution the scans are made at by a lot of libraries is PATHETIC. For example, check out some of the Japanese woodcuts evidenced in the East Asian section of the new MKG database. There is no way you can even read the text, eg. http://sammlungonline.mkg-hamburg.de/en/object/Aus-dem-Hakke...

How these people can spend years becoming supposed archivist librarians with digital chops and miss the damn point so clearly - not just on use, but more critically on maintaining the relevance of their entire class of institution to upcoming generations who increasingly don't give a damn (because they are fully aware they are hotbeds of backward anachronism) - never ceases to amaze me. As a researcher, it frustrates the hell out of me.
Why? Do you mind to show some evidence or facts?

Even among the Chinese government officials, those with Eng degrees are more capable and morally less corrupted than those without.

Politics aside, saying an Eng degree does help you understand why climate change is real and has a lot to do with Human activities.
For some privileges. You can say "No, don't allow photos access," but there are other permissions like internet access that you can't block.
Is it just me or does all this "Blockchain doesn't have to be Bitcoin" ideology sound like "Uber is worth billion dollars. Let's build an Uber for X"?

Even before Bitcoin there were tons of attempts at implementing cryptocurrency, and none of them worked. It was Bitcoin that hit the jackpot for some reason, just like how human beings beat all the odds to become the top of the food chain on earth.

I am not saying it's impossible, I just don't like how all this movement is driven by VCs, just like how all the "Uber for X" companies were driven by VCs, powered by naive entrepreneurs who thought just copycatting a successful model to a different domain would make them rich.

I just think in most cases these copycat projects have no soul and that's why they fail, just like Uber for X companies never become Uber.
Come on, there is no Red China. China is ruled similarly by the rich and powerful, just like US. Their differences are just in form, not substance...
Of course. People need to spend more time shooting down stupid ideas on their own side of the political spectrum. Otherwise you just generate more low hanging fruit for your opposition to pick, and allow them to ignore actual good arguments.

That's how you end up with people like Trump in charge. Did Trump ever have to debate the effect of automation on the economy and how he was going to handle an economy with more supply of unskilled workers than demand? Hell no, it just turned into a pissing match over a misogynistic comment and no information of value was disseminated into the public sphere for three quarters of the election campaign.

People are far more interested in lauding their moral superiority over people they (often wrongly) perceive to be less intelligent than themselves, than they are in learning new information. A well researched counter-argument to the latest scientific publication on climate change will get about 10 clicks and convince nobody, an article one step up from "durrrr this idiot politician thinks climate change causes every natural disaster" will get millions and sway an election.

That's why it's the job of everyone in politics to provide the best, and only the best, possible argument for whatever position they take. You need to give your opponent only one thing to talk about if you expect a response to it.
Sounds good in principle but if I lose my job tomorrow are you going to guarantee this stuff for me and my family?
This is a super interesting approach and I really like the sound of it. I might just try switching to it sometime! Thanks for sharing :)

Side note: it sounds like adding the occasional dose of /r/tldr + /r/outoftheloop would add quite nicely to the "filtering".
Thanks for the civil and thoughtful reply. These types of topics can so easily escalate out of control!

Agreed all around. Add to that is how to properly measure how a given employee will work out with for a company. Determining the best measures of ability and that oft-discussed ever-elusive "fit" are not easy tasks for some jobs, and something companies are continually trying to improve.

Hiring for diversity is itself a proxy of sorts, isn't it? I doubt Microsoft is hiring for diversity for diversity's sake. There are inequalities in society as a whole that appear to break to some extent along racial and gender lines. You bring two others with respect to nationality and income or economic class. (I mention all of these without making a moral judgement.) There's a lot of different ideas as to why these inequalities exist.

I'm speculating, but one reason Microsoft may be hiring for diversity is that they see that the demographic make up of their employee base is significantly different from the make up of society as a whole. Is there a merit/ability reason why this should be? If there isn't, should the company take steps to change the disparity?

This gets into questions of the role of the company in society. Does/can/should a company have responsibilities beyond short term profit? Are people good at making decisions that affect the long-term? Do the effects of pure capitalism affect societal change at a rate that maximizes societal good (for some measure) on scales comparable to the average human life? Should we be concerned about these things? Throw up our hands? Try to figure out solutions outside pure meritocracy?

I'm just riffing now in a pretty non-structured way. I'd be happy for others to push against them and see how quickly they fall over. I also recognize that not everybody is interested in these questions. The HN forums are a good place to get exposed to other ideas from different perspectives. I'm pretty sure we're not going to figure all of this out in this thread, but it is good stuff to think about overall.
He made a small mistake, GET HIM! Everyone licks their lips

His examples of academia and DARPA were correct. The mentality of people here who can't wait to pile on and attack someone at the slightest error is sickening.
I've worked with doctors that have been low on ethics. I used to be an EEG tech, and we got a cover neurologist in to diagnose some EEG recordings (the regular neuros were on leave). Despite the tech reports stating exactly when and where the abnormalities occurred in the 20-min recordings, along with annotations in the recording itself, this fucker just looked at the first minute, and if the abnormality wasn't there, just diagnosed it as 'normal', no abnormality. We had to get his batch of reporting redone by a neuro with a conscience.

However, doctors hold together very strongly. This doctor and another doctor we worked with were acknowledged by our neuros as terrible and doing their patients a misservice, but none of our doctors even contemplated reporting them in any way. Long story short, there's 'bad orders' in medicine as well.
Has he ever spoken anything against the oppression done by the Russian govt?

If you'd bothered to look up, you'd know he has.
Thanks for the link. It's also great to see a more nuanced take on a lot of this. Some people do see it in black and white. Sometimes I wish I did, as it would make some things easier. Unfortunately (?), I'm not at that point of certainty yet.
Code monkeys, or programmers, don't have that luxury... The model used by modern management for managing programmers is managing factory workers. They are told what to do, often by people who are completely clueless about what they are actually doing, and they are expected to perform at risk of firing. That's how it is. So I am glad you have had the opportunity to take the high ground. But many code monkeys don't have that privilege.
Take heart. Nothing any president was going to do would have affected the climate. Renewable energy is great, but its not replacing fossil fuels this century, and no one is shutting down the world economy to stop global warming. Not Trump, not Clinton, not Xi. No one. Either global warming is real and we will all be wiped out by hurricanes, or its not and the money we do spend on it will be wasted fighting a harmless gas, while many real environmental problems go unchecked.
> Just hours ago I said Android would absolutely suck as a base OS for a musical instrument and in general any general purpose OS would be inferior to something created from the ground up to have tight audio and MIDI timing.

I'd like to see that thread to see if some of my counter arguments were made (if it's a public thread at all).