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I don't understand your question. It's not a petition, it's a pledge. There's nothing their employers can do about it; it's not up to them. That's the point of a pledge.
> "lifetime job for drivers"
Until driverless cars become popular.
That doesn't sound like a great idea. When I order take out, I have certain expectations, like the food may not be totally hot, or it'll be a little soggy after sitting in a bag and traveling for awhile. But that's the price I pay for getting to sit on my couch.

If I'm going to a sit down restaurant, I'm making the effort to leave my couch, so I want the food to be a higher quality. Trucking in potentially cheaper lukewarm soggy food doesn't feel like it can be made up for with just ambiance of the new place I'm sitting.
So this job pays $12/hr. Which is $1,555.05/month after tax, assuming 40hr work week. And the average 1-bed apartment rents in North Charleston, SC is roughly $1100/month (according to Zillow), leaving the employee $450/month to cover all food + medical + debt + transit + utilities and any other expenses.

I can't imagine why no one is taking the position. It sounds like a fulfilling opportunity to install auto glass while living on the poverty line.

It's like employers don't even attempt to think about anything from the employee's perspective -- even after they've struggled to fill their own positions. "Cheap business owners" couldn't be a more accurate byline.
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You can check this kind of stuff out by looking on your local Craigslist postings.

Machinist wanted (with decent level of understanding multiple machines, reading blueprints etc.) - 5 years experience - $25/hour in the Denver/Boulder area. e.g. http://boulder.craigslist.org/trd/5902683986.html (and you have to supply some of your own tools) ... this is not a cheap area to live in BTW. $50-60K is barely middle class for this area.

We've been praising the guy who hires 10 plumbers and then automates his back office (he is scaling), while looking down on the plumbers who do the actual work. Then we wonder why it's tough to find plumbers...
Working 57 hour weeks for a couple months is a different game than working them as a fact of life.
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Of course, you're valuable. A company is much more interesting to assess according to how they treat less valued workers, like warehouse staff. Amazon does not rate highly in that regard.
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North Charleston isn't exactly a large metropolis with a high cost of living. $12 isn't terrible for an job with almost no requirement except a warm body and two arms.
Not available in San Jose or Santa Clara area though.
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What else would you call them though?

Calling it a watch makes it very clear where you're intended to wear it and that it will always be there.
Eugene Volokh has a deeper analysis:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/volokh-conspiracy/wp/201...

I was surprised to read that he thinks (and previously thought) this would be the right ruling. My non-lawyer tl;dr is that your passcode isn't "testimony": the government knows the passcode exists and that you know passcode, and therefore it isn't subject to the same protection that would apply to telling the government some piece of information that may or may not exist and is inherently interesting. At the very least, he claims, the government is absolutely in the clear to compel you to enter your passcode and not reveal what it is.
I know exactly what boundaries are lacking, that is what led to my original comment. And yes, functions can do whatever they want. Programmers expect special language features to be more useful than the alternatives though! If a function does call abort(), I can actually see the call, along with a stack trace; with source code I even know why the code exited. Odds are good that the abort() came from an assert() macro, giving me control over which builds can unexpectedly exit. Exceptions give me none of that, and introduce ways for valuable state to be totally lost in the process.
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Bill Bryson cites as his source Peter Stark in his January 1997 article in Outside magazine:
"As Freezing Persons Recollect the Snow—First Chill—Then Stupor—Then the Letting Go
The cold hard facts of freezing to death"
Bryson's book has a copyright date of 1998. It seems as though Starks article is the first reference that anyone can find. Stark's only text referring to this is: "In 1980, 16 shipwrecked Danish fishermen were hauled to safety after an hour and a half in the frigid North Sea. They then walked across the deck of the rescue ship, stepped below for a hot drink, and dropped dead, all 16 of them."
We have this through various other tools, but it will never kill off the need for face to face communications. Drawing on the white board, throwing markers at each other, two people presenting ideas at the same time.

This is especially difficult during technical integration meetings, where you are tossing around ideas left and right.
> aside from the internet becoming largely one-way and unmodifiable by the masses

If anything, it's as easy as ever to share knowledge. Just because the barrier to entry is now creating value on other people's websites instead of figuring out how to set up and promote your own doesn't mean its not easier.
The comparison between the old Google Translate engine and the new engine (which I assume is the "Google Neural Machine Translation" engine written about here https://research.googleblog.com/2016/11/zero-shot-translatio...) is particularly interesting.
But the issue is that $2.5 million of after tax income isn't bad. Even though it's unequal. Even though not everyone will make it.

I don't know how else to put this. Suppose people said "fat inequality is a huge problem - some men have lean, fit bodies with 10%-12% body fat whereas other men have 40% body fat."

In point of fact, while it is not desirable for everyone to have 40% or more body fat, there is no problem with the inequality itself: some people will always devote more of their lives to fitness, eating on strict diets and a lot of exercise; which is what it takes to achieve 10-12% bodyfat.

THE INEQUALITY IS NOT AN ISSUE. Obesity is an issue NOT because of the inequality, but because of the direct effects of obesity.

Poverty is an issue NOT because of inequality (NOT because of the fact that Brin has $39,000,000,000) but directly because of the direct effects of poverty.

In short, inequality of wealth or income is a red herring. It is like trying to make America healthier by fighting "inequality of fitness" and fighting against some people having 12% bodyfat while others have 40%.

(In this case you have to read in the opposite direction -- a 40% bodyfat is objectively worse -- but you understand what I'm saying. It's not the inequality that's bad. Not everyone will get to 8% bodyfat even if this is possible or somehow desirous.)

I hope you see, and don't misinterpret the distinction that I'm pointing out. If you have questions follow up and I will clarify what I mean.
Kim is someone I really don't like and I have to admit I get a certain amount of pleasure in seeing him fail but I am really not happy with this whole case. Mostly because I don't want to see people being extradited over IP crimes even when they are for profit like in this case but also because it has led to a large segment of the population seeing Kim as some sort of hero fighting for their freedoms instead of a convicted conman who would happily screw you over for a buck.

I wonder what effect this will have on the million dollars he just raised to develop MegaUpload 2(I thought that was mega).
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Agreed. I do jealously look at my Apple watch friends for things like locking/unlocking the laptop by proximity, no chance Garmin or FitBit gets that kind of functionality. And re. fitness, if you don't go out and use GPS for more than an hour or two, then yeah Apple Watch is the perfect fit.

That said, coming at it from the other side, I think the Garmin smart watch features are good enough for many, many people.

Thing is, these are bloody expensive devices. I'd never buy both, but then again, maybe if you can afford one, you can afford two?
Yes, you did came off as a bit hostile in your comments.
But I really liked this answer of yours.
Also, You need to be aware that Show HN is a great tool for people to get quality feedback for their work, even if it is in early stages.

https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html
If he lived today, most items on that list would be googled and forgotten about in one morning. We take our access to endless info for granted.
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I find it highly alarming that that car doors wouldn't have a manual override. What if the car is in an accident, causing both a fire and a malfunction in the electronics that locks the doors? Human beings should always have the last words over computers in an emergency!
> a full-time Database Administrator

Do those even exist anymore, in the US? In the UK I very rarely encounter UK-based DBAs, 99.99% are offshore.
Agreed, people relating to them is why they do it, no question.

It's just that engineers and scientists are typically trained to know that anecdata is a very poor way to reason about the world, it consistently leads you into the wrong conclusion, making you feel like you have support for a fact when you actually don't.

If the good journalist has hard underlying data, I would not at all begrudge them the anecdotes, and yet I'd still like to see their data thank you very much.
>Post-soviet state could not arrange proper exports, imagine that.

it was the time of "privatization" and the exports were "privatized" too.

For example Putin got his start in the Russian "business" (after running scared away from his KGB job after the failed coup of 1991) as one of the key persons - he was issuing export licenses, ie. representing that "Post-soviet state" - in the massive export channel of the "privatized" commodities (mostly metals, some oil, etc) through St.Petersburg(Leningrad). A typical, and relatively small, example of such "privatized" export back then :

https://www.thebureauinvestigates.com/2012/04/19/putin-and-a...
I just uninstalled Outlook for Android and my phone went from unusably-laggy to performing just like new. I had a full charge this morning and it is early afternoon and my battery was at 30%. Android's battery usage analyzer blamed 60% of that on Outlook. Opening Outlook and trying to use it meant 30+ seconds waits while I do simple things like "view the first page of my inbox" or "enter an email address into the To:" field.

You're saying that all the other options are worse??

(As for OWA, I regularly encounter full-page reloads for simple actions, am frequently logged out after my first click on anything, and it is almost obnoxiously slow for the speed of internet that we have. And this is Office365... previous versions of OWA were pretty good though)
> Different tasks call or different conventions

https://xkcd.com/163/
The thought of losing Github to the startup graveyard is kind of scary. It was bad enough to lose Google Code and when SourceForge had their "great purge" of inactive projects.
I'd probably try to jam the signal, use a kite, use my own drone, etc.
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Part of me is glad the "inclusive" practices of only hiring women and minorities isn't being rewarded.

At the same time, GitHub really is at the centre of opensource- how can they be losing money when they are literally the defacto code hosting site? And if they go under, who could replace them?
See "religion": https://developers.facebook.com/docs/graph-api/reference/use...
Facebook is going to use Snopes and other fact-checkers to combat 'fake news'
So this link is just sending me to the amazon restaurants page which has been around for about a year where I live.

Can someone explain the point of this post?
I've talked to a restaurant owner that uses this. He said it's now a very large portion of his business and he's looking to hire more staff to stay open longer (currently pretty weird hours since its just him and a couple others). Because of the way it's setup, Amazon is more of the consumer than the boss. The only negative thing is some of the drivers don't use the heat bags correctly or toss the food around which ends up looking bad for the restaurants.
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The Garmin features are fine, but they'll never be as tightly integrated as an Apple Watch or Android Wear device (assuming it isn't running Android Wear), and you have all the other things to think about (the large band market for Apple, general preferences in looks, etc).

Makes me think it will be hard for Garmin to break into the mainstream.
Honestly, I can't get this. I use both Office 365 (@ work) and Google (@ everywhere else). And oh boy how sluggish, impractical and featureless Office is. I HATE every second I spend using it.
Hell, even Zoho Docs are much more smoother and UX friendly than that piece of sub-MVP piece of software that Office 365 is.

Edit: I wanted just to say that I tried Office 365 on three different platforms: Ubuntu, Windows and macOS. On both Chrome and Firefox.
Every time it's sooo slow, even just to list the files in a directory.

Editing becomes hellish (with visible latency) if I type more than a couple of pages (I'm journalist by day).

It's not that Google Drive is better than O365. EVERYTHING is better than O365.
The opposit of a profit is a loss. It is unrelated to the non-financial meaning of the term. They had revenue of $98M, a loss of $66M means they spent $164M over that time frame.
> If a business can endure not filling a position until they can find their person willing to work for peanuts, why offer more?

If the skill is rare enough or the pay is low enough, they will simply NEVER get anyone.

The job ads and the "we can't find people" will stick though.
Which lines from the article did you find to be the most pejorative?
Not to mention the "this steak isn't medium rare!" problem...
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My SO has lots of experience working in businesses selling stuff on-line and while negative comments "out of spite" happened rarely to her, what she often told about is how dishonest employers made workers bribe people so that they cancel/remove their negative reviews. Hearing the stories that I did from her, I no longer treat lack of negative ratings / reviews as a strong quality signal.

EDIT: Oh, and speaking of Amazon, Google and their automated bans, my SO's company's work account got temporarily blocked by Google recently, apparently for the sin of sending several files in quick succession to her boss' account. Apparently "atypical usage" is grounds for a ban now. Fortunately, the account was unlocked few hours later, and I didn't have to make fuss about it here on HN...
thanks for putting this together, I'm sure this will help a lot of folks and startups :)
I'm glad this is getting attention, but I urgently need to correct their headline.

What tech workers pledged to do:

1. Not to participate in the creation of these kinds of databases.

2. To use every lawful method available to them to stop the misuse of these databases where they exist.

3. To sever their connections with their employers if efforts to prevent misuse at those employers fails.

Lots of people are reacting to this by saying "the databases already exist". The people who wrote this pledge are aware of that.

This is not a "petition" to convince Google and Facebook to stop building databases. It's not a petition at all. It doesn't demand that companies do anything. It's not up to the companies; it's up to the employees who sign. That's the point of a pledge.
> It's super powerful because word dropping cost nothing to produce and cost a lot to dismiss with proper arguments.

Sounds like you may be referring to the Bullshit Asymmetry Priciple: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bullshit#Bullshit_asymmetry_pr...
There's no fast way out of the situation.

Of course there is and at least some Republicans at least claim they're going to take it: slash immigration, lower the labour supply, raising its prices.
Nice. Yes, was following that post. I couldn't run my node project in A-IDE Web, but seems like you wouldn't need to do that.

All the best.
A possible solution would have been optional static enforcement of exception specifications plus fallback on the existing dynamic enforcement.

Existing unmarked functions would be expeced to possibly throw everything, while functions with throw specifications would be statically checked.

You can call the later from the former, but to do the reverse you need an explicit try/catch. Some form of throw(auto) would enable automatic deduction of exception specifications for e.g. template code.

Dyanamic exception specifications will be removed fron the language in c++17, so the synax is open to be reused for such a feature in the future.
I hope this is a temporary blip on the radar for Github, and that they return to profitability very quickly.

Github should be a pillar platform in our community for the next decade, and the only way for them to become that is via profitability.
It's possible to spin up an online business from $100, but it sure as heck isn't that obvious to most people how to do so without a bunch of technical skills and a decent social network or willingness to engage in ethically questionable kinds of business like spamming. It's possible that you have a much better grasp of US business culture than most people, or have skills that it took you a long time to acquite and whose lack would be a big barrier to some else trying to do this.

Do please share your secret on this. I have a spare $100 right now which is unusual and I'm not even in a hurry to get rich, just have a reliable income. Caveat - I shouldn't have to entirely reorient my life around this before I see any return, in much the same way that most people can't afford to quit their jobs and stop eating etc. in order to start with nothing as dramatically as possible.

Alternatively, buy a painting from me so I can make some money doing something I'm already invested in instead of what you would choose to do with your time. Because I don't really want to be a sales person or run an elaborate business, I just want some options to plug the gap between working myself to death at something I hate or grinding poverty.
I would love me an Apple Watch, and I would pay double the price, if only the damn thing lasted at least a month on a single charge.

Unfortunately, the technology just isn't there.
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Gitlab is a fully featured and ready full replacement for Github. Additionally, the Gitlab team is far more competent and listens better to user feedback.
I remember Apache Groovy's use of the verb def to match the verbs and adverbs of the other statement-level keywords (e.g. switch, if, while, return) instead of a noun like any to match the type names it stands in for (e.g. int, bool, String, null) was, er, discussed at length on their mailing list back around 2005-06. The Nabble interface to those discussions has since been obfuscated by being redirected and embedded within a page from the groovy-lang.org website so I can't easily find a link to those discussions.
Every time I get a little worried about a big player like Amazon having too much control in a market, I think the solution is actually another big player - Google. Not that I want google to compete, but if the knowledge graph gave info about the restaurant including delivery services that it supported, that would make it easier for everyone. The restaurant could list a few services, and you could choose the one you have an account with, or trust to serve you well. This takes the control that exposure a big player like Amazon has and really reduces how effective it is at corralling suppliers.

Now, I don't really care that it's google, but they are the biggest and most likely to be seen. Preferably Bing and Yahoo and DDG would have an equivalent.
Why invest when you have a monopoly and can rent-extract?
can you substantiate that ideological extrapolation of yours?
I always freak about some other country attacking github.

The world would crumble/ it's probably some sort of weird national security scenario.
Are you referring to multi-factor authentication? This exists [1].

Or something else?

[1] https://duo.com/blog/duo-for-apple-watch
This is a flipped version of the lump of labor fallacy. If the price of a service is too high, some consumers will do without. So sure, you can double the wages of housecleaners, but that might drastically shrink the number of houses being cleaned.

You've already seen this play out in manufacturing: industries with high wages have tended towards automation and/or offshoring work to low wage countries. If you're building automobiles, there's a limit to what consumers are willing to pay for an auto.
Rayiner, do you think the people who wrote this aren't aware of that?
> "Like hell I'm not blaming them."

So Microsoft tell the employees at your company which places to store their documents do they? Why does your company not standardise on how documents are stored?

>"It's not my fault that Microsoft can't write decent AJAX"

Examples?
That's what happens with centralized systems it is inevitable, from the Roman Empire to Google Code nothing is permanent.
If you changed her password in September, you shouldn't have to change now, right? Since the "new" breach is from 2013.
That $65k may very well be the "prevailing wage" determined by the Department of Labor.
I'm glad you wrote this. As a non-programmer but someone who was a math education minor 20 years ago, I was really having a hard time with some of the statements like "That is ugly" or "starting with 0, however, gives the nicer range." I was trying to think of a reason why it would be computationally inelegant or something.
That is essentially what this implementation does, too, wrapping pointers after twice the size which is just another way of saying using one additional bit.
I'd definitely have put City Hall as the obvious meetup point in Philadelphia. All the subway and trolley lines meet there, it's visually central in the city and has a pretty obvious "center" spot in the middle of the courtyard where you'd see someone. Though if I had to meet out-of-towners, the liberty bell would be a solid choice, too.
I honestly don't know. I'm mainly concerned that it's not part of the conversation--the national conversation currently revolves around getting back lost jobs, or preventing jobs from being lost, instead of adapting to change.

Jobs will be lost, industries will die, money will shift--it's inevitable. How can we adapt? It's something I don't have a good answer for, but that I'm confident can be solved if we actually try.
> how can they be losing money when they are literally the defacto code hosting site?

Because, to a first approximation, no-one is paying them for that hosting.
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I don't think we can use that as a benchmark, since software engineers are treated much better on average across the industry.

IMO, the best indication of a company's general sense of ethics is the way they treat their lowest-paid employees. Amazon doesn't instill confidence in that regard.
As opposed to the hiring of people based on their demonstrated ability to contribute to your team. S/he's reacting to the perception that people are being hired primarily on, or being heavily credited for, their identities.

I'm not expressing an opinion on the idea, just outlining the debate for you.
AFAIK write_idx < read_idx case is handled automatically by doing the unsigned subtraction.

Power of 2 requirement stands, though.
How is JavaScript used within the Spotify desktop application?
Probably a lot of people did not know about this service, hence they upvoted it.