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Ask HN: HRs and Management are asking me to Not raise a concern anymore
Summary of Problem: - work at India Office of a Famous, Big Software Company.
- The offer letter which is issued does NOT mention a certain deduction.

- I raised this issue using the official HR tools meant for employee concerns.

- The response I got was continuous denial and on asking multiple question over many months ( 6+ ), the HR response now is,

"they do not want to hear it anymore."

Same response of My manager now.

Details and more:
http://codepad.org/w513MqdS
I'm in the minority here of my generation but I'm 19 and I really would like to get out of my house. Due to some complications with my family it's just my mom and I now and we'll be moving into an apartment soon. I'd like to get out so I can learn about machining and electronics without being told to "stop bringing garbage into my house".

Unfortuantly I 1) don't have enough time for a full time job since I'm wasting away my better years and credit in college, and 2) none of my friends want to move out or will be allowed to move out by their parents.

Finding a room mate will be tough. I'm going to try... but it'll still be tough. This is extra worse because of how high the rent is here in NJ (even in Paterson, Franklin Lakes, and Newerk where I go to school).
A good start would be a warning about insecure connections being made by the app.
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Jibe not jive, fyi, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/jibe
No, you don't.

Just last month my lifelong friend moved back to Malmö from Amsterdam and now he is moving out because a hand grenade was thrown into the hallway of their apartment complex.

He is a second-generation immigrant from Egypt, but if he'd talk about his experiences publicly, upper class white pseudo-leftist would drive hours from the overpriced hipster district to attack him and his girlfriend for being "racist uncle toms" and vandalize their apartment.

Your holier-than-thou virtue signaling only serves your narcissism and hurts people who are actually in need of help.
Why did people think otherwise? Chapter 5 of K&R[1] is titled Pointers and Arrays and basically explains that arrays and pointers are equivalent.

[1]: https://www.amazon.com/Programming-Language-Brian-W-Kernigha...
I agree that the adult aspect is not binary... however, American Football would not exist without allowing children to play as it stands now. Furthermore, the "owner class" of the state sports associations, NCAA, and NFL would stand to lose a great deal of money if children were not allowed to play.

Let's see if we do the right thing.
Yeah, this. As someone who moved out at 18, please don't force people to have to stay in bad living arrangements any longer than they need to.
Here are a few I enjoyed in 2016 by genre:

Business - Making Things Work by Yaneer Bar-Yam

Investing - Charlie Munger The Complete Investor by Tren Griffin

Essays - Michel de Montaigne Complete Essays ($.99 on Kindle!)

Physics - At Home in the Universe by Stuart Kauffman

Software - An Elementary Introduction to the Wolfram Language

Current Events - Superintelligence by Nick Bostrom

Fiction - The Orphan Master's Son by Adam Johnson

Music - Jerry on Jerry (audiobook is a recorded interview of Garcia!)

Biography - Benjamin Franklin An American Life by Walter Isaacson

Autobiography - A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole

All of these are highly recomended!
Suggest taking a look at your profile, what's missing? Make sure it's punched-up with the appropriate buzzwords. You want to send a signal to the market you've got experience & expertise in this space. Recruiter Bozos should be able to reach you easily. Include a good contact link.
Ask HN: If you targetting ES6 by default, how did you rationalize that choice?
You're confusing things a little bit. 'char s[] = "foo"' is equivalent to 'char s[] = { 'f', 'o', 'o', '\0' }' and gives you a normal mutable array (or you can make it const and then it's const; no surprises); it is okay to mutate that array. 'char * s = "foo"' gives you a pointer to a string literal that might be placed in read-only storage; in C++ it is a const char * (so modern compilers should complain about that initialisation), while in C it is a char * where it's UB if you modify it (compilers may warn about storing it in a non-const char *; many don't).
Just like Flexbox you can have different Grid layouts for different @media query breakpoints.
Hmm...I don't think it's not about counterfeit sales. It's more on politics.
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wowie......... this obviously goes too for ali express?

I read the article because I'm a U.S. citizen and have ordered things from ali express (I'm not in the u.s. tho'). It says only "Being blacklisted does not carry any penalties, but it is a blow to Alibaba."

As an individual, or if I were in the u.s., can I continue to order non-namebrand things from Ali express?

What exactly is the "blacklist"?

Like everyone else, I'm careful not to do stuff like trade with embargod country's etc.

Question: What does this mean for individuals? (Like me.) Or small businesses for that case.

Actually the things I order aren't name-brand anyway but I'm curious if this has any other meaning other than "buyer be ware"....
Typeface design is a generally an intuitive, convention-based activity without much of a scientific theory behind it. (see http://www.typotheque.com/articles/the_science_of_typography )

The designer Phil Baines used a strategy of subtracting elements from each character to design a difficult-but-possible-to-read font in the 90s called You Can Read Me. It was actually inspired by an experiment by Brian Coe which was reproduced in a book from 1968 called The Visible Word by Herbert Spencer. You get the idea--the development of typefaces is quite a slow moving activity which owes a lot to the subjective judgements of idiosyncratic personalities, usually male. Over the last century there has been a minority of practitioners who strive for scientific rigor, though.

"[The Visible Word] is a major contribution to legibility studies and presents a summary of over one hundred years’ worth of investigations by one of the UK’s most influential typographers. Spencers extraordinarily detailed 24 page bibliography is testimony to his investigation. The visible word is part of a programme of research into the readability of print in information publishing. In this book legibility is explored with equal thoroughness and objectivity. Resulting in the fact that people read most easily the kind of lettering they are used to. Although this may seem obvious in todays comprehensive documentation of the topic, much was learned from his lucid demonstration."
http://www.designers-books.com/the-visible-word-herbert-spen...

I'm not sure where to find "today's comprehensive documentation" of legibility and I suspect that it is a little tedious and empirical...

But as an example, here's some more up-to-date research+bibliography in this article:

http://gaultney.org/jvgtype/wp-content/uploads/BalanLegEcon....
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I don't know where you got those numbers from. The lowest I can find is in the 30% range for a presidential election. It's a bit disingenuous to write that off completely.

http://www.electproject.org/home/voter-turnout/demographics
Annihilation - by Jeff Vandermeer was a big treat.

I like ambient music, and I'd call this an ambient book.
Seconding Chaos Monkeys (Martinez), best startup memoir I've read so far.
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A company called ARES is working on a system that basically consists of automated electric trains carrying bricks uphill to store and then coasting back downhill with them to retrieve power. Basically pumped hydro but without a need for large quantities of water (and really ideal for installation in the desert, where there's a lot of open land with gentle slopes). They say efficiency near 80% with a first installation going in in Nevada in 2017.

This is comparable efficiency to batteries but less expensive and with significant reuse of well-established technologies and industries (e.g. most of the construction work can be done by existing rail contractors).

Although battery technology continues to advance, my suspicion is that large-scale electricity storage is going to tend to be mechanical for cost reasons.
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something about the UI of this page makes me instantly close it assuming I've ended up at some link farm.
Certainly.

Scheme is inarguably a more elegant language than CL (for the most part: dynamic variables are an ugly hack). However, CL has tremendous practical benefits: The condition system, the large language, and so on.

CLers usually push the elegance and the cleanness of their language as a major benefit. And it is: a clean language makes programming easier. but Scheme is far cleaner than CL. And thus where CL beats Scheme is practicality, which most CL advocates don't discuss.

OTOH, this article discusses some of the features of CL that make it immediately practical: a type system that lets you specify sizes if you want to, so that you can do low-level bit hacking if necessary, a standard lowlevel macro system (not as nice as synclos, but what can you do...), and a wealth of useful libraries. This is something that, as of yet, Scheme cannot match, and may never.
> Isn't the proper type of a string literal the following?

No, it's a const char pointer. Your declaration actually makes a copy of the "Hello world" string into a new char array, distinct from the string literal itself:

[~]$ cat test.c
#include <stdio.h>

int main(int argc, char ** argv)
{
char a[] = "test2";
printf("sizeof(a): %lu\n", sizeof(a));
return 0;
}
[~]$ gcc -std=c99 -pedantic -Wall -o test test.c
[~]$ ./test
sizeof(a): 6
[~]$
Or, someone got the item as a gift and never wanted it. I've gotten tons of stuff for far cheaper than buying direct that way.
Foul! The Fukushima plants were among the oldest in service. They were indeed not modern in design by any definition.
> Why did they back up off SSL?

Go try and buy something on https://apple.com - you will once you go to view your cart you will be redirected to plain vanilla HTTP. There is no way around this. If they can't get their own SSL support in order...
Counterfeit products are destroyed, they are never auctioned. A court cannot order the auction of known counterfeit items, thats just crazy talk. And one cannot resell a counterfeit product, that's illegal.
>In this case the legal age would be raised from 18 to 25. This wouldn't make any real difference to politics because young people don't vote.

Not to complain, but I sure as hell voted. I checked, and 46% of "young people" (Millenials) do vote regularly.

So, uh, thanks for trying to take our rights away.
Right, in a language with dependent types there is a type-level difference between int[5] and int[7], but c is not such a language, therefore using a syntax that encourages the mistaken notion that there is a type-level difference between int[5] and int[7] would be misleading.
Is the yearly increase substantial?

Do you still think the yearly insurance price is competitive with other offerings in the market?

Is the insurance price being adjusted for inflation only?

If so, is your salary adjusted for inflation?

Do you like working there?
Yet the topic is, will future nuclear plants be needed to slow global warming? Future plants (indeed all current plants) will include safety plans and devices. Such plants have not had catastrophic events.
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Where is the data that backs up your 6% of eligible 18-24 year old voters claim?
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This presupposes that the brain development between 18 and 25 would still happen if 18-25 was still childhood. Do we have reason to believe that people can mature fully before being allowed to make decisions, that it's 100% about time and 0% about practice?

Note, debt is a huge problem for people don't have earning power yet. If 25 is the new 18, we should expect 25-year-olds to have the same financial instability as current 18-year-olds as they will be on similarly shaky ground in the workforce.
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Germany has a drinking age of 16 (for beer and wine, spirits are 18+), a driving age of 18 (there is assisted driving at 17, where you need to have a parent/relative in the passenger seat until you turn 18), and voting age of 18 for federal elections (state and local elections vary, some states allow 16-yr olds to vote). It was lowered from 21 to 18 in 1970.

Different speed limits for different drivers could result in a "lower-class" driver being an obstruction for others. I don't think that would work out. That said, motorcycle licenses in the EU are separated into several classes with various maximum engine sizes (16+ for 11kW/15hp, 18+ for 35kW/47hp, and 20+ unlimited). They're separate tests.
For my birthday this year some friends got me The Dictator’s Handbook by Bruce Bueno de Mesquita and Marx’s Capital Illustrated by David Smith. I’ve always been at least tangentially interested in political/economic theory and these two books offered an easily accessible new perspective on their respective subjects I hadn’t gotten before. The Dictator’s Handbook I found to be particularly insightful.
It's not that the cards were marked because they were asymmetrical, it was the combination of the asymmetry and Sun manipulating them that caused them to be marked. So other games with those cards are fine as long as none of the players were manipulating the game so that asymmetry gave them an advantage. The player didn't bring the cards, but they did purposefully manipulate them to effectively play a game with marked cards, and that's why the game wasn't legit.
Ready player one - Good bit of fun for a gamer/80s enthusist

Dark Tower 1: The Gunslinger - I had no idea what was going on, i just know i enjoyed it

American Gods - slow starting but great book

Leviathan wakes - book that the netflix series 'the expanse' is based on

A Song of ice and fire books 1 to 3
A coal power plant that is operating normally kills and injures more people, and releases vastly more radioactive particulates into the air, than the Fukushima disaster did.
Can you summarize?
OpenJDK 6 won't be around forever. I strongly advise figuring out an exit strategy for that app.
>since we assumed that knowing more information would make you kinder

Is that a common belief? I'd never considered the two to have much connection.
Peter Thiel may just be the biggest douche of 2016
It was my understanding that a human driver did that.
How far did you get into 'Infinite Jest'. Did you break pg. 200? In my expeirance there seems to be this energy hump at pg. ~200, but if you can push past that it is smooth sailing till the end. (and absolutely worth it)
I think it's fair to characterize a 50MW plant as "experimental" or at least "not in full-scale production".
Thanks for that info I am going to look into this, very interesting!
Sizes aren't types though, and if I'm not mistaken that line of code is c++ no?
All physical.
You completely misunderstood me. I'm saying nuclear isn't going to get much better on the next thirty years, while solar has been and is already better, and is getting even better every year. Nuclear costs have been understated since they came out.
Our archive pages are, yeah, not great :) Being redesigned for the new year. We are "email first" and most of the page is the raw HTML straight from the email. However, we hand curate for many hours every week and have been doing so for six years now, so you can trust this isn't just some random bundle of links (essentially, they're the ones most clicked in issues this year).
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The thing to keep in mind is Never (Never) use array syntax in your function arguments. It implies something that you can't rely on. More on this: https://lkml.org/lkml/2015/9/3/428
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o.m.g. i thought it was always north of australia... but why lol
I have talked with many people who think meds will ruin their careers, destroy their cognition, render them feeble, or are a profound mark of shame.

At a personal level, many people refuse chemical intervention for these issues.
More like a gold cart.
The same goes for anyone. There will be something they don't believe should be made fun of. Eg. For the right, you can't burn the flag. For the left, you can't make comments about race. I'm crudely speaking here but there are examples.
It is hard to tell based on what you wrote if you are slow or not. But not working with others can also make it hard to tell and many times will the lack of people to bounce ideas off of makes you slower, especially when you are newer.

In general, writing solid, production level code takes time. I have had developers throw up code that mostly works and can't understand why when I go to make it production ready it can take 10x longer to do it correctly. But even if you have lots of experience you will underestimate some tasks and they take you 3-4x longer then you expected.

Overall, the more time you spend in design the less time you are writing code. And the more tests you write (in general) the less you'll revisit code. Also, the smaller each chunk of work is, the better. I try to use the rule a function/method has to fit on a laptop screen view. Doing this means you keep each function/method doing only one thing and believe it or not will speed up your development not slow you down. There are those exceptions when the function is uber simple but maybe has lots of if/else for state transitions or something similar where with whitespace and comments etc the method is 2-3 pages.
If it makes you feel any better, they did blow a 3-1 lead in the finals last season.
How did you find 'Rosemary's Baby'? Seems like the novel was eclipsed by the movie and you never hear about it.
The API gateway approach has a lot of the upsides you mention:

1. http://microservices.io/patterns/apigateway.html
2. https://getkong.org/ (a few auth plugins)
3. https://github.com/auth0/nginx-jwt / https://www.stavros.io/posts/writing-an-nginx-authentication...
I don't think Linux will ever take the desktop, per se. The only opportunity is to leapfrog over the whole paradigm.

Android is obviously that. And the upcoming transition to conversational UI (not just voice but stuff like news feeds, Snapchat, etc) and also VR will I think be the end of the desktop paradigm.

I realize this is often overstated blah blah blah. But both mobile and VR are still kind of operating in a psuedo-desktop UI paradigm where they can't really reap their advantages. At some point in the next 10, 20 years I think both mobile and VR will have their WIMP-equivalent UI breakthrough and we will have a real horse race, and Linux will be in a different position. Speculation of course.

* "Windows, icons, menus, pointer" was the big breakthrough discovery of the meat and potatoes of desktop UI
Or second hand
I've heard plenty of stories of people buying merchandise with restrictions and selling it anyway. Sometimes they get caught, sometimes not.

I know of people manually removing serial numbers so the items can't be traced back to them. I know of people setting up multiple companies, selling from one to another and providing documentation that it wasn't "them" when caught. I've seen stories of people buying undelivered shipments from carriers and selling products found.

Point is, you can't assume everything is counterfeit just because the manufacturer doesn't sell to amazon sellers.

I've been threatened in the past by a manufacturer for selling their items: in that case, I had bought some from Amazon directly when the price was lower, and some from another authorized dealer. There are a lot of manufacturers that think their rights go a lot further than they actually do.
I absolutely agree with your recommendation of "A Confederacy of Dunces", but it is definitely not an Autobiography.
How did you like 'New American Stories'?
All these tools are basically improved pastebins, or a "lighter Medium". But it's nice having choice with all these new ones popping up.
I never said that planning didn't go into it nor did I suggest that there was any accident. It's a loophole, though. It's a creative way to use the current, lawful tax codes. Why would a company pay more than what they're legally entitled to pay? That's literally throwing money away. As I said, in my last comment, the loophole should be closed but to suggest that Apple should pay back taxes on it is ridiculous.

Edit: I also want to push back on your comment about them exploiting Chinese workers. Apple doesn't exploit the workers, the factory owners do. Apple does everything it can to minimize the exploitation of the workers including random factory audits and employee surveys. No other electronics company in the US does this and, frankly, Apple doesn't have to. They pay someone to make components for them and if the company they pay say that they can make those components, then that's really the end of the story. Apple realizes that Chinese culture and law don't support human rights and well-being so they go above and beyond to try and correct the situation. If they were as monolithic and uncaring as you claim, they wouldn't even do that.
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That doesn't apply when someone has a large quantity, though. Many of those sellers have thousands of feedback, unless they have a large number of friends, it's not from gifts.
Nice!
This is awesome how WebAssembly gets implemented by all vendors.
I've heard this phrase - "declarations mirror use" many times before but it just doesn't click for me for some reason.

Who's use? The compiler's or the programmer's? Can you elaborate? Sorry if this silly question but I've scratched my head enough on hearing that phrase that I thought I would ask. Cheers.
The article mentions that logical thinking, such as that used when voting for political candidates, is fully developed by 16. Therefore, it would be reasonable to lower the age of citizenship to the age of 16, citizenship being the right to vote and the right to join the armed forces. The author of this article and the scientist who published this research share the same conclusion.

It is emotional processing that goes undeveloped until the late 20's.
> Why is the government, and by extention you and me, supporting liberal arts degrees that will do little to support economic growth?

As a taxpayer, I'm happy to support liberal arts even if it doesn't lead to economic growth. But you can't convince me that it should cost $200k to get a degree in it; that's just bananas. There's no way it costs that much to provide that service (even with a healthy profit margin on top). They must be subsidizing other costs with that money.

On a related note, I think the American model of charging per-credit-unit, regardless of what you study, is illogical (maybe it's not the same at all universities). It might make things easier for the bursar's office but it just doesn't compute that a credit hour of an aerospace engineering course (with all that expensive lab equipment) should cost the same as a credit hour of American poetry. Or that a 200-student introductory chemistry class costs the same as an advanced 20-student organic chemistry class.
IMO, this isn't good advise, it sounds like dating advise (don't call her for 2 days!).

This is how I prefer it:

1. Recommendation from a friend.
2. Sit down over lunch or something and chat with the boss.
3. Decision to offer is made, start date and compensation is set.
4. Done.

Any lingering, any delay only increase the chances of it not working out.