skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You're taking your own minor inconvenience and raising it to the level of living day-in-day-out sexual harassment near-millions of women are subject to.

The pendulum has not swung too far when a new hire is propositioned for sex. This example is far more typical than your social awkwardness.
Yep. And I think it takes a while for that to sink in for young people. They are more idealistic and assume that things are set up to be beneficial to everyone. They aren't. HR is there to make sure there is no blowback on the company and they do a lot of shitty things to make that true.
I just happen to believe it.

What it comes down to is that I don't think electability polls taken before the conventions can really tell us much about how people would feel about Sanders after he started getting hammered in a general election.
There's always non-zero work involved with open-sourcing stuff. How would Apple benefit from this move?
I love reading about the interesting guts of popular games. Thanks for sharing!

Also, Pokemon has a number of other interesting equations, specifically the capture formula.
"Why is this getting down voted? Am I missing something in boatload's post?"

@luckeydude, it's a sort of reaction test for brogrammers who work in toxic environments. I can't think of any job (not after hours) where alcohol improves your performance and output.
True, but I was arguing that poor personal health choices are not only an indirect negative effect on other people, which is what you said. And I neglected obvious direct negative effects it can have on people close to you, such as children who now have to care for a parent who loses their leg due to diabetes, or who don't get to experience play because of a parent who's so obese and unfit that they can barely walk around without wheezing.

Edit: I can't give you a list of personal decisions that I think should be subject to regulation, because it's not as simple as that, and there's a debate to be had for each one, and that will depend on circumstances and ideology. But I do think that in this case it's reasonable, since the cost of treating diabetes patients is crippling a small, poor country.
That's because your boss propositioning you for sex _is_ different than your boss talking to you about politics.

It says something about the culture of the company that a manager feels unfettered to ask his direct reports for sex so boldly, i.e. without fear of consequence. I'm shocked you do not see this.
You're right. Although I really wasn't intending negativity, I think it's good to have a reminder now and again to just stick to a point, and that some remarks probably aren't worth making and don't contribute anything. Thanks.
> "or (ii) I could stay on the team, but I would have to understand that he would most likely give me a poor performance review when review time came around, and there was nothing they could do about that."

I fully believe that her manager sexually harassed her and should have faced much harsher consequences, but it's almost inconceivable that HR would frame her options this way. No doubt she feared retribution, but did HR really tell her to expect it? It's hard to know what to make of specifics like these, when words get paraphrased.

In any case, the manager's behavior and HR's response were inexcusable.
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/B4Xo3CdCcAA2xm1.jpg

He has about $20 million[1], + cca $90k a year from the linux foundation [2].

[1] https://www.quora.com/How-rich-is-Linus-Torvalds
[2] That he gets a salary from linux foundation: https://www.engadget.com/2007/01/22/the-linux-foundation-for... (doesn't say amount)
I cannot find the hight of his salary now, but I read it somewhere.
I believe there are some good HR groups out there who truly do look out for the long term interests of their companies.

I think what's good for me, if I'm a hard worker, is also good for the company.

Certainly I'm my best advocate. Even a union couldn't do everything for me.
I worked at Apple for many years, and I'm very aware of how Radar was used internally during my tenure. You're absolutely correct that Radar is taken very seriously at Apple. I won't go into detail, but what we see externally at bugreport.apple.com is almost nothing like the real thing.

It was a big mistake for Apple to ask outside developers to use a bug tracking tool that purports to be a user interface into Radar. I would much prefer a ticket system like those used at other companies. If Apple engineers triage a ticket and decide to open a Radar, that process should be opaque to the outside world.

Once Developer Relations made the decision to allow outside developers to create bug reports, Apple should have given us a modern, full-featured web interface. Instead, they gave us the ridiculous, brain-dead tool that you see at bugreport.apple.com, which looks like it was designed by an incompetent Cobol programmer (apologies to Grace Hopper).
Off topic: It would be good to have C-Corp and be taxable at both corporate and individual levels because companies pay a flat tax while individuals are tiered. This way we can choose our salary and leave the rest in company.

This however severely complicates cases like mine which has three pass-thru contracts
I am pretty evenhanded about such things and my comments and blog posts reflect that. The article does not at all describe "oh, no big, people date at work" at all.

Comments like this one are part of the problem, not part of the solution.
Ask HN: RE: The Circle Official Trailer #1 (2017)
The trailer for The Circle, a forthcoming movie based upon the novel of the same name, was [flagged] and [dead] in the newest listing. Both the novel and the movie explore a dystopic digital utopia and a powerful Internet company. The imagined world presented is not too far removed from modern life;the conflicts are exactly those we see every day.

Speculative fiction is often a useful tool for exploring ideas and social structure. I was surprised to see this post culled from the list because I believe it to be relevant for many HN readers.
i'm not doubting her story but seems strange she cant keep a job for long. 6 months at plaid and 4 months at her next company? Then only 1 year at Uber?
I'd love if my iPhone had an FM/AM radio. I think it's silly that they don't put one in there yet, and I don't know of a good reason.

The nano's have them. I'd be fine with the headphones being an antenna. Data caps, man. I need my tunes at work!
Even if you eat healthy, eating too much is bad if you get fat.
That is really great to hear. Keygen is looking polished!
I wonder if this was made retrospective - how much tax would be owed by companies who replaced typing pools with copies of Microsoft Word and laser printers - or replaced rooms full of people using mechanical calculating machines with copies of Excel?

I understand the motivation, but the problem is nothing new (although the scale may be...)
Not just engine volume, but also on horsepower, CO2 emissions and total weight.
Thank you for writing this. I hope that you're happy in your new position. It's important that people speak out against sexism and harassment like this in publicly visible ways.

I look forward to reading your book on microservices.
Oops. Thanks!
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I'm not denying that there are many people that are subjected to sexual harassment.

My own minor inconvenience? my social awkwardness? Not sure why you are immediately resorting to painting a picture of me of an entitled male. please discuss the actual issues. I'm not attacking susan in any way and I agree with most of what she said
While technically true, the enforcement is up to the Department of Labor. Do you honestly believe that Puzder (now Acosta) is really going to enforce these rules? It's the whole reason they were chosen for the position in the first place.
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I have a startup, it's making some money, but I need help growing it. There are literally too many things to do, given I also work a full time job. Essentially, I want to begin to grow the product, and to do that I need to focus on more than just technical development.

With that in mind, I recently asked a colleague who I work well with if they'd like to join on my adventure as an equal partner. We both agreed it's a good fit, and we like the product and felt we could help it grow.

Unfortunately, I have no idea how to create an agreement and essentially hire them as a CTO and give them an equal amount of stock.

If anyone has any suggestions / templates I'm all ears, Thanks.
Bioavailability of calories isn't relevant here. There literally is not enough energy in that amount of sugar. Why does it matter if 80% of the available calories is absorbed of 90%?

"Insulin levels - when insulin levels are high energy is stored as fat."

It doesn't matter where energy is stored. 100% of it could have gone to fat.
"We have a pro-drinking culture at my company due to the nature of the business and I haven't found that it's causing any problems."

Anecdotal.

If drinking is done outside work/events this isn't what is being described in the article. What about the personal who a) don't drink or b) harassed by those who do? Drinking at work tells me the place isn't interested in performance or their customers.
Thanks for responding constructively instead of jumping on me for questioning the NYT. It is indeed hard work to find the real events.

Is your CNN example supposed to be an example of high-integrity news or fake news? My reading is that both CNN and Buzzfeed had the goal of propagating the dossier and wrote articles where everything they said was technically true so they could have a fig leaf of credibility while still getting the information out.
I fully expected this thread to be a shitshow, but comments here are overwhelmingly supportive of Fowler, and except perhaps for the very bottom of the thread, I don't see much much "this is unbelievable" at all. I'm pleasantly surprised.
Criteria of Truth is an area of epistemology (the study of truth) which addresses this question. In any narrative, there are some assertions which are independently verifiable, others which are not. We also rely on credibility and reputation, and most especially, on the response of individuals and institutions to being called out on false reporting or narratives.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criteria_of_truth

The full story is more complex, and ultimately boils down to the observation that drawing reliable and factual narrative is expensive, and that we employ a great many heuristics to reduce these costs. Some of these heuristics are categorised as "logical fallacies" (generally informal), though on closer examination, many of the fallacies are better considered as "shortcuts to truth assessment which sometimes, though not always, work".

It's also hugely useful to recognise that there are a number of different primary modes of communication, two in particular of which are dialectic vs. rhetorical speech. Dialectics seeks to arrive at a truth. By contrast, rhetoric seeks to persuade of a viewpoint. Rhetoric is not necessarily bad, though it is inherently suspect (an observation which dates back to Plato and his criticisms of the Sophists, from whence: sophistry).

I'm also inherently skeptical of any argument which arises from an ideological viewpoint. Truth doesn't arise out of ideology, ideology may arise out of truth. Which gives me pause to such publications (otherwise generally sound) as The Economist which is fundamentally predicated on the propogation of free-market ideology (see the paper's Prospectus).

Close observation and vigelance are required. And no source is perfect. The primary question is whether or not the organisation is responsive to its own errors.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criteria_of_truth
It's wrong for a manager to put a direct report in a position where they have to reject their manager in a personal context.

All that other shit about general situations with workplace relationships really doesn't have anything to do with anything.
> A cooler master hyper 212 is really quiet.

I second this. I've been using the Hyper 212+ for 5 years and it's been great. The 212EVO looks just as good. Only drawback is the height (not an issue with larger cases).

Funny aside: I actually replaced the fan on my 212+ thinking the one it shipped with had failed. Turns out I'm an idiot and either didn't install the rubber dampeners correctly or the mounts came loose during shipping (can't remember which). The replacement's been solid for 5 years and although the original was relegated to spare (nothing wrong with it), I doubt I'll ever need it before I retire this build.

DEFINITELY better than the crummy cooler my Phenom II shipped with. That thing was noisy and ineffective. Next upgrade is definitely including the newer series 212 as well.
And, since Bob's productivity has gone up, two of Bob's cow orkers get fired...

Output for the three man team now reduced to one man and a robot remains the same. Employer is now paying $60k instead of $150k in wages, tax revenue generated is now $6k instead of $15k. So long at the robot's maintenance and finance (after capital investment and operations cost tax rebates) is under $90/year - then the employer wins big, Bob wins a little bit, Bob's two ex-colleagues lose their jobs, and society loses 9k/year in tax revenue.

(The numbers for the employer work out even better when they re-engage Bob's two ex-colleagues through a contracting company at $38k to work the 4pm-midnight and midnight-8am shifts (without benefits or shift loading, since 'independent contractors'...), and they keep the robot running 24hrs a day... At which point their fire another 6 of Bob's friends... And now Bob's salary gets renegotiated down, since there's now 8 other guys prepared to do his job for way less than $60k...)

And it's not like this hasn't already happened. Compare car manufacturing today with 50 years ago.
forgive my ignorance but what language is this
The booze thing gets exaggerated at many places. It is usually the marketing/HR/business dev/sales teams that indulge in that culture. The engineering team is usually much more constrained in their alcohol consumption, although the media groups them with the frat boys from sales.
The US has a very large population of people known as the "unbanked" who cannot/will not get a bank account. Reasons include immigration/ID status, history of writing bad checks, bank levy, etc. They must use check cashing services, pre-paid debit cards, etc-often with high fees.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unbanked
Kcals in/out is literally the conservation of mass.

Increasing fat synthesis doesn't mean your body can magically make up mass.
Bit slow at first, but doing pretty good now. Been maintaining around 10% growth MoM since Jan 2015. This month has been awesome though, almost doubled last month's revenue!
I'd be fine with both. Where's the conflict?
Wow, your post was dead (I vouched it), but you are exactly right. Everyone in this thread is missing the point. Shocking to see the one scientifically valid interpretation of the article downvoted below threadshold. I thought we were pro-science on HN?

If women were just "choosing" to approach their career in a different way, or had just been brainwashed, then they would react the same regardless of who is around.

What this study shows is that single women expect single men to react badly to their ambition. Not that the women actually have less ambition. Yet so many in this thread are discussing this as if it's evidence that women have different inclinations. Incredible confirmation bias.
That's a rather insulting comment, and it's completely wrong. Apple engineers tell you to file a radar because if it's not in radar, it won't get done. Period. Radar is the way Apple engineers track work that needs to get done, and if nobody files a radar, it can't be tracked, prioritized, assigned, and completed.
If you'll take a moment to reread the entire article, you'll see that she did not in fact overreact --- in fact, if anything, she underreacted, staying on long after the incident you're commenting on, working exclusively with management to resolve her problems, and leaving the company only after gross mistreatment both in employee reviews and by HR.

Could you perhaps try giving the article another read and let us know if you still think this critique you've offered was worth writing?
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It's currently the top story on The Verge.
Yes my mistake. 13k calories is roughly 4 pounds.

>Hormones play an important role in how much fat is stored and how much your metabolism burns. And the type of food you eat can affect your hormones.

It doesn't matter if 100% of the calories he ate was turned into fat.

>how much your metabolism burns.

Eating sugar causes your metabolism to slow down by 4x? You'd die.
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The making of the robot will produce tax revenue, however will not necessarily produce the tax revenue in the same jurisdiction. Also new wealth produced by the robot is likely to be more concentrated.
No, enforcement is not up to the Department of Labor. If you're terminated for organizing and protesting against working conditions, your recourse includes the courts.

People should, of course, talk to labor lawyer before organizing. Tech Solidarity is working with several now, and collecting employment contracts from the best-known tech companies in order to provide standardized organizing advice.
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It's satire. About as perfect as satire gets, IMO.

>The Moon does not exist!

>This is no lie. Until recently, I, too, believed in the traditional, establishment view of the moon. But any thinking person, untainted by the biases imposed on us by the controlled media, will have no choice but to reach the conclusion I did once faced with the facts described in this account.

Replace Moon with whatever you want.

Holocaust, Moon landing, 9/11, etc.

I love it, absolutely fantastic.
I would love an API for a utility on par with Snapchat/Facebook's face tracking (the ones they use on face filters). It's basically a solved problem with a few frameworks and SDKs out there but they're usually C/C++, getting the builds, dependencies working and integrated into Xcode is a ton of work.
That seems like the logical conclusion. Where's the dividing line between what the government should and shouldn't regulate, if they judge it to be in the best interests of the people (and the government's will being theoretically derived from the collective will of the governed)?
Probably because it's conflating drinking and misogyny.

Drinking and programming surely don't mix well. However, a culture that involves, or even promotes, drinking and partying doesn't have to be misogynistic. I've worked in companies that held parties several times per week, with plenty of booze, and they were nothing like what was depicted in TFA.
Graduated two years ago and already has a book out, quite the career progress.
And the same can't be said of drugs? Many people take psychoactive substances responsibly, and only a small percent develop problems with dependency and abuse.

Hell, I'd be willing to bet that more people who eat junk food become effective "junk food addicts" and develop resultant health problesm as a percentage than do people who use LSD, MDMA, or even cocaine.
As someone who went to NYC public school where all food options are extremely unhealthy, I can say that this has mostly to do with culture.

Eastern European immigrants stayed thin. Chinese immigrants stayed thin. Immigrants from some other countries - mostly south america in my personal experience - all gained weight quickly.

The food does make it much easier to gain weight.
"Hired" would work just as well here.
Are there any real efforts around this? A quick Google search doesn't show anything obvious.

I'm also curious if there are any historical examples of "white collar" workers unionizing.
Not at all. You're describing a real problem, but it is in no way a conspiracy, in no way is it new, and in now way is it uniquely related to Hillary Clinton. The media has a problem with "horserace" coverage, which is the subject of your Shorenstein Center study. The problem, which is structural rather than conspiratorial, is that the media is obsessed with covering which candidates are winning and by how much, with projecting who they think will actually win, and then focusing on those candidates. It becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy and creates an enormous barrier to entry for outsider candidates. As the Shorenstein Center study concludes:

"The problems associated with press coverage of the 2016 nominating campaign are rooted in the mismatch of journalism values and the structure of the nominating process. There is little question that the nature of the 2016 campaign—Trump’s presence, particularly—brought the mismatch into sharp relief. But the broad tendencies in press coverage of the 2016 coverage are ones that exhibit themselves every four years."

The truth is that Sanders was considered by everyone to be a long shot candidate, so he got less coverage. The coverage he did get was much more positive than the coverage of Clinton. They both got radically less coverage than Trump. So, no act laid bare by statistical analysis, just a long-standing bias in favor of covering the most famous candidates with the most celebrity status.

The relationships between candidates and reporters is totally public and was in no way revealed by any leaks. It's an obvious part of doing the job of political reporter that only people who had never closely followed a campaign were surprised by, and that was willfully misrepresented by the likes of Breitbart and Fox News as somehow nefarious. Remember, there was no corresponding RNC leak, which would of course show that reporters were talking to politicians there constantly too. There is nothing in the DNC leaks that proves reporters working in concert with the DNC to influence the outcome of the election in Hillary's favor, only that the two groups were attempting to influence each other in service of their own goals (to get new information and to win the election, respectively). So, no relationships between actors mapped out.

Anyway, if there were a scheme to use frequent mentions to favor a candidate, it's clearly Trump, not Clinton. It's well documented that Trump stories drove the most clicks, which is why news outlets focused so much on him. Was there a massive conspiracy between all the Republicans, including Trump himself, who spoke to reporters every day, clearly tilted the general election in favor of Trump, and had a direct incentive to get a scandal-prone celebrity into office?

Most people who follow politics closely know that Clinton has a famously bad relationship with the media and has earned incredibly negative coverage as a result. She's very famous and so she gets covered but there is definitely no giant multi-company conspiracy to support her.
IANAL, but isn't the described behavior by HR and the management very much illegal? I thought there were laws in place to protect workers. I hope Susan Fowler has a wonderful career.
That wouldn't help. You can't "target" energy that way because it is fungible.

The country would claim "all exports are made from the renewable energy, and all hydrocarbon energy is used for internal consumption".

I suppose you could set import tariffs based on the entire country's energy balance, but then you disincentive any individual producer from doing anything.

On top of that you can "wash" energy. Make solar cells using hydrocarbon energy, then import them to another country and claim "see, we are all solar" - but of course they aren't since the energy used just came from a different country.

As free market perfect as it seem, a CO2 tax is impossible in the details unless it was truly global (which would never work since the incentive for a country to cheap is enormous).