skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If I were you, I would select "Neither". My intention was to make the "Neither" category a catch-all for those who don't strongly identify with either the left or the right. However, as other commentators have noted this isn't obvious, and I'm going to rework the signup page to make it easier to choose a category.
Yeah, I learned about MT's approach from Jeff Atwood back in '09, and have been reading about the new "discovery" of the static site generators with some amusement.

That said, MT has a big issue: for something that has been killed in the marketplace, it's quite expensive. I'd love to use it for the non-profit I help out, but at a $1000, it's about $950 more than what they can aford.
The Director's Guild, Writer's Guild, and Screen Actors Guild, along with the various professional athlete unions, would be good examples of how it could be done.
As if you matter!! Hahahahha.
Uber has 10 Billion dollars or more in funding. They can buy food for your 50 generations.
Her choice to write about it might end up being a bigger incentive for change there than a lawsuit.

She tells the story quite well. Probably an ideal story for some journalist(s) to pick up and expand on.
Firstly you need to take care of yourself.
If they are refusing to pay you and you are coming here to make an "anonymous public statement", it is fair to assume that your employer didn't like what they heard or quite simply how they were told.
It is important to remain true to your values, raising it with your employer and explain why you are uncomfortable with that would have been my number one suggestion. She/he should be able to understand. It looks like she/he did not, my suggestion would be to raise it to she/he managers and managers manager. Always calmly and respectfully, as most likely there isn't necessarily a malicious intent.

Secondly, if you are really keen to reach out to the bank I'm happy to do it for you as I know quite a few security teams in the major banks. But please do not disclose who you are. Email me at 6lh008+1lhx68glu7jh83h8r9pxo7ad9wc8uao@pokemail.net
Made this on a sunday afternoon.
What do you think?
> In general, countries like that don't have unhealthy, locally-produced food. And the article agrees with that assertion.

Patently false assertion. I'm ethnically a pacific islander who grew up on a small island in Micronesia and I can assure you that local island dishes are quite unhealthy.
This is a good idea. In fact, it might be interesting to include answers to these questions as part of a user's profile. So if you're curious about the particular political stance of a fellow user, you could look at their profile and see their answers to a handful of political index questions.
Vikings is planning an offer that includes fully floss hardware: https://vikings.net/
>These companies do make billions and billions in profit.

Have you looked into Amazon's dividend distributions since inception?
> although what they doing is illegal

I can't add much to help you, but I'd be interested what laws requiring background checks for this look like, could you tell me where I can find more about that? (I would have expected this to be "just" a contractual requirement between the bank and your employer)
The Danish tax authority has this mentioned in their FAQ [1]. They claim that this is true but, 1) "it is a requirement that your vehicle is primarily used for business purposes abroad", and 2) you must "apply to be exempt from registration tax".

[1] See the question "Foreign company cars" here: https://www.skat.dk/SKAT.aspx?oId=2068721
So I noticed Guava missing and some other's have cited Joda and I think the real reason is that in 2017 between JSR310 and Java 8 the need for Joda doesn't exist in modern Java dev and a lot of the Guava functionality has been added into Java 8. Not all of it, but the biggest and most useful parts.
I know people that have never even used an AM/FM radio. Like, if you say a radio station, they don't know what the numbers mean. I don't see a lot of people using this feature because they don't know what it is.
Thanks for the kind words! That just made my day!
what did you notice with unirest under load? I've been using it a lot, and other than one or two little quirks I havent noticed perf issues. async calls can be a bit involved but I figured thats just java ;)
Oh ouch. That git setup is... great lawyer material. Wow.
> Yea, but iOS developers make twice as much as Android developers.

1) 2x mouse nuts is still mouse nuts.

2) Do they really make 2x? Especially after you deduct $100 a year?
Cell networks can go down for non-structural reasons. Radio has no network load.
> So if you don't have a strong feeling of being on either the left or the right, it's probably safe to select neither.

I think the issue with this is that a lot of people in the USA who thought of themselves as firmly "on the right" prior to the events of 2016/2017, will now be forced to choose "neither" because they are disgusted with the current administration's impending meltdown, even though they still consider themselves the opposite of the "left".

Then you have people like me; I'm not a centrist (I don't think), but I have views peppered across the spectrum. I am pro-choice in reproduction rights, I am firmly and proudly pro-2nd Amendment, I believe strongly in LGBT equality, religious freedom for all religions (even the ones that give me the shivers), I feel there should be an easier but at the same time more secure path to citizenship for undocumented immigrants and legal immigrants alike.

I believe in small, efficient, non-intrusive government that serves all the people, not just select groups and ideologies. I am vehemently against government surveillance of its own citizens for any reason. I think getting rid of Obamacare is stupid; improve it, don't scrap it. I think we should reduce our military presence in countries that don't want us policing them, yet stand ready to defend countries that truly need our help when they are attacked by their enemies. I believe the 1st Amendment is vital to the continued freedom of our nation, and I despise our current president for attempting to chill free speech and free press.

I believe if you're going to give tax breaks to small businesses (which I think is a good thing to do), you need to also raise the minimum wage so some of those savings can go towards improving the quality of life for employees of those businesses.

So what am I? I'm "right" on a few issues, "left" on others, and somewhere else entirely on yet other issues. I voted Libertarian again this term because it's the closest to my own values, yet I don't agree with everything Libertarian either.

In short, I think you need a few more options than just Left, Right, and Neither.
Americans need to lose weight, seriously. All climate change is caused by Americans eating Beef and Chicken all day long. Also, earth can not sustain human weight because of fat Americans.
The "Stalinism" isn't so much about the actual soda, but more about the attitude that the government should have the power to just step in and ban whatever the hell someone has decided is a bad idea this week. Once you move from the presumption of freedom to the presumption that anything that might have negative consequences should be banned, it's hard to get back.

Personally I believe that whatever consenting adults get up to is none of the government's business, whether it's weird butt stuff or selling each other unlimited quantities of sugary water. If you're going to ban one, why not ban the other? They're both enjoyable to certain people and both have negative public health consequences.
So GoCatch works well now? I must give it another go. There is very little price difference between Taxi's and Uber here, and recently the Taxi companies have changed their tune from "it's all so unfair" to "we can and will adapt and compete". Interesting times ...
I Tried Chewing Tobacco for One Month, and  What I Learned
France went from 10% to 80% nuclear in 20 years and without increasing costs relative to the rest of the EU. Show me another generation technology capable of the same.
Here's a thought web devs. You know how your website has a 'reset my password' flow? How about you just use that on its own, and not have passwords at all?

I recall one website I visit does this, but I can't remember which one.
Junk food probably kills more people than hard drugs now.
Flutter is pretty egregious, lots of links, zero examples. It took me forever to determine it is a native runtime platform for mobile Dart applications. They wouldn't even admit that very easily.
Certainly! That's a fair criticism. I just wanted to point out that the statement that there is 'little or no evidence' is not accurate. Many rounds of electability analysis were performed.
Including a response from Kalanick...That was fast.
Sounds horrible. I do wonder if this post would have come out if uber was using stripe for payments.
PVS is a product that performs a service. They have made major efforts to port this product to Linux; they have multiple articles scanning Linux FSF products and the Linux Kernel.

People deserve to be paid for their work if it's useful.
Implementing Authentication and Access Control to Docker Registry
Yup. There was the article a couple days ago about how employers should avoid the "brilliant jerks", and everyone in the comments was saying how they'd rather have the "brilliant jerk" than someone who was nice and mediocre (despite the fact that isn't the choice at all; there are plenty of people who are talented and not asshats). Well, when you make that decision, this is the kind of workplace you get.
By ensuring unethical/illegal behavior doesn't go unaddressed, HR is working to maximize success for the company.

With that in mind, it's in the company's best interest to have HR be a core department with proper training, funding and oversight.

The arguments frequently rehashed on HN about "HR is not there to help" only make sense in dysfunctional companies (which there's a lot of, unfortunately). Moving HR to a separate organization, outside the company, won't help with that.
If your datetime is persisted ISO 8601 form, RFC 3339 form, some other unambiguously parseable string form, in epoch form, or as some database-native reliable datetime type, you'll be fine. But if by any chance it's Java-serialized Joda-Time objects, you're going to want to get them out of that form, as the Java-serialized forms are not compatible.
This happens to me all the time with song texts and band names. At some point they suddenly flip from a stream-of-samples to a meaning and I realize I've been missing something for years (sometimes for decades). Very strange phenomenon.
A nice feature would be to add a personal "bubble index", based on how much time users spend reading articles from "the other side". Some warning, "hey you live in a bubble, try reading this even if you disagree".

Also it would be nice to be able to rank articles by "least partisan".

Granted, I think the market for true nonpartisanship is pretty small. Kinda like health foods, where basically you just repackage sugary stuff with pictures of mountains on the box; with news you just have to convince the public that your extremely partisan corp is the balanced one.
Do those use bespoke protocols instead of just using USB HID classes?!
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We use all 3 for network communications.

Here is an aeron microbenchmark: https://github.com/benalexau/rpc-bench

Of note is akka uses it for its internal remoting:
http://blog.akka.io/artery/2016/12/05/aeron-in-artery

We will be using it for RPC and distributed deep learning:
http://engineering.skymind.io/interview-with-adam-gibson-cre...
> I wonder if one way around this is to force modularity, even when it's unnatural.

There's probably no denying this is a good idea. :) The most successful very large systems seem to be made of independent modules that each strive to do one thing well. They can also be more easily removed, refactored, or replaced, due to their small size, and perhaps most important you can do one at a time.

> I think there's a lot of emphasis on preventing bad code from existing. But if you believe some bad code is inevitable, then it's more important to make it easy to fix when it happens.

Yeah, it's true, emphasis at any given moment is on what list of things we want to see, and what list of things we don't want. The author even started with one. Problem is, code styles also change over time. What some people call reasonable or good code, other people call bad; "bad" is subjective. Hire a brilliant engineer to help make your decent application awesome, and her first reaction may be "oooh, this code is pretty bad. let's make some changes". I honestly wouldn't be able to count how many times I've seen the newest member of a project complain about the mess while nobody else seems to mind that much. (And I count myself in that list, I've done it too.)
As someone who has to use Guice at work, and not by choice, the following critique best sums up my thoughts on Guice.

http://omaritech.blogspot.com/2014/03/why-google-guice-is-ev...

Am I in the minority here? Do most people really think that the Guice framework approach is a good idea?
Yeah, sounds reasonable.

Why draw the line there? Because hard drugs so directly impair the mind.
What SCM does that bank itself use? It may have started as a svn bridge or something and been moved to github and had access extended accidentally.
True but if I signup with a username and a password, I use a random password, the email I use is specific to that service and I only answer 'security' questions with random data that is then stored in a local password manager.

Now I'll admit this is not the behavior of typical users but I like having that possibility.
So how would this apply to using a JWT as a bearer token?
I haven't really looked at what the type cover shows up as, but it does seem to require a custom driver.
Moggio: A multi-source music player in Go
Stripe seems to hire an unusual amount of really talented engineers who are also really good at explanatory writing. (Though this may just be an availability bias thing for me.)

Fowler is one. Julia Evans is another that comes to mind.

I wouldn't be surprised if they had amazing internal documentation for their engineers.
Haha that's a great question. I also think that for a site like this, it's important to not only consider how to get enough users, but how to get high-quality users. So while a Twitter spam campaign might lead to lots of signups, it might also cause comment quality to plunge and lead to more time spent moderating.

My short-term plan was to just mention the site on some subreddits/blogs/discussion forums frequented by the type of people who I think might enjoy this site. I'm optimistic because my bar for success here is quite low - I'm not trying to draw major traffic for ad revenue, I'm mostly just interested in a site where I can read and discuss politics with other thoughtful people. So I think it would be possible to achieve long-term stability with only a few dozen regular users.

Of course, a few dozen is a far cry from the current user base! So for now, I will plug it on a few websites and see where that takes me.
Re: all the other things mentioned — I presume the point of Docker in that list is that the system-software packages mentioned are inside the shipped Docker image. It's an "appliance."

"Ships as a Docker image" might, for a lot of projects, just be a roundabout version of "it's a .zip file; unpack it into /opt"—but I think it's justified if your project is essentially a bunch of distro packages with a layer of policy-glue making them interoperate in a special way. Like OpenStack DevStack, or a NAS server appliance, or an "all-in-one" [L]AMP stack.
Thank you for the polite response. I did speak to the consulting company HR and their response was extremely rude with them going as far as saying they will make sure I never get a contract with anyone else in "(this city)"

The federal ombudsman offered to mediate the issue but they flat out refused to talk to either the ombudsman or me and the ombudsman has no power to force them (as they are technically not my "employer")

I am sending you an email
It’s not just a zero-sum game. Extra costs include the salaries of civil servants who administer the funds, including the many people whose job is to print out a report and put it in a drawer where nobody will see it, and the blatant cronyism in public contract awards.

Extra benefits include the infrastructure, technologies, and knowledge that we develop, that would not have existed because no businessman would have considered them to be profitable.

The government of the USA is filled with lots of pointless but well-paid jobs, and there is a noticeable small-government-conservative faction that is constantly harassing the government with their counterproductive regulations.

http://www.mercurynews.com/2017/02/17/feds-delay-caltrain-el...

https://educationrealist.wordpress.com/2012/09/07/the-fallac...

http://www.slate.com/blogs/moneybox/2016/09/22/california_s_...
I absolutely believe it but find it astonishing that a company can behave like this.

So, not sure what you're referring to but perhaps people are using unbelievable as a synonym for astonishing. ie. not literally.
This may be the case. I generally say I can't code worth a damn if I've had a beer or two, because my ability to really focus goes way down. But I've also had the experience of getting a bit buzzed and absolutely plowing through a whole bunch of easy-to-write code and enjoying it quite a bit, whereas it was otherwise kind of dull work.
Asking people to self-select a single question is not going to give you much signal. Why not use an established test like political compass? - https://www.politicalcompass.org/test
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The purpose of alimony is to ensure neither party falls into poverty as a result of the divorce. If your friend is struggling as a software engineer, it's clear he's living above his means.

But that's beside the point. My comment wasn't an attempt to engage in discussion. I was simply explaining why (I thought) your comment was being downvoted: it was vague, not very credible sounding, did not support your claim about women, and didn't contribute to the discussion. From your neighboring comment, it's clear you think you're doing a moral service by writing that comment, when (IMO) it's just a poorly written comment. I would be more specific about what in the comment could be improved, but I think you would just reply with "Wut?"
It doesn't really matter what unions become in certain cases, does it?

Unions were reinforced by the NLRA to enable workers to bargain collectively. That can mean a lot of things

A union for software engineers is a blank slate. It hasn't been done before. It could be anything someone makes of it.
I don't want to (a) duplicate work and (b) misstep so I'm asking first - would you like me to ask in /r/AusLaw about this whole thing? I don't think there's much difference between me and you asking; just trying to be helpful.

EDIT: I'm leaving this comment here, but I just learned that /r/AusLaw does not provide legal advice under any circumstances. Asking them would likely get you the same "find a lawyer" advice you've gotten here.
Swagelok - literally everything in the catalogue.
'I pointed out that I was publishing a book with O'Reilly, speaking at major tech conferences, and doing all of the things that you're supposed to do to have an "upward career trajectory", but they said it didn't matter and I needed to prove myself as an engineer.'

Maybe that's why she didn't get a promotion. Personally, I have had colleagues attempt similar things. When they embark on these external endeavors they have significantly reduced quality work in their primary job.

Obviously I don't know this author and I don't work at Uber.
If you're data is persisted in Java-serialized form you should be fired.

That's not just for just dates or timestamps either. That's for data period.
This notion that there is a wide distribution in engineer competency has come under a lot of criticism for many reasons (not the least of which being that its often used as a cover for discrimination on the basis of gender): https://lwn.net/Articles/641779/ If you believe there to be such a wide distribution in talent and that salaries at your company are commensurately paid, I suggest you ask your employer if they will disclose every employee's salary and the justification for them.

Even if this we take this for granted, its completely untrue that all unions commoditize a trade by flattening pay. There are plenty of unions that have chosen not to put standardized salaries in contracts or have advocated tiered salary agreements or merit pay. Whether or not these are good things, they are things that unions have done and should dispel with the notion that unions are inflexible towards these concerns by workers.

As for your concern that unions "force employers to do things", well I suggest you consider all of the ways your employer can coerce you to do things and whether you actually have a mutualistic relationship. Many workers don't feel that they do.
I was hoping the article would do more then just ask the question. I'll be interested in the result of the study once it comes out.
This is the one and only issue where I agree with Ajit Pai (smartphone makers should not restrict access to the FM radio that is built in to the Bluetooth chips on many devices).

However, I believe his reason for not doing anything about it has less to do with his principles about the free market and more to do with being in bed with the big media companies who would love nothing more than to remove any free alternative to paid streaming media services. Pai has had no qualms wielding executive power in gutting net neutrality to pave the road for tiered Internet schemes and zero-rating. He does it under the guise of being some sort of free market evangelist, but it's really all about the money he gets from lobbyists[1].

He's going to retire from government work a filthy rich man, and he's doing so by eroding consumer digital freedoms.

[1] http://transition.fcc.gov/Daily_Releases/Daily_Business/2016...
Not as the term is usually used, no.
If your cousins have iOS devices they should check out Hopscotch. (http://gethopscotch.com) It works on iPhone and iPad and you can use it to learn to code and make your own games.
Full disclosure: I founded Hopscotch. But it's still awesome if I do say so myself :)
What's wrong with selecting neither? You seem like a pretty straightforward Neither to me.

If there are too many options, then the low-probability tags will proliferate, and people will tune them out as noise.
I agree with the second sentence, but not with the first. I don't think the high-integrity outlets are now low-integrity; I don't see any evidence of that, or at least, that they are any worse now than they used to be. I also disagree fundamentally with your assertion that people would, upon noticing a lessening of quality in a source, seek out other equally low quality sources as a substitute. That doesn't make sense to me.

The claim you're making is oft-repeated, massive, and rarely seems to have evidence connected to it, other than a general feeling of partisanship and the fact that we have more news outlets now than we used to. Do you have hard evidence to present?

But even if all the news sources available acted purely out of what they thought was best for the non-partisan public, it would still be incumbent on the individual to learn to process news analytically. That responsibility doesn't change.
A serious problem with this idea is that people have no incentive to tell the truth about their political leanings. Everyone has an incentive to identify as Neither, and thus appear unbiased. It's interesting to think how you might create incentives for true self-identification here.