skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It may be the "norm," but their point was whether the dual earner approach is optimal. I.e., whether it "should" be the norm. Truth is dual earner started as a way to try and vastly increase the household income. Unfortunately all it did was double the supply of labor and drive down real wages. This isn't a gendered argument. We would all likely be better off if every couple chose one of them to work the 9 to 5, and the other one to manage the home and finances (and pursue side ventures). If this happened we'd hope to see real wages increase for those left in the labor market. To some degree we're already seeing this. Labor participation among males is at its lowest point in decades and still falling. Though it's still early days so real wages haven't yet increased to compensate. Unfortunately this may not happen because corporate America is used to plentiful cheap labor, and as the labor supply diminishes they're pursuing automation strategies. In other words, corporate America has options for adjusting to the ebbs and flows of labor supply which they used to lack.

Even now the dual earner household exists because many people believe it improves their lifestyle. But let's be honest, most people wouldn't want to work if they didn't have to. Sure, in the absence of the need to make a paycheck they'd likely still do productive, valuable activities, but very few like to work for corporate America. Most jobs suck. Most managers suck. Most of the time pay sucks. Having a job isn't (or shouldn't be) special for either gender, it's a necessity to whatever point it takes to keep a roof over your head.

Maybe when the robots take all our jobs we'll finally find a better way of living.
Only because you did it twice...

"rogue".
"The ramifications of these political games were significant: projects were abandoned left and right, OKRs were changed multiple times each quarter, nobody knew what our organizational priorities would be one day to the next, and very little ever got done. We all lived under fear that our teams would be dissolved, there would be another re-org, and we'd have to start on yet another new project with an impossible deadline. It was an organization in complete, unrelenting chaos."

With the exception of a startup that was on the verge of failing, this is every organisation I've ever worked for. Including two of the big silicon valley giants (one who got cut down to size after 2000, one that's still big). I wonder if the underlying reason is the same.

I must say I've also reported people to HR, and I have regretted EVERY interaction with HR I've ever had. Initiated by me or otherwise. My attitude to meeting HR now is that there's 2 options: schmooze and snooze (as in have "a good meeting in which there is one and only one accomplishment: agreement between both parties that no other meetings are necessary"), or please contact my lawyer at ...

(And I do wonder if women's experiences are the same. WTF)
When you are a new grad, you are more willing to put up with stupid nonsense for a year. Puts great experience on the resume and opens more door than previously before which sets up nicely for your 2nd job out of college. This is true for companies like Amazon.
That doesn't explain the bizarre jacket drama, or reports from other female coworkers.
My prediction: the manager gets fired, we are treated to a hand-wringing "What We Learned" Medium post, and the cultural disease behind this particular symptom continues unabated.

What would be nice instead: A serious and in-depth analysis going from incidental to systemic to cultural, like NASA's "oops we dropped NOAA-19" report - https://www.nasa.gov/pdf/65776main_noaa_np_mishap.pdf (summary on pages 8-10)

Most companies could stand to learn some lessons from NASA, where cultural failure means dead astronauts rather than bad PR. When their culture is bad, they change the culture. What will Uber do?
Agreed-- the flexible interior layout is particularly incredible. It feels like the inside is bigger than the outside. It's crazy that I can fit a dining table, or a load of 2x4s, or five adults and their camping gear, in a subcompact car that I can also parallel park in even the tiniest spots. If you have a roof rack and a rear hitch you can really turn it up to 11.
I've never owned a Blackberry before but the Passport Silver Edition is one of the most aesthetically pleasing phones I've ever seen.

This is the studio responsible for it's design[1] if you're interested in some of their other work.

[1]http://objectsandideas.com/projects#/passport-silver-edition...
14-year-old made the best Facebook Messenger chatbot
Have seen two ways of doing in large organizations
1. Use tools like Optim (i think ibm)
2. Export CSV data, and export schema and drop it to Hadoop data store

Option 2 is preferred for very long time restore say after 15 years as there may not be a way to restore to Oracle/MS Products which may not have run time ecosystem after 15 years.
If you have headcount for "testing" then I don't want to use your software. Tests are integral to coding and should be written first.

Yeah, if everything were synchronous, deterministic, linear, and non-interactive, life would be so much easier, and test-driven development might actually work.
I think the "this is unbelievable" comments are coming from people who have worked in the industry for a long time -- but not at Uber -- who are surprised that this sort of thing not only goes on, but that HR appears to be advocating the behavior through inaction.

At least from my anecdotal experience, I've never seen anything like this among the four companies and 20 years I've been in software development and engineering. Granted, the percentage of women who were in technical, non-management, positions[0] hovered around 20%. In those cases, the skillsets of the women ranged as much as it did the men and all of the folks I worked with treated each other, regardless of gender, respectfully and professionally.

I wouldn't imagine seeking a date with co-worker. What happens when you break up? Do you want to bring that to work with you ever day? At the companies I've worked for, I know of one incident where a person was let go for "having a crap-ton of porn on his work PC" that someone from security noticed when the proxy logs flagged his workstation. This individual was a VP, a "high performer" and was very well like. He was also out on his hide a few hours after his laptop was seized and inspected. This was with no reports from women even hinting that he'd acted inappropriately on the job. And we had nobody inspecting proxy logs looking for this sort of thing -- that guy in security who happened upon his workstation ended up being there because he was investigating a malfunction, but because of corporate agreements we'd all signed, he was obligated to report what he found[2].

I hate to say it, but this is the kind of behavior I'd expect out of teenagers, not adult men. And it's one of those things you usually don't have to tell people not to do. Though I have no experience with this specific kind of behavior, I've noticed that when people fail on morally obvious things, they're often failing on many other things and I would be worried if I were an investor about having my money tied up in a company that had this kind of a reputation -- what other laws does this corporate culture find acceptable to break? I'd be twice as concerned if this were my employer -- not just out of fear of being harassed, but out of fear that a company with these kinds of ethical lapses is often quickest to screw those who work for them (or take them down with them). No way.

[0] Perhaps my experience is unusual, but for 17 years the VP level individuals in my teams have been women, I've reported to a Director level employee who was a woman and I've had a woman for a manager on more than one occasion.

[1] Thus far, I know only of this account, which without additional data is as anecdotal as my comment, here, but based on others piling on, I am inclined to believe that there's a real problem here.

[2] Paraphrased, we were basically required to report everything even if we were not directly involved, but if I saw something this inappropriate, I wouldn't need a signed agreement to persuade me -- I had full confidence in the HR teams at the places I was at and knew it would be handled appropriately.
Fundamentally, the job of HR is to shield the company from liability and in this case, they failed miserably.
Guest workers aren't a reason not to organize though, they're just a reason it might be more difficult to organize certain shops (though not impossible, take a look at the FLOC who has been able to organize thousands of guest workers).
> I don't see any evidence of that, or at least, that they are any worse now than they used to be.

It's just easier than ever to find out and/or challenge their shortcomings and inclinations, thanks to the web. We are also coming out of 15 years of very close relationships between power and media, which were painfully evident at various critical points in time (post-9/11, Iraq, 2008 etc). A general rise in distrust was met with new media that made it easier to disseminate and multiply such distrust (whether justified or not).

> seek out other equally low quality sources as a substitute. That doesn't make sense to me.

"Quality" is a very subjective term. You fundamentally rate journalism quality in relationship to the fundamental truths you perceive. If you believe Big Companies are up to no good and you read a detailed reportage of corporate abuses, you think it's high-quality reporting; but if you believe corporations are the economic engines of America and should be cut some slack, the same exposé can be read as scandalistic and alarmist. Most other parameters one would use to judge journalism (source quality, corroborating cross-references etc etc) are simply beyond the average person.
Don't 'push back'. That is the wrong terminology, and it's inherently confrontational.

Explain to your managers the range of outcomes and give them the power to make the decision with the best information you can provide them.

i.e. 'if we skip this bit, then quality will likely suffer, with these kinds of expected outcomes'.

Don't be dramatic or emotional, just try to give the best information you can.

Also have sympathy for them - money does not grow on trees - and basically balancing quality vs. time-to-market is a constant and difficult challenge.

This way - if they decided to 'rush' it - they know what the likely outcomes will be and the inherent outcomes.

If they are making the decision then the responsibility falls on them to the extent that you have provided them with thoughtful and realistic assessment.
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I'm not sure if this is necessarily indicative of harassment at FB/Google. I've heard rumors that SRE at Uber was pretty bad. I had classmate who interned out in the bay area and was thinking about working in SRE. They mentioned that Uber was poaching a lot of engineers to do SRE work with crazy high offers. But they wouldn't stay around a long time because apparently both the technical and non-technical cultures were pretty bad. Sometimes jobs can be a lot a lot worse than you expected, and you can't really change much as a new hire.
Google has had some cases like this which (so I've heard through the grapevine because how else) were settled and NDA'd. It's a jungle out there...
What proportion of the pop do you suppose, given their druthers, would dedicate their lives to going through school, learning things that would not be rendered pointless by AI and robotics?

Maybe my recollection of high school is off so maybe my recollecting kids asking, "Why do I have to study that?", "Do we have to?" , "When will that ever be relevant in my life?" etc. is not representative, but I think it is. Given the choice of learning (and non-transhuman) and just living something akin to a pastoral society, I don't see many people choosing the hard way, if their lives and livelihood don't depend on it.
After reading this I'm reminded that if an IDE just supported replacing highlighted text after it was piped through a command it would have a lot going for it. A lot of these are features some that IDEs have been lacking for years yet they've been hiding away in /bin.
Bread in the fridge?
I don''t agree with this at all. This certainly hasn't been my experience. Enthusiastic appreciation of craft beer and Scotch are very much a part of tech startup culture.
What a list of gems!

Also, I noticed you can rewrite this function:

# Copy an ip address from a domain
# Usage cip domain.com
function cip() {
ip=$(resolveip -s $1)
echo $ip | xsel -b
echo $ip
}

as a oneliner without needing process substitution or echo:

function cip() {
resolveip -s $1 | tee /dev/fd/2 | xsel -b
}
Ali G baffled Buzz Aldrin (the world's most patient gentleman btw) by claiming that the moon was a hoax: https://youtu.be/AEnYeocVs3Y
Yes, of course her actions were rational as she followed protocol. But then they became irrational when she decided to stay, even after she found out that nothing would be done about the harassment, after she found out how backwards and stupid the Uber's policies are.
We've seen that with Github[1]. The debate on HN was much more lively and less one-sided[2], in that there were many more people trying to excuse what Github was doing or bring into question Horvath's story. Whether that's a good thing or not...

[1] https://techcrunch.com/2014/03/15/julie-ann-horvath-describe...
[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7408055
Amazon Confirmed ‘Kindle Fire HDX Blue Edges Is a Feature but Not a Bug’
You're not wrong, but at a certain point public shaming as a method will lose it's efficacy or become so ubiquitous that everybody is publicly shaming everybody else. Is public shaming, just another name for mob justice? I guess what I'm saying is, it is a powerful weapon, so we should be really careful with how we use it.
Of course she shouldn't have to get the fuck out. Of course Uber shouldn't have such shitty policies. You're reading things that aren't there.
Asiana Airlines website hacked
Given how poorly she was treated by women in HR, and how many women left Uber per her statistics, I don't think "hire more women" sounds like a solution to their ills.
I looked at this briefly, but it was odd. I found that non-tech companies paid tech FTEs very little -- even companies which heavily relied on tech (Airlines, Insurance, etc..). On the other hand, they paid oodles to contractors, and vendors.
Earhoox. https://earhoox.com/

For whatever reason, all earphones fall out of my ears. Exercise, walking around the house, whatever - they just don't work for me. The Earhoox sort that 100%.

Only issues:
I had to use a nail-clipper to cut the rough mold edges.
They do fall off the earbuds quite easily when e.g. in pockets. But if I lost them, I'd order another pair that day.
This. Much of the conversation on this thread has made work sound like a hallowed calling, something to be prized and cherished. But it's just a job people. And it's equally brutal on the minds and bodies of men and women alike. I hope my daughters can find a better way than just working some pointless corporate gig for a paycheck. I don't know what that looks like yet, but I do know the world will look a lot different in a decade or two when they become adults.
Ford's Dozing Engineers Side with Google in Full Autonomy Push
I expect that Tesla will be driving the technological change, and between now and my car arriving home I expect significant changes in the state of the art.

Chevy got the Bolt to market at the same price Tesla is aiming for with the Model 3, but it's a $25k car with a $35k price tag. If the Bolt makes it to Australia before the Model 3, I may consider it.

In the meantime I view the Model 3 as more than just a car: it's an investment in a company pushing the world to acknowledge that fossil fuels are literal and figurative poison which we need to abandon post-haste.

Driving my Model 3 around will be as much about driving a BEV as it is about providing visual evidence to other road users that the age of the internal combustion engine is over. The Otto cycle ist kaput.

In addition, I contribute to Plan International because I want to help rapidly educate people in impoverished nations so we can keep population levels under control. From the "it is just a car" perspective giving money to poor women in underdeveloped nations is throwing good money after bad. From my perspective it is the best thing I can do to ensure the next generation actually has a world worth living in.

There are probably better ways to accomplish this with the money I have, but driving a BEV and pulling people out of poverty sounds like a decent starting point to me.
From my brief interaction with Uber - you got a point about teams building their own product to get a promotion. It looked to me like an unnessassry and waste of resources endeavour but it totally makes sence now.
Is this what those people who seems to be constantly on their phone in public are doing? They seem to be able to go a long time without saying anything, then when they do it takes me a while to realize they're actually on the phone.
This has already been submitted before:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13672742

(and flagkilled unfairly, but that's a different problem)
Why Customers Like Check Cashers and Payday Lenders
Document everything then lawyer up. I noticed the OP never mentioned contacting a lawyer, which is a total "wow" after reading the story.
I think we agree on everything except

> The name "golden handcuffs" seems to imply that someone doesn't have a choice in the matter.

"Golden handcuffs" to me is a beautiful phrase. It implies a fragile, beautiful piece of jewelry that is only superficially binding. To me, it's a euphemism for a personality test of do you chose ideals or sufficiently-high-enough material comfort.
I listened to FM radio last week - once, for about 10 minutes.

15 years ago, I listened for an hour and a half a day. As a teenager, I'd listen throughout the day. Teenagers generally don't do that anymore - Spotify, Pandora, etc., have supplanted FM radio as the delivery channel of most music (and news).

The survey still records accurately that I listened in the last week, but I'm no longer a profitable listener. Advertising prices reflect that decline.
What I wish sometimes is that Chomsky would echo Trump's belief that the media is the enemy, because he's been saying it for decades. He won't, of course.
Cutco is crap. Part and parcel of using a knife is learning to sharpen one.

Counter-example: Tojiro DP... Amazing knives for the price.
Everytime I hear about what Elon Musk et al have to say about future AI, I think of Asimov's Multivac/AC in The Last Question.
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> I am kind of interested how the current liberals become pro-globalization all of the sudden. They went from organizing large anti-globalization riots, and getting tear gased fighting it, to "What do you mean? We love globalization!".

There are a lot of groups under the "liberal" tent, like there are a lot of groups under the "conservative" tent.
If possible, write tests in Groovy and use Spock Framework.

My production code is a mix of Java and Scala, and I found Groovy to hit sweet spot for testing.
Blendtec total blender. Works as advertised, never says no. Feels professional.
I understand now. Thanks Eric.
John Carmack just retweeted a link to this article about common programming errors in C++ and how to avoid them:

https://software.intel.com/en-us/articles/the-ultimate-quest...

I estimate that 70% of those errors just cannot happen in Java.
Now you know why Uber paid so much money for Otto. It's the only way they would ever get that talent.
I read it a while ago, and going on what I remember, I still can't see the connection. Would you mind explaining?
How LinkedIn Determines the Capacity Limits of Its Services
The best way I've heard it discussed is that too many people focus on the wrong word in HR. It's not Human Resources, it's Human Resources. Understanding that seems to be the critical step in getting HR and understanding why they are the way they are.
The Trump White House Is a Hysteria-Generating Force of Nature
I completely agree. It is one thing to give reasonable criticism of a specific incidence of news media misconduct. It is another thing to blanket condemn every news organization based on inaccurate hypotheticals and personal opinions with no proof. Democracy is in trouble when people lose faith in the media and independent journalism is suppressed. By all means, be a skeptical and informed consumer of the news, but don't contribute to the discrediting of the fourth estate without good reason.

Edit:
I made this comment before the parent added a bunch of, mostly grammatical, complaints about the article. I agree with other posters that those are mostly superficial.
Yes, he is:

> "I’m optimistic that last month’s election will prove to be an inflection point—and that during the Trump Administration, we will shift from playing defense at the FCC to going on offense," Pai said in a speech yesterday before the Free State Foundation in Washington, DC, said. The commission "need[s] to remove outdated and unnecessary regulations... We need to fire up the weed whacker and remove those rules that are holding back investment, innovation, and job creation," he also said.[1]

He is planning to remove net neutrality regulation, not just decline to enforce it.

[1] https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2016/12/fccs-...
I mean, the mention of Trump was in the context of speculations that Russia had tested a nuclear bomb, as an example that commitment to the nuclear test ban has weakened. The article rejects this idea, and it certainly never suggests that the U.S. had tested a bomb.
The non-independent format of investigation potentially compromises effectiveness. Given the size of the company, nature of allegations and how systemic the alleged infractions appear to be, the better course would have been to source an investigator externally.
I've been thinking about picking one of these up (used it with the 6 and SE) but I'm afraid of it ruining the sleek feel of the 7.
And the radioactivity of mining coal (coal mines produce more than nuclear plants), ruined water, and ruined air are somehow better? Not like the CO2 magically decays or something. Future generations will have to deal with less clean air, less clean water, more CO2, higher ocean levels, etc.

From my reading of it, nuclear waste is a thorny political issue, not a technical issue. There's pleny of reasonable solution.

One of my favorites was mixing it into molten glass, pouring that into a steel torpedo shaped tube, and dropping them in the ocean near a subduction zone where there's a few inches of silt per year.

By the time they hit they have enough speed to sink in 10s of eet, won't rupture any time soon, but when they do they will be buried even deeper by silt. Of course eventually they will enter the subduction zone.
With regards to JS, the performance improvements did actually happen...
>"As for team dynamics, it means we know each other better and bond more frequently"

Is drinking actually bonding though?
Organics found on dwarf planet Ceres
Love the Embody. It's something I recommend 100% when people have chair issues. Had it for probably 5 years and it should easily hit the 12 year guarantee they give.

Issue: cats love it too, so I often have a towel on it to protect against their scratching tendencies. Looks less sexy but whatever.