skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There's plenty of currently existing unions for professional trade workers. The SEIU, IFPTE, CWA, IBEW, etc. are American unions which represent scientists, engineers, legal assistants, technicians, physicists, nurses, etc. Largely these careers have low union density (as a result of poor uptake of unions throughout the US), but there are plenty of countries (for example many Nordic countries) where its much more common to see these professions unionized.

If you're interested in learning more about how to do this, I suggest you look into one of the following orgs:

- Tech Workers Coalition (https://techworkerscoalition.org/) based in the Bay Area who holds a monthly organizing meeting in SF

- Tech Solidarity (https://techsolidarity.org), which has been holding meetings in a bunch of metropolitan areas for educating tech workers about organizing
?? I said they're not a monopoly and you seem to violently argue against my text saying that they're not a monopoly. You've convinced me: I agree that they're not a monopoly.

Uber is losing money, believing they can make it up later somehow (presumably self-driving cars, possibly by taking a cut of a substantial percentage of the car service rides).

That's participating in the market, not wronging it, IMO.
> If you believe that H1-B employees are abused...

Of course that would never happen. All American business executives and outsourcing agencies only act with unimpeachable integrity and the highest ethical standards.

(Wait, what is the original subject of this thread again...)

I repeat, for all American programmers under the age of 35, read https://normsaysno.wordpress.com/ to see how your careers are being systematically undermined by your own industry and political leaders. Then make alternative career plans for when you're 40+. You'll thank me later.
Looks like I'll finally be able to use the Type Cover 4 with my surface, (support for type cover 3 was added in 4.8, but 4 is way better to type on).
You do need to make sure the changes follow the "philosophy" of whatever component is being changed. Otherwise you get things like duplicated functionality or APIs that don't have any cohesion. If the Senior engineer frequently works on this specific piece then its not an issue, but no matter how senior someone new to an area will not produce optimal code.
I have no problem with this. At least this style of analytics makes it clear to both the reader of the URL and a casual observer that their visit is going to be catalogued as such, and for a careful clicker, easy to bypass.

I find this much more palatable than, say, Medium's pseudorandom tracking hash fragments that are spawned on each link share (harder to grok and recognize, but easy to bypass), or indecipherable URLs where it's impossible to tell where the substantive, deterministic portion ends and the tracking garbage begins.
Grubhub.
> I understand that the code is being moved out of the local intranet onto a non-corporate-managed Web service

Spot on and this is what I meant. By "public github" I meant code on the internet but accessible to anyone in the consulting company. There are multiple modules and they are moved to github,bitbucket and stash.

This also means people without background checks or ANYONE in the organization has access to ALL the code of the bank. In the bank ONLY people in specific departments have access to specific code (As is customary for all IT industry)

I am not trying to be a whistle-blower and mr goody two shoes. I am very angry that my refusal to upload code to the internet is resulting in non-payment of fees and threats that I will never get a contract in this city. And as an independent contractor I am truly terrified of uploading bank code to the internet; I don't want to end up in jail for stupid reasons.
> There is no such thing.

Works at a bar or brewery? Wine related startup? Sales?
Strictly speaking asking a subordinate for sex is not always a harassment (but very frequently is).
"Uber passengers were paying only 41% of the actual cost of their trips; Uber was using these massive subsidies to undercut the fares and provide more capacity than the competitors who had to cover 100% of their costs out of passenger fares." Is either mathematically incorrect or extremely misleading. You can't take Uber's cut of passengers payments (~18%) and then divide by Uber's costs to say "passengers were paying only 41% of the actual cost of their trips", as the bulk of the cost of the trip goes directly to the driver. If you take this into account the rider is actually covering about 80% of the total cost of the trip, with Uber subsidizing about 20% of the cost on average, which includes their massive infrastructure building and expansion efforts. This means that even break-even Uber at a 25% higher cost, or a 20% profit margin Uber at a 50% higher cost, is still cheaper (and more convenient and enjoyable) than a taxi.
There's no need for Joda for datetime with Java 8 as it has sane (immutable!) classes inspired by Joda.

And as all prior versions of Java are EOL there's no reason not to be using Java 8.
Smart phones kinda ruined chitchat a little bit for me. Someone states a fact and I have a strong urge to pull out my phone and check it out. Takes me out of the flow of conversation, so I have to make a major effort not to do it.
Huge difference. One allows free association, whereas the other involves using government force to take away freedom.
It's a largely philosophical question so not surprising that it's difficult to go about.

At least for me, I am coming from the angle that some things are a matter of fact, and some are a matter of opinion. For example, everyone can be fully informed on economics, but on the matter of "how much should a waiter be paid in New York City", there is no "right" answer.

That might very well be not what the disagreement was about from your perspective though. :/
Building a People First Community, a Response to Mark Zuckerberg
I totally feel the same way too (edit: but almost certainly not worse than how it feels for women). Having worked in both mixed and segregated teams, I much prefer having a good mix. It feels much more natural and normal.
I think the downvotes might be from people who want to be super careful about victim-blaming.

But I agree with you that we should be training people to detect bullshit early on and to just get the fuck out in those situations. Labeling her actions as rational and healthy is probably not helpful either.
It's useful when hacking around someone else's code that you aren't supposed to change. Not sure why Dropbox would need it, though.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Go_terms#Atari
In which case, isn't taking Uber and forcing them to eat that 50-70%, the ethical thing to do?
"Creed"? You have in mind the Jews?

Trump "used" the Jews for some business or political purpose?

So, the implication is that Trump doesn't really care about the Jews?

But, in this case we are awash in other evidence: Trump was made Grand Marshall of the Israeli day parade or some such. We note Ivanka's conversion and marriage to Jared. We just saw the astoundingly strong statement by Bibi.

So, the game seems to be, if can't come up with such overwhelming evidence, and even when can, Trump is from the opposition anti-semitic. No evidence; just make the accusation; ignore that the burden of proof is on the accuser; when there is lots of evidence that the person is really a strong supporter of Israel, just ignore that evidence and repeat the accusation.

I call BS.

I'm still looking for solid evidence to support the accusations. Rivers of accusations from the Hillary campaign and the MSM, and so far not a single drop of meaningful evidence.

Right, Trump is xenophobic, that is, doesn't like foreigners. He married two of them, his mother was one of them, he's hired thousands of them, and just because he wants to enforce long standing US immigration laws, policies, and practices, passed to protect US workers, we're supposed to believe he doesn't like foreigners? The US immigration laws are clearly examples of important labor laws; a lot of labor laws are really important; we should enforce the important labor laws, and that is reason enough for what Trump is doing on immigration.

As a special case of the Jefferson piece, we've been getting rivers of BS propaganda: They just keep saying stuff, just nasty stuff, just keep saying it, give no meaningful evidence, and just let the nasty stuff just sit there while repeat it. BS.
KVMGT sounds really nice.
First off illness and mental illness 2 different things.

Second there are people that don't have any mental illness. They are just general dicks or idiots, and get fired for not being a "culture fit".

Thirdly there is 2 sides for ever story. We have little facts about the entire situation. In my experience when you get fired they don't give you reason why. They wish you best luck in hopes you don't show up the next day with a gun, and that is about it.

Finally people get fired all the time for all sorts of reason. Some times the company doesn't need all the people. Sometimes the CEO wants more money whatever reason it is it happens. I seen people get fired because they couldn't speak English, and it wasn't like they were hiding it through the interview process. Life is rough get a helmet don't use anything in life as a escape goat.
It means you can hire dumber managers.
For me, it can be a matter of actually doing it. I often suffer from analysis paralysis, so being a little tipsy means that I will actually write the thing. It'll be terrible, but it'll get done, and then sober me can go back and clean it up.

Or I'll go to far, write it, and it'll be unusable.
This isn't accurate. These companies do make billions and billions in profit. And they do pay taxes. They shelter a lot of hose profits in licensing deals off shore though. so the effect is the same.

And yes, the stated goal of a for profit corporation is to increase value for the share holders, so there's that too.

But these aren't accounting problems. They are issues with regulations and shitty personal values/moral codes.
Honestly though that sounds pretty good, if you're a man and you like drinking.
The reason those second class outlets started to get attention, is because high-integrity outlets have become low-integrity, biased and tainted. And nowadays people wanting to find whole story need to go through several outlets almost as if they need to do the investigation themselves.
How to Become a Product Manager
First - I run a platform that connects creative/technical volunteers with non-profits for project-based volunteer opportunities. There's a bunch of organizations looking for people like you - take a look: www.project501.com

Second - really interesting conversation here. It's incredibly important to make monetary donations, but that isn't an option for anyone. It's also possible that your time/expertise could save the organization far more than what you might have been willing to donate.

I'm a fan of the guiding ideas of effective altruism (few have mentioned it already). Basically, give what you are able to give to the cause that needs it most. There's plenty of behavioral issues though that might prevent us from giving more of our money than we probably could - it seems easier to donate our time when doing what we love doing and do best.
What is your light exposure regimen? Even though I have a SAD lamp in my room set to turn on before my alarm I still struggle to regulate my sleep, especially in winter.
>>>>He was trying to stay out of trouble at work, he said, but he couldn't help getting in trouble, because he was looking for women to have sex with. It was clear that he was trying to get me to have sex with him

So that was Susan's interpretation? Did he say "Come, let's have sex babe".

Boo Fucking Hoo. It takes two to tango. Why did he reach out to you? What was the sexual message? Post it. I don't think someone working at Uber would say "come let's have sex". If the story is credible, then why HR did not take any action.

I call bullshit. Maybe you are an old hag who partied through the school and now does not get any attention and goes around town claiming sexual harassment. Do you think the "Betas" on hacker news care about you? Most of them are busy dreaming and masturbating to you.

Post the chat publicly instead of making accusations. Also, why post it now after ONE year? Is that because you have book coming out and need publicity? Typical women.
To add to that the wikipedia page claims : "In Japanese, atari (当たり, あたり, or アタリ) is the nominalized form of ataru (当たる, あたる, or アタル) (verb), meaning "to hit the target" or "to receive something fortuitously". The word 'atari' is used in Japanese when a prediction comes true or when someone wins a lottery."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Go_terms#Atari
One thing that I haven't noticed anyone here mentioning is:

Document everything you've done. Everything. It may help protect you.

But get a good lawyer.
I identify with conservative economic policies but liberal social policies. My views around a whole bunch of topics have changed over time. What option should I select when I sign up?
Golden handcuffs are called handcuffs for a reason.
Ok.

1. I support ban/taxes on junk food.

2. Government doesn't do it, does something else.

3. I' still not satisfied, and still support ban/taxes on junk food.

I have opinions. So do you. What the government does is irrelevant to what I believe.
To solve this problem, those with hardware skills can take a spare USB cable and snip the data lines, leaving the power lines intact.

http://i869.photobucket.com/albums/ab259/kvnsnyder/USB-cable...

Such a modified cable would solve the described problem -- charge the device but not accept data.
Just a clarification that I posted here:

By "public github" I meant code on the internet (from the bank intranet) and accessible to anyone in the consulting company (public as in public network). There are multiple modules and they are moved to github,bitbucket and stash.
This also means people without background checks or ANYONE in the organization has access to ALL the code of the bank. In the bank ONLY people in specific departments have access to specific code (As is customary for all IT industry)
This in turn means all contractors that git sync have all code on their machines regardless of their access.

The consulting company is not breaking rules just for the sake of it but to speed up development although what they doing is illegal.
It was at the top for like 2 hours already. It's at number 2 right now.
I would say that you have "choice", but not "freedom". Choice, in that dichotomy, refers to being able to draw from a set of pre-determined options (e.g. the choice of cereal brands in the supermarket), whereas freedom refers to the ability to follow one's desires, ambitions and morals.

Just the other day, I watched a documentary about the protests that led to the opening of the Inner German border and the demise of the GDR. It was kind of sad to see people protesting for various kinds of freedom, knowing that most of them will only get choice (e.g. the choice of which country they cannot afford to travel to because their jobs were not competitive anymore).

By the way, I don't think that Europe has systematically more freedom (by the above definition) than the US. There are some life plans that you can only carry out in the US, and some that can only be realized in Europe.
Its been going strong for years. Its small well run german team of few devs. It has solid userbase in europe (germany).

Bastian Allgeier the founder and main developer is very open about everything.

I wouldnt worry about stability here because those guys make their living there and iam sure they dont want stop. If they did im sure Bastian wouldnt just leave it and would figure out some future (open source it).
none of those are any more pro drinking on the job culture than any other job.

you still have work to do, and you probably still have colleagues whose time is valuable that aren't as big on drinking as you think they are.

drinking and having fun is great. at my company, if i wanted us all to drink, everyone got the afternoon off and we went out.
SOFTWARE:

TXR: data munging and system scripting language, in active development since mid 2009. Contains innovative Lisp dialect and original document pattern matching language.

http://nongnu.org/txr

NON-SOFTWARE:

Currently subtitling an epic 1980's Japanese rock concert video of the group Show-Ya. Captioning of the original language done. English translation done for the first song.
I believe you're referring her to Adwords clickfraud - is that right? I don't work on that team, so can't comment on their policies (and even if I did, I probably can't comment publicly).

However, my understanding is normally AdWords accounts are suspended for billing/fraud related reasons (e.g. you don't pay your bills) - e.g.:

https://support.google.com/adwords/answer/2375414?hl=en-AU

If you AdWords account does get suspended, there's a form to appeal it here:

https://support.google.com/adwords/contact/pf_suspended

I haven't seen it lead immediately to the actual Google login itself being suspended. However, if your the actual Google account was suspended - there is a set procedure you can follow to un-suspend it - there should have been a link in the notification email.

Also - paid or free isn't immaterial - it actually does make a difference.

If it's a free account (E.g. @gmail.com), you can fill in the online forms to appeal the suspension.

If it's a paid account (i.e. part of a GSuite domain - or it's old name, Google for Work), then what often happens are individual accounts are suspended, and you talk to your own domain administrator to get that resolved. There are ways to get a domain suspended (e.g. you don't pay your bills) but they're usually fairly obvious.

(Disclaimer: I work for Google, but the above comments are my own opinions).
I tend to agree. The ban was political theatre.

But I'm not so sure about: "There were already reasonable procedures checking out people from the 7 countries."

How do you check someone that you know nothing about? The USA does not have a 'global DB of every citizen and their life'.

Again - the argument is not about 'the ban' - the argument is how the press presented it.
It's funny because the people most likely to trust the government with the power to ban junk food are the ones least likely to trust the government to can mind-altering drugs.
This is utter nonsense. Companies can also opt to pay zero income tax if they reduce their taxable incomes to zero by donating all of their profits to charities. The only difference is that the charity Amazon supports is called "consumers".
Gotcha.

Hmm, so this is violating standard access controls. I can appreciate your freaked-out-ness...

I understand you're not trying to make a scene (especially considering the circumstances!) and are simply trying to resolve what is effectively a legally-tangled paycheck bug.

Have you made any practical headway with figuring out how to resolve this? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13682560 looks interesting, and https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13682806 sounds helpful also.

PS. FWIW, I'm in Sydney myself :) although I'm not working at the moment.
Hey beta,
Don't apologize for some unknown hag. Get a hooker if you are so desperate.
and none of that makes any difference to company culture. if it was toxic without money it wil be toxic with money.
"I'm of the opinion that the average software engineer in the USA is already overpaid and underworked"

Given how much money these companies make directly off of our work, and given the prevalence of death marches across the industry, I cannot take this position seriously.
>consulting company's open door policy

Just a heads up (regardless of my case):

Company open door policy exists to protect the company. Even the HR is there to protect the company. Even in US, whistle-blowing or rocking the boat will result you in being fired faster than you can say Oklahoma backwards.
[Citation needed]

Your hypothesis has been debunked in the provided sources, as well as elsewhere.

Even when viewer intent is controlled for in models, Sanders was consistently substantially underrepresented in coverage, while Hillary was substantially over-represented. Additionally, pole results correlated poorly with coverage volume.

If you read the leaks, you will note that contrary to your statement that "There is nothing in the DNC leaks that proves reporters working in concert", there is substantial evidence that key, impactful information was provided to the Clinton campaign and that Clinton's campaign desires aligned with reporting in fact.

Clinton wanted Trump to be a frontrunner because she thought she could eviscerate him. This is contained in the leak.

That she did not, in fact, do so, doesn't indicate that there was no conformity between her campaign strategy and the media coverage in fact. Most media narratives leading up to the election indicated that Hillary was substantially ahead.

Your argument that 'the two groups were attempting to influence each other in service of their own goals' doesn't indicate that there wasn't an improper collusion. If you and I own companies, and we agree in service of our own goals to raise prices and reduce competition, in most jurisdictions we would be thrown in jail. Which is why the conversations in which these agreements happen (and they do) are not. written. down.
Right to repair bill
Thank you!

This is a good suggestion, and something that other commenters have mentioned as well. I was purposefully vague about the category names because I didn't want them to be too strict. The original implementation had "liberal", "conservative", and "independent", but I realized that a) those terms are specifically American, and b) there are a lot of people who are left-wing but not liberal, or right-wing but not conservative. So I tried to back off and make the categories broader, but as you point out that leads to some confusion.

My thinking was that, at least in the US, a large portion of those who are vocal about politics would be content (perhaps even proud) to label themselves as either left-leaning or right-leaning. I figured that third category would be for those who couldn't immediately choose between those two options. So "Neither" can mean "neither left nor right", "between left and right", or "I don't know". I should definitely make this clearer on the signup page though, and I will likely incorporate some quick political orientation questions or something along those lines.
If errno can be a macro, as at least one man page claims, the argument in the function could expand and even not compile or produce something unwanted. I'd prefer:

static bool IsInterestingError(int e) { ... }

http://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man3/errno.3.html
Fools gold, pretty soon.
Ask HN: What do you use “randomization” for?
Hey HN! I'm doing a project for a Stanford class, and am investigating uses for random number generation. We've heard about gambling and uses in the animation industry, but what interesting areas are you using it for?
>It sounds like you're a good guy who want to do the right thing

As much as I sound like I am trying to do the right thing all I am doing is avoid going to jail by doing illegal things and earning to feed my family
Her story is bullshit. Typical attention whore.
Didn't get a jacket. Report to HR. Something happened that she interpreted. Report to HR.
If the story is credible why wait for ONE year. Either SUE publicly or post messages publicly.

I call bullshit. Pussy thirsty Betas on Hacker News will of course side with her.

I think she is doing for attention for her book.
Java 8 isn't supported quite yet on App Engine :-( Support is in beta, and should hopefully be available "for real" within months, but until it is, we're stuck with the old stuff.

I also wonder what kind of data migration we'll be facing, since all of our persisted data is from Joda DateTimes, not Java 8 ones. Hopefully none.