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No comrades of mine would see guest workers or immigrants as a threat. I wouldn't join a union that didn't stick up for all workers, regardless of their citizenship status.

Maybe we have different perspectives on how popular the anti-immigrant position is in tech (and how many neo-reactionary/dark enlightenment dipshits there are), I guess I'd just ask that you keep an open mind about this and make a decision if and when workers approach you to join a union. I certainly wouldn't knock you for opposing a group that doesn't have your interests at heart, but the union I want to form would take solidarity seriously and would explicitly go to bat for women, people of color, lgbtqia people, disabled people, and immigrants.
You're right of course but they could also have an easier time guiding a plane down if the pilots watching the aircraft needed to get a passenger to do it.

Perhaps hijackers seeing armed missiles out the window might rethink their negotiating position. You never used to hijack a plane to kill people that's fairly recent.
In USA, even minimum salary for servers is lover then minimum salary for other workers - the law expects the tips. Whole American culture expects patrons to pay directly to server.
Are you referring to forced "optional" tipping or service charge included in the bill?

The latter is ok in my book because it is seen as part of the cost of the service but separated in the invoice just like tax.

The former is a BIG pain!
Their experiences, anecdotes, complaints and feelings of personal safety are meaningless?
>The recruiter took me to another room and asked me what my salary expectations were. I told him my current salary and he said that it was a little high for their base pay and that they prefer to under pay on base but overcompensate with stock.

Don't tell the recruiter your current salary! You can only lose by doing that.

If your current salary were 50% larger, they would also have told you that it was a little high for the base pay and all the numbers they offered would be scaled up.

What you should is tell them you expect some optimistic but possible number (250k-500k/year total annual comp depending on your seniority) and negotiate from there.

Even if your current salary is great, you should still only tell them if they offer a lower number first.

Of course, you weren't going to take this job anyway, but the same advice applies at companies you actually like. A big offer from Uber would be a great tool for other negotiations.
I tried "Gett" once or twice since they did a deal for new joiners.

They included a tip feature but it infuriated me with the way you had to decide on the tip amount before the journey was over. What if they don't drop me off where I want and stop the journey early? That default 20% tip you encouraged me to set is... not good.
I feel sad that there's are so many reasons that stop you to d the RIGHT THING.

What is the better way then, beside leaving the company despite doing your job very well?
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Does anyone have any ideas how to persuade someone that they are capable of learning things? My mother, ex-girlfriend, and now wife have all been firmly convinced that they were too math-dumb to learn physics or programming. Its fine if people don't have an interest in something of course. What I'm wondering is that if you know someone to be intelligent and you are able to offer support in learning a subject, is it possible to persuade them that they are mentally capable of learning it?

I worry that after I adopt, my daughter is going to fall into the same trap.
5 Minutes Early Is on Time; on Time Is Late; Late Is Unacceptable (2015)
They might only claim to be splash proof but I have dived to 30m with mine over a 10 times and to 20+m probably over 50 times and it's still going strong.
I think your comment is the first in what amounts to a "noise loop", where your comment doesn't add anything substantive to this conversation, and me pointing out that fact also doesn't add value, ad nauseum, forever. There may or may not have been signal in the submission, but there certainly is no signal in what we're doing.

Preferably, you'd have never made your original comment. Maybe I shouldn't even make this one. Who knows.
My interview at other $BIGNAMECO was "fix" an existing Linked-list implementation on site. That was pretty fun, IMHO.
Tipping could work, if the tips are received anonymously with some time period. So that drivers would not know, from whom the tip came from.

I'm not from US and generally I like the "no tips" culture. However sometimes I want to tip for exceptional service. Unfortunately Uber doesn't offer a tool for that. I think it could be implemented in some non-intrusive way.
Let us know the model when you're at work please!
Other than first one, for which there is no evidence, non of those things are against the constitution.
It is not optional, you just have to understand that polite announce. It allows you to decide how much service guy/girl earned in your case. And the sane default is n%, depending on location. If you don't care, simply tip n% instead of zero. You are absolutely able to pre-calculate your expenses including tip if you're going to be served.
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You don't expect "Jet Airways" (or any other airline) to say that directly, do you?
Why not? If something catastrophic happens, will it really make a difference?
Do you mean the Shure SM58 ?

I'd say definitely. One of the most used designs. Built like a tank. One of the most used and abused microphones in my opinion.
From my previous conversations with Lyft drivers, if I recall correctly they get a sum weekly/biweekly and don't see who tipped.

I used to live in a country where tipping wasn't a thing. But having lived in the US for a while now I actually like it. It gives the servers incentive to do well. Also you always have the option to not tip if the service is really bad. I understand your frustration, though. Perhaps, I've gotten too used to it haha.
No, but it is irrelevant to what is being discussed.
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I watched quite a bit of the actual trial, which was livestreamed. The judge frequently pointed out that he knew his decision would be appealed, no matter what it was, and that it wasn't at all clear how to rectify the problem that the case presented. There were difficulties if it was sent either forward or back. Nobody wanted the case sent back to the district court, and there was no point him making a decision on everything and having his ruling tossed out in a higher court. What was clear throughout the case is that the New Zealand parliament had made its intention clear in the law that there was no such thing as criminal copyright infringement in New Zealand. In effect, the judge made the only sensible decision he could: uphold the intention of parliament and the law, and yet leave the case in a state that would allow Dotcom and company to appeal.
it also depends on what the projected cost of class action lawsuit. My understanding is, it's usually a fraction of what it could have been. it's mostly anectodal, though (reading news online, etc).
>Now the answer is probably they had defended and covered up that manager's behavior before. Blog alludes to that. So it became a pattern. Then just when another similar complaint popped up, admitting it was wrong and doing anything besides what they did before, would have meant acknowledging how wrong they have been in the past. "But we've already covered up for him 10 times, why is this special now..." kind of deal.

That analysis lets management offer HR as a scapegoat too easily, IMO. Why was HR willing to defend and cover up that managers behavior the first time? "If you make things difficult for me, things will end up difficult for you", and you end up promoting sycophants and pushing out anyone with a spine.

In other words, HR doesn't create corporate culture. Management does. And the culture they wound up with both convinces managers that they can get away with this BS, and HR to cover it up.
I interviewed at Uber in Amsterdam and my experience wasn't great. They flew me over for just one day (waking up at 5am just to get there on time) and kept me interviewing between 11am and 7pm with no break for food and no food in sight. After that they essentially forced me to take Uber back to the airport once I told them that I just took a train from Schiphol. What's funny was that the driver was so upset with the company that he bitched and moaned all the way to the airport.
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That's true, but in this case HR wasn't really the company's friend either. The overwhelming sense that I got from reading her post is that Uber's company culture is super broken. Everyone's looking out for themselves, rather than the company, including the HR department.

If they were actually trying to help the company, they would have taken action to reduce its liability. Instead, they played politics.
> 2. In case of restaurants in the US, generally servers make very little without tip. When you pay you are paying the restaurant and not the person who serve you food. I know it's different in other countries but that's just how things are here.

Yeah, this applies only to US. It is a fucked up system. Everyone else people are rational and tips are not excepted - the service is excepted in the price.
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Very well. Fair enough.

I would advise any other immigrant reading that if they are approached by union representatives to demand a clause guaranteeing permanent residence reform and removal of the 7% limit before any anti-H1B action is taken. In the absence of this clause, all Indian and Chinese workers (at the least, and everyone probably) are placing themselves at risk of deportation.

Refusal to add such a clause or delay in doing so is evidence of actively undermining your interests.
Semi-related: There was a TV event/movie in Germany/Austria/Switzerland last year about a (fictitious) court decision about an airforce pilot that shot down such a plane. The plane was taken hostage by terrorists and took course to a football stadium.
The (non-fictitious) audience in Germany could vote if the pilot is guilty for killing the people in the aircraft or not. 86,9% in Germany voted that the pilot is not guilty.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt5680442/
https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terror_%E2%80%93_Ihr_Urteil
Upgrade to a burr grinder would be the first step - this one from Krupps[0] I've had for about 4 1/2 years, got as a present but can be had for under £40. The increase in consistency is worth it.

[0] http://www.krups.co.uk/coffee-grinder-gvx231
> culture that not only favors women making accusations of sexism and harassment

No there isn't, or we wouldn't be having this conversation!

Culture is tilted very heavily against the accuser and they are usually disbelieved and nothing is done. As in this case.

Note that "innocent until proven guilty" is only the criminal standard of proof, whereas civil law is "balance of probabilities" and the court of public opinion .. well, that does whatever the hell it likes.
Maintainer here! For each monitored job healthchecks.io keeps a historic log of received pings. Each log entry has time, source IP and HTTP User-Agent header. These are useful to answer questions like:

* are my pings always right on time? What's the time variance?

* what IPs am I receiving pings from?

* who's pinging me -- a wget or curl utility, somebody using a browser, or some HTTP library?

The number "100" means that for each monitored job, the service will keep 100 most recent log entries, and will prune older entries.
There are other possibilities beside "plane controlled by terrorists" - radio failure, for example (for all the redundancies, this still happens in the 21st century). In that case, rudimentary visual communication comes in handy.

In other words, not all in-flight emergencies follow the Hollywood movie conventions ;)
With Firefox constantly shooting itself in the foot and Google being it's usual evil self we are slowly but surely moving into the dystopian future of walled internet. Oh well.
I just disassembled my MX518 to clean around (and under) the mousewheel. This is a mouse I've carried with me from NZ to the UK, I've owned it since 2005 and it's still going strong.

_Such_ a good mouse.
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I have just wanted to object to the notion that this is an exceptional American phenomenon.
>I see no abuse of power by said manager at the point of expressing an interest.

I don't think you understand the perspective of women then. I don't know if this comment alone will be able to change that, but there are so many dynamics involved that I'm guessing you are unaffected or less affected by, and are therefore failing to take into account when judging what this situation would be like if you were in it. Things like the female-male power imbalance, the manager-employee power imbalance, the fact that this happens orders of magnitude more often to women than to men, etc.

I would urge you to read more accounts of women's experiences with workplace sexual harrassment, and/or to speak with women you know about it with an open mind. Their average experience is so different from yours in this respect that it can be hard to understand why something that seems innocuous to you is absolutely toxic to them.
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I've lived in Belgium, Netherlands, Germany and Denmark. I can testify that I personally observed no tipping culture here whatsoever.
> In USA, even minimum salary for servers is lover then minimum salary for other workers - the law expects the tips.

Not true. The federal minimum wage for servers and other tipped employees is the same as other employees: it's just the minimum wage.

https://www.dol.gov/whd/regs/compliance/whdfs15.htm
Nice to see Orange Pi PC being mentioned. It really is such a nice board. BTW, Armbian has experimental "mainline+patches" support for Orange Pi PC2, have you tried that?
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I agree with you:

> Your boss stating that he wants to have sex with you is stupid, unethical, and unprofessional.
The link is died, here's a fresh one:

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The ancient microwave in my first apartment. It had two knobs: one for time, one for power. It's immediately obvious how to cook something for how long, how to add more time, etc.

All other microwaves that I've used I had to have someone explain to me what buttons to press in what order to do even the simplest things. And I've never seen anyone use all of those fancy buttons.
Inherent in hierarchical structures, yes, but unions don't have to be hierarchical. See: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anarcho-syndicalism There are numerous such functioning unions throughout the world. Small compared to bureaucratic unions, most under various forms of state repression, but very successful and effective in labour struggles they participate in.
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I loved my 2000, but the 3000 was a step above (aside for the godawful choice of RAM chips). I loved the scissor-switch design on the keyboard switches though.

These days you should get hold of an A600 and Vampire II - http://www.kipper2k.com/accel600.html
I found it interesting. The account does not have to contain outrageous horrible war story to be worth to be read. Moreover, if you are trying to make up your mind about a company or place, non exaggerated no big event story about how normal daily affairs are done there should matter.

The fact that this story does not contains ridiculous behavior on part of anyone, just some warning flag does not make it pointless.
This article seems to be capitalizing on the popularity of Susan Fowler's blog post earlier today, which was rightfully popular for its outrageousness.

This one is just a weird uninformative rant that is mostly just a description of an arduous but not particularly horrible interview day, plus some comments about not liking the app.

It doesn't contain anything particularly new or insightful or damning about Uber.
You can't "skip bayes and go straight to likelihood", because as you said it's only halfway there. Fisher tried to go farther with his fiducial approach, by the way.
I was in Switzerland for a couple of years and only saw very drunk people try to tip female bartenders. Otherwise no tips. Prices are high and service staff are well-paid.
It is really not normal, at least from my experience being and living in those countries.
No it isn't.

At least in Switzerland, you round up a Franc or two maybe if you are paying with cash, just to make the bill easier to pay. If you are paying card you generally don't tip at all.

If you tip 20% you either come off as a stupid tourist, or if you speak the language and explain it is for exceptional service (and not just because you culturally don't know better) you will make the waiter's day.
To start with - what's the purpose of this app?
Good job! Having used Anki and the mass exposure technique to learn a bit of Spanish, I can see this becoming a useful tool in any language learner's arsenal.
How did I not know this song?? Thanks :)
"Tipping is why the most important thing in restaurant service is to be sexually attractive to your customers."

This isn't true. You tip for their service not sexual attraction.

It's hard to calculate the service they provide. Wouldn't you pay more for a pleasant drive than for an unpleasant one?

Besides these points, I think it is a stretch to say tipping is immoral.
I would also mention Korg SV-1 [1]. Despite being quite new to be judged, I think KORG managed to deliver a very nice UX. They removed a lot of features found in every keyboard but they managed to make it more fun and visually attractive.

UX of musical instruments is amazing: whereas some companies are creating crazy new designs (e.g. the Teenage Engineering OP-1 mentioned in this thread), others are going back to old but solid designs of the '70s and before.

[1] http://www.korg.com/us/products/synthesizers/sv_1_black/
Yes. I'd forgotten there is no level of sarcasm, no matter how obvious, that HN commentators can fail to spot.
Bulldozer is just old at this point.

Why is single thread more important in development? Large project builds typically spawn as many compiler processes as there are CPU cores.
$5000/month is very impressive. Could you share his work routine?

I know one guy who leased a Prius. He didn't get the calls he was promised. He ended up ruining his credit.

I hear these big numbers thrown around, and don't know whom to believe.

Five grand a month is great! Is there something different in Switzerland that would account for his/her success?

My friend who leased the Prius lives in the Bay Area.
> but your response to workplace harrassment would be to harrass their spouse instead?

Not as a first resort of course. But if you involve HR, you might get the 'harassing' person fired and take away his/her livelihood, even though that person might be very productive and an important asset to the company. Just because a number of people were offended. It wasn't like he was violent towards them or anything according to the story.

> Please bear in mind, being female in US and British culture can be pretty unpleasant at times, with a continued attitude held by a lot of men that it's perfectly okay to proposition strangers in the street in loud voices, or shout suggestive comments at them, or demand "just a smile, love" or a conversation like it's their right to have a conversation with you, or that you _owe_ them a conversation. Imagine you're a woman in the tech industry, where women are chronically under-represented.

Yeah, but what are you going to do about that? Some women and men will be flattered by such remarks by strangers, some won't. We have very different sensibilities.

How will you solve the underrepresentation of women in tech? By forcing more women to take jobs they may not be interested in? By forcing companies to hire more women because 'gender diversity'?

> For you or me, as men, we might find such an incident as this slightly novel and interesting. If we've spent our _entire lives_ dealing with unwanted and unsolicited sexual advances and comments and innuendo, with media representations of our gender as little more than objects of male desire, and then we get such comments, can't you imagine that we might just feel a _little bit fed up_?

But is that really the case? Do media generally portrait women the way you describe? Not in my experience. Do women go through life fighting every day dealing with these advances and comments? Not that I've heard from my female friends.
On kitchen knives, these are the collection I started with: https://www.robertwelch.com/kitchen/kitchen_knives/signature...

Perhaps not the best, but from a design standpoint and the exquisite feeling using them, their blades are perfect for what I use, and their handles are sublime. I went into the shop to spend a huge whack on a set of Globals, but they just felt off. These were perfect.
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Aren't there a lot of counterfeits that's why?
As a Kiwi, I hope he wins the appeal! Everything the NZ government has done in regards to this entire case makes me embarrassed to be a kiwi.
The author may have a point if we adjust for hyperbole, but he comes off as neurotic when he says, among other things:

>"Being late bothers me so much that just thinking about it makes me queasy. My being late, which does occasionally happen, usually causes me to break out into a nervous sweat. The later I am, the more it looks like I’ve sprung a leak. Catch me more than 15 minutes late and it looks like I went swimming."

I'm a person who is always on time, so I get his frustration, but this tirade (referring to the article as a whole, not just that quote) isn't a good look.

If you need to target an earlier time than what is designated in order to offset the risk of not making it, so be it, but that's on you. Being on time is not being late, it is very much on time.
If Uber reflexively solved problems through discipline and process, they wouldn't have wound up in this situation in the first place. Far more likely is something like the least powerful people they can get away with scapegoating end up thrown to the wolves. 1-2 non-HR managers for being weak enough to let the situation get out of hand, and a bunch of HR folks for not effectively covering.
A union representative is the next logical step. They will be able to represent you anonymously at first, and bring a collective action against the perpetrator if there have been multiple incidents against multiple victims.

If you wish to take it to court yourself, then they may also be able to provide you with or help you find an appropriate lawyer for the case.
In general, there is a north-south divide, but I guess it also depends on your milieu.
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Love Flanders and Swann. I just checked when they were active and they retired in 1967 so my fifty years estimate was right on.
> The biggest problem to me with Duolingo that it doesn't explain certain language rules (I am learning German) and you have to brute-force until you "get a feeling" and memorize patterns.

I think gaining a feel for a language and memorizing patterns is more useful at the beginning of your journey. I am learning Spanish and I find it works better for me when I 'feel' something is right and then finally understand the reason why it is so.