skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's not a non-starter but the absence of direct reports would need to be overcome by a strong showing of indirect reports and a high degree of independent discretionary decision-making with respect to the function that you manage.
I don't get it though. Didn't they want to bring her on specifically because her political profile gave them cachet with people they wanted to make overtures to?
Yes, me too, I also wanted to see the implementation. I did submit a "Problem Report" on why you don't get visual feedback when opening the script editor and getting an error.
"Meritocracy" is regarded with derision in no small part because what is actually meant by it, rather than what you describe, is "this person is similar to me and I like them, so I think they do a better job."

It's the ingroup club made manifest. What you describe would be great, but it's not what "meritocracy" actually means in practice.
Absolutely. 9/10 of the comments that I write on HN never see the light of day. And not just on HN, but pretty much every social media platform I engage with.

I don't feel like I have anything particularly controversial, inflammatory, or offensive to say. But, I so strongly don't want to be perceived that way that I just opt-out most of the time.
well, it is the washington post.. nobody but elites reads it or pays it, and is owned by the elite circlejerker of the free world, right?
This should not be flagged.
It seems like you have been accidentally shadowbanned for replying to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14291773 (turn on showdead if you can't see why that might happen). Maybe try emailing the mods to get it reverted?
Chances of getting EB2 NIW?

Hi Peter, I'm a PhD candidate ...
> This practice seems pretty common in California, but given California is an at-will employment state, I'm not even sure why.

Because sometimes it's a genuine desire for someone who is a good cultural fit to improve.

> If you're ever put on a PIP, get out -- it's a sign someone in the company doesn't want you there.

I've put folks on PIPs before (we don't call them that and we're much more straightforward about it than some employers I hear about who do), and had positive outcomes. The correct way of thinking about a PIP is:

1. We rely on people to work adequately-to-well by themselves
2. If they can't, we tell them they aren't and expect them to improve,
3. If they can't, we get more specific in our feedback and meet more often to discuss course corrections
4. If that doesn't work, because the continued presence of performance problems means we can't work productively as an employer/employee, we try to meet on a MUCH more regular basis than 1, 2, 3 in order to track and improve performance.

The best and most effective feedback is given in the moment: you are doing [x], here's how it has an impact on [y], here's what we think would be a better way. A PIP basically means you get more refined and structured feedback way more often.

I'm not saying that a PIP is a hugely positive or stress-free thing for anyone, but we try to assume positive intent and treat it as a great opportunity to help someone constructively get over a block to being a better contributor to our company.
Can you answer this question plz? I have Q's of same kind. Thanks!
Having grown up around a lot of gay and working closely with a number of trans people, I have come to the conclusion (possibly wrongly), that they will forgive a lot of "-phobic" speech, as long as you accept the criticism they provide.

One of the critiques I often got was to be more gender inclusive in my speaking. Which a lot of people do now (re: replacing he/she with they). From what I read, it seemed like this person would provide feedback that would either be ignored or the contributor/employee/whomever would actively retaliate against.

It really isn't how you mean something, it is how you make someone feel. If you are trying to run an inclusive community, that distinction is very important.

All of the "accidental racism" of years past have now become "accidental -phobic".
I actually _have_ seen PIPs work out. Pretty rare though. In this context though, I believe it was done because of stack ranking, so perhaps the person PIPed was not actually "undesirable" so much as the manager had to pick someone.
I'm glad this was said because I think there's a spotlight on "women in tech" right now and all that's being said is how hard it is to be a woman. Yes there is a glass ceiling in tech for women but consider how easy it is for women to get to that ceiling versus being a man.

Given the previous study that said companies more likely hire men when names are removed from an application - it makes me curious about what it would be like to be a woman in tech. Would I get more interviews? Would my blog posts and tweets get shared more because women get better exposition in the developer communities?

Women have to try hard to break that ceiling, but men have to try harder to get there. Being in a minority puts you in a spotlight - people pay attention to you.

That doesn't make discrimination or sexual harassment okay and I'm not saying women should count their chickens but I can't help but feel numb to some of the noise that surrounds this issue.
But... she didn’t. She pointed out that the question was a bad one, and that the question itself (not the writer of the question, just the question) was transphobic.

Further, she provided the straightforward, no none sense feedback that most people here advocate for, especially when the issues of someone like Linus’ gruffness and straight up meanness comes up. Here we have a story of someone doing just that, without the meanness, and everyone is dog piling on her.
Volvo Penta is still owned by the Volvo Group. Volvo Cars and Volvo Aero (aerospace: jet and rocket engines) are the two big companies that no longer are part of the Volvo Group.
Self-employment isn't allowed in the H-1B or H-1B1 context. The options would be an E-2 or an O-1 (assuming that you're not from a country that has its own visa).
according to the article the involvement includes such "military movies" as Meet the Parents, America’s Got Talent, Oprah and Jay Leno to Cupcake Wars.

It's like High Fructose Corn Syrup -- in everything whether you expect it or not.
Even if you're an at will state, you can still be sued or investigated by the government (state or federal) for all kinds of employment discrimination. Making some of these discrimination claims can be fairly easy to do, so the PIP acts as a cheap ass-covering document if it happens.
To say they lost $14b is not even remotely true. Their stock dropped $14b in market cap. they are certainly making money on the game, not losing money.
It makes me happy to hear that others have had successful outcomes from using PIPs.
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> "What is your gender?" The multiple-choice options were "Male", "Female", and "Transgender". I was very disappointed at this 101 mistake, and sadly opened an issue referencing the question. The body of my issue read:

> "'Transgender' is not a gender. Transgender people may be male, female, gender queer, non-binary... If you want to know if a survey respondent is transgender, you need to explicitly ask that question."

> The next day I got an urgent request for a call with my manager. She told me that the data scientist who had written the survey questions was very upset and had gone to her manager to complain about me.

I can't help but shake my head reading thru the whole piece. It's like a soap opera. Everyone's so caught up in the social issues it's fucking impossible to not offed anyone.
Perhaps - but the goal is to remove that kind of thing, which is in my opinion at least a noble goal and should be respected even if it's hard to implement properly. My point was not that it's perfect, but that successful meritocracy is something to strive for.
> you should just entirely stay away from public involvement in the social justice sphere

I suspect you will find yourself publicly involved in another kind of justice sphere by accident.

That said, there is something to your hesitancy. I did a big part of my education in the social justice sphere, and while I believe in pretty much all of the core theories, in practice I don't think most activists have much of a plan of attack for tech companies. That's partly because they don't really get much practice, because companies are reluctant to give them power, and, as this story shows, quick to give up if results aren't progressing as expected.

Your solution—give up on that crew entirely—sort of solves the problem, I guess.

But my solution is to keep trying to study and talk and figure out what a good methodology would be for applying the core social justice theories (everyone has valuable compentencies, demographics are a useful signal, other realities exist than yours, consent matters, etc) in a tech corp setting productively.
It's not just youtube. The ENTIRE INTERNET works like that, for ALL websites. It's been called the "Google Dance".

One day you are on page one and monetizing (I've been there), next day, page 5 and nothing (been there too).
High but I'd go the EB1A route instead.
Here's Coraline's feedback, from the article:

"'Transgender' is not a gender. Transgender people may be male, female, gender queer, non-binary... If you want to know if a survey respondent is transgender, you need to explicitly ask that question."

For contrast, this reminds me of Gene Wilder's feedback about his Willy Wonka costume:

https://www.bustle.com/articles/181340-this-letter-gene-wild...

I now try to emulate this style, in every situation.

As for the triggered data scientist... Well. Whaddya gonna do? I guess my skin's thicker than most.
I prefer Typescript because it is more popular. This argument seems circular, but given the nature of both of them, the more popular it is the faster the feedback loop will be in terms of improving it. Not to mention documentation and familiarity for other developers.
Is there widespread stoning of gays? One would think in the year 2017 this might make the news, or at least YouTube or Reddit.
I would like to see a vim/emacs + shell version of this, with maybe IRC for chatting with coworkers. No mousing or clicking around, just have a tiling window manager controlled fully by the keyboard.
> Thus, fixing a car radio may seem prohibitively expensive when compared to the price of the car.

It's very easy to add together a few repairs which sum to more than the value of the car. If you wanted to get a new car from scratch by ordering the individual components and having your dealership put them together, it would have to be at least 10x more expensive than buying one produced at scale.

> If you do it yourself, it's cheaper, but the insurance company won't pay for it.

On the one hand, you have the value of your time in your skill area, versus mucking about with a radio. On the other, you have the overhead and inefficiency of a huge dealer/insurance system. Somewhere in the middle is your local mechanic :) Find a good one and make friends - you don't have to go to the dealership!
Agreed. That was an entirely reasonable and professional comment. It briefly states the problem, demonstrates it, and offers a solution.
>Perhaps if government lowered taxes and relaxed the labor code

Oh, Brian, we meet again, and we disagree once again. Taxes and the labor code are not what is making things expensive.

- The labor code is not even close to being the one reason companies do not hire : https://www.insee.fr/fr/statistiques/2871900?sommaire=287202...

- Countless fiscal advantages have already been given and tried, effectively the same thing as lowering taxes on companies. That includes the CIE, CICE, CIR, the reduction of TVA in restaurants, fiscal benefits for life insurance holders, lowering the ISS to 34.6%, removing taxes on plus-value, the globalised worldwide profits regime, and the countless things that can be listed here : https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Niche_fiscale

All of these happened, and the costs have not changed. Some of them were given in exchange of promise of jobs (the change of TVA in restaurants being one of the most notable), and none happened. Profits went up, though.

I would rather have microwave repair costs go up to 80€ than lower our living standards.

>I certainly wouldn’t be happy if I had to pay several hundred euros more for a microwave because of a law mandating the type of screw holes that must be used.

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I am not yet 100% certain so I requested full-text access to read the paper, but I can say that a naive approach to string substitution will certainly be less performant than this, and offer less flexibility in replacement complexity without significant effort.

The reason being that in a naive approach, a vocabulary of size M and a document of token size N is an O(m*n) operation in the best case - while this is claimed to be an operation of O(2n).
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That's a complicated, fluid, and fact-specific question. Unfortunately, given what's at stake, you should retain an attorney to analyze the issues and risks and come up with some type of plan/solution.
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Top-down hirings for the sake of culture change don't really work, though do they? It seems like the inevitable outcome is exactly this, a bright-eyed, and then soon-disenfranchised new hire, butting up against an resistant and entrenched culture.
Make them pay to get in?
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Calling a comment transphobic in no way implies that the speaker of that comment is transhpobic. It is a description of what's been said. The same way if someone was to say something that could possibly be construed as racist. If someone points that out and says hey that statement is racist, that's not calling that person racist. They might be. They might not, but that statement in and of itself implies no assertion on that actual person.

In short, calling the statement in question transphobic is correct.
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A recent study of hiring practises by the government in Victoria, Australia, found that there was actually a bias towards hiring females when gender cues were removed. One of the conclusions was that they should stop removing gender cues because removing them decreased diversity.
Thanks, making a copy works. But it should show you an error like "You need permissions to edit this document" or something.
I agree with this too. I always try to repair things first and then replace them if necessary (even if it is a torn shirt or backpack, a broken zipper on a shoe or broken connector on a laptop).

Also, I try to buy things which are durable, but a lot of times it is hard to tell what will be durable so I go with the pricier option hoping it will last longer. This is not always true, especially for shoes and clothing, but in electronics too. The problem is when someone looks for reviews, they only find reviews of new models, but there's no website which would say this product can be used for X years without breaking. Do you guys know about such a site? Or something similar? I am always thinking about starting such website, which would provide reviews for older things, so there would be chronological ratings and we would see which brands make quality products and which of them not. ...but that would need a lot of input data to be useful and I am not sure how could this be started. Or even if this would be useful for others or only I am concerned with this.

What do you guys think about this?
Question for Appian users: is what they do differentiated and/or sticky? It seems like there are a bunch of companies out there that do the low-code BPM app thing.
PIPs work sometimes. It really depends on the (frequently opaque) intentions behind the plan.

Sometimes you might really like an employee, but _need_ them to improve on a few things for their employment to work. PIPs can definitely work in this circumstance.

Sometimes an employee is just incredibly toxic, and you may have reason to believe that they'll sue the company if you fire them without well-defined cause, (like the parent article here). In this case you are simply creating a paper trail to cover your ass legally. Of course the PIP is not going to "work" for the employee, they will be fired regardless as you want them gone. But the PIP may "work" for the company, by limiting liability.
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This is why I come to HN.
I mean, I see the point you're trying to make. But that error could be pretty damning in the context of a detailed survey about, like, operating systems and their utilities. In that case, wouldn't you expect to survey writer to know those details, or at least not completely lose their shit when told about them from someone who knows more about the topic?
You could make the point that the shortest cases are the least valuable (since the chances that they produce a positive result are very slim).

If your goal is to maximize freedom, then complex first could have a much higher return rate than easy first.
As someone who's actually visited Russia (and is married to a Russian), you can't compare Russia and the US at all. Russians deeply respect the people who lost their lives in the past but in the present, a few years military service is mandatory for all males, so service doesn't have nearly as much glory. There's absolutely nothing like the disturbing hero worship Americans have. As for military parades, typically they only happen on Victory Day, the day that celebrates the end of WWII. Parades like that aren't uncommon throughout Europe. Here's a French one for an event of similar significance: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bastille_Day_military_parade#/...

I think you're thinking of the Soviet Union during WWII or the Cold War era.
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> "Ellcrys" is a word that is likely subject to trademark and owned by Del Rey.

umm, I will be looking into this. Thanks for the heads up.

I understand that there is a lot of debate about what a smart contract is, its legal scope and functions. However, we are not only building to host legal contracts but contract applications that are user-facing or API-based, owned and maintainer by teams or communities. These are the kind of contracts I believe will be most useful and practical today

Thanks for taking the time to check us out :)
Hi Peter, Australian here on an E3 that's converting to an H1B.

Can I have side-income via blogging ad revenue, youtube ad revenue/etc, so long as it's only earning Australian dollars into an Australian bank account?

I know I'm not allowed to have any other income, but I assumed that was only for the US.

Thanks in advance!
Being done at scale here: https://www.nfl.com/super-bowl
Plans to release solution across ecosystem by August
Based on open-source universal app here: https://github.com/nfl/react-wildcat

Documentation and infrastructure setup for this project aren't great at the moment, but will get a facelift shortly.
If you're in that particular predicament (which should be very seldom), you can just connect that plebeian cable... You have two charging options now.
Ah, okay, make sense -- so the CYA nature of what I've usually seen happen with a PIP make sense.
You can be transphobic by omission. For example, not taking any time to research the issue ("Is 'transgender' a gender?") before writing a study question, and then getting angry when someone tries patiently to educate you.

It's not what's in people's hearts that counts. Someone can truly believe that blackface is not racist, but that doesn't mean that it's not racist when they do it.
This is a good point but I think under-discussed. Ultimately what separates a well intentioned person with terse communication, (perhaps) poor empathy skills (i.e. lots of programmers), etc, from an asshole, is intentions. If we could read minds, it would be easier. But we can't, so we read words (and facial expressions, when available). If those signals line up with "asshole", whether or not its true, the person will often be taken as such. Moreover, its possible to be correct and / or on the moral high ground and still be an asshole. Nobody likes being around assholes. And to be clear, I don't know much about this person, so I have no idea if they are one. But I wanted to add on to this comment, I think firing someone for being an asshole is a fine thing to do, regardless of their status or contributions. Which presents an odd situation if a person is not actually an asshole but just seems like one.
Michael Bay wasn't involved with Battleship, though it has been pointed out that it seems to be an imitation of his style
> Place your test files next to the implementation.

Java background is probably biasing me, but I don't like this. It interferes with my ability to find code because the file list in every directory is twice as large.

What are the benefits of putting it together?
If this is truly the case then website accessibility will end up going the way of physical disability accommodations -- legally required.
> Repair is so expensive because it's made to be. It shouldn't take several hours of skilled labour to replace an easily broken component like a touchscreen - it should be snap-in. Regulation can address that by mandating reparability.

Which can increase the original cost of the good.
>Many replies, especially from people with dyslexia or cognitive impairments, were about large chunks of text.

>Huge paragraphs. A page on Wikipedia often consists of many long paragraphs with long sentences. I lose my place within seconds.

I have often felt like a lot of web content writers and editors could benefit from reading books like Stephen King's On Writing. Wikipedia in particular is often criminally unreadable when you get to deep-topic articles that are generally only seen by experts in that field. Which makes sense, but I would hope an expert could "dumb it down" for an encyclopedia.

Breaking something down into paragraphs with stupid-easy topic sentences doesn't just help out laymen, it also makes your content just more readable and navigable in general. Plus it's perfect for the web, you can stick an in-page anchor tag there and have a table of contents at the top of your page.
Re-structure the question and switch gender out for cake flavors.

"What flavor of cake do you prefer? Chocolate, vanilla, or sheetcake?"

the feedback coming back as...

"'Sheetcake' is not a flavor. Sheetcake may be vanilla, chocolate, red velvet, lemon-poppyseed... If you want to know if a survey respondent likes sheetcake, you need to explicitly ask that question."

... it does seem kinda grating but not overtly so. It could have been nicer but also could have been more rude.
In terms of cultural-inspired creativity, Taiwan isn't a great representative of Chinese creative media, Taiwan can only represent certain parts of the Southern Coastal and South-Eastern China/Asia culture in terms of where they draw inspiration for their creativity. Also the general Taiwanese "creative media" industry like films isn't particularly welcoming to Mainland culture or influences.