skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Fair question: if one identifies as liberal to the extent as regarding Trump voters as less capable than Hilary voters, is that still protected?
+1 to this anecdata. Lack of use of soap and deodorant along with regular showering is fine, and less consumery. I still use deodorant when I’m planning to be in a potentially hot, stuffy place with other people (e.g. car trips), and just take a shower after exercise.

I’d even go further to say I’m convinced that use of soaps and deodorant cause us to generate odor in an even worse way. This would make sense if you want to keep selling a product. We should research this!

And regarding the stainless steel stick, I just stroke my pit hairs with my fingers.
I believe ctrl-n and ctrl-p work in vim
Oh, wait, you totally did. The document list page you had was different than the one I saw, but that's the Advice Memo.
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Ah. I genuinely did not know that. In Scotland we did not have Applied Mathematics (as a school exam subject) so I guess I just assumed it was about physics problems (there was an A-level with that name in England). It never came up again in my Mathematics career..
The null hypothesis is to assume there is innate equivalence; the burden of proof is on you to demonstrate otherwise and the attempts I've seen so far are lacking.
Visual Studio, Jetbrains, if you happen not to have a fast internet connection and SSD can take a long time.
You seem to understand this better than me, so can you explain a few things to me I find (as a non-American) confusing?

> The NLRB turned down Damore's complaint

Can you explain where you got this idea from? Not this article, because it states several contradictory or non-commital things such as:

> Damore withdrew his complaint in January

And

> "a federal agency lawyer concluded."

And

> an associate general counsel for the National Labor Relations Board wrote in a six-page memo disclosed Thursday

Is this just an opinion, or an actual ruling? In other words, is this a PR exercise by the NRLB, or is it an official ruling in some way?

https://nlrb.gov/case/32-CA-203891 appears to be the case - AFAICT as the dates lineup with the withdrawl statement, and https://www.google.com.au/search?q=site%3Anlrb.gov+james+dam... shows this as the only link. As a non-American, I'm not going to file a FOI request, so I have no idea what any of this is, or how to find the memo that Bloomberg quotes.

Can you (or anyone else) shed any actual, source not third party light on this?
Interesting. It obviously has its failings - hence this discussion - but I still haven't heard of anything better yet that hasn't been proven to fall apart at scale.
Did you even reply to the correct comment?
> Currently, there's insufficient feature differentiation from Venmo to warrant migration.

Well, it doesn't require a venmo account and doesn't require three days of waiting. Right there removes any reason for me to use venmo ever again.

I just used it this week to help a friend with rent! Just signed into my bank, punched in his phone number, and sent the money. Couldn't be happier, which is huge considering I normally hate my banking software.
Oh, if you like those bindings in insert mode, you are probably already aware of Tim Pope's vim-rsi [1] plugin. If not, check it out, it might have some interesting bindings you aren't using yet.

[1] https://github.com/tpope/vim-rsi
I've found that some universities have a program like this -- replacing the calc, physics and higher-level math with more hands-on classes. At my university, a BA in CS was like this, while a BS maintained the rigorous math requirements. I've also seen programs labeled Information Systems that's similar.

Not sure I agree with whole-scale removal of it though. I have to use calculus every once in a while in my job. While I never integrate by hand, I certainly need to know what integrals and derivatives are and how/when they are applied.
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So, it's a short paraphrase of what ancient people used to write? That's good enough to me, and way better than I expected.
Given the choice between a better life for myself or Orangutans, I'm picking myself every time.
I wanted to use go for scripting but working with gopath weirdness made me hate my life and went back to nim (which is perfectly fine, I just still envy the go ecosystem).
I've only worked here about 20 years in smaller companies but had plenty of coworkers who were pretty loud and proud libertarians or conservative Republicans, especially around Clinton's impeachment or election time, and guys were wearing their red MAGA caps into the office where I was contracting after the 2016 election.
Yes, I remember people who would say that. I guess they felt it made them look smart.
and enter to ctrl if held and enter if tapped ;)
(macbooks don't have a right ctrl key).
What you describe sounds like a horrible work environment.

In every sensible development environment I've encountered there is a wall between the developers and the rest of of the company: their manager, who's responsibilities include shielding their team members from outside bullshit + the product owner who is the one collecting feedback / feature requests from other teams and prioritizes their requests according to the companies goals (which can of course include "build a user-friendly product").

In a system where there is direct line between the development team and other teams, most of the times the developers will only be able to get very little work done due to constant interruption, and/or they will end up spending most of the time fullfilling the requests by the people who cry the loudest, regardless if that's in the companies overall best interest not.
> The days of rebel insurgencies hanging out in the jungle/desert/ wherever providing credible resistance to a tyrannical government never really applied to the US.

It did at the very beginning. The rebel insurgency had just used weapons they had personally available to resist a tyrannical government until it gave up. (Or at least, until foreign powers were willing to provide enough aid that the foreign aid plus the personal arms of residents was enough to defeat the government.)

Immediately after that experience, they wrote the amendment.

If you want to make a case that things are different now, you can perhaps do so. But don't say it never applied in the US. It did.
> So it's quite possible that some of these people saying they don't use deodorants or soaps do not offend those around them, and I'm willing to take them at their word.

People are really bad at detecting their own odors, though. You're marinating in it all day, so you're used to it. As a general rule of thumb, by the time you notice that you've gotten a bit whiffy, people near you have been noticing for a while.
Either way, my statement was a cards-on-the-table disclaimer, not an invitation to litigate the point.
In that vein, it's definitely gotten harder for pathogens.

When people talk about life getting better they generally mean human welfare, not wildlife welfare. Never the less, without progress in science and industry, I'm sure wildlife would be even worse off. Imagine if most people still burnt non petroleum resources for cooking and heating....

Trivia: Orang orang = people, orang utan = forest people.
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Already weighed in on this above. Maybe as a post-apocalyptic horror movie.

Both grandparents fought in WWII -- not in a battlefield far away, but moments away from their homes. They would find this idea and all the surrounding discussions crazy and ridiculous.

I can't even describe how distant this is in Europe. (I hope it stays that way.) The only non-US friend of mine that would go on about shootings is from South Africa and even then...
I absolutely agree with your first few paragraphs. As a hobbyist before I was a professional (Linux desktop since '95), I'm surprised when I meet people who have a technical skill but not a hobbyist background. I first encountered it with Oracle DBAs who sometimes were amazing at Oracle but had rudimentary Unix skills, and that's becoming more commonplace as people do things like phone app development but without the background "we" expect (whether rightly or wrongly).

That said, my background as a Sysadmin/Ops person also landed me in my own silo. I don't have much programming experience, and running production systems means NO, the environment does NOT give you access to wide-open CPAN, RPM, pip, whatever downloads. It's a regimented release process where someone upstream has to provide the relevant dependancies and you don't just go around installing stuff, running services, etc.

As a result of my background and not being a developer, on HN I hear of new languages/frameworks/libraries/methodologies on a daily basis. Things that, clearly, a large number of readers hear must already be familiar with, even though many of them will be out of fashion in 6 months.

And then the process to install a lot of these things is "oh, just pipe a wget of this script into bash, RPM install this, pip install that, don't worry, it's all quite safe for your system..."

In many ways, it feels like worlds are diverging.
I pay bills using credit cards whenever possible. For the very few that don't, or that charge exorbitant fees for doing so (e.g. rent), I use Chase's bill-pay service.
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Yes, Information Systems type degrees are close, but at my school they weren't strong on programming, instead required Accounting I+II, Finance, Marketing, Management, Business Ethics and that sort of thing.

My wife got her CIS degree a few years ago and they seem to have improved a bit. She had multiple programming courses in several languages along with more advanced CS courses and database courses.
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I wouldn't consider that viewpoint, as you describe it, a very conservative one.
Exercise is important, but your comment is so full of smug "look why can't everyone be as awesome as me" that it really turned me off to any point you were trying to make.

Not everyone is rich enough to have the time to exercise. Some people have to work two jobs just to pay rent. Some people have children that take up all of their time, we're not all brought up in nurturing wealthy homes with supportive parents making sure we learn all the things we should.

People can't find a moment to have a minute of rest in their lives, can't even afford healthy food and here you are being condescending about what is wrong with all these other people you don't know a thing about.
OSM has gained countless new capabilities since moving to API 0.6 in 2009. World-class, super-fast routing. Beautiful vector maps. A much easier raster map API. A powerful and performant query language. To say that progress is being "blocked" is not at all accurate.

Sure, these aren't provided by what's formally known as the "OSM API". They are provided by OSRM/Graphhopper, Mapbox GL/Tangram, Leaflet/OpenLayers 3, and Overpass respectively. Because that's, deliberately, how OSM works: it's the centre of an ecosystem, not a single service provider.

The OSM API is for the use of map editing programs. It's an implementation detail for the authors of iD, JOSM, Vespucci and a few others. It isn't something that anyone who isn't writing an editor needs to concern themselves about; and I honestly haven't heard many comments from editor maintainers that they want the API to do things it doesn't at present (though, Bryan, Dirk, Simon, do jump in and correct me if I'm wrong).
Very few people are able to put together a fact- and logic-based argument for why questions of morality like that should be questions of legality. E.g. why it's more like murder or theft or assault and less like lying or adultery. It's perfectly possible to think homosexuality is a sin and not think it should be illegal, and to treat homosexuals as perfectly decent humans who you would interact with in all the same ways you would anyone else. To a Christian, after all, everyone is a sinner.

That significantly undermines those causes to secular listeners. Without being able to do so, it usually sounds simply fear- or dislike- based. Much more like prejudice than like a sound basis for policy.

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B003EO8ER0 for more, from the inside, on the withdrawal by the American evangelical community from intellectual sphere. The right's "PC" instincts - shout down and kick out the heretics - has crippled their ability to convince those who don't already agree. The left is in danger of getting to the same place, but it's hilariously ironic how evangelicals don't recognize the mote in their own eye on this one.
I don't know about that. If you take the doctrine of human sinfulness as a hypothesis, and read the news for a month, you could reasonably regard it as empirically proven...
Well, no fraud protection other than, you know, the law. It's still quite illegal to defraud anyone, especially "over the wire". Since Zelle is all cozy with the banks I'd expect there wouldn't be too much pushback when the police ask who was responsible for some fraud...
> I consider ~250eur to be the bottom of the smartphone market

That's ridiculous statement in itself. The bottom of the market are those <$100 china wonder phones, and you have a selection of low-end, but actually branded, devices in the <150eur category. Surprisingly enough, those <150eur devices look like they might be perfectly usable, with specs comparable to my current daily driver (which is couple of years old). As a random example, Huawei Honor 6A [1] currently retails for 99eur around here

[1] https://www.gsmarena.com/huawei_honor_6a_(pro)-8700.php#euro...
> mainly provided value for Facebook

Why would so many sites do this for Facebook's benefit?

The sole purpose is for advertising, which is how they make money. The thumb will have the article show up to your friends, and people who have similar interests to you. The pixel also helps with advertising, because they build a picture of who you are and can give you relevant ads.
> But to the extent that it attempted to organize around changes to Google management that might (might) themselves violate EEO laws (for instance, any kind of official recognition that men are better suited to software development at Google than women), they were not.

Was he trying to do that, though? As I understand it, he was protesting policies that sought to actively promote diversity. EEO laws require no such active promotion, afaik. He fell all over himself to be clear that he was not saying that Google should prefer hiring men, or that they should restrict women to specific roles within the company. He was questioning Google's active efforts to specifically recruit women above the background level that would otherwise apply. Whether or not this is a good idea is certainly up for debate, but it does not, to my knowledge, violate EEO laws to merely not actively and specifically target women for recruitment.

> who believes strongly in the absolute innate equivalence in aptitude for our profession between men and women

Curious, why do you believe in that? Have you evaluated the evidence and come to that conclusion, or is it a priori for you?
IMHO, fixing it would be being able to build go code on random directories without env hackery.
So Venmo doesnt have real fraud protection either? Any stories of Venmo users being scammed?

Interesting to see that the only real form of fraud protection offered by Venmo is a warning in their copy.
Oh, I see. I had forgotten that. They do also work in Emacs and I wouldn't be surprised to learn that their use in Emacs predates Vim.
I was trying to point to the absurdity of the debate, even as someone who (moderately) opposes gun control laws. And I think we actually agree with each other on the "scientific" basis of my comments. I view the logic behind the debate in a similar way that a drunk driver might say, "well, if I was even more intoxicated, then I wouldn't have caused that accident". It doesn't really make sense to think that way. But the narrative of putting more guns into schools as a benefit has been pushed so hard that it actually makes me question the potential positive outcome (as opposed to outright rejecting it based on the preponderance of evidence to the contrary).
Or just use non-scented soap and deodorant. E.g. here are two products with an EWG rating of 1:

https://www.amazon.com/Toms-Maine-Deodorant-Aluminum-Unscent...

https://www.amazon.com/Dr-Bronners-Pure-Castile-Bar-Soap/dp/...

Both work very well, albeit I'll confess to liking the peppermint version of the Dr. Bronner's.
Number one excuse for not doing exercise/physical activity is lack of time. Work jobs that include PA. Do activities with the kids that involve PA. Find 10-20 mins a few times a week for vigorous. Not that hard, no excuse, and their comment was not smug whatsoever.

Part of caring for a family is caring for yourself.
> private companies have no market cap

They absolutely do. They're just updated less frequently and called "valuations". Closely-held private companies also have valuations, they're just even less frequently made visible.
I think introspection without action is quite common in America. Laziness, procrastination, smoking, being fat, etc. are all too easy here. I feel like we are too comfortable as consumers.
The beliefs aren't “beyond the pale”; using workplace resources to communicate them within the workplace in contravention to a workplace anti-harassment policy, which if inconsistently enforced poses substantial legal danger for the employer, is, however, not a prohibited grounds for dismissal from at-will employment.
Visual Studio (proper) has famously long installation times. VS2017 provided a significant installation time decrease but was still on the order of 30 minutes for my company-issued MBP.
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I'm absolutely aware of it and was gonna mention it but figured I'd said enough :)

When I said "insert" I meant like, "insert mode" everywhere else but vim :)

But yes, RSI is a great plugin (as are most of tpope's plugins)
Many people take the jobs they're lucky to find. They're lucky they have a job at all, or two if that's what they need. You should go take a walk down a not so nice street and let all the people you see there know how much more they should be exercising.
What I think of his views (I disagree) is not germaine to the question: was it sensible to write and publish? It was not. That I disagree with his premise and polemic makes it easier for me to align desire and reality, but the reality of the situation doesn't change because of my desires: he was stupid to publish and Google were within their rights to fire him.

All the other observed comments about liberal/conservative/libertarian views are frankly not very interesting. The bottom line to me is that he didn't have a strong enough claim to unfair dismissal.

Court did its job. Move on.
Surprisingly I think I'm the first to disagree.

I find a modern IDE comes with so much implied mental baggage that new users can get completely overwhelmed. Sure, languages which require complex build environments almost demand one, but in simpler environments it can be a lot easier to reduce the cognitive load in a simplified environment.

One can do a lot of programming and learning with just a simple editor (Nano?) and a Python-like environment (repl, interpreter). With quality online notebook-style environments, we can now accomplish an outrageous amount with very little time or cognitive overhead devoted to build tooling.

As professionals, we ought to be familiar with the underpinnings of our tools though. It can be really painful trying to work with a colleague who's afraid of getting low level to really understand their build issues. I've worked with people who actually become visually agitated when I open up a command line.

What's worse (I see less of this these days) are those who are so coupled to their IDEs that they don't use proper build tools - limiting reproducability, CI integration, etc. This was a real problem back in the earlier Java days before Ant/Maven/etc came around.

No need to shun an IDE - I certainly don't, but one needs to understand how it works otherwise you risk having incorrect (overly simplified) mental models about how your programs are built and run.
My perception is probably warped by the fact that I used pocket before I moved to firefox. So after I downloaded firefox after years on chrome, it was a very pleasant surprise to see pocket already there. And to me it was an added value.

But that makes me wonder, is this just an age old gripe with change in general or does this actually add anything new to the conversation. Will we get articles in the next 10 years about how pocket was better and they don't feel in control of their computers because firefox moved to a new system and changed a menu entry?
Tired of seeing what? The truth? The truth is that all these chips are affected.. it's one thing to ask for clarification on the numbers but this is not "fake news".
Thinking gay marriage shouldn't be legal is not "conservative", it's plain discriminating. Denying abortions to others is a bit muddier, but somewhat similar - forcing your own, not universally accepted moral code on others isn't exactly the nicest thing to do after all.

I don't know much about ACA, so can't say anything about it.

With those three out of sight, I'm really interested in what kind of discrimination people in SFBA tech that are religious or dislike welfare face.
This leads me to one of my constant bugbears.

Why is RDBMS tooling so completely shite.

I have an IDE that can index several million lines of code and apply accurately timely context dependent intelligent code completion - I have yet to find a good way to debug a MySQL stored procedure (I hate them, I inherited them, except for very simple use cases they are getting slow replaced).
Even ACH has a clawback mechanism for fraudulent transactions. It's ridiculous Zelle does not provide the same protections.
Some other early attempts ... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_multihulls#Pre-modern_...
So you're saying people have been discriminated against in SFBA tech companies for believing in strict immigration policies?

This seems like a pretty strong claim and I'm curious what examples you have other than it being something most people don't agree with.
Did the NLRB memo specify exactly which statements in Damore's memo were discriminatory and hostile? Is there a copy available?
The goal was espionage. The tactics were social media 101
It's hard to hand someone cash or a check over the internet. This is a little more anonymous, which makes it an easier vector for fraud.
Does the mobile MS Office keep working if it can't connect to the licensing servers for a month? Because the desktop version doesn't.
I agree to an extent. I think I would happily trade my second Lambo or private jet for them, probably even a couple of cups of coffee a week.

I don't blame anyone to choosing to send their kids to school or fix their roof though.