skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not sure the paid leave and severance is really the primary issue. Sure, money is money, but it's very expensive to find a good employee. When someone goes on leave like that you can't fill the position. Since they can't fill your position your team is stuck having to work extra to pick up the slack, and then if 90% of women don't wind up coming back it's just that much longer before you can find someone decent to fill the position.
> The common theme was that they had started with goals. They learned what they needed from d3 along the way to achieving those goals.

This is my key takeaway that fully resonates with my way of learning anything related to JS be it D3, Angular, VueJS, Node, Android and more recently React. Take a problem, solve it in the tech of your choice.
I don't think English is the author's first language -- see the use of "defer" throughout the document. Maybe most polite not to nitpick.
Generally cities prevent people from building infrastructure willy nilly. Buldozing houses or seizing public land for a new highway isn’t something that companies are allowed to do... I’d posit for good reason.

Typically P3 agreements are initiated by government and promised revenue exclusivity is the incentive to build.
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Not sure about the speed criticism. Usually it’s memory usage by the JVM that’s a turn off. Out of the other languages you mentioned Clojure is for sure slower but if you’re working with that or another JVM language like Kotlin you’re so happy to not be writing Java you don’t care about the other issues. I often say I wish I learned Java first so I did not know any better. It’s generally pretty unpleasant compared to most other languages I’m used to.
I don't get it, "seems to0 large" and "seemingly-small" according to who? It seems like you are against the patient doing their own cost-benefit analysis and instead someone else needs to be doing it for them. Who and on what basis?
>but COUNTLESS government contractors committed outright fraud and embezzlement during the Iraq War, and none of them were ever held accountable.

I don't know about your country, but here usually all the higher up's in the chain are on the payroll, so you are safe, even if shit hits the fan. That is one of the nice thing about stealing from government. Because you are not actually stealing from the government, but instead, you are just helping the government steal from the people, a part of which is rewarded to you.
Who wrote that horrible document? How exactly does someone determine whether "All or virtually all" is applicable in their situation without specific values. Sure there are examples, but they are not exhaustive.

In Canada the definitions are simple and clear:

A "Product of Canada" must have its final transformation done in Canada, and at least 98% of the costs are incurred in Canada

Something "Made in Canada" is as above, except the value is 51% and includes a statement about whether imported parts were used.
Mux is hiring a software engineer (React, Elixir) to make online video better
Ah yes, because this problem is easy, and the only reason it hasn't been solved is because of neanderthals running businesses.
What much more sane version of reality do you live in?
We have a pretty good outline on our job description page. It's borrowed heavily from GitLab's handbook:

https://www.level12.io/careers/full-stack-web-app-developer-...
The situation is arguably worse in Seattle. We have over 11000 homeless with a smaller total population. We also had a similar story in the news today -> https://www.kiro7.com/news/local/letter-to-seattle-conventio...
I don't think it's meant as a nitpick but more of a "hey, you may not know this but here's a helpful thing". The comment seems to have been both worded and received in that positive way and that's a great thing if you ask me :)
Out of curriousity, what does your company do?
How about Tyler Shultz? The main whistleblower and grandson of George Shultz. He was working at Theranos and realized they were a giant fraud. He lost his job, was harassed by lawyers, he and his parents almost had to sell their house to pay legal fees, his grandfather wouldn't speak to him anymore, etc.
> In exchange, they place the well-being of every citizen over their own. That's the deal.

Sadly, this hasn't been the deal in my lifetime and, to hear my parents--both of whom were police officers--tell it, for longer than that.

Every person I've ever interacted with who is or has been a police officer has said that the message is that your first duty is to "go home to your family." The "bad guys" aren't worthy of self-sacrifice and heroics. Now if you, as an officer, happen to die because you selflessly saved "a civilian" (notice how that's different from "a bad guy"), then you are seen as deserving of all of the heroic writings ever to be written about a human.

But if you die as a result of a supposedly-preventable outcome of a confrontation with "a bad guy", meaning that you didn't fire soon enough or you tried non-lethal methods in a situation such as described here, then you're just an idiot. So you've not so much sacrificed as a hero but simply failed.

I genuinely don't think that any police officer, or at least any significant number of them, sees themselves as having placed the well-being of every citizen-including-"perps" over their own. I kind of get it; when it comes to me versus the other guy, of course I want to be the one still alive at the end. I guess that means there's something fundamentally broken with how we parcel out state-backed forced.
People complaining about nil haven't thought the problem through. It makes the language way more complicated if variables can't sit in an uninitialized state (with a default value of nil or zero instead of random bits). Basic stuff like named return values no longer work. Slices can only contain certain special zeroable types.

The right thing to do is to know statically in your code whether a variable can be nil, or can't. Don't put stupid little nil checks in every function, but maybe do so when storing a field, e.g. to ensure an object holds valid state.

If your biggest problem is surprise nil pointer values, then that's good for you, because they're relatively easy bugs to track down.
This is a good comment.

I'm less concerned with the law and more curiou what people actually think about those various types of discrimination, and why. Its a fascinating moral question.
> A per-child negative income tax sufficient to cover the risk/impact of employer discrimination.

Wouldn't this just lead to employers discriminating, on the grounds that "hey, you already got your tax benefit to make up for it"?
You basically quoted word for word multiple times what a petty and vindictive manager I worked for about a year said repeatedly in almost all your posts.
Same thing happened to my wife at Facebook. They waited a few weeks and then tried to dredge up anything they thought would stick before relenting.
It would be interesting to see a way to scale up production to produce more than just a couple of meals.
They probably decrypted it on the device through some brute force methods. This may be easy or difficult depending on the passcode/PIN used by the user on the device. This is a weak point from the user's side. They may have also obtained this from backups elsewhere that weren't encrypted or strongly encrypted.

There is no indication that they decrypted anything by breaking into the end-to-end transport/network encryption used by these apps.

P.S.: Your honest question (which wasn't snarky) was downvoted by some people for reasons I don't understand. Upvoted in an attempt to compensate. Such questions and responses can help more people learn about encryption and the protections necessary at different stages/layers.
Unfortunately lying is the correct response here.
I admire Gitlab in all sorts of ways, but in the context of IDEs, they're no JetBrains yet. Their IDE is unsurpassed for Java folks. I tried to stick with Eclipse as long as I could, but IntelliJ keeps adding amazing features at a breakneck speed. Admittedly, Java is a very IDE heavy language, umm, "culturally" (while I've seen people doing Python or JavaScript in other editors like vim, for Java that seems hardly ever the case). Maybe this whole online IDE thing is just not aimed at is Java folks? (Like... How would I do TDD?)
90% of moms not coming back is an exaggeration for the bay area.

Part of what we're not talking about here (in this whole thread) is the cost of child care. Child care in SF is over $1700 a month, and hard to find for 3 month olds, which is why a lot of parents quit after leave.

I reckon we'll get a lot more parents staying in the workforce if the government helped more with childcare across all income ranges. Childcare comes at a lower income time of life, often when around when people have recently purchased a home.

We're also likely to have fewer parents drop out of the workforce if they can get their infants to 6+ months with a parent. Childcare is easier to find for 6 month olds than 3 month olds.
Weren't too many electrical cars back then.
How does a Java developer do TDD in an online IDE?
I'm guessing you're not really in the target market of scooter users then. Getting the app and creating the account (for any of these companies) is very straightforward. You should give it a try, if for no reason then to satisfy your curiosity for a couple bucks.
Have any examples post-2015?
"It’s crazy that a startup bound by logistics is growing this fast."

I think basically they launched in a city and were able to demonstrate the unit metrics on some level - and os use the 'Uber theory' they can justify to investors multiplying that across 100's of cities as fast as they can. Taking on a lot of cash might make sense as market dominance might create a systematic advantage.

Strong note: this sharing stuff is massive in China, in a way, it's something 'invented there' and investors are on to that.

So just like the US built out some things that Chinese innovators were able to adapt/copy and scale quickly due to the already validated model ... this has a little bit of the inverse going for it. And surpluses are generally a lot higher in North America for everything.

So if the unit economics work, then there's some rationality about the big raise.

I do believe however it may not pan out due to major risks:

> Unit economics over the long haul are not what they want
> The recharging model doesn't really take hold
> People outside of LA don't really 'get' the scooter thing and cities shut them down due to various regulations and risks
> Not a powerful competitive advantage.

Uber will exist I believe in one way or another in 10 years, it's just a matter of how profitable they will be, how big investors win/lose.

Bird ... it's risky for sure, but risk is part of VC.
Then we could have recovered some of the wind from the mouths of our politicians.
"if you want to set up shop in China"

That is a funny line of logic that gets thrown around a lot, considering that the advocates' stated preference is for industries to move out of China. Isn't wide dissemination "about espionage, theft, forced technology transfers, and mandatory joint ventures" enough a deterrence for companies to stop going into China? Apparently not.
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> ...your CEO and CFO are standing before the judge.

This doesn't happen often, and you more commonly see lower-level line staff or managers standing in court because the high-level executives simply point to the written company policies their legal team advised b put in place that forbid such wanton behavior. Now indictment not to speak of prosecution has to clear the far higher bar to show that such high-level executives deliberately, consciously structured incentives such that meeting such policies was outright impossible.

Issuing a policy that demands any such conflicts be raised immediately to management neatly short-circuits such prosecution strategies. Unless the executives are particularly careless or brazen, it is worth more to the prosecution to go after lower-level staff.

I believe that it helps if legal precedent can be set such that management is held more accountable for behavioral structuring through incentives and selective policy enforcement.
To me a cache is actually the inverse data structure of a bloom filter.

A bloom filter will return whether something is in a set with potential false positives but never false negatives.

A cache will return whether something is in a set but with potential false negatives but never false positives (i.e. item is not currently in the cache but exists in the set).
I don’t think the person you are arguing with is disagreeing that discrimination against pregnant women (or mothers) is wrong. I got the sense they are trying to figure out how we combat it.

Yes, we can make it illegal, and enforce strictly, and yes we should do that. However, as long as their is a cost to companies when women take maternity leave, you are going to have to keep fighting the battle because companies will find new and creative ways to discriminate to save money.

What we need to do, in addition to enforcing anti-discrimination laws, is to have maternity and paternity leave mandated by law, and paid for with taxpayer dollars. The cost of having and raising the next generation should be shared.

We can all agree that the discrimination is wrong, full stop, but we need to be pragmatic and realistic in how we combat it.
Can guarantee you that all large (tech) companies have mandatory interview training whose main goal is to avoid these issues... unfortunately when you have a company this large, there's always going to be that-one-guy that will still act like a jerk.

Questions about race, age, religion, pregnancy, civil status, disability are all off-limit. This interviewer was out of line, and should be reported to the recruiter.
how does jetbrains rider ide provide debugging then
Sort, cut and uniq are also amazingly useful.
Fwiw - Obama didn't use an off-the-shelf blackberry; he used one that was modified such that it complied w/ with government security standards.

http://money.cnn.com/2014/05/22/technology/security/nsa-obam...
My parents had a 2,500 sq. ft. house on 5 acres of land. They've replaced their vehicles about every 5 years. I remember twice-yearly vacations where we flew out to Mexico or the eastern seaboard. I was, by current standards, spoiled rotten when it comes to the money my parents spent on tech for me. They've both been able to retire (including snowbird trips to AZ) without worries about money due to a pension and investments.

All of this from a single, blue collar worker's income. The same job that pays $13 an hour today. I, working in the tech industry with a great paying job in a rural city, with a working wife, couldn't begin to reproduce their lifestyle without incurring absurd amounts of debt.

You'll have a hard time convincing me that it's our expectations which have changed the most.
> since 1999

> at the current cost

Wow great research. By the same token, Canada should cancel the next $200bn of expenditures on wind energy and save it. By spending it in bulk in 20 years, surely it will be able to get much more energy at a lower price. Genius.
It's not so clear cut. The arguments for this type of discrimination also make logical sense. Morality is pretty subjective, and peoples goals for society are very different.
My favorite thing this guy does is not talk, for some reason.
Well, yeah. Hence peace talks, surely. Unlike a certain Hitler who decides to open a war on multiple fronts at once. I was arguing against the notion that “if it wasn’t for Germany, Soviets would have conquered Europe.”
Check your timelines. Obama was elected in 2008, and BlackBerry was the dominant player in the market at that point.

Also, he DID swap out his phone for a secured one, and his staff instituted a number of security protocols to keep it secure.
It wouldn't matter, because in the end the company would hire you or promote you with the same expectation as women. It would start to make less and less sense to not take the paternity leave because the opportunity cost would diminish. If you didn't take off, it would be your loss. The system wouldn't be perfect, but it would -help-
> How can you say this with a straight face?! It's a fact that (some) women need to stay off work (bed-ridden before birth, in hospital after birth). It's also a fact that men don't need to.

You're referring to a timescale of days which a woman will likely need to spend in hospital. I believe
jschwartzi is referring to the weeks/months of maternity/paternity leave following the initial birth. There isn't a hard biological reason not to evenly share the load after the immediate medical concerns are completed.
I think the death knell will be when Bird and Lime and all of the others announce a subscription fee in order to access the network.

Ninebots was a good investment. This not so much.
Perfectly reasonable statement in his position, but I don’t see how it translates to “we were fighting the wrong enemy all along.”
Theranos / Holmes, also demonstrated how superficial, almost down to malpractice current so called journalism is.

Complete lack of analysis, expertise in the fields they are covering, and clear initial non-biased position.

Instead, we get this flood propaganda + sensationalism garbage from these so called 'reputable' news sources.

And, as a consequence, con-artists, career politicians, and 'celebrities' -- leverage this legalized malpractice for their purposes.

While we, the consumers of 'news' -- are being exploited and treated like as dehumanizing 'advertisement revenue points/votes.
We are essentially being suffocated by this 'carbon dioxide of information'.

So in my view, it is not just the case of E. Holmes misleading investors, board members and consumers -- it is also the case of journalism malpractice.
I clicked this fully expecting "yam", "cultivate" and "cook" to be archaic Unix tools. Instead I got this. Such a happy surprise.
It's a "choice" in the same sense that eating or drinking water is a choice. You can choose not to do it, but at a societal level if you do that everything quickly ceases to exist.
There's obviously room for C-level execs to improve just as well as there is room for the engineers conducting interviews. It's not an either-or situation.

Perhaps ironically, I currently work at Uber (you know, the media darling). Here, I (and many others) feel strongly that the responsibility of fixing things is on everyone at every level, rather than something that comes exclusively from above.

Somehow after people lost faith in the old leadership, and gained faith in the new leadership, they built up the awareness and courage to speak up.

There has been some stuff coming from above (mandatory training about harassment, for example), but for the most part, initiatives to fix recruiting (and other aspects that have been in limbo) are self-organized by the engineers via interest groups, with awareness efforts in guild meetings, etc, and then those efforts bubble up the org chart sort of as an FYI. We tie these into what we call citizenship goals, which essentially work as an organizationally-blessed reason to do good.

Obviously I don't wish for other companies to go through the mud like Uber did, but it would great if the ethically-minded employees at other companies could find some other catalyst to take matters into their own hands. Even here, there's still a lot to do, and it has to be an ongoing effort, but I'm hopeful.
"Wire fraud" - it's amazing the litany of things one can do, and ultimately get caught up in this specific basket. Al Capone went down for tax evasion ...
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The worst tech debt is whatever is making the current quality leaks worse, generally whatever is being changed or added right now, usually in a hurry because someone shortsightedly thinks it’s business-critical to prioritize speed of delivery above quality standards.

Maybe they are right, maybe they are wrong, but either way whatever they are asking you to break in order to get it done sooner, that is the worst thing going on.

The more effort you spend focusing on making that process leak proof, the less future puddle there will be, leaving time to clean up the existing puddle.

No matter what tech debt there is in older, not-currently-changing-due-to-project-needs code, it is like the puddle, maybe a large puddle, but it is not the leak.
Will it?

Women who have made public, unproven accusations of sexual harassment seem to be doing just fine
The Foxconn plant deal in Wisconsin is just so disgracefully bad - over $4B in incentives to get 3,000 jobs. That's over a million per employee.

It's very reminiscent of sports stadium deals. Except the companies that run sports teams typically haven't had to put suicide nets around their buildings.
People have very different goals for society. Solving inequality is not everyone's top priority and it is weighed against many others.
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Google doesn't offer 12 month paid leave. Are you thinking of a different company? Edit: sorry, this is a U.S. centered viewpoint. Other countries will mandate different leave policies.
Yep, left my job 8 months ago and had several promising interviews since but nothing has come of them. Recently decided to take time to polish games I prototyped during this period. To be quite honest I was also getting tired of essentially "studying for finals" before each interview. Thankfully (but probably also hurting my job search in general...) I'm in a low CoL area.
> Theranos / Holmes, also demonstrated how superficial, almost down to malpractice current so called journalism is

Theranos was exposed by a Wall Street Journal reporter investigating and exposing the fraud. He was threatened multiple times and never budged. This is a story of journalistic excellence.
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What about if non-working moms also got the paid leave? Basically get a wage for the first six months?

We could cap it to only 2 or 3 times per person, to prevent someone just having a bunch of kids for money (although, as a parent, the idea that six months of salary would make having a kid financially beneficial is laughable)
subtlety, a lost, and now down-voted, art.
I forget where I saw it now, but I've seen a pretty good write up on using unix tool to do very common operations -- set counting, histograms, etc -- and awk is at the heart of most of them. Usually with sort and uniq -c in there. It's amazing how quickly you can pick apart a log file -- minutes -- while it might take others hours to get to the same information using Excel.
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That may be true, but if Holmes wasn’t stopped, thousands could have died...people trusted her to get accurate blood test results. What if some major medical ailment went undiscovered due to the poor accuracy of her machines?

Holmes is a ruthless, despicable humnan being. Cheating people out of money is one thing. Cheating people of their health, denying when caught for years and years is on a complete another level. And what she did to the poor whistleblower? Almost ruined his life and went a few rings below murder to her chief scientist. Not to mention the mafia style shakedown of John C, the reporter who broke the story.

If someone knows all that about a person, and still glowingly praises them, in my opinion they are NOT ethical and not a good person.