skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In my opinion, 43 (1 CEO + 6 managers/executives + 6 * 6 individual contributors) is the optimal employee count. It becomes a still-reasonable 259 (1 CEO + 6 executives + 6 * 6 managers + 6 * 6 * 6 individual contributors) if reality is factored in. Any company larger inevitable becomes a stagnating drain. That is, one way to somewhat clip power and improve overall (intracompany and economic) efficiency may be to limit company size to a maximum of 259-585 employees.
Nope: https://groups.google.com/forum/m/#!topic/comp.os.minix/dlNt...

Though Usenet could get toxic at times.
"the idea of a book being “fake” greatly misunderstands the vagaries of imaginative thought, whose tendency is to trawl the idiosyncratic detritus inherent to its mimesis regardless of the spuriousness or relative candor of its constitutive parts. "

An interesting idea overall (the article) but I stopped reading there.
Not email, USENET.

https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc1036

2.2.10. Summary

This line should contain a brief summary of the message. It is
usually used as part of a follow-up to another message. Again, it
is very useful to the reader in determining whether to read the
message.
Be aware though, they can advertise 0 calories as long as it rounds to 0, so a couple calories of sugar is "0 calorie natural flavor".
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Blot.im is like $20/yr and my domain is similar through google domains. Set up takes like 10 mins, and you just drop word docs into dropbox. There is some depth if you want to get into site structure, file hosting, etc.

Here is my site: npzero.com. For ~$3/mo its awesome.
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Also FizzBuzz in TensorFlow:

http://joelgrus.com/2016/05/23/fizz-buzz-in-tensorflow/
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Low compensation with frustrating work and poor colleagues? That seems kind of obvious what's wrong, no?

As far as things that are easy to do, the two choices would be offer higher compensation or lie to your recruits.
Some resources for online college stuff that you might find useful for finding a program you like:

https://cvc.edu/

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I'm a ham and long time ARRL member. Also was a long time friend of Dave Sumner the former CEO. I haven't been happy at all with the direction of the League since Sumner retired.

But this new guy shows some promise. To me the money quote in this story is “Young people in general don’t join organizations, but they join causes”. My gut tells me he's right but I'm not sure yet how that translates into specific programs.
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"BTW, I'm an abusive asshole who talks down to everybody. Anybody want to join the team?"

https://www.theregister.co.uk/2015/10/06/linix_kernel_dev_wh...

https://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/07/16/torvalds_potty_mout...

https://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/06/11/linus_torvalds_thre...

https://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/01/04/torvalds_kernel_bug...

https://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/09/04/linux_desktop_failu...

https://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/02/24/linus_torvalds_rant...
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That wouldn't really be the worst outcome, either. Well, it would be for MongoDB themselves, but to the rest of the open source community, it would mean a much less restrictive version of MongoDB would be available and maintained, which to me seems like a win.
If that was something you promoted for the summer months when school is out & one could bring their family with, I think you would have a lot of takers.

Best wishes!
I don't think there is a hope in hell that we can achieve it. Just look at how much effort it took to get to the moon, colonising Mars is an infinitely more difficult problem.
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Taking in sugar both during and after a workout is important. However, there is the problem that "workout" leaves a lot to interpretation. Do you do 20 minutes on a stationary bike? Do you walk around for an hour from circuit machine to circuit machine, with less than 10 minutes actually spent during sets? If you answered yes, then sugar isn't what you need. You don't need anything at all, except some real exercise.

If on the other hand, your exercise is strenuous, and depletes your bloodstream's glucose, and your liver's short-term supply of glucose, then you absolutely need sugar. Otherwise, your body will efficiently convert whatever is at hand to sugar. The most "at hand" ingredient from your body's point of view, is your lean muscle mass. You don't want to lose that. However if you have these kind of exercise sessions, then you already know this, so keep on doing what you're doing.
Most tech offices (google included) already give all employees free access to legal resources. It's called an EAP (Employee Assistance Program)
Yep — I’m a Manhattanite as well. It’s telling that when you intersect pedestrian-friendly with transit accessibility you end up with a list of the most expensive places to live in the US, even when the housing stock is mostly shit.
A reasonable amount of steak cooked with minimal added fat (skip the butter basting) and roasted vegetables seasoned lightly with salt is a pretty healthy meal. Throw in a salad with some undressed raw, leafy greens and you've got a solid meal.
"Work on Bug Fixes / Small Features"

That's terrible advice, in my view.

In your job you should always do what is the most useful and productive use of your time.

As a tech lead/manager your role is to manage/lead and your time is extremely valuable. In addition, your job as a manager is to allocate resources efficiently.

A small feature is a good task for a junior engineer. It helps them grow and their time costs less than yours.

Bug fixes should be the job of whoever knows the relevant part of the code best, which is unlikely to be you if you're a manager but even if it is you should aim to train and mentor others to acquire the technical expertise.
Have you ever had a customer facing job? Some customers are just toxic. Rude, demanding and usually a cheapskate as well. It’s just not worth spending time dealing with them.
How is that relevant/what does it add?
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Manhattan has churches next to skyscrapers next to liquor stores, and nobody seems too bothered
That is an interesting connection. I've always been interested in growing into an engineering manager, especially at places where there is a distinction between managers and leads. I've also always been enthusiastic about having kids (particularly compared to my same-age peers). I guess I just naturally value investing in other people's success and easing the path for people to learn lessons that I might have learned the hard way.

I wonder whether interest in / enjoyment of parenting is correlated with feeling likewise about people management.
Some schools have online degrees that are the same as brick and mortar programs. DePaul University's online program is just the lectures for the class that are filmed and put online for students. So if the in class is Monday, the online students will see that lecture Tuesday morning. There is no distinction between online or in person degrees.
I lived right above a small grocery store for a few years.

If anything, it was pretty easy to walk down an buy some daily food items.

Certainly it's not the greatest option if what you value most is total quiet. But with that, a residential-only street frequented by cars is a bigger nuisance than a corner shop with very low car traffic around it (all parking was ~300ft away).
Those few people who store petabytes of videos was enough for even Amazon to boot them off their storage product.
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Oh, FFS, c'mon.

There's over 12,800 words in the article and 67 citations. It includes sections such as "How do work experience, schedules, and motherhood affect the gender wage gap?", "How do education and job and occupational characteristics affect the gender wage gap?", "Does a woman’s race, age, or pay level affect the gender gap she experiences?", and "What role do 'unobservables' like discrimination and productivity play in the wage gap?" yet you choose to ignore all of it and argue against something from the introduction that's expanded upon further down.

You're arguing on bad faith here.
Thanks! It was a style error. I just fixed it!
That stat is bogus. Maybe technically correct based upon the status when you register for selective service, but look at the number of objectors during the Vietnam era:

> A total of 170,000 men received C.O. deferments; as many as 300,000 other applicants were denied deferment. Nearly 600,000 illegally evaded the draft; about 200,000 were formally accused of draft offenses. Between 30,000 and 50,000 fled to Canada; another 20,000 fled to other countries or lived underground in America.

Source https://www.swarthmore.edu/library/peace/conscientiousobject...
Right now Cancún, but I'm moving to Querétaro in December.
I see that blurry zoom transition effect all over the place. I suspect retina Macs don't do it, so designers keep doing it. Kinda reminds me that up until recently, Shopify used to only list Helvetica in their font-family, so Windows users saw Times New Roman. I see that stuff all the time coming from Mac-centric design firms.

^ I hesitated writing that, since it was all speculation, but then I clicked the link at the bottom saying "Hire me!" to see the designer's website and...

html {
font-family: "Avenir";
}

No fallbacks whatsoever, so I'm seeing Times New Roman.
Seen pretty elaborate loop constructs in large Common Lisp code bases I was working on, and my conclusion is that the only thing that should be banned is lack of willingness to spend 30 minutes at some point learning the loop syntax. Seriously, after you write few loops on your own e.g. collecting over several hash tables in parallel, you won't have much problem anymore.

I still feel current generation of programmers has a learning phobia.
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That is so lame. Non-locking knives are simply a danger to the user. Doing any sort of vigorous knife work it's just a matter of time before you accidentally shut your hand in it, speaking from experience.
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What you have is an epidemic of powerful employees abusing their position to take advantage of junior employees.

What seems to be suggested to fight it are tools that would be extremely effective against other junior employees (even if the allegations are untrue), but only middlingly effective against the real problem of powerful employees.

That will understandably lead to push back from junior employees who fear abuse. Offer solutions which would primarily work against powerful employees and would be ineffective against other junior employees and I think there would be much more support.
"A clear, uniform, globally inclusive process for reporting sexual misconduct safely and anonymously"

Can anyone help me understand the rationale behind the anonymous part, with respect to due process and how the framework for anonymous accusations can be abused by bad actors?

Edit-
I have a question about the anonymous nature of reporting to HR, with respect to due process for the accuser and accused, maybe some of you can shed light on how you've seen it work in your experiences.

I've heard stories in the past, with details I'm not privy to, where coworkers were let go based on anonymous HR sexual misconduct allegations. I really hope that due process is involved for the accused and not just a "guilty until proven innocent" situation. What I mean is that evidence by the accuser is judged along the lines of probable cause that our police force uses to arrest or judges use to prosecute e.g. inappropriate advances caught on tape, unwanted email/text/chat messages in line with allegations, eye witness statements corroborated by fellow co-worker, etc.

There are a lot of introverted, socially awkward personality types in technical roles (on the spectrum?) with traits that can be perceived incorrectly, even negatively by neurotypical individuals and I fear the power of anonymous, "guilty until proven innocent" allegations standard that HR might start using to police the accused and trample on their right to due process since employment is at-will and you can be terminated for any reason, at any time, but in this situation you are ineligible for unemployment if it's recorded as misconduct.
What? You asked, essentially, "why would they walking out if their CEO supports their cause?"

Although I thought the answer was a bit obvious, I answered... Words are cheap and the employees want to see action.

Your response is to talk about pointing fingers? I don't understand your point.

What do you have against Google employees making demands of their managers?

My mother always told me "When you point a finger at others, you have three fingers pointing back at you."

I'm pretty sure employees know that fingers are being pointed at them. Employees are constantly evaluated, and management places expectations on them (both work related and cultural) that those employees must meet, at penalty of termination.

It seems like you're questioning the idea that the fingers should point both ways... by saying that the fingers point both ways.
Email is far from perfect.
Because it's irrelevant. I think the UK's knife laws are ridiculous - but an article on medieval eating knives is definitely not the place to discuss that.
That's about the maximum number of people a manager should be managing.

The biggest issue I see is managers who don't code making technical decisions. Like I said in my OP, managers are supposed to unblock people. The team or a tech lead should be making the technical decisions.
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I'm neither redneck nor yankee, but texas from texas.

FWIW, I really like my multitool... but the reason why I carry just a folding knife is that the multitool is quite heavy by my standards, compared to the small oldtimer that I used to carry or the single blade ones that I've owned.
Yikes, that gives me some major sticker shock.

I like where they're going, seems like they've got a lot of papers signed up which is great, but I was hoping for more of a subscription model which would allow me to read as I please rather than spending on a per-article basis.

I'd have to be deeply interested in the content to pay that price.

The way the movie and music industries largely beat piracy was by getting good subscription models - I'm hoping we'll see the same here too.
Wow, fascinating. I love the detail about probably never supporting anything other than AT hard disks and 386; isn't it funny now that Linux supports more hardware than just about damn near any operating system, free or otherwise?
It's not standalone and I don't know the details, but codesandbox.io can run what is recognizably VSCode.
I think that most of the annoying (but non breaking) javascript is already covered by ublock.
My foppish New-Englander is showing, but I always keep an Opinel No. 8 on hand as a picnicking knife, in case I need to cut cheese or salami that I buy, and my fiancee keeps one in her purse for the same reason. Highly recommended. (As is the fiancee carrying around purse salami, the original protein bar.)

In a pinch I might have to use it to break down a box, here and there.
We don't want managers steering anything. That's either the job of the group or the tech lead. The manager is supposed to manage the team the same way a managers manages a baseball team. You get the right people, give them the right tools, and let them play the game.
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If they're only declining you for Atlas, the services they provide are to help people outside the US and will be very easy to do yourself from Miami.
> What are these people personally doing to ensure that they are respecting women, creating the right kind of social climate at work, etc?

Part of the reason to go to the walkout was to find out what to do. People didn't just stand there doing nothing. They listened to women speak about their experiences and ask for specific, concrete actions from attendees that would lead to less sexual harassment, bias, and associated garbage.
It's true ... but I think apart from 2008/2009, the stock price has exceeded its target every year, by quite a margin, so total comp has too.
It does, but plenty of albums have been recorded on 4 track machines to 1/4" tape.

The real difference in quality is probably mostly in having a machine that's properly setup and calibrated, with a good transport to minimize flutter, etc.
Oh, I meant Windows, not Windows Phone (for 8.x, that was a big difference still).

Either way, code generation is there today.
I think I just posted an Ask HN about a similar topic.
It's probably meant to alleviate fear of retribution.
It's an argument against adjusted wage gap calculations or comparing salaries in the same roles. I fundamentally object to the very premise.

> You're arguing on bad faith here.

No, I just disagree with you.
Yes, "words are cheap" is so obvious, it goes without saying. It doesn't add anything substantive to the discussion.

So saying that to me really doesn't cast any light whatsoever on this situation for me.
If you have a good water supply, absolutely.

A lot of treated water tastes horribly of chlorine. Untreated water in some areas reeks of sulfur.

If you grew up in one of these places, dinking only juice and soda, then not even wanting to drink bottled water is conceivable.
Death !== killing, not matter how you want to justify it.
And that was 10 years ago. We've come a long long way since then. Nowadays it would look something like this

@Configuration
public class ThreeConfiguration {

@Bean @Profile("dev")
public ThreeProvider devThree() {
return new DevThreeProvider();
}

@Bean @Profile("production")
public ThreeProvider prodThree() {
return new ProdThreeProvider();
}

}

@Component
public class Sample {
private ThreeProvider threeProvider;

@Autowired
public Sample(ThreeProvider threeProvider) {
this.threeProvider = threeProvider;
}

public int addThree(int val) {
return val + threeProvider.getThree();
}
}

And that's about it. The Sample class does not need to worry where it ThreeProvider comes from. And the configuration about all the different implementations and in which cases they will be used are bundled together in one class.
You used a universal quantifier in your initial statement.
That is, all of human history, implying all governments at all times. This is trivially falsifiable.

With your current statement, you're attempting to modify that to all governments in human history, at a single point in time for each of them. In the most charitable case, that's vacuously true.

You chose the hill you wanted to defend... it's a bit late to complain about the location. The question stands.
it's sad that he tries to validate his idea by evangelizing to laymen instead of trying to convince "big science" of his ideas.

My dad was and is the same way -- everyone is in some massive conspiracy plot to misguide the public. Typically there are demons or other some suches that are pulling the puppet strings. A few months ago he was convinced the world was flat.. It's this whole Dunning-Kruger effect that seems to affect so many people.

I think there are generations of people who missed out on a proper education and a healthy skepticism.
Ah, just in time as we are moving away from passcodes and using things that are publicly available, such as "your face," which isn't protected. Just hold the phone up to the face and wait until they open their eyes, which they eventually will. Or ask, "do you recognize this phone?" as they hold it up to your face. It's already started.
> "We don't let managers code where I work."

That leads exactly to the situation you described below.

> "...ended up with managers who slowly lost their technical skills and essentially fossilized, and couldn't make rational tech decisions"

I recently left my job at a respected social network over my new manager lacking the proper technical skills yet not accepting more reasonable solutions.

Case in point: imagine you have an API endpoint you normally hit with your service, periodically. We make a GET request to this endpoint but it also supports POST. The parameter sent is q=<some_long_string>.

It comes to my attention that this long string can get over 1MB long, at which point it causes issues with our service.

I bring up in a meeting that we should just POST to this endpoint instead of doing GET at all times because the data could be larger than 1MB at times. Makes sense, right? Well, my manager without the proper technical awareness basically pushed for us to check if the query is larger than 1MB and POST if and only if it is larger than 1MB.

I gave my two weeks a week after that and made it very clear to the upper management that this manager was the reason I was leaving and I felt like I was being stifled by having a manager like this.