skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I tend to agree with this point of view, but recently have started just taking more time off. At my current workplace I asked what their PTO policy was and everyone just kind of shrugged and told me to work it out with my manager. Which was admittedly concerning as there is 0 agreed parameters.

However this idea of "0 agreement" between employer and employee is starting to grow on me. Time after time and article after article we see employers screwing employees for various reasons, including incompetence. At this point it seems like finding a genuinely positive actor is as much a matter of luck as it is dedication. So I suppose it's time to change/

I no longer subscribe to workplace or employer loyalty. After working in the industry for ~8 years I can never see myself staying at a company for more than 4-5. I don't trust my manager, HR department, C-levels, policies, etc. Hell I tell people upfront in interviews that I'm a terrible employee but very good at my job.

Cycling back around to your points:

>Whereas unlimited PTO sounds nice, it also opens up more problems between myself and workplace 'culture'.

>...I much rather prefer the structured environment. There seems to be far less drama and nonsense related to taking time off.

I counter with: What workplace culture?

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Oh sorry, I just wanted to inform people. I will try better next time!
Read a Paper: End-To-end Arguments in System Design
Dropbox is a publicly traded company: https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/DBX/?guccounter=1

What do you expect?

It's legal obligation to make as much money for the shareholders.
Yep, my Mom worked from home fairly often when my sister and I were growing up, and it was actually a really positive experience overall. We learned early on how to respect her boundaries (ie, keep noise levels reasonable, pass notes if we need something when she's on the phone and wait patiently for her to write back) and she communicated to us frequently, ie - letting us know when she was going to have a particularly long call or when she was planning on finishing up so we could help her get ready for dinner. We weren't home schooled though, so it was just typically afternoons after the bus dropped us off (3PM - 6PM) or during the summer / school holidays, so that probably made it more bearable.

I actually think in some ways, the time I spent overhearing her interact with coworkers - especially on conference calls where she often used speakerphone, was really helpful to my professional development. I learned all about setting a professional tone, call-muting etiquette, getting people's attention, and voicing disagreements in a professional setting long before I ever stepped into an office.
Yes, because we use deeply semantic information about code there is some engineering work to build support for other languages.

So we took the approach of focusing on one demographic (Python developers) and making them really happy. We think we've reached that point, so we're excited to begin looking at how we can expand our reach. Stay tuned!
I’m originally American living in Europe at the moment (where regional food trademark labels
are honored) and I have to say — real Parmesan is utterly pure magic ...
Rust’s ‘awesome community’ comes across to me as pushy and arrogant more often than not.
Traffic updates: Saying a lot while revealing a little
Not to mention by pushing malware to people via IDE addons, pretty good strategy for training those datasets.
The main benefit is around workflows. First and foremost, if you are in a position where you need external people to sign documents (say you're a photographer and need signed releases), it's a lot easier to send someone a link to the standard document and get them to sign a release then to email them and then call the person and walk them through digitally signing a document. Especially if you're doing this 50+ times a year. And you typically get the documents signed much quicker. It's pretty much the difference between having to mail in a check for every payment vs using a web portal. It's more convenient and there's a faster turnaround time. Oh and you've removed the risk that something isn't signed correctly (was there a section that wasn't initialed?) or that something was redlined. It's certainly not for everyone or every business, but there are certain use cases where the money is well worth it.
Why are you a dropbox shareholder if you think that the company faces "almost certain failure"?
The State of Design at Headway: 2018 and Beyond
The legal system and govt temperament is changing very quick, India is soon going to be much more favored around the world.
How do you get around the problem of not leaving the house? I find that the biggest reason I go back to co-working is that it gives me an excuse to walk to the metro station and just be in the open air.
I think you meant "employment at will"? Right-to-work refers to unions.
Swartz
From the states or government: No, there is nothing. You might have something in a contract that requires it (and is actually enforceable)
When a company I used to work at did the same, one of my coworkers started taking a "vacation" every other Friday and Monday. The same guy rarely used vacation time before, but was pretty much unavailable every other weekend after that. I left within a couple months after the change. Management seemed to be more concerned about average number of Jira items closed as opposed to real progress on the project(s) in question.
https://lkml.org/lkml/2018/8/3/621

> Yeah, HELL NO!

Guess what? You're wrong. YOU ARE MISSING THE #1 KERNEL RULE.

We do not regress, and we do not regress exactly because your are 100% wrong.

And the reason you state for your opinion is in fact exactly WHY you
are wrong.

Your "good reasons" are pure and utter garbage.

The whole point of "we do not regress" is so that people can upgrade
the kernel and never have to worry about it.

-Linus Torvalds
> If we want to keep claiming we live in a meritocracy, the effects of an estate tax on ensuring (restoring) equal opportunity are not optional.

As of 2018 a couple can leave >$22 Million without paying any tax on it. That's enough for your children, their children and their children's children (and potentially on and on) to never have to work. Generational wealth like this is how we get and perpetuate "classes".
Save it. When you have enough for everybody at the table: GRILL IT, until the rind side gets charred and gets a crunchy thin layer and the cheese side gets kinda soft. Fork and knife, eat it until it's hot (don't burn yourself :D)

This is how my family does it :)
I've certainly heard snared used positively. As in, one has snared something that is beneficial to them and difficult to catch
because printing a document, signing it with a pen, taking a photo of it, and emailing it back is a thing rich investors keep having to do.
The rift between Silicon Valley and the Pentagon is economic, not moral
I think a great place to start is places where there's a marketplace, like Shopify, BigCommerce, Github, etc.
I also do all my working from the local university library. I have a very hard time concentrating from my home office because being in the house can become too distracting. I never have a hard time motivating myself to get up in the morning and go to the library, it is really nice to walk the mile there each day.

I just don't see the co-working space as necessary, and since the library provides almost the exact same amount of services for free I really can't justify it. I have considered paying for a private office, but it kind of feels silly to pay for something that is halfway between and office and a library. If you really need to get a office with an address, just go all in and rent an office!
Sorry, but snare can be used in this context. I highly suggest consulting a dictionary if you are unsure about the definition of a word. Just because the word used is not definition 1, doesn’t mean it’s incorrect. Snare is absolutely acceptable in this context.
You can do it in a VM or compatibility layer. Your OS can support "personalities" like Windows uses to implement WSL, but with containers. So now you can have multiple POSIX containers on your non-POSIX system.

You should encourage people to make native software using the new paradigms and abstractions of the OS, built from the ground up with decades of hindsight, rather than encouraging crappy ports.

> You can only get adoption of a non-POSIX OS if it offers something really unique to the user

At this point, just not being built on 50 year old crappy standards would be pretty unique. I have my own personal wish-list of features that would lure me in even if the only hardware supported was an RPi.
What will happen is those that have better options will have kids. Similar to why there are so many people with last names of miller or smith. Both trades were protected to a point by not going to war and having the means to have kids. If we still went with our father's trades as last names, the next generation would probably be full (relatively) of Jane and Joe Engineer.
Chinese scientist told US Nobelist about gene-edited babies
I hear you, but every successful technology, even if used correctly and competently, makes the human using it more capable with it, and less capable without it. So in a way it's always a descent. And of course "more capable" includes "more capable of screwing up" as you're basically saying.
I do low latency network architectue for HFTs; I'm not sure there's a real world application for shaving 50us off a latency for a route outside of this industry. That said I've been impressed with Cloudflares consistent global low latency while traveling. It's a habit to ping 1.1.1.1 and see if it goes above 15ms.
The other problem with AI is a matter of definitions- how do you even define it? Whereas it's obvious what leaded gasoline or radium watch faces are. When you've got a technique that is contained in featureless server racks and produces outputs, not substances, you can't really ban the outputs (they're just decisions) and banning the techniques is probably impossible short of melting down all the GPUs or whatever.

One possibility is that a bad AI decision could create huge liability costs on whoever is running the algorithm. If the algorithm can't explain that its decision was reasonable, courts could get... testy. And that would drive people towards at least explainable AI.

That is, it might end up being cheaper to have some racist employees than a big monolithic AI making racist decisions (or other human failings like being a bad driver).
I try to not call myself a "programmer" for the same reason I try to not put specific languages or platforms on my resume: I don't want to be pigeonholed into a single category. I don't like saying I'm a "Java Engineer" or an "F# programmer", since I want to be free to move around as needed.

Nowadays, usually when people ask what I do, I tell them that I'm an eccentric. This started as a joke, but I honestly feel that it has led to me finding more interesting jobs than I'd have had if I had just said I'm a "programmer".
As an aside, why does a meme site have so many employees? I know a few entrepreneurs who run Buzzfeed clones and they run on a skeletal staff of freelancers.

I know that the news division needs dedicated journalists, but the main site is basically rehashing existing content. Surely you don't need 2,000 employees for that.
It's still a mystery why they didn't unionize when they had the opportunity. They believed Jonah would look out for their interests more than they themselves could?
In almost any case, employees who have unpaid wage claims are treated as secured creditors. I'm not sure what you mean by IRA/401k benefits as these are usually employer administered but held by the employee and should be shielded from any sort of bankruptcy. As mentioned earlier here, PTO is treated differently state by state. Most of what you have a gripe with is already covered by existing bankruptcy law.

Sure, if there's no recovery value in a bankruptcy, employees aren't going to get paid back wages but no one else is getting paid either.
Contact your embassy. They will solve it
My understanding is that at-will states usually override anything in a contract stating to the contrary, unless there is an agreed-upon employment duration (that overrides at-will on both sides, i.e., they can't fire you without compensation), and this is quite rare outside of executives. Not a lawyer, do not rely on this as legal advice, etc.
The disgustingly filthy emissions of maritime transport and lack of action on it make me pretty cynical about the ongoing crackdown on internal combustion motoring. LPG is possible, so it's not like we don't have alternatives.
btrfs has a problem with it's image as being unreliable (some well deserved). Redhat obsoleted it, because they use kernel 3.10 in RHEL7 and they were doing nothing but backporting, without having any btrfs expertise in house anyway. Btrfs continues to be developed by Oracle, Suse, Facebook, Fujitsu and the rest of the usual suspects.
The term my employer is using is "unaccrued".
I don’t think that right to work has anything to do with it. Perhaps the commenter meant at-will employment?
This is on the homepage, right near the top:

> Dokku helps you build and manage the lifecycle of applications

Is there a way we can make what we do more clear?
Aside from the fact that there's a ton of evidence that proves you wrong (but there is truth that a lot of SaaS founders never make a penny), OP was asking about starting at $500/month, which is far from "gushing profits".
Disclaimer: I've never traveled to or through Israel.

As others have referenced, Israeli airport security use profiling extensively. The questions that are asked are almost (but not quite) irrelevant - they are trained to gauge a person's reactions, their unconscious biological responses, etc.

It seems likely to me that what they keyed in on wasn't the author's questions, responses, or even their general attitude, but the overall resistance to having their laptop searched. The distinction between "I resent this process and need my laptop for work" and "If they take my laptop I'm going to be in trouble" is probably below the threshold of their training. I'd even say it's possible that the author's reaction to having their laptop confiscated was part of the profiling technique.

The fact that they let them continue on to their flight tells me that they didn't perceive them to be a security risk at the end of the process.
Do you mean at-will employment, rather than right to work? AFAIK, right to work means that union membership/dues cannot be a requirement of employment.
You can sign docs with free Apple software on Mac/iPhone
Paper is a security nightmare. Every document is automatically accessible publicly if you know the url. You need to set each document individually to private. At least for the Personal/Pro plans.
Why are we acting like a journo company laying off 1000 people is the end of the world? Are people not aware of how many other companies across many sectors have layoffs all the time? This isn't news. BuzzFeed sucks, their journalists were providing benefit to the business, so they pivoted. Can we move on?
All the examples I gave, except for Fuchsia, are examples of C++ in production for kernel code.

Windows has been slowly moving into C++ since Windows 8, as Microsoft considers C++ the future of systems programming in Windows.

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/cpp/build/reference/kernel-...

https://www.reddit.com/r/cpp/comments/4oruo1/windows_10_code...
BuzzFeed does two things: they're a meme site with actual, serious investigative journalism sharing the same brand.
CrewFire might have a massive audience among political parties. Seriously. You should approach that market.
Does "really happy" include injecting your ads into our editors by hijacking open source projects? Because that makes me really unhappy.
Power from generators cost substantially more than power from a large baseload power plant. Factories install backup generators, but they are not the primary source of power because it is not economical to use them that way.
I was there with Israel airport a few times. Almost every time I have company "letter" to "precheck" me with the airport security.

There was one time, the company missed issue me that letter. I had to go thru the 2 hours security hell which they inspected and questioned everything.

After that, I have decided that I would never go back to Israel again for biz or any other purposes. It is just not worth it.
In a lot of WARN notice cases, severance mysteriously lines up with the 60 day notice requirement. Draw your own conclusions from that. This is above but not such a crazy amount to be considered generous.
> People expect an email client to work a certain way. Our unique features made us too different. They made the interface unfamiliar

Agreed. It applies to many fields, also to programming languages. Elixir and Phoenix were designed ostensibly to look like Ruby and RoR and onboarded many developers from those environments. Still some parts of Elixir are too Erlang -ish. Example: the cryptic handle_* methods of GenServer. They could have had the courage of using a class like notation, make them crystal clear for the vast majority of developers and grow much more.
WTF? The official website photo of "American Grana" shows a wheel with holes. This is not Swiss cheese: it's a major defect that is evidence of bad fermentation.

Apart from the demented indications (the "Parmesan" is aged far too little to allow grating) and recipes (e.g. Aglio e Olio spaghetti, the most inappropriate place to put grated cheese of any type on), these wheels are seriously tiny, presumably for industrial production reasons.

It would be nice to find details about their production process, especially what they do with cream.
The N is reliably overcrowded, and transportation funding measures are reliably passing. Is the problem really a lack of demand?
This is literally the only reason that companies offer unlimited PTO. PTO accrual is a cash flow risk to employers.
Shoutout to Leaf and Amos for building such a great community for indies and continuously adding more features to itch.io: https://twitter.com/moonscript & https://twitter.com/fasterthanlime
It isn't worth thinking about this stuff too hard, I promise. If you do good work, that's what matters. Not the identity you come away with as a result of it.
Israel has people on the ground around the world. Hard learned lesson after too many hijacked planes.
To all the men saying/thinking “hey this isn’t equal and maybe women just aren’t as good at tech,” I invite you on a journey with me back to my first basketball game in the 4th grade.

I had seen sports my whole life but had never played them, and was also very good at being a good little girl. So while I got that sports was a competition (duh), in my first game I was dumbfounded as to how I was supposed to compete, because I was supposed to be nice and kind and not cause trouble. I literally passed the ball back to my teammates every time.

After the game, my Dad pulled me aside and said what would become a catchphrase of his and would change my life: “Meghan, be aggressive.”

This was mind blowing. No person, no movie, no tv show had told me in the 90s that I could (and should!) be aggressive. And still be a good girl.

Two years later, I was the kid on the team that came close to fouling out bc I would use the box out very enthusiastically. My dad never stopped telling me to be aggressive. I ended up an all state field hockey athlete in high school, primarily because of my skills as a defender who was not afraid to get in the way.

For those who say women are predisposed biologically to not be good at things: Do you think my biology changed? Was I always born an aggressive woman, or was it a learned behavior? This example is a microcosm of thousands of other examples from a life where the messages one absorbs can shape action. (Others: Had I never been sexually propositioned by sources as a reporter, would I have been more aggressive about who i invited to drinks? Or in tech world, if a woman wasn’t the only woman on their team/division/whatever for the past few decades, would they have stayed longer?) If you want to measure my testosterone, fine, but please also control for the fact that I never got any sort of message about how it could be a good thing if I was aggressive until I was 10 (plus a million other things like that.)

On the topic of bring more gender parity to nursing and teaching, please do. I would love to see more male engineers give up six figure salaries to learn what it takes to be a nurse or a teacher and wonder why they make so much less in return. Perhaps it’s because things considered “women’s work” was never highly valued to start?
Show HN: Shefa Products an E-commerce with dynamic pricing for WholeSalers
Got me! Right you are, I should have made that distinction, thanks for clarifying.
Sending, reviewing, and signing documents is something every business needs to do and is difficult to get right according to all the laws in every region served and all the workflow requirements that companies and users want.

These needs may be "unsexy" compared to another social media app but they drive major value in the corporate world while building strong sustainable businesses.
The ACLU have documents showing that CBP think Chicago is included in the border zone.
There is no single "To Do" application that meets the needs of all of the users since everyone thinks differently. Find a niche that the others haven't really addressed yet and build your application in that space.

The same applies for email clients or calendar applications. Basically anything that orients around organizing information and priorities.
This is really great and there are some interesting takeaways.

The reality was that most users paid little attention to our onboarding. They weren’t reading our precious copy.

We found exactly the same, and we had somewhat of an advantage in this regard of having a completely new interface to most people (Mobile AR). So we expected people would take more time to learn our UX. Nope.

People want to blaze through onboarding even if they have no clue what to do and have never done it before. They wanted it to just be so simple that there was zero learning curve. That ended up being enlightening for us and forced us to radically simplify and copy.

Your product should work the way I expect it to

How I expect your product to work is largely based on my experience using other products

This is a great way to look at it. Now ask yourself, what if it's a new interface that people haven't dealt with before? Answer: You're conversion is going to be bad until your UX makes it orders of magnitude easier to accomplish a very important task.
Not that I've seen. It's there and works. I think a lot of that impression is driven by the fact that... let's be honest: filesystem features are stale, dinosaur stuff. All the cool kids are worrying about cloud scale storage backends.

At the end of the day btrfs and ZFS both are just ways to help single-system administrators do better and more reliable backups. I know that's not how they're positioned, but really that's all they do.
Show HN: A new approach to layout building without drag and drop
> They're looking for responses that appear delayed, evasive, made up

Exactly. AFIK I responded normally.

Not to mention someone actually doing something malicious with their computer probably wouldn't tell security they're a SW eng.