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Anytime I can cancel online, in under a minute I'd consider that easy. Yes, ideally they wouldn't put all those hoops in the way, but far better than most companies that require you to call a phone number during a certain time where you have to spend forever talking to a person who has to read from a script and may get aggressive with you or have to transfer you, or call drops or they say they have cancelled but didn't go through. Like MyFico, Sirius and other big names. Hopefully Dropbox improves but I assume their pages get enough people not to cancel, than the amount of people so angered by it that they decide to never come back that it makes sense for them.
These two cases seem pretty different to me. Steam wasn't in compliance with Australian refund laws and got in trouble for it. But the Steam case had nothing to do with minors (mostly very young children) making inadvertent purchases.
Living in an EU country (one of the Eastern Bloc countries) where the scenario you described is the norm (the state pays the for maternity leave), I consider this to be an unethical situation/ or unfair if you want (yes, nothing in life is fair, but the laws should at least be constructed to at least seem fair on the surface).

The reason I claim it is a very unfair situation, is because it offers a significant cushion to a particular class of people (parents), paid out of the taxes of everyone, and yet there are significant minorities of people falling through the cracks. For instance, due to a malfunctioning health-sector I've seen people who break a leg outside working hours get a significant paid leave, and yet people with job-caused mental illness (e.g. burnout) lose their job, and attain NEET status, with 0 state support (for the less fortunate, this is the road to homelessness and a whole lot of other problems). Of course, due to being low status groups, their are not in a position to negociate or lobby their interests to the law-makers. This is just an example, and I know the people disadvantaged by this policy are a small minority (single males for instance), but I think the state should provide equal opportunity to everyone, and for that reason, paying a certain subgroup of people with taxes taken from everyone is an unfair proposition in my book. (Of course, in this particular Eastern Bloc country, fairness is the least of worries, most state institutions are barely functional due to widespread corruption).

Of course, if you've got a population decline problem, like many of the European countries have, then incentivising birth is too good a solution to ignore.

But I still think the most fair/correct approach is having the employer pay for the leave, and factor that into wages/hiring. It's only fair to pay more/hire someone whose potential contribution/output is higher(although I know this is a sensitive topic that's become quite a taboo recently, I think around here people are more prone to think critically than the general public).
I submitted that link to HN last night, and it was subsequently incorrectly marked as a dupe. Strange.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18995823
I have been working as a ux consultant for 15 years now, there are two things that are serious problems:
1. Forcing your users into actions they don’t want to take (dark patterns)
2. Having users delete their accounts and data because you didn’t install enough hurdles on their way to the delete button

I am actually not very sure what we see here, is it a dark pattern? It could be, but at the size of Dropbox I could easily imagine the problems haveing a way of cancelling to easily could cause. Especially if we are talking about a file space.
Let me save a few minutes of your time. The author of the article believes that static typing is mostly a waste of time. Consequently, in his point-based model, he assigned that particular feature of the language +0.1 points. "Typing overhead", on the other hand, got -3 points. And then, after adding all the points, he unsurprisingly concluded that the overall score is negative.

If you agree with the premise that static typing is a waste of time, you'll probably agree with the rest, but then you're likely not using TS in the first place. If you don't agree, the article is just wrong.
Off-topic but the author's paper (from 2008) about C-store databases is a really good overview and survey of column-oriented databases and why/how they are useful. Which I understood at the basic conceptual level but never dug into in detail (ie, implementation details) as my day-to-day work is mostly in the web app row-by-row world: http://cs-www.cs.yale.edu/homes/dna/papers/abadiphd.pdf
Arguably, taking off along a route where one could potentially be stuck in icing for an extended period, in an aircraft not capable of that, is the definition of poor pre-departure decision making. Commercial airliners have relief to dispatch with malfunctioning anti-ice gear. The procedures almost always dictate that flight in known or forecast icing conditions is prohibited. Basically, if it’s not summer and there’s a cloud in the sky you’re not going. Icing is not something to mess around with in an aircraft not properly equipped for it.
You're not a typical investor in the described class. Frankly, I suffer from this expectation sometimes too - many things that seem wildly off course make sense from the perspective of the folks driving the ship.
I actually went through exactly this with Dropbox a couple weeks ago. It took me two tries, the first time I mis-read / fell into one of the dark patterns. I'd made up my mind long before I ever went to the website to cancel and all this did was make me grumpy and justify my decision even more. Clearly it adds to their retention numbers somewhere or it would be dropped, however I will not use dropbox again in the face of such blatant disrespect. It was a great service, but with so many other options out there I have no need to use one that thinks I need to be tricked in to staying.
I agree. This post is a follow-up, not a duplicate.
> A statement under penalty of perjury that all information in your request is truthful and that this is your User Account or that you have the authorization to make the request on behalf of the owner of the User Account

That strikes me as really extreme. If I had an Udacity account and someone tried to delete it, I would be annoyed, but I wouldn't seek to press criminal charges against them.
You need a car BECAUSE cities are designed entirely and obsessively around them. Huge space and miles of nothing in-between destinations.
No-one on this thread has mentioned breast feeding. The WHO recommends exclusively breast feeding a child for 6 months, and to continue until they are at least 2 years old. I understand that this is not possible or desirable for many parents, but the choice to do so should be available.

No surprise that even the most socially responsible companies in the US are skewed towards the extreme low end of parental leave allowance relative to other countries.

US employment law doesn't incentivise long term employment full stop, so little wonder some on here find it hard to understand why it is worth paying employees to come back.
In my role I've frequently had to interview software developers for the company I work for. We ask similar questions to this as the type of software we write needs an understanding of what's going on at a basic level.

We've interviewed developers who are amazing on paper, but can't answer simple questions that are mainly around enumerating a collection of integers.

I'd say communication is something we look for.
Can you articulate why solution x is better than solution y?
What are the compromises? Do you need to ask for more information?

So many candidates don't know an interview is an invitation to a conversation. You need to be able to engage with the people who are interviewing you. Ask questions to clarify if required.

The key advice I'd give developers is to be humble. I've met and worked with developers who are very talented, but also difficult to work with because of their personalities, we filter for this as a result.
The underlying learned failing here is giving up too easily, because you can.
I think its funny that ppl (mostly Americans), try and invent complicated new ways of doing things like this, instead of using how 90% of the civilised world does it.

Accrued Paid Paternity Leave, wouldnt work because of these reasons.

What if you get pregnant "by accident"?

What if you want to change jobs/company?

What if you get fired?

The rest of the world, solves this by having the leave not directly paid for by the employer, but by a fund.
This also means that female employees, are more or less "risk free" for employers, as the leave, is not a direct expense.

This fund is paid into, by all employers, for about 43USD pr quarter pr Employee. (Danish figures). That small amount means 28 weeks of fully paid paternity leave for all. (After that, you get a smaller amount, based on sallary but capped)
The article references this URL:
https://ecf.cand.uscourts.gov/cgi-bin/HistDocQry.pl?61603081...
However, that is not accessible without an account and possibly payment for the document. Is this content part of the public domain. If so, can/has it been posted elsewhere?

Edit: I should add that I do see some of the documents reproduced and referenced from elsewhere in the article (e.g. https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/5694620-Exhibit-OO-R...), however I didn't see any way to access the full collection.
> Both of my parents died before they were able to draw social security, despite paying into the system for a combined ~70-80 years.

I'm sorry about your parents, but that's how the system was intended to work. There are very few people who can save like they'll live to 120. Their livelihoods are going to be subsidized by who don't live as long under any system.
Merced is not the economic hub of the region. Why are all the rail lines running there?
Sure... I guess you're saying that you can use the typescript compiler just fine as long as you turn off literally the only reason for it?

Have you been on a team that adequately managed a list of thousands of warnings, always finding and fixing just the ones that are "important"?
I agree with it a lot. I quit social media pretty fast when I was just too busy to use it and it was only distracting me.
Often, one sees industries making changes because market forces have made the transaction cost of manufacturing too onerous. Some industries in that case will consolidate and vertically integrate. If the pain from uncertain prices and supply gets too great, could the solar industry start with mergers and vertical integration? Or is it far too early for that?
Reached out on twitter to see if my friends in the car business know if any of the Big 3 are using these anti-hail cannons. If true, talk about unintended consequences.

Wouldn't it be cheaper to cover the new cars in plastic tarps?
It’s more about loss aversion than any real impact. Burning a few bridges has negligible impact in a healthy labor market.
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For those worried about compile time for large projects, tools like https://github.com/alangpierce/sucrase can go a long way for the transpilation (remove types), while you can use the TypeScript compiler in parallel only for the type analysis.

That said, Sucrase has a number of issues still. Nothing that can't be resolved, but enough to prevent me from using it in a few projects.
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My arguments basically assume mandatory anyways, so sure.

> Think about offering paid leave benefits to small businesses and see what happens to the government coffers!

Nothing if it's funded properly. If you have, say, 5% of people taking paid leave, you tax everyone 5% of their salary and give that to the people on leave (roughly speaking). This is just a question or redistributing income not creating money out of thin air.
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It isn't so much that, as many producers were selling very low to get money coming in. These producers have now gone bust/ been bought up.

Now that those forced sellers have gone there isn't anyone willing to undercut everyone, so theres some support to prices.
There's something similar for PowerShell: https://www.powershellgallery.com/packages/Start-Demo/1.0.1
Can you expand further on this?
Just disable automatic payments from your paypal account and/or bank or card issuer and they'll cancel it for you! EASY! /s
Usage of the word "tax" is interesting, too. I'm happy to pay tax if I reap tangible benefits from it / if the "money" is put to good use. I'd say that's the case with typescript.
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Never done it before, but I would try using selenium with rspec or minitest. I would use webdriver to do an actual browser as well, if your site has any javascript.
This is one of the reasons I try to pay for most things with prepaid credit cards. Not only does it mitigate the risk of me having to change credit cards when their data is stolen, but it makes it very easy to cancel services, simply because there is no money left on the card for them to take.
Why is it YouTube's business to judge truth and falsehoods and provide a manicured walled garden? That seems like an avenue for all sorts of manipulation, censorship, etc.
The similarity is the intent to refuse lawful refunds, and probably the scale. Steam never optimized to refuse more refunds though.
"A human agent isn't creative, it just has a set of initial build orders it developed and picks one before the game starts, and after that it adapts to the situation weighted by the units it prefers."

Also the execution of the build order is nowhere near flawless.
I grew up in Delta near Point Roberts. It's a part of America located on the southern end of a peninsula, the rest of which, is part of British Columbia. They have an elementary school but not a high school in point roberts. So, when I was in high school, most of the people from Point Roberts would be bussed into Tsawwassen but we had a bus that would bring a few of them to the high school I went to.

That seems like a perfect area that could be part of your land exchange idea. All the teenagers there end up going to school in Canada anyway. There's only one crossing between Point Roberts and Canada.
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Type system is like a seat beat, its not going to save your from a head on collision with 18 wheeler. But it will mitigate you pain and suffering in small to medium accidents.
No idea but I would put my money on "Tony", given that in the video he introduces himself by "Hello, I’m Tony Hoare".
Sorry you got downvoted. A lot of people never studied the history of Unions (and I'm very pro Union, with several Union organizing relatives) to see how incredibly corrupt they become. They have a long history of selling out to the agenda of the rich - and many famous strikes were initiated by the rank and file against the wishes of the Union - forcing the Union to pretend to be supporting the strikers while doing everything possible to undermine them.

Just one example - Caesar Chavez's United Farm Workers was destroyed by the Teamsters, since the Teamsters were aligned with farmers (who are mostly big multinationals - hope you don't believe that "small farmer" myth.) So the Teamsters agreed to undermine the UFW actions (by taking away members and offering a short-term sweeter deal, criticizing UFW, then later giving them much worse deals after the Farmers gave them benefits to keep the truckers happy. Keeping Teamster management fat and happy.)
Fair enough. In those jurisdictions that still have problems, perhaps regulations requiring hybrid and/or plug-in hybrid vehicles make sense. This can't be done at a national level because the benefit of these vehicles falls off dramatically in areas that experience temperature extremes, making them hardly any better than traditional cars.

I drive a PHEV in Michigan, and for around 6-8 months a year, its mileage isn't any better than a standard 4 cylinder due to poor hybrid performance in extremely cold or hot temperatures. You get into the car, the BMS determines that the battery is either baking or freezing, and scales regen/assistance back to minimal levels. You essentially end up with a gas vehicle with an expensive start/stop system (and below about 10-12f, they actually often idle even when stopped to maintain engine temperature).
That’s not how I’ve heard the term used. The meaning I’m familiar with is “person closely known to the card holder incurs a charge that isn’t really authorized”, for example you might have access to their computer but aren’t supposed to use their saved credit card info for purchases. For example, companies ask for the ability for websites to do biometric authentication via TouchID/FaceID to combat friendly fraud. That wouldn’t make sense under your definition.
Yeah, I use both all the time.

I will admit I have to pass type hints via generics to my compose / pipe calls more often than I would like, but it definitely still works.
How do you determine how easy it is to leave before you actually need to do it? Before even signing up?
Ask HN: I love my work. I want to quit
I've been working for this company for the last 5 years as a software developer.

I love what I do, I love what we have, I love the team, but I do not agree with many of the decisions the founders have taken during the last 1 or 2 years, I decided to blindly trust them. At the end of the they is their company not mine. However, we are still not growing at the rate we all expected.
I don't have the answers regarding how to rule a company, or how to lead us to succeed, but I know what is NOT helping us to go there, but I haven't been able to gain enough power in the company to actually do something about it.

A month ago a head hunter offered a new position at a company that is just in the next step my current company is. They offer me 80% more salary (I am being underpaid but I didn't care because the love I have for the product), and in general better working conditions.

In my current company I have been promised to have stock options but after 5 years I have nothing. I know they are not trying to trick me or anything, but seems that it is not important enough for them, and that really bothers me.

I told my boss about what I am about to do, I openly told him the things we need to change immediately, and although he agreed in many of the things I said and promised me that we are going to re structure the whole company organization to make it happen, my instinct is still telling me to quit.

I am depressed because I am about to break up with one of the things that I have loved the most in my life. But my mind tells me that it is just business and this decisions must be taken without listening the heart.

What do you think? Have you experienced something similar?
Disagree, within the timeframe of this topic. 0-6 months is basically all about the bond between child and parents. Sometime after that, sure, a requirement to socialise comes into play.
My experience with it was all the packages for the platform I wanted to use were broken.
>The suspicious use of noncompetes as a pure power play came to light when the fast food joint Jimmy Johns was discovered to have forced their sandwich makers to promise not to go to another fast food restaurant. It is not credible that they were taking JJ secrets to McDonalds. But the action froze JJ workers in searching for a better job. Surprisingly, the courts said it was legal, but JJ settled and stopped using them.

This is so fucked
Years ago I needed to cancel a fax service. They refused to allow me to cancel unless I called them up, which I wouldn't do.

In the end I just changed all my details to some variation of the phrase "cancel account" except the billing details (which I couldn't change) then did a chargeback every time they charged me.

It took them a couple of months to finally get round to cancelling my account (I think it was actually the bank who intervened). It was more effort than just calling the fac company, but I sure as hell wasn't playing their game.
Ah yeah, that would do the same thing basically.
I freaking LOVE Typescript.

I shipped an app about 90 days ago based on Typescript.

https://getpolarized.io/

It's basically a document manager which supports annotations, comments and keeping your documents in the cloud.

Typescript was a MASSIVE win. If you're on a simple code base doing a refactor is easy. Anything significant and it's a nightmare.

If you change an object method JS won't complain.

With Typescript and IntelliJ or VS Code it's just a simple refactoring and your code just works.

I would have probably given up on the project had it not been for TS.
Their concern is probably someone deleting somebody else's account, along with all record of courses completed, etc. Is it possible to have an Udacity account if you're not actually paying them? If so, "account removed" and "unpaid account" are very different things and the transition between them is one-way.
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If it’s harder to leave than to join, then it’s also illegal in the EU.

You have to be able to cancel through the same medium through which you can subscribe (so if you can subscribe through email, then unsubscribing only through snail mailing a letter is illegal), and it can’t be an unreasonable effort.

I’m very interested what the consumer protection agencies in the EU have to say about this.
>Repackaging content is not curation by any stretch of the word.

>literally the definition of curation.

Actual definition:

>verb (used with object), cu·rat·ed, cu·rat·ing.
>to take charge of (a museum) or organize (an art exhibit)
>to pull together, sift through, and select for presentation, as music or website content

"literally"
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that's incredible. I didn't even know that Adobe was still maintaining and releasing new versions of Flash.
I'll remember to never sign up for that service. Thank you.
Spoken like someone who has the funds to live in some of the most expensive areas of the US, pick and choose their employer, doesn't mind spending money on quick, convenient transportations like Uber or Lyft and can afford to shop a high-end grocery stores.

For the average person in the US, who can't live in large cities due to cost, is lucky to have the job that is 25 miles away from home, and has to shop at the Walmart (10 miles in the other direction from home) cars provide a ton of value - in fact, they probably couldn't do without them.
Manhattan is also perfect for this. You can walk anywhere and it's great exercise and if you need to get anywhere far, the subway is usually 2 or 3 blocks away at most. I could never figure out how so many taxis could exist in such a walkable environment until my coworker took a taxi to go 3 blocks. People love to be lazy, especially when the company is footing the bill. I still don't get why we don't have a light rail system to complement the subway system.
The whole course builds upon the fastai library written in python so there is no point in not using python. But I feel like you can gain a pretty good understanding of deep learning in general by watching the videos.

The live course was held over a time of 7 weeks. It should take around 70h to finish it in total but I really depends on how deep you want to dive in and how easy it is for you to understand.
It pays dividends long before the end.

My usual "time to 'oh thank you typescript'" is roughly 2 days from the beginning of the project.
How is this working? Don't they send the unpaid part to collections?
Almost sounds like they're about to say GuyWhoWantsToKeepHisAccountSaysWhat
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Sweet; headed to Norway and Sweden this summer, I'll definitely make it a point to visit Oslo then. (Although I was probably going to anyway).