skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's not that he was fired directly "because he was religious", exactly; it's about whether Yelp discriminated against him by violating the following (from https://www.eeoc.gov/laws/types/religion.cfm):

> The law requires an employer or other covered entity to reasonably accommodate an employee's religious beliefs or practices, unless doing so would cause more than a minimal burden on the operations of the employer's business. This means an employer may be required to make reasonable adjustments to the work environment that will allow an employee to practice his or her religion.

IANAL, but I believe there is a difference between a person being unavailable due to golfing vs. due to a religious belief, since a person's religious belief is a protected category whereas their sporting activities are not. If it was company policy to shave one's head, but an employee's religion prohibited them from doing so, the company would be discriminating against that person even if they required everyone to shave their heads (caveat: assuming a shaved head was not actually important to the employer's business). Otherwise, a company could "uniformly" apply a rule that "just so happens" to only apply to a specific religion (or gender, or any other protected category), and use that to effectively ban those who fall under that category.

Now, in this specific case, I don't know if he'll be able to show that supporting his beliefs wouldn't have caused Yelp "more than a minimal burden", but I think that's what he's going after.
Posting anon due to industry reasons.

How in the world was this invested in?

1. It's unclear how, at least in the context of March Madness, this is preferable to any number of alternatives. Given that they don't touch money, it's functionally equivalent to either running an offline pool, or using an existing site with years upon years of consumer behavior and content integration like CBS, ESPN, or Yahoo!. Better UX? Yeah, maybe, but there are dozens of companies that have tried and failed on that premise in the fantasy space: FleaFlicker, Sleeperbot, and on and on. Some guy from the Apprentice had a company doing exactly this and spectacularly failed. People go where they already go as a habit, not to some new destination.

2. On the other formats, I'm skeptical that you'd have enough people willing to join pools around The Bachelor or what have you, or else you'd see it already. Even if I'm wrong, you run into the problem of (#3) plus generally a scale problem; that maxes around at a very low total unique visitor count.

3. Under the thesis that this might eventually turn into a platform that accepts and handles money, that seems extremely unlikely if you've seen how skin regulation has gone now that NJ is up and legalized. I can't see a world where an existing license holder would take a flyer on this when you've got the FanDuels and the DraftKings (not to mention the inevitable strong European entry in the market) with vastly larger budgets and user databases to leverage. Further to that, in the event these guys take off, there's absolutely no reason why those companies wouldn't just replicate this functionality. Anyone who follows Europe knows that over time, features diverge to parity.

It's going to be a dickish statement, but I don't see how it's not 100% true: there's no way this gets invested in if this kid's dad wasn't Joe Montana. Literally the only logic I could theoretically buy is that the name recognition of Joe Montana + YC would give them a shot at a license in a multi-skin state where a lower-end holder would be willing to give them a shot. Free to play either as a service (Chalkline, Sportcaller) or as the end game unto itself (#1, #2) is dead on arrival.
This is true, but as you just said: it has to be a core job duty made clear before hiring. I highly doubt that Yelp would tell candidates "you cannot have a single day without checking your email." There may be some implicit "this is a startup, so work hard" mentality, but that won't hold up in a court of law.
Interesting. I think a lot of this is intuitive in the context of Gestalt design principles https://www.howdesign.com/resources-education/online-design-...
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Hahah, woops we're on it!
and r/wsb is like the flophouse I guess?
Linus Torvalds is quirky and has an ego. Steven Wolfram is one of the most arrogant people I've ever read. It comes through in virtually every aspect of his writing.

It's understood that people who are exceptional smart aren't always socially pleasant, but Wolfram is trying to raise that bar by quite a bit.
I wonder if the pilot got any compensation for the fuel savings? I could see that being a dangerous incentive though, forcing pilots to opt for more risky conditions for the fuel savings bonus.
Please don't take HN threads on MPTs (Most Predictable Tangent). They're always the same, therefore tedious, therefore off topic here.

Those who haven't had enough can find their fill at https://hn.algolia.com/.
Since I know how to trade stocks, but find that activity massively unpleasant, I guess I can assume that I wouldn't like heroin either?
As a counterpoint the Howard Hughes Medical Institute was basically a tax dodging scheme up until Hughes died and the new board turned it into a full on "societal beneficial" organization which has done inarguably good work.
Yeah, my impression is that professionals distinguish algorithmic trading (minimising price impact of a given order) and automated trading (rule based trading to generate profit), while amateurs (including Investopedia) tend to use the term "algorithmic trading" either for both, or for the latter while being completely unfamiliar with the former.
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I dont think 24/7/365 however is a reasonable thing to demand
Yeah, I'll admit I didn't notice that. My apologies.
Thank you -- you're one of the few Robinhood critics who recognizes this (rather than their routing of orders to HFT) as the real problem

Robinhood disgusts me. 99% of their users should not be trading individual stocks (or worse)
A bit of our “heritage” in programming destroyed by the C family of programming languages

Pascal, like Algol, had nested subroutines for decomposing longer operations without leaking the details.

Nested functions is one of the things I like about JavaScript as well.
I understood what was being said. I am questioning the point of it. Everybody I know who I've ever talked about going to a film with (and my girlfriend really likes going to the movies so it comes up with her and her friend group a lot) always always always has a movie in mind when they come up with it. The most recent example for them (I didn't go) was the new Spider-Verse movie. They weren't going to see "a movie", they were going to see "that movie", and it was from that movie's release that the impetus originated.

I'd like to see evidence of assertions to the contrary, because to me they don't jibe with reality.
Schrödinger’s cat?
I could understand a coverage rotation, but having to be available 24/7/365 is basically being treated as a slave. He might not win his case - and unless his attorney is working on a percentage of a win - he should get a second opinion.

For his own health and well being as a family, he needs to find new employment. Find a job with a more reasonable work/life balance and adapt lifestyle choices to fit the budget.

I know a chaplain that has been at the bedside of many people during their final hours. None ever thought that they should have spent more time at the office.
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> But there are other women/girls in the story who come off in a much more positive, almost angelic, light so I don't think the author could be accused of misogyny here.

I don't think this is the best defence. Maybe 'misogyny' is a dangerously ambiguous word here, but certainly sexist writing can contain positive portrayals of women. You've also got to take into account how much humanity and depth the female characters are invested with, the types of traits they are celebrated or derided for, and so on. (If a book contained only hateful and angelic women, that would be suspiciously reminiscent of the Madonna-whore dichotomy, which is a bit of a wanky phrase but I think has some truth to it.)

I think it would be fair to say that we don't get a full portrait of anyone but Stoner, so the fact that Edith is arguably a bit of a caricature of the broken, bitter woman doesn't necessarily tell us much about Williams's attitude to women generally. And there's enough nuance in her portrayal to leave space for her to be a real person behind the scenes.
Before state lotteries, there were numbers games run by various organized crime groups and independent operators.

And before that, there were other forms of gambling.

The only difference is where the money goes.

Drugs and alcohol have destroyed far more lives, I can say that with absolute certainty. Drugs are not cheap, plus the drugs affect your judgement/health/family to a far greater degree than just gambling. Just compare the amount of treatment programs for both, etc. It's not even close.
I agree about calling a product complete. MS Office and Windows were probably pretty complete in the early 2000s. But instead of firing the devs it would be nice if they put them to work on something new.
> Both Purism + Jolla seem aligned on values: pro-privacy

Even if Jolla says they are pro-privacy, they are nowhere near as pro-privacy as Purism. Jolla happily licenses their OS to makers of bog-standard mobile phone hardware that use binary blobs and where the CPU and cellular modem share memory. Purism, on the other hand, aimed from the start at having the cellular modem separate from the rest of the system, and at offering hardware kill switches for the microphone and connectivity.

Also, a good amount of Jolla’s OS is closed-source.
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You mean arbitration is a good thing. Yes it is. Forced arbitration is taking away the option of going to court.
Reading posts like these is like eating shit.
Though it seems Mr Eastep did also end development of Shorewall back in 2005:

http://lists.shorewall.net/pipermail/shorewall-users/2005-Ma...

Not sure what happened back then but he must have had a change of heart?
Needs a form fill with a valid email, but it really is the full just-released 300+ page book.
> I don't know how bats works with the @test annotation? That doesn't look like valid shell syntax.

Bats runs the test files through a preprocessor[1] that, among other things, converts each `@test` case into a shell function. E.g. `@test "the doohickey should frob" { ... }` becomes `test_the_doohickey_should_frob() { ... }`.

[1] https://github.com/bats-core/bats-core/blob/master/libexec/b...
I think the worst of the delay in the browser really comes from actually scrolling the content instead of rasterizing beforehand, like most smartphones tend to do. The rest of the UI seems decently smooth.

It also seems to be running GNOME, which even manages to lag on my upper mid range laptop.
I do not think the argument is that his religion was discriminated against /in particular/, but that the working environment was anathema to the reasonable observation of religion. That said, I am not a lawyer either!
The reason "auxiliary" workers get a raw deal in this country is that health insurance is dealt through employers via a terrible WW2 era tax incentive.

If companies didn't get on the hook for providing health insurance they would directly employ more people instead of using contractors.

So this is why I'm worried about labor unions in tech and the private sector in general; they are never the solution, and their lack isn't the cause to any of the described problems.
If it's better, why not submit a pull request to PostGres and try to make it the default output style?
Sounds like we need regulations to prevent the outsourcing of manufacturing to China.
It's been a while since I've watched it, but my recollection is of his main point is that philanthropy by the winners (like the wealthy) pushes "win win" change that preserves or enhances the mechanisms that allowed those wealthy people to win in the first place. However, if we truly want to improve society for everybody, we may need solutions where the existing winners lose in some way. Philanthropy led by the winners carefully avoids that.

It's a really great talk, and I recommend you take the time to watch it. I can't do the argument justice.
I understand that from a protocol perspective this is more open, so your data is not going into another silo like Signal etc.

From a consumer standpoint, isn't it still true that you still need to get people to use the new client(s)? (It's not like gmail/hotmail/yahoo/etc. email service providers automatically have a COI client on top of their email client) In the end, you still have the network problem, of getting people to switch over?

That would make statements like this a little bit deceiving: "You can also reach everyone, there are more than double active email users than WhatsApp users, for example."

Yes, all email users (who use services that support IMAP) are technically automatically "users" of this, but before they start using your client, you still can't chat with them over COI. Or is there fall back to email?
You should use Pocket for that: getpocket.com
Cool. What's the best way to minimize transactional costs when buying ETFs (as a buy-and-hold strategy)? E.g. Should I only purchase marketable round lots? Can I do any better than Fidelity/Interactive Brokers for price improvement? Any tips to make my trades as efficient as possible? Or would you avoid ETFs altogether and just purchase mutual funds directly from Vanguard, without any transactional costs? Thanks!
By that time the money is already made from those for who it's cheaper to stay than moving away ... so you can buy the next company with a dying product, milk their customers and move on.
> all that is left is code and no knowledge

The irony is that the better the engineering staff was, the better this works out for the firing company.

If some newbies can pick up the code and quickly become productive, that's to the credit to the staff that was fired.
Could he be autistic or something? Usually people would know how they would be perceived if they were well socialized. In any case, it doesn't bother me. He thinks his work is of the utmost importance and wants to be in the annals of mathematics alongside Newton, Einstein, etc. He won't be, but let him have his fun. He's at least doing interesting things, unlike these unbearable celebrities that are incredibly dull, but everyone fawns over. I hereby transfer the right of ego from the mainstream celebs to the scientists.
Indeed. 100% of the times I listen podcasts, it's when doing tasks that I can't read during. Podcasts has brought pleasures to doing daily chores, driving, going grocery shopping, walking the dog, and so on.

Maybe too much so, I am finding that I maybe listen to too much podcast, to the point where I spend very little time in my own head, day dreaming and having my own thoughts. But that's an entirely separate issue.
Please stop deleting and re-submitting this. Continuing to do so will probably have a different outcome than the one you desire.
> I'm not sure if I'd say that, previously NXP did the exact same thing with i.MX7

And before that, they had their Vybrid line that's a A5 paired with an M4.
He obviously has not heard of the Streisand effect [1] - not that any amplification of the issue at hand is needed here.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Streisand_effect
Stock trading is to wealth management as opiates/painkillers are to pain management. Both can be part of a larger strategy that leads to an optimal outcome while minimizing risk, but the average layperson might not be able to accurately gauge/understand how minimize this risk. The argument then is consumer-facing stock trading services create a moral hazard similar to the one created by unscrupulous doctors or your neighborhood drug dealer.
Now write a unit test for the inline block of code within the longer function which would have become the nested function???

You write the test (where any is needed) for the outer function.

Edit: the start of the discussion was about using nested functions to decompose what otherwise would have been “unpartitioned” long functions. Such blocks of code nested within a long function would not be possible to unit test, either.

Unit tests, rather than integration tests, are usually bogus, anyway, though.
Ya that makes sense. I wasn't thinking of it that way.
Perkeep is written/founded by Brad Fitzpatrick (google/golang engineer) and you have to sign a google CLA to contribute to it: https://perkeep.org/code#contributing
I tend to agree with your point as shown. Every inch given to 'worthy causes' like Delta.chat can come with the cost of unscrupulous types like scammers/spammers.

I don't really expect Gmail to bend over backwards to accommodate this. Like you though, I worry that this could inhibit Delta.chat getting enough critical mass.

On the other hand, if delta.chat starts to collect some critical mass, Gmail would probably want to avoid the generation of a pro-tip like "don't use Gmail, they're too restrictive, use Fastmail/iCloud/Outlook instead" because that could cost market share...or they can increase that limit a bit and keep the status quo going well.

Full disclosure -> I am not a Google employee, but thank you for providing the caveat for your comment! Those tend to help comments be read in a more meaningful light, speaking for myself at least :D
Any idea what the "roll-around mouse" thing is that he mentions? The only Google results for that phrase are cat toys
Dense code that benefits from dense variables(which describes a lot of "pure algorithms" work) I often approach by aliasing the variables to shorter ones. It's all in the same body so the context is not especially hard to lose.
Through the article I found he livestreams many of his meetings on Twitch!

This is particularly candid moment I happen to find: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HGjvFyRk_4I&feature=youtu.be...

edit: I wasn't aware of the negative opinions regarding his ego, but from listening to this meeting I can say they aren't unsubstantiated!
I was thinking of things like a personal accountant for a mega-millionaire or a doctor on a crisis case...but even then you're right. Even with my qualifier of "sliver" and that I was mentally thinking in time-spans of less than 365 days...yeah. No call.
The value for pure tech players might be low -as in, you could hack something that does 90%+ of what segment does for you.

But for every other biz that happens to be on the internet, ie e-commerce, not having to rely on a tech team for implementing various services has some value. If you consider that some websites can only be updated every few months or so, having a third party manage that for you is a life-saver.

I've seen / helped too many marketing folks try to get some services (read pixels) implemented and it's always been a Shih-tzuh :)
If we have to rely on the philanthropy of the super rich to save us, we've already failed, since it means the super rich have locked up the money needed to save us, and can dole it out at will.

If that money weren't locked up with the super rich, a lot of our problems would go away.

So yeah, perpetuating this system, and making it worse, isn't going to end well.

Besides, philanthropy is often merely a way to gain a political goal with a significant tax savings.
Maintenance. Real maintenance is cheap.

New SDK comes out, make it compile, do the necessary refactor. That's it. Minimal team, no real deadlines, just pure throughput.
One of the actually positive things that came out of the cryptocurrency ecosystem is the amount of effort put into libraries like these. I think it's great.
Being a backend engineer with occasional on-call responsibilities, this is an unfortunate reality I've had to deal with.

My religious tradition (reformed evangelical christian) takes the sabbath pretty seriously, as stated in the Westminster Confession of Faith:

> VIII. This Sabbath is to be kept holy unto the Lord when men, after a due preparing of their hearts, and ordering of their common affairs beforehand, do not only observe an holy rest all the day from their own works, words, and thoughts about their worldly employments and recreations, but also are taken up the whole time in the public and private exercises of his worship, and in the duties of necessity and mercy.

Notice the last statement makes an allowance for acts of mercy and duties of necessity, which would certainly include things like being a Doctor or a Policeman, but I've always considered my duties as a Software Engineer being on-call to be borderline on whether or not they meet that standard. Certainly my employer(s) have thought they were necessary... But who are we kidding. Most of this stuff isn't life or death and waiting till Monday to get it fixed probably wouldn't be that big of a deal.

(I should probably mention that although these are the standards of the Church I attend they're rarely enforced in any meaningful sense - being treated more as a matter of personal conscience than of discipline... and particularly when it comes to the Sabbath)

Still I wrestle with it... not having a firm enough conviction to quit a job where I've had to do it, though if it were an every week thing, particularly if I had to regularly miss the Sunday service, I almost certainly would.

If I could make one plea, it would be for tolerance and compromise. I realize religious beliefs can be pretty weird in this day and age, but they're often sincerely held, and there's usually a solution available if the company is willing to consider it. (for example I'm just fine being on-call any other day of the week, and a surprising oddity of the reformed tradition, we don't really have religious holidays: https://heidelblog.net/2017/03/the-westminster-divines-on-ho...)
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So here in Texas with have what's called a sunset system, basicly every state agency has a defined life time(I think 7 years) and before the legislative session where they expire(we have a part time lege) they go through a review process where they have to justify their existence and all of their functions. This last one of the sunset bill got held hostage and special session had to be called to make sure this specific agency (in this case the Texas medical board) didn't cese to exist a few months later.
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The language from Yelp pretty much spells out their case:

> "Yelp respects religious and personal responsibilities and makes reasonable accommodations when requested" (emphasis added)

I haven't read any court papers. My guess is their defense will hinge on them trying to prove the plaintiff didn't adequate accommodations.

Doesn't pass the smell test if you ask me. If it's important enough to fire somebody over, it's important enough to have a clear escalation strategy in case one person isn't available.
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Stoner's wife is the novel's antagonist. Clearly she's meant to be viewed somewhat unsympathetically. But Stoner himself made some terrible decisions and seemed willfully ignorant of his wife's discontent. They are complex characters.
Why doesn't it look repeatable?
Are there examples of something that you're allowed to do as a volunteer, but not allowed to get paid for it? Sex in some states I guess. What else?
> There may be some implicit "this is a startup, so work hard" mentality

Yelp isn't really a startup by any reasonable standard.