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> Blood money is fine with us, says GitLab: Vetting non-evil

> customers is 'time consuming, potentially distracting'

If that isn't a divisive title, I don't know what is. This should be labelled as an opinion piece.

> Code-hosting biz also bans staff from talking politics at

> work

Good, it's the work place - it's for work. Some freedoms are restricted whilst at work, for example at home I can walk around naked - that doesn't tend to do down so well at work.

> It was proposed to clarify that GitLab is committed to

> doing business with "customers with values that are

> incompatible with our own values."

This seems like a no-brainer, the article literally lists a bunch of examples where companies that get politically activate have their efforts backfire. I commend GitLab for this.
Do it at lunch or on a break. During work, nope.
Why does this leave out the Chinese Oracle Bone Script which dates from the ~13th century BC?
There is a contingent out there who are very much against him if only for the reason that he has given a platform to people they don't like.
Has the percentage of people sent to facilities increased under Trump? As far as I can tell it hasn't. There are more people trying to cross the border under Trump than Obama so there is probably a larger number of people in ICE facilities, but that wouldn't really be a fair criticism of Trump.
Short answer: it's only older than the universe if you ignore the error bars of the estimate.
What qualifies as a rifle?
I might be misunderstanding how Capacitor code generation works, but would re-running the build process overwrite code customizations on the previous build? If so, how would this be avoided?
No, but we (our planet, stuff in our vicinity) could age less.

What we'd need is most stuff (that gave rise to most stars and most of our measures of the age of the universe) to be in a higher-gravity region compared to the star in question. It seems unlikely, but I suppose it's possible...

[Edit: I thought you were talking about GR time dilation due to gravity. A re-read shows that I may have been in error.

Also, for a star 190 ly away, any relativistic explanation, either special or general, is probably wrong.]
Completely agree. Besides which it's a hopelessly medieval master-slave attitude to employment - the notion that they're not paying for time, expertise or work, but rather taking temporary ownership of subjects. I would have nothing to do with Gitlab knowing this, as employee or customer.
>"I own property here, and if we do this, the value of my property will fall. Therefore, we shouldn't do it".

Everyone acts like this is about value as money, but it isn't. The value comes from a variety of factors. If you started pouring sewage into my bedroom, you can bet the value of my place is going to fall, and that's why I'd be strongly opposed to it, but it's not about the money. The dollar value would fall because it'd make it a worse place to live, which is the real cause of the objections. The dollar value going down is (often) a symptom, not a cause.
Except for cops as the other commenter noted.

https://reason.com/2017/10/13/cases-dropped-oakland-cops-dro...

"Judge Jon Rolefson dismissed charges against former Contra Costa County Sheriff's Deputy Ricardo Perez [...]

Perez was charged with felony unlawful sex with a minor, felony oral copulation with a minor, and two misdemeanor counts of engaging in lewd conduct. But Rolefson decided there was insufficient evidence Perez knew that Guap was under age 18. "
why no one talks about health and safety of this technology?Not that it will cause any issues, but interested and curious about any peer reviewed studies on how prolonged exposure of 60GHz with close proximity to the body will affect? If there is none, I would love to jump on to the ship. Because, it is so cool! if there is something or have no evidence, then the community or the experts should talk about it and push for proper studies before 10 years from now folks exposed with Soli got cancer!
This is a weird article, it starts by saying its the worst keyboard by comparing between three select computer keyboards, and then proceeds to show a calculator from the 1970s...its a numberpad at best, no? I've never heard of a calculator referred to by its 'keyboard', although i guess its accurate on some level
Well said...thank you.
What's the title of this thread?

There are plenty of places I'd engage with you in conversation about this. It's not here though. By a long stretch. Hit me up the next time we're discussing whistleblowers, dissidents, Amnesty International or domestic abuse. Well, domestic abuse from the perspective of the victim, at least.

This is a pretty fucking stupid hill to stand on, let alone die on, mate.
> build perceptually uniform colormaps with accessibility considerations

That is impossible, color-blind people wont see them as perceptually uniform since the area with the color they can't see gets a lot darker. For example I can't see red text on a certain kinds of black background, as in I don't even recognize that there are letters there. I remember being on a presentation where the author apparently liked to play with colors, and several of the screens were just blank to me I didn't even know that I there were letters there I couldn't see.
Just because there was competition doesn't mean it was any good, nor that it was gonna last. Microsoft "decline" largely came from new technology they laughed at (smartphone and cloud computing) and to a large extend, missed on. Such an evolution is typical from the high inertia inherent to such a large structure. It forced them to evolve, for the better. Same will likely happen over time with Google/Apple, their structure will get more and more rigid, they will stop providing as much benefit to the user, competition will appear and their will be forced to open up. Apple is already starting to lose ground on the self-repair front, and both are more and more called out on the rigidity of their stores.

Amazon/Facebook is a different problem. Amazon is colliding with the old retail chain and weakening their power in DC (Amazon is not doing anything more that has been done in brick and mortar stores ~forever). As for Facebook, it is threatening Governments themselves (privacy is just just a convenient red-herring).
Congrats on launching!

I'm a founder of a startup in the same space, so just wanted to say good luck. I love the name. It's exciting to see so many folks working on making connective developer tooling a better experience.

I had a link originally included in here but -- you guys should enjoy your launch. I understand and have a great deal of empathy for the effort it takes to build and launch something new. Enjoy all of it, and keep up the good work.

- Keith
Buyers go where there are sellers. Sellers go where there are buyers. This is the classic network effect.
Ask HN: Technical Writing course suggestions?
This article is so imprecise that it reads as satire.
Lion tamers are also regularly killed and or maimed by their lions.
Is it ethical for a doctor to provide medical help to someone they find unethical? Would it be moral if it refused to help someone because of different political stance?
Apples and bananas definitely should not be kept in an enclosed space as the gases will cause faster ripening. When apples are stored professionally they are stored in a nitrogen environment with CO2 scrubbers which can make them last for months. Bananas typically come in plastic bags unripened so that they last longer on store shelves. Tubers can generally last a very long time in a dry cool place, which the fridge is not. It's why people used to have root cellars.
The Python approach also exposes unnecessary details and by doing so causes a performance hit by forcing you to get a list of keys/values and then find out of what you’re looking for is in them. This is slower than what the dictionary could do internally: hash the key and check if there’s an entry for it in the backing store.
I think it's because he's not that bright and has one of the most prolific podcasts in terms of listeners that he's divisive. He is mostly uncritical of whatever someone says and isn't that quick on the draw to call people out so he's basically a platform for any mildly famous person to go on the show and spew whatever crackpot theory there is for a few hours unchallenged to his huge base of listeners. He himself is not that controversial but he allows on controversial characters unchallenged.
Sure, my point is that without BTC the options most people have are cash, which requires a physical meetup, cash in the mail (risk & can be/easily traced), or a bank transfer in their native country.

I'm pointing out that even if it's traced, getting to pick who traces you can add a layer of practical anonymity.
"I will say that it takes a certain level of privilege to say one shouldn’t discuss politics at work." Can you clarify the meaning? As it reads to me, if one belongs to a marginalized group, one would suffer disproportionately from making such a statement. I'm not quite clear on the semantics I suppose.

On another note, anecdotally, how many people have had a work relationship or project suffer due to discussion of politics at work, or alternatively, improve? (This being a reason not to discuss, it would be beneficial to sample for how likely it is to occur negatively.)
The first one naturally.

The tone of my previous remark is that optimization algorithms are orthogonal to programming languages, an language agnostic backend optimizer working on AST and SSA passes doesn't care what the input language was all about.
> 1957 - John Backus and IBM create FORTRAN. There's nothing funny about IBM or FORTRAN. It is a syntax error to write FORTRAN while not wearing a blue tie.

Not the same joke, but really rather awesome.
Yes. I agree that companies shouldn't become adhoc moral arbiters. beholden to social media campaigns, or the like.

However, the bigger problem is that companies with international presence are going to have an increasingly difficult time navigating legal sanctions or directives from the various countries they may sell to or operate in.

The challenge comes when a company is faced with being closed out of a large market if they don't comply with another country's legal directives. While, the best/right answer might be to ignore those countries, the reality of having to withdraw from valuable markets would be challenging.

Though, while it may seem like new problem, non-digital industries have been dealing with this kind of thing for a long time. Maybe the WTO, or the like, will develop fair trade/IP regime to guard against enabling a country to block or sanction international digital/media companies for violating local laws. But I wouldn't expect anything like to happen soon because countries are not to keen on giving up sovereignty.

Maybe spontaneous digital trade wars will become a thing.

edit: typo as usual
I'm not sure why "less auto dependence [would mean] less suburbs."

Here's one alternative: If we get rid of cars in cities, have commuter rail from the city to each surrounding suburb, and allow cars in the suburb? Then... there you go. This is called a "hub and spoke" pattern iirc

There are plenty of suburbs in the US that operate like this— where most people who work in the city commute via rail, but most families also have cars, and there is a spread-out spacious feel (some towns in NJ come to mind).
So if $villain goes to the hardware store, says he needs a good hammer since $villain is feeling like hitting $someone with it - then the hardware store should sell a hammer? After all, $villain may go to the competing hardware store and get a hammer there, or even build his own hammer.
There seem to be quite a few people on this forum that both find this article interesting, and don't fall into the enumerated thought buckets.

I, a Jew, don't think either of those things and do think this article is interesting and has merit.
Thanks for the different point of views everyone. Wish this wouldn't have got down-voted by two points. Did not consider parts of the world that have government censorship, makes more sense in that case.
> and help them spread hate

because hate has been extended to include whatever people don't like, i.e. hate. Hate is a particularly bad choice of sieve. Violence is better
We have used Zoho at our for-profit (free-tier - up to 25 people) with 5 GB Mailbox. We've had some issues when the HR tried to reach out to potential candidates and sent out some marketing emails. We were blocked and informed that it looks like spam. Do confirm with them before taking the plunge. Good luck!
Would you please clarify what you mean by, "Because if you genuinely belief people want try to identify who is and isn't racist in a "conforming" way then you're delusional?"

Here's the problem: at least in SV, you're going to be restricted to a sub-set of very narrow beliefs which are acceptable to express. I may hold a personal belief that, say, trans-sexuality is not a "real thing" or ought not to be treated with surgery. Do you honestly believe I'd be able to express that in such an environment, as much as someone who believes it is "a thing"? You may believe my belief is just too "in-tolerant" or "bigoted" to be expressed, but who are you to be the arbiter thereof?

Now let's take the other side of the coin. If you work in the energy industry, heavy manufacturing, etc., you probably couldn't express support for trans-sexuals without having problems. On the other hand, you'd likely have no issue saying you didn't believe in such a thing. I know someone in energy who wore a rainbow flag pin during one gay month a few years ago; he wasn't fired, but many of his superiors became noticeably cold toward him and he left after realizing he probably couldn't move up at that company. Again, why ought that to be the case?

The biggest issue is that when people start talking politics, you are expected to participate. Some one looks over and says, "Hey Big Chungus, what do you think?" In such a situation, I cannot reasonably say, "Oh, I have no opinion." Certain issues are simply so partisan that such a response, even in the rare circumstance that it is true, will anger both sides and damage me.

So, I avoid talking politics at work and try to work at places where others do the same. People I work with generally never know my politics. I am more than happy to bloviate about political stuff with friends and family, or to go be mad online after work. At work, it is best to stay non-partisan.
> You seem to have a supreme self confidence that most people do not.

Only in certain areas.

> So you think that you 'hypnotized' the person to gradually stop smoking over a month from a sort session?

No. The change in rate of smoking (2 packs a day to 2 cigs a day) was immediate and durable (at least up to a month, I didn't talk to her again beyond that.) Interestingly, at the very end of the session there was a momentary unconscious movement of the hand in a holding-cigarette gesture. I think the reason that she didn't stop smoking entirely was somehow connected to that gesture, FWIW.

> You have some 'magical' powers.

Maybe..? Certainly, to myself I seem nondescript.

> Sorry for the skepticism...

It's fine. You're nicer than most. I sometimes think I should write an autobiography, but then I think, who would believe it?
That was a personal attack? Um, no.

DynamoDB is not directly portable, Cassandra is closest, and it's a bear to roll your own. Are you an Amazon employee outright telling people to not use the fundamental datastore of AWS?

S3 also is fairly proprietary, are you, an Amazon employee, outright telling people to not use the fundamental file storage of AWS?

I could go on, obviously.
Why not extend the development in a direction that's already dry?
But the design is fine, at least with dark theme. For me, the UX is better than Play Market.
I really liked the book The Mormon Way of Doing Business[1]. The central idea of the book is that a high commitment church like LDS is a great training ground for business with many examples including the mission example that you cite above.

[1] https://www.amazon.com/Mormon-Way-Doing-Business/dp/14555229...
Feel free to provide an example!
>I suspect the shift was caused by Google running out of experienced software engineers to hire, and switching to growing through recruiting new college grads at much greater numbers.

Could this not have easily been a backlash against the companies no longer operating neutrally? You describe a timeline here that goes neutral Google -> hard left because of the employees. That doesn't jive with what I've seen in the news. Google and other tech companies were the ones trying to get into China and building systems that censor users. The big data companies started surreptitiously tracking everyone, whether or not you had agreed to ala Facebook's shadow profiles. That doesn't really mesh up with libertarian ideas of free trade. Based on the employee backlash these all seem like they were management driven decisions that employees didn't agree with. Wouldn't a natural reaction be to push hard in the opposite side of the direction the companies management was going towards?
Not discussing politics at work seems like it's missing a pretty key point here. Saying we will not choose our customers is not a realistic stance in this world. Choices will have to be made and when they are it is helpful to have a framework in place to make them. This just kicks the can down the road. I have no doubt that a future article will feature gitlab in a situation where they have had to choose and find themselves having to wordsmith or spin their way out of it.
Right, people should advocate for whatever politics they want... just not at work. The issue you identify is a government one, not an individual workplace one. Even something like that is too much burden to put on your fellow co-workers to have to advocate for or pick a side.
The aliens told us once not to go back to the Moon. They’re not going to tell us again.
Why Companies and Government Do “Innovation Theater”
Yeah, but this one surely will real soon now.
The word usually in that sentence admits to that outcome.

Nowhere have I claimed any of this is "bullet proof." Just that consistent positive outcomes suggest an element of skill and knowledge that claims of pure luck erroneously dismiss as not existing at all.
I'm from Canada but the article used MPH so I kept it. I'd rather not convert every number I copy/paste.

Plus everyone gets the gist of what mph means. It's common sense.
Use by date, at least in the US, is a completely arbitrary date assigned by the producer as to the date after which peak taste is no longer guaranteed. It has nothing to do with spoilage.
It is mostly because he has hosted some controversial guests such as Milo Yiannopoulos, Jordan Peterson, and Sargon of Akkad. And by hosting them he is accused of giving the alt-right a platform while also not sufficiently attacking their views.
And it's only older than the universe if you assume the Big Bang was the beginning of the universe, which there's really no evidence to suggest. Pretty much everything else in the universe all seems to suggest that it all originated from a similar point in time and space and that it rapidly expanded outward. Okay. But what was going on in this particular space back then is completely unknown, so... could there have been some stars forming already from matter that wasn't part of the Big Bang? Why not?
Yes, most people make just enough money to survive.
The entire premise of DoH and DoT are that you don't want to use your ISP's DNS. Nobody needs to "come out and say that"; it's whole point. They're both mechanisms to tunnel DNS out of your network to somewhere safer. The difference between the two is that DoT has a network-operator kill switch, and DoH doesn't.
I will preface this with the disclaimer that I am a structural biologist; not an evolutionary one.

It seems to me that this hypothesis is unlikely. Is there any evidence that:
1) Sexual preference is genetic? (It seems intuitive that women whose bodies exhibit extremely visual traits of reproduction would be selected for. However, I don't the connection between that and there being equivalent selective pressure on men to be attracted to that). i.e. where is the gene that makes men attracted to young women specifically, and how and why is that under selective pressure?

2) Is there any evidence that pedophilia isn't a mental disorder caused by something else? Hormone imbalance? Developmental deficiency?

However, your theory does explain why so many more men than women are pedophiles, although it seems entirely inadequate at explaining the few number of women pedophiles that do exist.

Either way, it's a curious and interesting point. Thank you for making it.

In my opinion it's far more
> I wonder if the vendor gets his money earlier from Amazon if he delivered it faster

No - Amazon pays sellers every other week.
There was also a notorious story of multiple kosher restaurants who had booked a lesbian comedienne only for the local kosher board, run by Hasidic rabbis, to blackmail them by saying that if they don't cancel on her they'll revoke their food's kosher certifications. [0]

FWIW, I am Jewish myself, as is the source.

[0] https://www.jta.org/quick-reads/brooklyn-eateries-cancel-les...
The .values() method does not return a list, it returns a view object. If you write ‘value in m.values()’, it invokes the __contains__() method.

(Note that this cant be a hash check because it’s not testing the presence of a key.)

(Also note that the story is different if you look at sufficiently archaic versions of Python.)
A more likely explanation for flood myths is that all ancient civilizations lived on the banks of mighty rivers that occasionally flooded.
Coral Reef Starter Kit
> BTW why people won't use OpenBazaar instead?

Disputes and legal recourse.
>Except that shift isn’t spontaneous. Someone has to propose it, someone has to promote it, someone has to popularize it, etc.

The mechanism is different though. We didn't just wake up one day and start hearing multiple coherent media voices that vegetarianism is the way forward. We did have precisely that for the Iraq war.
Being a publisher might get you off in the States, but in a lot of countries publishers are held to be legally culpable for material they publish. So publishing nazis, online abuse, illegal content etc is a legal issue.
These are the _only_ kinds of politics that are acceptable in many workplaces. We have diversity departments and minority groups and women's groups and consultancies and recruiting agencies advertise their ability to find minority candidates. People are afraid to publicly question these policies.

> Education: Too political to discuss the fact that schools are trying to balance their admissions in the face of very uneven opportunities amongst their applicants. Never mind the fact that school admissions were never fair to begin with.

Women outnumber men in universities and pretty much throughout the pipeline (EDIT: to clarify, I mean the broader education pipeline, not the tech subset thereof). This whole post is so disconnected from my experience and any experience I've heard about that it feels like it's from inverse universe.
If you’re amoral and don’t care where your revenue comes from as long as you follow the law you should say so. But you definitely shouldn’t champion yourself as having values above and beyond the letter of the law if those value don’t inform your actions. But it sounds like GitLab is trying to hide it’s amorality and market itself to perspective customers and employees that it does have some kind of moral code.
This is not true. Left/Right and Authoritarian/Liberty are separate and overlapping spectrums. Pick your favorite post-communist-revolution country as an example of Left-authoritarianism.