skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The hovers work, but they are so subtle you will barely notice it. I had to get very close to my monitor to notice on colors other than the default greyish white.
Probably postcards are more secure.
This is basically why unions were formed in the first place. HR is there to protect the company, and they are owned by the company. Unions are there to protect the employees, and they are owned by the employees.

I know the current attitude is against unions, and there are probably a lot of anti-union people on HN, for good reasons. Unions realized their power and became corrupt, became money-hungry, became power-hungry. Unions were one hand in the pot that bankrupted Detroit. And that's a shame, because now employees have literally no one watching their backs. At-will employment and an employer-friendly environment creates a hostile work place where employees of many companies never know when or why they're going to be fired.

Unions aren't entirely bad. Employers aren't entirely bad. It's just a shame we can't figure out a good balance of employer and employee protection.
I've never understood that. Just taking a job because OH MY GOD JOB. I've been in on going salary negotiations for over two months, all while they paid me the highest contrator salary just to have me stay on. Straight up said "Pay me X or I walk, thanks". 5 second meeting.

FUCK company/corporate loyalty. I'm here to get paid so I can fund an adventurous life, not to make you richer. I'm here to make myself richer and that's 100% all there is to it.

Know your value, unless you're really in a bind.

That was it.
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Interesting, thanks for sharing. I would have just thought "Azure and done" but it's nice to see that there are other options in this ecosystem.
Unrelated to the validity of this advice: it's kind of sad that our society has evolved legal structures that make it prohibitively risky to tell another human being why you're taking an action against them.

Hmm... what if you could have an employee sign a release as a precondition of being told why they were fired?
> For me the various engineering streams are just as different from each other as from every other non-engineering discipline.

False, and that cannot be used to argue that they're not all directly derived from physics. Look at cosmology and particle physics. It's hard to imagine two fields that are less alike -- one studies nature at the largest scales, the other at the smallest. But not only are they both physical fields and share the same theories, but they attend each other's conferences and work together on common issues.

Remember that engineering is applied science. This is true for all engineering fields in which people place their trust.

> There is no way a mechanical engineer could work in the electronics, IT or biochemical engineering fields.

Same reply -- it's not relevant to the issue of their scientific underpinnings.

> If you are going to label the common base as "science" then you could equally say engineering is common with psychology since they both involve "words".

When you think of a coherent argument, post again. Psychology isn't scientific, engineering is, and the topic is science. When a psychologist uses the word "gravity", he means seriousness. When an engineer uses the word, he means spacetime curvature.
I take it that you're not a "person who wears a suit"?

The reality of the business world is that those who control the money are often "people who wear suits". This is especially true when large sums of money are involved.

If a given business wants such people (and the organizations they represent) as clients, then the business will need to conform to the expectations of these potential clients. The impact of such conformance can be even greater on a startup, which may not have much leeway or influence in such dealings.

I'm not "defending" nor "promoting" what happened in this case; the details are much too vague. I'm merely pointing out that there are factors at play in the real world which may make such decisions more plausible and more comprehensible.
I watched a CEO fire someone he had recruited cross country just weeks after he had relocated his family to the Bay Area. They screwed him and his family over real good. Not long afterward, the CEO fired his outside accountant and made his wife the CFO of the company. I straight up asked if he was hiding something, knowing that he probably was and that my stock and bonus were fictional.

I was fired immediately afterward. I laughed gleefully on the drive home from the comically bad exit interview.
Looking at pictures and movies of women voluntarily engaged in sex acts is in no way equivalent to groping them in the street, attempting to rape them or depersonalising them and treating them as objects.

It's just not.
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Can't get any easier than watching TV.
I'm leading a scala transition at a javashop. I think you need a crital mass of people who understand scala as well as a lot of respect for your colleagues for this to go smoothly, 10x so if you have legacy code. There will be some very tense discussions about how things ought to be implemented, and if not well managed, it can feel like "this approach is wrong, your code is bad and you are a bad engineer" which is toxic to any team. Sorry on mobile or I would write more. There is a lot of blog activity on this subject both from successful teams and unsuccessful that your leads absolutely must understand
At the fear of being labeled immature/unprofessional: i have found that in many cases i morally owe my employees reasons for their being let go. I have never had to release an engineer on behavioral issues, so i always try to be clear with them about paths to improvement.

i'm certain this varies across companies, but in the startups i have worked for i've build very close relationships to many of my coworkers. i like to think there is a mutual trust established in that relationship. Part of that trust includes me looking out for their best interests, which i feel includes explaining to them what their next steps are to further their careers after they depart.
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alias_method is faster than what he did before because he's replicating a bunch of internal logic at run-time, e.g., binding "self" to the correct thing. Somewhere deep in the bowels of the Ruby interpreter it's going to be doing the same thing, except it has the opportunity to create the binding statically at define-time. Likewise, he's calling a method on a Method object to invoke the original method vs. invoking the original method directly.

This might speed things up a little more, too:

alias_method :"original_#{name}", name
class_eval %{
def #{name}(*args)
self.original_#{name}(*args)
end
}

"send" is going to be using extra machinery in the same way, although I think "send" also circumvents certain protections like public/private, so I'm not 100% sure where in the Ruby method invocation process it fits in. "send" might be closer to the metal, but a pre-defined method name would have the opportunity to cache certain things in the invocation process.
Also you could XOR the LFSR output with any number to get a different permutation each time.
> Powerful statement.

It's a bit naive to believe that HR is about anything other than protecting the company.

Sure, employees have the side benefit of having someone to go to to answer questions about pay schedule, holidays, and benefits, but that's all it is: a side benefit. The real reason is to limit the company's legal exposure.
Crime really pays (for such exploits) and he didn't go down that road, isn't he?
Attack of the Clones was shot in less than 1080p, at that point the camera (HDW-F900 camera) only did 1440x1080, and it was cropped from 16:9, as they didn't have an anamorphic lens, so that's 1440x817. Revenge of the Sith used anamorphic, so was 1920x817
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Also known as Bait and Switch.
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The counter-party risk for a sales guy is in seeing those commission checks coming in after you deliver the goods.

Looks like his trust was violated and the new discounted expectations make him not apply for equivalent jobs anymore.
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An advise like "please put a hold on your side project or at least creat a different name to deal with that" would have solved the problem. Or at least would be transparent.

Sure, we only listened to one side, but this sounds like creating absurd reasoning to try to justify what the company did.
> What bugs me are people, largely motivated by financial interests, in my opinion, who downplay the massive cultural and social advantages we still enjoy in the west over places like India. We may be dealing with demographic challenges and sometimes sclerotic economics, but I'd take France in decline over any BRIC country on a supposed upswing any day of the week... But the almighty dollar is the most important thing, right? As long as there is money in doing business in India (or the Middle East), we can just chalk all this up to "cultural differences" that we must be "accommodating" of.

I don't know whether it is financial. I think there is a "grass is greener across the pacific" type of attitude. I have spent 2/3rds of my life in Africa and India; it is jarring to hear from these rich clueless Americans of how wonderful and peaceful these places are; how any problems they have are all due to the evil white man. It strikes me as a sort of Manic Pixie Dream Girl [1] type approach taken at the nation level. It is especially interesting considering that there is cognitive dissonance amongst immigrants. They claw their way here and then romanticize the old country once they are securely out.

[1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manic_Pixie_Dream_Girl
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Disabling his Facebook account, and deciding not to pay Khalil Shreateh (though the account was later re-enabled after further emails between himself and Facebook).
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The people voted for law makers that made a) easily abused laws (such as this one) and b) laws that inherently invade the privacy of their fellow European citizens. They furthermore voted for law makers that (apparently) did not include any precautions to punish those that abuse the previously-made laws.
I appreciate the apology. I updated a site on the assumption that RC1 was a release candidate and not a work in progress. Now I need to update the site again. Ugh.
I'm no lawyer and I have no specific experience with the law in the UK, but I think the best path here is to shut the hell up and not answer anything until you get a lawyer. He was foolish to turn one down. You may be legally compelled to answer, but the consequences of your silence ultimately gets decided by a judge. I'd rather take my chances that the judge would rule it was a misuse of the Terrorism Act than trust some random cops with my passwords. And even if I were to fold under pressure, I'd do so with a lawyer's advice and not just because some goons threaten me.

At least, that's how I'd hope I'd behave, and that it wouldn't land me in Guantanamo without access to a lawyer or due process. I can certainly see how this kind of aggressive police tactic scares the shit out of people, and they may not know their options or be in a position to think about them clearly. And regardless of what the optimal approach was for Miranda, clearly this was a huge violation of his rights. "Know your rights" isn't a substitute for "they shouldn't abuse them".

But still: when you're detained and you're not sure what to do, default to silence.
OT , but it's ironic that Mr. Miranda doesn't have Miranda rights.
In this case, you really couldn't use the site/application without JS anyway.
Laptop multitasking hinders classroom learning for both users and nearby peers
> There is a difference between reality and academic physics.

"Academic physics" describes reality. It is the closest thing to an accurate description of reality that we have.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theoretical_physics

Quote: "A physical theory is a model of physical events. It is judged by the extent to which its predictions agree with empirical observations."

Read the above carefully. What it says in essence is that a physical theory is judged by the degree to which it agrees with reality. Our best physical theories agree with reality to ten decimal places.

Physical theory is a statement about reality. If reality disagrees, the theory is thrown out and replaced by a better one.

> It is trivial to say engineering knowledge is derived from reality, and it's wrong to say it's derived/derivable from purely theoretical/academic knowledge of physics ...

Engineering is applied science. Any engineering field for which this is not true has no right to exist, and doesn't deserve the public's trust.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Applied_science

Quote: "Applied science is typically engineering, which develops technology, although there might be feedback between basic science and applied science: research and development (R&D)."

> Engineering is a corpus of knowledge that has been slowly and with great difficulty hewed from the raw rock of real experience over hundreds of years. It is not just a branch of math derivable from axioms.

False, and you need to learn this topic. I hope you're not an engineer.

> Show some respect.

By correctly identifying engineering as applied science, I did. There is no higher praise than to say -- correctly -- that engineering is derived from scientific principles, from physics.
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Hell -- you don't even have to "hack" in to anything to do damage with a Press Release. Just Publish it anyway - most of the press is too lazy to double-check

http://www.smh.com.au/business/mining-and-resources/hoax-pre...
I think O.P was conflating two issues there, one about patriarchy in India being very traditional, two about misogyny (apparently) being rampant.

I for one don't expect anyone to be okay with misogyny, whether it be cultural or not, and I presume all the other Indians here feel the same way.
This article reads like conspiracy-laden bullshit. Not surprisingly, it came from a professor -- ego-driven, vanity jobs for rich white men. Maybe he's projecting based on his probable lifetime experience in the fake-world rat race that is the university syste, just maybe.
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Good for him.

Just watched a monumentally depressing (IMHO) documentary called "Indie Game" about indie game devs with various flavors of mental and physical illness, putting themselves through hell to get their game out. All of them seemed to find the buzz and pre-launch expectation/pressure, as well as the public response after (both good and bad) to be extremely distressing.
> I take it that you're not a "person who wears a suit"?

I'm a person whose life experience tells me anyone wearing a suit is, to a very high degree of probability, evil, stupid, or both.

Do your justifications work both ways or not? If it's just fine to discriminate against someone for not wearing a suit, is it equally fine for me to discriminate against someone for wearing a suit?

> the business will need to conform to the expectations of these potential clients

If people would stop appeasing these idiots and instead do the ethical thing by telling them to take a hike, it wouldn't be an issue.
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I have to agree, so long as the permissions are limited... I don't like what a lot of sites/apps ask as default permissions... they tend to seriously overreach... as long as it's essentially for authentication, and maybe my verified email address, I'm okay with that.
Then you'd have them sign it before you fire them for a bullshit, actually-worthy-of-a-lawsuit reason.
Missed the real answer: In your cage at the local colo.

The sweet spot for the Microsoft stack is one beefy server. While you can rent that from a cloud provider, you're just plain always going to get a better deal by building your own box and dropping it in a datacenter.

It's not anywhere near as daunting as it seems to do so, and it will run you about $400/month all in, amortized out over a 3 year box lifetime even including licenses.

That'll get you the firepower of a medium sized cluster of Linux gear running your open source stack of choice, without having to deal with a dozen virtual machines spinning up and down to deal with load. It'll just handle as much traffic as you can throw at it, up to the point where you're big enough to simply pull a half dozen of your hundred devs off what they're doing to help scale you up.

That's probably the reason you don't see many .net paas companies around. For the most part, they're not the right tool for the job.
Why are you limiting your test runs to 1 g? You don't need to put people in the test vehicles. Just use dummies, and accelerate at whatever.
"If this were NYC, I could understand stabbing someone in the back after they secure a couple of large customers."

Why would that make sense in NYC or anywhere else? If someone brought in some large customers, I'd expect them to be able to bring in more large customers in the future. Firing someone with that track record would just be stupid.
It looks like it was http://www.textrep.com
What were the reasons for this lateness?

IIRC there were patent issues for some curves, but is that the only reason?
You do realize under these laws, he was:

1) Not entitled to a lawyer

2) Not entitled to silence

Rights you say... what rights?
There's a certain level of unethical behavior in termination that can lead to a successful termination lawsuit even in an at-will state like California. Outright bad-faith conduct still violates the implicit covenant of good faith and fair dealing, though it's a fairly high bar to be held in violation.

Cases where it's been found in the past include terminating an employee in a way calculated to harm the employee maximally, due to a boss settling a personal vendetta and being intemperate enough to say so; and engaging in a pattern of firing people just before promised benefits vest, in which case the company can be found to have been falsely promising benefits it never intended to deliver.

Hiring your wife as a CFA to cover up questionable dealings seems like it might be leaning in that direction...
I just had a look at Stripe, and it does seem like a good service. If I was building a new site I'd probably consider it. The annoying thing about paypal is that it doesn't allow you to change subscriptions.
I suspect it has to do with gamification and social engineering. One point, even though it represents zero up votes has a more positive connotation than zero points. Also, one point may signify that the comment contributes to the discussion more strongly than a zero.

In the end, though, points are non-fungible and karma only matters in the way a person lets it.
Jaw: on floor.

The mood toughened just over a month ago, when I received a phone call from the centre of government telling me: "You've had your fun. Now we want the stuff back." There followed further meetings with shadowy Whitehall figures. The demand was the same: hand the Snowden material back or destroy it. I explained that we could not research and report on this subject if we complied with this request. The man from Whitehall looked mystified. "You've had your debate. There's no need to write any more."
Is Glenn Greenwald's journalism now viewed as a 'terrorist' occupation?
Hi there. I'm the author of the piece (my friend just emailed me to tell me I'm on here - which is all sorts of cool and weird).

I didn't run the Full Disclosure site at the time but I was doing standup comedy, which certainly could've been one of the reasons. Comedians have to have a web presence, so if you were to google my name, videos of me doing standup may have appeared.

But to tell someone not to pursue their extracurricular passions while bludgeoning their soul during the day for a paycheck, just sucks. Maybe it's a reality, but it did not leave a good taste in my mouth about my employer.
>> The argument was that various engineering disciples are independent of each other and of physics.

> No, actually, they were argued to be different than each other, but no one in this thread argued that they were independent of each other or that any of them was independent of physics.

False. Read this quote: "The fact that mechanical engineering and civil engineering and aerospace engineering all derive from basic physical laws is rather meaningless - engineering isn't about first principles ..."

To say, as this correspondent did, that "engineering isn't about first principles", is to argue that it has nothing to do with science, because science establishes first principles.

> Inasmuch as that's the position you are arguing against, it is a strawman.

Well, since you can't be bothered to read the thread and find out what positions people have taken and that I'm arguing against, there's no point to this.
No that ones my personal project.
Wrong Wiki link -- you wanted this one:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_languages_by_total_numb...

English is a clear 2nd. (And on at least one estimate it is first)
This behavior is the unfortunate effect of modernization and move into cities. India, is predominantly a rural society. Like many traditional socities in asia, morality is enforced by concepts of honor/shame/loss of face. So, you have individuals who behave appropriately with women in their local villages or towns. Your family will loose face if you behave inappropirately and you will be cut off from society. However these guys land in cities far from their local environs and suddendly all sense of morality goes out of the windows. Everyone around you is new so what does it matter, you can do some crime and move somewhere else. It must be noted that most of this criminal behavior is committed by recent entrants to cities.

That in itself is not new. Every society has this problem (of modernization) but India has an additional issue. The state (internal police, law etc.) has historically been very weak and continues to be so. Enforcing any laws is a huge problem so these cases keep getting compounded by the day. Some dude seems his neighbour get away with stuff and he gets emboldned to do the same.
Again you fail. Those who will truly abuse this system will not be looking for true positives. They will be looking for excuses. Such a system would provide them with excuses aplenty to drag someone away and lock them up for a while, until they show the proper love and respect to the system.
Facebook seems to have a much better solution to the AJAX-loading progress problem. It looks like they use an iframe as transport, which causes the native browser spinner to appear. Much better than a custom design.

Of course, it would be even better if websites could programmatically enable/disable the browser progress spinner, in much the same way we are now trusted to mess with the history API.
This is the story that you actually WANT to hear if you are currently or might possibly in the future ever wish to travel to India. Having stayed in India until very recently, I can not only believe this but also think that the problem is a bit understated(!) if possible.

There are numerous reasons why but many vested interests have aligned to sweep misogyny & sexism that is deeply rooted in India under the carpet. Being stared at is one of the Least of your problems if you are a Caucasian woman by yourself in India.

As frustrating as it is to say for me - If you are a foreign (non-Indian) woman contemplating travel by yourself (or an all female group) to India - THINK LONG and HARD. All the spiritual retreat, Yoga, Taj Mahal, Lush green forests, Sandy Beaches in the country will fade from memory when something like this happens - and the chances of it are relatively high.
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