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Ask HN: How to deal with an abusive co-worker?
Throwaway for obvious reasons.

In the last five months, a new engineer, we'll call them Jerry, joined the startup I work at in a critical position. We started out on great terms. However, recently incredibly high demands and time constraints were imposed, and combined with failure for the company to meet revenue goals, have created a very stressful place to work.

As part of my job, I have to make requests of Jerry. Randomly, the reply would be incredibly rude, and extremely unprofessional. Everything from swearing me out, to insisting that I only communicate with him indirectly via our boss, to Jerry threatening an immediate resignation if I persisted in making the request, despite it being a normal request.

Few days later, I would be given a curt apology, reassurance that this wouldn't happen again, and Jerry would ask me to forget all about the incident. Jerry would then treat me as if nothing had happened at all, and would back to being polite and professional. Later, the process would repeat itself.

I work with about 5 to 10 other engineers. It is only Jerry that treats me this way, and so far, it has only been towards me.

I am currently doing a significant amount of leadership work in this company, and as the company is simply too small, and Jerry's position too critical, to be able to avoid working with him. With the stresses of the job already so great, the additional of straight personal attacks to all of this has made my work output suffer and frankly makes me hate coming to work.

I've met and worked with all kinds of engineers, from the quiet to abrasive, but never have I worked with anyone who has ever treated like this, and I have no idea on how to handle this situation.

I'm currently on vacation, and have been debating with if I want to stay with the company at all because of this situation.

My boss already knows how Jerry acts and hasn't done anything. Please HN, help me decide what I should do about Jerry.
My point is that you're not having the conversation any of the rest of us are. California is not a voter ID state, it is immaterial to the discussion.

The states with voter ID laws are also the states that make it hard to get an ID.
Cliché all the way or "Year in review vs the Future"
I read this description of the zombie game and thought it was hilarious.

"Zombies have taken over Earth. It is up to you to defend yourself as long as you can. The zombies have an infectious touch that kills you in one touch. Watch out and beware!
Currently does not support touch support."

(Not the grammar, but the irony that a game in which a zombie's touch kills you does not support touch. :P)
The downvotes are because you are insulting a part of many peoples lives which you pretty much claim to know very little about. For one, I want bother linking because any simple search will yield the results, exercise is, not surprisingly, the root of many physical and mental health benefits. I've read numerous stories here on HN showing how it can help lift people out of depression, and exercise is important to many professions and hobbies.

But aside from the direct benefits, does marketing show healthy and fit people? Yes it does, but I'd go out on a limb and say that even without that, people of the opposite sex will find healthy physical features attractive, so you're always going to have people do it for that reason as well. It's not the most noble motive (however you define that), but you shouldn't ignore the other very honest reasons for exercise just because you hate the stereotypical gym jock.
I always found the US self employment tax curious and wondered if it dissuaded people from being self employed if they had the choice (even setting aside the health insurance situation).

Here in the UK, the self employed pay less (9% vs 12%) in the equivalent tax (called National Insurance here) than the employed, with the tradeoff being that they can't claim various state unemployment benefits (for obvious reasons).
I read the book, read the part about the way they carried on at Salomon Brothers, very frat like without the wild parties & shots. Nobody labelled the Hedge Fund industry as boiler room types, especially since i spent 4yrs in the industry on the stat arb side.
It's his website ;)
What is the point of this being on Hacker News? In all likelihood, she just wants to interact with the community as a normal person and not have a bunch of undue attention from random other sources be put on her profile.
> in a conversation you can assume good faith and speak as loosely as you would in everyday life

In some countries it's legal to record any conversation you're a part of without informing the other participants so many people are on their guard. Even in everyday life with people you know well, they or you might be carrying a mobile phone manufactured by certain company or running a certain OS that listens, even when turned off with the battery still in, on behalf of some party who'll never be prosecuted and often never even exposed, and there's a lot of those sorts of people out there. Perhaps even a higher than average percentage of Hacker News visitors are these sorts.
For me, the primary reason for using it outside of a "mobile" connection is that it just reconnects after getting out of standby.
So if you do a break and come back you can just continue your work.
When I was a kid we could only afford a cheap computer (VZ-300, Australia computer), with a z80, while all my mates had c64s. So they were busy swapping games with each other, I had to program my own, first in basic, from magazines (thanks APC), and then in z80 assembly. I still love developing today, things may have been different if we were not poor.
I haven't read the submission yet, neither am I fully up to speed on the topic, but I'm going to go all meta on you and ask what a pseudo-intellectual is?
I'd prefer if you noticed that you pointed your vitriol cannon at a third party to your conversation who was simply remarking upon your comment. Suggest you check usernames before replying.
> The self employed pay 15.3% of gross income to FICA and Medicare taxes. This amount cannot be avoided (no tax breaks). Employees pay roughly half this percentage.

Everyone, effectively pays 15.3% of gross SS-covered wages up to $113,700 and 2.9% on income above that.

If you aren't self-employed, exactly (not "roughly") half of that (the so-called "employer's share") is not directly visible, while half of it is reflected in payroll deductions.
I'm not saying people should stay in places where they are ostracized. That's not healthy. But I think it's also a mistake to withdraw from places and activities before we've even had a chance to become ostracized.

An example: I'm a gay atheist from Idaho. I have extended family members that look like they belong on Duck Dynasty. Each family event, me and my husband are presented with a choice: we can skip the event and its awkwardness, or we can join the event and face it head on.

Each time we attend these events, we leave with the same impression. "That wasn't so bad," and from my husband, "Your family is actually super nice." And because of this interaction, they become less homophobic, and I grow to understand redneck values a bit better.

Besides, I've learned over time that what I think they're thinking about me is actually much worse than what they're actually thinking about me.

But each time I'm invited to one of these events, my first gut instinct is not to go, because it's work, and it can be awkward, and it's much easier for me to spend time around people who are more like me.
Hmm, so let's see. If this kind of stuff is going on with gender relations, does it exist with race too? Orientation?

For the tech-world, I guess a black lesbian would be a triple-concern? I would say that is a problem. Not sure how to fix it, but that's a problem. I personally don't have to change my behavior or speech when a lady is in the room. But then again, I'm probably unique in that... I never, ever use profanity and never make jokes that wouldn't be safe on the Disney channel. I don't know anyone who can claim that besides me.
But, I will say compared to my time at at&t... the men there seemed to be less frat-housey than the SV-startup-culture. The men at at&t seemed to be more "gentlemanly", more socially acceptable. SV-startup-culture I think allows the frat-house/bro-grammer attitude to grow thus making it more difficult to the men who are use to that to clean up when a lady is around. At least, that's what I've seen.
= ) exactly. We all start somewhere why give someone as inspired as him a doubt in his mind.
I can't imagine how this situation could resolve itself in a way that will make The Information look good. If you weren't aware, it's a publication that asks for more than $30/mo, in exchange (literally, this is the point) for not running clickbait and keeping the signal/noise positive.

I was happy to pay a buck a day for that service, but to pay for it and then see them run misleading clickbait makes me feel dumb for paying.

Cancelled subscription.
Not just "people," that corrupt POS judge sent 4000 juevniles as young as eleven to be abused at a "for profit" detention center while he accepted cash for every child he sent there.

http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Justice/2011/0811/Kids-for-cash...
Hanson and Yudkowsky make the point that it's the best we've got (in one article, they put the chance of success at 5%), and that the alternative right now is nothing. Considering the relatively low cost, it's a gamble worth taking.

For the record, I've been signed up for a long time.

Edit: as for the tone, Yudkowsky has had the inspirational, secular techno-futurist new-age-ish sounding hope thing going for ages, as you probably know. It doesn't surprise me (and probably doesn't surprise him) that very reasonable people sometimes mistake it for the anti-skeptic / superstitious / actual new-age nuttery / cult types. I think part of the problem here is a kind of Poe's Law effect: if a rational, informed, intelligent person talks seriously about the likelihood of FAI, superintelligences, cryo, etc. in a positive, hopeful way, they're instantly mistaken for a nutcake.
Yes, but how any individual responds to a treatment like that is not obvious. Some people respond with understanding and compassion, actively avoiding similar behavior. Others learn marginalization as the standard forms of group interaction and propagate the same behavior towards other groups - see the way women are treated in the video-gaming community as a good example, or as a less direct parallel how violence in a home usually leads to children either desperately avoiding or repeating the same mistakes in adulthood.
You usually register at the town's "citizen's office", where you can also pay for your garbage disposal, get parking passes, apply for your driver's license, have the lost+found, and so on.

Registering at the police station is something from the sixties or seventies, I think. "Police" back then had a lot more duties that are now located in other administrative offices.

But "police" is a complicated term in Germany, anyway. Legally it's not just "the guys who chase criminals".

Elsewhere it's even stranger: To me "Polizei" sounds like a friendly civilian force for order, while "Miliz" sounds paramilitary and dangerous. To Russians it seems to be different.
After looking into this, it looks like the IRS will ding you if you pay yourself less than what it would take to hire someone to do the same job.
Ask HN: Where to promote digital downloads?
I'm using Gumroad to sell my first digital download product - a minimal dual timeline printable calendar.

There are lots of blogs out there that curate physical products, are there any for just digital products?

Should I still submit it for consideration to other sites even though it's a digital product?
It seems that there's a big gap between clickbank type affiliate products and codecanyon/themeforest type downloads.

For those that have sold digital downloads, how did you market it?

Some product background, the dual-timeline calendar started a long while ago as a paper based trick I used to manage income/expenses as a student and also track fitness goals.
It can be used as a couples calendar or to separate work & home, AM vs PM or even just as a single line journal upon waking & going to bed.

I really loved how it became a collection of data instead of a list of random tasks & reminders.

In the hacker spirit of things I decided to create a digital/printable version and use it as a learning experience for digital products.

It has done reasonably well so far selling to those that I validated the idea with. It seems to be of interest to those that like analog notetaking, bulletjournal or GTD method & typographic products.
All suggestions really appreciated! I'll be writing up my learning experiences and moving onto larger projects in 2014.

Thanks!
> Ok, so steer clear of division on ARM CPUs.

Don't ignore the last part of the sentence:

> …unless you are not worried about space or execution speed.

I'd argue that on ARMs you're generally not worried about execution speed (as most run pretty fast nowadays), nor space (RAMs and flashes generally have lots of space).

Now, do you have a really slow ARM, or are you running in a really constrained space (like a tiny metal-mask ROM)? Then yes, avoid it.
Yeah, this was quite the shocker for me once I started making serious side money. Personal income taxes are about 50% in the US. (Which, by the way, would be totally fine with me if it funded infrastructure and social safety nets. Unfortunately, the vast majority of that goes to wars against nebulous foes, i.e. drugs, terrorism, etc...)
Pathetic attempt at derailing? Not really. You talked about the millions that don't have an ID. I don't dispute that. But then you talked about all the people that DO have an ID but have to content with keeping it up to date. As if that is some burden unique to minorities and the poor. That is what I dispute. No derailment needed from me. You took it there. Your parenthetical was just you're way to justify why they get a free pass on the things others don't. It was opinion that I didn't feel needed to be quoted. But sure if you want to include it, fine. I disagree with that. You don't need to get a reminder in the mail because the ID itself very clearly states when it needs to be renewed. Rich or poor, black or white... no free passes for being forgetful.

Also, are you saying that nobody should have to keep their ID info up to date? Like no one should have to get their ID changed when they get married or move. And that no one should have to remember to get it renewed. I'm confused by that part.
reverence
There are many studies showing that nearly everyone has unconscious biases including minorities. This is normal. I assume it's true of you and I assume it's true of me. It's a sensible prior, not an insult.

[1] http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/between-the-lines/201204...
Statistician here. This Machine Learning is nothing but Statistics for me.

Also as a side note, if you are going to make something based on statistics you should consider to make it checked out by a statistician because it is such a big field that for example it takes 4 years to become a statistician.
Digital Ocean: Fast and Cheap. But Good?
America in 2013, as Told in Charts By STEVEN RATTNER
An advantage of using goto to handle errors is that you don't need that condition checking in the teardown:

int result = ERROR_CODE;
FILE * f = NULL;
char * s = NULL;
if((f = open_file()) == NULL) goto end;
if((s = allocate_string() == NULL) goto closefile;
if((some_other_thing() == NULL) goto freestring;
...
result = NOERROR;
freestring:
free_string( s);
closefile:
close_file( f);
return result;
And even if asked "how would you fix the problem"

Answering with "Put a fan right there to blow all the empty boxes off the line" would be seen as taking the piss and laughed off with comments like "You're missing the big picture"
But that whole argument depends on the status quo in the US: many poor don't have ID cards already.

If you shift your view to the situation in other countries, it's easily answered: (almost) everyone has an ID card, so it cannot be used to disenfranchise minorities.

Issue ID cards to everyone and your problem should go away.
A feeless payment, bank-bank, without having to know your account number
I've been working on a system to make and take payments directly bank to bank with no fees and without having to know your bank number for a while, and we've finally got it pretty darn fast.

This isn't quite a launch announcement, hence the time of day and nature of this post, but if anyone wants to be really helpful, check out this quick video of me making a live payment I made and let me know what you think! I would and always do appreciate it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QR5UTLxe5zA&feature=youtu.be
Clickable

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QR5UTLxe5zA&feature=youtu.be
I'd argue that there's a fundamental reappropriation of jwz's sentiment here, but rereading the uncrunched article I understand your perspective.
Then you would have done better to just state that from the beginning. Your snarky comment with a link just came off as rude. But now I understand.
I was under the impression that this was pretty much common knowledge, but sure, I can point you in the right direction.

One interesting place to start is Harvard's "Project Implicit". They have a massive publication list[1] and you can even test your own implicit reactions[2].

There are plenty of other scientists testing things like whether people judge women as less competent. A quick google search pulled up a PNAS paper where they did an experiment on women in science, for example.[3]

This is just the tip of the iceberg, of course. There is a whole host of related work, testing other sorts of biases and using other methodologies. I'd suggest a search on your favorite academic search engine for "implicit bias".

[1] https://www.projectimplicit.net/papers.html
[2] https://implicit.harvard.edu/implicit/
[3] http://www.pnas.org/content/early/2012/09/14/1211286109#aff-...
This post inspired me to make Imgur-to-gfycat[1][2], which uses the gfycat api to change <img> tags to embedded gfycat objects using gfycat's embed js, and changes anchors to /fetch urls. It's smart enough to change other anchors on a page if it's managed to resolve a gfycat url, and has a few hacks to work well with Reddit Enhancement Suite.

[1] https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/imgur-to-gfycat/id...
[2] https://github.com/STRML/Imgur-to-Gfycat
"Developers must not implement hiding of spam messages"...I can't see that working out at all. Namecoin's solution of just paying currency to the miners seems safer.

Lots of other interesting ideas here though.
The ID requirement for renting a car or staying in a hotel is not designed to prevent people from renting cars or staying in hotels. It is to protect the rental company or the hotel from actual risks.

The recent ID laws for voting in the US are designed solely to prevent people from voting. The ID requirement are designed to require procedures and documentation that is hardest for poor people and minorities--coincidentally people who tend to not vote for the party that is pushing voter ID laws.

The proponents state it is to reduce voter fraud, but fraud based on exploiting a lack of ID requirements is close to if not nonexistent in the US.
The first step for this is to have a national ID or something equivalent (some ID universally issuable)...and it seems very very far away yet.
Hah, nothing wrong with that. I'm 17 myself and programming for a bit more than three years now. Currently working on an browser extension for multilingual videos on YouTube.
Keep up the good work, looks awesome!
NBA AM: Tony Parker Wants An Extension
In retrospect, absolutely absurd should be replaced with hypocritical.
It's going to take a lot of work :) However, contrary to popular belief, Kickstarter doesn't drive much traffic to projects with their own discovery features. From their own stats page [1], 72% of backers only back once. What I take from that stat is that most people are only going to Kickstarter for a single project that their friend asked them to back.

It may take a year, but we hope to establish a culture where people browse the Ramen Marketplace. We look at it like being a zeitgeist of what is currently being built.

In the mean time, what is "better" off the bat is The Kitchen -- the area where project owners can collaborate with the customers: vote on features, get comments on mocks, poll on pricing, etc.... This area gets opened up once a project hits it's goal.

Thanks for the kind words. We're really excited to get this off the ground :)

[1] http://www.kickstarter.com/help/stats
This is starting to feel like a sick, twisted joke. Or perhaps Fools Day. That these ... people ... exist and dedicate so much engineering expertise to this pursuit is ... evil. To me, and it sounds hyperbolic, its just evil.
Article states: "Developers must not implement hiding of spam messages as a “feature” of their clients since this incentive is important to the security of the entire network."

So what exactly is going to stop them implementing an adblock add-on?
Uruguay may have started a marijuana legalization storm in Latin America
> Let's all remember why the TSA was created; solely so the Bush administration could buffer the economic impact of their shit economic policy and the effects of the terrorist attacks that group of feeble minded simpletons played right into. It's a make-work program, plain and simple.

The transfer of existing security responsibilities from airlines to the federal government wasn't a make-work program, it was a measure to eliminate potential airline liability for future security failures.

It was about the economy, because reducing the airlines liability risk going forward was one of many steps taken to help the airline industry, but it wasn't primarily a "make-work" program.
Microsoft maintains good backward compatibility, but has a habit of releasing a new way of doing things every five minutes.

Particularly look at http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms810810.aspx#bkmk_D... and windows current / deprecated/obsoleted ones.

Just to connect your Windows program to a Microsoft database.
AppScale released 1.13.0
Well said. For the first time I agree with you....unless I'm downvoted into abyss for expressing my agreement :P
75% to 80% of the killed victims were women, though, so it was mostly terrorism against women, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Witch-hunt#Execution_statistics
I wouldn't call a solution gathered without consulting everyone's feedback 'efficient'. Obviously the 'fan solution' might have come up earlier (or at least some derivative)
The guy you're responding to is George Grellas, who is a lawyer. That's probably why he couches it in terms of lawyer and witness.
It's also an effective deterrent. Car burglars in that area are likely thinking twice about thefts if they've heard about someone stealing a bait car and getting caught.
That's not going to happen, and many of the people who will make sure it doesn't happen are the same people who want voter ID laws in order to disenfranchise their political opponents.

You're not just looking for a change in the status quo, you're looking for a fundamental realignment of American politics. Good luck with that.
I can't really imagine a man complaining about (percieved) sexism being taken very seriously. (But maybe we're talking more broadly than about sexism in particular.)
The Problem with Time & Timezones
You seem perfectly willing to stand in loco auctoris for the poster to whom I replied in such fashion as to draw your ire, so I don't really find your latest plaint particularly compelling; given your clear failure to recognize the problem with "-- prove me wrong!", I can't see how you could possibly wriggle out of more than one of those four paragraphs. (But don't let me stop you from trying.)