skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree. We should be a lot more shocked that an individual that understands the internet and how information spreads still clings to the fairy tales told to him by his parents.

This is no different than believing in Santa Claus and we're all distracted by what kind of sex he likes to have. I've never heard of a war started by gay people. Being religious is being complicit in that religion's wrongdoings.

Also I'd say it's strange that a gay person is religious. Any person holding a non-mainstream position ends up having to do a lot of thinking and reading before accepting oneself for what they are. In that process they usually become a lot more rational. Didn't work for Tim, though. Weird.
(not a lawyer) I think in the US (oops, probably should have said California) generally accrued vacation has to be paid off (as it is accounted for at the time it is earned, but there may also be a cap which causes some to disappear). But sick days are not generally considered a benefit and avoid this. I imagine "flex time" is more complicated.
All of which is based on your perception of reality, all of which comes from news.

News are by definitions things that almost never happen.

Define corruption level, quantify it, and then we can talk.
I find the whole notion of "sick days" and accruing them bizarre.

What happens if you're sick but don't have enough sick days saved? Are you fired? Stop getting payed?

For comparison, this is how sick leave works in the uk: https://www.gov.uk/taking-sick-leave

And I don't want to even get in to how fucked up it is to have to save up years of vacation days to take some time off when you have a baby
There's a reason for that

> There's currently one API development server, with a static limit of 5 concurrent assessments per client IP address. The service is stable, but it might go down occasionally for upgrades and reconfiguration.
This is really neat, but it would be cool if there was a legend that stayed on the screen to show which characters made which lines.
Then I suppose you consider medical advancements to be unnatural and thus bad too as compared to the natural course of letting the diseases just kill you and similarly modern form of communications bad as well over the traditional flapping of mouth flesh.
The wireless handheld computers are targeted at very specific functions. They do those functions very, very well. The functions in question are critical enough that they justify specialized hardware.
Its $170,000 total package including stocks, salary etc. per year and not $1,700,000 and I am in Seattle, USA.
I believe there is an archive folder per machine, but it only stores files replaced at that machine during 30 days...
The takeaway from all of this: employers in the U.S. do not care about mothers of young children at all, unless we’re consumers of their products. It might be more accurate to say that they view us as horrible useless burdens who need to be ushered back to full-time work as swiftly as possible. They will do anything in their power to keep employees from exercising their federally guaranteed rights to twelve weeks of MOTHERFUCKING UNPAID LEAVE, up to and including forcing employees to give up paid sick leave.

Wow. She is a hero for writing this.

Here's what's terrifying, and it's why our society is doomed to fail in the next 30 years if it keeps acting up this way: we need people like her to reproduce, and we're punishing them when they do.

Extreme economic inequality, a bad health insurance system, an expensive education mess that puts a huge burden on parents, declining social mobility, and a corporate structure that punishes childbirth and the raising of children (especially for women) have had an anti-eugenic effect. The thoughtless, ignorant people who live in the present are having lots of children-- just as many as ever. The thoughtful, well-educated ones are having fewer kids, because they're more attuned to the cues of society and the obvious signal that they're not wanted by this world. We're seeing an adverse differential in reproduction.

If something kills the U.S., it's not going to be China or the EU and it's certainly not going to be immigration, which is a good thing. It's going to be the adverse reproductive differential caused by a society that penalizes intelligent, thoughtful parents. (It also penalizes less intelligent parents, but they don't give a shit and breed anyway.) That issue is the one serious existential threat to us as a society.
Network and get more connected friends? I don't mean to be flip, but job hunting/career building is one of the cases where the company you keep is paramount.
Fastmail business account: https://www.fastmail.fm/help/receive/domains.html
An Essay from Tim Cook
This. Also, flexible sick days(ie, "unlimited").. it works out nice for when you get the flu or whatever and don't have to worry about how many sick days you burn, but a major event like this doesn't really apply and you'll end up needing to burn vacation days or take unpaid leave to recover, not to mention wanting any bonding time
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I got the impression that DanBC's question was genuine, and meant the opposite of what you accuse him of implying.

People have been accusing Disney of "pushing the gay agenda" (negatively) for years -- but those same people have not been able to point to concrete examples of people with same-sex attraction, they've only been able to point to BS like Mickey Mouse having a high voice. Now in this thread people are suggesting Disney is "taking a stand" (positive phrasing of the same issue) -- but they still seem to be lacking concrete examples. It seems inappropriate to credit Disney for "taking a stand" (or to criticize them for "pushing an agenda") without being able to point to an unambiguous, romantically-involved same-sex couple.

I suspect DanBC is like me -- I'd like to see an unambiguous example before categorizing Disney as "taking a stand".
I'm also based in Sweden. I would recommend you attend to any meetup.com you are interested in. The organizers are usually scouting. If you talk to people and discuss the presentation (many don't) you'll get fika invites instead of asking for them!
I think we should have paid maternity leave and I think the federal govt should pay for it. If you force employers to pay for it you discourage the hiring of young women.
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I haven't used syncthing/Pulse at all, but have you tried using srvany to set it running as a service?
This makes my blood boil, too.

I'd also like to point out that skimpy paternity leave policy is also bad for mothers. Some mothers are fortunate to have friends and family willing to pause their lives to help with the transition and recovery, but some really need the father around to take over running the household, especially if there were complications during the birth.
Sold it on eBay, made about $370 for 16gb iPhone 5s.
52% of Californians voted in favor of Prop 8 (to ban same-sex marriage) so you could argue Brendan Eich holds a rather popular opinion.
I haven't ran into corrupted file issues myself, but I have been fighting "Out of Sync" for awhile and will probably switch to something else myself if I can find something similar.
In most states, that's not required.
In some places, that policy is in place to encourage employees to actually take time off. If it wasn't use-it-or-lose-it, some people would never take leave.
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Outside of the Valley and New York, where there's less competition for talent, there are many companies that deduct sick days from vacation. This allows them to say that they offer 15 days (which, by US standards, is about average) of "PTO" in recruiting when it's actually less.

When companies pull that shit, you see people getting a lot sicker, because people come into the office when they should be staying home. The month of February becomes a constant, never-ending cold.
They said in the presentation (paraphrasing) "Evaluation units available late 2014, retail units available early 2015". My impression is that pricing will be similar to other high-end switches e.g. $20-30K.
"I have hard time thinking of anyone as an IOS engineer if they ignore the basics tenants of what Apple documentation states. XYZ is very clearly spelled out as unsafe."
In the UK our [pm]aternity leave allowance is not exactly enlightened, but even so this left me open-mouthed. Scandinavian readers or readers from other countries that actually bother to look after their workers properly must be utterly incredulous at your treatment.
Yup.

http://pbs.twimg.com/media/BnDi8KlIIAA750F.png

US provides zero weeks paid maternity leave. Pakistan provides 12. Venezuela manages 18. Canada does 50.

Per Wikipedia, the US joins Papua New Guinea, Suriname, and Liberia as the only countries to not provide paid parental leave of any kind.
I think it is interesting when people say that they are not good writers or not good public speakers. These are skills like any other. You may or may not have an aptitude for them, but the only way to get really good at any skill is practice.
Speaking of spoiling delicious beverages with milk, have you heard what the English do to their tea?
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To support this JSON patch format, you've got to implement a system which validates that all the array entries are in a valid format, securely interprets the 'path' attribute, and processes the rules according to a specification which may or may not cover every edge case

To support my approach, you need to validate that each line uses a strict subset of JavaScript, then securely evaluate each one according to the well defined rules of JavaScript.

Both have basically the same essential complexity - not sure I see why the JSON format patch is inherently 'easier' to work with.
IIRC many employers will stop paying you, then it starts to be a "short term" disability. And then you go through that process, which often includes X days unpaid as a sort of "deductible"
Sounds like you just recreated Microsoft Biztalk.

But to sound less like a dick - communicating with a low probability of errors is hard !
I'm increasingly feeling that NDA = Naivety, and is a useful signal of a startup founder who is in love with their idea but doesn't appreciate that execution is everything, so will undervalue everyone else's contribution (including yours) because 'the only reason we're all here is because I had the great idea'.

Definitely not universal, but common enough (in my personal experience) to act as a very useful guide. If I get resistance (about half the time the person is happy to talk with me anyway) a good follow up question is "Who are your 3 biggest competitors?"

If they can't name them, then they haven't done any market research either and their idea was likely conjured in a basement with no validation.

"NDA Request + No Market Research = Solution in search of a Problem", and I'm not going to lose any sleep over not taking those meetings / missing those clients.
America is one of very few developed countries in which checks are not an anachronism for precisely this reason.
My guess would be Mountain Dew or similar
Author info at the end says "Karen W. is a Duke City denizen..." I'm not sure if that's misdirection, but "Duke City" is another name for Albuquerque, NM.

Edit: This is interesting. Not saying it's University of New Mexico, but it is in Albuquerque and this includes a reference to her exact phrase "pregnancy or prenatal care" : http://policy.unm.edu/university-policies/3000/3440.html

And, on their FAQ under #21: http://hr.unm.edu/benefits/fmla.php#faqs ... Mentions "serious medical condition"

As well as their contract : http://hr.unm.edu/docs/labor-relations/united-staff-unm-(usu... mentions "pregnancy or prenatal care"
Tyramine?
Tyramine could be the cause of headaches, especially if MAOIs are involved.
You have to practice writing.

On HN, being specific and brief helps a lot.

Being sure you're conceptually clear in what you want to convey helps with brevity.
Some people get a caffeine headache in the morning because they haven't been drinking it while they were asleep.
> I find the whole notion of "sick days" and accruing them bizarre.

Agreed. Companies here in the US are pretty stingy with them, too, causing people to come to work sick where they get everyone else sick too.

> What happens if you're sick but don't have enough sick days saved? Are you fired? Stop getting payed?

You stop getting paid and can be fired if the company wishes.

Some companies are subject to FMLA, which protects your job for 12 weeks of unpaid sick leave. Its requirements rule out small businesses and new employees, though:

> In order to be eligible for FMLA leave, an employee must have been at the business at least 12 months, and worked at least 1,250 hours over the past 12 months, and work at a location where the company employs 50 or more employees within 75 miles.
Nice, but why not a cookiecutter template?https://github.com/audreyr/cookiecutter

It looks tedious to clone some other project and manually replace strings.
Tim Cook expressing his beliefs does not deprive me of access to my rights as an individual. People are certainly free to not believe in gay marriage, but when they start donating money to groups dedicated to preventing gay people from getting married, that crosses a line.

Put another way - Tim Cook believes in God, which is fine, that's his prerogative. However, if he started donating money to anti-atheist groups, now he's actively working to disrespect the opinions of those who are atheists.

Note that this passage:

> Brendan never expressed that he was against gays or even hated gays. He was just against gay marriage.

Is basically identical to what many many people said about miscegenation/mixed-race marriage:

> (Brendan/whoever) never expressed that he/they were against blacks or even hated blacks. He was just against mixed-race marriages.

But in retrospect, it's really hard to look at that statement and not see it as an expression of bigotry. If you're "okay with gays" and "not okay with gay marriage", it really means that you're not okay with gays.

> Suddenly being "gay" is cool and being "hetero" is not cool ?

Seems weird to say that being gay is cool when we're arguing about people donating money to stop gay people from having the same rights as hetero people.
I am glad you found it helpful. Good luck.
Yes. When I was sick* I managed to work part time and use banked sick and vacation hours all the way through, but it was rough. If I had been unable to work at all I would have had to invoke short term disability, which iirc lasted six weeks. After that, I would have been fired. I had worked for the company for less than six months so I was unable to invoke FMLA at all.

These days I'm independent and have a very large cash buffer in case something else happens. Planning with cash is way easier than trying to negotiate giant employer leave policies, in my experience.

*I was diagnosed with a very treatable form of cancer in November 2012.
This is what edmund burke meant when he said "The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing," and Arendt meant when she coined the term "The banality of evil."

But I always thought it was put best by some blogger I read years ago. They said that in the fantasy or religious worlds, evil is something that just exists so corporeally that it might as well be a noun. An evil rock is evil by definition.

But in the real world, such things don't exist. Evil is not a state of being or can be encapsulated in an object. The closest definition to evil that can be defined from a real world viewpoint, is the undertaking of action that is done (usually out of selfishness) at the known expense of others.

Anyway, that's exactly what you are reacting to. That's objective evil. And not to go full godwin, but our society has had large public trials where we collectively decided that simply acting in accordance with one's job is not a moral defense.
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give it to me dude? or sell on kiraya... lol
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#FirstWorldProblems

There are thousands of companies you can still apply to.
I applaud this. I am not gay. Conventional family, kids, etc. Oh, yes, I am also an atheist which, today, in the US, is worst than being gay in some circles.

As I am sure a lot of you know, the reality show Survivor features a male homosexual couple this year. Bravo! We watch the show with our kids every week. Yes, they ask questions. The little ones cover their eyes when anybody kisses on TV anyway. Seeing two men kiss on the lips and show affection is, well, weird to them. You just don't see that on mainstream TV these days. We simply tell them that what they are seeing is perfectly normal and that these are two people who love each other just as much as mom and dad do. They say "ok" and still go "ewwwww!" When anyone kisses on the show.

The part of Tim Cook's statement that is disappointing to me is where he says "I consider being gay among the greatest gifts God has given me.". Of course, as an atheist I tend to be particularly sensitive to such statements. If we leave that aside, it is simply a fact that god and religion --world wide-- have been brutal to the gay community. Historically this has ranged from denouncement all the way up to torture and murder. And that stands on it's own, it's a historical fact that has nothing whatsoever to do with the messenger being an atheist.

Anyhow, I am glad he decided to come out as the role model he surely is. Society has far to go. This helps. Every little step helps.
At this point, the male students would nod and go on about their days, and the female grad students would stick around in an increasingly panicked state to ask about that whole saving annual and sick leave thing, since their contracts don’t include leave.

I was 100% like the male students until fairly recently when my girlfriend and I started having serious conversations about having children. The conversation was something like this. her: "What does your employer offer for maternity leave?" me: "lol idk." And then I got a pretty stern look. In the US the only legal guarantee you get is that you can leave for 12 weeks unpaid and you'll probably still have a job when you get back. There is zero guaranteed paid leave. It's completely shameful and it's a stone age policy compared to the rest of the Western world [1]. It's also something I think the typical HN reader hasn't spent much time thinking about so I'm glad to see this on the front page.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parental_leave
Estonia has 78 weeks of paid Maternity OR Paternity leave, parents can choose which one stays home and gets to take care of the baby.
Ask HN: How do you track and generate line items when invoicing?
This is probably a question best posed to freelancers; when you are working for clients, how do you track what will eventually become the line items in your invoice? Or maybe you don't include a detailed breakdown of tasks completed in invoice? If you don't, why not?

For example, as a web developer I was finding that when it came to invoicing a client (every 2/4 weeks) I would have a big empty expensive invoice with no indication of what was done. I first tried to simply log manually the tasks that I finished and on what date but I invariably forgot to add them sometimes. I then started using my git commit log to get an overview of what I did in a days work for a client. I use these commit messages to create an invoice with each line item containing the relevant commit messages for each day.

Is this an issue for anyone else? If not, why not? If so, how do you deal with it?
Hacker News metrics (first rough approach)
In the layperson-oriented articles I've read, the clear proof of dark matter is gravitational lensing. This article seems to be saying that you might not need dark matter to explain
galaxy size and shape, not that electric fields "explain" dark matter. So it seems to me that the title of the article, (and the intro paragraph, at least) is misleading.
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That's an incredibly muddle-headed sequence of arguments you've just made, for sure. But no, we're not going to hate you for it.
I am using Zoho Mail, web client is not on the Gmail level, but it works well and it is free.
> "There's nothing in the bible saying they can't do that"

... in your understanding of the Bible. Not every Christian group agrees with the way you understand it.

Also keep in mind that many Christian groups rely on more than just the Bible for authority (both Catholics and the Orthodox hold a very high view of tradition, compared to the Protestant view of tradition as dangerous.)

There are also religious groups that aren't Christian which also have objections to performing same-sex weddings.

Anyway, thank you for so beautifully illustrating my point.
Who pays for it? The State or the employer?
I hope that when Rust hits 1.0 -- they take backward compatibility exceptionally seriously. The pre-1.0 path has been exceptional wild ride, and it has made me a bit gun shy about the language as a whole.

I am no stranger to pre-1.0 languages, I have worked with lots of them, but none have been as frustrating (or interesting) as Rust... the question as to will Rust grow into a production language or an academic toy still remains an open one in my book.

Reserving judgement until 1.0 is out.
The future of the realtime patch set
https://xkcd.com/603/

You guys need education, not eugenics.
I wish there was a simple domain email service targeted at individuals rather than businesses. Allow wildcard forwarding of email at the domain to specified email address (e.g. for parked domains or retired ones). Allow arbitrary smtp access at the domain for any email using the same password (plus DKIM & SPF support). I'd pay Google Apps prices for something simple that accomplished this.
I understand why Karen feels she must redact the name of her employer, but it would be so very helpful if she named names. It would educate the rest of us to avoid working there.
> Let this serve as a warning for young (age-with-a-potential-to-have-a-family) people who might be tempted to relocate to California

It's interesting. This is a difficult conversation to have. I have good personal reasons for wanting to relocate to California (I'm British/not American so this is difficult), though logistically it doesn't seem like that will/can happen. What I don't understand though is why so many people want to move to the USA just because. From a purely outside perspective, it seems like it's fairly low down in terms of standard of living/worker's rights/healthcare/etc. For the lucky few (of which those reading here might be over-represented) it's great, but otherwise... I just don't understand. Even for salary I don't see it–I'm entering a short postdoctoral programme at the moment and my salary in the UK is about 1.7 times what I would expect in the states, and it's not like my salary in the UK is even that good(!) and I know full well I'd be worked to death over there too.

I just don't understand. But it's such a can of worms (personal politics, patriotism etc.) that it's difficult to talk about. I will say this though, it really is a beautiful country/continent, and all the people I've met seem pretty happy.
This is indeed a better approach. The project template shown above would require editing of pretty much every file to get going, so there's not much of a benefit (other than highlighting what's possible).
Suunto supports third party "apps" and has a "rope skipping" app[1]. Can't vouch for its accuracy (I'm personally more interested in hiking/climbing features), but it exists.

http://www.movescount.com/apps/app10028993-Rope_Skipping_R3
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