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> Imo, there are many possible ways to explain why a magnetic force is felt to a lay-audience, even touching on more advanced aspects like magnetism as a relativistic by-product of moving charges or dipole moments created by orbiting electrons.

That wouldn't have been a correct answer. In permanent magnets, most of the dipole moment comes from electron spin, not angular momentum. Angular momentum alone can't produce a permanent magnet.
>Fortunately, there are some compact mainstreet communities in the LA area

Yeah, Santa Monica and Manhattan Beach come to mind. Although I'm not sure it's really feasible for the average person to be able to afford to live in these areas.
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There is no evidence that consuming a small amount of aspartame (less than 30 cans of diet soda a day) is harmful to you.
But then you have a different issue: no friends, because everyone wants to go to the pub. Being the guy who will only hang out with you if you agree to his demands is not, socially speaking, a winning strategy.

That strikes to me as a fair compromise: we'll go to a place I don't like. I won't make a single comment on it, and in fact I'll be cheerful and happy, but in return you won't ask me to do the thing I don't like.
On a subset of the devices I use, I pay by the byte for my Internet service. In that case, blasting me with a bunch of video content that's much larger than the article I intended to read. Advertisers do not respect this, even though it has an impact on my finances. I reserve the right to choose whether I consent to paying for something, and I don't consent to the terms they're trying to offer me.

If they were to give me some opportunity to make a decision about this, in the same way that a real storefront does implicitly by me being able to look into the store before choosing to enter, that would be one thing. But such a mechanism does not exist, so as far as I'm concerned the analogy is invalid.
Yeah, it's a rare moment in life. Especially fun since it happened on a Saturday morning (the notification, that is).
Yeah - Graham's "stereotype" is a scrappy hacker. Thiel is the smooth operator who has ocd eccentricities and a light temper. Gregory is closer to the latter.
Europe has essentially the same economic changes, although with subtle and probably significant differences (Plus the British and Germans are porking out to an alarming degree)
> All they get in return is a salary that is above industry average.

I've always wondered if that's actually true. Typically, unions form around well established businesses that are already dominating their market where the employees can clearly see the amount of money being made hand over fist.

This works great for employees whenever things are going great but cripples the company from adapting when things are going poorly. Hostess was a decent example of that.

In other words, Unions basically seem to form to take advantage of a good situation so when they're able to extract higher salaries from the company it's because they are already at very successful companies.

That would seem to imbalance the sample data because you'd need to compare them to all of the other non-unionized equivalently successful companies for a real comparison rather than the entire industry including small players.
I think Google is purposefully being misleading about that. If you read the notice they link to, it says:

Although the company has granted some of the requests, delisting was only carried out on European extensions of the search engine and not when searches are made from “google.com” or other non-European extensions.

In accordance with the CJEU judgement, the CNIL considers that in order to be effective, delisting must be carried out on all extensions of the search engine and that the service provided by Google search constitutes a single processing.

Nowhere does it say that the problem is that the results are still accessible from other countries; it's specifically about still being accessible on the .com and other domains.
I'm stunned that Bill Allen left behind the photo he was presented with at the banquet. While he may have not liked it at the time it seems like he never forgave or recovered from it.
>comfortable, paraben and glycerin free prophylactics

Are any latex condoms actually "comfortable"?
have they done terribly? is Techstars or 500 startups doing terribly?
167% the size of the US is more than a little bit, non?
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>a can of coke has more than 40gs of sugar.

A can of Coke has 33g of sugar.
Whatever happened to the popular 9front?
The problem with taxing "all junk food" is that the devil is in the definitions. We can probably all agree on the obvious examples like soda and potato chips, but about the Chinese hot bar at Wegmans? It's certainly worse for my body than the sushi next door, but whether you would call that junk food or not is more a reflection of your values. At least sugary soda is demonstrably problematic, as the human body doesn't sate its appetite from refined sugars as the caloric equivalents of proteins or fats would.
Sugary diets do not cause obesity any more than starchy diets do. A lot of obese people only consume diet drinks yet they still gain weight from the chips, the bread, the beer, etc.
We have a union for IT workers (including developers) at my workplace. I was only recently allowed to leave it as a result of becoming a supervisor.

In my opinion, the union was manipulative and not beneficial to employee outcomes. They were first and foremost politicians who used union funds to support various unrelated political objectives and didn't really offer any substantive help or improvement with salary/benefits.

After I left (completely in accordance with procedure and my position), the union sent me a threatening letter demanding that I continue sending them dues.

As a very "left leaning" person politically, I'm totally pro-labor, but unions often only pay lip service to the employees they are supposed to benefit.
Number two after availability, then.
Someone good at their job would have taken the opportunity to find out why you were using the ad blocker and considered the impact on their industry based off your response. It wasn't professional to have such a childish outburst during a meeting, and to interrupt at that. I would think it's possible you are better off in the long run not getting the business.
Is it not also possible that they get so much attention because they are genuinely interesting?
That is terrible to hear because I am very pro-unions.

I'm not sure I understand everything you said but I assume you're trying to say that employees who are not even members pay dues to the union from their salary. I don't understand this at all and this is not how we operate in sweden.

So that's one major issue with policy in your country.

I don't understand what you mean by 10% difference.

The union does have a lot of power but in my experience most of it is used to negotiate salary raises every year and to advise members who need help with negotiating or general queries.

So I've never felt that the union is another power I have to answer to in any way. The only way I can imagine them giving the impression of being "in the way" would be that the reason salary raises are delayed most years are due to the union negotiations. That hardly matters though as everyone still gets their salary raise retroactively, regardless of when the negotiations end.

With most companies being connected to some sort of collective bargaining deal here, there's really not much reason to join a union. I am a member partly due to ideological reasons and partly due to the fact that managers still fear the unions here and I think that's how it should be.

Without tuting my own horn, I've been a model employee for my It-career so far so I haven't had any need for the union. But should I ever lose my job, or need to enter into any difficult negotiating with my manager, I know they will help me. Because they've helped co-workers and other people around the country in good ways before.
Well fructose was a rarely part of the human diet and is converted to fat by your liver. Sugar is 50% glucose and 50% fructose. When your body get's a hit of glucose it releases insulin that tells your body not to burn fat but use up the glucose. So that fructose gets stored away. Ironically healthy fruit smoothies are exceptionally bad :D

Yes a country's transport policy has an impact. Netherlands has an obesity rate of 1.6% in boys vs 16% in the UK. So getting your kids cycling/walking to school is of massive benefit to the long-term health of your nation.

You still need to deal with the wrong type of calories being delivered into your population.
Unions typically protect the employees that have been there the longest. The newest employees are always the most vulnerable, union or not.

If you had worked there long enough, eventually they would have had your best interests at heart.
Yeah, SAG has really stopped actors from performing. George Clooney just sits on his ass all day running out the clock until he can collect his paycheck. /s
Ok, this is new. Why exactly must we not download CSS?
Just out of personal curiosity, I would love to see the Fiverr supplied logo that he rejected to see how bad it really was.
Baseball players are an even better example than Hollywood. Here's a list of MLB's best-paid player each year: http://sabr.org/research/mlbs-annual-salary-leaders-1874-201... - can you spot where the MLBPA under Marvin Miller won free agency? Meanwhile they got the minimum raised from $6k to $10k.
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You're observing the superview in a hierarchy you don't own. In your code, you have an iOS version check, presumably since the property you're looking for changed between iOS versions.
Problem of Dropbox as a product I will possibly use, that functions I need from it, can be relatively easy achieved with git on your home server or NAS, and Working Copy.app on your tablet or phone. At a fraction of cost.
Hmmm. I might have got over excited there! Should have become suspicious when google din't give me anything related to "Japanese + nardi"
right. That's exactly why we shouldn't worry about taxing individual foods. Just tax the food industry as a whole extra, leaving out staples needed to cook at home. Tax the concept of "food as entertainment", so to speak, and make it revenue neutral, so that this is not about overall size of government
yes exactly. My criticism is only if point 2 is used as evidence of point 3. I see this a lot.

If point 2 is used only as a means to generate a hypothesis, which is then tested empirically, then absolutely this is fine

thanks for the clarification
Just want to point out it's not a feeling. It's a fact that HR is there for the company and not you.
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>The author is making a stronger case than that, the article is an examination of a culture being diluted by misappropriation of the term "hacker".

I disagree. Yes, his essay briefly talks about the hollowing out of the term "hacker". But it's really the hackers' "ethos" and "culture" that's in danger from "gentrification" rather the diluted meaning of a particular word.

He uses the word "gentrified/gentrification" over 20 times. Those sentences are more about about geeks & nerds being "pawns" of those with money. Those with money have agendas that are more "mainstream" and "safe". It's not about yuppies fooling the public with their new redefinition of "hacker".
He earned it. I consider Michael an internet-friend, but I don't think that's defensible.
Here's the correct link: http://twvideo01.ubm-us.net/o1/vault/GD_Mag_Archives/GDM_Sep.... (If this link breaks try to go to http://www.gdcvault.com/gdmag and find a link the September 2012 issue there.)
I'm working too hard and too sleep deprived to read the full article, but am I the only person noticing that every single lawyer and MBA under 35, almost without exception, is attending or trying to attend a code school to change careers? Many of the ones I meet talking about it have very limited tech experience.

That's very much how it seems in NY right now.
True but you are telling your body to keep producing insulin. There is some indication that certain sweeteners increase your risk of diabetes http://www.nhs.uk/news/2014/09September/Pages/Do-artificial-...

I'm on a low sugar (not low carb) and no sweetener lifestyle as I find sugar makes me crash and feel very sleepy.
I think its the size of food.

The old time coke bottles where 8 fl oz (.23 liters). Then cans at 12 oz. Now the single serve bottles are typically 20 oz (.6 liter)

I was in NYC which labels calories in restaurants. Was a little bit of an eye opener. oversize bagels and muffins making breakfast approach half your daily caloric intake.
> why this is legal I have no idea

It's legal, and in fact normal, under the US labor law regime, because because the union is legally obligated to represent all employees equally, members and non-members, in both collective bargaining and individual grievances. Without something like this the temptation to free-ride those benefits would be pretty enormous.
Great read!
They could just stop calling it hacking. It's such a cliche term nowadays. Look at me, i'm writing in an entrepreneurial forum, and even that is called 'hacker news'. Yesterday drchrono was looking for 'healthcare hackers' by which they meant programmers. I giggled. Hacking is like the new indie. It will come, and pass.
> You shouldn't be surprised if people react incredulously when you're not just deviating from the social norm but opting out of entire categories

People react that way because they take your statement as a moral judgement.
I am actually curious. There are a lot of companies that do not reach Uber or AirBnB stardom levels, but nevertheless generate profitable exits, while offering useful services. I would love to see some comparisons between YC returns on capital vs Techstars or 500 startups
I really don't like the link to "the profit fetish" in the last paragraph and the implicit undertone of profit being a bad thing.
In fact I completely disagree and would call hacking (in the sense it is used in the article) a very direct expression of profit seeking. You change one state to another one that you prefer. If the costs to achieve this are less than the added value that's (economic) profit.
> Even with npm's ability to have multiple versions of each library at once, you don't want to have to ship a new version every time one of your dependencies does.

Nothing about using == forces you to ship a new version every time one of your dependencies does. When your dependencies ship a version, this changes nothing for you if you're using ==. In fact, >= is much more likely to force you to ship a new version when one of your dependencies does, because a breaking change in your dependencies can break your code. And when a breaking change breaks your code, it does so without warning. >= is a cause of your problem, not a solution.

> Even if you don't mind the hassle, you'd still making it harder for your users to promptly install security fixes.

If you're worried about security, then you shouldn't be shipping arbitrary dependency updates to your users, you should be evaluating the security of each release before pushing them out. And honestly, if you're writing security-critical code, you shouldn't be using a language that dumps everything into a global namespace. "JavaScript security" is an oxymoron.
>Now, that's the logic, and it's a sound logic

Some people like the taste of soda or the effects of alcohol. That's the logic, and it trumps the fact that "useless" calories are being consumed. We aren't rational automatons.
>Society decides itself what rights its members have which is why they are not the same everywhere.

Again, that's how you know what rights people in fact have. If you want to decide whether people should have a right, the law is irrelevant. That's an ethical question, not a legal one.

Laws get changed all the time, which doesn't mean the underlying ethics changed.
Exercise burns calories, eventually inducing ketosis, which burns fat. I'm not sure what you're arguing. To burn fat, you either need to burn more calories, or reduce intake calories.

The videos you linked are equally confusing. There is no "debate" over diet vs exercise. They're both metabolic characteristics that interact heavily. If you tell a doctor you want to lose weight without burning calories or restricting caloric intake, he's going to laugh you out of the office. Arithmetic doesn't work like that.
I think you'll find hackers were never trying to change the world. Therein lies the charge of activists and idealists. The original set of hackers, on the other hand, were merely captivated by the ability to explore the realm of computation--or more broadly by exploration and play in general. Hackers as a group have never had the charisma or social commitment necessary to really want to change the world for everyone. Traditional hacker culture is pretty self-centered and dismissive of the needs of the masses--comparative ignorance and disinterest will likely always be the norm, even as standards (e.g. literacy, or code-literacy, or so on) rise. Even if most people can read and code, mostly they'll read restaurant menus or light fiction and code to bring home a paycheck. That's fine. Not everyone should be a hacker; hackers are imbalanced.

As nice as it would be, "encourage play" is not an effective political praxis. The environments that fostered early hackers no longer exist, and outside of rough approximations in occasional backwaters nothing of the sort exists today. Lone hackers do exist, writing code that does things most people would balk at attempting, and their meager Web presence osculates the HN sphere (sometimes people post technical, novel things on HN). But there are no hacker communities... the demoscene is maybe the last bastion of that sort of cult to the technical, and their irrelevance even to the larger programming community is clear. Look at the kind of comments demoscene posts on HN get: adulation, but distant--"I could never do that!" or "It's amazing what ..." dominate over discussion of the technical attributes, the actual hacks, being displayed.

Yuppies (big business, middle-aged slashdotters, startup capitalists, bros, anime communists, whoever) own HN and programming at large, but hacking (or anything so self-centric, e.g. radical libertarianism) is inherently anti-establishment and can't be truly co-opted. Its terminology has been subverted, but the core activity has merely been extinguished rather than harnessed to the establishment buggy. Hacking (and libertarianism) isn't good politics, but casting hackers as a social class is no longer coherent, even if one could claim it ever was (in the '80s?). The real problems are either political ones (for the vast majority of the world, as continued mechanization increasingly removes accountability and autonomy from people's daily lives) or social/lifestyle ones (for those who wish to be hackers).
The energy costs of fertilizer and pesticides are the problem not the cost of robots/tractors.

All fossil fuels are going to be gone within 5k years. Humans are several times that old and presumably humans will want to survive that. Sure, we can kick the can on this one, but it is a long term problem.
I'm an engineer at Google. This article's description of stack ranking and perf is fundamentally and completely wrong. There is no stack ranking for perf ratings, there is no percentage of people that have to fail, and managers are not allowed or empowered to give people poor perf ratings in the way described here.

I have no comment on the stuff about unions.
It should be notied the Dr. Blair is one of the most cited exercise science researchers of all time. He's not simply a shrew for Coca Cola, he has produces some of the most monumental papers in the field. If you look at his career timeline, his research matched with what Coca Cola wanted to promote (before they started working together), not the opposite.

He is also extremely passionate about helping reduce obesity in South Carolina especially. One of the nicest and most honest people I've ever met.

*disclaimer, I've worked with him on startups combining exercise science and mobile apps.
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Peoples' diets are not the CDC's responsibility.
Can someone explain a bit more the actual current problem? I like to think that in our field of work, we prove ourselves by our abilities and nothing else. I feel like unions are first a way for the less competent to kind of hang in there and not have to try harder. I can see how it's a bit cut-throat currently, but if I'm protected then what do I have to gain by improving my skills? When I think of the industries that are heavily unionized, I picture demoralized workers with union leaders replacing their actual bosses and forcing the group to go along with things they would never find reasonable individually.

Personally, not a fan of the article. Also this line: and nothing will be done about it so long as most software engineers remain apolitical cowards who refuse to fight for themselves.. Thanks...?
The grant is for the DAL project [1], which presumably fits the "ground-breaking, high-risk" label. In such a project, some tasks will be high-risk, some tasks will be low-risk. Quantifying the branch predictor of current processors may be a comparatively easy task, but that doesn't mean it's trivial, useless or outside the scope of the project, which is to improve sequential performance of microarchitectures. Knowing that real-world processors are performing just as well as previous academic research is helpful, because it suggests that there is no difficulty or unrealistic assumption that prevented manufacturers from doing so. Conveying that knowledge to the compiler and interpreter community is important too.

[1] https://team.inria.fr/alf/members/andre-seznec/defying-amdah...
Immigration into Netherland is not trivial at all. As far as I understand, you can get a permit if either your salary is above a certain threshold (it's got to be a pretty good job), or your employer and convincingly argue that he can't find someone with the right skill set locally. Unfortunately, "programmer" may be the skill set here. I don't think there's much room for recognizing specific expertise. Then again, my impression is that there's a lot of demand for programmers; I don't know any unemployed ones, and tons of recruiters complain they can't find anyone.

So it's worth a shot. Looks like we could use more programmers here.
lot of services still run on their datacenters or on-premise servers, or maintain a hot backup that they can switch to immediately.

I'm not an idiot, I'm well aware of that. My point is that when a large number of consumer-facing sites go down, users (who aren't aware of Amazon cloud servers) simply assume something is wrong with the internet.

Obviously if you have a mission critical service this isn't acceptable. But for a lot of average sites/apps it might not be worth the investment in time/effort to cover relatively small outages such as these.

I'm afraid this is pretty much getting the entire cloud thing wrong.

Not really. It's the utility of the cloud - if there's an outage there are already a lot of people working to fix it. If you're self-hosted, that's on you.
If there is valuable enough ad space it wouldn't matter how large or well funded you are. The size of the site's audience is a factor but not the only one.

Still, some sites won't have a valuable enough space for ads. That's okay not every site should be able to get deals with ad companies. A good business shouldn't look like a get rich quick schema.