skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>Aside from labour issues and collective bargaining over employees getting "shafted", unions are the first to pick up unsafe working practices.

No, the opposite is true.

http://inthesetimes.com/working/entry/5813/fatalities_higher...
My information is as of 2011. When I was there, the percentage who had to fail fluctuated between 3 and 5 percent, based on market conditions, but I'd heard that it was higher than 5% in 2008-- a dishonest layoff under the guise of a "low performer initiative".

I know next to nothing about what Perf is like as of 2015; my insights are 4 years out of date. I must ask, though: do they still call people assigned sub-3.0 scores "pillow biters"? Or did HR put the kibosh on that term-of-art? Personally, I hope it lives on; it means that Google management is being honest about how it views people.
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Which is a good clarification, but his point definitely remains.
My world is full of contradictions.

Well, the Chinese communist party, which is basically the government. All of us are supposed to be a part of a union; they let foreign tech companies slide for awhile but closed that loophole a couple of years ago.

It is a trade union, but will "work closely with management to resolve any problems in a harmonious way." So not really what you would expect from a union in the west.
Not if you have friends that don't go to the pub! It's not unheard of.
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If I taped the content on my old VHS, and then fast forwarded past the ads, and they argued that I shouldn't be allowed to do this, then sure, I would argue they should pay for my electricity for showing that ad, since apparently they are the ones who are in charge of how my VHS should be used. I'd say the argument I'm making isn't something new that just appeared with computers.

To drag this point out, imagine if in addition to the video ad, the website included one of those fancy bitcoin miners that is written in JavaScript. Should it be illegal for me to prevent it from running while I read their article? If it MUST run, then surely it's fair that they foot the extra electricity I end up using?

There is no rational world where they control the usage and I foot the bill. That sort of system would require slavery to be logically consistent.
The active campaigns that award ephemeral internet points actually seem fairly effective. Those are what worry me most though, as it seems like the making of a tragedy of the commons.
> Are they just worried people will buy cheaper cards and overclock them?

Then they wouldn't hand out the API to people writing OC tools. It's probably just standard corporate paranoia.
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I was looking at the GTX 980 but settled on a GTX 970. It overclocks pretty well and I put the money I saved into a new SSD :)
The point of being a hacker (in the traditional sense) is that your utility function is completely wack. You prefer to make the lights on the screen (and by proxy, the state of the registers) the way you envision than to have free time for hobbies intrinsically inbued with external relevance.

The prevalence of computers in modern commerce makes this easy to overlook. Hacking isn't about building things the rest of the world appreciates and understands--it's about mastery and appreciation of abstract systems.

Edit: to make myself completely clear, profit is inherently evil, c.f. the notion of selflessness.
>as a group never experienced any need that could be solved by unionizing.

* Breaking Apple and Google's wage fixing cartel.

* An end to those bullshit contractual terms that state the employer owns everything you dream up in the shower.

* Legal help with companies that promise the world with options and then shaft you later with fine print.

* Lobbying to trash software patents / H1B/indentured servitude visas.

* And end for stack ranking

I could go on...
"Hack life"...please, just stop with this. Can we coin a new phrase?
Pretty sure this happened before the release party. They joked about it during Eijah's (demonsaw's author) talk at DEF CON.
It works very well! React Resolver is handling the async-loading & rendering problem for you. How you choose to fetch & update data within your components is up to you :)

I have a very large application in production now using a custom flux implementation (since the flux wars have finally died down Alt & Redux taking the lead).

There'll be some documentation & examples around Redux specifically, but the gist is you'd do something like this (not using any Flux library in particular here):

// Flux - watch UserStore for changes & provide "props.userStore".
@connectToStore(UserStore)
// Flux - provide actions as props for the resolver or component to use.
@bindActions(function(dispatcher) {
return {
create: dispatcher.actions.User.create,
save: dispatcher.actions.User.save,
};
})
// Resolver -
@resolve("user", function({ create, userStore }) {
return userStore.getCurrent() || create("New User");
})
// Now your component always has the latest, updated user
export default UserProfile extends React Component {

Watch the repo for some more examples, as there'll be both Alt & Redux examples.
They are genuinely interesting in part because they're "Far East" and seem foreign.

With that said, knowing Western designs of weapons is also extremely interesting. The progression of simple sword -> sword+crossbar -> sword+ crossbar + ring guard -> Rapier -> Basket-hilted sword says a lot about Western Martial Arts (aka: Fencing).

At some point, people figured out that grabbing the crossbar was more comfortable and more precise. So additional protections needed to be added to the top of swords (finger-rings / sweepings).

The full anatomy of the Rapier is astonishing. Every part of the weapon serves a purpose.

Even then, Rapiers were mostly status symbols for the rich. Weapons of War were far more simple and practical. (Well... not always: Landsknechte Zweihander == lulz. They probably discontinued that weapon because it was too expensive, heavy, and unweildly. But man, what an awesome looking sword )
This sounds horrible. I always hear how Chinese internet access is under too heavy regulation, isn't there any penalty for such behavior?
That cultural description is only true in so far as you believe it.
This Week in Data (August 7, 2015)
Summary:

1. Define what hacker means (prior to the yuppie gentrification), for numerous paragraphs. Bulk of article.

2. Big drop G paragraph: point actually starts here. (Just scroll down until you see a big G).

3. Fizzle on about gentrification of hacking, sort of making a point.

4. Send yuppies home.
idk about bars, but here's a tip for house parties: finish a beer bottle, and keep refilling it with water thereafter.
Lots of people care. I regularly go to a sports bar that features beers around the world. The guys in my group love to peruse the beer app that the bar sponsors. I order water and eat only the healthier items on the menu.

Despite their love of beer, I think that my health consciousness weighs on them... makes them feel a little guilty. Consequently, they make little comments about my lack of drinking. Harmless stuff, but my guess is that they're actually expressing disappointment in themselves.

I especially notice that when new people are with the group, the core members feel that they have to point out and explain that I only order water. So there's obviously some tension and discomfort there.
It bums me out that this is so complicated for you. It also bums me out that I can't think of anything I could do to help you. I hope things work out.
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Like I said, I don't mind either way. Just wondered what the official position was.
Completely agree. There's currently a Kickstarter to build a wall around SF to keep the Burners from coming back after Burning Man. Frankly, though, my first thought upon seeing it was "Geez, the Burners are the only people left in SF who are really SF-ish and weird anymore.

SF has changed. It's becoming Manhattan West.
2 things:

First, lots of people will care if you smoked pot. Or they won't, but they'll care instead about something else that today you think is innocuous.

Second, you're talking revolution rather than evolution. That's always more disruptive and often more dangerous.
Numba is not a general-purpose Python compiler, and does not handle (or intend to handle) many basic Python statements (like class or function definition) at all: http://numba.pydata.org/numba-doc/0.20.0/reference/pysupport...

And most general-purpose Python (e.g. dicts, most builtins, etc...) require running in "object mode" which is not standalone, it calls into the CPython API and thus requires an underlying CPython runtime.

So no, numba is not an other way to do that. shedskin[0] might be though.

[0] https://github.com/shedskin/shedskin/
> Combine that with the meta study that showed exercise was not something to take up as part of a weight reduction regime http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/health-and-families/.... and you can begin to understand how important it is that Coca Cola need to push this message.

One, it is not a "meta study"; it is an editorial[1]. One which provoked an almost immediate contrary response from other doctors, both mentioned in the very article you posted and in the BJSM[2].

Two, Malhotra's editorial does not say "exercise was not something to take up as part of a weight reduction regime". It said exercise doesn't contribute to weight loss. It specifically said exercise reduces the risk of numerous conditions that are frequently comorbid with obesity.

[1] http://bjsm.bmj.com/content/early/2015/05/07/bjsports-2015-0...

[2] http://bjsm.bmj.com/content/early/2015/06/10/bjsports-2015-0...
Presumption of stupidity
Not quite. They believe there are two separate universes, one in which the cat is alive and one in which the cat is dead. This is very different from thinking the cat is alive and dead simultaneously in the same universe.
click "Run test again". The OP link is test from 5 hours ago.
I'm pretty sure USCIS doesn't care if you're paid or not; the idea is that you're still potentially taking a job from an American citizen. You might want to be careful.
Oh for fuck's sake. The word "queynte" is probably related to the word "cunt" (and the word "quaint") but it's a different word. It doesn't even mean "vagina" although it was euphemistically used that way in and after the time of Chaucer.

I could have just as easily used "assclown" or "taint-smear" or just "jerk", but, really, this stuff is just a distraction. Dan G's personal tantrums and high-horse nonsense aside, the fact is that if you take Google's evil stack-ranking system to another company, you're a horrible person.

When people are literally destroying lives by the hundreds for their own malicious, personal amusement, the only thing that matters is stopping them-- not what people choose to call them.
It's compatible, as this is live in production today with a Flux library, and there are Alt & Redux examples in the works.

How you choose to fetch data is up to you, whether you use Flux, or fire AJAX calls within the `@resolve` function.

That's your code, not mine. I just make it so you can put your data requirements _beside_ your component instead of several layers up :)
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For the same reason some people invest in a whole kitchen, despite the fact that they can pay for a service that has food show up in front of them whenever they're hungry.

Some people like to own their own things.

Some people like to do things themselves.

There will always be locations where there is not enough population density to ensure wait times will be <5 minutes for a ride at all times.

There's no reason to expect that self-driving cars will instantly dominate the market once we get to some sort of tipping point. Certainly they will allow for new paradigms in transportation, and they will shift "manual"[0] cars into a less dominant position in the market. Keep in mind that not everyone shares your preferences.

[0] It is interesting that we already have manual and automatic cars. How will we readily distinguish these? Additionally, I'd imagine that there is a large venn diagram overlap between drivers who prefer stick shift and who will prefer to drive their own vehicle.
Friend of mine just got hired at Apple to work on HealthKit and he's over 40. I don't understand why everyone is so preoccupied with their age.
I personally think age has less to do with this 'culture'. It is mostly your attitude towards new things that surface and whether you're willing to accept the change.

Personally, I've lost interest in the past 4-5 years where there have been significant changes.
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This is great reverse engineering, and awesome the author put up the source code, but I wonder if Nvidia will try to take it down on "copyright claims"? Either way I've saved a copy of the article for later use. The author is right that the existing "approved" overclocking tools are garbage.
Per wikipedia [1], fiber does actually provide calories:
"Fiber contributes less energy than sugars and starches because it cannot be fully absorbed by the body. [...] Dietitians have not reached a consensus on how much energy is actually absorbed, but some approximate 8 kJ/g (1.9 kcal/g).

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dietary_fiber#Fiber_and_calori...
I used to feel the same as you, but after years of salary negotiations I began to realize how disadvantaged employees are in the negotiations. In part due to information asymmetry, but also negotiation expertise--or lack thereof.

Given the demand for top talent we are largely underpaid, at least look at the multipliers that top engineers can generate.

So, imagine what you could achieve with collective negotiations. You want a death march to achieve a deadline, great then pay in overtime or stock at 1.5x my salary. You've given me new responsibilities, great I love the new challenge but now contractually we are obliged to open salary discussions to bring my salary inline with those new responsibilities (usually this happens 6 months later). Just a few ideas off the top of my head.
How about programming?
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>I've always wondered if that's actually true.

Not hard enough to Google for it, apparently...

http://usgovinfo.about.com/cs/jobsemployment/a/unionwages.ht...

>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.

Hostess was a prime example of management making a slew of terrible decisions and then trying to foist the results of their failure on to the workers while giving themselves fat bonuses.

Towards the end the deal they were offered was so shit that they didn't care that striking made the company go under. And why should they? If the company goes under they just go and get another job.

The private equity firm that got in on that deal with a view to union busting for profit got everything it deserved when they lost their money.
I'm 25 and feels lost in a culture that hails 20 year olds that are dreaming up the next big thing.

I don't think age is the important thing here, I have worked with people of all ages (15-70 or so) that I look up to and learned a lot from. Experience is important, and it is hard to have experienced a lot of things if you are 20.

On a semi-related note, all my best bosses have been parents, having kids seem to teach you something about the value of time.
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Thanks. I've long wondered what soda actually is!
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There was a time when tolerating second-hand smoke, if not smoking itself, was considered necessary evil for socializing.
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Next time you do something you enjoy. I want you to not do it. Yeah you heard me, don't do it. Then continue to not do it for six months. After that time continue to never do it again. That's right never, even if the corporations market it right into your waiting arms or someone hands it to you with no effort on your part. I want you to never do it again, oh and by the way we will all hate you for it and nobody will help you get through this.

Now your probably thinking "Fuck this guy". Guess what, your addicted to whatever that was. An addiction is an addiction no matter how much your religiously deny it. To call it a disease is debatable, but unimportant.

Finally, anything that Quacks like a duck and looks like a duck is a duck right? Well then if lots of people die from a thing, and it is easily linkable to obesity, than clearly treating it like a plague is justified.
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uBlock's creator has a pretty strong stance against premade whitelists from what I've seen (the original version is currently called 'UblockOrigin' by gorhil), so there's no default allow function. You can of course allow ads for specific sites by clicking on the icon and then clicking the power button.
The largest quantity of beverage stocked at my company's developer office is standard Coca Cola. It's the younger people whom I see grabbing those rather than the diet sodas.
Income requirement for Highly Skilled Migrant for someone older than 30 isn't that high. According to:

https://ind.nl/en/individuals/employee/costs-income-requirem...

You should earn €4189 per month. It's not a lot of money if you are good software developer.

Booking in Amsterdam pay more than this!

From my personal experience (I don't have degree), I can say that companies like Booking, Amazon, Facebook, Google etc don't care about your degree.

If someone is handsome with algorithms and scalable architecture, then he/she can easily get more than €4K in Amsterdam.
I have to say, I really enjoyed how they placed their newsletter signup. I actively rebel (maybe that's the hacker ethos per this article, haha) against the ones that have a giant popup and often put totally incorrect information just because I'm so annoyed. This one has the signup unobtrusively in the middle of the article a little ways down. Thus, if you found the article interesting enough to keep reading, you came across the newsletter signup embedded unobtrusively. I signed up for a newsletter from a website/blog for the first time in a long time.
One of the earliest articles on "hacking" which I read was by Richard Stallman - On Hacking [1]. The article seems to agree in spirit with what RMS was talking about.

[1] https://stallman.org/articles/on-hacking.html
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I don't see any motive for Google to do that. Does it make sense to you? Why would they agree to censor the .fr, but not the .com for French users? I think they do understand the notice correctly.

And if it was that simple, why hasn't CNIL come out and said that Google is misinterpreting it?

Also, what they link to is not the notice, which can be found here: http://www.cnil.fr/fileadmin/documents/approfondir/deliberat... I don't read French (and putting it through a translater didn't help much), so can someone who can maybe tell us what it actually says?
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I live & work in an urban area with young people. Hardly any of us drink soft drinks. When I return home to visit my family (small midwestern town) everybody drinks soda all the time. Most shoppers have a couple of cases of soda in their shopping cart at the grocery. My parents and siblings have 2nd refrigerators loaded with soft drinks. Every meal out includes them.

I think it would be easy to think that soft drinks are going out of style if you're living in a tech bubble (like I probably am), but when you get outside of this circle you can see the massive amount of soft drinks that are still being consumed.
> Ignoring what other people think is cool.

In the end, it really isn't though.

It is a bad thing when subcultures are overrun by people who did not come to it organically. What I mean by that is at a certain point, members of a subculture gain a perceived glamour, which incentivizes outsiders to come in for superficial reasons. This dilutes the subculture's original ethos, and if it continues long enough it totally replaces it.

A perfect example of this is the Indie rock of 15 years ago. That culture has completely been obliterated and replaced by a microcosm of corporate pop music. Almost anyone I speak to knows what Indie is now. One would struggle to accurately refer to it as a subculture today. The problem is not a mere increase in population, but a dilution of the core values that initially caused people to gravitate to that scene.
> SF has changed. It's becoming Manhattan West.

That feels about right. Except that it's nowhere near as tall.
There was a time before that, where smoking was only allowed in 'smoking rooms' while wearing a 'smoking jacket', so that ordinary people didn't have to smell like a campfire half their lives.
Also would like to hear from the Germans how their software billionaires think of unions?
With unions I find it hard to imagine being able to gift 30 billion dollars to future Mark Zuckerbergs or Bill Gates.
I can turn the TV off during that time. But, because it's such a small cost, and so minimally invasive, I just mute it instead.

Ads that are minimally invasive and minimal bandwidth I have no problem with. The problem is that no ad provider guarantees that ads will be under a given size per page load, and be minimally invasive to the content I want to consume. Hence, they all get turned off.
I wonder, what's the yearly downtime of Amazon? If S3 were up 99.99% of the time then the remainder .001% is only 5.256 minutes per year. S3 is actually down more than that. But how much exactly? It's impossible to discuss mitigation strategies if we don't even know what the exact issue we're mitigating is!
There's an (spanish) old saying that goes: The devil knows more because he's old than he does because he's the devil. (Or Más sabe el diablo por viejo que por diablo.)
HTH.
You're correct in that Relay correctly identified the same architectural problem with having data requirements _far away_ from the components that actually need it.

This is why React Resolver was created, and from what I've seen, also spurred React Nexus & React Transmit as well.

On an related note, v1 of React Resolver explicitly stated how it was similar to Relay with regards to fetching data for components. I've since dropped that messaging to avoid confusion since Relay isn't even available yet :)
He probably missed it because it was long winded and poorly articulated.
Understand that there isn't 'An S3 service'. There are multiple S3 services in multiple Regions within AWS, and they're all operated independently of each other (this goes for all other AWS services too) so that cascading failures/etc. don't occur between regions.
So, use 2-3 different S3 regions, or some other multi-cloud solution...
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The rigidity buys you a lot. It's not just easier modelling, it's also higher reliability. If your bond is rigid, you don't have to worry too much about heat causing errors in the synthesis.
Just make sure you get better as you get older and make sure to cultivate relationships based upon mutual respect. Work should be guaranteed provided our economy is strong enough to sustain it.
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I guess you most likely will need an Apple device. Otherwise, potential headaches.
I feel like my programming career gets better and better with age - I really have not felt the discrimination that others have (or worry about). I just keep on keeping on and make it a focus to spend 5-10 hours a week improving my skills and staying current.
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