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These people don't make an active choice to give their life to the company/firm. It's a series of small decisions that add up to a huge sacrifice. It's like boiling a frog. Nobody ever says when you sign up, oh, you'll have to skip Easter Dinner because you can't afford two hours off that week.

The trick is to create a culture where it is not only normal, but taken for granted, that you work all the time. They work with a bunch of other smart, capable people. They can't all be wrong can they? (yes, but it's easy to see why they can't see it).

So the mechanism of the slave driving isn't just someone sitting there telling you--work 100 hours a week or you are fired. It's by assigning you almost unlimited work and having a competitive environment where you look bad if you can't complete it.

So these people become their own slave drivers. They stay at work late without having to be asked. They make the choice themselves. It's a sick culture, but it makes their stockholders money. You actually feel bad when taking time off because you feel like you are falling behind.

Part of it is definitely the striver culture that elite education often encourages. You are supported to give full intensity and take any abuse to succeed.

However, I wouldn't write off all people like this off as sheep. I bet you'd be very surprised how you react under similar pressures. And certainly some tech companies employ similar tactics and have similar cultures of encouraging people to give 100% effort.

Another big factor in these sorts of jobs is that it's view as a temporary hardship. You do a stint and exit into the "good jobs" that aren't this insane. That causes people to try to tough it out. And they end up breaking before they bend.
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not yet, but we should! will email them, thanks for ptr!
Full SQL is much harder to implement, JOINs done well (read: fast) are tricky, constraints and so on as well. NoSQL is easier because it punts on all the hard database problems and leaves it up to the application layer.
The funny thing is, when it boils down to it, many jobs in our society are superfluous... We survived without technology, with a less-developed finance sector, without cars and airplanes, yet here we are with entire sectors of the economy that probably aren't 'needed' for a happy life.

At least in finance you can get to a number where you can finally say 'fuck it', and go do what you really want to do...
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I found what appears to be an early draft of the paper:
http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:z2rYA4Z...
This is a fun read and describes a lot of the social "types" seen in Shakespeare's London. The thing that interested me the most was the discussion of the scold, a figure that makes a lot of appearances in art from the time. The scold, the over-domineering woman who beat/verbally humiliated her husband, was a character that seemed to provoke a fair amount of anxiety in people during this time. An unruly woman like a scold was thought to represent a house in disorder, and was seen as the result of a husband's failure to adequately assert his masculine authority. To counter the behavior of the scold, a husband could employ a number of strategies, including the scold's bridle, which you can see here: http://bit.ly/1QTuxrU and here: http://bit.ly/1PedRgu It's an amazing historical artifact of a time when female speech was particularly feared. The idea of a man walking his wife on a leash is particularly jarring, and I find it impossible to imagine that such things were ever actually the case...but lots of woodcuts seem to indicate it was.

Have questions about the culture of the Renaissance, or Shakespeare in general? I'd love to answer them. I'm a Shakespearean working in a SaaS company and love to talk about the wild period that his plays came from. Let's talk!
true, but then you're not in a {censorship, attacker} free environment at all -- MITMing TLS _is_ violating the security expectations of today's websites. I wouldn't even check my non-work email.

i.e. all bets are off. there will always be pockets. but over time we could win even there, as the perf improvement will matter.
There are plenty of Warby Parker equivalents, and they get a brief mention in the article. Lots of western companies sell "open mold" parts, where an OEM sells generic components for resellers to apply their own branding to.

Some of these resellers have excellent reputations - here in the UK, Planet X are extremely popular amongst serious racers. There is a crucial difference between these products and an unbranded product from Aliexpress. Western sellers are obliged to perform product testing, they have a brand name to defend, and they can be sued.
Pre-crime, like in Minority Report, predicting somewhat that someone "will" commit a crime and jail him before it does. Even if he wasn't going to do it, or was just incriminated.

Regarding bomb chemicals or helper devices, most mass killing were using guns that god forbids if you complain about someone having the right to have them. And you can make bombs with common household items (i.e. cleaning products) and use i.e. pressure cookers as devices. The possibility of false possitives, or even discretionary false possitives is too big.

And still will remain the problem that you are giving even more power to the ones that do that control. No one watches the watchers.
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The principles of rocketry were powering fireworks and guns a long time before they were powering flight. :)
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Could part of the problem be that programming languages hijacked ASCII characters which partially hijacked typewriter functionality?

Pascal was always my least favorite language, because it never felt practical. For instance, its assignment requires two shifted keystrokes. Whereas the equal symbol requires one non-shifted keystroke.

In my ideal world, ISO would just standardize programming symbols. Then, languages could build around those common symbols, and then better input devices could be designed.

It amazes me that for as much money we spend on software (How many millions of programmers are there in the world?), we're still using a modified typewriter as our primary input device. Look at all the nicely designed specialized input devices we have for video games; surely we can come up with something better for programming.
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If the things you mentioned actually happen, they will happen by 2035, or by 2045 at the very latest (if they didn't, by that time, that's because people don't want them, not because they can't have them).

You are exhibiting a common mistake - linear thinking. The difference between 2015 and 2115 will be like the difference between 2015 and 1015, not between 2015 and 1915. Just like the difference between 1915 and 2015 is not like the difference between 1915 and 1815, it's more like the difference between 1915 and 1615.
When I ride I like to have some idea that my bike isn't going to fall apart. I safety check before my commute. Bikes & helmets are something you kinda don't want to fail when in traffic.

Bikes are commodities now, except on the high end. Thus the cheap stuff can be sold as expensive.

These are complex machines. TREK had a recall for an issue that caused a bunch of injuries.

http://www.sheldonbrown.com/qr-disk-brake.html

"Ideally, we would want bicycles which are properly assembled, adjusted and maintained to be free of problems which lead to sudden, catastrophic, unexpected failure. Any mechanical system will deteriorate sooner or later, and so an incipient failure should preferably give warning in advance, or be preceded by another, more benign failure which puts the part out of service, or be so very unlikely that it is not of serious concern, or a second system should be able to take over from one which failed. A properly-adjusted enclosed-cam quick release assembly on a bicycle with no front disk brake meets this test, by being very unlikely to fail."
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Nice visualization! Do you suppose it's correct to presume that if a story drops from one of the top positions to off the first page within a very short period of time that it's been flagged off by users who don't think it should be there? If so, the prevalence of such drops would imply that flagging is a major factor for what stays on the front page.
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How is Amy a horrible person?
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Yeah! :)
A lot of good talent is wasted on Wall Street. Fortunately, most (who don't care for the lifestyle/can't hack it) get wise and leave. The hard thing is knowing when to exit.
We'll change it if it gets to be an issue, thanks for the tip!
Electronic shifters are the main thing you get past $2500 that's relevant to a non-racer, but even then they're purely a luxury feature that doesn't do much beyond making riding a little more pleasant.
What's the whole thing about drilling a hole and dropping a nuke to split the asteroid up? I mean, I liked the Aerosmith song from that movie (Armageddon) but doesn't that actually seem like a sensible idea for a bigger rock?

Looks like some experts agree w me: http://www.space.com/21333-asteroid-nuke-spacecraft-mission....
That is completely false, as you would know if you had bothered to search for five seconds:

https://nces.ed.gov/fastfacts/display.asp?id=76

http://www.usnews.com/news/articles/2013/10/23/charts-just-h...
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You can write composable WebGL, but it takes more work. Here's my Loop-Blinn example: http://cscheid.github.io/lux/demos/loopblinn/loopblinn.html

The bits that do Loop-Blinn are here, https://github.com/cscheid/lux/blob/master/src/lux/text/outl..., while the bits that decide the color of the text go elsewhere.

Look at 'unconed's MathBox for this kind of thing taken to incredible heights, or https://github.com/kovasb/gamma for the ClojureScript analogue.
Is that written with the new JS standard? I have not seen much code in it.
I'm sure this will not affect gravity paths somewhat as a butterfly effect.
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It's not actually large enough to pose a threat (according to the article), so even if that happened, we'd be ok.
It's a matter of scale. A single train operator hauls thousands of people or thousands of tons of material. Getting rid of that one person hardly gains you everything. On the other hand a truck driver hardly hauls anything, maybe ten or twenty tons of cargo per driver.
I actually can't tell whether this is a joke or serious.
Thanks for that suggestion :)
Yes, but there's also a whitelist for EXEs. As a teacher I can use PuTTY without installing it, but the students can't always do so.
Or onto a collision course with a different inhabited planet. Who interprets it as an act of war.

This whole comments section is making me want to read some scifi about this. Anybody have any recommendations?
> A lot of good talent is wasted on Wall Street.

Why do you say that? Finance funds most of society's ventures, the 'system' would look much different without the capital and services that the banking sector provides...
H+Son is a well-respected Chinese brand of bike rims. I've had American bike shops recommend them to me in the past.

I ended up choosing American-made Velocity rims for my bike, but there are definitely competitive Chinese bike brands.
It's been a long time since Aaron Sorkin did something that didn't feel like a recent film school grad doing a bad impression of Aaron Sorkin. See The Social Network for a great example.

He's become a weird cliche parody of himself, where every character has the exact same diction and incredible grammar and rapid fire wit. It's like dozens of different actors channeling the ghost of Josh Lyman.

Forgot about accuracy, treat it as a work of fiction and be surprised if it just doesn't suck as a film.
Nope. Everything involved is way too small to do something like that. Worst case scenario is we get a shooting star.
This sentiment is shared by many displaced blue collar workers in SV and NYC. They see finance and big tech taking jobs and ruining the economy. In the bubble, status driven workers push themselves hard until completely burned out and jaded they are stuck in a depressing cycle. On the otherside of the spectrum, I find myself markedly depressed at having no legitimate career or contributions. One can only hope to find something fulfilling and find balance.
New users is one way to measure growth. Total content or bandwoth consume give a different picture :)
It would have been nice for them to explain what they meant by "open mold" counterfeiting. That this article is the 2nd result on Google if you search for those terms tells me it isn't well-defined elsewhere.
> get it - and find it's horrible. What do you do then?

There are two tragedies in life. One is to lose your heart's desire. The other is to gain it.

Except, here's a situation that doubles up the tragedy.

You start off your youth, determined that the lack of money is what's stopping you from doing things that you really care about - things you would do in leisure. Pursuits of pleasure - art, music, altruism, atavistic quests (become a farmer?) and even hedonism.

But the sacrifice at the altar isn't entirely possible for everyone - the process demands that you survive a psychosis of sleeplessness, mixed with a caffeine dehydration, in an air-conditioned room, filled with fluorescent light with no hint of a dawn.

And then there's the superficial solidarity of everyone around you surviving this, without even a hint of complaints (furiously "ducking" as they call it).

Breaking out of it demands failure. And failure is hard to swallow for the best of the best, who are hit the hardest. Not having dealt with failure for 20 years makes it even harder to face up to failure & quit.

Attracting the brightest into the fold will naturally push up the numbers of those who'd rather die than fail.
If it did, why would there be any reason to expect that the average influence would be more bad than good?
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Mankind never had to drill a hole in zero gravity, so I don't think we have such a tool in the first place. Besides, even if we had something like that, I imagine they would be rather heavy. Hauling it all the way to the asteroid will take a lot of fuel and money.
We could leave out the non-free stuff for a start. What other political problems are there?

In a perfect world, these most popular website would have their Script and Fonts in CDN and be cached already. But what we are seeing is that still lot of the same stuff used around still not being cached.
You're right. I was trying to moderate my own overreaction. Tl;dr: Stupid greedy bitches! No, you're a stupid bitch, can't wait to see your unemployment app--because arrogant heartless bastards tend to do well, so what happened?

But I didn't want the down votes. So I didn't go there. I need to stay off HN on the weekends.

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But they caused the death of that Japanese woman that went looking for the money.
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Sure. It will be about equivalent. 99.9999999% chance of doing nothing, half the rest is good, the other part bad.
> anki is good, but for some reason they have a self signed certificate on their site, which I haven't checked out yet, so I won't link to it

It's not self signed, it's the wrong domain (Error code: ssl_error_bad_cert_domain) HTTPS requests to ankisrs.net get a certificate for *.ankiweb.net, which is the domain the app uses for the sync web service.
Mix Starship Troopers with The Forever War.
But as a buyer, I'd like to know the prices upfront before ordering so that I am not shocked when quoted a price upon delivery. "Our avocados are hand picked by an avocado expert"? Woooo..

What exactly is an "avocado expert"?
Absolutely. It's the motion of the ocean.
If you can deflect with a simple impact, it's always going to be the most reliable.

If you look at the numerous things that went wrong with the Philae lander...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philae_%28spacecraft%29

you wouldn't want any of that to happen on a life-or-death mission. Also... a landing either requires enormous amounts of fuel or between months and years of manoeuvring time.
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> This in all likelihood describes 1%of the 1%. Just adding in a little perspective.

It's way more than 1% of the young people slaving away in finance. Especially as finance has gotten less racist, a lot of high-achieving immigrant students go into it under pressure from their family.
I find spelling/grammar mistakes annoying in a profile, but probably won't affect my decision/interest that much.

English isn't my first language so I won't really care if English is not their first language either. But if all you've learned to read/speak/write is English I think having poor grammar is indicative of being less educated/intelligent. I think even guys only have so much time to spend trying to find a date.

If all you want is to get laid though, who cares.
It works for small <10m astroids, but for anything bigger than that, its own gravity will pull the segments back together after the explosion since they do not reach escape velocity, and nothing will have changed due to conservation of momentum. A better method is to detonate an astroid up to 100m away so it heats up the surface. The heat will blow off small particles at more than escape velocity, so by conservation of momentum the astroid will be pushed in the opposite direction.
Unless you're talking about children, you can safely blame the people themselves for their own behavior.

Most people who worked with Steve Jobs consider it a highlight of their professional careers. He was as demanding of himself as he was of others, and worked as hard as anyone. These are some of the traits that the assholes don't copy.
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As someone who knows many who went into this field, some who burned out and some who didn't, it's one thing to describe the challenge of 100 hour weeks, and another to live it.

Biglaw is similar, but the gulf from 80 hours to 100 hours is very large.
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We do text the prices upon confirming an order, it depends on quantity and location. We wouldn't show up at your door before letting you know the price!
sentence function based on giterate instead of for loop.

(defun sentence (map)
(let* ((words (cdr [giterate true (op pick-next-word map) :start]))
(dot (pos-if (op eq [@1 -1] #\.) words)))
(cat-str [words 0..(succ dot)] " ")))

Requires small weak to pick-next-word

(defun pick-next-word (map word)
(let ((choices [map word]))
(if choices [choices (rand (length choices))])))

giterate returns an infinite list, but we take from it up to the word which ends with dot, ignoring the endless stream of nil objects which follows.

Alternative: partition the list on the ending word, then glue the first two partitions:

(defun sentence (map)
(let* ((words (cdr [giterate true (op pick-next-word map) :start]))
(part (partition-by (op eq [@1 -1] #\.) words)))
(cat-str (append (first part) (second part)) " ")))
We solved this as a high school homework problem.
Neither can I. Nor can I tell if it's some referendum on the state of the tech industry.

But it definitely makes me hungry for some avocados. Perhaps I will go eat one now. Or spend hours googling how to cultivate an avocado tree.
Yes, that email was rude, but not quite misogynist, and it was in response to a rude reply. Not entirely his fault, but I'd agree with krisdol that it could have been handled better.

Personally, I don't see what's wrong with the use of "Lady Pitch Night", unless there's some innuendo that I'm missing, and Amy Millard's rudeness was just as uncalled for. Here's what the organization has to say about the name: http://www.girlsintech.org/why-girls-and-not-women/
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Yes, by using DNS TXT records. For example, the main ipfs.io website is actually just proxying https://ipfs.io/ipns/ipfs.io/
It would be more analogous if cable providers charged you by the minute for TV service. Each commercial would essentially be double billed.
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I feel like going down in history as a great innovator and business leader is far easier than going down in history as a great father, and though I can't say one way or another what his priorities were, you can't completely fault the man for being what his culture values.
Not true. Due to the butterfly effect, even tiny changes to a system will totally change the output given enough time. Simulations of the orbits of the planets turn out totally different after billions of years if the measurements of planets are changed by even an inch.
Seeing that the French are one of the biggest opponents of GM technology and this a French article, I assume that "genetic crossbreeding" (what does "genetic" mean here? It's just "old" cross-breeding) is implied to be a bad thing. It rather reflects badly on the author.

If you haven't heard of Borlaug, he's one of my scientific heroes - it's due to his work that Mexico's food production turned completely around, from wheat importing to wheat exporting. He did this by essentially reversing natural selection: each wheat plant in a field competes with the other for light, so while humans plant them close to each other each generation will grow higher and higher. This removes resources normally used for the generation of seeds, so you get less grain. He crossed dwarf-varieties with high-yielding varieties, so you got smaller plants which had more resources left over to make grains, thereby greatly raising the amount of grains you get out of each plant. No modern GM needed for this one.

He's estimated to have saved roughly a billion people form starvation and IMO fully deserved his Nobel Prize.

(As an addendum, DDT isn't as bad as initially thought - if you use it indiscriminately in the outside like they did initially, then it's a huge health concern as it accumulates in the food chain. But if you use it targeted inside homes it's highly effective, and it's still used for that today)

Edit:

>Yet in November 1945, just three months after atomic bombs were dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the Nobel chemistry prize honoured the discovery of nuclear fission.

This is an error that makes the article's point here moot - Hahn's Nobel Prize is the Nobel Prize of 1944 (so before the a-bombs were dropped), it was just awarded in 1945.
What would be ironic given that quote from the article is if we nudged it into the path of a larger asteroid and that collision sent the larger, dangerous asteroid into our path. Perhaps the larger asteroid fragments in a way to increase the probability of a collision with the fragments.

Don't get me wrong... I do agree with you that all of these scenarios are extremely unlikely (space is really big) and I do think the experiment is worth doing. But still, there are failure modes and unintended consequence opportunities that should at least be thought about a bit, even if a very little bit.
i feel the exact same. this feels like something that would make most economists tear hair out.
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