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Probably more the "You just have to learn a few HTML tags", which reminded me (since it was quoted in another discussion today) of the comment about Dropbox saying that it was trivial to replicate by getting FTP space, mounting it using some tool and running SVN on top.

EDIT: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10412530
A quick scan of the paper (it's 105 pages) it looks like it was just simulations.
It depends. It's possible to find a younger programmer who is less confident in their skills or vastly underestimates his net worth. This tends to normalize with age and experience, so an older programmer with the same skillset is likely going to be more expensive simply because they know how much they can ask for.

Similar to the effect of women being paid less because they are less likely to ask for raises.
Even in job interviews, Amazon touts itself is an intense, high-energy place to work, and that was exactly what I saw in the NYT article. Some people can't handle that, and they were fired or left disgruntled. The fact that many of the quotes were from disgruntled workers was completely obvious, and going into the dirty details of their firings is pretty low.

The most damning claim of the NYT article that isn't addressed here is the lack of caring and support for people on parental leave, FMLA, and people going through major health issues (cancer, stillborn child). If the authors embellished on those claims then that would actually hurt the original article.
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How about NodeJS bindings to a native desktop library of choice and a React.js backend to said library slipped in? They're decoupling the React API from the DOM, right?
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I'm a studying animator. I can safely say that it's animation capabilities have risen enough over the past few years that I am comfortable as I am in Maya animating. It does have decent import and export support. I haven't done any mocap so can't comment there. I haven't tried to 3d paint either. Not sure about that. It does have sculpting similar to zbrush though.
Did you give Uber the opportunity to respond _before_ publishing your piece?
>I am going to get a lot of flak for this. This is my personal experience.

Yes, you are going to get a lot of flak. I'll start. Yes, it's your personal experience. Personal experience is where prejudice usually comes from. If you get beat up by 3 people in green tee shirts, you're going to cross the street to avoid people in green tee shirts. That's the way our brains are wired. It's natural. It's instinct.

It's also natural to pee on the sidewalk when we feel the urge. But we suppress that instinct because society functions better when we do. Similarly, society functions better when we suppress our natural prejudices while interviewing. We use our intellect to remind ourselves that there are people who don't fit the mold of our personal experience, and force ourselves to interview one person the same as anybody else.

And you keep doing it even after interviewing several people who do fit the pattern you've seen previously.
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Came here to say this. For quite a few years in the bad old days around Y2K, people thought they would get a free cross-platform lunch by writing GUI applications in Java. This wasn't so bad in Xwindows, where every program did its own thing already, but it was terrible everywhere else. It took years for developers to get it, and there are probably still a few internal corporate applications using Java; I suspect the same will happen over the next 5-10 years with JS.
Very interesting. I'm 25 and last year, I had a similar experience with two much older interviewers. I was getting pretty hostile vibes from one of them, and he at one point gave me a problem with many possible solutions, of which my whiteboard program would print one.

Then I was asked to modify it to print all possible solutions. When the second interviewer verified that it would work as expected, the other guy was like, "but you never used list comprehensions in that." -- I threw in a list comprehension to satisfy him (although at this point, I'd started questioning the worth of all this). Next, I was told that I'd used a (max 10 element) list for random access of items instead of a dict, and that "he'd never do that". At that point, I lost it and said some pretty blunt things to him. Of course, I was rejected.

I don't know about other countries, but big services companies in India have a lot of incompetent senior programmers who simply hate any kind of opposition to their authority, and you simply have to blow them to survive. I am fortunate to have never worked at one of these companies.
Discrimination is so popular because it works so well. As mentioned, there are cultural values that you can quite often predict just from {being a woman/black/old}.

A primary mechanism to combat this is, to get folks to evaluate each person as a person. To do this, an effort has to be made to recognize and cancel out any preconceived notions may have been formed from incidental cues like age.

I'm glad to see anecdotally that candidates were turned down for real reasons, at least so far. I'd advice being very diligent at continuing to require real criterion in hiring decisions. For instance, anonymizing CVs is not at all hard - why consider it a last resort? E.g. put a piece of tape over the name when reading a pile of them.
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Ahistoricity is one of the things I find infuriating about this profession. Because everyone's an autodidact. I don't mind the argument that "everyone did it wrong before" because that's sometimes true, or something underlying is really different, but it needs to come with some actual awareness of what constraints "before" was operating under, and what was and was not achieved.
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Wrap-up: getting started with AWS
AWS Basics is a great introduction to the world of Amazon Web Services. As a business unit of the popular Amazon.com, AWS (Amazon Web Services) offers public cloud computing services to individuals, companies and governments. AWS was the very first IaaS (Infrastructure as a Service) cloud computing infrastructure, launched in beta back in 2006.

Here's a complete overview: https://cloudacademy.com/amazon-web-services/amazon-web-services-%28aws%29-introduction-for-beginners-course/

Learn here how to install and configure a LAMP stack on AWS EC2 and RDS (also discussing security issues and selecting the right instance type for your application)
https://cloudacademy.com/amazon-web-services/move-your-lamp-stack-to-aws-course/

Or skip the theory and learn how to launch a new Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) Instance in your AWS account. https://cloudacademy.com/amazon-web-services/amazon-ec2-101-course/
YMMV, I am 58 and I am a UI designer. In my 30's I thought I would be unemployable by 40-years-old due to exceptional "kids" in their 20's who were either as good as me but less expensive or who were better, more current, and available for the same price. This paranoia has kept me employable.

My experience is that your rate has to match the quality of your work not your experience or names of the NASDAQ 100 companies you worked for. If you are simply equal to the competition then you drop your rate. If you're better you match the rate.
This is kinda awesome. I'd be tempted if I didn't already have a great new job. Being from Chicago, how bad an Antarctica really be?
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> What I don't get is why docker isn't the ideal solution for both groups.

For some things, Docker is a great solution for both groups, but that requires that your organization and application meet a list of requirements. Is the application only going to be run by you, as a server? If it's going to be run elsewhere, you may not have the option to require it run on Docker or if it's going to be run as a client then you definitely don't have the option.

The conflicting goals come from the System Engineers goal of making it run on all platforms vs the System Administrators goal of making it run on this platform. System Engineers want a solution that makes it easier to abstract away the platform, System Administrators want a solution to make it easier to install on this platform. OS packages are easier as a System Administrator because it all ties into a central source of authority. Each package knows which other packages are installed on the system and which packages it needs. Fragmenting the environment makes it more difficult because you've got distinct sources of authority. Pip package A needs version 1.2 of OS package B, but pip package C needed for pip package D needs version 1.3 of OS package B. All of which you'd have no idea about until it all crashes and burns and you have to go figure out why.

OS packages are usually better in terms of installation, but pip packages are easier to create. Ubuntu's new packaging system is meant to address this, though we'll see how it goes.
I feel silly asking, but what does it mean?
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I disagree with the premise of this article. A hero is someone who can get something done that others cannot (and maybe in a short amount of time). But, they arent followed no questions asked.

They also should be praised. If i sacrifice my time and sanity to get a project done (and nobody else has the ability), the least i should get is some recognition.

I was in a situatin where i worked a full week with 2 other co-workers for 12+ hours each day to get an important project done. The boss didnt give the promised extra vacation days because it would "set a bad example to the rest of the employees".

I quit within 2 months and they had a problem keeping anyone good after that. Talented people like to be recognized in some form. If they arent, expect your workers to only do the bare minimum.
Your three points comes down to the old `people are too dumb to vote' stance that every democratic movement had to fight through history.

And the `elite' optimizes locally as well, directly at the expense of the weakest.
Those responses are made in direct response to the theological arguments made by SAB, along the lines of "This is a contradiction". "No it isn't, because X".

If you're a hard empiricist, you will find nothing in the bible of interest to your life, save for historic/anthropological curiosity. There's no point in getting into such a discussion on Hacker News, interesting as that might be.

But the specific thing you mentioned - as an omnipotent being, the very idea of our existence "has no point", let alone the order elementary building blocks of the universe came into existence (at least as described by bronze-age scribes).

Be very careful with the "this has no reason to be this way" argument, it could very well be that you don't know the reason, or that there really isn't one.
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Hi Guys, I am trying to compile a list of those airlines that provide different fares in different currencies.

E.g. Norwegian has the lowest fares in Norwegian Krones and the highest in USD. I compiled a longer list but I am looking for more airlines. If you can think of one, please let me know. I really wanna know how to get around higher fares.

https://medium.com/@tripdelta/if-you-fly-with-these-airlines-you-can-save-a-lot-of-money-67f3e41d2ae3
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I'm very interested in this, as I've noticed a few on a fresh install of iOS 9 and El Capitan. It would be an interesting challenge to see how to dig them up.
Yeah, react-dom is a separate package now.
Why on Earth would you expect them to do that?

Do the elite worry about legacy admissions? They do not.

Do the elite worry about their old-boys clubs being exposed and the public turning against them? No duh.
"The ultimate goal is to get more students to apply to these top schools"

You could just stop there. The ivy league schools already get way way more applicants of every type and flavor than they can ever admit.

Some suggest that they just want more applicants regardless of who those applicants are, because these schools are competing to see who can be the most selective. Harvard, Yale, Stanford etc. compete for the "honor" of bragging rights to who is most selective. They have a strong incentive to increase their denominator.
Man, you completely missed the point of what OP was saying in your rush to talk semantics.

He was saying that this product showcases a lot of thoughtful development to solve a problem that a non-trivial number of people have that can't really be solved through marketing shortcuts. And I think we both know exactly the sort of marketing shortcuts he/she is talking about - the apptification of everything, the hype endemic in software product launches, the VC blogosphere. That sort of hack doesn't apply here at all. Taking a Segway as an inspiration or starting point for this product? Maybe that's the hacking you're trying to associate with by posting this. But that's not what he was talking about.

OP is saying what a breath of fresh air it is to see someone sink such time and effort into making a well designed solution to an actual problem, and that kind of effort creates marketability commensurate to the development.
You should get flak for this. If you were building a team, you would be judging a person based on a group they belong to, not the person. You would also be doing something illegal (assuming you are in the US and the person is over 40).
Relevant: if you're looking for a way to scrape all Hacker News submissions and comments, I have a GitHub repository containing Python scripts showing how to do just that: https://github.com/minimaxir/get-all-hacker-news-submissions...

With respect to the article, I've done data analysis on Hacker News myself (e.g. http://minimaxir.com/2014/10/hn-comments-about-comments/ ) and I'm a little skeptical. I was not a fan of using NTLK to classify positive/negative because the models used for training sentiment are based on reviews, not internet site comments, and when I had used NTLK, the results were skewed significantly. I used an alternate model mentioned in the linked post which IMO worked better.

The examples used in the article seem more like correlation-implying-causation and cherry-picking. There are many, many counterexamples of startups people loved on HN which died a painful death.
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Not fair! They can simply look harder. How can it be said with a straight face that there are zero qualified candidates in those example states? Preposterous. It just takes time to find them.
In the county I live in, if another school provides resources you cannot get at your assigned school, you may be able to get into that other school. So there are options for some, depending on where you live.

But more importantly, poorly performing schools need to be identified and fixed. If they can't be, then it needs to be obvious that they are not able to prepare students for elite education.

It is not right for only those from wealthy families to be the only ones that can be adequately prepared, because they can go to prep schools and train for and retake standardized tests.
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I did find myself wondering about whether it should have a seatbelt.

You'd probably need to ask a regular wheelchair user, though. Do wheelchair basketballers use seatbelts?
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Sure. But complaining about "discrimination" (even if that's accurate) is still complaining. Feels a lot better to just grin and pedal up that hill faster than the kids.

I'm 48 y/o.
Taking pot shots at fundamentalists is fun, but is really too easy. The skeptics would be better off aiming at a really difficult target like Augustine - who (they might be a little worried to discover) can still shoot back some 1600 years later. Like most other real theologians of that time and since, Augustine was very clear that the opening chapters of Genesis were making theological statements and were not really intended to describe literal, chronological events.
The lesson of the USSR seems to have been that competitive free markets tend to be more efficient than socialized ones, because the inefficient universities would be out competed by the efficient ones.
(You could still be right though, because universities are not a perfectly free market.)
It's kind of an arms race. In the early days of iOS app development, developers would just not call the private APIs during the review period and hide them in an easter egg or enable them from the client checking with the server to see if the setting had been flipped to start using them. Ever since Apple started actually scanning the binaries developers have had to go to greater lengths to obfuscate the usage, but still give users the most powerful features.

Some of the things developed during the arms race have become best practices, though. If you are an iOS game developer and you release a game update without the ability to adjust the game substantially from the server side, you are really in trouble. It takes another long review period from Apple to change anything, so best practice is to control the functionality from the server where if it makes the game too difficult for the users or something it can be adjusted without suffering the Apple review delay.
"Senior Vice President for Global Corporate Affairs at Amazon. Previously, he served as White House Press Secretary and spent 20 years as a reporter for TIME."

A spin doctor doing his best to protect the people that pay him. Pay this article no mind; unrelated assaults on a source's character have no bearing on already established facts.
accelerated after a long struggle to find funding and a sound business model.

Or maybe, you know, that was the problem?

Lack of funding, no business model... Gee, why couldn't they retain top talent???
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The same way one can walk, or run, the person using the device can adjust his or her speed to their conditioning. I don't really understand the dismissal of the idea because one could go fast with it.
As I remarked when it first came out, NYTimes article was almost completely anecdotal. That's not damning, but it does require you to trust the reporters to distill a large complicated mess to representative pieces.

What part of Carney's piece do you think similarly depends on us trusting him? Do you think he fabricated the email from Kantor? Do you think he's outright lying about the context of Olson's dismissal to the extent that it wasn't incumbent on the Times to disclose this in the original article?

I'm totally willing to accept for the sake of argument that Carney is dishonest, but I think that is largely beside the point here. If you accept the truth of the bare facts presented by Carney, putting aside his spin, then the badness of Carney and/or Amazon is irrelevant for assessing the badness of the NYTimes.
> Here’s what the story didn’t tell you about Mr. Olson: his brief tenure at Amazon ended after an investigation revealed he had attempted to defraud vendors and conceal it by falsifying business records. When confronted with the evidence, he admitted it and resigned immediately.

Together with the inappropriate disclosure of performance reviews, this statement just makes me think that Amazon probably has a culture of defrauding vendors, and usually gets away with it, but sometimes has to blame a junior hire to save face when caught.
> I've been trying, no success so far.

Beyond applying via job boards, what else have you been doing so far? Please be specific, perhaps we can offer some job search suggestions you've overlooked.
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Yeah, the user's email address is a surprise. It's pretty easy to bypass a simple scan with objc_msgSend.

Conversely, it would be nice if the user could grant access to email and iMessage sandboxes. This would allow us to apply machine learning to personalize services. Ironically, by allowing opt-in, Android is an easier platform for creating private services.
Yeah, it's the White House's former press secretary, Jay Carney. His whole existence is to whitewash, downplay, obfuscate, and pass a sanitized story to the media.

I suggest we ignore Amazon's commentary and accept the worst vision as reality. That way, if we were to end up working there, we might be pleasantly surprised by a rosier picture, rather than upset by something that is below expectations. After all, the bottom line can't accommodate the truth most of the time.
The logic of this falls apart. The more the containers are filled, the more they weigh. The more they weigh, the more fuel must be expended to move them from point A to point B. While there are some gains that could be made by eliminating wasted space, there are losses that offset it.

Granted, there is not a strictly linear relationship between weight and cost. However, the economics of shipping, or any distribution system (like passenger airlines), are such that the need to move a product to its destination in a timely fashion runs up against the desire to maximize the efficiency of a shipping medium. Customers expect their product to arrive on time, and they pay for this to happen.

That said, I love the idea this company is proposing.
While in most cases that would be more accurate, just looking to see if someone has a degree is far easier.
The piece was also in line with numerous previous reports on Amazon's working conditions for both blue collar and white collar employees.
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I read his point as: the 9th grade is too late.
> Companies aren't going to put that kind of pressure on a fresh-out-of-college 22-year-old because such a person is going to be working for peanuts.

22-year-olds don't work for peanuts in SV. They make double the median family income in the US before stock.
Well... Someone said of his code that the only reason it is bug-free is because it scares bugs away. Large amounts of pointer arithmetic. Religious checks (heck, he even checks if printf (not fprintf) succeeds or not), and... odd (not sure if it's the right word. maybe insane is better) macros. Plenty of one letter variables.

Misunderstand me correctly, he writes solid software. He's not just a guy I would like to work with :)
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Acting like Scientology.
Does this kind of behavior indicate we should stop using Amazon? Despite loving my Kindle, is it time to boycott a company that behaves this way?
Either way, why not just deny access? It guarantees that apps won't break in this way, removes some pain from the process of approving apps (they don't need to check for this anymore), and improves privacy / security as a side effect!
You know that is an interesting idea, drones for "last mile" of delivery into standardized dropboxes.

Imagine USPS pulling up to a street but never getting out of the truck, instead launching two dozen drones which deliver the local mail and small parcels and then all come back to the truck 10 minutes later. Super recharge and move to next street.
Do you know the meaning of the word "hypocrisy"? Your comment almost had me laugh out loud.
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