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> But, I'd rather see stories about Sproxil..

Agreed. I quick search shows Ashifi Gogo has some solid achievements under his belt. -https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sproxil
Your statements literally say that. "I know hundreds of recruiters". That's literally what YOU SAID.

That's not dumb, or obtuse.

You also imply that just because none of those people act like that, that the ENTIRE industry must be the same.

It's getting really difficult to not be offended at some of what you're saying. I'm WASPY as they come and your arguments are so privileged it's not even funny.
If that's your answer, then we also need to answer "why does it change the population?"

What I suspect is that it affects the population via emotional response, which in turn affects you, so you have a kind of second-order response.
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> I do what I want to primarily because I can.

Then you should've just said this from the start instead of trying to justify it by past spending.
Weird, happens for me too (in Safari, but not in Chrome). Perhaps it's something to do with the iframe that it's embedded in?

In any case, here's the original gist, which doesn't seem to have the same problem: https://gist.github.com/ryanolsonk/e33bf9e89677da9fe8ce
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Uber drivers plan a three-day national strike to call for higher fares
Volkswagen has excellent interiors. The $18k Golf feels in many ways like a $40k BMW 3-series. Most competitors' interiors are gaudy, cheap and plasticky, ugly, or spartan. Other than BMW, the only people selling the "German sportscar" experience are luxury brands, Volkswagen AG subsidiaries, or both.

Depends on the model, but Golf for the last 5 years has gotten a Very Good (4/5) for reliability from Consumer Reports. They used to be terrible in the mid-2000s, but improved drastically since then.
We have similar problems in Canada. Shows which are available to everyone else in the world are not available to us, even though we would gladly pay for them. So, Popcorn Time it is.
You make a good case, but the sales numbers will tell whether you're right.

For my part, I can say I was toying with the idea of buying a Golf, and now VW is firmly off my list. But I'm not really serious about buying a car at this time anyway.
What changed in the past few weeks? Look at this as possibly a somatopsychic issue. Look at dietary changes or other health changes. But also look at other stressors, like breaking up with your SO or having a falling out with a family member. Depression typically comes from one of two sources: 1) wonky brain chemistry, which is a medical issue or 2) some kind of real world problem that leaves you feeling helpless, often that problem is social in nature.

Best of luck.
I'd like to recommend the documentary called "The Weight of Chains (Težina lanaca)" [1] for more in-depth arguments behind the NATO intervention in Yugoslavia.

>"The Weight of Chains" is a Canadian documentary film that takes a critical look at the role that the US, NATO and the EU played in the tragic breakup of a once peaceful and prosperous European state - Yugoslavia. The film, bursting with rare stock footage never before seen by Western audiences, is a creative first-hand look at why the West intervened in the Yugoslav conflict, with an impressive roster of interviews with academics, diplomats, media personalities and ordinary citizens of the former Yugoslav republics.

Following articles talk about how the US officials went on privatizing strategic domestic industry in the countries they've helped to destroy. The same happened in all post-Soviet countries which became enslaved under their new Western owners, always excused under the blanket statement of "democracy". Yet, no one talks about one million working age people that died as a direct result of the social vacuum it has created [2]. The average income levels in the EU, 25 years after the "liberation", tell the story in one picture [3]. People in post-Soviet countries / former Yugoslavia today have access to more products, but most of the people are not able to afford any of them, they are basically just window shopping in the capitalist society.

>"Privatizing" Kosovo: The Madeleine Albright Way [4]
Americans Who Helped Free Kosovo Return as Entrepreneurs - The New York Times [5]

>"The Prime Minister of Ukraine has urged U.S. partners to actively use the investment opportunities offered by the privatization campaign in Ukraine, particularly in the energy sector," a statement posted on Ukraine’s governmental website said on Monday. [6]

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xw49iL6zGyQ

[2] https://web.archive.org/web/20130425211507/http://www.ox.ac....

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_European_countries_by_...

[4] http://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/3516/kosovo-privatization

[5] http://www.nytimes.com/2012/12/12/world/europe/americans-who...

[6] http://www.forbes.com/sites/kenrapoza/2015/05/25/yats-to-was...
No, I've seen this happen where someone's resume was spammed by unscrupulous recruiters and made them effectively persona-non-grata.
Ah now that is different, I interpreted it as he took the job and then found out after it was a done deal.
I'm sure it's happened. If you can't read, old documents just look like perfect tinder.

Many of the documents found at Nag Hammadi were burned before anyone read them. Among the unburned was a copy of Plato's Republic (not an original, but still).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nag_Hammadi_library

Reading these makes me wonder what other interesting written interpretations of various religious figures were burned out of existence.
There's a really bad problem with archive.org - that they retroactively apply robots.txt files. Simple:

User-Agent: *
Disallow: /

And poof, here goes history. Guess how many companies care?
At least in Finland the reputation of VW has dived in the past few years due to major reliability issues. (Automatic) transmission and engine failures are "common". Specifically, I'd stay away from DSG transmissions and TSI engines.
As someone that had depresion, I know how you feel.

> my other account is quite active on here

1.- STOP READING HN!
Go out, read books, do hard work (dig holes, plant trees, etc), sweat! exercise! there's more to life than the latest startups and 'show hn' posts.

2.- watch funny movies
Seriously, I had a ritual, every night after work I'd prepare dinner, and watch something funny, every single night. No excuses. This helped a lot.

3.- exercise.
Helps with mood.
I think this is even better than medicine.

4.- leave HN, there are other things more important.

5.- find a hobby or do something different.
I decided to do something bigger: I had enough with my previous career and wasn't happy,
So, I entered school again to study a different career 10 years later. This saved me.

6.- it gets better.

7.- Oh, and don't sleep at daytime, keep a schedule, a routine, sleep at night.

8.- Don't play videogames, avoid repetitive stuff: like 3d shooters where you play again and again the same levels.

9.- Again, find a hobby, something that makes you go out.

Drop me an email if you need anything
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More directly, VW's excess polluting caused people to die. How many is hard to say for sure but almost certainly more than any of the recent safety related automotive engineering design screwups lately such as Toyota's "unintended acceleration" problem and GM's bad switches.
You know what has been one of the sickest revolutions ever?

Ballpoint pens.

Just let that sink in.
He thinks unified config files are simpler than ad-hoc shell scripts for init systems.

That's a gross misrepresentation of the problem. Shell-based rc does not have to be "ad-hoc" if there is a sane process management framework in place. In such cases, the scripts can be extremely terse. [1] [2] In essence, the scripts become mere "callbacks" and have their primary purpose to provide the start command line, optionally with some form of chain loading to compose execution state. One can go further and write a small, special-purpose LL(1) command language for chain loading of programs, e.g. execline. The unit file format, conversely, cannot be composed, the options must be treated as static entries, and implicit state is carried, sometimes making service writers resort to horrifically subverting the systemd model just to escape. [3]

[1] http://homepage.ntlworld.com./jonathan.deboynepollard/FGA/ru...

[2] http://www.openbsd.org/faq/faq10.html#rc

[3] http://homepage.ntlworld.com./jonathan.deboynepollard/FGA/sy...
Is it possible for signals to propagate as waves, without the electrons moving between atoms? Kind of like in this gif, but without them hopping along?

https://cdn.sparkfun.com/assets/9/5/6/1/4/519fcd42ce395f804c...
Yes.

We ran some back-of-the-envelope numbers last week at the office. Wolfram provided us with a ballpark figure that there are about 70k "IT industry professionals" in London region. Of this, 10-15% (so maybe 12k) are the good ones, and absolutely everybody is fighting for them.

There are more than 10k tech industry companies in London alone. [0]

Competition for talent is fierce, to say the least - and every single startup I know of is hiring. Us included.

0: http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2015-06/10/tech-city-uk-... (24% of 47k)
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Assuming there will be a technological civilization in 137 years, I give it more than 50% that archive.org will be present in some form directly descendent from the archive.org of today.
I've always wondered about the design choice for the shape of batteries. It seems like the shape would indicate the current is flowing the opposite way than it does. Something about the positive terminal just says to me "I'm shooting electrons this way"
May I ask where you scanned your books? I've used 1dollarscan.com before for some book scans, which worked pretty well.
Now we can run a search engine that just returns Google results since the top 10 results are just a small portion of the total results.
but DRM is good for content owners and this is a very strong interest groups - they don't mind that it kills opportunities for growth in the future; all they care about is to turn their IP into something that results in a steady rent.

There is a major difference between a self publishing artist and a record label; the artist is primarily interested in gaining a wider audience and DRM is a hindrance here; the artist wants to increase his reach, he is less bothered by piracy.

The record label however is very worried about piracy - i argue that your position on the subject depends on your initial position in the hierarchy of things.
It is. But that wasn't their point.

> Interrogators used a technique that elicits a drowning sensation and lowers body temperature on many more detainees than the agency admits to waterboarding

They're bringing attention to a "definition dodge" play that the CIA is making. It's not a surprising play, especially for people who are aware of the definition dodge regarding drone fatalities, but I bet that it will be highly effective at exploiting many reasonable peoples' desire to "hear both sides" or, more cynically, rationalize away their government's actions. Bringing attention to it is the only defense mechanism I can think of.

It won't be very effective, but it's the most anyone knows how to do. If you've got a better suggestion... it is difficult to overstate how fantastically excited I (and many others) would be to hear it.
AKA robots that replaced human labor.
>In a civilized society, respect for the law must trump our endless appetite for convenient entertainment.

You assume all pirating is for entertainment. In a civilized society - should the poor not have access to expensive research papers, books, and the right to self-education through these materials? Are those things that are reserved only for those who can afford it? Is that really a civilized society? One that ignores the poor in an every-increasing demand for individual wealth rather than communal wealth?

There is a coffee shop where I live where you can "purchase" a coffee. The payment is whatever you feel the coffee is worth. Most people will pay $4-6 like any other coffee shop. Some people will feel generous or can afford to pay more. It's popular among the homeless and poor, because they can enjoy coffee and if they can only afford to give $0.50 they give $0.50, if they can't afford giving anything - the coffee is free.

I think that's more civilized than denying the poor the ability to enjoy coffee simply because they aren't in a position to pay for it. I argue this would only fail in uncivilized places where everyone is abusive of the generosity and the affluent and wealthy are not generous with their wealth causing the coffee shop to quickly go out of business.

But this depends on how "civilized" is to be defined.
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1/4 of the US VW inventory being 2L diesel is a lot higher than I would've guessed
This is actually my first stint at Red Hat - as the Cobbler maintainer I just kickstarted RHEL (and some VMware) boxes a lot for my day job.
Can you expand on why a city where people rode bikes would be rid of traffic jams and accidents?

My guess is traffic will be just as bad in downtown areas with frequent lights and pedestrian crossings.

While bikes would certainly result in less fatal accidents, I think the frequency of accidents would be higher since bikes can ride so close to each other and pedestrians.
I think Gibson has claimed, and more recently echoed by Doctorow, that he was basically predicting the present.

Both basically include stuff they hear or read about outside the mainstream media in their writings, and thus appear prophetic when it reach said media.

Lately i have also heard Gibson make the statement that the future is already here, its just not evenly distributed.

One example may be smartphones, as they existed in some form for a decade before MSM made such a big fuss over a certain Apple product (and it may well not have been a proper smartphone until a year or two later).
He was prophetic but some of the eerie similarities of today's world to Gibson's imagined is that people shaping today were influenced by Gibson.
I gave you the justification that works for me. If it doesn't work for you, then go do what you want.

And it's continued spending, not past spending...and my justification also reflects on the actions of my adversaries.
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How is urea a dealership only task? Is VW just trying to make it another profit center? Isn't it like adding oil?
Just make sure that while you're mucking with the DNA that you build in a display mechanism. Future races will get curious as to why trees display pictures on their trunks.
I live in St. Louis where Taxi companies don't want Uber operating here. They claimed Uber undercut their fees and don't treat the drivers right. I think there may be some sort of unionizing of Uber drivers eventually.
OP seems a bit naive, but I can't believe it given everything he's written. Of course the Fly won't send threats over mail, he knows everything he writes is being watched. I would be worried, however, that he somehow gets word to someone to exact his revenge, since he really has nothing to lose at this point.
>Google has scanned more than 20 million books since 2004 without the permission of the authors.

I am blown away how this is ruled legal, but in many cases scanning books as an individual is considered copyright infringement. As though they don't reap financial benefit from expanding the scope of the data they control? It's their entire business model...
The court's opinion is available here: https://www.unitedstatescourts.org/federal/ca2/13-4829/230-0...
Interesting, but there seems to be no new concrete information (beyond some easily speculated info)

The real issue is efficiency and charge time
Oh, cool! We hope to publish something soon on this. ;-)

It would be great to learn more about the work you're doing.
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This is a common misconception. The fourth amendment only limits the actions of the state, and case law establishes how evidence is excluded from trials. So, if I break into my neighbor's house and find child porn on his computer, that evidence is admissible in court. But if the police break into my neighbor's house without a warrant and search his computer, it isn't admissible, because it's a fourth amendment violation. But if they have a warrant to search the computer, it is admissible. If the judge who issued the warrant made a mistake and shouldn't have issued the warrant, the evidence is still admissible. This last situation also surprises people.
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> but DRM is good for content owners

Not really. DRM reduces sales and end user reach. It reduces quality of what they offer. Unless you define as "good" those reasons they really use DRM for. And for sure none of them are good in general.

> they don't mind that it kills opportunities for growth in the future

Then it's even more pointless for anyone to think in this context that "what's good for business is good for America".
I've been on the job market the last few weeks, going mostly through New York recruiters. The quality of the experience has varied wildly, with some obviously doing the minimum work necessary, and just as obviously not knowing or caring about the "acronyms" on my resume. Others seem pretty professional, have apparently done research, and the clients they recruit for would indicate they have a reputation to maintain.

In the end, the gross factor doesn't really matter to me -- the recruiters find me on LinkedIn, and I just say "sure, I'll talk to XYZ Co." unless it's obviously sleazy or a bad fit.

It's a bit grueling to cast such a wide net, and it's obviously a hustle, but for me it's mostly just a way to get an initial phone introduction/screen with companies, and from there it's apparent whether it's worth the trouble to move to the next step.

I might not go this route again, though, having seen how little most recruiters add to the process.
The only limitation is the government can't be responsible for gathering the information. AKA if a private eye breaks the law it's only an issue if they where directly or indirectly paid for by the government.
> I know hundreds of recruiters having been at Google and Facebook and not a single one of them thinks like this at all.

Congrats. That must be how the entire industry works then </sarcasm>

> a process where the person will almost certainly end up with a fantastic offer for an engineering job in a comfortable office with great pay and great working conditions

Yeah, bull-shit, if you think every engineering job is in a comfy office with great pay and great working conditions, you are seriously delusional. I've worked at places where this wasn't the case.

If everything was all sunshine and rainbows all the time, companies wouldn't have bad reputations, or have a hard time hiring new people. But plenty do have a bad reputation, and plenty do scare off new recruits. That's kind of the entire point of sites like GlassDoor.

> The author is a bad writer, is unable to support their points and shows the self awareness of a 5 year old. Why did this post get a single upvote? Is the whole "lets work ourselves in a furor over things we made up about strangers" not getting old to you people...?

First off, it's his opinion, and his blog, totally his right to have unsupported claims. But considering how many comments actually support his claims, it's my belief you are severely disillusioned as to the true state of your industry.
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We changed the article's baity title to its subtitle (shortened to fit 80 chars) in accordance with the HN guidelines. If you or anyone would like to suggest a better title, we can change it again.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
"From his neck down a man is worth a couple of dollars a day, from his neck up he is worth anything that his brain can produce." - Thomas Edison
I think you need to find a dividing line. There is a certain level of 'abstraction' where the use-cases will part ways.

The key is to find what can be agreed on and where the split needs to be.

If my foggy memory serves me right, the windows embedded team took action on an analysis like this about 10-15 years ago.
bf is complex? It's about as simple and straightforward as a language can be. ;)
Even if the power and fuel efficiency are decreased, as they almost certainly will have to be, in order to meet the pollution regulations without cheating? It isn't just between VW and the USG -- it's going to take money out of your pocket in the form of higher fuel costs.

I guess you don't care how much pollution you spew -- which doesn't strike me as a commendable attitude -- but the rest of us do, and we're not going to let VW continue to sell cars that pollute well beyond the legal limits in actual use.
Sure, but your explanation for what happened might be predicated on an assumption about "how things should be."

To make a more extreme version of OP's point: "the women's rights movement couldn't happen until household technology evolved to reduce the burden of housework." That's only true if you assume that women can't reduce the burden of housework simply by refusing to do it.
I got the impression from somewhere that plus and minus was defined long before they could track actual electrons, and thus discover that they had them backwards.
Well, you can get the emails for a whole bunch of iOS developers for a small fee...
That makes surprisingly good sense. The more you know. :) Thanks.
I'm not trying to represent the problem nor do I want to discuss the merits of systemd. I am just talking about what Poettering is trying to do and why he says systemd is better. Whether he's actually achieving it is of no relevance to his stated intentions.
What is the viable alternative, right now?
>That's literally the first thing I bring up with a prospective employer, even before hello- "I'm making X right now."

Wow that sound really socially unappropriate imo ... even to the point of rudeness!
Right "Accident". I'm sure the ads on the W10 start menu were an accident as well. http://betanews.com/2015/10/15/microsoft-now-uses-windows-10...

I think Microsoft is trying to earn more money by forcing upgrades to Windows 10 and then displaying ads on the start menu and other places.

It is the pot of frogs in water, they slowly turn up the heat so the frogs won't notice until it is too late.
Thanks for all your thoughts. I'll keep investigating - really determined to beat those content farming websites.

I've also noticed that although it's listed in the sitemap, when I ran the main page through a checker, it doesn't seem like the products page is linked to any other page.
I uninstalled flash completely from all my systems upon the last major vulnerability news. My biggest loss? No videos in Facebook, which seems to have been fixed recently anyway. I'm chillin.
Driven a US Jetta lately?
Why not? It's a business-necessity to offer the catalog they offer.
Thanks. How quickly do you think I'd be able to notice the changes?