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In the developed countries where suicides are more common, the suicide rate is about 1-2 % of total mortality. I don't think that's enough to have any significant Darwinian impact.
I get it now. What a story.
This is exactly the issue. Slack will expose more issues than it will create. If people misuse a tool because of some underlying problems, switching tools will just hide the problems, not solve them.
There are a bunch of spreadsheets. We consolidated and standardized the data on a few of them, but we still have more to do. We clean the data, and then we try to see what type of synthesized info we can provide back.
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Unfortunately I never published it, and the hard drive with it is long gone. It shouldn't be difficult to replicate though, they still put that metadata in the DOM so that they can put the little boxes around faces.
I will never forget having this argument and her reason being, "I might accidentally sit on it with the seat up."

Yeah, that's gross and disconcerting, I'm sure. My response was that it was her responsibility to make sure she didn't sit on anything gross, and she should be looking where she's sitting anyhow.

My solution was to put the lid down with the seat. This is cleaner, looks nicer, stops the flush from spewing grossness into the room, and does not solve her problem at all.

Yeah, I was a little petty about it.

Of course, then I got complaints about the lid being down. I refused to budge on my position, and eventually she stopped trying to argue about it.

My take on the whole situation is that as we solved some really big problems, people needed a reason to complain or feel afraid. We went from worrying about dying constantly to worrying about getting a cold or totally treatable diseases. We're unable to stop worrying about something, and so things get blown out of proportion. We're obsessed with preventing everything that's viewed as negative.
It's probably PR fed to the author by Tesla.
You're not wrong, but tax is certainly one of the easier first steps as part of trying to compare salaries.
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What about Apple?
Augh. Almost 100% unrelated to the article, but:

"There are ramshackle _cement_ rectangles squatting under rain clouds..."

It's concrete [1] not cement. Even the word cementing can mean "settle or establish firmly", which is what happens to the aggregate in concrete. Augh.

[1]: http://www.todayifoundout.com/index.php/2011/12/the-differen...
10,000 years ago, we were living in a pre-agricultural society (or, perhaps, only somewhat agricultural) Lots of wandering tribes, moving around following the food, hunting with sharp rocks. Hunger and starvation would be common, everything would be scarce, even for "kings" (which were really just tribal leaders) Modern construction wasn't a thing, dwellings were constructed out of sod, animal skins -- at the best, stacked rocks or mud bricks. As a king, you'd still have to do back-breaking, dangerous work to maintain your position and value in society.

There's no possibility of going to a homeless shelter to get out of the cold, or sleeping in a well-constructed subway station to shield yourself from the elements. If you were injured, you couldn't just walk into a nearby emergency room with a team of nurses and doctors required to treat you. No soup kitchens or food pantries or SNAP benefits. Even digging around in a city garbage can or restaurant dumpster would yield an easy and delicious feast compared to spending days tracking prey, killing it with a spear, cleaning and skinning it, and cooking it with primitive tools over a fire. I would much rather be homeless today than in any sort of position 10,000 years ago.
As an individual, there is not much you can do. I would say support leaders who use empirical feed back as part of their decision making process, but that requires those leaders making themselves an option first which wouldn't help much in the context of Kuwait.
I think you don't get the article at all.

Slack is heroin (is the point), it is great to start, and seems great for a while, but for many people it gets worse and worse as time goes by.

You have not answered the point at all.

Obviously many people spend their lives enjoying heroin (with no bad affects)

But for many it's toxic, why are you not just an addict selling something you yet don't understand?
There's an irrational belief system at hardware companies about Windows that clouds their logic and leads to a sense of separation anxiety. Intel lost the opportunity to get a lead in mobile because they viewed the Linux/UNIX client device category as a side business rather than making it their core platform. They continued to invest substantial resources in supporting Windows 8 and Windows 10 despite the obvious reality that Windows is a dead-end platform with no growth prospects. It isn't just Intel but even nVidia/AMD lost the mobile space for this same reason, too much Windows not enough Linux/UNIX.

The Windows ecosystem has become corrosive to any industry or company it touches. We now see the end results of supporting a closed-source legacy platform is 12,000 jobs at Intel due to the lack of excitement and innovation in the PC space. Perhaps Linux will revive the PC market but in the meantime Intel and their peers at nVidia/AMD have done little to make that a reality in the mainstream sense.
People like this writer are narcissists -- relatively wealthy people who squander their gifts and seize attention from the working class who never have a chance to waste money like he does.
yeah - I'd forgotten I have flashblock too. That probably helps also.
Co-author here!

There are several differences:
1. We're coupled with the kernel and operating at layer 4. Specifically, we play with the conntrack subsystem. This means, you may pay a little higher cost for the first packet of a connection (because we've got to program the flow), but once the flow is programmed, it's totally going through kernel space. The way Minuteman is meant to be used is to act as the underlying router of a connection pool, or some such.

2. We expose the pools as "VIPs" or Virtual IPs. When you expose a service, you specify an IP-port pair (like 1.2.3.4:5000). In my opinion, that's a little bit nicer than Bamboo's routing.

3. We work with all Mesos frameworks.

4. We have an underlying distributed control plane (https://github.com/dcos/lashup), which lets us detect failures incredibly fast. We've evaluated its capabilities here: https://github.com/dcos/minuteman#evaluation
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Why is is that reverse engineering gets people cease and desist letters, especially in the software and electronics community? Is the difference that Ford keeps the findings internal and doesn't share them with the public? If so, that's pretty bad, because someone dissected a product and now everyone else should do the same instead of sharing the result. It's a waste of money and work force, all in the name of trying to hide stuff even though patents and copyrights are abused already for similar purposes.
Its pretty common practice[0]. IMHO the take away is that Ford is taking Tesla (and electrics) serious enough to do it.

[0] http://www.wired.com/2014/07/go-inside-the-lab-where-gm-tear...
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We're not quite there yet with the data we have :). Anecdotally though, it seems like companies in Europe pay less and take out more taxes.
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Well, some proteins are destroyed by heat, which is probably where the confusion comes from. That's why cooking meat changes its color and texture.
> Proteins aren't destroyed by cooking. Otherwise you would not be able to get any proteins from cooked meat or beans.

"Protein" in food really means "amino acids" as far as nutrition is concerned; even if the protein isn't denatured by cooking (and at least some proteins are), it will be broken down to amino acids by your digestive system before being absorbed into your body. Your body uses the amino acids to build its own proteins.
> And there are many other fields which could probably be entirely operated by machines when the technology is sufficiently advanced.

As far as I can tell the technology is sufficiently advanced, just not sufficiently applied. Considering all the tech. involved in autonomous driving there are plenty of jobs that could be automated away with it not just ones involving vehicle use.
AWS is a gigantic platform for doing just this. It's not just a retail thing.
Your are doing the same thing the writer does -- claiming that expensive luxuries, enjoyed only by the richest top 10% of Americans and top 1% of world citizens -- are core lfe essentials.
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> It's the autobahn.

Most people don't drive on the autobahn most of the time. And most of it has speed limits anyway. Even when you are using a part that has none, you may not be able to drive that fast due to traffic. I don't know what kind of idea you have about this, but very few people will drive their vehicle at top speed even if it is possible. First of all, it becomes much more stressful to operate the car for an extended amount of time. Secondly, you can be held liable for accidents while driving at above the suggested speed of 130 km/h even when you are not at fault. There may be a few people who would consider this an argument but most won't consider this kind of thing.
What about them? I don't think you understand the factors that are required for antitrust consideration. Android is like 80% of the market in Europe- you really think Apple is at all in the same foothold there?
At GOOG/FB a large chunk of that comes from equity. 400k for a senior+ level engineering job at one of the "big" tech co's in the valley/SF isn't outrageous at all. Base salary ~200, bonus/equity another ~200.
Tesla already makes all its patents public.
I'd bet that Ford and the other big automakers have comparable or even better engineers and designers than Tesla. It's just that their management doesn't tell them to do quite the right things. Seriously, I think the designers of the Chevy Bolt show their genius, but they were instructed to build an econobox/wagon/hot-hatch mashup. The Tesla 3 is just the thing to capitalize on their existing brand.
Seems like a good deal for Ford. I know some entities that would pay millions to get a hold of a rival entity's competitive materiel.
So how much cocaine or heroine is non-harmful? I would even say cannabis is also shown to be harmful cognitively unless someone stops for 4 weeks but I digress.
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The problem with that is that it is a self perpetuating cycle and that the current situation is only better for consumers in the short run.

Google is better because they have more data from consumers, which gets them more installs, which makes them better.

It would be better in the long run for consumers if there is a real credible second source of search, since it keeps both parties honest and competing on the quality of the results -- and stuff like pushing your own sites doesn't start to creep in.
Yep cut the compensation by about 50% and increase the taxation by 50% :)
That also raises additional questions: there's a process and a set of rules for enforcing such a ruling against a company that a government actually has jurisdiction over (and thus must follow all the operational rules of a "native" company), and a different process and different rules for deciding that an entirely foreign company (with no nexus in the jurisdiction to enforce against) has acted so egregiously that their product should be blocked from importing.

Antitrust concerns commonly get enforced against companies within the country raising those concerns, but I don't know of any example of antitrust concerns raised by a country against an entirely foreign company and used to block imports of the company's products.
Cheating was rampant at my American high school; teachers were either completely incompetent or were aware of the cheating and didn't care. Penalties were similar to what you describe.

That said, I wasn't in the Pacific Northwest, and my general impression is that people from that region are, on balance, more honest than in the region that I came from. But of course generalizations and grass is always greener and all that.
> There is no doubt that they have spent money foolishly, but bear in mind you are talking about them spending on a wedding and college

My value-system doesn't lump wedding and college together. It seems much more reasonable for parents to sacrifice their own well-being to send their kids to elite schools. The whole wedding thing seems crazy to me, though.

Considering how bad financial distress is for a marriage, it seems like a really terrible idea to stretch yourself for a wedding. There should be (not saying there isn't) no shame in getting married at City Hall, with a few of your closest friends and family. Could be the best marital decision you make, if it puts you on a better financial trajectory.
"Just didn't feel like"? Presumably they believe there is tremendous time-value attached to the information they want.
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No, I mean communication over mesh networks similar to Nintendo DS' social features and recently, GoTenna (http://www.gotenna.com/) (I'm not affiliated).

Back when I was a kid there was something like this in a handheld gameboy-like device that had an antenna you could use to chat with anyone nearby that had the same device. The only problem was nobody else in the nearest five mile radius had one.

When this kind of technology is baked into our phones, without the need for carriers or network providers, this kind of communication would be facilitated by devices instead of software. This kind of communication exists now in the software realm (ie. Yik Yak, FireChat - with closed participation) but once that layer transitions from software to hardware visa vi dongles or built into our phones, that participation will become more open and face less scrutiny against surveillance.
It's very hard to make these kinds of comparison (take a look at the Economist's Big Mac index which attempts to illustrate relative buying power in different places). Similarly income tax may be low (e.g. Texas) but property taxes, sales tax, and tolls may be high (e.g. Texas) and social services may suck (e.g. Texas). There are some cost of living calculators around which try to calculate equivalent salaries around the US but they have not been more accurate than guesswork in my experience.
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It has for years when built as part of BitKeeper, I think there are some issues in how we open sourced it. It's being discussed over on the forum, you might look there.
The other difference is about enforcing manufacturers, which in Apple's case is Apple themselves...
1. Why can't the "ip_local_port_range" be changed? Wouldn't increasing the range help with short lived connections?

2. What is the maximum limit on active connection?
That is one way of thinking about the world. Another way is to consider all software as support software. The machines are supposed to be there to help us.

There are countless players offering transactional support systems, and just like every other Big Software Vertical, the industry is still re-aligning around "Web 2.0". Desk's primary market distinction is that Salesforce owns them. (That's a huge selling point in the enterprise, but not necessarily interesting to the HN crowd.)

The grandparent post is describing a workflow for more conversational customer interactions. The industry term-of-art for this is something like multi-channel support, but Slack's Big Philosophy is to just be more playful. The "proper software" to use is the software that gets stuff done.

If you get more than two people defining what "proper support software" is, you end up with something like this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BMC_Remedy_Action_Request_Syst...

People just have different workflows. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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I don't have Goggle Play Services installed on my phone and am not going to do so.

I understand why companies want their apps in the "Store" for discovery purposes. However, I don't understand why they won't provide an alternative direct download.

I do have F-Droid installed, but I appreciate companies may not want to open source their app. No problem, but I also won't be forced to install Google Play just to obtain it.
In the book "Soul of a new machine" there is described a moment in 1978 when an Data General engineer (Tom West) gets to go look at and take apart a newly installed DEV VAX at a friends company.

Oddly VAX cost $200,000.

Very short exert
http://kottke.org/14/07/the-soul-of-a-new-machine

Long exert of the book which continues the story of the VAX disassembly was published in the Atlantic called "flying upside-down".

http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/1981/07/flying-u...

Soul of a new machine is a really good book. highly recomended.
This is such a terrible argument, even by its own data.

For instance:
"The good-looking are on average 7% happier than the bad-looking."

...from which it draws the conclusion that being beautiful doesn't make much of a difference. But 7% doesn't seem like a small difference at all. Spending hundreds of hours for a 7% improvement doesn't seem like such a terrible deal to me. Of course it's a bad deal if that's time you're taking from other things that make you happy. But exercise, for instance, has the benefit of improving your health and creating happiness in its own right.

Likewise the fact that 30% of unemployed feel 10% less happy years after becoming employed again. A 10% reduction in happiness doesn't seem minor at all.

I guess if you have some absurd expectation, like some notion that a simple intervention will make you twice as happy, you'll be disappointed by the effects of all these various things. But a lot of these changes are pretty substantial, and they're not even taking into account things that I would expect to really affect happiness--professional accomplishment, one's love life, etc. People are complicated, happiness is complicated, and of course no single thing is going to instantly grant you contentment. That's no reason not to work for small improvements; the small improvements add up.

And I think this kind of fatalism is really pernicious, akin to writing arguments that suicide is a good idea or that heroin actually isn't very dangerous. Most people are sensible enough to dismiss them, but others develop this feeling of learned helplessness which really harms them. The authors arguing this are always hypocrites; they know that they'd be unhappy living on the street, that's why they keep going to work every day. But they're perfectly happy to confuse and harm others with their disingenuous rhetoric.
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Why only the big four?
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They do require an extensive house. Am expensive house gets you into a top public school that feeds into a top college, and makes you neighbors and friends with rich people who can get you a good job or a wealthy spouse.
Standards-of-living may have dropped dropped (though I'm pretty skeptical) but if so the drop is pretty small. This guy's financial problems are much bigger than this drop. I think that the personal responsibility deficit we have in this country is a much bigger deal than whatever issues we have with middle income wages.

For a variety of reasons (easy access to credit, the media, who knows what else) a great many people are living above their means. And that's a big problem.
How did you determine that? Perhaps your expectations are just high?
Right, but easier doesn't mean useful. E.g. One of the easiest steps in comparing salaries across countries is exchange rate, but it's not nearly as useful as a list of local prices for commonly needed stuff. E.g. In Singapore when I last visited (quite a while back) car registration cost about $30,000 per year.
Keeping in mind that the $120 we pay includes unlimited text and voice calls. We don't need the 14Gb, as we rarely go over 1Gb, but the difference is minimal enough that I pay the difference from a cheaper plan "just in case".
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Given that the car was a freebie for referring 11 Model S sales I doubt it was a friend.. See http://www.theverge.com/2016/4/20/11466810/tesla-model-x-for...

My guess is that this was the first one Ford was able to buy at any price....
I think it's just supposed to be noteworthy because it is unusual for them to pay that much, and it was specifically to get an early iteration of this particular model.

I wonder if there's some reason they specifically went for one of the earliest ones sold. Maybe as one of the first ones made, it would be more in "prototype" mode versus one of the latest versions.
So that's all the YC partners then? PG etc?
I know you're being facetious but `go get` is just as convenient and is a controversial installation method for different reasons.
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There's a huge variance in what people consider a reasonable price for a wedding. My wife and I budgeted $10k in 2000, and felt like that was a bit higher than we wanted. This is in Toronto, Canada. I'm always a bit surprised when younger friends tell me they're paying double that when I don't consider them to be as financially secure. Especially when they're secular, and there's no constraining family culture to appease.
We are producing ample food for everyone, it's just that we prefer to use most of it for other things because prefer luxury meats and ethanol to feeding everyone.

It's very similar to how we are shooting the next generation in the foot with coal and oil.
Yes that definitely sounds about right. :)
You showed me one person who appears to be happy, but also has a huge incentive to appear to be happy even if she isn't: if she doesn't appear happy, she doesn't make money. I showed you a few people who appear to not be happy doing it, even though while they were doing it, they claimed to be happy doing it.

This really does not make you question at all how much they want to appear to be happy in porn even if they really aren't? How can you possibly tell apart those who are happy from those who aren't? And if they are appearing in porn without really wanting to, how can you jerk off to them with a clear conscience?
Amazon keeps asking me to interview and everyone tells me it's a terrible place to work. After seeing this compensation via equity I'm thinking it might be worth it. Anyone work at Amazon and loves it or think it's really worth it?
I remember reading that article - It was really insightful.

This is what innovation looks like - its so absurd that it might actually work !
I'm torn. I don't know if I want a MB or a 12.9" iPad Pro. Most of my "fun" development is done in a cheap GCE instance on the command-line.
It's a rewrite but it can be incremental, you can mix and match Tcl and Little code in the same file.
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