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Though the article is an enjoyable read, it makes the same basic points as many of the "about millennials" articles of the last five years: 20-to-30-somethings are flocking to places of economic opportunity like Seattle, but are worried about cost-of-living, debt/loans, lack of government safety nets, crime (and a segue into worries about terror), uhh.... genetically modified crops.... uhhh... the list goes on. Isn't this consistent with 'coming of age' and trying to make it on your own?

The point is, I'm a millennial, I guess (I'm younger than the 31-year-old the article focuses on, and I have no idea anymore what the term 'millennial' actually means besides 'young person'), and these are anxieties that I share. But they don't prevent me from living a normal, relatively uneventful life in the US.

Part of growing up is realizing that even when you work hard, success can be elusive, that in the US the government generally does not have your back, and your well-being is entirely a function of your effort, luck, and circumstances. Not to discount their importance, but the issues of the day will vary: equal rights regardless of color in the 1960s, equal rights regardless of sexual identity in the 2010s; proxy wars in the 1970s, terrorism since ... (I lied, terrorism has always been around).

The future is uncertain, and we're constantly trying to juggle our resources among our hierarchy of needs of our own immediate needs vs. the good of the community, of people like us, of people different from us, of our national security and 'way of life', of our planet; but the only thing new is that we 'millennials' are new to it.
Going by the numbers, terrorism is a really unlikely way to die. Most people on HN are likely to die from heart disease, cancer, or medical mistakes in that order.

The most likely cause of death for a person before the age of fifty is a prescription drug mistake, suicide, or dying in a car crash.
Well, time will eventually turn your friend's thoughts towards retirement - and that's when they'll realize who's foot they were shooting all along.
Totally agree. We're running a team with engineers working 20 hours a week. That seems like about the amount of "productive engineering time" that most people have in them in a week, regardless of how many hours they actually spend working.

It's a bit of an experiment, but I have to say that I'm really happy with what it's doing for us. Our engineers are still quite productive. Their work life balance is good, so we can avoid burnout (though this will take a long time to actually prove). And, finally, it gives us a _huge_ competitive advantage when it comes to hiring top quality engineers.
This does not make sense. The bombs don't select by age.

Also, one would have to accumulate an overall score, cancer, heart, terror. I'm quite sure all these factors are different per region.
Should governments be punishing insulting or giving offense? That's a very scary prospect in my mind.

Could we even have meaningful political dialog if, for example, it was illegal to intentionally offend Donald Trump or Hillary Clinton?

The idea of a right to not be insulted has scary implications.
Ah, Ready Player One... basically Willy Wonka as told by a Gen-Xer who sneers at modern video games (because the old ones were, of course, the best).

I can't believe they haven't made a movie of it yet.
The search term is "Jimmy Fallon ew".
iOS doesn't provide the necessary hooks for something like that. I checked out that app, and it does exist on iOS, but apparently it works by creating a "spam caller" contact and adding a shitload of numbers to it. Not quite what I'd like.
If you build a portfolio of niche apps you can probably sell them all to somebody spammy?
>It's interesting to me that everyone uses that isArrayish module example as though it represented the downfall of civilization when to me, yes maybe it represents the downfall of civilization a little bit, but it also represents the strength of npm. Absolutely anyone can create code, put it online and then have others use it fast. Of course this means you do end up with a lot of nonsense, but a lot of brilliance too.

How is JS/NPM in that sense better than Go, a language with a strong standard library, with a solid developer community around it and where packages are as easy as pushing to a git server?

Or how does it improve over similar, more traditional package management stories like Python/pip?
Yes, that's the point, he rather brutally insulted one specific disabled kid. I find it to be different from just telling a joke about a politician, for example. Can you publicly insult someone, by using a form of joke? I don't know, either. But the title sounds as if he just "told a joke" - that's misleading.
You think insults should be illegal?
It's not a conspiracy, no.

It is harm from a historically bad actor.

So it's not accepted with enthusiastic gratitude.

And there's no reason why it should be.
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I met two people that work, or worked, in senior positions at one of the big 6 tech companies in the US. (Not Google.)

Neither of them knew that: Sundar Pichai was the CEO of Google, or that Google had re-organized as Alphabet, or that Larry Page had taken over as CEO of Alphabet.

Is this just an outlier in the world, or is that something you would expect a senior manager to know?
No one owes anyone anything, and most people featured in and reading this article are already incredibly privileged. But it's never enough, someone always has or had it better and life is just so not fair.
More whining for things we 'deserve'.
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> Twenty four hours a day of hate speech, and recruiting your children to join them. Of course you wouldn't.

I would. In fact, we have something similar already: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christian_Broadcasting_Network
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Except that the minimum fee is 350$ an hour. If they worked for the standard 180 hours a month for 12 months they'll get something like a 700,000$ salary.many of the lawyers.probabaly did take home several million dollars in fees.
Jerry Seinfeld often speaks of why offensive jokes are needed even though many people may not like them.

In the end professional comedians are artists and art can offend.

Jerry is more eloquent than I am he can explain it better he often does on his show Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee.
Misogyny?
After the umpteenth time of hearing that joke, it's still not funny, and it still makes half-integer spin seem more mysterious.

A much better analogy https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QJRtxTyROOU
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The powerful don't let us participate.
We went more extreme and went to 20 hours a week, though we're a little crazy when it comes to our philosophy about work.

It did exactly as you described, though. We're able to attract top talent engineers even though we're a tiny consulting company that nobody has ever heard of.
The fact that GPSD is the best thing you can come up with that he wrote pretty much proves my point, doesn't it?

If that's all it takes to brand yourself a "hacker", in spite of executing a vicious multi-decade jihad against Richard Stallman and the Free Software Foundation, then being a "hacker" doesn't mean anything.

I'd like to think that vitriolically disagreeing with the part of the Hacker Manifesto that says "We exist without skin color, without nationality, without religous bias," and other violent acts like sending a death threat to Bruce Perins then trying to excuse it by explaining he was only trying to "defame" him, would disqualify him from branding himself as a hacker. But I'm an idealist.
If so then they should add the word 'Degree' everywhere.
Easy. You hire more low skilled workers and run them in shifts because warm bodies are abundant and overtime is expensive.

High skilled workers have a high fixed cost per employee, low to zero marginal cost per hour. More hours from fewer employees is an obvious strategy to deliver the growth shareholders demand. By convention and legislation, high skill jobs pay invariant of hours worked and are overtime-exempt.

Low skilled jobs can be filled with whomever happens to be born nearby, so they can be distributed across small towns. High skilled jobs require the best people regardless of birthplace, and both employers and employees are incentivized to seek a large pool of potential counterparties to optimize wages and "fit." This naturally creates "destination" cities where inward migration of highly paid workers raises prices and therefore COL.

Stagnant wages - because labor intensive businesses aren't good enough investments anymore to have lots of employers bidding up the price of labor (except in some niches).
Money placed in a 401(k) is generally invested in the market. The hypothesis is that retirement money is a primary source of capital for investment banks. Some young people hold the view that this is akin to financing the banks' unethical activity, and refuse to participate.

Of course this is nonsense. One can always keep invest a 401(k) in hard currency or short term treasuries (T-bills.)
All these things are just GitHub's implementation and UX details. The README file is the traditional meta-level documentation (if I correctly understand what you mean by that: top level document that gives a more or less comprehensive overview of the project). READMEs always included this information, sometimes offloading details of particular topics into INSTALL, AUTHORS, LICENCE, etc. files. GitHub just figured they might as well use the thing as intended and actually render it on a web page. As for markup, people were already using email like markup in those files, so this is again just following established practice to its logical conclusion and modern implementations. GH's sole innovation in convention here is tacking on the very annoying file type extension in order to not have to figure out the format automatically.
Singling out the child wasn't in the child's best interests. There's article 16, which is the right to privacy; article 19 which is about protection from harm.

Perhaps someone can find the court documents so we can see which human right they say was being violated.
What do you mean by elongated box?
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Decisions like the one I'm referring to are made at the very top level, so the "MS is a large organization, and can't be expected to act like its decisions are as simple as one person's" line does not hold water.
Remember Susan Boyle from a few years ago? The talent show star with the great voice who perhaps wasn't the most attractive woman in the world? Hundreds (probably thousands) of comedians have jokes commenting on her perceived ugliness. Was that hate speech? Should they all be punished for it?
Simpler? No. Easier? Yes.
Yeah, it's a travesty. I can't make a joke about you "if it offends your dignity"?

That's even more overreaching than when Thailand sends you to prison for "insulting the king". There at least it only prevents you about joking about one person! (OK, and his family...and pets...)
http://www.zocalopublicsquare.org/2016/08/08/dont-dare-speak...
Working within the copyright system that exists and affects us all should not be misinterpreted as agreeing with copyright.

Copyrighting software is terrible for society. But given that copyrighting software exists and can't easily be gotten rid of, what can we do to minimize the damage and keep software free (as in freedom)? I think the GPL is a good answer to that question.
The right to dignity, presumably?
29,029' or 8848m.
So they take grid of pixels and produce an array of characters which may be interpreted by some humans (aka bags of chemicals).
The Snowden material had these "SECRET" or "TOP SECRET" tags on every page (as seen on TV, of course!) This software tools, however, probably don't have anything like this, as, if I understand correctly, they are the binaries that should look "innocent" and fully unrelated to the US organizations in any event they are discovered, as some of them were already discovered with Stuxnet and similar events.

So I don't even see how they can be considered "classified" if the US doesn't officially admit they produced them. As far as I understand, there's nothing that carries their signs or any other such marks (like "top secret US government property").

For the reference, the production of Stuxnet by the US was never officially admitted. So you still don't have to answer you've seen something declared as secret by the US if you've seen a report about Stuxnet. And I honestly don't expect the US will soon admit the production of it officially. Unofficially, sure, there's that NYT article reporting what some "American officials" said.
I loved it!! Would it even better if we have a certain level of zooming to improve the location accuracy. I missed out on some European cities. I think it was Copenhagen.

Nice work!
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I would quite happily live in the mountains but there aren't any IT jobs there. Its seems difficult to get a remote working job.

I imagine it is the same for many jobs - you need to live in a city.
Thanks, I think I will try turn the thing into a screen-share, rather than just a conversation as well as adding behavioral interviewing to my backlog of things to investigate further :)
It's hard not to feed on fear when the media is a buffet full of it.
I'm much more interested in what HN contributors believe to be the emerging tech trends of 2016, particularly in software development. Also if there are any specific recommendations of websites that make these things more discoverable in the future. (Checking GitHub trends every day 'doesn't scale'!)
The fundamental problem with the government drawing any line is that you can't have free speech under those circumstances. Is advocating for Communism harmful to Capitalism? Is advocating for the rights of women to abort their babies harmful to the fetuses? What about touting the benefits of Schedule I drugs? Surely that can be seen as harmful to the public health.

It doesn't matter what you or I think about the examples I gave above. It only matters what the government thinks. And if they think any or all of those are harmful concepts, then by using your reasoning any speech invoking those concepts would be controlled by the government.

That's simply untenable as far as I'm concerned. The only way to ensure the government doesn't have that kind of power over words, is to allow any and all ideas to be expressed. It's impossible to draw lines on which ideas are allowed to be expressed and those that aren't, without running into this hazard.
How is the “comedian”'s repeated public humiliation of a specific disabled kid less violent than him being fined $42k?
> The FSF is not opposed to copyright as a concept.

I'm not sure you're knowledgeable enough on the subject to make that claim.

> You can argue over duration, but copyleft would not be possible if everything were in the public domain.

Copyleft wouldn't be necessary if everything were in the public domain.
Why is taking money violent? We don't have debtors prisons in the developed world; people who are fined for something and can't pay, just don't pay. Fines, like (most) taxes, are meant to be disincentives, not punishments.
Those "rules" came from Gaia Online, not 4chan. They didn't want anyone talking about /b/. Some anon adopted them, if mainly for Rules 34 and 35, and the fact that all /i/nvasion threads were compatible with the first two rules (all raids were credited to eBaumsWorld).
Consultant is a bit different than a salaried employee. I'm not sure how the language is structured in the US, but in Europe as a salaried employee, you're not producing X, you're providing labour. As in, you're hired to provide labour for 8 hours per day to an employer. The language used in our labour law is something like "employee is considered at work when present at location during time specified by employer and is providing his/her labour for use by the employer". You could skip lunch break if required, but most of the time it isn't.
There is an on-going discussion on r/bitcoin re this post where some Bitcoin Core developers are commenting on the post. Worth checking out: https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/4yhhe1/securing_bi...
It CAN, but that's not its MO.
I'm pretty sure "super predator" was coined in the Clinton era
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The underlying issue is that PHP is bad at frameworks and because of that there are dozens of them. If there was one, clear, dominant framework it would be one thing...but there's not so investing in using any particular PHP framework is just about as risky of a proposition as rolling your own.
I'm a big comedy fan and found this whole case to be pretty disturbing. It validates the idea that a comedian should be punished, legally, for doing their job and telling a joke. It's not a particularly good joke in this case, but a joke nonetheless. It gives fuel to the social media lynch mobs who take every tweet or comment as an excuse to get comedians (and really, anybody) fired from their jobs (which seems to be happening with increasing frequency -- look no further than the Kurt Metzger mess from this week).
Or, just eliminate the subtitle and merge the one important word in the subtitle that isn't in the subtitle, and call it "The Open Source Data Science Master's Curriculum", which has the advantage that while it invokes the idea of a curriculum of the level of a Master's Degree, doesn't falsely present itself as an offering an actual degree, which it is not.
We are a 3 year old startup and have had product/marketing/ops in San Francisco and engineering in Bangalore all this while. We use Google Docs power users and spontaneous communication happens through Slack and calls. Between these, most of our knowledge sharing needs are covered. Though as the team grows, Slack is becoming too noisy making it easy to miss messages, so we are rethinking that a bit.
When you bought vinyl or CDs, you owned that. How can a temporary rental be worth the same?
"But people now in their 20s and 30s say that the 1960s were different, that there seemed to be a clearer goal then — to end racial segregation, poverty or the war. The economy seemed better and the nation’s future more assured."

As someone in my 20s this is very frustrating. Obviously things from the 60s seem clearer now; hindsight is 20-20. Then there's this:

"Many are terrified of debt and deeply worried about their economic future"

I view this as a good thing. Debt is not fun and should be worrisome. Especially in the US where it's socially acceptable to carry mounds of debt.
Why is a fine violent, but repeated deliberate public humiliation not?
> Try to send the industry a signal by refusing to buy encumbered books (DRM, proprietary formats, etc).

This is what animal rights activists are advocating to do with meat products in the industry. Does the technique work, universally? Does it have success? It sounds reasonable, but requires a lot of people to change their behaviors.
> On the other hand, if the codebase has been written from scratch by Greg, a real carpenter of a programmer, who is no longer with the company, then good luck. I'm at his mercy entirely.

You're at his mercy if he used a framework, too. There's nothing to require that he used it in a sensible way. The only difference is that now you get to discover the innermost details of the framework, too, at the same time you're trying to figure out what Greg was doing, and you also get to figure out which is which.
That's a surprise. Were they fresh out of school?
GPLv3 mainly added new clauses to deal with other "intellectual property" laws that people started using to "protect" their source code such as patents, TIVO-ization tricks, and DRM. GPLv2 was written back when copyright was the only thing people were using to prevent sharing of their code.
Those are all abstract speech and therefore are usually legal everywhere. (They might be "treason" in some places, but that's separate from the issue of whether they're harmful. Treasonous speech is whatever speech a government doesn't like, whereas "non-protected" speech is the set of things its citizens don't care to defend you for saying.)

The thing Canada mostly considers illegal is saying something like "hey everybody, you should hate/kill X because they're {Native American, gay, old, disabled, etc.}!" with a specific X that people might then go and kill.

It's not even that we don't want to protect that speech as speech; it just seems to lead directly to hate crimes being committed a non-negligible proportion of the time. So we make hate speech itself illegal, to try to stop the hate crimes early.
I'm actually considering getting an MBA and pivoting to management-like positions just for the hell of it for a few years. Do you think that might be a feasible thing to do at my age (29 right now)?
Would you mind letting us know where this is?
Unforeseen, sure, but evolution is practically incapable of wholesale changes to an organism at a fundamental level. For example, if we engineered a microbe to use AUCG instead of ATCG for DNA, which would require massive changes to its cellular machinery, even a generation a minute for a million years would not be enough to switch back to regular base pairs because the microbe would be incapable of basic horizontal gene transfer with other microbes or giant evolutionary leaps that require precise simultaneous changes to all of its reproductive machinery. Obviously this is not 100% guaranteed but if we can engineer an organism that fundamentally depends on a metabolic process that is prohibitively difficult to evolve naturally, we can maintain an extreme level of control.
Anecdotal, but I'm in exactly that situation at a fairly large tech employer. We log hours against different projects, are expected to log 40 hours a week, and are specifically instructed not to log anything for a non-working lunch.
This site's scrolling is very broken for me on mobile. Everyone I scroll down it just jerks back to the top. I don't know how major sites mess it to so totally.

So is something funny like this considered political speech? Does it go through a PAC or anything like that?
It's just a wacky rationalization for not saving.

Similar to people who preach about the evils of fast food hanging out at Chipotle or Starbucks.
I had copied that exact paragraph before coming to the comments intending to make pretty much the same comment. This happened to me twice this week. Stuck on a problem for more than an hour late in the evening. Come in the next morning and solve it instantly .
Certainly, good sir. ;-)

https://www.usenix.org/conference/atc16/technical-sessions/p...

There's audio and slides. No video, unfortunately.
> Gen-Xers, anyone?

The 90s were full of sentiment about how Gen-X was the "first generation to be worse off than their parents." But the media has long since moved on. I guess, "millennials still better off than Gen-X" doesn't really generate clicks.