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I suspect this was posted in jest, but why is that such a bad long term solution? Should we work simply to do work, or if we can work a robot harder, why not do that? Wouldn't that be better than working humans harder in the long run?

This obviously does not absolve anyone for lacking empathy for other humans, but it isn't a bad solution for humanity in general.
Last I tried was 1.0.

I love everything about using Influx but it would die and never restart and every time it would some crash on semacquire. I'll have to try it again since I need to check out this Grafana update anyway.
There's a difference though. Does the log format itself in some unicode encoding, or does it just embed some utf-X encoded strings? If you just embed some user input and assume it will decode properly, you're likely to run into issues at some point when someone provides explicitly-broken encoding.
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But they aren't piping to sh..
I expect to get downvote blasted into oblivion, but maybe someone who is mentally unbalanced enough to commit suicide over a job is the problem, not the company itself.

Down voting your comment would disappoint me very much (and as of this writing, it's the top comment). IMO, at worst Amazon is part of a much larger picture. And as you imply, out of X number of people, Y will hurl themselves off a building. Remember the FoxConn hoo-ha a few years back? Yeah, I sat down and compared the reported suicide rates of 400K FoxConn employees versus China in general (I wasn't the only one, as I recall). Turns out, FoxConn folk must be pretty damned happy, actually, as their suicide rate was lower than the general population of China.

No, to place blame on Amazon is to ignore the problem. I've worked at far shittier places than Amazon is reported to be, and I didn't take my own life. More was at play than just where this person worked. If we need do anything, we need identify that "more" and fix that.
I'll probably get downvoted as well for agreeing with you, but I agree.

Committing suicide is not the answer when you have a very clear alternative: Leave and get another job.

It is NEVER "courageous" to commit a suicide. I understand why some people do it, but that still doesn't make it "courageous". Committing suicide is running away from reality. Period.
It's not made in Russia. It's also been around for 2 years now, and seems to be doing just fine.
how do i downvote this?
Nope. The efficiencies you've grown to expect from Amazon comes at a cost. And when Humans are involved in that cost, sometimes there is also a human cost.

See Life in an Amazon Warehouse: Fear and Efficiency at 35 Orders Per Second => http://gizmodo.com/5982811/life-in-an-amazon-warehouse-fear-...
I kind of was with you until If you aren't a good employee then it is hardly the company's fault.

The company's responsibility is not to push "bad" employees to commit suicide; it's to help them improve, or, if that's too difficult or there simply isn't a good fit, to part with them in the best of terms.

The question here isn't about the performance of Amazon's employees; it's whether bullying is regarded as an acceptable managing practice.
No one anecdote, positive or negative, tells us anything definitive. With Amazon there's been a cacophony of consistent negative feedback that by far outweighs what we hear about other large tech companies. Amazon has lost the benefit of the doubt.
All I took from this was:

- she was upset about something (maybe somethings) work related

- she talked to her mom and professionals about her issues (even worked with HR and support within Amazon)

- she didn't get along with her manager

- she was suicidal but too scared to follow through

It sounds like there was a bad chemistry or dynamic between employee and manager. Beyond that this article is a drama piece that doesn't explain anything concrete that actually happened to make her feel this way. I want to sympathize with her but I am really having trouble.

edit: Tried to improve formatting.

Disclaimer: This doesn't mean I am rejecting the conclusions she is trying to make. I sure would appreciate a real series of events to decide for myself whether she was or wasn't in a hostile environment.
They were off by a factor of 10 with the likelihood of being struck and killed by lightning, according to the nws website.

To clarify: the likelihood of being merely struck by lightning is ~ 1/1,000,000 per year. The likelihood of being struck and killed is 1/10,000,000 , or about 1/2^23.25

Given this, you would only have to be struck and killed by lightning 6.8 years in a row to equal a sha1 hash collision probability.
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This story prompted me to wonder [0] how mapping organisations (Ordnance Survey, Google Maps, et al) are made aware of the specifics of such details.

Grateful to hear from anyone with insight!

[0] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13065514
I feel that free shipping vs humane treatment is a bit of a false dichotomy. Amazon Prime at the low-low price of $99/yr, vs $xx/yr and humane treatment may be an issue with warehouse staff (ironically this may be lessened by technology replacing jobs...). But humane business can be an issue in business areas where costs are much more indirect and management just feels that they need to crack the whip to 'maximize' human productivity - while in all likelyhood hurting long term productivity...
I think the RISC-V is way faster, otherwise you probably won't have any advantage, except knowing that the whole ISA is opensource in contrast to AVR chips.
This sounds like something an unwitting "useful idiot" of Putin would say. I'm tempted to tell PropOrNot about this.

edit: since this has possibly been misunderstood, I am sarcastically drawing attention to the fact that Bezos' owning the Washington Post can decide to smear news other organizations as foreign propaganda, if they were to side against his interests on a story such as this.
Users don't have to reveal themselves, but there's a list available at https://www.openbsd.org/users.html

I see lots of academies, ISPs, and even Adobe is in there,
I expect to get downvote blasted into oblivion

From the site guidelines:

Please don't bait other users by inviting them to downvote you or announce that you expect to get downvoted.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
No offense but Grafana is only as good as the weaker piece in the monitoring chain.

Having nice graphs is nice... until they fall apart because the source is unavailable.

And that doesn't help with alerts either. (I tested the alerts in the v4 beta, it's just not comparable to the better alerting tools out there).
It's from: Mike Monteiro - "Fuck you pay me" talk.

Here's a link to the relevant bit in the video:
https://youtu.be/6h3RJhoqgK8?t=21m24s

I would however, recommend the whole vid.
https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2016/oct/14/thawing-perma...
maybe not so much in the short-medium term.
What do you think of eager.io?
> there must be a Perl golfer somewhere around here who does …

Hello!

perl -MFile::Find -e 'find sub{if(-f&&/^whatever/){say$File::Find::name;unlink}},"."'

You might even be able to do 'find{...}"."' (no "sub" or ","), but I don't have perl on my phone to test that ;)
> at worst Amazon is part of a much larger picture.

I think this is the crux of the issue with our industry. It is not unique to Amazon, it just so happens they have had a few vocal employees.
It seems to me that an MMU is no good if the board doesn't have enough RAM to run a general-purpose operating system, as opposed to a bare-metal program or a real-time OS like a microcontroller usually uses.
> He calls the person who jumped off the roof brave and said he wish he had the courage to do that.

I believe the author is a she.
If the manager wants a person to quit, why don't they just put the person on Performance Improvement Plan or something equivalent? Instead going through the effort of needling someone every time?
It promises to maybe be faster. Has no internal flash, cannot be bought in volume if you intend to actually make anything, has a very immature toolchain, and currently is a theory only.
Btw if someone has a local copy of intels intrinsics tool before they converted it into a web version - could you please share it?
It's a great solution, if we are prepared to handle it as a society. I'm not convinced we are yet.
For this post, we have scraped various digital signals (e.g. reviews sentiments, online ratings, topics covered in the book, author influence in the field, year of publication, social media mentions, etc.) from web for more than 20's Erlang books.

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Software engineers who are interested in learning Erlang Functional Programming will enjoy the list because it's data driven and objective!
How does HN automatically remove your password if you type it as a comment?
This comment [1] suggests that if you type your password HN will remove it automatically. It appears this is correct, because in some places this person's comment is "-- removed --" while in others it contains "(removed automatically)".

How does this work? I'm assuming HN uses a hashed and salted password. Does this mean that HN compares every word you submit in a comment against your password to make sure you haven't typed it in your comment? It seems like that would be enormously computationally intensive.

Or, is this just a silly joke comment?

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/reply?id=13066958&goto=item%3Fid%3D13065670%2313066958
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It is bad for humanity if only few (in this case Bezos) can reap the benefits of hundreds of years of progress, while a large part of the population is losing their job because of it.

And it is still bad for humanity, even if you could argue that a lot of people temporarily pay a lower price for their goods ordered at Amazon. This price may soon go up because of a total monopoly gained by exploiting technology this way.

And of course, this all is not because Bezos is so smart, but because capitalism is so flawed.
I agree with you and I'm afraid that current education doesn't give young people the tools to deal with adversity, challenges and failure. They've substituted self-reliance and responsibility with a focus on blaming. I've met a lot of young professionals who have a hard time standing up for themselves because the perceived risk. They are afraid of losing their jobs if they did. Unfortunately they don't realize that company isn't worth their time given the stress. Certain cultures also teach total obedience to your superiors, and this is toxic as well.

I think it's unfair to single Amazon out because they aren't unique in this. I've seen it at other large co's and in academia as well. There's abundance of company politics, toxicity, emotions and sludge around and to keep sane, healthy, relatively stress-free requires a toolkit of abilities to help navigate.
People feel incredibly isolated to do things like this. It is a david goliath solution -- so people should become goliaths. Band together, form unions and revolt. Utilize the press and the media, spread hyperbole and make the employer look like shit, make a class action lawsuit. Don't jump off buildings... This is more emblematic of an achievement oriented culture and a nation that judges itself by money than the fault of "Amazon" IMO. No one forces anyone to work there and anyone could probably get a job as a freelance coder or burger flipper. not worth building your identity around.
> maybe someone who is mentally unbalanced enough to commit suicide over a job is the problem

I've perhaps read too much dark science fiction, but I am certain I could construct a functional job environment that would cause anyone to attempt suicide, especially given years.

Are there people who have mental health problems? Absolutely. Does wanting to commit suicide because your job is a mentally caustic environment mean you had pre-existing mental health problems? Absolutely not.

PS: If you're in that situation, please leave your job. If your company won't transfer you to a new role, find a new company.
> You're victim blaming.

This premise assumes the person who attempted suicide was a victim. Perhaps he/she was not mentally fit to work in a high pressure and stressful environment? Pushing code to Amazon.com is a lot different from pushing code to some <insert dinky non-brand name company>. Not everyone is capable of handling the pressure. I don't know one way or the other but you are as easy to dismiss his side of the argument by assuming the person who jumped is the victim. Sorry but you and I and the internet don't know the situation well enough to conclude either direction.
It's the equivalent to telling someone suffering from relationship abuse "Just get a new spouse!"

What's wrong with telling the abused to exit their current situation as quickly as possible?
IANAL and this is not legal advice

But yes, generally the terms of a work-for-hire contract specify an exchange of money in return for the work

However, most NDAs are completely independent of getting paid. Thus the author's advice to sign the main contract but leave off the NDA.
It takes a very special kind of snowflake to take another's suicide and use it as a springboard for their own story about how bad their manager was. Very bizarre indeed.
I loved that book. For the curious, the way interstellar trade works is through a simplified bitcoin network transmitted over light beams (because the only assets worth trading are digital). The biggest difference is each node in the network is actually a planet and a transaction between planet A and B is only confirmed when planet C validates the transaction. Planet C is usually decided on a nearest neighbor basis (If I recall correctly).
It's a much more capable device. The existing RISC-V instances (I don't know much about SiFive's offering per se, I'm just reading off their datasheet) are more comparable to ARM Cortex-M parts -- running in the dozens to hundreds of MHz, with an MMU and a real OS kernel (Linux, obviously, though surely there are BSD ports in the works).

Hardware has, in addition to the GPIO, UART and ADC/DAC that you're used to from Atmel, a USB 2.0 device controller (it says "OTG", which implies a host controller too, but sometimes people get this mixed up), a SD/MMC/eMMC controller for storage (no idea about SDIO) and gigabit ethernet.

I'm a little disappointed in the lack of wireless connectivity on the SoC, though I suppose you can make up for that with off the shelf USB devices (or a UART bluetooth radio).
Being an outsider like many readers out there, nobody knows what REALLY goes on there inside Amazon. There are stories portraying from both sides. So yeah, I believe what you suggest is possible.

However, what I do believe one should not take the job too seriously (if you consider it's such a shitty place to work for.) Your life is too short to be wasted working at some place you feel miserable and your life is too precious to be ended for the sole reason to call out the miserable working condition at any given place.
Now I’m writing you again because someone braver than I did
something I couldn’t bring myself to do.

Are you kidding me. Attempting suicide because of your job in a job market that is pretty fertile is not fucking brave.
Never underestimate the power of being lazy. Power steering wasn't invented by an exercise freak.
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Victim blaming? If someone commits suicide they are both the victim AND the perpetrator. Or are you saying Amazon is directly responsible for the actions of the individual? No. I was saying that the company is not at fault if someone decides to take their own life rather than seek medical help or change jobs or some combination of the 2. I'm not blaming anyone, but instead pointing out that someone committing suicide or championing it as a solution to work-related woes isn't proof of poor working conditions. The only thing it is proof of is a mental health problem.
Yep. Work hard for 5 more years, go back to my home country and open a café where I can meet people who are less predictable than the people I am surrounded by in tech. I am studying as much as I can in my free time on the topic of coffee, and my counterpart involved is doing the same regarding cuisine :)
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Joke comment. It is related to the hunter2 IRC conversation from back in the day:

http://bash.org/?244321

As you can see &u5Tjlo6@K76 passwords are displayed correctly (that password was changed within 1 sec after this comment was posted).
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I ignored it, worked fine for me.
> What's wrong with telling the abused to exit their current situation as quickly as possible?

It's VERY WRONG to attempt to end one's life in order to exit the toxic work/relationship/marriage, like the unnamed Amazon employee did.
You're trying to assign logic to a situation where there isn't any.

The person was pre-disposed to jumping, you say. Why would they think it's reasonable to consider alternatives? People can be very single-minded.

For low-skill workers, a job with shit pay can be all they have. It's quite common to think "I must do well here cause I can't get another job. I'm not $random_bs_reason_they_cant_see_through."

Add on the stress of an environment like Amazon, which is pushing people for no reason other than generating money (the faster Amazon is the more people think Amazon is magical, the more they spend at Amazon).

The implosion of our system will be due to this ridiculous fetish with fiscal success. It's become the only marker that matters. We care so little for each other, thinking someone else is taking care of people with mental illness, not realizing the system that does that is often too expensive or too broke to do anything. BUT HEY THE STOCK IS UP AND 20 COMPANIES WERE DECLARED UNICORNS!

We're reaching the point where it's things like this that will begin to crack that facade. This is an important opening for useful conversation. But we'll probably just debate JS frameworks, instead of the reality that our social safety is a complete joke. Objectivism or gtfo!

Upvote/downvote. Doesn't matter. This is a throwaway. I don't have any need for imaginary internet points.
You're right, but what you're describing seems to be on the order of "algorithmic changes" or "data structure changes" to be more suited to your use-case.

It seems to me that it is a higher level than what I was addressing: "I'll write my code in assembly to get it to run faster". Unless you're writing your pool based allocator in assembly ;)
Other side of the country. Later on, he also ended up bringing on a developer friend of his, who became a 3rd cofounder.
I think your reasoning is correct: there is no efficient way to do this while storing only a hashed password. Also, it would be out-of-character for the minimalism of the site. I'd go with "joke", although I'm not sure whether it's intended to be "silly" or "cruel".
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It's not the "get a new spouse" part. It's the "Just" part.

Let's assume you're a programmer. Ever get annoyed when someone comes along while you're dealing with a problem and goes, "Why don't you just..." without any acknowledgement of the many complexities? And that if you could "just" do this or that, you fucking would have already?

Yeah, it's like that.
thats a wonderful improvement of apex, thats for sure :)
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What's interesting about this is we have no data on the number of people working for large companies who commits suicide not on company premises. Ditto for anyone taking their life not working for a company that isn't vilified like Amazon or well known. What if this person had worked at a beloved company would we then be more likely to think it was the person and not the company? Obviously people en mass are not taking their own life working for Amazon. Or any other company that I know of.

> He calls the person who jumped off the roof brave

I never got how people are called 'brave' in this situation or even if they jump onto train tracks to save the life of a stranger.
turbo is a tornado clone on lua and lapis is awesome too, turbo is a stand-alone server, lapis runs inside openresty the nginx + lua server.
I don't operate a server farm but OpenBSD updates are pretty easy. Just do `pkg_add -Uu`.

If your dependencies are minimal, keeping OpenBSD up-to-date is actually pretty relaxing. Don't need to install security patches all the time as with Linux.
Exiting the current situation would mean separation/divorce, not ending one's life.
Awesome! I'm surprised Google hasn't come up with a way of preventing this.

Btw - anyone know how to adjust the volume?
bit of clarification, I was attempting to say its not the companies fault if you are not a good employee and thus have trouble securing new employment. I was not saying that the company should use the fact that you are a bad employee to push you towards suicide or whatever. I'm not entirely sure how it came off that way.
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This is grossly oversimplifying suicide...

For your consideration:

“The so-called ‘psychotically depressed’ person who tries to kill herself doesn’t do so out of quote ‘hopelessness’ or any abstract conviction that life’s assets and debits do not square. And surely not because death seems suddenly appealing. The person in whom Its invisible agony reaches a certain unendurable level will kill herself the same way a trapped person will eventually jump from the window of a burning high-rise. Make no mistake about people who leap from burning windows. Their terror of falling from a great height is still just as great as it would be for you or me standing speculatively at the same window just checking out the view; i.e. the fear of falling remains a constant. The variable here is the other terror, the fire’s flames: when the flames get close enough, falling to death becomes the slightly less terrible of two terrors. It’s not desiring the fall; it’s terror of the flames. And yet nobody down on the sidewalk, looking up and yelling ‘Don’t!’ and ‘Hang on!’, can understand the jump. Not really. You’d have to have personally been trapped and felt flames to really understand a terror way beyond falling.”

-David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest
> Perhaps he/she was not mentally fit to work in a high pressure and stressful environment?

Further evidence the hiring process is broken I suppose.
Those efficiencies no longer seem to exist. I almost always find better pricing at other sites such as eBay, jet.com and Newegg. My guess is that their pursuit of original content has caused them to lose their edge.
These SiFive folks claim to have working silicon, there are what look like some power measurements on their site, and there are photographs of boards available for a claimed ship date in ~3 weeks.

It's not in my hands personally, but they seem to be over the vapor hump.

I found it an exciting enough product to drop $60 on, anyway.
Amazon benefits provide counseling services like most large companies do.
Your disclaimers are fair in that if you want an Arduino, buy an Arduino. But if a 320 MHz anything is slower than a 24 MHz AVR then the sky is falling.