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Isn't it sometimes that younger people don't want to work for dad/mom?

When there are big age differences, there are natural tendencies towards aggressive prove-yourself competition or slightly compliant deference. These are probably built into the primate minds that we all have.

True peer relationships of any kind are much rarer across decades than between people of similar ages. And there are good reasons for that - not least the way that different decades tend to have different life challenges.

So I think discussions about the merits - or not - of older people are beside the point. If most people in an office are in their 20s, hiring someone in their 50s as a peer is going to be pretty awkward for everyone.

Of course this isn't how it should be. But - no matter what the law says - it's not very realistic to pretend it isn't an issue.

The solution, if there is one, is to deliberately create a polyculture of diversity of all kinds. Hire people of all ages, cultures, genders, and backgrounds. Dammit. Then everyone gets to be different, and the culture has the potential to be a lot less linear.

But SV isn't so interested in that. Until mostly white/asian bright shiny people in their 20s stop beaming enthusiastically out of "About us" pages - extra points for a group shot - SV will continue to be a monoculture, and a lot of practical talent and experience from outside the bubble will continue to be wasted.
Use an automated system to pick out keywords and phrases. Put first 25 in that stack aside. Send a rejection notice to everyone else. The issue is not finding a candidate, the issue is leaving everyone else hanging while you find that candidate.
Yep, I often use spacemacs to write org and LaTeX. But sometimes I still love coding with vim and tmux in terminal :).
If sailing a boat makes you low class, then someone better call a few thousand Indians and tell them to break out their champagne bottles and ring in the new year with gusto instead of phishing for dollars with their hand woven nets.

If you wish to espouse black nationalism, you could be a bit braver and say so, or you could continue to figure out ways to promote your agenda without being as overt as this post clearly is.

Also: hiding behind a phone sure is easy when you're locked up and have nothing but hate to espouse, but it takes real man to engender peace instead of spreading lies about what is and what isn't logically sound.

Give up. Your cause is lost, the nations of the world that prosper do so via cooperation of all cultures present, not by establishing dominance through intimidation. In other words, lead by example, bruh
The headline is just wrong. Yes, there was some correlation between "class cues" and resume response rate. But the overwhelming finding (like, 4x the effect!) was gender. Upper class men were wildly more popular than any other group. And in fact upper class women actually underperformed their lower class sisters.
"First index plus last index, divided by two; yay integer division!"

I don't know enough about Pony, but this approach has caused a bug in other languages, specifically when the "first index plus last index" causes an integer overflow. The better approach in these cases is to do "min + ((max - min) / 2)".
Amazon gets those reports all the time, and they have very low-skill people reviewing them. FBA sellers have many horror stories in the opposite direction: they're falsely reported as counterfeit and they don't commingle, but some Amazon lackey is just clicking through the cases and assuming that suspensions are justified, probably without even reading them.

The long and short is that Amazon is not popular with anyone these days. They're not responsive to complaints about products from either buyers or sellers. You have to learn how to play their game. They're acting very monopolistically despite the fact that there are many well-qualified and well-capitalized wolves looking to poach their marketshare.

FBA is just so obscenely profitable for Amazon (the fees alone are huge, usually ending up to be 35-50% of the sale price, depending on the product). I think they are trying to straddle and put off anything that will cut into that margin as long as they can.

Sellers are punished for returns, buyers are stuck with an inferior product and either never notice or send in a return, which hurts the seller, not Amazon. They obviously don't need to carefully tend their reputation as they're already the default for a huge number of people, as long as they do enough to prevent a mass exodus. There's not a lot of incentive for them to aggressively pursue counterfeit sellers or put an overnight stop to it, because they're profiting handsomely in the meantime.
I think replying to this either way will make me look arrogant or dumb. I think I am more worth in the industry, I've secured an internship that pays triple. I thank you for the input for the other thing though - I've taken your idea and talked to management about at least hiring more people seeing how they won't budge on a raise. (but are willing to hire more people?)
> these high-status women might be more likely to take up a domestic role because they're being discriminated against in the first place

You almost quoted him.
Its like looking both ways before crossing a one-way street - nobody should ever be coming at me from the wrong way, but if someone was.... I want to be prepared to deal with that.
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But no where in my comment did I argue that the discrimination should be allowed, and, on the contrary, I believe exactly the opposite.

My main point is that sometimes discrimination is not economically irrational. If that's true, but we as a society think that these forms of discrimination are still bad, we need to come up with better, stronger solutions to make sure discrimination of this sort doesn't happen.
Yep, I buy from Aria in the UK, the prices are always in the ballpark of Amazon's give or take (and occasionally a lot cheaper), they have genuinely knowledgeable about computer gear staff and I've never had an issue with a single aspect of them as a company (bar a postcode problem with a shipping address which wasn't their fault and they did get sorted).

It's not an entirely fair comparison since aria specialises in technology but when they do that and match price then Amazon has no competitive edge.
Richard Herrnstein certainly never suggested that there was a chunky or sharp delineation built into the bell curve, It's probably fair to say the manifestation of capability and capacity of the human throughout the spectrum specifically in the context of the article would likely require to you see no "gradation".
Neither option is better than a Vanguard account with one of their target date funds (or funds targeted by level of aggressiveness).

Vanguard is a mutual company; they exist for the benefit of their users. Hard to compete against that.

Disclaimer: moved from Betterment to Vanguard
No comment on how lower class women got 5 times the callback rate of lower class men? Almost exactly the rate at which upper class men outperformed upper class women? Is this reporting on the study biased in any way?
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> Chumbox

Had no idea there was a name for this shit! But of course there is. It's really sad that the most rotten apples have spoiled it for everybody. I was thinking recently about trying to set up a passive income website that makes money on Adsense, but got discouraged when I remembered that Adblockers are a thing.
> that I recently just turned off JavaScript completely for their site.

I started laughing so hard at this comment. It's so funny to me that someone would go to such great lengths to get the article unmolested. Thought I'd share my two-cents. I love reading HN sometimes. I will try this technique out, you can bet your bottom dollar.
Wait a minute... hang on.

Every fall, tens of thousands of law students compete for a small number of coveted summer associateships at the country’s top law firms. ... For these reasons, employment in top law firms has been called the legal profession’s 1%

Our findings confirm that, despite our national myth that anyone can make it if they work hard enough, the social class people grow up in greatly shapes the types of jobs (and salaries) they can attain, regardless of the achievements listed on their resumes.

Just when exactly did the bar for saying that somebody "made it" become working for "the legal profession's 1%". That's a ridiculously high bar... to the point of absurdity. And while it doesn't contradict the results themselves, it certainly colors the interpretation.

I mean, if you think the only thing that matters in life is to be in the 1% of your profession, then fine. But most people would be happy with a bar quite a bit lower than that... a steady job which puts them solidly in the middle class, or anything higher (in terms of socio-economic class).

Curiously, I feel like I see this "moving the goalpost" stuff quite often in articles which try to argue against the idea of meritocracy or the importance of work ethic and individual effort. Probably not a conspiracy, but perhaps a form of bias..
I think it's an idea worthy of some discussion. Perhaps companies destined to mint a raft of 10x-millionaires would show different hiring trends--although I recognize the extreme difficulty of gathering adequate clean data.
Only 7 gigabytes a day! Perhaps the LA Times has already made their web site twice as efficient.
Actually the JavaScript engine of Edge is open source.
They are also the most aggressive ad shoveling website I have ever seen. Their ad blocker blocker and paywall works, preventing me from reading articles.

It keeps working even when I have my ad blocker turned off. Obviously I must have some anti-tracking extension still enabled that it dislikes, but I'm not willing to spend that much time troubleshooting my browser. It's baffling to me, because the LAT is one newspaper I'd consider a digital subscription to, but as this article says the advertising/marketing people have clearly won out over the editorial, so fuck'em until that changes.
because Uber subsidizes 59% of the cost for passengers with VC money.

http://www.bizjournals.com/sanfrancisco/news/2016/12/02/uber...
The reality of the situation has already been set. I think President Trump's move to stop the current trend of opening trade between countries with wildly dissimilar economic standings is the right one, but much of the damage has already been done. Something like 95% of all metropolitan areas in the US have seen a shrinking of the middle class between 2000 and 2016 [1]. If that's not a powerful indictment of the past 30 years of drawing back on the protectionist stance that the US gov't had held over the 70yrs prior, maybe the popularity of unconventional politicians is.

[1]https://a.msn.com/r/2/BByItCi?m=en-ca
Obligatory: https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20160111/05574633295/forbe...
This is true, but embedded within it contains a huge challenge for the industry. Hiring through people's networks and referrals has potential to really harm diversity.

Hiring is an expensive process by any measure. But whenever we find a shortcut we have to be mindful of unintended consequences
Aside, passwords don't seem secure:

https://github.com/freeciv/freeciv-web/blob/develop/freeciv-...

https://github.com/freeciv/freeciv-web/blob/6c86bceeb4f79b2a...

https://github.com/freeciv/freeciv-web/blob/fd99d083e496d58a...

Last link showing that passwords are only MD5 hashed
Everyone is up in arms about female discrimination, when really it is the lower-class men who are discriminated against the most.
You should try "Alone".

The premise is that about a dozen people get dropped off on Vancouver Island in British Columbia, completely alone and separated from the others by miles, so it's implausible (and presumably against the rules, anyway) to meet up.

They have to film themselves, _a la_ Survivorman. They have to survive. They can tap out at any time via radio, and someone will come and collect them, but they give up their chance for the prize money.

It's _very_ compelling, and if it's faked, it's faked well.

The second season wasn't as good for some reason, but I will probably go back and rewatch the first one.
Increasingly, no - people do not still read The Guardian. Or most other online newspapers.

I think the feminist slant is partly ideological, but also partly an attempt to capture the eyeballs of a middle class (read: relatively affluent) audience no one else is pitching for.

To me it looks suspiciously like a very calculated kind of feminism. I can't say I'm a fan, and I suspect the niche is too small to keep the paper afloat for much longer.
Chakra is open source. The rest is not.

The IE/Edge layout engine has always been a source of infamous trickery. It would be good that they finally open source it.
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I think that's a good skill to know - thanks :)
Let's not beat around the bush: some publishers do that kind of thing because they are scumbags.
As Chakra is part of Edge, then Edge is not fully closed source.
It's sad that I know immediately which ads are "trypophobia" tiggerers... now that i know what that phobia means...
The costs are higher today than 25 years ago. A dozen employees at $150/month/employee (10% increase at $1500/month) is nearly $50k/year. That's meaningful money in a lot of contexts.

It's also worth considering that most older job candidates aren't in a highly skilled occupation like accounting where experience often adds value. Most employees are more fungible, particularly outside the world of startups.

Just for clarity HIPAA changed the landscape for pre-existing conditions in 1997.
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That's not possible for everyone. Plus, I just landed my new job going through a recruiter. There are actually some good recruiters out there not just the typical used car salesman "an ass for every seat" types.

I'm helping a recent grad get some experience and have been trying to network for him. Introverted people have a tough time with things like networks.
You can't change the direction of the wind, but you can adjust your sails. Practical advice about how the world works always pisses off people who are more interested in bitching about how unfair it is.
Whoops, that should read, "And this shows why MS is right..."
Using the Windows store would be your best answer to most of these questions.
Totally anecdotal, but I think I see worse stuff in incognito mode than otherwise. Perhaps the default is bad, but with tracking you can get into a less bad bubble?
Fair enough. When you put it that way I agree completely.
Could you explain a bit more? Are you making a better ROI? I currently have a Betterment account and would consider switching if there's a good reason.
But you can same the same thing about pretty much every single stereotype. Ie that's why people use them - because they usually work.
Oh yeah, like all the extra effort is going to make any actual difference. Sorry, demanding better data or methods on a casual observation is a way to avoid engaging with the problematic behavior. If publishers use bullshit methods to drive revenue then they must expect to receive bullshit critiques of their bullshit methods.
It would be quite a different world we live in if everyone thought that way.
Then again at universities, isn't it generally the older profs and not the fresh postdocs doing the most novel work?
I nearly got tricked into closing that article after the first paragraph; the chumbox subconsciously indicated to me the end of the article and I had to consciously think "wait, this is an article about these ad grids." In fact it happened for every example they showed.
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A compiler provides a very large attack surface. Once an attacker exploits it, they can directly attack bitcode applications without any further exploits. Attacking non-bitcode applications requires exploiting certificate validation as well.
I can when national-level politicians are devoting time to them and then bragging about it.
The opposite reasoning justifies "Harrison Bergeron".
Federation is clearly progress. Balkanized non interoperaiblility is not.
This reminds me of this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13805665

I dislike employment anti-discrimination laws. They probably worked better for manual labor and other commodity jobs. A compromise would be to limit them to these kinds of jobs.
You can if you care about security. That's exactly how the very same Google Talk was cut off from the rest of the XMPP universe, even before they decided to shut it down (they refused to support server to server encryption).
If Amazon ships commingled goods, their own products get virtually transferred to that seller, and Amazon's stock still goes down. I don't think what you're saying makes sense.
I would be very surprised if either wealth front or betterment has better ROI than Vanguard. One exists for the purpose of sucking you dry, the other is a mutually owned cooperative with a mission to drive down costs and a history of doing so. Unfortunately as far as I'm aware wealthfront and betterment don't provide aggregate performance information (although if it were in their favor I'm sure they would).
Why do tens of thousands of people have to compete for a small number of positions? Something it's clearly wrong.

It seems like the study treats working in a job as a favor received by the peasants from the slave masters.

Or, the study purposely set up a scenario that matches this idea of what work is.
Thank you for that great explanation. Very enlightening.
I see this all the time. No regard for mobile users that are paying for data plans. To me the big reason to have ad-blocker is data, not just UX.

I'm focused on getting a mobile article page down from 20+ seconds on 4G with 300+ requests and page-weight of 2MB+ (mostly ads).

Right now, on CI environment it is averaging 2.1s, 350K in size, <45 requests, and no ads in the initial view.

Sadly, Hearst doesn't own the LAT so it won't help them.
Trump did offer quite a bit in the way of policy. On his first day he shuttered the Trans Pacific Partnership, a monumental shift away from the movement towards globalization. He's pledged to renegotiate trade with Mexico and China, both countries have extremely unbalance trade deficits with the US. I would suggest that President Trump's promises have been more reflected in reality than his predecessors. The effectiveness of his policies can be questioned, but he's set out a path achieve or has achieved many of his core objectives (namely trade and immigration).
I haven't switched to a roboadvisor product for a few reasons, but one of them is that saving for retirement is a decision you make on a 30+ year timeline. Most startups hardly last 3 years, much less 30. Why would I trust my money to an industry where the typical case is a flameout in only a few years?
Lots would if it weren't so inconvenient. I read articles from maybe 100 different news sources in a typical month but realistically I don't want 100 newspaper and magazine subscriptions, or 100 different subscription offers or website accounts.

Why isn't there something like a Netflix for News that just gives me news free of visual cruft and takes care of distributing the revenue from what I read in approximately accurate portions to the content providers, not to mention a seamless interface for socially rating and categorizing news?

Newspaper/magazine subscriptions made sense when newspapers were heavily local and magazines were periodicals. Neither condition really obtains any more and having multiple subscriptions is not worth the overhead for even a small number of publications. The last time I made the mistake of subscribing to a magazine I also saw a huge increase in junk mail for several years afterwards. GFTO of my mailbox with that shit.
That sounds pretty horrible, could you share what company this was?
In the time since I read the linked article, I opened the LA Times site and navigated to a story, opened my network console, and read some comments on HN about the article.

Safari says it's been about 12 minutes. It's requested over 1000 resources (it pegged 999+ at ~2 minutes). It's downloaded 88.4 Megabytes of data. It appears to be continually firing pixels from a multitude of places (openX and doubleclick are common). It's also downloading a number of different videos. The article I opened does not have any videos related to it's content. This article is open in an unfocused window; I have not fired any scroll, click, or touch events natively after the few seconds I opened the link, scrolled a bit, then came back to HN.

88.4 megabytes in a few minutes. I remember when my modem couldn't download more than a couple megs in dozens of minutes, and I'm a shitty stupid millennial, not some graybeard. Maybe it could hit a gig, or 14, in a day, but the point really remains set: the LATimes site is absurd.
Ironic given that he benefited from the same safety net he wants to destroy:

https://www.google.com/amp/www.rawstory.com/2011/04/paul-rya...
A meritocracy would provide equal access to the top of the profession -- the suffix 'ocracy' is from the Greek and loosely translated as ruling or powerful as in 'democracy' or 'theocracy'.

If people are limited or advanced on the basis of something other than merit, then it is not a meritocracy.
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+1 on this.

I'm dealing with Ensighten right now. A wonderful tag-manager (sarcasm) that lets anyone add any random 3rd-party script to all the pages.

Am finding services being loaded twice. From different URLs too so its not just a cache hit.
IT workers are losing leverage in the US. Many have been offshored, and most remaining positions are being centralized to a handful of tech hubs in the country. It's good to not lose hope, but don't think as an IT worker, your have infinite leverage.
I find it economically irrational to exclude or bias against half the talent pool on the frankly ridiculous basis that they might leave later. Everyone leaves later anyway and these events occur beyond the time horizon of anyone hiring at your startup and/or bigco.

And yet hiring managers (of all genders) continue to suffer from this bias. I've always just chalked it up to an excuse for sexism.
Since you're paying them nothing at all, it's not exactly like you're a customer, is it? I'm not sure why regard for people offering to pay them nothing at all would be a high priority for the LA Times, but ymmv.
Does that criticism make sense given that the title of the article and opening paragraphs talk about the class disparity, and only get to the major gender disparity in the middle of the article?
I currently live in Athens, Greece. The place could really use heavier littering fines, especially for gum. The sidewalks are disgusting.

Not to detract from the other points, those are indeed super disturbing.
And that is reason enough. If I am paying for something you better not treat me that way because I will stop paying.
How do you know the razor you got was grey market?
What are the fees on those?

Edit: looked it up, the 2050 is 0.16%, not bad. I usually see much higher fees on those target date funds.
the assertion that this is scientifically robust is pretty flimsy. I would never hire anyone who listened to country music, regardless of background.
Your measure pencils out to 10 GB/day. Someone else here found 7 GB/day. Perhaps it's a Safari vs Chrome thing.

(In case the sarcasm is not clear: the problem is that it's anywhere over 0.01 GB.)
I'm going to take the outre position that both gender and class discrimination are bad.
One that grandparent poster sergiotapia could do well to appreciate a bit more.
> Why do tens of thousands of people have to compete for a small number of positions?

Is this a serious question? Why are there tons of actors competing for an infinitesimal shot in Hollywood? Because some people want to make more money/prestige than less.
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