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> Raise the minimum wage

> Make it easier for workers to bargain collectively for higher wages

> Make more workers eligible for overtime pay

> Provide earned sick time and paid family leave

Good suggestions. Unfortunately, if you do this, the affected jobs will simply be moved overseas to countries where policies like this don't exist. Unless we get rid of free trade policies and impose taxes on foreign trade, to take the money companies save from this form of cost cutting out of their pockets.

Trump is the first President in a long time to actually seriously consider rolling back globalization. People say it's a good thing, citing Ricardian theory. But it has essentially destroyed entire local economies (my hometown being one of them). Economic theory is all well and good, but theory needs to be tested against the real world. The evidence that globalization causes great harm is simply too obvious for me to ignore.

I'm disappointed Trump is starting to get friendly with Xi, instead of following through on his campaign rhetoric and slapping some taxes on imports.

I'm no xenophobe. As far as I'm concerned, those taxes can go away as soon as China stops crapping all over the environment and starts giving its workers the same rights and wages that we give our workers in the US. That way the playing field would be level, and companies would no longer be able to use free trade to exploit their workers.
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>I'm in the so-called "affordable" Midwest, and there's not a single apartment even remotely close to that price [$823], in any city anywhere within 400 miles here.

I am in the definitely unaffordable Bay Area, and you don't have to go 400 miles to rent a 1 bd apt for under $800. Its not going to be in a desirable city and probably not a very nice apt, but they certainly exist. Literally the first listing I found on craigslist was $775 (in Modesto, about an 80 mile drive to San Jose).
aren't there much more efficient ways of doing this?

You're also limited to just the species it can reproduce in- don't you want to clear smaller species too?
I support strong net neutrality of title two oversight of isp's
Thanks. That also explains the difference between Star Trek TOS and the film versions of Star Trek (which used CRTs).
Whenever I try this approach, I end up spending most of the day on meaningless 5 minute tasks and replies to communications. No real work ever gets done.

My most productive days are when all 5min tasks are ignored until the last possible moment when their importance grows so much that they must be done. 90% of them turn out to not need doing at all.

As a result many say I'm among the most prolific people they know, and I am nobody's idea of "who to call in emergency". ymmv
I imagine that the real reason for IBM's "everyone must work in the office" was to get staff to quit rather than laying them off.
>I also don't know how an ISP would get your actual internet history if the website uses HTTPS.

Charge users extra fees for "premium service" unless they agree to let the ISP their traffic.
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Shh. My new crowdsourced project is a saltshaker that uses RN/NN to determine the amount of salt required. It uses IoT cameras to determine your physiological and euphoric response to salting various forms of food, uploading the data the the cloud for analysis.

But it's not simply the amount of salt. It's the grain size that should be appropriate to your meal, the music, your current emotional state and the importance of the occasion. So your shaker subscribes to a salt subscription in which we send you regular packets of salt, selected by our sodium sommelier, which are ground to perfection on a just-in-time bases before delivery to your plate.

Through a special deal with Task Rabbit, someone can come to your house to perform the refill.
Profession: sysadmin - full time, on prem - ~300 employees

Workday is really simple, and not really set to a schedule.

Arrive a bit before 8 and check email and the help desk for overnight issues.

Follow up on any outstanding issues from the previous day.

Review backup logs (This is not an in-depth review, just looking for errors)

Check for interesting articles on HN, Reddit, etc

Depending on what else is going on, lunch is usually 12-12:30

Rinse and repeat until 16:30 or 17:00.

If I make it until 10:00 without the phone ringing, it will be a good day.
I agree with you that infants shouldn't have their ears pierced, but let's all acknowledge that moral consistency can be allowed to draw a line somewhere below "permanent, irreparable damage that reduces function."
"If net-neutrality has absolutely nothing to do with the tech monopolies maintaining their power position then why do they all support it?"

By your definition, they're not monopolies, they're just big companies, they're all competing with each other and the occasional new-comer.
You can say there's two "New York style"s. There's the average storefront selling slices, and then there's the coal-fired brick oven pizza places, which is what this is about.
> There is only one recipe I know for success, particularly when we are in as much of a battle with Microsoft and the West Coast companies as we are, and that is by bringing great people with the right skills, give them the right tools, give them a mission, make sure they can analyze their results, put them in really creative inspiring locations and set them free.

Some people excel just by being in a location with a bunch of highly talented and capable individuals. Others can work mostly on their own and may excel with more authority over their work space to make themselves more conducive to flow and deep work.

There are many legit criticisms of remote work and it's not for everyone or every organization, but neither are open office plans, flat structures, open-ended vacation policies, flexible work hours, etc.

Personally, I'm able to work and study more deeply and creatively when I'm on my own because I don't have any visual or auditory distractions.
It's not unheard of, but unless there is a medical condition, circumcision should be considered cosmetic surgery and the decision made by the person being circumcised. Involuntary cosmetic surgery/ genital mutilation, whatever you want to call it, is a waste of taxpayer money in countries that have publicly funded healthcare.
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I think there should be an upfront tax. Taxes dilluted over time seem to be less visible, we're really bad at estimates, as every developer knows :)

An extra 50 cents per gallon is quite a bit, but it doesn't seem to discourage this behavior. 40% on the price of the car instead... could make a lot more people think twice about the purchase.
> Sometimes you don't truly know someone until you marry them.

You should just live together for a few years first then.
Checked and it still works too. Ported to node and added to: https://github.com/mikemaccana/is-gmail-account-valid
These are my thoughts as well. In particular:

> _It also makes it orders of magnitudes easier for anyone to find out about a coorportions illegal actions / skirting of laws._

I would add that I find it more important to ensure that there is transparency about the ISPs and other corporations' (and governments') actions.
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Bandwidth for moving data is typically the limiting factor if you are doing everything correctly, very rarely computation. Bottlenecks for workloads are commonly memory or network bandwidth these days.
Muslims also perform male circumcision it's called Khitan.
https://www.google.com.kh/search?q=circumcision+damage

http://madsciencewriter.blogspot.com/2013/05/the-foreskin-wh...
Freakonimics (great podcast!) did a test a few years back that pretty convincingly dispelled the whole 'it's the water' argument: http://podcastnotes.org/2015/11/09/freakonomics-food-science...
I mean because of the high number of working parts for a fully functional system: Docker, Kubernetes, Etcs, Kubeadm, etc., etc.
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Wasn't there an article the other day on HN[1] regarding how we're nearing "Full Employment"? How does that comport with the notion that somehow our increased automation is eliminating jobs? Shouldn't we see a trend of higher unemployment as we continue to automate?

The Bloomberg article seems to focus more on the impact in localized areas, but at the national level, there are reallocations of jobs to new industries.

I know that eventually we'll have to contend with automation replacing all jobs that people could reasonably do - but for now, this seems like we're still in the "buggy whip" job displacement territory.

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/05/upshot/were-getting-awful...
Disabling JS+CSS works too.
What is your opinion on chatbots?
I have some programming experience and entered my current job as a trainee, where the idea is that I would learn by working with web application development or mobile development. I was excited about working with mobile, but the company that hired me got into this new thing, chatbots, and it is what they put me to work with. I'm doing this for a reasonable amount of time, but the thing is, I just don't believe in the concept/idea.

I think I get the value of it, and I think it's something that can be useful, but I just don't see it as something that will be replacing most mobile apps anytime soon. On the business side I often notice that many things our customers ask would be a best fit for a mobile app or a website, and when facing the limitations of the platforms (Facebook Messenger, Skype, Telegram, Slack, etc) many are seriously disappointed.

So I would like to get some feedback on this, do you guys think this is indeed something that is here to stay?
Look up phimosis. At two minute Google search could have found this.

It's a valid medical reason for the operation. Not to mention the above mentioned.

Not only do your facts not hold up to a brief Google, but the reputation of the people suggesting this could have made you think twice.

Twice about the possible motivations. And that could have given you again doubts.

And calling it mutilation implies those who have and want to have this engage in mutilation akin to FGM. It's irresponsible.
I'm pretty sure the reason is Agile. They don't think it's possible unless you are face to face at a standup. Also, moving people back to offices is a way to thin the herd without firing people.
Here is a link to the actual technical report,

http://pediatrics.aappublications.org/content/130/3/e756

Which has all the hallmarks of misleading data.

See the comments for more
http://pediatrics.aappublications.org/content/130/3/e756.com...
An x-ray only shows density. 2 equally dense objects will look the same regardless of chemical composition.

What you're​ likely seeing is computer enhanced images, which may be giving you a false sense of the capabilities of x-rays.

There are explosives with densities fairly similar to paper. A block of those explosives, and a block of paper would look very similar on an x-ray.
Firstly this looks cool and I'll be looking at it closer when I get home from work.

> Note that all speeds mentioned here are measured on i7-4770, employing all features available in a particular program - including multi-threading, SIMD and x64 support.

I hope this doesn't wind up infringing on the Streamscale patent[1] as some other works have in this field. Again I need to give this a proper read.

[1] https://www.google.com/patents/US8683296
Being from the UK, do you really have confidence that you can tell the difference between a gun and a backfiring engine? I own and target shoot guns, and I still would not be 100% confident that I could tell the difference if I heard a loud bang.

Might be true for DC- probably as much or more a special case than Florida, though :)
> "I was blown away when I recently heard MapD was going to make the source code for their GPU-powered database freely available on GitHub."

When'd you have the time to write this, Mark?

They literally only open-sourced their product 15 hours ago, and sent out the press release an hour ago.
Full time remote system administrator for windows and Linux servers with management responsibilities between various groups.

Employer employs about 75 people.

My day can be summed up with:

Arrive to work (home office or at the office 2 days a week) and check status boards for any issues.

Review any overnight emails.

Conference call between two Jr Admins and a few roaming techs 5-10 min tops)

Review change requests and bounce to others for impact assessments.

Sort and route requests between vendors, contractors, and various managers etc.

Write reports on all work and update milestones for all projects.

Keep the place humming. It's kind of a unicorn employer/job.
What stops US from adopting the Canada healthcare system? It's not perfect but at least reasonable. Why re-invent the bicycle?
Your mistake was relying on VC for success.
I think the parent is just pointing out that the outrage seems a bit disproportionate. There are far more damaging things a parent can do that most people accept, whereas the actual effect circumcision has on your life is basically zero.
I've found that most startups fail to scale when it comes to making fast/responsive product decisions.

This may not be obvious, since those startups are typically "agile" in the buzzword sense.

The cost comes when the universe of possible change is constrained to the point where the right questions aren't being asked because the answer would be "no we can't do that". So the startup enters a dark age in which scientific thought and rational problem solving isn't really relevant. Often at this point the team starts using Scrum to force the business to plan better, when the core problem is that the existing infrastructure is not able to support the needed experimentation fast enough, making it useless.

This can happen at various stages of funding, since sometimes a series A or B can occur without solid product market fit, or the company may be really good at growth in spite of having a promising but mediocre product.

So I view the CTO's job as preserving the ability of the business to behave scientifically and boldly until product market fit is found.
Maybe people should start telling management, "It's not working remotely, it's localized offshoring!"
Why do companies need to grow?
Which really is a shame. When I read the headline, I thought "Oh, like AOSA, great idea to let students do it". Then I clicked through the chapters, and was continually disappointed. I mean the selection of projects is quite promising... I'd love to read about each of them, but the content is an astonishingly accurate description of the aspects of "Software Engineering" as a university discipline that I passionately hate.

On the other hand, I don't really have found a good solution how to teach Software Architecture to students. I feel like it's one of these things that come primarily with experience.

It really is no wonder that the project turned out this way if it follows the "deliverable each week" scheme, it's a terrible way to do a university project. You absolutely have my sympathy.
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Hackers, I'd like to use Polymer 2.0 to build an e-commerce PWA. Do you think developing with Polymer 2.0 is a good idea?

Moreover, what should I use for Business logic? The SHOP demo by the Polymer Team is pretty dope but it lacks a backend (something I have no experience with.) In fact, I want to build the application with guest checkouts only. I'm also inclined towards Aurelia but I haven't seen a SHOP like demo for reference.
I'm not going to modify my stove to cook at 800 deg F., so for my money the best way to get half-decent pizza at home is to make a soft, elastic dough and then cook on a surface that has some thermal mass. I've had good luck with a cast-iron pizza pan. https://www.cooksillustrated.com/equipment_reviews/1340-cast...

There are some things that it's better to have specialists do with specialist equipment, and I'm fine with paying them to do that.
> Take away death and what do you get?

Overpopulation?
Perhaps. But like with most medical procedures there is risk vs reward. In this case the risk is a 100% chance of altering how your child's sex organs look and function without their knowledge or consent vs a small and dubious reward.

In other words don't fucking do it because it is barbaric and evil. If you think it's not, ask an uncircumcised adult to have the procedure done for all the benefits it provides and see how many agree.
You wouldn't know this because you're new to the industry, but lines of code is considered a very poor metric for productivity. If you encounter an employer who is tracking your productivity by lines of code, that's a really bad sign, and you should try to avoid working with such a company.

The same is true of number of issues closed. Some issues are short and quick, and some issues take a whole day. Sometimes an issue will seem small and turn out to be large. Handling these things is part of good management.

I personally measure people more on how many bugs they don't produce. A single bug can cause losses of revenue that are equivalent to weeks of a developer's time. Bug-free code is so much more cost-effective than fast code.
And to follow the train of thought all the way - do children's bodies belong to themselves or to their parents? Parents (or Guardians) do have to make some decisions for their children, but perhaps should defer irreversible decisions on elective surgery until the child is old enough to have an opinion - boys and girls both. And if the thought of asking a 13 year-old girl if she wants to have her genitals modified gives you pause, perhaps consider how circumcision is any different?
So we should stop using cell phones because one implementation happened to spontaneously combust. Got it.

Or maybe - just maybe - the claim that specifications should be judged by their implementations is entirely nonsensical. The fact that Internet Explorer exists doesn't in and of itself mean that web browsing as a whole is a defective concept. The fact that single-ply toilet paper exists doesn't mean we should stop using toilet paper. Likewise, the fact that some JWT implementations are defective does not in and of itself say a whole lot about JWT itself.
Since the page is inaccessible right now, here's the tl;dr (though it's not long at all):

The UK's new £1 coin has 12 sides. That makes it impossible for it to be (like the 7-sided 50p and 20p coins) a shape of constant diameter, which might make it roll less well and make things harder for the makers of vending machines.

When OP heard that the new coin was going to be 12-sided, he wrote to the Royal Mint. When the final design came out, it turned out that they'd taken this objection into account but found that a 12-sided coin with curved sides and rounded corners rolls well enough. Very good, but OP would have been happier with an odd number of sides. The end.

(Is the constant-diameter property actually relevant to vending machines? It seems to me that unless you're trying to fit the coin down a "tunnel" of absolutely minimal size, what matters is how close it is to constant radius -- i.e., how nearly circular -- and constant diameter is a red herring.)
ISPs are natural monopolies due to the incredibly high infrastructure investments required. In countries or regions where there are many ISPs to choose from, it's almost always because the government has required the one or two that own all the infra to rent capacity at cost to anyone who wants to start up a competing service. In return, the governments frequently supply tax breaks.

This mechanism may be a viable alternative to net neutrality as it drastically lowers the cost to enter the ISP market, and it would be in the competitive interest of some providers to self impose net neutrality.

My guess based on observation though is the infrastructure owning ISPs would probably prefer net neutrality to forced rental of their infra if one of those 2 regulations were to be chosen.
I have been following the progress of this tech for a few years now. People used to take me for a kook but I wish I didn't have a reason to say "I told you so." This is downright scary.

Having trouble finding this list of 234 compromised android apps or any such list. Could anyone point me in the right direction? I would be very sad if my minesweeper app has been listening to ads.
At 37 I'm already beginning to feel it. I have to be careful with my back lest it decide to punish me (backs are quick to strain/injure and very slow to heal). Also, my knees no longer permit me to run more than about 3 times a week and I have to watch my diet closely because everything gives me reflux.

Not looking forward to 50 :( Unfortunately, like fusion power, the cure for aging seems to be perpetually "20 years away."
> I only care about availability and price.

If Uber reached the critical mass of creating gridlock almost exclusively consisting of (idling) Ubers, an idling competitor two blocks away would not win the availability metric for your next ride. Unlikely to happen, except maybe in a few particularly overrun city centers, but that's one way they could do it. (Can't think of a different one, I don't believe that they will win their bet)
I support net neutrality with Title Two oversight
Are software developers a force for good?
Same thing when I worked as a datacenter monkey as 4-10s. There's something extremely productive about having a day off in he middle of the week. It left my weekends totally open for "fun" because I wouldn't have any errands to run.
Funny, I had the same exact idea of kitchon in my head after trying to cook a number of complex dishes all at once. Having only one timer was a problem.

I agree it might be hard to find a market and monetize this. But still I think it is a very useful idea.
There is indeed a great deal of rationality to these traditions.

I myself am half-Armenian, and while that is not a culture that has arranged marriage, it's got the common folklore of quasi-oriental clan civilisation. Parents are going to have a lot of input into just about anyone's marital choices, and it is understood on all sides that you're not marrying the spouse - you're joining families. So, there is a lot of opportunity for elders to object if a match patently doesn't make cultural (one might even say "civilisational" in extreme cases) sense.

That's what we don't have here. You're expected to dig out a partner from whatever corner of society you like, and if they suit you, great! There is something to be said for a paternalistic curation function, despite the annoyances and drawbacks of such a meddlesome way of living.

One of the drawbacks of a culture where, on the one hand, family input is very important, but on the other hand, arranged marriage as such is not a thing, is that it's all too easy for relatives to fall into the pattern of pushing the veto lever without proactively introducing you to someone themselves. If everyone's wrong for me, who's right? :) The fact that families have a matchmaking responsibility is an appealing virtue of arranged marriage culture.
Phimosis doesn't manifest until around puberty and can almost always be treated non-surgically. It's not a justification for permanent invasive surgery on babies.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmedhealth/PMH0079408/