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Depends heavily on how you measure. U.S. manufacturing looks good by value of the manufactured products, because it remains strong in a handful of high-value manufacturing segments. That's an important measure, but may or may not capture what everyone is interested in. Besides employment, other measures may include, for example, how dependent is the country on imports for items vital to national security? An exclusive dependence on imported steel can have downsides even though steel is now a low-value commodity. Another measure is the diversity of the overall manufacturing industry. Does a country manufacture a whole range of products, or is it highly specialized in a few segments? The latter can still be good by value, but may be more brittle, and make it harder to start new companies in certain fields due to a lack of a local ecosystem (the U.S. has nothing like the Shenzhen ecosystem in electronics, for example).
> Further, to the degree that tip anchoring reduces tipping variance.

Does it do that at all? I would suspect that it increases the mean but also the variance.
2. Phishing and XSRF are effectively the same in this case, no? We're talking about the phisher relaying the challenge to the victim and tricking them into posting the response--which doesn't really require phishing per se, hence the XSRF. Again, I may be misunderstanding the protocol here. :)

4. Yeah. It's a pain in the ass, but they do offer lost-password fallback. Anyway, I wasn't trying to belabor the point; just noting that big sites will probably always offer some lost-password recovery.

> there's callback=direct that opens the link instead of pinging it, but it's a huge pain to figure out which browser you used if not the default one.

Where can I read docs on the different behavior between callback=ping and callback=direct? I know I could read the source code, but I do enough of that in the office. ;)
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On Oct 15th 2015, the entire home care industry got rocked. The Department of Labor upheld a federal ruling stating that over 2 million home care workers would qualify for the Fair Labor Standards Act —essentially requiring all home care workers to be treated as W-2 employees and receive overtime benefits.

I took a few minutes to read Home Care v. Weil and I don't think this is at all an accurate summary.

What the DC circuit found (and SCOTUS, in denying cert, allowed to stand) is that third party employers of home-health workers are required to provide overtime and minimum wage protections for home health workers.
I'm not an OS guy either, but the article is setting off my baloney detector.

There's nothing inherent in OOP which is going to make it magically secure. It just seems like a spurious fact about OS/400 (and I say that as someone with very little knowledge of it, although I did use it as an 8 year old). Moreover, (maybe) there's no public record of infected instances, but that doesn't mean it didn't happen.
It's not where, but when. I worked with a very knowledgeable realtor a few years ago when buying my house. He described (and we observed) a series of trends.

Older houses (in my area, that's early 1900s, laugh away you European readers) were built with huge beams of old-growth timber by careful craftsmen (sometimes in the Craftsman style, sometimes colonial or victorian). Houses this old typically had antique plumbing and electrical service, which needed (or now really need) upgrades, and they also will likely need window and/or siding replacement. During these repairs and remodels, smart homeowners and contractors also upgrade the energy efficiency, and there's a very strong skeleton on which to do so.

Shortly after WWII, there was a lumber shortage. You can drive around and identify the neighborhoods which were constructed in the late 40s and early 50s because the eaves only project a few inches out from the walls. These were built as fast and cheaply as possible. But for a while, energy - especially for heat - was cheap, so they kept building them.

Since then, energy has become variously more and less expensive, and manufacturing/construction techniques have produced cycles of lower quality cookie-cutter cost-optimized goods and higher-quality standardized, well engineered construction. We're riding high on an efficiency swing right now, to the point of absurdities like homes so well air-sealed between Tyvek, caulk, and air-tight electrical fixtures that you're required to install an air vent to the outdoors in the furnace room to prevent negative pressure problems.
What about a zenifits job?

They had to BAN sex in the stairwells and drinking on the job
Of course it is, but that is also why it IS widely publicized. It is an incredible feat. I get the perspective of not wanting to encourage others to do X or Y, but everyone ultimately is responsible for their own safety with these types of things.
I think people are making the point that if the hierarchy covered the harassment up as suggested by the story so far, they shouldn't get off the hook if they allowed that environment to continue and didn't take appropriate measures as soon as they were notified. At least that's how I understand things.
That seems entirely possible, although considering the scanned classified report also contained printer watermarking that identified the printer serial number, it also seems unnecessary.
It's things like this that make me ask myself, "Why don't I climb rocks more?"

Then I remember I have a fear of falling to my death. It's a vicious cycle.
I climb but not at anywhere near the level of Honnold. That being said, free climbers fall quite a bit. Sport climbing, that is using bolts that are pre-placed as protection, often involves pushing to one's limit which of course means falling. Traditional climbing, using special gear and features in the rock for protection, does not involve as much falling since there is a higher risk of your gear popping out of its placement.

Honnold has climbed this route with ropes many times and no doubt fell while doing it. He was well aware that he was capable of completing the climb without a fall.
If it roundtrips to RDF losslessly it certainly might. I like the konsole interface and the idea of publishing a subset to a website.
Facebook also has fingers in many pies (their main product, the messenger, ads, VR...)
If you own your own domain, Google's GSuite for Business costs $10/month/user and offers unlimited storage. I'm fortunate to have fiber at home and upload to GDrive at around 90 megabytes/second.

Yes, it says you only get unlimited with 5 users (at $10/month apiece) but it works with only one.

I have just under 17 TB in mine-- I point Crashplan to a Google Drive mounted via FOSS rclone[1], saving $120/year for my old Crashplan family plan. And of course it's great for storing whatever you want, movies, pictures, etc.

One major disadvantage for iOS users is that you can't store your iOS backups on Google Drive. So I also pay Apple $1/month for the 50GB plan, simply because their base 5GB plan is insufficient to backup 2 iOS devices.

[1] https://rclone.org/
Can we please live in a time where this is not news but common sense?
Was going to say, this whole post talks about a challenging regulatory environment in California, and is clearly meant as a "told you so" reaction. However, I see no reason this had to be bound to CA.
If your company was only viable if you could get away with not paying people overtime rates when they work overtime hours, then your company was never viable.
When people push difficult sport routes, they may fall fairly frequently. When doing an easier route, or if you are trad climbing, you really shouldn't fall.

Should, or shouldn't, is all theory, though.

Last year, a friend of mine who introduced me to climbing fell to his death on a trad climb. I don't know what happened, but I assume his protection equipment slipped out of where he placed it.
not saying this is where it came from, but this is where i imagined it came from http://i.imgur.com/JCnWZqR.jpg
It's the Washington Post
There's nothing snarky about my comment; I meant exactly what I said.
There's nothing inherently wrong with browser-based crypto. Most issues arise when you try to e.g. replace like TLS with JavaScript to encrypt passwords before sending them to a server. SHA256 doesn't become broken simply because it's run in a browser.
Risky move.
They're already examining him for the ability to suppress fear (terror?) that would stop mere mortals
Hmm, well I admit I do hide posts from a few of my friends. It's pretty easy, you know.
Maybe it's not hidden. :)
Yeah, that's definitely what I'm pointing at. Low-level wrongdoers getting scapegoated for higher-level misdeeds. There's two problems, really - sexual harassment, and a culture that tolerated it. The question is which issue Uber is firing people for, and which problem Uber is getting credit for fixing. I don't think Uber should get credit for fixing the second problem by firing the people contributing to the first problem.
I am currently reading it and would definitely suggest it.
People fall all the time. Climbers test movements by doing them (and most don't work).

Honnold left chalk marks on key holds on freerider to ensure he grabbed the right pieces.
The data visualization animation with descriptive text scroll on mobile is awesome, nice work WaPo webdevs.
Oh man, I really need this hahahah :)
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The problem is that the firing should have been done as the issues were discovered / brought to light. Waiting to fire perpetrators until after a critical mass of media scrutiny forces you to do so only reveals uber's true motives. Clearly they don't give a shit about actual sexual harrassment, they just want to preserve whatever perceived image they have to the rest of the world (not that an anti-competitive contract-slave-labor company ever had a great image to begin with).
Instead of sharing, I wonder if I should add multi users to an account, so you and your spouse could manage their relationships with their loved ones, for instance.
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So the gist is laws were upheld protecting homecare givers - minimum wage and overtime pay - and new mandated increased minimum wage, ultimately led to their decision to abandon their supposedly successful model. Their own internal "surveys", if we should even consider that, supposedly indicate these laws are not good for homecare.

Maybe their business model just depended on exploiting cheap labor?

Or maybe they went the way of Homejoy and are saving face, as many speculated, former employees coming forward, etc. with Homejoy that their customer retention was just really bad.
Any idea of how many people have free climbed this route? I'm really curious to know if Honnold is a one-of-a-kind climber or there are similar skill level climbers who just aren't willing to risk it without ropes?

Either way he's amazing, but I'm curious to know how amazing.
Can you expand on how you are applying machine learning and the types of insights you can provide?
Well said. And it's important to carefully investigate the limits of the system that is to be improved, as it almost certainly is larger and more complex than anyone thinks. More money is good, better tech is good, better pay for teachers is good, but these are hot spots on a huge network of systems and circumstances. "Holistic approach" is an overworked phrase but it's the thing we need here because education overlaps in so many ways with other aspects of society.
You're absolutely right. Its what the businesses are using. What's your Whatsapp number? Very interesting indeed.
Shuffling prisoners around breaks up the family ties they have on the outside; visitors have a harder time if they have to travel further. This increases the likelihood prisoners will offend again.
I don't see how it violates any of the rules of HN comments.
> The article doesn't discuss the seniority of the fired employees. It's very hard to distinguish between scapegoating and actually working to fix the problem without that information.

It's probably important to consider that even with those numbers, you wouldn't know whether it was scapegoating or not. All they would do would be to allow you to make assumptions, which is more about your preconceptions of what you think they should find than the facts.

> The problem with Uber isn't that some employees engage in sexual harassment. The problem is that there's a culture where sexual harassment isn't taken seriously, is tolerated if the perpetrators are "high performing"...

See, this may be true, but we don't know this. The point of an investigation is to find this out. Since the investigation in question here is internal, and I'd hazard that most of us don't necessarily harbor any hope that an entirely truthful response will come out of it (I for one wouldn't really expect that from a company I thought was more responsible than Uber), but that doesn't mean we should act like probabilities (and probabilities that are rooted in human behavior that is understood to any statistical degree by almost anyone in my opinion), we should be careful about the certainty we represent those outcomes.

In other words, it's all a big swirling mess of hearsay at this point. The problem could be fairly localized but widely publicized, or much more widespread as you state. We don't really know.
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In Belgium your tax rate is %50 (over 38,080eur[2]). That is totally insane I thought...

The US: For hn types, the tax rate would be 28% (fed) + 10% (state tax CA) + 9% (medical cost deductions per paycheck[1]) + 8% sales tax (ca) = 55%? (also subtract medical bills will seize all your property later in life though, and any private schools needed). I am sure Belgium has many other costs, hell add %10 to Belgium. It is still comparable.

[1] http://budgeting.thenest.com/much-average-paycheck-gets-dedu...
[2] http://taxsummaries.pwc.com/ID/Belgium-Individual-Taxes-on-p...
I find it interesting that people use the need for a CRM like this to make two opposing arguments:
1) If you need something like this to better communicate with friends/family, you must not genuinely care about them
2) If you use something like this to better communicate with friends/family, it shows that you actually do genuinely care about them

The former assumes if you care enough you should be able to do it on your own without assistance from a CRM/app, the latter does not make that assumption and gives you kudos for using the tools available to make you better at caring for others
Hard not to reply with sarcasm. Other people not caring about sexual harassment makes it worse.
Sure, more area to cover but also a lot more time to get there. It's less trying to hit to the outfield, but rather hit homeruns. The problem is that it's easier said than done, and the old philosophy (look at Ichiro for example), was higher average and putting the ball in play was preferable to loading up and trying to hit a homerun. Now strikeouts and homeruns are way up, but batting averages are down.
MIT might be the wrong license to have on this then
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I like your idea. At the Recurse Centre, I've heard, they have a rule that you should never act surprised if someone doesn't know something and instead see it as an opportunity to teach them something cool. I use this on my team but I haven't seen it used in interviews before.

I would imagine you either know what data-structures to use for a given data type or you do not... it's a fairly prescriptive question.

However if someone could reason by what they do know about how it might work given enough information then it'd be interesting to know what you could learn from them by walking them through the problem.

First, obviously if they take a try at it then it shows the person can reason about problems they haven't encountered by using concepts.

How much walking do you do for them and what does it tell you about their problem solving capabilities?
I agree - that query looks like it would benefit from optimization.

At first glance, it seems to me like the query would be much faster if joined activity_types and activities were filtered subqueries instead.

Also, activities.user_id = #{id} might be better handled with an SQL CASE statement as opposed to using the .to_i conversion in Ruby.
Just because they're different doesn't mean they're incompatible. How do you think those perverse incentives came to exist in the first place? I'm amazed at the mental gymnastics some people will go through to avoid engaging with the fact that some other people are bigoted, selfish, and outright evil.

Nor does the existence of perverse incentives mean that those presented with them are helpless to do otherwise than go along with them. That is an abdication of moral responsibility. If you are presented with a perverse incentive that you feel is incompatible with your personal moral calculus, then it is your duty to reject it. To go along with it and then say you had no other choice is no different from the behavior of the 'good Germans' described by Hannah Arendt in The Banality of Evil. It's literally the exercise of privilege.

Liberalism only works so long as people are invested in the integrity of the institutions which underpin it. When those institutions are corrupted, liberalism becomes complicit in oppression. This is how democracies devolve into autocracies.
> You can lead a horse to water but you can't ...

Nonsense. Rational thinking can be thought directly and with methods.
At first glance this looks awesome. I'll set it up tomorrow on my personal server.

I saw in the github repo you've asked people not to try and make money using the code. If you really intend to build a sustainable business off this, I suggest you change the license to something stricter than MIT.
Not that I really agree with parent but Uber has 12,000+ employees so 20 people is, what, 0.16% of their workforce at most? There are a lot of stories about Uber's culture and conduct so I honestly expected a lot more especially since culture issues usually run very deep and touch quite a lot of people.

But who knows, maybe it's the correct amount of people. But I can sorta understand it coming off as almost symbolic due to the low number.
First clip of Honnold's climb: https://goo.gl/LZ1jcq
I could probably be bribed with a comprehensive family health insurance plan, with no deductibles and low co-pays. Just putting that out there.

A simple cash bribe is a nice gesture, obviously, but really, you'd just be bribing my spouse or my kids. That's why I don't like getting cash or gift cards as birthday gifts. I appreciate the thought, but you know that's just going to get spent on electricity for the house, or a replacement AC compressor, or a tank of gas. A good gift is something that person, specifically, would want, but probably couldn't justify slipping it into the family budget.

So yeah, bribing me with the same kind of health plan that I got a taste of once, and then never saw again, would be so much more effective than a briefcase full of cash. A defined-benefit retirement plan might work, too.

But that works both ways. If my [loyal] employer were to bribe me in that fashion, I'd be nigh-unflippable. ...unless the ethics reporting hotline was useless and career suicide, I guess.

So I wouldn't say the systemic failure is in not recognizing warning signs and raising red flags. It's because so many decent people just don't want to work for certain parts of the government any more. That leads to lowered standards, just to meet staffing requirements. And then everyone has to get "insider threat" briefings all the time. Decent people want decent job conditions, including pay commensurate with the private sector, and benefits sufficient to raise 2.1 kids in a solidly middle-class lifestyle. Sane people don't want to work for paranoid employers. Stable people don't want to worry about going bankrupt from a medical emergency. Reliable people want to be able to plan out career and retirement. And above all, honorable people don't want to turn on their own neighbors.
I google him about once a year to see if he is still alive, and I'm surprised each time.
These threads don't need drive-by inflammation, please.
Welcome to the internet. You won't like it.
That would involve conceding they made a mistake.
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I've had profs like that. What really struck me about Irani is that even without the homework, even with only weekly quizzes, it still stuck. It wasn't an AP class, but he encouraged us to write the AP exam at the end of the year and nearly everyone got a 4 or a 5.

I do agree with the notion that profs are more effective when the homework is harder than the exam, however. I had the exact opposite for a fourth-year crypto class. For homework, we'd work through some basic cryptanalysis with lots of hints. Then the test would come around, and two or three of the ten questions would involve breaking a cypher, from scratch. I got about 25% on the first test, which ended up being 65% after he scaled it. Brutal class.
You are right. Import is high on my roadmap [1].

Export will be next, too. It's vital to not be locked in.

Editing reminders, yeah, I didn't do it at first because it's way less trivial that it might look, but it's in my todo as well ;-)

Thanks for all your ideas, they all make a lot of sense.

[1]: https://github.com/monicahq/monica/projects/1
Why is it that billionaires from many industries subvert democratic process constantly, yet when they do it openly and for education, it's criticized? If anything, the biggest problem with education is that nobody has had any power at all to make a substantial difference at scale. For once, I applaud billionaires for subverting the democratic process.

This is literally the first time I've read an article with a line similar to:

“They have the power to change policy, but no corresponding check on that power,” said Megan Tompkins-Stange,

“We should be asking a lot more questions about who is behind the curtain,” Ms. Davis said.
sweet. Is it possible to enable backups on block storage?
That's even worse, there are other layers below the GCed Java/.net infrastructure, which makes the whole thing even slower and less performant.
This sort of conspiracy mongering is below the HN standard of discourse.

Amazon doesn't own WaPo, Jeff Bezos does. A $600 million 10 year contract for a private cloud is a tiny fraction of AWS revenue (some $15 billion per year), let alone overall Amazon revenue. It is in no way a sweetheart deal that would require Bezos bend over backwards, let alone undermine the integrity of the news organization for which he paid $250 million out of his own pocket.
Might be nice to list the number of FuncIRIs that are used in the SVG.

For example, if I see that the number of FuncIRIs is zero, I can know that it is safe to use the SVG inline as there will be no id collisions with other inline SVGs.
Normalization is very expensive and does not belong at the FS level. This kills performance for some classes of applications.

Why? It's done once per open, not once per I/O.
Would you be OK with having every website you visit run native byte-code on your computer !? At least for me, it takes some trust to install a native app. I don't trust some companies and would never let them run a binary blob on my computer, still I sometimes visit their web sites, with JavaScript turned off of course. Some sites require JavaScript though, but I can turn on selective parts (using NoScript plugin) and then investigate all the nasty stuff with the browser's built in debugger.
Yep, if this data isn't stored on my machine then I won't be going anywhere near this.

You're basically asking me to post not only my own, very personal information, but now all of my friends and family?? No thanks.