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From what I can tell, they use it for everyone.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11785977

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14665518

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14580113

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14553959
I get your point, but this still applies to the binary tree... That's the interview process. Yes, companies can make a better effort to give feedback, but I think that's secondary to give me the right opportunity to show what I can do.
Yet many of those same families don't bat an eye when taking out loans for nicer cars than they actually need, maxing out the amount of mortgage they can afford, buying the latest TV or game system on credit, etc..

I don't underestimate how hard it is to save, but also many people are perfectly happy buying more than they need to maximize what they can do with their income in the short run..

Also: any family should be saving for retirement, childrens education expenses, etc. anyway.. so long as the first-level pool is liquid enough to support emergencies such as this, it should work as well. Might have to work another year when older, do some sort of side job, or take some other cuts, but point stands
The are children, orphans, families, whole societies that live worse than even the poorest of americans. Sickening.
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We're having a discussion in response to a question right now. It is not for general discussion (except in chat), you're right.
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...except for the reasonable odds part, the way the VCs have it skewed.
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Though it is easier to hire people with skills in XYZ tech, it's important to note that Indian IT companies have bred a culture of knowledge purely on paper.

A civil engineer/Electrical Engineer/ Electronics Engineer / Industrial Engineer / etc, just out of college, joins a services company as a "developer" with a pay around 5000 USD a year, works for a few years on, say SQL, goes to the local "IT training institute" run by Mr. ABC with "X+ years of onsite experience", pays them Z amount of rupees, "learns" "T" tech for 3 or 6 months, gets a certificate, applies for a job in another IT company desperately looking for people with knowledge in "T", joins, struggles through and then rinses and repeats.

I have seen it personally.

Of course, not all of them are like that, but I am sure more than 50% are milled from the same process. That is why you get so many engineers able to do some specific things in some specific technology, but are scarcely able to innovate or think out of the box.

There is a whole slew of IT training institutes and hundreds of trainers, staff, photocopy shops, cafeterias, etc, which thrive on training an ever churning flow of "IT" engineers.

Add to that, an "IT" engineer expects to be a "Technical Lead" in a matter of 5-6 years, a "Team Lead" in a matter of 8 years and a "Project Manager" in about 12 years of experience. My numbers for the years maybe a bit off though.

Contrast this to developers in Europe or elsewhere, you have technically strong developers with decades of experience honing their skills in a myriad of tech and gathering a repertoire of programming techniques, tools, practices, etc.
I personally prefer 'generic hashing/parsing'; deep learning excels at the automatic creation of a mapping of unstructured information to structured information, after a sufficient period of training.
> Also, you yourself haven't made an argument that DRM is anywhere near as bad a problem as slavery was.

This judgment was made with perfect hindsight in one case, and no hindsight in the other, so the conclusion is immediately suspect.

Like I said, consider the worst possible nightmare for DRM, and then judge whether the comparison is actually fair.

Finally, whether RMS is the best source on it is itself a red herring. If he makes a reasonable case for a nightmare outcome, his perspective is absolutely worth considering when weighing the pros and cons of DRM, regardless of how absolutist you think he is.
Its not cold in the summer, and it probably too cold in winter to not have any interior climate control. With much lower cost of living and cheap electricity, China seems like a much better option, the majority of mining is actually done there.
Except that the phone you are describing already exists showing that it's not at all impossible. Google Fairphone. This message was written with one.
I get what the OP is getting at here. Reddit's system is a little different than HN's. I honestly think the limiting in the ability to downvote helps this space. And I do find that the community is better here than Reddit. The main subreddits of those topics tend to have a lot more armchair types. One of the reasons I love HN is that the majority of users are more informed about the topics than the average person. There are a lot more thoughtful discussions, and more advanced topics being discussed.

I mean ask yourself, why are you here in the first place? If you're claiming is that this is just Reddit, why are you here?
Thank you for linking to that export utility!

I use Kindle Highlights very heavily while doing research, I then export them for use while writing. That extension will save me a bunch of time.
When I did this several years ago, it required several levels of verbal verification interactions up to senior account managers at my brokerage. I'm surprised it was so easy for you to do the same.
I have just bought a Windows 10 laptop for my wife.

I don't know if it is random updates or junkware or whatever, but sometimes the system will lock out for minutes - task manager shows <50% of load on any of disk, ram and cpu, but even waiting for task manager to launch can take a minute!
I've witnessed a simple program (FAR manager) taking a minute to show its UI!
Yes, he specifically goes out of his way to refer to init as generically as possible. But then drops this line at the end of the post:

And yes, a large part of this may be that I no longer feel like I can
trust "init" to do the sane thing. You all presumably know why.

It's not hard to understand what he meant and for some of us it's articles like this on HN which give an opportunity to talk about systemd without being off topic.

IMO the take away from the article is that systemd has become enough of a moving part that it would be unwise to rely on it for default anything. Maybe I read it wrong but there's my take on the technical argument against using init to set default limits on processes. There are already defaults in the kernel so use them and allow an override for admins that need one.
It's silly to think we're unable to change. Nearly all of the CO2 emissions were done in just a generation. Post-world war 2 industrialization, automation and globalization caused the vast majority of CO2. There are still people alive today who lived through WO2. Why are we talking like this is an insurmountable problem, that the momentum is just too big? It literally took /one/ average human life span to get where we are. It could take less than one to go back to pre-industrial levels. And it's not just a matter of better technology, it's mostly a matter of social adaptation. If we're dead set on infinite growth (in terms of consumption, GDP, population) we're going to have a problem with or without climate change. The fix is: a smaller population, less consumption, and less production. But that's contrary to /everything/ capitalism stands for. The problem is thus not so much technology, but rather the socio-economic paradigm we're in. How to change this without going all "you dumb communist beta cuck snowflake"? I don't know. But here are some ideas:

- Incentivize less spending by "anti-ads" (could be interesting to add as an ad blocker), basically ads that signal that you /don't/ need what's advertised. Interesting AI problem that can piggyback off of all the stuff that's being done in the ad space itself

- Implement economic incentives for CO2 scrubbing, by carbon-tax, subsidies or secondary effects (e.g. useful non-fuel biproducts, or things like greener living spaces / habitable deserts)

- Stop subsidizing fossil fuels, agriculture, etc. Will it hike up the prices? Sure, but that's kinda the idea.

- Look at the big picture first. Driving your car less, LED bulbs, sure…they kinda work. It's somewhat of a moot point with cargoships that almost burn raw oil, equivalent to the CO2 output of a small city. This is an optimization problem: try to do the big things first.

- Slow down. We define the pace at which society moves. Do you /really really really/ need that stuff in 24hours door-to-door? Do you /really really/ need to commute 8 hours each day? These are human choices. The natural world is kinda reluctant about our endeavors. There's no reason why everything must be done /yesterday/ … helps with mental health issues too.

- Incentivize a culture where "moon-shot" ideas are given a chance. There are many ways we can make a big dent, but often costing billions to build. We have no problem building 250 million dollar warplanes (and buy hundreds of them), no problems building half a billion dollar coal plants. Really, no problem with billion dollar sports matches. In fact, we seem to applaud these things. But when talking about rooftop solar, heliostat installations, CO2 scrubbing, planting trees it's all "cost cost cost". We need to rethink that.

And be kind to all living things. We're in for a tough ride either way. Just try to show some compassion and help those who need it more than you do.

Or that's what I try to tell myself when I'm utterly depressed about it https://joelkuiper.eu/change
More reading if you're thinking "what on Earth is a relieving letter?": https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/20945/what-is-...
Thank you, that answered my question :). How fool of me to forget...
Unfortunate that this doesn't apply to "The Pragmatic Programmer". Still, very cool show of support against DRM.
It's not the handful of climate change deniers that's the problem. It's the overwhelming number of people who want to say they're green, but still own two cars, never take public transport, eat meat daily, live in big houses, and buy buy buy.

Well, suppose all the people who want to be green go ahead and cut back to one car, go vegetarian, live in a smaller house, etc. etc. Maybe if everyone is really dedicated, we could all cut our emissions in half. So then what? We're still all emitting way more CO2 than the planet can absorb; climate change would still happen, it'd just be happening a bit more slowly.

We're not going to realistically solve this problem by all making personal sacrifices, because even in the best case, where everyone chips in, it's only enough to slow the bleeding. If we really want to truly solve this mess, we need to promote truly sustainable technologies that scale well and appeal to everyone.

Don't put solar panels on your house out of a personal sense of guilt about your own emissions, put them on your house because it grows the market for solar, stimulates research into better panels, and helps push forward the economies of scale that are needed to make renewables cost competitive with fossil fuels. Don't buy an electric car because you want to pollute less, buy an electric car because you want to fund the continued technological improvements of electric cars in general.

We're all focusing way too much on merely slowing down the death of the planet when we should be focusing on fixing the problem altogether. Don't aim for a slower death, aim for a faster transition to carbon-neutral. If we all feel that the planet is doomed anyway, it becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy because it's a lot harder to motivate ourselves to try and fix a problem that feels unfixable.
You may want to start testing your assumptions, and I don't just mean this one.

Here's an example regarding hyperactivity and sugar: http://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/article-abstract/391812
Yes, but the volatility of Bitcoin could make it not profitable again. Instead of buying a miner what if he took that money and bought bitcoin at that point of time. Wouldn't he have more money?
Hey! You're threatening my livelihood there! Those updates put food on my table (I'm an embedded software guy). So no not EVERYBODY loses.
What you're proposing is that the judicial branch takes legislative responsibility from the legislative branch. The separation of these branches is not an accident.

And courts typically do consider the spirit of the law. But they must consider the spirit of the existing law, not the law you might wish exists.
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Professional or even human decency?

Candidate just devoted significant portion of an entire day with no compensation in hopes to work for you, you basically say 'no' and give nothing back.. its using peoples labor for free and trashing them.

Interviewing candidates also isn't a free labor source (in event that 'homework' has some professional use, which it often could)
Do you think it's a natural market behavior that enticed manufacturers to aim at entry level market by cutting corners AMAP then realizing it also increased frequency of renewal thus making even more economical sense ?
> Is this really true? I usually by ebook/pbook combo and I find that I get a better deal directly on the publisher's website. Amazon is a non starter for me because I don't buy into their ebook format. "ebook" to me means epub and pdf.

OK, well, it's not true if you discount the biggest and cheapest competitor out of hand.
OpenRC is default, but yes.
Thats a hell of a stretch. When have scientists predicted the end of the world? There was the population explosion fear, that third world countries wouldn't slow down their birth rates. There was the ozone layer, but scientists were completely right about that and it had large impacts on affected populations. Increased cancer rates, loss of animal and plant life. There was a brief worry that the atomic bomb might light the atmosphere on fire, but they realized that was wrong pretty immediately.

At worst there was one prediction that was wrong, and that was only because it was based on sociology and psychology. That's not the same as global warming.
> It's a bestselling toy in Germany.

German here; never heard of it, but looks amazing for my daughter. Thanks for mentioning this!
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It's impossible to misinterpret that he's referencing systemd, but that's not the point of his post. He's saying, "Kernel over here, Init over there, One way transaction". You're talking about whether Systemd is qualified to be init. He's talking about whether the Kernel-side or Init-side is responsible for defining a given value. He declares his bias clearly (trusts Kernel, doesn't trust Init, especially doesn't trust Init via Systemd) and then makes his point. I'm just deeply saddened that literally two comments out of a hundred bothered to discuss his point, that divide, at all.
I worked for a really outstanding manager. She told me stories of a previous job where she managed a help desk group for a database application. She does not know how to code, but she does know how to motivate people to do their jobs.

She got the team to reduce the average time to close tickets by 75%. Customer satisfaction ratings vastly improved at the same time. The stories of the kinds of things she had to do in order to get a bunch of sullen, lazy, overpaid programmers to do their fucking jobs (her words) were hilarious. I learned a lot from those stories. And btw, she has never again wanted to manage "technical" people again.

Every time one of these "how to" articles for middle managers pops up here, a variation of this response almost automatically appears. The truth is that most technical people know nothing about the nuts and bolts of management, but think somehow that they either do know or are exempt by virtue of knowing how to code. The only group that is worse for this sort of ignorance is lawyers, in my experience.

I know it is somewhat unpopular to champion the value of having competent management, especially when companies reach a certain size. It's a lot easier for those who have never been managers to simply curse all of them as roadblocks to realizing the fruits of their genius.
You should read Homebrew Industrial Revolution by Kevin Carson, particularly his break down of the Industrial Revolution. Mostly the IR was driven by state actors or those who could influence them such as with the UK's Enclosure Act which forced peasants to work in factories and in the US with the transcontinental railroad which was lobbied for by industrial interests on the East coast who wanted a slice of the West coast pie of regional production/consumption. Basically, everything up to this point is the result of capitalism and its owners who are protected from market forces of regional and local production/consumption which would follow more closely than what we have today where companies literally throw away brand new shoes and electronics to keep their prices high.
Just as a data point - Chrome has more code than the linux kernel - Would you say BioShock Infinite seriously has a larger code base than Chrome?

I think a lot of people don't estimate correctly just how huge Chrome is.
I am having issue with my google drive as well, they calculated the wrong storage usage and I simply cannot upload more files. I spent weeks to convince the support it is their bug that clearing cache is not solving the problem. They said they're going to follow up but nothing happened. I then just cancelled the plan, now gmail is complaining not enough space and will stop receiving email. I told the support my situation, and they gave me extra storage for a month while they're dealing with the problem. Though the problem is never resolved, and I now have to send an email to extend that extra storage every month.

Seems like a proper way to get support from big companies in 2017 is to post on hackernews.
The bar your argument needs to clear isn't whether there were lots of Internet companies fitting Taibbi's falling watermelon description, but rather whether there are any that Goldman underwrote. Pets.com was underwritten by Merrill (also, against the notion that Merrill was packaging any bongwater-fueled idea presented to them is the fact that Pets.com was majority-owned by Amazon.)

The target of the article is Goldman, not '90s Internet companies.
Just as a rebuttal, I don't have student debt and get plenty of vacation time, and my employer has pretty amazing health insurance. Not everyone is lucky this way but I personally would never move to Canada for a tech job and don't know anybody who has done so, while I have definitely met many Canadians who have moved here.

The Canadian and US labor markets are pretty interconnected so in my opinion these companies are going to have to start raising salaries if they really want to get talent. I feel like I read something on HN every week bemoaning the Canadian tech industry, when most of the problems have a pretty simple solution: pay more. Of course, that's easy to say but not necessarily easy to do financially.
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There was no mention of random choice (was there?) and the naive description seems to line up with your description.
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Yes, hindsight certainly makes things clearer; I doubt I would have made better decisions than Pebble did.

The frustrating thing is that Pebble could have had a nice $20M p.a. business selling their smartwatches. Not big enough for Apple & Google, but definitely enough to make a good profit for a small company.

That 2015-2016 smartwatch hype may well have killed the market for everybody. It reminds me of the VR hype in the early nineties that killed the market for ~20 years.
There are other, less obnoxious ways to ask for feedback.
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Wow, op here, I had never heard about tonies ! It seems to be exactly the same concept, awesome ! It seems good ideas happen at the same time :-)
So, is your phone waterproof? How’s the reliability? How well does it handle being dropped?

Building a small amount of concept phones is one thing, shipping (and supporting) 100 million devices a year, with extended warranties, quite another.
Methane deteriorates in the upper atmosphere fairly quickly, whereas CO2 sticks around. Methane is a dramatically better insulator than CO2, so in the short run its impact is higher, but when you stretch out the timescale, your methane is deteriorating while the CO2 sticks around, so the relative impact tilts slowly toward CO2.
> Yes, and it's exactly how audio compression works. You have a fixed dynamic range and in input signal that doesn't fit in that range.

Not exactly. Audio compression is usually used to compress to a much smaller dynamic range than the output format or playback equipment can support. Some recordings compress to within just a few dB. With HDR pictures it's usually because the display is physically incapable of reproducing the image without compression.
I don't know about all meat but the deforestation for cattle ranching and feed, methane produced by the beasts themselves, and other factors seem to be fairly significant. The much greater energy requirements to light, heat, and cool big houses should not be discounted so easily either.
i understand that it's not about weight but volume/footprint and by correlation time from factory to warehouse to shop/customer. having factory on the same continent cuts your supply chain response time by months which means you can allocate floor area better.

OTOH i don't sell fridges, so that's all just thinking aloud :)
Healthcare will always be overpriced so long as we allow this guild system to limit the supply of doctors for its own member's profit. Everything else is window dressing.
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I don't buy this view that pharma companies are the bad greedy ones, and psychiatrist are noble wise doctors participating in clean science.

Pych doctors more than willing participants in the prescribing of stimulants and mild euphoriants. They get rich also doing so - 4/5 $200 appointments an hour is common, and if you look at the highest paid public employees in some states you'll see state-hired prison and other psychiatrists towards the top below university basketball coaches.
"inevitably"? Is there a criminal case pending? I can't find any reference to one.

And my outlook is not wrong. There are two justice systems in America - one for the fairly-to-very wealthy and one for everyone else. I used to be a law clerk to a federal judge (no longer a lawyer). My outlook is unfortunately accurate.
I disagree with having to research it on your own. It’s a common enough theory thrown around on reddit, Twitter, fb groups etc on the daily without any further thought required on one’s part. Search petrodollar on any of those sites and see.

To make it fun, drink every time you see mention of the Jews, Masons, and NWO while looking through the results.
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