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This is amateur psychology, and it's mostly wrong. Psychology is a real field and writing about what you don't know in this field can do more harm than good.

I stopped at:

> Getting anger out requires some physical activity to get the adrenaline to metabolize.

This has been disproven. "Letting it out" only leads you to be more aggressive. Maybe at a more appropriate time, but still, it doesn't "calm you down". Time and reflection do that.

The bit about "The Aspects of Farmer, The Magi, and the Warrior" seems particularly out of place. It is pure conjecture, and seems arbitrary to me.

It's good to know yourself but please refrain from giving general advice based on your personal anecdotal evidence. I'm talking about everything after your own introspection. It seems like helping but it isn't.

Edit: Also to anyone reading this, for the love of god, don't take psychological advice from untrained internet strangers. If you find yourself struggling with the same issues, see a therapist. They're good at this stuff.
I'm not sure if anyone really follows those labels.

You're probably right.

When people's security needs are great enough to justify paying $150+ per lock, high-end locks offer:

(a) Patented keys that the manufacturer only sells to authorized distributors (who are contractually obligated not to cut keys without a key duplication card)

(b) have complex designs that can't be cut on standard key-cutting machines and

(c) have special 'key control' pins that mean different locksmiths get incompatible locks and key blanks.

Needless to say, a sufficiently good 3D scanner & printer (or indeed a sufficiently patient person with a file and a pair of calipers) could bypass these protections.
Please stop these personal attacks. They don't belong on Hacker News.
But the key difference is that applies to everyone who wishes to make that purchase, not just particular people.
I looked at the paper and the data is kind of strange. Looking at figure 2, there are a bunch of cytokines that have a nice linear progression with increasing levels corresponding to increasing severity of disease. This seems like solid evidence that more cytokine = bad.

But if you compare with the controls, mild cases of ME/CFS have less than the control, moderate cases have the same as controls, and severe cases have more. This kind of torpedoes any simple explanation of what's going on. The authors discuss this in a kind of hand-wavy way that maybe ME/CFS causes some down-regulation to start with and then the increasing trend is on top of that.

So, I'm not sure what to make of this. It seems useless as a test at this point: "You have totally normal cytokine levels, indicating that you're either healthy or have moderate ME/CFS."
I'm seeing a similar parallel to Reddit's new profiles though. Not exactly the same but it's a move to appease the content publishers that has been angering their core userbase.
Spolsky's opinion: http://onstartups.com/tabid/3339/bid/97052/How-To-Survive-a-...

Experience with 2 parallel implementations: http://alexmartins.me/2016/07/28/lessons-learned-from-softwa...
Curious about this. I often find engineers motivated purely by the desire to solve the problem. Was just at defcon - witnessed many people vaguely wandering around the tables of teams trying to hack devices, then getting sucked in as they offered solutions and inevitably got involved with trying to solve the problem. Did it myself a couple times, even though I had planned on attending more talks.
People do do that; this is pretty well known. But they tend to view it more in the vein of "trade secrets" than "I'm going to demo this to everyone for free".
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Having gone through a process similar to what the author of the article did, the problem is that it's more complicated than "merely" being a bit more alpha-male.

The problem is getting past freezing up. It's hard because it was my brain's innate reaction all through my young adult years, so I had to put a lot of time and energy into rewiring it to not freeze up first.

Once I could get past freezing up, I could practice ways to stay rational in emotionally charged situations, which in turn allowed me to learn how to defuse situations better. With more practice, I was able to manage the same situations with a strong sense of principle. That in turn let me say "no" in a way where people consistently respected my answer.

But that was a 5 year journey filled with unpleasant moments.
Does this case mean, if LinkedIn wins, I can write a cease and desist to Facebook, LinkedIn and Google to stop 'accessing' my PC with cookies and tracking my data?
If you follow their methods, specifically [63], they are modelling the proportion of null hypotheses in their tests. Performing FDR by group is a reasonable approach, and does not necessarily cause P-value inflation. This is different from a Bonferroni correction, in which total numbers of tests done is the only factor. These FDR models of the proportion of null hypotheses rely on the distribution of p-values, not their raw count (assuming a sufficient count of P-values is present in which to model). Dividing the FDR correction as they did provides more information about group-specific influences, and should not be considered p-value hacking.

Nevertheless, thank you for calling this out. There is way too much p-hacking in science, especially biology.

[63] Benjamini Y, Krieger AM, Yekutieli D (2006) Adaptive linear step-up procedures that control the false discovery rate. Biometrika 93:491–507.
Those parts are produced via Metal Injection Molding (MIM). MIM parts have similar issues to printed (laser sintered) parts but injection molding is a far more efficient process for mass production.
If you do a detailed autopsy of most older people who die of other causes you'll find a few small, slow growing cancerous tumors.
The problem is that once you "empower" people you also empower everything from straight out morons to manipulative sociopaths - which has led from relatively harmless homeopathic "medicine" (which is harmless but many people use homeopathic medicine even for serious illness and go to the doctor only when it's unbearable), to the rise of anti-vax movement (where lots of kids actually even died from measles exposure in the last few years) and finally people consuming deadly sodium chlorite (aka MMS).

Allowing people to take health purely into their own hands leads down to a very dangerous path, especially when children are involved (as children cannot help themselves against ignorant parents).
"Unions are one of the main reasons we had such a huge American auto crisis just a few years ago."

Or, viewed through another lens: the auto workers' union is the organization that prevented auto workers from being squeezed tighter and tighter without end.

If they, the workers, hadn't banded together, the owners and shareholders could keep cutting their wages, could keep failing to uphold their obligations to the workers' pensions and health care, could keep screwing the workers out of wages and a good life.

It's hard for me to be sympathetic to the owners and shareholders. They're not the ones showing up to a factory floor day after day, bolting cars together, destroying their bodies for dollars an hour.

It's also especially hard for me to say, "you have a constitutional right to assemble, but not if you want to use that right to assemble to demand better pay for yourselves and your fellow workers".

In fact, given the history of how the owning class has treated the laboring class in this country, it's hard for me to say the laboring class should have fewer tools to better their lives.
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I disagree. I think the union would or still do benefit many industries.

For example, consider doctors. They don't have a union but there should to help regulate working conditions. There are so many abusive workplace practices in medicine like number of hours that doctor is forced to work through residences and fellowship. There are many examples of doctors dying from a car crash after their shift. We limit the hours truckers, pilots, and air traffic controllers but we are ok with having our doctors being sleep deprived as they operate on us? Doesn't make sense. This article deep dives into it: https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2016/12/no-doctor...

Another area - cab / ride sharing drivers. Do you really want Uber and Lyft to set rules on hours, breaks, etc. for their drivers given their track record on ethics and following regulations? As one example, Uber had a known bug for several months where they didn't pay the correct amount of commission to their drivers. We can't just rely on regulators (they are swamped and have their own conflict of interests) to regulate worker rights, Unions are appropriate in many conditions.

There are lots of abusive industries where unions are needed to prevent exploitation of workers. I also acknowledge that the flip side of the coin is that in many areas unions have hurt companies - it's definitely a balance.
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Allowing people to take health purely into their own hands leads down to a very dangerous path

I said nothing whatsoever to adovocate allowing such a thing.

But thank you for providing evidence of my statement about how controlling a lot of people want to be when it comes to such topics.
Plastic pollution patch, then? But it's true that "garbage" does a very good job of conveying the desired (misleading) image.
How would you balance the two?
From my experience "most" industry is ~10-20 years behind research. That's how long it takes to work out the kinks, be that mobile phones, cloud computing or AI.
So while the US and Europe mess around spending stupid money on ITER the Chinese will be rolling out molton salt reactors leaving the west behind, and that 'sucks'.
But these are big projects, running them like a Turkish ticket website would be a catastrophe.
How exactly would do you re-balance the checks and balances?
In US, it's an established legal fact.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feist_Publications,_Inc.,_v._R....

(Note, HN strips out the trailing dot from the URL above.)
I think the idea is novel enough, but the examples provided came across as "fluff" with very little useful material.

The meat of the form is the "Engineer Attributes" radio button scale for 14 different topics, not one of which was backed by a concrete example from the interview, a resume, a portfolio, etc. Those need to read "Agree, because ___," or "Disagree, because ___." Without that, these metrics undermine the credibility of the whole thing.

I wouldn't use this service in its current form.
Didn't work here, just a bunch of colored squares on Safari, Chrome or Firefox. The latter actually managed to hang my machine. I could ssh to it but kill -9 wouldn't terminate Firefox.
Had to force reboot the machine, haven't done that in years.

Amazing and scary, this WebGL thing is.

iMac 2011, latest OS

Edit: worked on MacBookAir
Be careful what you ask for. More monitoring and testing leads to more false positives, more expenses, and more invasive treatments for conditions that might never have caused any serious symptoms if just left alone.
> no "yes VISA but not MasterCard" sillyness.

Is there anywhere that is actually a thing? Very rarely I see a place that won’t take Amex, but no visa or mc?
I think some of the advice here is good for high traffic sites but my company only sees about 1400 people a day use our data although we do processing of information for each client in millions of jobs a day. In our sceneraio we have one MySQL instance on aws aurora, about 50 tables and 3 terabytes of info total. Most of the size comes from about 10 tables and are mostly used for joins after data is quickly searched on elastic search. I will put down the myisam search we use to use before elasticsearch which was drowning as we reached 100M to 200M rows when things weren't pushed over to their own machine and could hog up ram. When fulltext is planned from the start along with backups and other things it can save a ton of headaches.
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Unions are the reason we have "government enforced guarantees of decent treatment".
But where do those 0.04/TWh deaths in nuclear come from? Are they mostly from a low-probability high-death count event? Is it 1 person per year over a thousand years from solar, or maybe the whole village at once in a thousand years, from nuclear?

If it really is more along the lines of nuclear is safe, but once every five years a worker at the plant might slip up and be exposed to dangerous levels by accident, then I guess I think the comparison makes more sense.
I would expect bots to have lots of karma.
While this would work well in theory, do you see either political party working to build a stronger "bill of labor rights" for Americans?

Americans don't have basic labor rights like mandated vacation, paternity/maternity leave, sick leave, etc. I don't see the American political system as fixing this anytime soon.
Something I find incredibly off-putting about Elm is the evangelical and generally unbalanced tone taken by many prominent members of the Elm community. I almost never come across Elm advocates accepting a valid criticism of the language. The response almost always amounts to "you don't understand" or "yes, but". They spend a lot of time celebrating the compiler's humanistic virtues but seem less clearly humanist in their relation to original thinking or diversity of thought. So much of Elm community dialogue (in talks, in articles, in the Elm slack which I follow daily) is simply those with more experience initiating those with lesser experience into the "Elm way" of doing things. For this reason, Elm feels more like a framework with a domain specific language than a fully qualified programming language. And while it might seem like a gentle introduction to functional programming techniques, I'm not confidant that it really teaches people the concepts themselves nor gives them enough room to think critically about how to apply them. Instead, the task is to internalize and apply the "Elm way". The inability to even acknowledge the unprecedented labor required simply to parse a JSON response is a perfect example of the cultish mentality emerging in this community.
That and desktop sized muffle furnaces have been around for half a century and can be purchased for under $1,000. I see a 12.7 x 10.8 x 15.2 cm one in my company's catalog for $870 so I don't consider this a huge breakthrough.
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You're being downvoted because this isn't true.

No one is ever legally obligated to join a union in the U.S. You may be required to pay dues, since the union affords you protections even if you're not a member, but you'll never be required to join it.

It's also not true that "don't like what your union is doing, tough luck". Unions are democratic organizations. Don't like what it's doing? Take your case to your fellow union members, persuade them, and steer the ship to what you do want the union to do.

You seem to have a view of unions that is tinged with much of the anti-union lies that have been propagated for decades in this country. (I won't dignify those lies by calling them propaganda.)

I doubt a handful of forum posts would convince you to reexamine the things you say that aren't true, but I hope you'll consider the fact that you've been mislead for a long time by very wealthy, powerful, media-savvy people.

(Unions are none of these, by the way--not particularly wealthy, nor powerful, and not media-savvy in the slightest.)
No, its not a real alternative unless the morality of all people changes and that is unrealistic castle in the sky thinking.

Most people use buy chocolate based on price and quality. That how it is in the real world, and that gone stay that way. Even fair trade chocolate can only give farmers a tiny bit more money and the economics of fair trade basically shows that it does not make a large difference and it makes no difference in the long run.

You can claim it is not ethical, fine, you don't have to participate and you can buy 'fair trade' products if it makes you feel better but in the real world this will never actual solve the problem of poverty. Poverty will be solved when poor people/nations evolve institutions that facilitate growth.

> The current "world order" (for lack of a better term) in regards to the economy ensures disadvantaged people remain disadvantaged

No it does not. A country that manages to establish effective government can turn itself into a middle to high income country within 30 years. Look at Vietnam, China, Botswana, Chile and so on.

In fact its the exact opposite. Never has it been so easy for a country to go from poverty to wealth. Most of the tech is already invented, you can simple jump over many generation of technical evolution. You can use your competitive advantage effectively because you have a huge market to sell to.
> Essentially this big, beautiful design driven redesign ultimately never shipped because users spent less time on it.

I think that this is a positive, morally and ethically. It's too bad.
Wow.

How does one debug complex constexpr code? I assume there's no printf.

It'd be really cool if it supported some kind of interpolation, like Jinja templates, so it could generate dynamic page templates at compile time.
They hate solving problems when someone comes up to them with a strange and incomplete description and says "can you fix my problem"? The made a whole show about this called the IT Crowd where they play a tape that says "Have you tried turning it on and off again" instead of legitimately answering phones.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_IT_Crowd

Here's a subreddit where people complain about the problems that people bring them:
https://www.reddit.com/r/talesfromtechsupport/

Here's a subreddit for which the tagline starts with "Tired of stupid customers?":
https://www.reddit.com/r/iiiiiiitttttttttttt/

There are many problems in the tech field which are exceedingly difficult yet uninteresting. There are many problems that people bring that are vague descriptions that eventually turn out to be user error. It would not be surprising for the same phenomenon to exist in the medical field as well.
So Hacker News is a regression to the mean, then?
Good point. Never had thought of that.
While I suspect the DDOS was fabricated, the linked reddit comment is flawed.

They claim that because the FCC uses Akamai as a CDN, that the FCC is immune from DDOS attacks. The FCC comment section is heavily reliant on a database, and you could simply overwhelm the database to DDOS that site. I would bet it is unlikely that the FCC utilized a cache for the queries.
Do you have a source about Fukushima containment failures? I've not heard any confirmation that primary or secondary containment structures failed at any point during or after the meltdown.

The latest reports seem to indicate that primary containment is intact at all three reactors. As usual, you have to read between the lines - these editors always seem to hate nuclear power, or love fear and chaos, or both:

https://asia.nikkei.com/Japan-Update/Nuclear-fuel-likely-mel...

http://spectrum.ieee.org/energywise/energy/nuclear/melted-fu...
It's part of the container tabs concept, but automatically putting each first-level origin (what you see in the URL bar) into its own container. This is atm only an about:config option in Nightly.
This is just an ad...

Is this writer paid by Tesla or what? Look at this: https://www.bloomberg.com/authors/AG-V6rP5f0g/tom-randall
You raise a good point. Perhaps digital signatures will become more common because of this.
No. But that's not the same as saying we need not scruple at any means of obtaining new knowledge.
Great question. My top answer is the article you linked to in your original comment: Don't disclose your current or desired salary. That will cost you a lot of money.

Since you mentioned mock interviews, I'll assume that Twitch channel is mostly focused on interviewing, getting more interviews, and ultimately getting job offers. If that's the case, the single best thing they can work on is their positioning - telling a story about how they'll make the company better if they're a part of it.

I have a video of how Software Developers can do this effectively here: https://fearlesssalarynegotiation.com/software-developer-pos...

This is especially useful for internships and entry-level jobs because most of the resumes submitted for those jobs look very similar. But positioning can help a Developer stand out from the pack. Sometimes, standing out as a slightly stronger candidate is all it takes to get an offer.
In that event, how much would your "guarantee" be worth? b^)
You'd think the answer would be easy to figure out. If you successfully treat the inflammatory illness, does the depression go away?
If it can't change, then what's the point of grabbing something elsewhere instead of just embedding it in the addon?
> It's probably better to inform the jerk, in no uncertain terms, that behaving that way will have immediate negative consequences

There's a bright line between telling someone they're being rude and being rude back. OP could communicate something like "you're coming across super aggressively right now; that makes it hard for me to have this conversation." That draws a clear maturity line. Such lines can motivate better behavior, by laying the groundwork for mutual respect. They also, in the worst case, clearly establish fault.

In a professional environment, you can't demand someone stop being an asshole by being one back. That just invites others to feel fine being rude to you in the future.

> I'm assuming that the behavior is deliberate

That is an untested assumption. Double check, preferably by asking them as directly as possible, e.g. "this is coming across in an incredibly hostile way; I don't think that's your intention."
The "old"/"real" (I'll explain) left is about erasing identities. The only identity any (extreme) leftist philosophy wants you to have is the identity of the state you belong to.

If you think about how the economic system works, it will very quickly become obvious why this is the only way a leftist state can ever work : idea is that 2 things motivate people, one is richness and one is ideology. Since richness is taken away (that's the very goal of leftism), ideology is the one remaining. Given that, you cannot give freedom of ideology and expect something like communism to work. Even limited communism.

Assuming the goal of the left is still communism (even the ones of the "eventually" persuasion), I would still agree this is true, and therefore should have the "real" moniker.

In my opinion the "new left" has as a defining characteristic "globalism at any cost". The global free movement of people, and (because it's a necessity of movement of people) capital, and ideology is the central principle. This has somehow become what traditionally leftist parties stand for these days.

This is an extreme subversion of leftist thought, because, firstly, it is an extreme laissez-faire market idea, and should thus be classified as extreme-right. Secondly, it's self-destructive, as it allows the owners of means of production to use that movement of people, and especially to abuse it. Why ? To create ridiculous concentrations of wealth that are the very opposite of what leftism stands for. Needless to say, this abuse of people movement is happening on a large scale as a result. "Strongholds" of leftist thoughts (like the Bay Area and especially San Francisco) have become the main examples of what's wrong with capitalism, as gets frequently complained about on this very forum. And yet, most everyone from there professes to hold socialist ideals.

Even on a larger scale this is true. The republican party is currently about as left/right as the democrats (which is, I think, a large part of the reason for Trump's win), and democrats are moving to the right, republicans to the left. It's baffling to see, but every year requires more of a squint not to see it.