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I've had a few jobs that I was really happy at. In fact, most of my jobs have been on the happy end and the ones that weren't, I've moved on quickly. I generally like smaller companies where there's a "family" atmosphere.

1. My current company has been pretty good to me. During the 2011 Super Outbreak [0], when my city lost power for a week or so, they took all the employees and their families and put us up in hotels in Nashville for a few days until things stabilized and we could return home. We didn't even have to work if we didn't want to. After a stressful day of tornadoes and a few days with no power, a nice hot shower was very welcome. Stuff like that is pretty normal here. They take good care of us.

2. I worked for a company that did e-learning materials while I was in college. Our product was basically a self-contained website with videos, subtitles, tests, etc, distributed on CDs. This was the early 2000s, so pretty bleeding edge then.

The owner was a business professor full time and this was his side project. We were always small, and him and his wife always took an interest in all the students that worked for them. Getting a home-cooked meal and a night of poker once a week was a nice perk for a poor college student.

The cool thing, though, was there was no pressure to stay. They knew we were students, they knew we were going to graduate eventually and take jobs elsewhere. It was a mutually beneficial scenario where they got relatively cheap labor (but compared to my friends I was making bank), and we got good experience before heading out into the world.

3. I was a park ranger for the NPS in Yellowstone for a few seasons as well. And that was a fantastic job. I wrote about that in another HN thread [1].

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2011_Super_Outbreak

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14390927
Certainly might be a native ad.

Do you have any data to support your thesis of net job loss correlated to increased automation?
I do think the influence of foreign governments and the problems of un-verified, not independently (and multiply) fact-checked news are real concerns.

The behavior of the DNC is also problematic (I doubt the republicans are better; one thing Trump is correct about is "The Swamp").

The general media problem is that after 9/11 every news channel became a money-making focused machine. Not something focused on reporting the news.

These problems and others covered elsewhere are /all/ issues that need real discussions and solutions.

I fear that, ultimately, the solution is education and thought; making everyone better people that strive to resist their base emotional reactions and verify that what their feelings tell them is actually the correct course of action, and not some sophisticated persuasion.
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Thank you Sam! I found what I needed for this first relief flight, but we have a much larger flight headed down later in the week. I will reach out to you directly to ask some questions!
IF Facebook has a patent on, say, the virtual dom, then they can sue you if you use Preact, or Vue, or any other library that uses a virtual DOM. And they can just outright sue you; no need to wait until you sue them and then countersue. You are, in fact, more vulnerable if you use Preact or Vue than if you just use React.

...if Facebook has a patent on the virtual dom. In point of fact, they appear not to have any patent on anything underlying React, so none of this matters one bit. The time you've spent reading this comment is already more time than this non-issue deserves.
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If they sent patches they already did the work. They might have maintained the patch against mainstream, but they contributed back instead. Your friend was under no obligation to merge. I cant see any free labour here.
> The general media problem is that after 9/11 every news channel became a money-making focused machine.

Small point (and one that isn't intended to negate the point you're making), but I believe that if this correlates (and I'm not sure that it does) it's not causal. The move from print to online and the increased focus on click-driven advertising vs subscriptions and 24-hour cable news cycle (which predates 9/11) better explains this than 9/11. The 24-hour news cycle is something I remember as far back as the Gulf War in 1990–91.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/24-hour_news_cycle
I missed that I suppose. Even more interesting not to pick up a bunch of potentially valuable stuff.

Certainly not in my d&d campaign.
http://www.nationmaster.com/country-info/compare/China/Unite...

According to this, the US vs China has:

6 times the amount of robberies per capita.

4 times the amount of murders per capita.

8 time the amount of burglaries per capita.

and...83 times the amount of assaults per capita (??) <page 2 on chart>.

It also says the US has 30% more people incarcerated than China which at ~4 times the population is indeed ~7 times the per capita incarceration rate. But given the stats above (along with our massive drug use and propensity to lock people up for that) it's not entirely unbelievable either.

I don't think the US has the most violent people in the world, no. But I do suspect the US has the most violent people among the subset of countries with the resources and framework to prosecute and pay for incarceration for that many people.
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I was happiest when I was working for someone who I really liked as a person

(that's only happened the once, though)
You're basically stating a tautology though.

"Robots haven't taken all jobs because we haven't invented a robot that can do all jobs yet."

The point is, we have no reason to believe that such a robot is even possible.

The most compelling argument I've heard is, "they're getting smarter faster, so eventually they'll be infinity smart."

But... the logic is flawed. Another good argument is "humans exist that could do any job, and humans are just biological robots, so a mechanical robot could do it too."

But that one is just as flawed. I will concede a sufficiently human-like AI could do any job, but a sufficiently human-like AI isn't necessarily meaningfully different from a human with an iPhone, which means it doesn't free employers from the human rights burdens that make AIs such attractive employees.
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That's what I've been wondering.
This discussion just goes to show again the extent to which the tech community allowed itself to be gaslighted into accepting that:

1. Anything about react is patentable.

2. Licensing of unspecified patents is a thing.

3. Licensing of software without disclosing related patents held by the author does not invalidate those patents on the basis of bad faith acting alone.

In what obscene legal reality does adding a patent grant that can be revoked in certain circumstances puts the licensee in a worse position than a license that does not mention patents at all ?
> The desire for a 'good candidate' and the paranoia about making a mistake is sounding increasingly utopian.

I don't know where you're getting your 'perfect hire narrative' idea from; this is simple cost/benefit analysis. If making a bad hire is a lot more expensive than failing to make a good hire (and I'm pretty sure it is by a factor of at least several times - failing to make a good hire is really cheap), then you choose to make the cheap mistake of not hiring instead of the expensive mistake.

This is about as far from utopianism or looking for the 'perfect hire' as you can get. It's all about finding enough 'good enough' hires, while avoiding expensive mistakes.
Thanks for your feedback. Which "Traction" book are you referring to? There are two on Amazon by different authors that could fit your description.
Game trailers as ads?

Over 95% of the stuff I watch on Youtube is gameplays, collagehumor and tech reviews, yet all my ads are diapers or clothing softeners. I've no idea why their algorithm sucks so much for my account.
A similar idea (Custard-Filled Speed Bumps) dates from 2001 at the Half Bakery: http://www.halfbakery.com/idea/Custard-Filled_20Speed_20Bump... - are there any earlier sightings?
It's not controlled by Facebook in any way. It's true that a large part of the core team works there, but development is public and guided by community needs first.
"Afford" is a very relative term. They don't want to be responsible for that many FTEs but with $48 billion in gross margin and $2.5 billion in net income, they can certainly afford to employ a few thousand seasonal workers year round.
I've always thought it curious as to why AWS requires people to relocate to one of their offices. My understanding was that one of the major benefits of the cloud (aka AWS) was to free companies from having to hire locally.
One of my favourite subjects during college. I recommend the book by Timothy Ross - Fuzzy Logic with Engineering Applications for anyone interested.
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i know, but the subject was the return on the investment from bailing out the banks, but that return went to the federal budget, and the bailing out came out of people's pockets. it isn't comparing like for like at all.
Is the list of patents Facebook thinks are used by react even disclosed?
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Its very hard to find such situations.

The only way that comes to mind is knowing someone well enough in a company that needs your skills when you need a job. Its a very small intersection in time/space/relationships.

I've always lucked into these situations. And honestly I never really realized how lucky I was because I didn't have anything to compare it to.

Not joining teams with bad bosses is one way to go about this. This is also very very difficult because these guys will offer you a ton of money.

Honestly, the best advice I think is to follow your best boss when he moves once you've found one. (Again this advice only "works" in SV where there are a massive number of growing companies where people move very frequently).
Microware Systems Corporation--it was fun to work with really good people on compilers for an operating system that, at the time, was one of very few pre-emptive multitasking OSs one could get for relatively inexpensive computers. It didn't require memory mapping hardware, and thus couldn't use compilers that presumed knowledge of some absolute address where code and data lived (or could be made to appear at with memory mapping). Probably the most fun was modifying the compiler to take advantage of the "as if" rule by avoiding the "usual arithmetic conversions" where possible. I kick myself periodically for not trying to get that published.
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a benefit of patents is that in theory a benevolent mega-corp can use their patents against another mega-corp that is using patents offensively.

this is the mutually-assured destruction analogy. If you can't get rid of them altogether you don't want someone being immune to them.
Uh oh, that Rubik's cube at the bottom doesn't look correctly solved; I think you might have an issue there.
I can attest that I was much happier at $80k than I was at $30k, but not much happier at $110k or $140k, less happy at $155k, miserable at $175k (becoming director of engineering). Now I'm at $200k but it's the remote part that makes me happiest.
> As part of the patent grant, you’d have to stop using Facebook open source upon claiming patent infringement.

IANAL but I don't believe this is correct.

If I'm using React and I decide to sue Facebook for infringing some other software patents I hold, I lose the patent grant for any potential patents Facebook might hold concerning React. Which they could go after me with if they do indeed hold such patents. There's nothing proactively forcing me off React.

I just don't see anything but good from this BSD+patent grant situation. It lessens software patent litigation in general and lets me know I'm safe from Facebook suing me specially. It seems fantastic!
Important thing to remember is that I'm NYC and DC most jobas are on the cost side of the house. In the Bay Area technical jobs are more likely to be on the revenue generating side if the house. This has a huge impact on job satisfaction in my experience.
It's more like, you patent a saddle for ants to ride bees and use react as the UI to control the warmth of the ant seat. Facebook makes a similar bee saddle. You sue Facebook, and they revoke your rights to react.

Hope that makes it clear.

Edit: I've been drinking.
Bell Lab: a private office with a secretary.

These days, every office is open office. Kids so crazy.
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> What about Google and Microsoft's FOSS contributions do you consider "non-efforts"?

It's not the FOSS contributions that are non-efforts. It's the things that were never released at all. What percentage of engineers at Microsoft work on code that has been or ever will be open source? How is releasing 10% of your code with no patent grant better than releasing 20% of your code with a conditional one?

Also, "no explicit patent grant has been sufficient" is no excuse for bashing a grant that has exactly that as its worst case. Any non-zero protection is still greater than zero. By way of analogy, would you yell at people on your team who you felt weren't working hard enough, then give a big pat on the back to one who played video games the whole time? Well, maybe you would, but an objective observer might think it seemed unfair. They might even wonder about what other motivations might be involved.
From my experience, having a genuine interest in the topic is most helpful to longevity. But finding a nexus with this and something that is also ripe for opportunity can be a challenge.
Bad commits are the absolute most difficult thing to reverse when they get released and the userbase codes to them. When I don't pay super close attention to what's being contributed, it creates three times as much work after I let it through.
All of these feel good stories about the Facebook license will immediately become null and void the moment they actually use it. Like an active volcano erupting for the first time in recent history, people will run away and never look back. Besides, React is not that great. Mixing view and controller, and incremental DOM is better anyway.
I'm a native of Louisville, KY and while I was excited to see them on the original list of cities, I can understand why it might not make it. To me, Louisville is a great place to live; we are average in almost every way possible. So, we get snow but not blizzards, rain but not hurricanes, heat but not heat waves, etc... We also have a lot of growth potential and plenty of room to expand.

The place we falter, IMHO, is the social aspect; it's just not cool to live/work here. Sure we have Churchill Downs (The Kentucky Derby) and quite a lot of bourbon but I'm not sure that makes up for the lack of cool places to live and out downtown shuts down after 5PM. Still, if Amazon HQ showed up I'm sure those things would change pretty quickly. $50MM and 50,000 extra people have that effect. :)
You just described medieval city. Most of EU cities have such part in city center.
That's true. Amazon has "frugality" as a core cultural value - a valid definition of "can't afford it" for them is "just don't want to pay for it."
Just start writing and publishing things online. You don't need to have a brand name or a fancy web site at first. The first step is getting in the habit of constantly publishing content. After awhile you will figure out what you like to write about and post.

Old saying I hear years ago: "If it doesn't exist online or in a museum - it doesn't exist at all."

Branding comes after you understand what direction you want to go. Then my advice is steer your content in a direction focused on what makes you money. Design, programming, etc. I have been at my site for 10 years. It started as a random pile of images but after years of slowly working on it, my site is really coming together: http://thoughtmerchants.com/.
Here's my CSB addition... so I just moved and when I submitted my move notification to the US post office, they sent me a bunch of stuff including advertising for a service called USPS Informed Delivery.

Post 9.11, the post office has been scanning the front and back of all mail delivered in the US. This is the corollary physical post anti-terrorism measure to scooping up all text messages and email metadata. Somebody realized that these scans could turned into a service where you can see what's in your postbox without having to visit it. Helpful if you don't get to the mailbox frequently or are traveling.

I signed up for the service and they used some sort of knowledge based question to verify I actually lived at the new address. Questions like "Which of the 4 addresses did you live at previously?" The IRS has tried to lock down their systems with questions like this and failed miserably. With the amount of data accumulated about us all, if somebody wants to dig up info on you, it's possible through a myriad of data broker services.

I failed the knowledge based identity test, I was asked to bring my ID to a post office. I think either they didn't have the right profile information for me, or were confusing the profile information for a prior occupant of my new address. My driver's license has a badge from the DMV showing that I had registered the new address with the DMV. This badge was delivered by mail to the new address. I presented this ID to the post office.

After all this, my request to join the Informed Delivery program was rejected. I have notification submitted with the post office of my change of address, I presented valid DMV ID that was not accepted despite it having been correctly updated with the DMV. While I was there, I was asked to show a second form of ID which was not indicated as a requirement on the program documentation. I've escalated a request for explanation to the US post office without answer.

While I agree the US post office could provide identity verification, they are definitely not geared to actually do so.
Racist slur aside, H3H3 went to court and won against a DMCA takedown initiated by Bold Guy.

The judge ruled that talking over copyrighted content "quintessentially transforms" it into something new.

Additionally, Firewatch's website gives express permission to stream its content.

And DMCA misuse carries ridiculous penalties in the USA.

So good luck there guy!!
Disappointed no one is talking about the 4+2 cpu, we maybe able to get 2 day battery life out of the device.
For reference, I live in the suburbs of Los Angeles so prices are lower than in the Bay area. I make $200k and my wife makes $100k working part time as a registered nurse. Flexible schedules mean we can spend lots of time with our daughter and travel quite a bit.
They're all right, somehow.

A film teacher of mine used to always quote Northrop Frye as saying "The category judgement precedes the value judgement." As in: it's a great thriller, but a terrible romance. Moby Dick is hard to classify, and (by this logic) harder to judge. Those approaching it as a novel had every reason to call it a failure. Melville was pushing himself. In jazz I've heard this called "going out." It's something you earn.

His lesser-known works like "Bartleby the Scrivener" and "Benito Cereno" are much more coherent and approachable (they stick to a familiar category), but still have much of that slow, mysterious otherworldly quality and are well worth reading (in my humble opinion).

https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Benito_Cereno
In my experience, this doesn't make them that different from virtually any corporation. I don't think I've ever worked for one where getting money for literally anything wasn't a constant uphill battle (which incidentally is why so many consumer electronics feel cheap as shit; they are).
You're absolutely correct, but this is a disingenuous response to Zuckerberg's intention.

He's not trying to create a world where such people are forcibly outed. He's trying to create a world where such people can out themselves safely.

The basic idea is that if you share enough stories, people will stop being able to convince populations that minority groups are bogeymen.
Thank you for adding some nuance. So then would OpenGL be an OOP API?
Through all the drag net surveillance the NSA performs and using tools like those unveiled by Snowden and other whistleblowers.
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I am alleging that this company is expert in hiring people from government agencies who had in some way to do with financial regulation. That's all. You can draw your own conclusions.
Everything is the exact same shade of yellow with a splash of red for danger and occasionally blue. However, after seeing the video (I read this on mobile initially), there is more photoshop going on than I gave it credit for.

However, there is still a high degree of color-coordination, even when you're not looking at shots emphasizing the orderliness of the place with the colors brightened.

There are lots of very clear, systematic horizontal lines. Part of that is how all the equipment is the same, and those self-moving crates are all the exact same height, but they went to the trouble of painting the bottom of poles yellow and the rest white. When you do see red, it's all on the same horizontal line, too. The bottom of the self-moving crates are red, then nothing until you get the tops of the poles, which are all at the exact same height. If I didn't know anything about the company, say it was Walmart's warehouse, I'd expect it to look more like this: https://imgur.com/a/A8ALC
Is the madness of crowds a genuine phenomenon?

I mean, obviously, large groups of people certainly sometimes come to bad decisions, but is there evidence that they tend to come to worse decisions than they'd reach on their own?

I don't count in this category the tendency for group decision making to wind up settling on an ungainly compromise that's worse than any individual solution; that's not madness, it's just a rational solution to an interpersonal problem.
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A better comparison is that it costs around $2500/month to rent a 1br in the Tenderloin now [0]. Given that you typically need to make 3x the monthly rent gross, minimum, to qualify for an apartment, that comes out to $90k a year. $90k/year to live in the Tenderloin!

[0]: https://sf.curbed.com/2017/6/20/15841068/rent-report-sf-2017...
I'm sure that there will be a renissance of fuzzy logic, its sad to know that he will not witness it.
His character will be missed, but his contributions won't be forgotten.
wow, that's an amazing salary for remote. what company?
> You sue Facebook, and they revoke your rights to react.

Except that's not what happens. What would really happen is that the patent grant would be revoked, but the license to the software (a matter of copyright) would remain in force. So they could sue you for patent infringement, just as they could always have done under most other licenses, but not copyright infringement. Under most other licenses they could even have sued you first, but they gave up that right. In fact, that's the only effect of the much-maligned patent grant. It's a pure giveaway compared to what the situation would be without it.