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With you. Applied to around 1000 jobs myself in anything squarely in my wheelhouse or just next to it. 47. Get very few responses. When interviews are offered, I'm getting same feedback as you. It's difficult to speak up about it, because if someone has not yet experienced it, (or if it has not yet happened enough to them that they are sure what it is now) they assume it has something to do with you socially or technically. I think this is because it is so outrageously hard to believe: the idea that its root causes are insecurities that otherwise ambitious, intelligent people would not allow to negatively affect their company or its professional edge. - especially in a time when the industry can't stop talking about its shortage of highly qualified workers. So if someone calls it out, others assume there is something wrong with them they aren't facing. It took me a full 7 years of self critique and experimentation before I was sure it was ageism.
>The US' Foreign Corrupt Practices Act[0] has, for example, done wonders

>Until the late 90s, for example, most European countries allowed the tax deduction of foreign bribes

Very fair points

However, what I would say is that without perverse incentives, the only thing between humanity and solving all of these problems, is incompetence.

I think that for the most part, these people do know what they're doing.

Also, you are right only so far that ostensibly this sort of corruption is rare. You don't hear about the people who were not caught. Just look at what is coming out of hollywood, and how long that took to come out, and yes there were figurative brief cases filled with money, one of them even discovered(1).

1-www.vulture.com/2017/10/harvey-weinstein-lawyer-david-boies-money-to-da-after-dropped-assault-case.html
Amazingly, a comment below was critical of “writing an erotic novel on medium”, yet to me it was so non-erotic I couldn’t even understand the mechanics of the assault. Was this intercourse, touching? I guess he’s damned if he makes it too detailed and damned if he doesn’t.

Separately there’s a thread about Equinox protecting business interests. Even if that’s true it sounds like a double standard, I would bet they would not think they could get away with stonewalling so much if the victim were a vulnerable looking woman.
Stories that get flagged are often hearsay and depend on the particular individual interpretation of events (e.g. "is he a creep or just awkward?" and "is he a sexist or just an asshole to everyone?").

The next time a woman's sexual assault is captured on tape, repressed by a large corporation, and ignored by the media, I'm pretty sure it wouldn't be flagged.
Why not let candidates choose between 1,2 and 3?
Lua coroutines are a much better & simpler solution to handling async callbacks (and callback hell) than what JS offers. Here's a simple wrapper I made for it: https://gitlab.com/snippets/1678104
I'm sure I'm going to get heavily flagged for this, but even as written from the complainant's PoV, the ambiguous nature of consent (i.e. as it happens in the real world, not in the law books) - must it be verbal, can be it simple acquiescence in a non-coercive setting - jumped out at me. I would not be surprised if the yoga instructor genuinely believes, even if mistakenly, this was consensual. I hope this comment isn't construed as victim blaming or trying to make light of what was a scarring experience for someone, and I certainly don't think Equinox staff handled it well.
Very cool, also very cool it speaks git. Kinda like they made a specialized distributed closed source database.
Your right it is not but I certainly dont feel that was ever the case. A percentage of that 50% will want to send people home but to say "over half the population has voted saying that you don't belong there" is incorrect.

Many voted for sovereignty, not to be a star in a flag. They voted for democracy for there voice to be heard in London not a whisper in Brussles. They did not see the economic benefits that are supposed to be the cornerstone.

Where the message is confused is that many did vote to end freedom of movement suggesting unlimited immigration put downward preasure on wages. Though the message from Vote Leave (or other campaign groups) was ever to kick people out who are already here.

There are many of none-eu ethnicity that voted to leave the EU. Why can anyone from EU come? but a pakistani parent can be denied visa to live with children in UK. An issue echoed many times.

Like I was saying it is odd that this message you outline is resonating. I dont know any brexit supporter that would want to kick people out!
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Python version of Star Trader (1974), classic BASIC game
It is much more comforting to blame Russia or Facebook for who won election in USA or general state of politics then to accept that most blame should go much closer. The reasons why majority of voters are disengaged have nothing to do with Russia. The reasons why people are skeptical of both parties in two party system have nothing to do with Russia too.

It is not like USA would be a poor country with both Democrats and Republicans being peny-less helpless parties unable to get their version of story to news. We are still talking about the most powerful country with most powerful countries that take money from billionaires.

Lately it seems that Russia is responsible for everything in America and there is Russian behind every tree. As much as comforting it might be, the real causes of problems are not Russia.
Well, this was flagged now, too.
Maybe. Maybe not. Those who chose to work for that firm know full well what they're getting into. They hope to make it. 20% of them won't. Not much different than startups?
It's honestly pretty irrelevant. Even if management doesn't require you to still support IE11, you're still almost certainly going to have babel in your pipeline, which means you can use brand new features before browsers support them.
I am not American nor do I live/work in the US but every time I read articles from Western media that mentions Trump I am 100% sure that the "Russian" word will be mentioned somewhere in the article. For an outsider like myself the blaming on Russia is getting out of hand. Maybe Russia did something or NOT but I still haven't seen any evidence up to now.

It's a shame that we are in the last quarter of the year and yet people there still haven't moved on.
Besides the "urge to work on something tangible" another good reason is that you will find the dwindling opportunities in software due to ageism.

Btw - I'd personally love to team up with someone rather than go solo to reduce the risks, work and responsibility.

(snid comment: you took 15 years to realize this!, well, better late than never )
Heavily voted/discussed 22 days ago:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15309190
>The Romans called this style of management "decimation."

To be fair to the Romans, decimation was a (correct, if the adjective can be used in this case) random process and was limited to the army.

The idea was that when a large group (a cohort or 480 people) severely underperformed (it happened in case of rebellion/mutiny or blatant cowardy), AFTER having executed on the spot those that led the rebellion or that were manifestly coward or leading the mutiny, the remaining were divided in groups of ten, then in each group one was selected by drawing lots, and was executed by the remaining 9 comrades.

This had two advantages (in the eye of the Roman leaders), the army would not have been exterminated (unlike in more "traditional" repression of rebellions) and the 9/10 remaining would have been motivated to contribute to the group.

So, there was not an evaluation of the performance (or non-performance) of the single, the responsability was attributed to the group as a whole, and then out of the 10 people subset the 1 to be killed was chosen by Fate.
The idea in large parts of western europe is that it is OK to fire employees who aren’t fit for their job, but that “low performing”, at best, only is a low quality indicator of the former.

For example, management can stifle productivity in ways that individual workers have little influence on.

Also, employees may be ‘useless’ for a while, but then improve again, for example if they are going through a divorce, the death of a relative, etc. Firing people because they perform worse for a few months is frowned upon in some circles.
My first thought was, for sure, the foxes you mentioned. But on the note of no domestic animals avoid some examples of drooping ears, while I'm sure you could find supporting cases, that does not seem to be the norm for horses nor cats. And opposite that, elephants seem to have drooping ears. While the claim might be valid, it feels weak.
It seems the country is not comfortable with diversity. There has been an insular and closely managed narrative by main stream press that is now confronted with true diversity of opinion.

This confrontation with a whole array of opinions that are not in the mainstream is throwing people off their comfort zone and has created an unreal hysteria and panic about bogeymen.
The only(?) good thing to come from the Trump election is that more people are slowly realizing that democracy isn't all its cracked up to be, from a systems view.

All systems will eventually be gamed, evolution knows this very well. The only surprise here is that in this iteration of democracy the obviousness took so long. Plenty of other nations have known it for their whole democratic history. The Greeks knew it forever ago. Aristotle:

> It is accepted as democratic when public offices are allocated by lot; and as oligarchic when they are filled by election.

Facebook didn't do so much as it allowed more of the same and slightly revealed just how much manipulation gets attempted. If you like modern US democracy, you like the idea of everyone, no matter how stupid or easily manipulated, having a vote. You can't complain about it only when it doesn't go your way.

You cannot just blame Facebook. It's not like this was the first time the two teams tried to buy an election. Look at the 2012 figures for campaign spending (per OpenSecrets):

2012 OVERALL SPENDING

BLUE TEAM $1,144,965,831

RED TEAM $1,254,323,304

A couple billion spent sound like they were trying their hardest to "do something" to American Democracy.
Equinox is a luxury gym so it is very expensive. Private trainers are also expensive in the area. Generally in range $150-$500 per session (sometimea discount for a package).

I am not really a big fan of gym membership unless my company sponsors one. I have bad experiences with a few gyms... and every cancellation camr with a one-month deposit cancellation fee...
Situation Behavior Outcome questions do a good job of forcing candidates to reveal their motivations and thought processes.

Some examples https://www.themuse.com/advice/30-behavioral-interview-quest...
> ['my','mom','hates','me'].indexOf('mom') // 1

> life.includes('girlfriend') // false

That are some depressing code examples, is the author ok?
This is great.. as I really do like Ngrok but have no use for the paid version, with a 5/yr VPS on lowendbox you can have your localhost tunneling needs settled here.
Thanks for that -- I had the same problem as the OP, I found the article hard to follow.
Musk is many things.

* As an investor I would not invest money in Musk's business. It's too risky and ego driven. He finances his endeavors just as creatively as he does technology and takes lots of risk. He is clearly not after money. Money is just tool for him. It's either Mars or bust. Inspiring but not good thing from investor point of view.

* From a technological point of view I admire what Musk has accomplished. His single mindedness has moved space technology forward. He should be admired for what he has done. He has deserved his hype. He has knack of getting things done while stretching everything very close to failure. Even if his businesses fails and he loses everything, that technology is there and others buy it.

* From a humanistic point of view, I understand that Musk will throw people under the bus if they are in the way of his goals. I would not want to be dependent on him any way.

Musk is very typical driven tech industry titan. You have to prioritize. If personal ambition is high, all other issues must come second. Musk, Jeff Bezos, Steve Jobs, Bill Gates all have documented mean streaks towards other people and workers. We should understand that highest level of accomplished very often comes with high human cost. There is a choice.

This is where government regulations should come in.

Musk is not treating people badly because he is malevolent. It's just means to the end. If mistreatment of workers can't be used to gain competitive edge, it stops.
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Leaving at the same time as a whole bunch of your colleagues are dumped on the job market makes it more difficult to find a job.

Having news stories that you are in an underperforming two percent won't help either.

This is a pretty callous move and no surprise it has affected morale.
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Which illustrates that many dog owners are irresponsible assholes.
Very few people harm others because they're simply "evil", this type of cartoon evil is not really common if it even exists.

Harming others for selfish reasons is practically the definition of "evil" in the real world. So all involved are evil.
India has almost the same population as China and is much poorer.
Most people, even well paid engineers, live paycheck to paycheck.

Sizable companies take a month to bring in a new employee in the best case.

Most hiring managers are skeptical of people fired in a mass "underperformance" firing.

Toss in the fact that most people have never been fired and it's a massive blow to the ego. And also that it's terrible to communicate to your spouse and children that you've been fired for doing a bad job at work. That's a recipe for depression. Which makes it even harder to find work again. Which exacerbates the depression. And you're living on credit. And the bills are piling up. And you are starting to get phone calls.

If you can't jump right into a new job, it's a hard situation to be in, no question about it.
One issue I have with Julia is that it is fast the second time you run your code. And developing code is mainly running things just once. In practice you might find yourself waiting on compilation a lot.
There's far more manipulation and deception coming from the establishment media.

For example, how many people heard that Trump removed two countries from the travel ban list (Iraq and Sudan)? The media practically ignored that. Ignoring events like that, which would show Trump in a more reasonable light, is a form of deception: a lie by omission.
I disagree - to a degree.We have seen how the phenomenon of human intelligence has been examined and dissected over the past ~100 years. This accumulation of knowledge becomes more and more precise and penetrating as methods improve and understanding approached the point where an emulation (the AI ) can be built.
These approaches all tend to speak of delineated areas, "black boxes" or "meat Lockers" with deep and complex inter-connectivity. It may be so. Once you know all the lockers and all the connections you may think you have it fully known? Maybe so:-? but what about programming? our life's experiences?

If the locker concept is valid, and we compare our 'clock' of the alpha rhythm of ~12 Hertz, and the fastest computer clock of about ~12 gigahertz(1,000,000,000 times as fast) we can see we will be at a serious disadvantage once it starts to compete with us.
Such an AI will operate on it's basic motivations at it's full speed. We turn it on - it can then start to learn ( I assume we will have pre-loaded it's fully parallel, content addressable memory with whatever we want of human knowledge - so it starts from there).
Will it operate properly or rationally? or go insane? Being a set of boxes, it can be reset as needed, with updates to add sanity.
Then it will become a Mechanical Turk of great capability.
Will it become a dictator? only if we permit it to have access to fools(us?). Will it become a killer machine? only if we add guns and internal power so we do not pull the plug.
We already see these lesser Turks in operation, they will get better and better. The man/woman who owns one could own the world via high speed trading - in truth, there will be many at high tech data combat.
May we live/die in interesting times...
As an American, I completely agree. So many of my compatriots are full of optimism, bravado, or even a sense of underserved privilege - all over the spectrum they're the same manifestation of the idea that we're "better" than other nations - but almost a year later we're still wallowing around in these melodramatics over what happened. The undeniable fact of the matter is that 42% of eligible voters did not cast a ballot last year. And presidential elections are our highest turnout years. People are getting angry about Facebook? Gimme a break.
A promising new kind of battery is based on sodium, not lithium
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I think the issue is that a "free" market is a theoretical construct and not a practical one. There is a lot of asymmetry in contract negotiation and without these sorts of laws you get what we have in America, which is many people wanting more vacation time but having difficulty getting it (even software engineers who are very in demand right now will complain of not having enough vacation sometimes). From talking to Europeans I think most of them would agree that these laws make their life better and a law that makes their citizens life better pretty much across the board doesn't really seem to be huge overreach
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Not really seeing the advantage over modern JS async, perhaps you can explain your assertion?
I am a little surprised that you got some milage out of procedures and algorithms that rely on the Gaussian assumption (that includes k-means). From experience, the raw metrics are, shall we say, as violently non-Gaussian as it gets. OK OK you need not tell what you are doing to address that as I myself am being rather economical with the truth. But so glad, so glad that someone is using multivariate analysis, about time too. From someone who dabbles in a similar space I wish you well.
He was at one point, when both Tesla and SpaceX were early in their lifetimes and bleeding money, on the verge of bankruptcy and (from what came out from his ex-wife) a mental breakdown.
Yeah, most established media has been shameful lately. From one angle it's hard to blame them, since they are largely just trying to post stories that they know their current subscriber base wants to hear. This is even true of the NYT. There was a great comment chain on HN about it a while back (comparing the coverage from stories vs looking at what their linked sources said), but I can't find it. It was similar to coverage like this: https://randomcriticalanalysis.wordpress.com/2016/05/09/my-r...
This reminds me of some program I watched. They took wolves raised by people and dogs, and then, separately, placed the animal in near reach of food that was in a cage. The dogs eventually realized they could not get to the food and looked at people for help. The wolves never sought human intervention and continued trying to get at the food on their own.
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Russia was them finding a way to cover their asses while continuing to push for war and intelligence funding.

They lost because Hillary was even worse than Trump. She represented the utter moral bankruptcy of the Democratic party. She and Trump together represent the bankruptcy pf the entire electoral system. The continued full court press against free speech (as though media owned by six corporations should have a monopoly on myth-making) is truly fascistic and deeply disturbing, but I have hope that the disgust they continually generate with their delusional hubris will spawn fairer,more decentralized media. Our problem here is not right wing myths, it is capitalism and the emergent effects of the consolidation of power.
No it is not the same because there is no exclusivity.
From the linked article:

> Of those, 14% described themselves as having used at any point in their lives any of the three ‘classic’ psychedelics: LSD, psilocybin (the active ingredient in so-called magic mushrooms) and mescaline (found in the peyote and San Pedro cacti). The researchers found that individuals in this group were not at increased risk of developing 11 indicators of mental-health problems such as schizophrenia, psychosis, depression, anxiety disorders and suicide attempts.

Emphasis on "at any point in their lives".
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> Most orgs over-value their content

or most users undervalue their content? who's to say who is in the right?

The fact is, users are currently used to free content. What can be done, business model-wise, to keep it that way, but remove ads from the equation? I don't see a way unfortunately.
Even people giving TED talks about the threat of AI are unable to marshal an appropriate emotional response to the dangers that lie ahead:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8nt3edWLgIg
An interesting fact about Oligopolies is that they often degrade into very low margin businesses. Price collusion is one way companies attempt to counter this trend. For example, OPEC is legal price collusion of oil producers to keep margins as high as possible. Price collusion is not legal in the US but some industries (i.e. airlines) have virtual collusion because they move prices in lock-step. In some ways, the US mobile phone business is like the airlines. When one carrier offers an "unlimited" plan at a specific rate, the others rush to offer something similar. This virtual price collusion falls apart when one of the companies in the oligopoly gets greedy (they almost always do).

Downward price pressure is created when one company is willing to operate on lower margins short term to take market share from the others. Lower prices are good for consumers. No small company can afford to enter the market because the barriers to entry are expensive and the margins are low. The existing carriers end up in a race to the bottom that resembles a perfect competition market. The risk is that one of the companies will become large enough to become a monopoly or near monopoly and gain pricing power to raise prices without consequences.
I don't know how much of this I agree with but I definitely agree with most of it. I also hadn't considered the fact that we have forced businesses into the role of government because our government is underperforming.
Where consciousness arises is not the interesting question. Why is. Biologically, brain structures spend a lot of effort predicting what state they will be in soon. Essentially they are always trying to predict the future. As minds evolved this ability separated from processing what was going on to what could be going on (dreams in more advanced creatures). The next important concept is self versus not-self. If you can change the world around you via intelligence you'll want to avoid unnecessary energy inefficient feedback loops. Being able to model your actions and their effects is the first step of defining 'you'.
Note the bit at the end:

> Tesla has a hearing before the National Labor Relations Board in November for charges that company supervisors and security guards harassed workers distributing union literature. Tesla denied the accusations.

>Openly pro-union workers were among those fired this week. Some believe they were targeted.

> The company denied union activities played a role in the dismissals.

There are dynamics in blue-collar labor and generally manufacturing that are not relevant to software companies.