skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The intentions of “nerds” are entirely irrelevant if the outcome is widespread economic tenuousness.

Not if we're talking about history and that's very much the history being written in popular culture.

You specifically said that it's not a "natural evolution" because a similar thing happened in the past during the gilded age. And instead it's some sort of regression back to that?

My entire comment counters that sentiment. The context and motivations are very different this time around, even if some (keyword is some) of the outcomes are similar. And when context and motivation are different then the effective solutions are going to also be very different.

> but to pretend that things like class relations are ahistorical

The typical academic writing where "class relations" are the central worldview tends to push more and more economic control to centralization and socialist ideology.

If I missed an evolution in the solutions offered there (ie, deprioritizing property and tort law in favour of more unions, centralization, agency oversight, laws that only apply to full-time employee, etc), then I'll happily admit I'm wrong to dismiss it as more of the same...

So either you want to cripple the modern industrial evolution, ala Uber in London, to go back to the previous model or your think those same systems will somehow work in the new era. All I'm saying is the previous generations solutions are a poor fix for this problem. And buying into 'working class vs everyone else' worldview and the socialist breadbasket that comes with that, rather than strengthening the individual's ability to not be exploited within the context of a decentralized capitalist system through stronger courts protecting contractors and modernized government services, is a misguided and nostalgic proposition.
why use the kinect when you can use leapmotion for ~100$ IIRC ( only for hand gesture recognition, that is )
It seems like this could be fairly easily resolved by the management having a rigid "we pay everyone the same, deal with it" position, perhaps up and and including a formula for salary computations.
I mean that if the ban on denying coverage for pre-existing conditions causes the health insurance industry to collapse I'm sure the actual health care industry will figure something out.
Then you've lived a sheltered life as a minority if you think middle America is as good of a long-term option as cities.
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I'm not sure how most of the alternatives are any better. MOND is a massive black box of not understanding what's going on with gravity.

Dark matter: Some sort (or sorts) of particle that interacts gravitationally. It can't interact via the strong or electromagnetic forces. If we're very lucky it interacts via the weak force as well and we'll be able to directly detect some, but there's a good chance that it doesn't and we'll only ever have the indirect detections. And there are a lot of indirect detections that the current theory (Lambda-CDM, henceforth ΛCDM) predicts: the anisotropies in the cosmic microwave background, the large scale structure of the universe, galaxy rotation curves, gravitational lensing where no visible matter exists to create the lens, velocity dispersions of elliptical galaxies, galaxy cluster radial velocity distributions, galaxy cluster x-ray spectra, baryon acoustic oscillations, redshift survey distortions, Type Ia supernova distance measurements, Lyman-alpha forest measurements, and now the measured speed of gravitatonal waves.

Any alternative to cold dark matter + dark energy needs to agree with all the observations. Not just some, ALL. ΛCDM does. Some alternatives agree with parts and make no predictions about the rest, so they can't be eliminated (eg entropic gravity). But ΛCDM is currently the best fit for the observations.

I am not a physicist. I acknowledge that we need a way to unify QM and General Relativity, so one or both of those two must be incorrect. I just don't think that Dark Matter is an hypothesis thing to discard, given the evidence.
1. Employer's FICA contribution

2. Vacation paid time off

3. Sick leave paid time off

4. Maternity/Paternity paid time off

5. health care benefits

6. free/subsidized lunch

7. free bus passes

8. 401k employer matching contribution

9. employee stock purchase plans

10. stock options

11. bonuses

12. profit sharing / commissions

13. retirement plan

14. education tuition help

15. random other things like gym memberships, legal help, etc.

Here's some of Boeing's benefits:

http://www.boeing.com/careers/benefits/united-states-benefit...

Some statistics:

https://www.bls.gov/news.release/pdf/ecec.pdf

https://www.bls.gov/news.release/ecec.nr0.htm
This case of SAS vs. World Learning first went to court in the UK and from there to the CJEU which had a few substantial clarifications. These are quoted here in Wikipedia:

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

Does this help you?
> Luckily for me, my natural way of holding the phone to my ear didn't involve touching that part of the phone

Then you weren’t affected by the issue. Just like most people.

Anyone could recreate it just by putting their finger in a certain spot. It was trivial to do. I could do it on my phone too.

But it never affected me for the same reason as you. There may be some people who had actual problems, but for most people it wasn’t actually a big deal. It was just a ‘ha ha Apple sucks too screw you king of the mountain’ story that got a ton of press. It was the first one, and right after the stolen prototype.

Subsequent ‘gates’, like bendgate, have gotten something much closer to the attention they actually deserved.

Besides. Is anyone going to preorder one without reading one of the reviews that will come out before preorders go live? If FaceID doesn’t work well we’ll know ahead of time.
FYI - DoorDash just lost their CFO after less than a year. Trouble in Paradise? https://techcrunch.com/2017/10/25/doordash-cfo-leaves-less-t...

Some technologies I will miss if they don't pan out. DoorDash isn't one of them.
You should, because it's absolutely grounds for termination at many companies.
Depends who you're hiring. Early career devs with a lot more time than prospects, and who have already spend a good portion of that time working for free on exercises and toy projects in the name of learning, might not have a folio of work to prove their skills. Crusty HN regulars probably prefer to chuck a github profile around, or provide samples of work in some other way. I don't think it's one size fits all.
In addition to what others have added, the cash-back is only spendable through the Uber app.
Get ready to see a) people gaming the formula and b) talent leaving because they feel like they are paid the same as people who contribute less.

Edit: Not that it isn’t currently gamed and not that this doesn’t already happen: I’m pro pay transparency but there aren’t any magic fixes here, this is a really complicated social issue.
I guess I might be. Thanks for the link. I didn't know about it.
This is a nice piece of work. I don't trade stocks, so I don't screen them and can't speak to the market niche aspects other commenters have addressed but I'm impressed anyway :).
Can Washington Stop Big Tech Companies? Don’t Bet on It
But according to Jim Inhofe, former head of the senate environmental committee, the climate can't be getting warmer because God is beneficent and would never allow that sort of harm to happen to the human race.
It is the Wall Street Journal. It's a paper for management and companies optimizing for companies.

It's the nature of the beast.
Can't reach the site. DNS error. ERR_NAME_NOT_RESOLVED

Need to remove the www from that URL.
I am technical and we will sit down and go line by line, haha. And I know where alllllllll the fun code is hiding, not just the boilerplate. I get real deep in there. I’m sure my methods probably weed out some folks who don’t or can’t drop trou, but I never expected to catch every single fish in the ocean.
> before they ask you to do their multi-hour coding test for no money

Where do all of you keep finding those companies? Is that an SV thing, or am I just not applying to "prestigious" enough companies? I've been on my fair share of interviews and haven't had that happen once, along with no whiteboard interviews. I can echo your experience about Github projects playing a small role apart from signaling though. Once, an interviewer mentioned one of the Github projects I worked on and we exchanged 2-3 sentences about it, but I don't think it had a significant impact on the result of the interview.
> How about a party for workers?

Possible principles for a workers party:

- maximize after-rent and after-tax disposable income of workers

- shift all taxes off of wages from labor and onto ground rent from private enclosures of land and natural resources

- support a universal public savings account for all citizen residents over 20

- democratically divide and deposit all surplus natural resource rents directly into the universal savings accounts

- have the Federal Reserve conduct monetary policy by setting the interest rate on the universal citizen savings accounts, rather than by buying up assets from investors

This should increase the disposable income for a super-majority of workers by decreasing rent, making acquiring a house more affordable, making land for new small farms and businesses near competitive markets easier to obtain, increasing private savings to ensure workers have access to a large-runway of cash and high bargaining power while in between jobs, reducing the severity of economic depressions and recessions created by idle land speculation, and by directing capital flows away from mortgages and mortgage-backed assets and into productive businesses which will actually increase the demand for labor and raise wages.
You say 'explode' three times in this post, and once you state that the reason for peroxide plant explosions is the petrol side of things.

Would you elaborate on that? I was under the impression that ordinary peroxide from any source can cause explosions. A quick web search for 'peroxide explosion' seemingly confirms that.

But, I'm no chemist. You tell me, please!
so it's just another random visa card without any special discount (cashback) on uber rides? Is there any point to this?
I was the OP btw :)

I'd have to dig further but I have to imagine there are products that are created by Google that don't reach $100M+ in revenue that Google eventually folds. Something more likely - a product that is $10M in revenue that plateaus and could be sold off as an asset.

I honestly don't know, just throwing it out there.
Yes! Enzymatic chemical production supplanting traditional fermentation is why Solugen exists. Historically, enzymatic production is used in only 3% of all chemical production processes. However, with CRISPR/Cas9 and the second wave of biotech, enzymes are becoming cheaper to engineer and even cheaper to mass-produce. People have tried fermentation to biofuels in the past, but it didn't work. Cells are really really good at making proteins, like enzymes, but they suck at making just a single chemical product. Downstream separations become a nightmare. We think it better that fermentation should be exclusively used to make enzymes and then those enzymes should be used to do single-chemical manufacturing. Our core technology revolves around designing and providing customers with the perfect scaled reactors for their enzymatic technologies. Fermentation reactors severely limit the capabilities of enzymes, and the reactors in the petrochemical industry are also ill-suited for enzyme manufacturing. We like to call our work "enzyme-reactor" fit!
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I'd like to know where you feel Relay hasn't been suitable. We're writing a reasonably large app using Relay Modern combined with graphql-ruby in the backend and it's been wonderful.

I did find that Relay does have a steep learning curve but once you've got your head around what is going on it's been able to handle every requirement we've thrown at it.
Sounds like you've found a good weed-out criteria for a hiring company that isn't a good match for you!
Not very quietly, SolarCity as a separate brand has been wound down already, it's marketed as Tesla Energy now.
Why does it need to "download embedded browser" as part of setup?
Wiki lists First Data as 45% of the market, which comes directly from this 2014 article:

http://www.crainsnewyork.com/article/20141201/TECHNOLOGY/141...
Silicon Valley: Chasing Money That Doesn't Exist
This really resonated with me. I am passionate, or at least I think so. But all my subprojects are for work. I work at a place where the problems are interesting, and we are encouraged to randomly skunk works things in the background. So I do.

None of those things are things that I can give out or show to anyone at all. I'm really interested in the field my company works in, and all my side projects are related to it, at least elliptically.

The only thing I can show you after 35 years are things like abandon shareware products from the late 80s and some really awful code written for no purpose long ago. Nothing that relates it all to what I've done for the last 20 years.

I also work in one of those companies that asks applicants to do some code problems and turn them in. On the other hand we really don't care how you solve them or even if you solve them. What we want to do is get in a group setting with the applicant and the code and four or five of us and talk through the code. The problems tend to be simple, the interesting part is talking to to a candidate and getting a sense of how they code/think.
tbh was bought for "under $100M", divided among all the shareholders including 4 co-founders.

steph made $35M in endorsement income last year, plus $12.1m salary. he got a raise this year, from $12M salary to $36M salary (plus whatever endorsements). And steph gets paid his millions every year he works, not just a single buyout year.
Penalty?

It's much more like no more free money from folks who can't afford solar subsidizing rich folks who can.

Net-metering is a regressive tax. Rich folks with rooftop solar already get a huge massive benefit in the free battery the grid supplies them overnight - reducing their install costs by 5 figures - and they continue to demand horrible policy like net metering. It's been decades now, it's time to end the practice.

Folks with solar were not "screwed" - they simply stopped having non-solar customers subsidize their power usage as much as they were before.

Personally I plan on putting up my own solar/battery install so I can live off grid as needed during power outages. I would find it immoral to then demand the power company pay me retail rates for any excess power I generate. I find it problematic for me to even be connected to the grid for my "emergency use" as it's clearly a highly subsidized backup power source for me at that point.

Edit: I'm okay with an ends-justify-the-means approach to net metering. However, it absolutely cannot be a long term policy as it's exceedingly regressive in nature. Using it as a short-term subsidy to bootstrap an industry is fine. That goal has been accomplished, and it's time to end these transfer payments.
> Nobody is going to like what I am going to write, but I have the opinion that homeless people are generally happier in modern developed country when you compare to other countries.

You're smart and self-aware enough to have this thought. Why go on and contribute your uninformed opinion? Why not research whether homeless people really are happy or ask people who've been homeless?

> As long as there are minimum efforts done to take care of the poorest, meaning charities and a minimum of a justice system, things are relatively good enough.

Happiness and hope don't come from other people's "minimum efforts".
The moment Oracle bought ZFS and Java Apple ditched all plans for both.
If they don’t then you’re covered under warranty for any defects.

If it’s a problem with something like face ID or a hideous screen you’ll know fast. It’s not like the FaceID sensor will ‘wear out’ after a few weeks of usage.
You don't deserve the downvotes.

The amount of people deluding themselves that exit strategies optimized for being bought by a giant are moral, is disheartening.
Transparency aside, I've seen little evidence that employers can properly measure the exact value an employee adds to their organization.

The reason for most of these problems lies there. If employers could solve that there wouldn't be any problem. However, since that isn't the case, employees can take advantage of the opaqueness.

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Case and point: if you could measure the value, you could figure out what is valuable, and if you can figure out what's valuable and what qualities it takes to create said value then your organization would already be successful.
Maybe, but if I had spent 15 hours 10 years ago it is doubtful that it would still be relevant or useful now. If I come to the point where I need some code to show for a job that I really want I'll just spend the 15 hours then.
Used to work for federal healthcare contractor, primarily in SAS. File conversion was a pain, but working in Stata would generally yield runtimes roughly an order of magnitude faster.
It "works" for me, but my "screen" is virtual - so slack wants to share both monitors as one big screen. So yes, it works, but not for my setup. It isn't useful. Being able to pick which monitor or app to show would make it useful. Being able to share the current app, whatever that is would be awesome.

It has driven me to use google meet - which seems to be more stable and doesn't bog down my system.
Culture doesn't mean being fashionable or trendy. I think you have a mistaken view of what culture means.
I had similar experiences: When I'm on keto, I'm feeling hungry much less, and much less intensely. Sometimes I skipped lunch because I was focused on something and wasn't feeling like interrupting whatever I was doing. More importantly, I didn't feel super hungry a couple of hours after. I guess I was constantly in fat burning mode so my body didn't need to be switching gears.

I stopped keto after a few months reaching my target weight, and was irritable and unfocused for 2-3 days.
Paying everyone the same is the right policy if everyone is equally productive. That equilibrium might be reached by the “overpaid” ones getting better (or leaving) or by the “underpaid” ones getting worse (or leaving). One can fairly easily predict which of those scenarios is more likely.
I've felt that SUV drivers should be required to pay much higher insurance premiums, as per a 'danger' factor.

You choose to drive a dangerous vehicle, you need to pay higher insurance for it.

On a similar note it's also annoying how there's no standard height for bumpers. Sometimes you see giant SUVs with bumpers at your head level (as an adult in a 'normal' car). In any collision the point of impact is right at your head. When I see those I question how that design could even be legal.
Salaries are a dysfunctional market like health care. No market can function properly without all parties having the same information.

All arguments against salary transparency seem to be that people will be unhappy when they find out that the company has screwed them over and therefore it's better for these people to be ignorant.
On boarding. Training. Professional development. Pair programming.

It’s much more cost effective to invest in your existing people. That’s one thing I never skimp on.
Still doesn’t matter. There is only one way to get those other features and that’s accept FaceID.

It’s no different from the ‘I want a Pixel 2 XL but I want a headphone jack’ problem. The company is only offering you one choice. Go without the headphone jack (or with FaceID) or don’t get the phone and hope for next year.
> It would go a long way to breaking up the neoliberal corporate hegemony

No, it wouldn't. Neoliberal corporate hegemony rules all of the developed world, all of which, except the US, has universal healthcare.
Thanks for making screenhero, it’s been one of my most used applications and I love it. I would have gladly personally paid a monthly subscription for it. But this news makes me very sad. Slack runs like garbage — it’s slow, it has CSS rendering issues (for a desktop app... ugh) every so often, it uses waaay too much RAM (I’ve had it use 4gigs... I’m sorry but chat is never the primary thing I do on my computer, that is not acceptable) — the slack track record when it comes to performance has been pretty bad, so forgive me if I don’t hold my breath. I hope I’m wrong...
Tutorial: Build an Interactive Virtual Globe with Three.js
NIMBYism is a little different when your backyard is a protected National Scenic Area. Stopping development is pretty much the whole point.
Let's put it as fighting for the abolition of wage slavery.
What specific part of the constitution?

Prohibiting you from using a phone is not taking your life.
That 1:1,000,000 is for random people. I am really interested in seeing how well it works for members of the same family (not twins). The statement I read seemed to indicate it was less reliable there.
Ask HN: Idea: Whoever gets to Mars first gets the planet
Since Mars is really the first unclaimed stake we've had available to our planet in ages, what is preventing the human race from simply agreeing that whomever gets there first with a manned mission gets claim of the planet?
A lot of German institutions work this way. There are a lot of problems with this. But one of the biggest is the following:

When you notice that someone that brings zero value to the company gets the same salary as you one of two things happens:

1. you either loose any incentive to do anything

2. or you quit.

In time all what you're left with is the people you don't want.
They've been pretty consistently anti MTB over the years.

There are absolutely wilderness areas where there should not be bikes, but it should be decided locally, just as certain trails outside of wilderness areas are, justly, hiker only.

For instance, this is a Wilderness area east of Bend, Oregon. It is not, however a "wilderness" - indeed many of the trails are former jeep roads:

https://www.google.com/maps/@44.0008533,-121.0058259,13154m/...

And don't forget: you can legally ride a string of horses into a Wilderness area, shoot an elk with a rifle and pack it out. To my way of thinking, riding a bike around is not nearly so impactful.
> unmaintainable junk

Isn't that what pretty much every side project is anyway? Unless you're an active OSS developer the chances of any of your projects being worthy of judgment is pretty slim.

I've got 10-12 repos on github I can show you...they're all half baked weekend projects that I did just to tinker with some new technology or idea I had. None of them are production quality, and most of them I'm appalled at anytime I go back and look.
As someone who works in the Nevada gold fields, I can say this is blatantly untrue. This isn't the wild west, you won't find armed guards up here. In general the security is no higher than the average oil refinery.

Anyone with a to mind to could easily drive into an active mining area on BLM land
The Ruby VM and How Apps Break (Part 2)
It's pretty much a standard interview practice in Boston.

As a rule, I don't and have never consented to them because I find them exploitative.
You don't have to pay everyone the same. Just be ready to justify why one gets paid more than other. CEOs have pay transparency but somehow the world doesn't go under.
Ivory seizures hit record levels last year, report says
Shinobi, which isn't as fully featured as ZM but is far more modern (and in active development), is also worth checking out: http://shinobi.video/