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I think the best people for jobs like this are those that just want supplemental income. Teenagers, College Kids, Part-time or temp workers.
Thank you for your efforts. Features such as this are appreciated by, I'm sure, many of your users. It's a shame that the slating Mozilla has had recently hasn't been met by praise for work like this.
Precisely. Constant exposure to less-than-therapeutic doses of antibiotics is a huge source of resistance. The bacteria in an animal with low doses or antibiotics are not exposed to enough of the drug to outright kill them, but the bacteria start to develop defenses. Bacteria can evolve extremely rapidly -- they don't even need to reproduce, as bacteria can exchange DNA horizontally[1].

Also, this is why if your doctor prescribes a course of antibiotics you should always complete the entire course, even if you feel fine. Stopping the antibiotics early can select for resistant strains.

1. http://learn.genetics.utah.edu/content/microbiome/resistance...
> from all hail the tech titans to oh these tech companies are creating a dystopia

Uber's sexual harassmentpalooza together with Twitter and Facebook's arrogant performances at their respective Congressional hearings did most of the work.
Just to the first one. I do think that people would already notice improper data being sent to MS after Windows 10 is out for 2 years (or maybe 3 already?). It would be waaaay to risky for them to lie about something like that and actually put personally identifiable info there.
On the plus side, he must be extraordinarily good to get this job over minority applicants. Google has a bias for hiring minorities (easier to get an internship, interview, or re-interview) so I assume the same bias holds here.
Apache Groovy brought closures to the JVM in its day, something no other JVM language had at the time, kudos to its creator James Strachan who was dissatisfied with Beanshell. Now that Java 8, Kotlin, Scala, and Clojure also brought closures/lambdas mainstream, I'm not really sure what unique proposition Groovy brings to the JVM any more.
My apologizes, I missed up on the thread context.

This sort of conversation of "really understand" is Searle's Chinese Room thought experiment. Hofstadter and many others have written a lot on the topic.
Is anyone suggesting only working on an individual level, just wishing, or getting down emotionally? As for me, I'm inspired by past leaders who have led change and movements on this scale before.

Unless I misunderstand you, "People won't change unless the incentive structure (monetary or in the shape of social pressure) is in place to make them want to do it." seems inconsistent with history.

My podcast, Leadership and the Environment http://joshuaspodek.com/podcast, is an initial step I'm taking, but just a start.
I giggle a little bit inside when web designers say "We shouldn't use meaningless tags that exist only for layout. We should use semantic ones, like <header> and <footer>!". Except that, uh, "header" and "footer" themselves are layout terms. They're just a metaphor for a document as a body ("<body>") with the head at the top and the feet at the bottom. It's not like the contents of a <footer> tag have anything to do with feet. We call it "semantic" simply because the metaphor is old enough that we've internalized it and no longer see it.

Not that I think this detracts from the talk at all. Fewer, cleaner tags is good, regardless of how they're spelled.
Consumer pressure is no substitute for regulatory action.
The thing that kills me is the preconcevied we have to use $TOOL behaviors. Lets use docker as a deployment tool, where we are putting one container on each VM... Combined with the complete ignorance of packaging. 99% of the problems I hear people trying to solve with docker would be better solved with a 'postinstall' hook in a package called 'my_configuration' (it helps you with configuration versioning and in place upgrades!!!!). Combined with the complete lack of understanding what something like kickstart/autoYast can do.

It seems that in a huge number of cases, its possible to trim out the vast majority of the layers of deployment/etc crap with just a bit of KISS and using tools which are already installed...
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But the rest of the passwords wouldn't be in plain text...
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Plethora | Full Stack, Computational Geometry, QA Automation | San Francisco, CA | https://www.plethora.com/

Plethora is a manufacturing startup in SF's Dogpatch neighborhood. We develop user-facing software that gives mechanical engineers feedback on their part designs, and factory software that automates the production process.

We offer 6 weeks paid vacation, paid parental leave, health benefits, catered lunch twice a week, and an in-house workshop/makerspace.

https://jobs.lever.co/plethora/e18ad7e8-10c0-4793-857e-96504...

https://jobs.lever.co/plethora/ba052cd1-b131-43ac-bef8-f9358...

https://jobs.lever.co/plethora/6828281f-ebfa-4eec-9c05-0e6b2...

https://jobs.lever.co/plethora/fd27b4e5-f57e-44c3-94ee-29dda...
Thanks for the feedback vineet. Digging through past comments is a good idea and the quick reactions were in a way derived by doing that - we looked at Show HN comments and tried to distill them down to just a few. As you can imagine, its not easy to capture everything. We are looking at making the selection a bit more expansive but still quick to add. A browser extension is an interesting idea - this is something that was a bit of a struggle to figure out how to make it easier to see feedback from HN. We played around with importing comments from HN and had our own comments on the site along with HN comments, but merging the two was a bit confusing since you couldn't comment on HN from within DevKitchen. We're still trying to improve how this works.
By the way on search (not in the start menu, in explorer), do you know why it is so slow? It can sometimes take minutes to search for filename in a network drive when listing all files in the same drive in c# takes seconds (and if you even dare to change how results are sorted, it would reset the search from scratch...). That's not specific to Windows 10, Windows 7 does the same. It seems to be doing all sort of unwanted stuff but I don't know what and I don't know how to turn them off to only search by file name.
I was a little after that and grew up with Qbasic and later Visual Basic. By that era, at least I was doing the same things managers were trying to do.
A decentralized, distributed ledger has value as well.

Ethereum is a better example, but on the flip-side so is steel.
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A common theme I see with these articles is how "grueling" the work is. People need some perspective on what grueling work is. I worked at a UPS hub during college, where I'd load, unload, and sort the contents of trailers. What they do seems pretty easy compared to what I did at UPS. Picking and packing orders is a lot less grueling than unloading trailers full of 60 pound paper boxes, or loading hundreds of packages an hour into outbound trailers (where if you backed up too much you could shut down the entire line), or sorting over a thousand packages an hour. None of us ever complained that the work was too hard or grueling -- at best we just wanted another person in our trailer to split the load with and BS with. I honestly miss that work; it's just too bad I can't make as much doing that as working in tech.

Compare that to an Amazon fulfillment center, where from what I've seen they walk a lot to pick packages (but even that's being automated away by Kiva robots), put the contents into boxes, and load the boxes into trailers. Amazon packages are relatively light compared to most business shipments of stuff that went through UPS (which are usually things packed in bulk). Maybe it's mind-numbing, but the horror stories about how physically grueling it is (save for maybe when they weren't properly air conditioning the facilities) seem overboard. Even then, there were days in the summer where I'd be unloading a trailer that was baking in the sun all day, and we didn't get AC in there -- we just sweated it out and drank a lot of water.

I don't really know what people expect when they work in a warehouse. It's not glamorous and it's not easy, and it doesn't require that much skill so it doesn't command that much pay. But it's better than no job at all.
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A movement to de-fund traditional medicine in favor of homeopathy, on the hypothesis that it works better, would reassure you?

Sounds like they didn't find the hypothesis convincing, and felt it might detract from the issue.
One headline I saw yesterday said that these fake videos had been "deleted from the internet". I don't think they know how the internet works.
Had this tire been put on cars it would have been much worse. The total carnage was limited by its application in motor homes.
Were? Did this change?
I think the issue may be with poor cities. If a city is poor it should have cheap housing, low utility cost, low taxes. I can't speak to San Bernardino, but one of the issues in Detroit is that they are taxing people like the city is rich
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The US has the flag code, which are really more guidelines than anything else. Flag burning is perfectly legal here.
You're missing the point.

Facebook / Twitter / etc verify the crypto signatures on media ingress. Then they can give proper attribution and show a checkmark or something that attests the media hasn't been altered.

So in your feed, there will be some media with checkmarks and some without and you can choose which to believe more.

Alternatively, a competitor could come along and reject all media that doesn't pass cryptographic verification.
I think the biggest ones are cheaper transportation to and from areas of the world with lower production costs and drastic increases in automation, both which lower the demand for human labor in the USA (and other developed countries).

You can regulate all you want, but it would be better to focus on getting as much of the population ahead of the curve as possible as opposed to leaving them behind. At the end of the day, we just don't need secretaries, travel agents, much of the automobile assembly workers, etc.
Anyone will happily pay as little as possible for anything. I don't see your point.
Alan? Welcome to HN!

Can you talk a bit more about how you guys developed this? It sounds like the biometrics sensor you developed was custom-built. When did development start? What kind of support did you get from the FIA, F1, and race teams? How did you guys do your beta testing?

I feel like an AMA is in order, and Hacker News is probably the best place to do it. I think a lot of us would also love to hear about your stories being the F1 medical car driver too.

Edit: another question.

- Why Bluetooth? Even with 500m range, you'd likely need several receivers around the track to ensure coverage. Furthermore, how reliable is it among the various sources of RF interference around the track? I'd like to hear more about this, because we've done some development with low-power long-range wireless devices, and Bluetooth was never considered a possibility. Maybe your constraints are different, or you guys know something I don't.
Consumer pressure only works if consumers a) actually care, and b) have enough information to make informed choices. Most people only look at the prices when shopping for groceries. No meat I've ever seen had information about the treatments the animals received.
How would you define social media?
AFAIK TypeScript has a JavaScript mode too?
Wouldn't that only be an issue for high-end AAA games though?
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You misunderstood me. It may not be strictly required for sites to use JS to build these warnings. But in practice, today, that's how it works on sites that display them. And it definitely requires the user to have JS enabled to pass these obnoxious pop-ups.

JS is also used for things that are doable with CSS or even HTML only. This isn't the first time.

My tin-foil hat persona suspects it's yet another way to force me to disable the various script and ad-blockers in the guise of protecting users for privacy concerns. But my more realistic side assumes this is just laziness.
You can use the same installer file (downloaded once) for multiple installations. It works as long as you bought the required licenses. So packaged installer media would only really benefit people in remote places where an internet connection is non-existent or slow/expensive, but MS has obviously decided to optimise that case out.
> Bread and circuses are the result

I'm not interested in debating the merits or lack thereof of socialism as a system of government, but the "bread and circuses" thing applied to Roman citizens.

Unless I was misinformed, the overlap between the people in the Roman empire who were citizens and the people in the Roman empire who were the labour force was very, very small.
Depends on the jurisdiction. The term of art is generally 'right of publicity', not copyright. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Personality_rights

As you might expect, California leads the way in this area in the U.S., given their interest in protecting Hollywood / celebrities.
You say that journalists are "just trying every way possible to create an anti-tech sentiment". You are implying motive here, it appears. On what basis?

I view it from this lens: journalists have both a professional code and a desire to have people read what they write. As a result, many journalists want to surprise and even shock people. It doesn't mean what they write is pleasant or what you want to read.

There are many other factors in play. For example, cities across the US are scrambling to offer (quite dubious, in my opinion) incentives to Amazon. I really value different perspectives that show the kinds of jobs that Amazon creates.

Lastly, I read your last sentence as getting it backwards. It is precisely because of noise that we have to focus on what matters. What you call noise may be someone else's signal. Noise makes it harder to sort through information, that's nothing new. Asking for less journalism in order to get less noise seems backwards. Journalism, to the degree to which it investigates, analyzes, interviews, helps offer different ways of viewing the world. To do so is hardly what I would call noise; rather, good journalism shows researched, sometimes novel perspectives on reality.
The beauty of Google for quotes - in addition to the obvious one, that you're saving someone else the effort of doing the work for you and getting your answer in seconds - is that you've got search access to primary sources like books and many periodicals. That is important, since the more popular a given quote, the more likely it is that it will be misattributed. We puny humans absolutely cannot be trusted to attribute quotes correctly.

I suppose it's a matter of personal politics whether that all matters more to you than getting an anecdote back like, "I was listening to an old radio show when I heard Winston Churchill intone Great are the stars, and man is of no account to them," or something.
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What messaging app(s) do you prefer to use?
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> "The domestic shipping industry is an economic behemoth in Florida, contributing 52,140 maritime jobs and $9.6 billion to Florida’s economy, according to a 2014 study by PricewaterhouseCoopers. The Port of Jacksonville is the nation’s hub for Jones Act shipping to Puerto Rico, and Florida ranks second among all states in jobs affected by the domestic maritime industry."

While that's true, that's not the reason that Democrats specifically are unwilling to touch the Jones Act. Florida is a pretty purple state, and Democratic senators from other states don't care as much about the shipping industry in Florida. Furthermore, Marco Rubio (a Republican) represents Florida, but he was actually a strong advocate of waiving (though not repealing) the Jones Act after Hurricane Maria.

The reason Democrats in particular are unwilling to touch the Jones Act is because the AFL-CIO lobbies for it very, very heavily. The AFL-CIO lobbies for the Jones Act in general because it boosts the demand for jobs in unions that they control. In addition, the AFL-CIO also has a "complicated" relationship with Puerto Rico, which is why they so specifically opposed temporarily waiving the Jones Act for Puerto Rico after Hurricane Maria hit, even though they've begrudgingly accepted temporary waivers for US cities hit by other recent hurricanes (like Harvey in Houston).
I visit https://monkey.org/ every couple of years just to bring back memories.
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It's more like a kickstarter. At least you get something out of this. ICOs give you some bits on a system.
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Well, you can define a function in Java called setFoo, but that instead sets bar. Similar.

You can intentionally confuse in most letters if you want to.
I feel like most companies at some point do that.

Then they enter into optimization mode, and each level of management needs to show better numbers on their reports, so they have two routes, suck value out of the product or suck value out of the work force.
In cattle, certain antibiotics shift the composition of the bacteria in their digestive system and help them better deal with corn heavy feed (both extracting more energy from the feed and also mitigating illnesses due to the feed mix).

http://edis.ifas.ufl.edu/an285

There is also other growth promotion due to antibiotics.
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Consumers’ votes with our dollars is what drives it all and certainly what attracts (5).

Consider the effect of (2), (3), and (4) upon the worker at the margin: they will all constrict the number of jobs relative to what it is today. Great for the lucky fewer who get in, but the economist must consider both the seen (higher wages for some) and the unseen (unemployment for others).

As to (1), Amazon is at the Walmart end of the market and are driving up affordability; the two go hand-in-hand. Does sufficient demand for a Target or Costco exist?

An anecdote, for what it’s worth: the people I knew who drove their trucks several years ago had the opposite view of how they were treated, particularly about being chronically shortchanged on retirement contributions, leave balances, and other accounting matters. Maybe things have changed since then.
Is voice conversion via ML possible yet?

I know we can create vaguely convincing synthesised voices, but I've not run across a program which can take my recorded voice, and convert it to a celebrity, or even shift apparent pitch or gender convincingly.
I second this. In one camp, when I was a boy-scout, we took the habit of drinking in streams. Halfway through the camp, we had a diarrhea epidemic, which made us much more cautious about this.
It's even more complicated than your Disney character analogy because if you can own the copyright of your likeness you can sell it. Imagine a young actress signing over her likeness to a predatory agency early in her career before making it big.
Most of the time, Russian Roulette is perfectly safe. But sometimes it's very dangerous.
Companies rise and companies fall. Nothing is permanent. The story itself may be interesting, but the concept is far from new.
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The robots will come for you sooner or later too.
I worked some hard-labor jobs when I was in college, too.

I think a major difference you're overlooking is that in your late teens and early 20s, you can do pretty hard labor without much effect.

I'm only in my mid 30s now and when I do a hard day's physical labor, I feel it a lot more.

Someone in their 40s or 50s or 60s is going to have a much harder time doing that kind of stuff every day.
> Your thesis is 100% inconsistent with the history of food safety regulations.

Source?

> People with no economic recourse to sue will get the short stick of things.

How is that different than now?

> Your proposition is beyond ridiculous

Say you, without providing any proposition of your own.
In order to do that, you had to pay a large transaction fee to set up a Lightning channel in the first place. Since all transactions between you and TorGuard are one-way, you will have to do this repeatedly, paying large transaction fees each time.
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Yes. The long term consequences don't factor in though because the immediate gains in production and profits are too attractive.

Whether or not people understand, believe the concerns are overblown or believe that we'll always be one step ahead, or will only stop when things get really bad, amounts to the same thing; misuse of anti-biotics.

It's a very human behavior to prefer a pound of cure to an ounce of prevention. It's magnified when you won't be responsible for the cure or the cost of it yourself. It's a weight that will be borne by all of society.
If you can make a porn video of someone look like a porn video of someone else, I’m sure the technology to solve this problem is not far off.
So maybe the "uncanny valley" could even ruin the effect? Some of the samples so far are really good though, so maybe we skip that stage..
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Granger_causality
It's really too bad that anyone still thinks FileCoin is not a deeply flawed (if not outright scammy) endeavor. The only reason it isn't more widely decried is that the IPFS folks have a lot of goodwill in the community.

But it's a bad coin.

As for your #2, I don't use this solution because of propagation times. Instead, I use an nginx proxy that rewrites incoming requests on a specific path to root on IPFS node. When I rebuild, I rebuild that site config there.

But tbh, I'm going to undo that. I get absolutely nothing for being part of IPFS and there's effectively no reason to host content there. It's a DHT and while that's cool, it's actually substantially less efficient than alternatives.

I've been enthusiastic about IPFS because it's a neat white paper, but after using it for months I've concluded it's a tech demo with no real direction to go other than a deeply flawed cryptocurrency.
The big difference is that the margin on a car and the margin on shipping a package are different by a few orders of magnitude.

Also many auto manufacturing jobs were actually pretty skilled, so replacing the workers wasn't as easy.
This is helpful. Though I don't know if lack of feedback is due to too many Show HN posts or people skip through them. Isolating them is a great idea. The challenge for your project is how do you get folks to get to your site. Which is the same problem of Show HN posts :)
Amazon is already working to fully automate these warehouses. Actions that increase the cost of labor will simply accelerate this process.
Have you actually had problems with spam? Or is this a purely hypothetical problem?
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ffs, why not directly link to the video instead? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F8JCh0owT4w
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They don't rely on it for authentication alone, usually it's a secondary or tertiary method that can block a login.
Yeah when I order atheist books they are beat up with no padding in the box half the time.

Replace those humans with robots please.
Anyone else having problems with the hacker rank page? It keeps rejecting my login id, despite me being properly logged in and using the correct password.
I was hoping that it would mention _which_ 9 states they are looking to hire in. It gave a few hints, but do we know for certain which 9 they are talking about?