skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The economy is the best its ever been, but wealth inequality is the worst its ever been. The cost of living has gone up far, far faster than income has, while wages have stagnated or dropped, meaning people these days are earning less money and have more expenses than before.

To hear someone who was making $10/hour out of college and bought a home for $40,000 say that the reason millennials can't buy a home today is because they're buying avocado toast and not because equivalent homes cost $1.6 million today is infuriating. Relatively speaking, millennials are doing better, frugally, than baby boomers were (saving more, spending less, etc), but the cost of the things that people are complaining about has grown exponentially.

Meanwhile, almost all of the growth of the economy has gone towards the top 1% of people. If you look at, for example, Canada, the average CEO makes as much by January 2nd as the average worker does by December 31st.

CEO pay growth over the last few decades has skyrocketed (compared to inflation, worker wages, or even corporate profits), while worker wages basically track inflation. In other words, people are making the same amount of money as people 50 years ago, even though a lot of things cost more (e.g. housing).

Blaming the economy inequality on the fact that people aren't willing to take on second jobs ignores the fact that wealth and power is all being concentrated in a small number of people and the rest of us are forced to fight over what they're willing to leave behind for everyone else.
That view is hard to square with studies showing that resumes with black-sounding names get fewer callbacks.

http://www.politifact.com/punditfact/statements/2015/mar/15/...
>but that does not extend to (ab)use Googles service in whatever way they want.

That makes no sense. How have they abused it? There is no evidence of breach of terms provided.
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> 1. Browsers are expected to have password management of some sort.

Having a browser component that can be asked by other browser components to pretty please fill in some secrets seems like a way to increase your attack surface. With an external password manager and no integration there's no internal API to be exploited, short of compromising the whole user, or if you have some sort of application isolation, the whole system.
Perceived difficulty in firing causes much more cautious hiring. If I told you that the next car you buy, you'd have to use for 10 years with no options for a change, you'd certainly pick differently than you do now, knowing you could always replace it.
Why? If it is not proven the driver was negligent why fire this individual? Presumably this individual has a lot of experience and domain knowledge in testing self driving cars so replacing them with someone else may not be an improvement.

If they did make a mistake that got someone killed that could change things but I would hope we wait to find out if the driver was actually at fault.
A good book for learning the Unix basics is "The unix programming environment" by Kernighan & Pike. This is an old book but the concepts it teaches are invaluable even today. We used it in our university around 20 years ago but I still recommend it to unix neophytes!
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Phoenix is pretty big. You could very easily spend 2 hours getting halfway across it on a bus.
Only 3/1000 will receive offers. Does this strike anyone else as an extremely flawed and stringent filter? They claim to only want to hire the best, but in my opinion, they will end up hiring the lucky, with similar opinions and skillsets to the interviewers.
This type of "seeking" behavior is easier to justify when you can afford to take more risks. Consider the stock market adage "Never invest what you can't afford to lose."
The closest I can give you is a simulation of a scene modeled after the video using a very simple reconstruction of the site of the accident (based on google maps and street view)

http://www.blensor.org/lidar_accident.html
>They don't have any right to use the Play Store or other Google specific components. You can sideload your own.

They do, if they purchased the device (and have a legitimate account with google). Google AFAIK has not provided any evidence to affected users detailing how they have breached their terms.
Google may seem powerful and almighty to us now, but at the end of the day they would have to cave if - despite lobbying efforts - one of their major markets demanded a breakup.
> The notion that gifted students need a special environment to learn is comical.

They may need a special environment to be allowed to excel in learning without getting bullied.
I saw a horrific case the other week where an internal recruiter cut and paste the feedback from an engineer verbatim. The candidate received feedback which said and I quote “You’d have to be a madman to have used X in 2017”.
Well, that’s not regulation. In general, to sell across the EU, you have to comply with the regulations of the single market. That’s largely harmonised; there’s some friction, but it’s not anything like dealing with 28 totally independent countries. It’s surprisingly easy to sell so the whole EU market.

Different social attitudes to risk, and a language barrier, are no doubt much more pressing concerns.
Also see dex[1] and pair it with something like kuberos[2] to do a similar thing. I have used these both happily for our kubernetes cluster.

[1] https://github.com/coreos/dex

[2] https://github.com/negz/kuberos
You're raising an an interesting point: in the US, it's possible to be near poor without really feeling it... until what you describe ends up happening.
Emerdata?
Thanks for the Autism rights movement link (here I am, an old-fashioned wikipedian of 15 years and still finding new articles).

I though Autism/Asperger has some genetic backing? At least the wikipedia article I link below has quite a list of candidate gene loci.

Here's a quote from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heritability_of_autism

> Autism concordance in siblings and fraternal twins is anywhere between 0 and 23.5%. This is more likely 2–4% for classic autism and 10–20% for a broader spectrum. Assuming a general-population prevalence of 0.1%, the risk of classic autism in siblings is 20- to 40-fold that of the general population.
I currently have a Moto G; I previously used a Moto X, and before that a Galaxy Nexus. Of course the google apps nag me to log in or create an account, if I happen to launch one by accident, but the phone itself works fine without one.

For one of the phones I couldn't find a way to get through setup without creating a google account, so I just entered a bunch of garbage info, then deleted or froze all the google related services and reset the accounts database. Its sole entry after that was my Signal login.
Really digging this Facebook dogpili vibe.
Seems like bullshit, to be frank. It smells like a culture that has progressively thought more highly of itself over time than it should.
I agree they shouldn't have skipped the rules. But, at the time, I guess they kind of knew they were onto something (semiconductors) and the decided to cut a few corners?
I admit, my experience may reflect my skill more than the game.
Yes, Canada has border controls and customs inspectors... I honestly don't understand how this is controversial. It's fairly difficult to get a license to own an AR-15 type rifle in Canada, the magazine is restricted to 5 rounds, and if you try to cross the border with one, you have a reasonable chance of being arrested. Once in Canada, if you take your American AR-15 to a shooting range, you'll be arrested. In the U.S., for better or worse, most anyone can buy almost any kind of gun they want. For someone that intends to shoot up a school, the prohibition on taking their legally acquired gun into the school zone is the least of the crimes they're committing.
Wages are rising at the highest rate since 2009: https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2018/02/02/582641530....

And black unemployment is at historic lows a well.
I'll take a company trying to be cognizant of such things, and over adjusting, over not at all.

I think it's great that Circle is trying to do their part in being as inclusive-minded as the can be from the research they've collected.

If at the end of the day that is somewhat misguided, I'm sure they'll readjust, given that they have already proven they will, where many others have either explicitly not cared, or never even thought to.
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The word missing from this discussion is "structural" - there are deep structural changes to how the job market and economy now works that limit the economic prospects of millennials (as a group) in ways that can't readily be overcome with thriftiness and hard work.

Here's an excerpt of the article that really clarified this for me:

"Thirty years ago, she says, you could walk into any hotel in America and everyone in the building, from the cleaners to the security guards to the bartenders, was a direct hire, each worker on the same pay scale and enjoying the same benefits as everyone else. Today, they’re almost all indirect hires, employees of random, anonymous contracting companies: Laundry Inc., Rent-A-Guard Inc., Watery Margarita Inc. In 2015, the Government Accountability Office estimated that 40 percent of American workers were employed under some sort of “contingent” arrangement like this—from barbers to midwives to nuclear waste inspectors to symphony cellists. Since the downturn, the industry that has added the most jobs is not tech or retail or nursing. It is “temporary help services”—all the small, no-brand contractors who recruit workers and rent them out to bigger companies."

from: http://highline.huffingtonpost.com/articles/en/poor-millenni...
> I feel like this is a disingenuous question.

Not at all.

> Do you believe that CircleCI has some nefarious plot to increase engineering team productivity by mining spare workcycles out of interview candidates?

Your tone suggests that you think this is impossible, but it happens all the time: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16661338 That was on the front page three days ago.

The GP's concern is legitimate; job interviews should not be an excuse for unpaid labor.
"Certified" means they have signed Google's Mobile Applications Distribution Agreement, a confidential contract where Google permits access to Google Apps in exchange for the manufacturer agreeing to load up all of Google's required bloatware, set Google Search as default, comply with all of their compatibility requirements, and agree to not release any devices running alternative versions of Android.

We don't have a current version of the MADA public, but you can see some old ones from 2011 here: http://www.benedelman.org/news-021314/
Agreed. Dropbox + KeepassXC has been a great combo for me.
At this point it should be obvious that those starting out an industry, or those disrupting it so much as to make it in their image, have all the incentive in the world to break rules in small to medium ways consistently and pay for it later (if at all) from a position of dominance. Not only can they afford it later, but enough elites usually get in on the deal to make money on the way up help shield it from any major blowback.

Just look at Uber for a recent example. I'd bet you could pick any decade of the last 150 years and it wouldn't be that hard to find obvious, well known examples.
Reminds me of the joke about throwing away half the candidates arbitrarily because you wouldn't want to hire someone that has bad luck.

It does seem pretty strict, but without some sort of baseline this might be rather normal. I've never worked in recruiting or seen hard numbers on this sort of thing before so I have nothing to compare it to.
I don’t think you have this right. First, both the URL and the headers are in-band. Out-of-band would be you knowing that the version is v2.3.7, because you just know. In-band is anything in the request and response – headers and all – anything else is an assumption and as such out-of-band.

Moreover, if I understand Roy’s argument correctly, he’s arguing against versioning URLs, because they are meant to be opaque identifiers that doesn’t convey any universal meaning. If you know the second segment of a URL path to be a version, it’s because you have out-of-band knowledge that it is, not because there’s anything in the request to say it is.

If however you have a header that tells what version you wish then that is in-band information that allows you to negotiate the content appropriately with the server. It also means you don’t have to change URLs whenever you make a change to your API, breaking or not. Of course the server and client needs to understand this header (to my knowledge there’s Accept-Version header) and if it’s non-standard then it can be argued that it’s just as bad as versioned URLs. Perhaps, but unless you get very granular with your versions (and most don’t, let’s just be honest) your still at the mercy of what the server chooses to present you at any given time. In fact, REST gives you no guarantees about what you’ll receive at any given point – you may just as well be given a picture of a cat. REST says you should be able to gracefully deal with this. Most clients (that aren’t web browsers or curl) don’t.
> In a way, aren't you deflecting the argument

No, I'm deflecting, if anything, a distraction from the argument, by not accepting the shift in subject matter.
If the field you’re selling in is already harmonised, if you only have employees in one country, and if you have someone else do the VAT for you.

All these can be potential roadblocks that make it harder.
Not sure about 'surprise'

the Corbett Report is pointing out it covered all this in detail a year ago

https://youtu.be/w7n9FI6C5vw

along with lots of other similar commentary online over the last couple of years...
Why do you think spending more than he needs or wants to on breakfast is the most valuable use of his money? Surely re-investing it or other expenses will help far more people.

As a sidenote, if you are spending all of your money after paying your bills off, it sounds like you're not saving anything, which is a recipe for disaster. You should most certainly not consider such a person to be miserly.
Perhaps I made a mistake in supposing that someone would take "using Google" as "search until I found several studies or good discussions on a given topic, compare the data, the arguments, the point of view and so-forth of each study then come to a conclusion" rather than, say, using Google's auto-generated answers to a few topic.
This is a design trade-off that comes up all the time in automotive engineering. I own a couple of 90's-era Honda vehicles and what's interesting is although the cars are computerized, they also employ a number of semi-independent systems such as instrument gauges which directly connect to their own sensors even though a similar sensor connected to the engine control unit is right next to it, mechanical choke and coolant temperature modulators to intake air despite fuel injection, an "hydraulic computer" controlling part of the automatic transmission even though there is also a dedicated transmission control computer (which is itself redundant to making the transmission control an integrated feature of the engine control module).

To me this seems to make no design sense; why not bring all of the inputs into one central box with one computer control, and drive all of the outputs from this central box? But then who am I to argue that the separate / bespoke approach is not better, given Honda's reputation for reliability?
I don't think Uber's safety drivers have any domain knowledge. The law says you need bodies in seats so Uber is paying as little as possible to put bodies in seats. They aren't engineers or professional (as in stunt/trick/etc) drivers.
> I like to see how much revenue Facebook gets from those countries vs. the US and Western Europe.

That's not even the point, even if they're loosing money at the moment it's almost certainly worth it to capture those new users.

> All the money in the world can't keep something fashionable forever.

Facebook isn't fashionable or trendy, myspace et al took that angle which is why they're gone now, and also that's missing the point again.

Facebook is a social utility that a crapload of people can't live without. I have friends who I can't even contact without using facebook/messenger/whatsapp, and this is in a country where mobile data is cheap and SMS/phone calls are basically free. Go to a place where facebook-subsidised connections are the only option that people can actually afford and your only alternative is basically social suicide.

I don't think many people truly grasp the scale and pervasiveness of Facebook and how there just isn't anything that is even remotely close to competing.
By uninstallable you mean ununinstallable?
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Quite false. They have nothing about the origin (etymology) re prejudice, just the time period so hardly contradict, just as I said. Fer instance, "Meaning "preconceived and oversimplified notion of characteristics typical of a person or group" is recorded from 1922." That fits my origin, and offers nothing else. I am at a loss as to why you can't acknowledge that.
What services require Facebook for authentication? The only one I can think of is Tinder (not sure if that's actually the case, I've never used it) but I don't think a few non-essential services requiring a Facebook account makes it not discretionary.

If you needed a Facebook account to file a tax return or something, then I would agree that it's not discretionary.
I think a big part of frugality is intentionality.

and intentionally is the root skill necessary to a place that isn't dependent on "the system".
"Computer games are unrealistic". Sure they are, thanks about informing us about it. That's the whole point. In real life, you are not Emperor Of Earth, you do not control economies or vast armies, and if you try to pull any of video-game shenanigans, you'd die a horrible death. The whole point of playing is to escape - in your imagination - into a world where it's not true. I can't believe people can be dense enough to not realize it. So what's the point in such articles?
The fact that they use a pseudo scientific "Gender Decoder" is a red flag. It leads me to think Circle CI has unfair prejudices against men and masculinity in general.

By the way, "Objectives" and "driven" are neither feminine or masculine, they're just words. Can you imagine if every word in the Oxford English Dictionary had a gender classification?
We know many cases are genetic but don't have a definitive genetic test.

Heritibility is not hard to determine even if no specific genes are known. Mendel did this with plants even before chromosomes were discovered. So we can say simple things like the odds of offspring having autism - which isn't based on a specific gene but rather the dominance/recessiveness of the underlying genetic factors computed by census/survey/sampling data.

So yes, there is a genetic disease that causes neurological changes, autism - but it isn't correct to label all inward children as having that gene. Symptomatic diseases can have multiple disparate genetic causes - and we usually separate these into different diseases even if the symptoms are extremely similar.
Sure, but that doesn't mean plenty of adults couldn't use a well designed refresher. After all, studies have shown[1] that many adults struggle with arithmetic of a level also taught in school.

[1] This article summarizes some of the findings of one such study and links to further resources https://qz.com/638845/americans-are-spectacularly-bad-at-ans...
FYI that quote is from Antoine de Saint-Exupry, author (and pilot) famous for "The Little Prince".
He is a carpenter because he saved enough money as a software engineer to do whatever the fuck he wanted and he wanted to build shit with his hands. Does financial independence somehow only count if you opt sit on your ass all day?
they're also patently unaware of the class struggle their authorship persists! they should be deplatformed.

/s
Do you track open rates that result in clicking unsubscribe?

I open a lot of email just to click that link
Actually, AFAIK Google still stashes most of it's European profits with a Caribbean island to avoid the taxes of bringing it back to the US. I know Apple's announced a plan to bring their money back in, but I don't know if Google has yet. With the current tax deal in place, they have little reason not to.
second this
In cases where users' freedoms for legitimate uses are curtailed I believe we should be siding with the end users. Maybe in time we will see microsoft banning chrome, firefox, steam etc from running on devices not certified by MS. Its "their OS" so "its their right".
The idea was always pretty cool. It's not super well known but they went through another accelerator before YC (The Brandery). The founders were really really young, just out of high school if I recall, so some mistakes were probably related to that. Nonetheless, what they were able to accomplish at the time was impressive.

https://www.mercurynews.com/2013/06/03/flightcar-san-francis...

https://techcrunch.com/2015/10/08/employees-deplane-from-fli...

These days it seems like Uber and Lyft have really captured the airport pickup/dropoff market. It looks like Turo (formerly RelayRides) is still active in the P2P space though, and they've raised $172M.

https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/turo
Demand more money. You’re now in a position to do so.
One doesn't download FF Nightly by accident though.
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I find this attitude frustrating. It seems like a constant on sites like reddit and HN is a strong disdain for the algorithmic question style technical interview. Some companies take note and switch up the interview process and ask real world questions (like CircleCI using a current bug or problem) rather than how to invert a binary tree and people get upset about not being compensated.

How should companies interview people in a manner that assesses their technical skills but doesn't "exploit" them? Personally I think the algorithm based interviews are great but also see value in these modified approaches of a short take-home assignment.
I had the same problem you did. That's why I built nation - it's my ideal solution for state management.
So? The code they wrote doesn't use `unsafe`. So presumably, you need to modify your claim to this then I guess?

> A crash on out of bounds will always happen, unless unsafe package is being used to subvert memory accesses, or if you've used something that exposes details that only the unsafe package exposes, such as fmt's %p specifier.

I mean, you are like, the ultimate pedant, so I figured you'd uniquely appreciate this.

You can't just say, "use unsafe or anything that uses unsafe," because it's turtles all the way down. You've got to draw that line somewhere. If the %p specifier really is required for an exploit and there's nothing else that exposes that (sans unsafe), then that's great news! But is that the whole story?
removing "unnecessary" {}? potential disaster. http://heartbleed.com/
CEOs or CTOs that still write code
Do you know talented engineers who became CTOs / CEOs / etc. and still very much into coding, technology? I am very interested to read about them, their blogs, Twitter, get inspiration and understanding on how they manage to lead teams, think about big picture, define technical strategy for companies, and, at the same time go deep into tech, coding? Say, people like John Carmack?
nautil.us and aeon.co are the two that commenters tend not to like, right?

anyways it would probably be pretty easy to write a browser extension to do this for you. you could even make a show HN when you're done! :)
The suddenly hot job market for workers over 50