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> Maybe it would help if you understood it as “use [enough] videoconferencing or phone calls.”

Again, what makes you think the author isn’t using enough? Why are you so certain you have an important point here that anyone else who’s hiring doesn’t already know? I think you’re making an incorrect assumption that the author is being unreasonable.

> the aforementioned 5x ratio

That was the ratio of candidates to jobs. It doesn’t say anything about how much screening was involved. Interviewing 5 candidates for a job seems completely reasonable to me, and not out of the norm of hiring for any company I’ve ever worked or hired for. I might screen 10 or 15 before interviewing 5 on-site.

> I think you parse my sense incorrectly.

I did, thanks for the fix.

> Say you hire a no-so-great engineer, who’s maybe worth $100k....

I already mentioned I’ve seen people lose companies millions. Engineers who are great on paper, and great in interviews. The bottom end here is not a small but positive win, it’s an enormous loss.

> A great engineer would be worth $1M

Where does this number come from?

> Say it was 5 hours a week of wasted interviews, for 50 weeks, and the interviewer earns $100k. This puts a loss of >$10k onto your bottom line.

This thinking still seems like penny-wise and pound-foolish to me. I don’t consider any interviews wasted. I’m learning in all of them, and I’m comparing the candidates. All samples are valuable. Also, you’re talking about the cost of 125-250 interviews over the course of a year, if I assume it takes 1-2 hours to interview and give feedback. If we use the author’s 5x, that means you hired 25-50 people. You’re comparing a measly $10k to the cost and value of more than 25 people. Spending $10k to hire 25 people is nothing. Companies pay more than $10k for a single hire, all the time.

> O that it were only a dozen people.

A dozen people per job is what I was talking about, just to be extremely conservative... more than the 5x the author mentioned. And with a dozen people per job, I’m saying the cost of interviewing is far less than the cost (or value) of employing them, so it doesn’t hurt to interview that many.

I would think of hires as compound interest, where interviews are linear cost. Comparing them already isn’t apples to apples.
This is a big problem for me as well.
> I hope it isn't about a safety net.

Why, exactly- assuming that the reason you hope minimum wages are enacted can be both for your reasons and to provide a safety net?
I wasn't discouraging milk products, sorry.

I'm not really a pure "Paleo" type. I get all my fat from whole milk, the one-a-day meat dish, cheese, yogurt, and oil/butter I use to cook stuff with. One curry + vegetable dish, for instance, is like 25% of your expected fat consumption.

I eat less fat and sugar than a normal American but I still have a couple ounces of fat with every meal. I probably eat about 80% of the recommended about of fat. To me, the thing most fail to notice is how much fat they add to their cooking.
Since the article mostly talks about parents giving their children juice, I doubt a really nuanced view of juice intake is being followed.
Url changed from https://www.inc.com/geoffrey-james/apple-employees-hate-appl..., which points to this.

Submitters: when an article links to another one which is clearly its source, could you please submit that other URL instead? This is in the site guidelines: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html.
> By exercising our free will. By having the courage to stand up and say

Did you miss the part of my comment where I said I gave up Java and C++ for reasons of code quality? That was well over 15 years ago. I am doing my part actually.

I've had the "courage" to talk to management countless times in my career about what I think the best choices would be to improve quality. I don't even think it takes courage. It's just a conversation and attempt to sell an idea. Happens all the time in business.

Do you think my description of the challenges around getting change to happen were more accurate than the parent's "the belief that this is futile is a self-fulfilling prophecy."?

I hardly think my comment claims it's futile when I concluded with being hopeful that change has and is happening.
How does it compare with the Jaybird Run? I am happy with them and they fit better in my ear.
In my tiny little part of the world it would take me 3 1/2 hours to drive 328km to Halifax.

Or pay anywhere from $500 to $900 to fly the 180km as-the-crow-flies distance for a few minutes in the air.

One flight flies 1,300km the wrong way then back, two connections, a a layover and then to Halifax for $1,100.
...and you have no problem wearing noise cancelling headphones all day (I can't)
No, this is the 2018 guide for the primary election. That is less than 2 years after the 2016 general presidential election. In 4 more months, there will be another 2018 guide for the general election. That means there will be 6 elections in 4 years, not counting any special elections:

http://vigarchive.sos.ca.gov/

You don't even know how many votes we have even though they are so purportedly few. Imagine what little the average voter knows.
The good thing is that with eating you can do a lot of self experimentation and see if things work. I have done this experiment myself and I know a lot of people who also have noticed that the time and frequency of eating makes a huge difference. In this case I trust personal experience more than some study. The health profession doesn't have a very good track record of helping people with weight control.
https://www.theverge.com/2016/2/16/11018018/5d-data-storage-...
Have you seen the episode of Scrapheap challenge/Junkyard wars where they did just that (in a shed, with a pile of scraps!) [1]?
However they made "wet" subs rather than dry, and nothing required to last 2km of travel, which reduces the challenge quite a bit (to say the least).

[1] http://www.the-nerds.org/submarine-design-notes.html
Canadian companies are very insular and don't compete globally for talent. While some companies do recruit abroad its the rare exception.
I'm not super familiar with Korean culture, but often it's similar to Japanese culture. In Japan government pronouncements are either almost completely followed by people (spirit as well as letter of the law) or completely ignored by people. It's a consensus mentality and if the consensus is formed, then the social pressure to follow along is huge.

In Japan, we've been getting more and more public holidays because people actually take them off (as opposed to their vacation time). We're up to 17 days now. In addition, a few years ago the government insisted that every government worker take 5 days off around Obon (Buddhist holiday usually in August). When I was working at the school, it was taken seriously and people were shipped off even if they wanted to work.

Other things just don't get the consensus. For example, after a fairly recent overwork death, they instituted the idea that every second Friday should end at 3:00 pm. I think that was completely ignored.

As far as effective measure like this, it's not so much crafting a law that describes what should happen, it's more about throwing spaghetti against the wall until it sticks. In other areas, I was around when sexual harassment was an unfortunate, but mostly accepted thing in business. Then one day the government said, "Don't do that" and it just changed over night. It's not like the government had been doing nothing before that, or that the introduced laws were particularly good -- it's just that for whatever reason the society was ready to accept it at that time.

In the context of that kind of culture, I applaud the Korean government's actions. It may or may not have the desired effect today, but if they keep at it, it will probably just improve overnight. Also, the fact that this hits the news is good for other similar cultures like Japan. They see it and the people think, "Maybe we're backwards for following this old way of working". When enough people do that, then it just changes. Very, very, very different than the west.
This is my affliction. Seeing a coworker get up to grab a coffee, use the restroom, etc. destroys my concentration. Noise is bad enough--and it's highly distracting on its own--but the visual aspect is far, far worse for me as there's nothing I can do.

I'm roughly 20x as productive when I work from home.
Will the third-party plugin survive the tech backlash?
I think this might work for cognitive-based works like programming but not for muscle-based works like doing constructions.
For every admin that fixes their buckets, there are 2 more idiots that open them. I think this will never go away,
Please don't break the HN guideline which asks you not to call names in arguments. It is found here: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html.

Your comment would be fine without the first sentence.
I'm just learning about LXC containers because LXC containers are part of the Chromebook Linux breakthrough.
What kind of insane thinking is it to build an office where you need noise cancelling headphones to actually work? Why not just work in a sports bar during super bowl?
He is actually working for Espressif now I believe, due to his work on the ESP8266 framework!
Please keep generic ideological tangents such as taxation-is-theft off Hacker News. They only ever lead to repeats of the same discussions for the millionth time, and usually flamewars. Repetition and flamewar are two of the most off-topic things here.

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I dont disagree with you.

I guess you’re coming at this from “I need to put this together and it needs to look decent.”

I’m coming at this from “here are the psds from our design team - go implement that”
Definitely the case in Japan at least; Tokyo to Osaka on the Shinkansen is a $150 or so ticket and gets on the order of 500k passengers a day.
There are hundreds of thousands if not millions of Spanish speaking people and families living in LA, NYC, Miami etc. Many business in the area offer their services in Spanish, and there are enough entertainment options in Spanish that there isn't much of a need to learn English to get by day to day.
The impact of the ‘open’ workspace on human collaboration [pdf]
All of these come after the question: “What is life worth?”

In both the US and in most Asian cultures work is worth more than life for the vast majority of the average lifespan. Working long hours is considered a badge of honor. In the US you work towards retirement—that’s the goal. That’s the endgame.

The fundamental question is: is that right? Is it worth it? Should we spend 40 years trying to make as money as we can so that we can then do nothing? The entire system, from top to bottom, is designed for this. And we give little breaks in between those 40 years so people don’t become depressed and kill themselves.

Whenever I hear about people justify why they work so hard it’s almost always because they want to become rich so they won’t have to work. It makes me think of that line from Office Space, “You don't need a million dollars to do nothing, man. Take a look at my
cousin. He's broke and he don't do shit.“

We do what the media tells us because we never stop to think about what we actually want.
"The goal of a minimum wage is difficult to pin down"

In the most general sense it's straightforward.

Your salary is a function of your economic power vis-a-vis your employer - and nothing else. That power is usually derived as a function of the necessity (i.e. value creation) and scarcity of your skills, and possibly some other non-market forces.

Skilled workers have some modicum of leverage and can get a decent salary. Or have powerful guilds (like doctors).

'Capital class' will use their status as major asset holders, and non-market things like class, relationships, political patronage, lobbying, direct control of political systems etc. to manage their careers.

But unskilled workers have a problem. Basically, if there was no minimum wage (or other social intervention), workers would be paid the absolute minimum necessary to survive, and economies to support those very low levels would develop (i.e. 'Dollar Store' would be the '25 cent store) and there'd be favela like living conditions just as they already exist in advanced economies like Hong Kong and almost advanced economies like Brazil. (Obviously, if there is 'welfare' than the amount of welfare comp. would set the floor on this, i.e. 'work for the government and do nothing' would be the 'lowest alternative' to paid work.)

But especially without welfare, or non-market interventions in general ... that floor would be very, very low. Just take a trip outside of the 'rich world', it's easy to find workers working for 'a bowl of rice a day' whilst owners make considerably more, and by that I mean, there are definitely surpluses in the system to allow for higher salaries, but pure market power doesn't provide any impetus at all for employers to provide it.

So - 'minimum wage' is a non-market intervention, much like a 'union without membership' to establish a kind of meta collective bargaining.

Non market interventions are basically essential and they exist in one way or another in all advanced nations (either social services, welfare, min. wage. etc..). Should note that some argue that social intervention is correlated but not causal to wealth creation, but I disagree with this ... but that's for another discussion.
The kind of flamewar you turned this thread into is just what we don't want on HN. Could you please (re-)read the guidelines at https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and not do it again?

You also got plain uncivil downthread and we ban accounts that do that, so please don't do that either—regardless of whether someone was wrong not to reboot their computer.
Hey, I'm sorry to hear about your situation - to be honest it sounds stress-inducing on its own.

Your question is vague considering the type of advice you're looking for. What is your living situation like? Do you have any immediate concerns? Besides just general "stress", what bothers you the most? If you're willing to share, how recent is your diagnosis?

One overall suggestion I have for you is to not psych yourself out. If you convince yourself that you have a low stress tolerance, you will. Having a medical condition that is exacerbated by stress is legitimate, but if you avoid all stress and never develop coping mechanisms then you will be worse off. If you notice yourself stressing about stress itself, just take a deep breath (I mean physically stop what you're doing and breathe in and out over the course of several seconds) and find out what's really bothering you.

In terms of your health, you should find a good endocrinologist if you weren't referred to one already. This isn't meant to be medical advice, but type 2 diabetes is curable. It tends to be easier to cure if you take care of it sooner rather than later though, and after 6-7 years it is effectively permanent. A young person with the condition should be able to gradually lower his insulin resistance and become healthy again if he treats it as a priority.

My background is in healthcare and computers - if you are in the United States and need help with health insurance or Medicare I can look into it: sam (at) mangane.se
Trades are only triggered when profit is > fees. Depending on the market there can be fairly large opportunities popping up (on the thousands) a few times an hour. In a triangle, you only need 1 of the 3 pairs to have an inefficiency in the book to trigger a trade.

During the december craze: very profitable. Now: better than not trading.

If I were american and had to pay higher taxes on short term gains, it would probably not be worth it.
What do you mean by API access? OpenID Connect adds more features & standardization to OAuth2. So it supports everything that OAuth2 does.

It all mentioned

- user identity: core user info endpoint

- discovery: https://openid.net/specs/openid-connect-discovery-1_0.html

- client registration: https://openid.net/specs/openid-connect-registration-1_0.htm...

And also other features which are important for more complex cases than just simple "login using X" button.
> Not to mention many women have brought up discomfort issues related to being visible at all times—which sounds 10,000% justified.

This is an entirely new negative aspect of open plan offices to me. As a man I never thought about this, but I could see how it could be uncomfortable for women.

Seems to go against the stated goals of achieving a more balanced workforce
Frankly, I’m not sure I trust Apple to support this appearance API over time. They’ve been down this road before.

It’s kind of funny/sad to see how Apple operates with APIs. None of these concepts are really “new”: they were there, in Carbon, prior to Mac OS 8, in the days when that OS was meant to support really elaborate themes.

The original theme APIs were huge, and 3rd parties were expected to adopt them as needed (e.g. using appropriate theme selectors for fonts and background patterns). For about a year, things looked really cool: you could create a great Platinum-esque UI for any custom control, and it would fit right in.

Then, they threw it ALL away for Mac OS X, ironically right about the time when an appearance-agnostic API would make a lot of sense. They didn’t even bother to update their API implementation to ease migration: really trivial changes that would have been helpful, like “update the damned font/color/pattern value returned for X to resemble Aqua”, were not done. This meant that an app full of seemingly-appearance-agnostic code would look like crap under Aqua, and you had to rip it all out.

And it’s not like Mac OS X didn’t change its look. Heck, for a long time you could find 3rd party app bundles chock full of images that were there just to implement the Apple-Look-and-Feel-of-the-Week, because the SDK didn’t offer any reasonable way to do half of what they came up with.

So yeah, 14 versions later, the Mac wants to be appearance-agnostic again. Sounds great. My advice: always have the option of doing your own UI as a backup.
This is from August 2017, only a little after the new HQ was opened (in April). Maybe (2017) should be added to the title?

Also, previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14962663
> forced

Who is suggesting forcing people to do anything? You are so confident in what is the best interests of the poor. You are actually suggesting it is better for people to live in squalor feeding their children breadcrumbs than to work below minimum wage.

How about letting people decide for themselves what jobs they want to work and at what wages instead of coming in here mandating what "should" be done without any evidence that it will actually benefit the people you claim to care about?

You are the only person in this discussion interested in forcing and mandating people to do anything.
This would actually be way better for me because I wouldn't give a shit about any of the conversations I might overhear, if I could actually make any of them out.
It breaks the HN guidelines to continue a flamewar like this even when someone else is posting bad comments. Please (re-)read https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and don't do this again, regardless of how annoyed you are.
Elon Musk says SpaceX is building a ‘kid-sized submarine’ to rescue trapped kids
Context from the article on who "those boys" are:

12 young soccer players and their coach who’ve been trapped in a cave in Thailand since entering it June 23rd, after which they became trapped by rising floodwaters.
Bit stupid crunching it by revenue. Obviously the long routes generate the most rev, but they also have the highest fuel costs.
Why Entrepreneurs Start Companies Rather Than Join Them, by Steve Blank
This seems to me as just a subset what OpenID Connect is. OIDC is an addition to OAuth2 and supports all mentioned

- user identity: core user info endpoint

- discovery: https://openid.net/specs/openid-connect-discovery-1_0.html

- client registration: https://openid.net/specs/openid-connect-registration-1_0.htm...

And also other features which are important for more complex cases than just simple "login using X" button.
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In its patent-infringement complaints, filed June 1 in federal court in Wilmington, Delaware, Deere said the combination of AGCO unit Precision Planting's vSet seed meters and SpeedTube seed-delivery system infringes 12 patents related to Deere's ExactEmerge, which allows farmers more accurate seed placement and spacing while planting at higher speeds.

Getting flashbacks to Apple's infringement claim based on it's patent for rectangles with rounded corners.
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That, or fares are lower?
I've worked in Europe, Asia, the USA, for quite a few startups, huge corps, and have started a couple of successful companies here and there myself. I have a long and varied career that I am very grateful for.

A lot of startups are actually obsessed with quality to the point of failing. I've seen that. I've also seen the opposite. There is a lot of variation in the myths founders create that they follow like a religion because they believe it's the one trick they need for success ;-)

You do eventually run out of money. It's so much more important to ship something to customers to get some feedback than it is to get it perfect. It's a very tricky balance to get right though. It has to look and work good enough to not scare potential customers away.
I do have kids... I also know the differences between anecdotes and evidence.
AirPod hook attachments
https://www.amazon.com/EarBuddyz-Airpods-Attachment-Earphone...
Alibaba V. Tencent: The Battle for Supremacy in China
The issue is largely cultural from my understanding. There is a "seniors in charge" mentality in Korea that causes workers to get in before their boss and leave after. This artificially increases the work day while probably not increasing productivity that much.

I'm certainly not close to an expert in it, and I don't want to pretend to be, but I don't think the government can do much to solve the problem other than put caps in when it is as bad as it is. It's a deeply rooted cultural issue that I hope this will be a reason to stop.
I know a lot of people who make minimum wage (e.g. fast food jobs). When minimum wages rise (like when they got to 7.25 in the US), they don't get fired, they get a raise.

Just because minimum wages go up, doesn't mean humans are getting replaced. Instead, people often adjust their price limits (e.g. if cleaning was thought to generate $10, and then you don't clean for a while, you'll feel it warrants $11) and workers get better pay. The workers who do get fired due to financial constraints can now get a job elsewhere for more money.

I agree that there is a breaking point and that point does vary by company, but that breaking point (for the vast majority of things) happens to be far greater than zero
I looked at those. They were a solid contender to the airpods on paper. I never tried them out though.

I do run (and sweat) with the airpods with no problem. The jaybirds seem to be better designed for running though...
We've all seen blue screens, sad macs, JVM segfaults, GCC internal errors, "aw snap" from Chrome, and "have you tried rebooting?" as a panacea. Where is this reliable software you're talking about? Because literally all of it seems pretty crappy to me, and it's frustrating to see people shrug it off.
Syd-Mel air route is the 2nd busiest in the world, with @55,000 flights/yr.

https://www.statista.com/chart/12598/the-worlds-busiest-air-...
This is a fantastic, in-depth series (I can't wait for more!) It really shows how much success is based on luck and timing. Be sure to read the first two parts, if you haven't already: https://www.filfre.net/2018/06/doing-windows-part-1-ms-dos-a...
I'm........skeptical about all of this. Kid-sized sub built from rocket parts in a matter of hours?
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