skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
On a scale of "number of staff who leave" vs "number of staff who threatened with legal action", it really does count as almost never enforced.
> There's a certain irony where most Americans think the biggest threat to American hegemony is either Russia, North Korea, or Islamic fundamentalism (the former two of which are bit players with outsize threats, and the latter of which has the organizational & technological sophistication of 200 years ago), while the real threats are either an ascendant China (4x the U.S. population, 60% the GDP and projected to overtake the U.S. by 2029, already the world's largest trading partner) or domestic disturbances that lead to the breakup of the U.S, much the same way the USSR broke up.

The media does a great job perpetuating this illusion too. Even the more independent and supposedly "impartial" networks like NPR participate in propagating these minuscule issues. You hit the nail on head with your remarks on domestic disturbances though - the damage from that alone is severe.
Paying income tax _was_ unconstitutional. The 16th amendment had to be passed to make it constitutional. Only Federal Income taxes after 1913 were constitutional: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sixteenth_Amendment_to_the_Uni...
Are any of these companies doing anything to improve public transportation?
Start with Mac, find some good metrics that indicate that a lot of your users are on Mac and go from there. (parse your user agents for instance) Once it's proven itself, you can try Windows and some other options as needed (probably mobile).
> study concluding that 8 in 10 Americans disapproved of the FCC's handling of net neutrality.

Disapproved about which part of its handling on the issue though? Did they disapprove of it being instated or revoked? Or the timeline on which either occurred? Or did they disagree with FCC shoehorning it with regulations written for telephones?
Remarks by NASA Deputy Administrator Gregory (2003)
The people can though. Centralization via the state entity can allow for efficient decicions (like corporate hierarchies) as everyone knows which direction to look for common consensus.

With a blockchain approach, rather than separate entities clamoring to be the source of truth in lieue of an ineffective state everyone can instead look to the blockchain. (Which theoretically has no agenda, distributed control, etc...)
Custom Elements!

Check out this talk about how to do it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tyFe9Pw6TVE

For future reference, the quickest way to get questions like this answered is in the #beginners channel on Elm Slack:

http://elmlang.herokuapp.com

Tons of super helpful people there!
I'm wondering if what they're saying is that there was a large enough quantity of to-be-reworked assemblies from a prior week that reworking them and calling them done gave them enough "completed" vehicles to put them over the target for a later week.
I am also interested in hearing about this. I guess they guaranteed good title, but kept money (earning enough interest?) in case the bank comes knocking?
It's not that it affected the time to make each car, it's that a large majority of the cars needed to have some issue addressed after they were manufactured (86% according to the article).
This is just my opinion but I find sans-serif harder to read for long pieces as opposed to serif. Lots of mix of fonts on this page. I have to run most of sites through outline.com to normalize readability.

Of all the MF websites my favorite is this one: http://bettermotherfuckingwebsite.com. It's got good readability like Ali alluded to while loading very fast. Very few colors so that you can focus on what matters most. I feel that unless changing fonts, colors, and sizes adds something legitimate to a user's understanding of the content, skip it.
If your production line has 10 machines that break the car windscreen, the long-term most efficient thing would be to fix those 10 machines.

But that'll take time, and in the short term putting a guy at the end of the line replacing all the windscreens gets cars out the door today.
Same for windows, and linux. I refuse to install it and instead use the web app as if it were email. Fortunately, I don't have to use it for work.

IMO, the only thing slack does really well, is the threading. But I've ever only been a part of one group that actually used that feature. Every other group uses it like a chat room.
While your point is true; that filtering news can be dangerous, it's a bit disingenuous for this post. The option to filter to only positive news is a good option.

Users are usually presented news as if it's "unfiltered", but editors chose the stories. It's the illusion of reality when it's actually a constructed narrative. Giving users the option to change the narrative gives perspective on how those narratives are structured.
In the absence of information, I default to siding with who I see as the recipient of the final punishment/jab who never got a trial. The resigned researcher may have just lost her entire career without a trial. Maybe she is guilty - maybe not. And I do not consider knowing how someone reacted to information equivalent to having that information.
For those who are interested, the helicopter is an MD-500. They're well known for being very stable and have pretty good control feel through mechanical-only linkages. As such, they're fairly popular for this kind of precision work. Another big application is aerial tree trimming: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OXcIqR01_d0
>But that's how science goes sometimes;

Is there a word for people who say that "bad thing is ok" because "bad thing is the way it is" ?

We all know that is the way it is, and some would like to see that change
I mainly cancelled mine due to the worsening quality of everything I tried to buy from amazon. Its gotten so bad I pretty much look away from Amazon when online shopping whenever possible. Just as an example, I purchased a supposedly new pair of $300 headphones. They arrived in the mail, obviously opened previously, and covered in q sticky residue (dont know what it was). That was a prime featured item.
oldcomput?

And I don't think that simply paying them their existing salary, or the salary at the last day is enough. I feel it should really hurt to enforce a non-compete, because you are saying that you do not want someone to be able to earn a living with their labor. That to me, no matter what your motivations are, is some degree of evil. I say it should be triple of the highest wage the person made during their tenure with the company, or the prevailing market wage, whichever is higher.
Real question - what is the history of the SAT? It has essentially created a toll tax on every student attempting to enter college/university in the US. Is it a private company?
I use my work laptop because I have an iMac with a huge screen at home where I do most of my personal stuff (personal dev, licensed software I use outside of work, accounting, storage, etc)... I end up having to synch both machines anyway when I'm on the go since I only have one laptop. Most of that synch comes from the cloud anyway. The benefit of having one single laptop is that you can switch contexts when you're traveling, etc. You can connect with work while doing your personal stuff. The iMac is where I store all my personal files like photos, etc.

If you need a second machine for personal stuff I'd highly recommend a larger screen. A desktop machine seems to be a great add-on to your life.
If her work is valuable, you'd try to get the behavior corrected rather than burning the witch immediately.

She might be an asshole, but this is not how you would deal with the situation in a normal company where someone has an important position.
I have to agree, but I thought the UK was pretty clearly sharing the same tank.
You missed one.

4. The government for passing legislation making the discharge of student debt in bankruptcy nearly impossible.

When people talk about the inflation of the cost of a university degree I never see as the number one cause for it being the no risk loans to people who have no money sense (17 year olds) that pour money into the system.

Bankruptcy is a vital check valve on financial systems as well as an essential safety net to allow risk taking, even if that risk taking is pursuing a worthless degree.

I was lucky, in that I knew I could only afford in state tuition at a university where I could live at home. I used to laugh at some of my high school peers who were going off to really expensive liberal arts colleges. I still think it was foolish for most of them, but now that I'm older I really hope the decisions didn't cripple them financially.
Flight Is Impossible
I think what it means is that they gave up on correcting the automation process in favor of just pumping out cars and fixing them up manually. The former having longer-term benefits, but stalling car production until its complete. In other words, they just threw more bodies at the problem to get it out asap
> Exhibit A of our system's self-destructiveness are international students at American universities being refused residency on graduation.

You cannot categorically say that all international students are "highly skilled" or even "skilled". Some are, some aren't; and I'm saying this as an Indian citizen on H1B in the United States. There has to be some kind of vetting period instead of handing off a green card right after graduation. I bet if the tables were turned you won't see anywhere close to this kind of generosity.

Regarding Cisco (downvote me if you want) not a lot of people do "skilled" work; Cisco is a sales machine and does not care about engineering. Fixing bugs (and passing them off as features) from companies which were acquired, doing busy work, attending 2-3 hour meetings, middle management malaise with paper pushers, maintaning status quo (it's 2018 and they still use gcc 3.3) etc. is not what I would define as "skilled" engineering work. It's mediocrity and that's what they want to maintain.
More to the point, democracy is good if and only if it allows for peaceful transitions of government.
No. That is not at all true. That is an excuse made up to justify crappy things.
Oh don't hear me wrong, it is not a good deal at all. But at least it has a cost for the company if they decide to activate it. Not enough for me to make a living, but most likely enough for them to take a step back and think "does what this guy can do really justify the cost?".
Disclosure: I work for Google on the App Engine team doing documentation.

Firstly, a sincere thank you for reading and caring about our documentation.

With regards to the page you referenced, would you please elaborate on what information would help you come to the appropriate conclusion about using a second generation runtime? Your feedback would be very useful to us in order to shape this page into something that provides you with actionable information rather than "useless marketing junk" :)

Also to address a point you made in the first paragraph of your post, the PHP 7.2 beta runtime is a "second generation" runtime.

Cheers
One laptop, but I VPN -> Remote Desktop into a work PC and keep work stuff isolated there. This works fine for development/Microsoft Office/etc. It may not work for all industries though.

The biggest downside is that it assumes a data connection, but given the development I'm typically involved in that is largely unavoidable regardless.

I do try to keep the Remote Desktop host clean of work files on purpose, in case it is lost, I quit, the machine dies, or I want to use a different machine on a whim. As long as I have my physical 2F key and a Cisco Anyconnect client I can work from any machine.
> Who has authority to do that?

crickets chirping
Lol why even answer if you have vsync on
> very steady hand

I don't know the first thing about helicopters, but the negative feedback circuits that keep things steady in many applications, from power supply voltages to Segways, could help with that.

It's a very simple basic concept that has been around for many decades, even before analog electronics, never mind digital devices: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Negative_feedback

(I repeat I do not know if they are available in helicopters. It may well be the pilot doing it by hand the hard way.)
There is nothing in the world right now that I fear more than the creep of Chinese surveillance/authoritarian practices into the rest of the world's society. They are a rapidly growing superpower, and while I hold no fantasies of U.S. supremacy, this specific trend in the use of digital technology terrifies me.

There won't be a war, by the way. I honestly think we're past the point as a species where superpowers duke it out in such a literal fashion. It's just bad for business. (Military might today is usually directed from superpowers to third-world countries, but that's a topic for another day).

China's influence and dominance will happen through the private sector, ironically. They have their own versions of Google and Facebook: Baidu, Alibaba, and Tencent. These are the tech giants through which the Chinese government gets most of its data on citizens. They are even more ubiquitous than ours - people do everything from getting loans to scheduling medical appointments through them - and they've begun trying to break into the western markets. Tencent in particular has been investing billions in everything from Blizzard to Tesla. At the same time, Google, Facebook, and Apple are also trying to break into the Chinese market. Those companies have already compromised their values for the sake of that opportunity by blocking VPN apps on app stores, censoring content, etc. For now those policy adjustments only apply in China itself, but once it becomes an established (and massive) market - they have four times the population of the U.S. - do you really think the companies would stand up against pressure from the Chinese government to apply those policies elsewhere?

Between the spread of the companies it effectively owns, and the deals being made with the rest of the world's most powerful tech companies, China will soon wield more influence than the U.S. I don't think it'll be long before surveillance-states are the norm.
Do you earnestly believe I was trying to disprove his anecdote logically?
as i said, there are multiple parties at play. someone wins when someone else loses. personally i would prefer if we would step back from that kind of "realism" theory, but that's how the people like kissinger have played policy so that's how it is played everywhere.

killing a dissident abroad isn't a major blow in any real terms. it grabs headlines, but nobody is willing to disrupt world order over a small number of people, so it isn't even a big risk. russia was not trying to kill whoever because they thought it would be a massive geopolitical gain in any event.

ukraine is an example of how they cannot invade. ukraine's military had extremely low levels of readiness, yet they still hold most of their country. remember, russia views ukraine as its backyard. ukraine was its puppet state for most of the post-soviet era. the idea that ukraine pulled away -- toward the US -- warranted a full court press, but they couldn't hack it. they lost ukraine to the US orbit despite their best efforts.

imagine what luck they'd have against a western european military, backed by the rest of NATO. it isn't anything they'd even consider attempting because they are not suicidal.

one of their last military readiness estimates found that their black sea fleet couldn't hold out for more than eight hours against the US in a war, and that's right in their back yard, far from core NATO territory.

i just really want to drive the point home here: the russian military did not even supply all of their army units with socks (!) until the end of 2013 (!). they used the same footwraps they had used for hundreds of years up through that point. their military is strong, but their ability to project force is nowhere near what it was during the soviet era for a plethora of reasons.

moldova may be up next for annexing, but that doesn't imply european security is threatened, nevermind US security.
You may not feel this way, but think of downloading docker, as a non developer. You are probably following some tutorial, and really have no idea what you are actually doing. What if a container you are downloading is dangerous, or becomes dangerous. What if the version of the platform you have eventually becomes risky, due to a hack/0day? You are basically downloading an entire OS/execution environment, that makes it seamless to run an entire environment, while doing nothing. How would the company send an email/warn you etc, of some basic info that could really help you, or make your experience better? This isn’t som H&M mailing list to take your money. This is real, marketing aside, maybe they actually care?
You can be linus style direct, more efficiently, by removing the irrelevant insults and swearing.

They really serve no purpose other than to make linus feel good and others feel bad. So its not net good for the world.

You can say "This commit is garbage I am really angry about it and expected better from you" and not add "you are a fucking abortion" or whatever.
How I Held My Breath for 17 Minutes (2009)
Ask HN: Favorite CMS?
Looking for recommendations on a CMS. My needs are pretty standard, blogging abilities and editable content for non-technical folks. Bonus points if it integrates with Rails nicely.
Calorie restriction basically categorically works. If it is not working for you, you are either not accurately measuring your intake, or you need to restrict more aggressively. It's that simple.

Now, is calorie restriction the OPTIMAL diet? Maybe not, but half the problem with weight loss is that people get hyper fixated on finding the ideal dieting methodology and never just start. Calorie counting works, IIFYM works, zone diet works, keto works, weight watchers works. As long as you pick a validated plan that matches your lifestyle and you are adherent, you will have success.
Heard it on google cloud blog. Getting better each day
I think the title "Tesla hit Model 3 target by reworking thousands of cars" should be read as "Tesla hit Model 3 target by not only producing the cars, but also reworking them in time".

It's confusing, I prefer the article's headline "Internal documents reveal the grueling way Tesla hit its 5,000 Model 3 target" (the submission title is from the URL)
You have to consider the context. When you have an expanding desert, planting a mono-culture of Gao trees to stop this expansion is not a bad thing.

In this case the trees will establish a desert fence, bind moisture and improve the soil, which in turn will allow more species to gain a foothold.
So you have a complete attitude of entitlement that your preferred software must be delivered to you on your terms according to common convention. Nobody is permitted to act otherwise or we're gonna have ESR storm their office and take names. You're not a Berkeley grad are you?
that's an option. When you sell such a 'potential service at a fixed future price to actually buy it' you are not ACTUALLY buying the product. In fact, options have been a windfall for this inflationary debacle we are in. You might argue it's fueled the silicon valley miracle, but really it's only bait. People going into CS courses because of the 'option' to make money. When in reality, the industry needs code monkeys so how do you attract them? It's a form of dishonesty tricking people into doing what they dont really want to do for money. And when they are rudely awakened, they feel justified in even worse usurious behavior.
> Most compilers that target WebAssembly can also target asm.js, which is compatible with IE.

asm.js is different enough that it's just not about adding a seperate asmjs "compatibility" target. On the top of my head you don't have 64-bit ints or floats and I believe the way you call asm.js fns from/to JS is different from wasm. Adding asm.js support just for IE 11 wouldn't be worth the effort.
I also admire Warren's emphasis on competitive markets. It's the main thing that draws me to Warren-style capitalism, and I'm with you that "competitive markets" is a worthy rejoinder to "free markets".

Free markets deliver monopolies. Competitive markets deliver innovation.
> the word does deny something: usually of the possibility of bias.

That's precisely why I objected to its use in the context it was used here (and other places where it is colloquially used incorrectly): by announcing you worked on something, you reinforce the possibility of bias in the post while taking partial responsibility for the work--it does not disclaim or subtract bias or responsibility.
One thing to keep in mind if you use one laptop/phone, if there is ever a case / investigation against your employer your personal device might be called in.
Virtual machines for work. One per client, never cross the beams. Host OS is for own stuff.
Trump's been on the losing end of a wind power fight offshore of one of his Scottish golf courses, one of the reasons why Trump supposedly cares so much about these terrible, disgraceful windmills.

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-scotland-scotland-politics-38069...
https://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/25/world/europe/donald-trump...
https://qz.com/1291269/the-scottish-wind-farm-donald-trump-t...
Dump the algorithmic timeline and allow people to see the posts from those they follow in chronological order.
Or rather you have a non unified memory architecture plus the overhead of windows.

Also, console games aren't that optimized, they just run at pretty mediocre settings. Both the xbone and the ps4 dedicate cores and ram to running the OS in the background which is a huge waste of resources.
Sugar: The Bitter Truth https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dBnniua6-oM
Focus on the grassroots and reach out to the grassroots movements even from other states that can help you organize. Who has the most money in a campaign still matters, but it doesn't matter as much as it used to, especially if you have a strong grassroots campaign behind. We've seen politicians win with 1/10 of the funding of their opponents recently using this strategy.

If anything, you may find bigger obstacles from the inside the big parties, which will use every technical trick in the book to make you lose against their pre-selected primary nominee. So in some cases, you may have a better shot running as independent, but that very much depends on the local politics and the help you request from certain grassroots groups, which may prefer you to be in a certain party.
It really irks me that companies don't have to disclose all of the non-negotiable conditions (and something about their pay scales) before a candidate has any sunk costs.

The nice thing about infamous companies like Amazon is that I know never to respond.
https://colorsofblog.com
The article links to another article discussing Wellcome's policy.

"The policy defines bullying as a misuse of power that can make people feel vulnerable, upset, humiliated, undermined or threatened. It says harassment is unwanted physical, verbal or non-verbal conduct that has the purpose or effect of violating someone else’s dignity, or creating an intimidating, hostile, degrading, humiliating or offensive environment for them."
Why do you assume a face-to-face meeting wasn't tried?

The exact details are confidential, for the protection of both accused and accusers. Neither one of us knows what really happened. But I can say from experience that someone who is habitually a jerk to their subordinates is not likely to change their habits when called out face-to-face by the same subordinates. They're likely to react with the same hostile dismissiveness that they normally use.

This is not just about saving someone's tender feelings. People with a hostile supervisor are afraid to ask questions and afraid to take risks, and the quality of their work suffers. Bullying your subordinates is irresponsible management and should be treated as such.
I would never in a million years even consider working someplace that doesn't.